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Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1901-11-28
No HARD TIMEs IN sTCHT.

A friend wants to know when hard
times for the farmer are likely to come
again, assuming that the present pros
porous condition of agriculture cannot
continue. While lower prices for farm
products are almost sure to come in
the natural order of supply and de-
mand, we still think that the greatly
expanded markets for the products of
the American farm and factory and
common sense business principles In
the policies of government will abso-
lutely prevent recurrence of what
may be termed ''hard times" for the
American farmer for many years to
come. The whole world is becoming
dependent to greater or lesser degree
upon America. The actual foreign de-
mand for foodstuffs, coupled with the
home demand from nonproducers en-
gagged in manufacturing commodities
for foreign countries, is sure to make
an active demand at good prices for all
that the farmer has to sell. 1t is this
fact which does much to explain the
marked advance in the price Of good
farm land all over the country.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1901-11-28
The PEOPLE KNEW HIM.
(lansnn's Plaster Is PAINS Maatar.l

George Washington made and sold -four.
and every barrel Of -four in the market
branded sc. Washington, Mount Vernon, I"
sold without delay. No question was ever
raised as to quality or weight.
Benson's Porous Plaster sells on its repu-
tation everywhere. All the buyer wants to
be certain of is that the plaster offered him
really is Benson's, aud not worthless ;mi-
tation of it or substi ute for it.
A plaster is the best form of external rem
edy, and Benson's is the best plaster; 6, 900
physicians and druggists, and multitude
of people no man can plumber, have settled
that. You can trust il, !" they say.
Coughs, colds, lame back. lumbago, mus
cular stiffness and rheumatism, troubles of
the liver and kidneys, influenza or grip,
pneumonia, and all other diseases open to
external treatment, are at once relieved and
cured by Benson's Plaster.
Do not assume that Belladonna. Capsi-
cum or strengthening plasters are .siust as
good as' Benson's. They are vastly in
ferior.-yo other plaster is as good as
Benson's.
In competition with the best known
plasters of Europe and America, Benson's
have received flee highest oeoords.
For sale by ali druggists or we will pre-
pay postage on any number ordered in the
United States, on receipt of 25c. each.
Seabury d. johnson. Mfg. Chemists NY
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1901-11-28

CATS AND POULTRY.


they May Work Well Together, but
Special Training Is Necessary.
My chicks have been kept in cat
proof coops for three or four weeks
and then turned out, the chicks to run,
while the hens are confined in Slated
coops. There is still danger from cats
ut that age, but l would rather risk los
ing a few and give them the benefit of
the range than save all from cats and
have only such chicks as are grown In
very close quarters. There have been
several cats about, but the chicks were
out for long time before the cats mo-
Tested them at all. Then one day l
went home at noon and, going out to
feed the chicks, noticed first that a
light Brahma chick which I was par
ticularly anxious to raise because when
Matched he was nearly black, was not
there. l hunted high and low, but could
not find him. Then l counted other
broods in that part Of the yard and
found that two more chicks were miss
ing That afternoon chored about the
place and kept on the alert for dis
turbance among the chicks. About the
middle of the afternoon heard COM
motion and arrived on the scene just in
time to see neighbours cat disappear
with chick. Being sure of the cat,
informed the neighbor, and the cat has
not been seen since, nor did any more
chickens disappear until several weeks
later.
Then late one afternoon saw half
grown kitten dragging away chick
that would weigh about pound. AS
the chick seemed to be very much alive
went after the cat. When approach
ed, it dropped the chick and ran. That
evening and again next morning /
watched for its return with a gun, but
it never came back. Inquiry discovered
that it was a cat that had been aban-
doned by a family recently moved
away. Hunger prompted it to hunt,
and the chicks came handy.
We can hardly blame the cat under
such circumstances, and 1 think that
in perhaps the majority of cases
where cats kill chicks the fault is with
the owners of the cats. Many people
purposely keep their cats short of food
to induce them to hunt mice and rats.
The usual result is that they hunt
what comes most convenient. The best
mousers and ratters we have had have
been cats that killed their prey, but
rarely ate it. The best cat we ever
had caught comparatively few mice
and rats, but patroled The place so
thoroughly that she frightened them
away
In great many cases poultry keep
ers are to blame for cats killing chicks.
They leave an occasional dead chick
where cat finds it. The cat eats 1t,
acquires taste for young chicken and
soon begins to kill. This is not de-
Tense of the chicken killing cat; it is
an explanation. The cat that kills
chickens ought not to be allowed to
live, but as cats as well as chickens
that is, some cats-are useful it is GER
tainly the best policy to have cats
taught and trained to let chickens
alone and to allow no others about
Cor. Farm Poultry.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1901-11-28
I'm A DUcKBoARD WAGON"

