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Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1902-07-03
A Critic Answered.


correspondent asks Farm-Poultry:
"Why are there SO many thousands Oh
poultry farms to rent if such good
business? Is it poor management!
In the first place, 'alPs not gold that
glitters." Not all places advertised to
sell or rent as poultry farms are poul-
try farms. The greater number of
them are farms with one or more poul-
try houses on them. the equipment
generally being insignificant in the es
timation of one who knows what is re-
quired for a poultry farm deserving
the name.
Most of the farms of this class are
also fruit or vegetable farms in the
same way that they are poultry farms.
Still there are a good many poultry
farms for rent, though it would take
one long time to locate hundred Of
them, to say nothing of one or more
thousands. The commonest reasons
for these farms being idle or on the
market are that those who established
them lacked experience or capital or
both experience and capital. You can
not always say that it is poor manage
ment. have known of cases where
men, though finally forced under, have
come pretty near accomplishing won
ders by good management under heavy
handicaps.
AS to poultry keeping being a good
business-''such good business
Farm-Poultry does not try to teach
either that 1t is so good that no one
can help making a success of it or
that it presents better opportunities
than other lines. We simply say that
it furnishes opportunities for many to
make a part of living. and make it
easily, for many to make a living and
for some to make more than a living
Those who. as the farmers do. make
poultry keeping side issue can often
make what they make on fowls with
very little labor and no outlay. Those
who make poultry keeping speciality
If they succeed, succeed by intelligent
skill and patient perseverance, and
most of them find that the road to sue
cess is, very much of it. uphill. The
poultry business has opportunities for
great many. but it is not every mans
opportunity.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1902-07-03
SQUAD RAISING.
An Industry In Which There Is Pos
sibility of Good Returns.


sibility of Good Returns.
AS an industry squad shising re-
quires less capital and leSA work i'll
proportion to the returns than any 9th
er business of similar character, says
the Washington Post. In the first
place, experience has taught that the
common pigeons of the streets and al
leys are not only the healthiest and
best breeders, but that they also pro-
duce the best squads, young birds that
are easily fattened and that are strong
and hardy. The high priced and fancy
breeds of pigeons, such as pouters,
tumblers, fantails, duchesses, Ant
werps, dragons, runts, silver duns,
ETC., do not compare with the scrub
pigeon for the purposes of SQUAD pro-
duction, so that at the outset the per
son contemplating entering the bust
ness is relieved of the necessity of
spending a large sum of money for
fancy birds.
AS for place in which to breed pi-
geons, an extensive structure is not a
necessity, nor is it even desirable, the
only requisites being that the struc-
ture should be warm in winter and not
too hot in summer, free from dampness
and, if possible, with a southern expo
sure; also that it should be free from
rats and mice. For this purpose moth
ing is better than an empty garnet, well
provided with light and the floor COW
cred with gravel or cinders. All cracks
should be made tight in order to pre-
vent drafts in winter time. This last
condition is much to be desired If
squads are to be raised in the winter
season, which is the time when they
are dearest and consequently bring the
best prices.
The most interesting and important
young are Matched out. Unlike chick
ems and turkeys, the feeding of the
young pigeons is attended to by the
parent birds. thus saving the person
engaged in squad raising a great deal
of trouble which in chicken raising
must be attended to. 1t seems that the
pigeon has never reached that stage of
thorough domestication where the
young birds have to be fed artificially;
but, like the wild birds of the forest,
the pigeon is one of the few domestic
fowls that attend to the feeding of
their young with what squad raisers
call "soft food" or pigeons milk" I'M
til they are old enough to shift for
themselves. Thus the troublesome part
of the work of chicken raising is alb
sent in pigeon culture.
The young birds begin to eat grain
in about a week after they are Matched,
and then it is that the SQUAD raiser
should see to it that they are kept
stuffed with grain and never hungry.
The parent birds cannot be depended
on to look after the welfare of their
progeny after the soft food period is
passed. They have a curious habit of
stufing one and starving the other,
fighting the starved bird off and feed
ing its share to the favorite.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1902-07-03