hood notions of fitness. But she owed
him more wages than she could ever
pay without either marrying him or
giving up the farm to him, and marry
ing him was the easier way out. Since
then matters have gone better, for the
ex-hired person is a strong, ambitious
young man, able to make even DESC
lated, seamy old farm return expenses.
Of recent years taking summer board
ers has been a refuge in time of trou-
BILE for women in the man deserted
country homes. Many of them do the
shop sewing in winter and take city
boarders in summer. The annual warm
weather migration from city to country
is increasing steadily, and in this way
the country has to some extent its re-
venge on the city at last, for the money
gained in town pursuits is for the time
spent on the farm.
The woman of pluck and energy who
uses her brains makes a fair profit off
summer boarders. If she does as we'll
as she can do, she always has large
vegetable and minor fruit garden which
yields supplies fresh and delicious with
out money and without price except
that of labor and the expenditure of
common sense and thought. The pros
porous summer boarder country home
is distinguished from the decaying
farmhouses about it by it's NEEDLESS,
mown lawn, its atmosphere of paint
and whitewash and it's generally smart,
tidy appearance.
Occasionally a woman of good health
and determination who is left stranded
on farm boldly takes her elephant by
the trunk and guides it herself She
puts all her wits into her work, uses
her own judgment, masters the details
of her profession as well as the recalci-
trant farm laborers and makes shin
ing success even of an abandoned farm.
But such a woman would succeed any
where. Again, woman left upon the
farm rents out her larger grainfelds
on shares, draws in her own tasks to
a narrower circuit and makes good
living off bees, poultry and the home
dairy. But many farms in the old
parts of the country are so wretched
that they do not even longer produce
honey making flowers. In that case it
is necessary to plant alfalfa or buck
wheat. Buckwheat thrives everywhere,
alfalfa almost everywhere. AT the Buff
falo exposition alfalfa white honey
from South Dakota formed an attrac-
tive part of that young states display.
But the children of these brave farm
women do not stay in the country.
Even the daughters at length are leav-
ing to become teachers, trained nurses.
milliners or dressmakers anywhere
anywhere off the farm.
JANE STnpv
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1901-11-28
BEAUTY SPOTS.

Try lemon juice for whitening the
neck. Apply it with linen cloth.
After the head has been shampooed,
whenever possible, give the head a sun
bath.
A writer states that oily hands may
be made comfortable and touchable by
wetting them once or twice a day while
clean with cologne. alcohol or toilet
vinegar.
A good circulation is essential to the
growth of the hair as well as to its col
or and fineness. A frequent, vigorous
brushing with stiff brush is the best
method of obtaining this.
A writer upon the complexion says
the best way to treat freckles, a sure
cure in all but very obstinate cases, is
to touch them night and morning with
a camePs hair brush after dipping it in
lemon juice.
For a greasy skin nothing is better
than the combination of an ounce of
dried rose leaves, half a pint of white
wine vinegar and half pint of rose
water. Let the vinegar stand on the
rose leaves for week, then add the
rosewater. Use a tablespoonful in
cup of distilled water.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1901-11-28
A EREAK NEST BUILDER,

Marvellous as is the instinct of birds,
one is led to wonder why the swift, or
chimney swallow, ever became adj
dicted to the habit of building its nest
in house chimneys, where the nest,
with its eggs or young, is very liable
to fall down because of lack of proper
adhesion to the brick, or where the
starting of fire by the householder
works complete destruction. Where
did these birds build their nests at the
time the psalmist wrote of them as
seeking a place where she may lay
her young" at time when chimneys
were unknown? And why, in its search
for building place, did it forsake the
clefls in the rocks, or, possibly, the hol-
low trunk of some forest tree, for such
an uncouth, illogical and unsafe place
as house chimney?
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1901-11-28
A LIVING BAROMETER.
The CrabIike Spider That Poses a.
Yucatan's Weather Sharp.

The CrabIike Spider That Poses as
Yucatan's Weather Sharp.
In Yucatan, land Of many curiosi-
ties, there is living barometer in the
form of small spider, called "am" on
account Of the effect produced by fits
poison. As far as it's own conduct goes,
the insect is inoffensive and can be
handled with impunity, but if anybody
has the misfortune to get one mystert-
ously mixed with his food he is certain
to die after few hours and meanwhile
for some unexplained reason will fire.
quently calculate "Am, am, amp hence
the name Of the spider. Throughout
the peninsula this is affirmed to be
fact, and if an am falls into fodder Of
horses or mules the animal that sWal-
lows it surely dies.
This spider is shaped like a crab,
minus the claws, and is of a bright vel
low color, with brown spots; the big
gest could be accommodated upon a
silver dime. Its favorite abode is
among the leaves of the banana shrub,
commonly, but enormously, called tree.
There it spins with extreme rapidity,
its web, which Is prodigiously large,
considering the size of it's architect,
and proceeds to devour the flies that
are unlucky enough to get entangled
in the meshes of this astonishing little
glutton, that is not satisfied with less
than a dozen a day-that is to say, it
consumes a good deal more than its
own bulk. It's progeny is numerous
and appears at first like more black
specks, smaller than the smallest pins
head.
The sky may be blue and cloudless
when suddenly the am commences TAX
ing in its sails, or, rather, gathering in
it's net, with neatness and dispatch,
examining the whole Of the material
into its diminutiye body entirely out Of
sight. A few minutes completes the
job, and the spider takes up its posi-
ton on the under surface of one of the
great leaves to be lulled by the gentle
swaying and sheltered while the storm
RACES. 1t is for this that the am has
prepared, and never is it mistaken.
When the web is taken in, rain will
certainly fall within an hour.
The moment the am Is touched it
feigns death and let's itself drop, show
ing no sign of life until again placed
upon leaf or on the ground. Many
one has lain in the palm of the writer's
hand inert, all its legs drawn close to
its body, while it was examined at
leisure, even being picked up in the
fingers without its manifesting any
life.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1901-11-28
A NOVEL HOTEL BILL.

The Man to Whom 1t Was Presented
Could Not Understand 1t.
Talking about bookkeeping, there
used to be a man in Yankton whose
system of bookkeeping accounts was
wonderfully efficient. He kept hotel,
and he could neither read nor write.
He did not know how to spell his own
name. but he did thriving business
and collected every dollar of his ac-
counts. Once, years ago, when I first
came to this country, went to his no
tel and stopped there two weeks"
writes Milt Brinben.
"When left, he presented me with
statement of what 1 owed him, and it
was curiosity. He had copied it from
his ledger. At the top of the sheet
there was rude picture of a soldier
on the march and after it three straight
marks. Then there was scene show
ing man at table eating. Then APP
peared a bed with a man in it. In the
amount column there was a picture of
doll and after it the two letters RS"
After the picture of man eating there
were forty-two marks; after the view
of the man in the bed, fourteen marks.
I looked at the account, then at the
proprietor, and told him it would take
me week to answer that conundrum.
81 was completely stumped, and when
that hotel man deciphered the amount
for me it was this: The picture of the
soldier walking meant march, and the
three marks supplied the date, March
3, when / began boarding. The man
at the table with forty-two marks after
1t indicated that l had eaten forty-two
meals. The man in bed with fourteen
marks showed that had slept in the
house fourteen nights. The doll with
the RS after it meant dollars and
in the figure columns appeared the fig
ures IA, which was the amount | owed
him. And it was true bill."-Yank-
ton Press,
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1901-11-28

Governor Curtin's Gallantry.
Philosophically considered every vo-
cation or even avocation has it's COM
pensations. Lecturing is no exception
to the rule. While loss of sleep and
WEAKNESS of the flesh by reason of
much travel are pullbacks, it has other
compensations besides the fee. One of
these is the meeting with old acquaint-
ances and the forming of new ones.
The new anecdotes picked up are not
to be despised. Recently Congressman
Charles B. Lands of Indiana and N.Y.
self delivered our joint lecture on I'm
perialism" at Wellsboro, Pa. Exon
gresham Packer, with whom we had
both served in the house. presided, and
he gave us most gorgeous introduce
ton to the vast and enthusiastic au-
dience. After the lecture Packer gave
us a sort of stag party or soiree at his
office.
The name of the great war governor,
Andrew G. Curtin, was mentioned. He
is one of the best beloved of Pennsyl-
yania heroes and statesmen. Whenever
lie Is SPOKEN Ol SOule one las u HuG
anecdote to tell. This occasion was no
exception. Packer said: "In his ex-
IRENE old age, when he was between
eighty and ninety, Governor Curtin WIS.,
tied Harrisburg. While there he was
the guest of the governor. The legisla-
ture adjourned to call on him. In COM
pany with the governor Curtin called
at the residence of an aged Pennsyl-
vania matron who for many years had
been his friend and supporter The
servant said her mistress was not yet
up, being in feeble health. whereupon
Ex-Governor Curtin, taking the liberty
of an old acquaintance, proposed to his
gubernatorial brother that they ascend
to her bedroom and pay their respects.
After chatting awhile they arose to go,
when Ex-Governor Curtin. with that
gallantry for which he was famous.
raised the lady's hand to his lips. In
stantly she snatched it away, exclaim-
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1901-11-28
LEFT ON THE LAND.
Ways In which Women ON Man De-
sarfed Earma Earn Money.

Ways In Which Women ON MAN Oe-
serted Farms Earn Money.
Being now and always country wo-
man Mt heart, however appearances may
be against me, women of the rural pop
ulation interest me more than those Of
any other class. Farm people as COM
pared to manufacturing and CONNER
cial people now constitute only half OF
the inhabitants of the United States.
While our cities are growing great at
the expense of the rural districts, note
that it is the men who first desert the
farms, leaving mothers and sisters to
manage as best they can. All who
have pluck and energy get away from
the old country home as from place
under deadly spell. The woman can
not till the soil themselyes-at least,
they generally think they cannot.
How, then, do they get living? A
few of them unfortunately slump and
do not live at all, properly speaking.
Whenever you see them they have a
doleful tale of bad luck and physical
lActI NOuAo hdAAOW Up JONA
soul if you minded it. They belong to
the variety of country people who
GLORY in their inirmities" in a way
that st. Paul never meant. Other wo-
men, who are Drawer, take sewing from
city department stores and wholesale
clothing houses and manage thus to
support themselves and the unproduc-
tive members of their families. l have
known women thus to maintain weak
and shiftless husbands whom fate and
their own haste to wed had saddled
them with. 1t may be said for the
husbands that they generally carry the
sewing in a blackboard wagon drawn
by an old horse back and forth be-
tween the railway station and the
homes, thus helping.
One particular lady belonging to a
once wealthy family found herself all
alone with a profitless farm on her
hands, The traditions of the family
would not permit her to do shop sew
ing, and she could not have done it if
she would She struggled along awhile
under her load of responsibility and &C.
cumulating debt. Then she married her
farm hired man, much younger than
herself, shocking the narrow neighbor
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1901-11-28
HINTS ON HOUSE PLANTS.

Dry heat, red spiders and plant lice
are the three principal causes of failure
in the raising of house plants. Plants
will always thrive better in a kitchen
than in a furnace heated parlor for
the simple reason that the air in the
kitchen is moistened by the continually
hyacinths, carnations, chrysanthemums
and narcissuses will all do better with
a north window light and a tempera-
ture of 60 or Is degrees than they will
in a south window, with sunlight and a
temperature of 70 or so degrees. AS
fine flowers of these varieties as we
have ever raised never saw the SUM-
light after they were potted.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1901-11-28

Millions of chicks die of bowel trou-
BILE. In most cases the cause is over.
feeding and the same feed at every
meal. Do not feed until 36 hours old.
Feed oatmeal fakes for the first meal.
then when the crop is empty feed dry
bread crumbs, next cracked corn. then
millet and all kinds of cracked grain.
Give different food at each meal and
never feed until the crops are empty.
Boiled milk and milk curd may be fed
every day. Free range should be given
every day and especially after the
fourth day.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1901-11-28

whereupon the ex-governor planted up
throughout the keystone State"
"What Detained You:"
The conversation drifted along, and
Lands told this marvellous tale of self
control:
81 had friend who attended the races
and bet on them, always on the losing
side, till he only had hundred dollars
left. He resolved not to risk that I'M
less he had lead pipe cinch on the re-
suit Consequently he put off invest
ing till he saw an old friend named
George, jockey, come prancing in Oh
a splendid horse, and to George he I'M
folded his tale of woe, asking him
If he could give him a tip. George
could. He said: The race Is fixed.
My horse is dead sure winner. Bet
your money on him. Ny friend did
so. The race was pulled off. Georges
horse not only did not win. but he was
only about the third quarter post when
the others were finishing. Finally
when George and his slow horse got in
my friend, instead Of jerking him off
and hopping up the track with him,
approached him and in most tender
voice inquired, George, what detained
your"
"Did Not Even Hesitate"
Then Lands capped his own story
with another, as follows: ''In large
city there was a dudish colored man
who one Sunday proposed to his friends
that they walk to a suburban village
about ten miles out and ride back III
the evening on the cars. Being wise
in their day and generation and know
ing something of the railroad sched-
ules in that particular village, they de-
clined the dudes invitation with
thanks and with many winks at each
other. So he sailed forth alone. Long
after dark he limped back into the
city, footsore and weary. 'Hellov said
his friends. we thought you were GO
ing to ride back in the train. Didn't it
stop? No. replied the dude. 1t did
not even hesitate"
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1901-11-28

A recent traveller in central Africa
gives several instances of the capacity
for sleep developed by his Arab serv-
ants. He mentions one of these men
as being undisturbed by the discharge
of firearms within two feet of his
head.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1901-11-28
FooIinE the sheen,

On an Australian sheep run, when
it is desired to foist motherless lamb
on a eve whose own lamb is dead, the
defunct lamb is skinned, and the skin
is sewed upon the orphan. After lit
tie suspicious smelling the eve well
comes the latter as her lost child.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1901-11-28
The Yel1ow River

The Yellow river is styled the "Sor-
row of China" During the last cen
tury it changed it's source twenty-five
times and now flows into the sea
through a mouth 900 miles distant
from that of hundred years ago. 1t
is estimated that it's floods in the nine
teenth century cost China 100000
lives
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1901-11-28

The Moors are inveterate coffee
drinkers, and a medical writer states
that their sight begins to fail at the
age of forty or forty-five, and many
are blind at fifty. The number of blind
in the streets of Fee is impressive, and
excessive use of coffee is always given
as the cause.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1901-11-28

A worn or soiled Bank of England
note is seldom seen. This is because
no note of this bank is ever reissued
by the establishment. When cashed,
it is kept and put aside for destruction.
The average term during which a note
remains in circulation is about a
month.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1901-11-28
TO CREDITORS.

of John Henry Willig, deceased, by direction
of the Surrogate of the County OF Gloucester,
hereby gives notice to the creditors of the said
John Henry Willig, deceased, to bring in their
debts, claims and demands 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 administrator.
GEORGE BUNDENS.
Dated Sept. 26, 1901. 100
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1901-11-28

A certain cure for the most long
standing corn will be found as follows:
Mix small piece Of bread with lit
tie vinegar; apply TO corn two or three
nights. 1t will then be completely
cured
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1901-11-28
Racing In Scotland

The earliest notice of racing in Scot
land occurs during the reign of James
~, in 1904. On April 10 in that year
the lord high treasurer of Scotland
notes in his accounts payment of
sum of 18 shillings ''to the boy that
ran the kings horse" at Leith.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1901-11-28

There is in existence an unrepealed
law in Switzerland which forbids the
wearing of hats more than eighteen
inches in diameter, artificial flowers
and foreign feathers under a heavy
penalty.