By virtue of a writ of fieri facias to me di-
reeted issued out of the Chancery Court of the
State of New Jersey, will be exposed at public
sale, ON
Friday, the Twenty day Of July
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:
Ali the following described lot of ground
situate in the Township of Mantua, and in the
Village of Mantua, late Carpenters Landing,
and is bounded as follows:
Beginning at q stake in the middle of Union
street, in the village of Mantua, at corner OF
other lands Caroline Sweeten, and from thence
~ north thirty-three degrees east, three chains
and fifty-five links to stone; thence (2) south
fifty-siX degrees east, chain and thirty-four
links to stone corner to Robert Walace's lot
of land; thence (3) south thirty-three degrees
west, three chains and ffty-tive links to the
middle of said street. thence (4) along the same
thirty-five links to the place of beginning.
Containing forty-five hundredths of an acre
of land and premises.
Being the same property conveyed to Caroline
F. Sweeten by Jesse @. Morgan and Ann, his
wife, by deed dated March 2lst, one Thousand
eight hundred and seventy-nine, and recorded
in the Clerks Office at Woodbury., in Book of
Deeds vs., page 382.
Seized as the property of Jennie B. Gill ct al,
Of Annie Morgan and Joseph F. Morgan, execu-
tors of Jesse G. Morgan, deceased, complainants,
and to be sold by
F. d. SPRINGER, Sheriff.
Watkins & Avis Solicitors. 6-26
Dated June %, 1902 Prs. fees, S.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1902-07-03

OOI-o Ole WAfG. ILL dONlE1D
and brilliant in our eyes, reflected by
the bright morning sun, but by the
time we could make out the royals we
had no time for them. Our gaze was
focused on the bit of bunting at the
main, the stars and stripes of our re-
public. I.think bit of chill ran over
the SpineS of all of us when we saw
that. 1t seemed such a devilishly beau
tiful idea, that-the flag bounding slap
at us right out of the middle of the Pa
cific, and of all mornings on the Fourth
of July morning!
""This is good, this is good mutter-
ed the old skipper a trife hoarsely.
And then the hull of the approaching
ship danced on the amethyst horizon
for us, her code of signals futtering.
"'The Shenandoah, out of Bathp
shouted the signal quartermaster.
''You ought to have heard the men up
forward, bless their mischievous, gen
erous souls! They let out whoop that
rang around the circle of indigo sea
like a Valhalla shout of victory, and
fear we were a bit undignifed aft. for
one of the senior watch officers along
side us on the poop deliberately threw
his cap to the deck, thrust forth both
of his arms in the air and emitted a
series of bowls that were calculated
to make the voice of our siren seem
small by comparison.
"'Does she wave' he howled. We'll,
does she wayeY
1.-THE Shenandoah, probably queen of
all the clippers in the world, bore down
upon us with every thread of her can
vas set and drawing, as beautiful a
picture as any man ever sees in this
world, and there. futtering far above
her main skysl, swapping in the breeze,
and waving grandly with the dips and
leans of the great ship, the flag! 1t
would be hard to describe the feeling
we all experienced when the Shenan-
doah swept by within a hundred yards
of us. Her crew was just as much
pleased as we were, and she did not
wait for us to dip, but just as she
swung by US like a princess in the
pride of her finery again and again
was the banner dipped in reply to our
banner dipping at the mizzen, and the
clippers crew. ranged along the wealth
er rail, mingled their hoarse shouts with
the cheering of our man-o'-war's men.
when man sees the flag of his ma
tive land under circumstances like
these. the memory of it is going to
abide with him" Washington Star.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1902-07-03
nidn,t Care to Try.

A woman in railroad station the
other day had great deal of trouble
with one Of her children, boy of sew
en- or eight. and a man who sat near
her stood it as long as possible and
then observed:
Madam, that boy of yours needs the
strong hand of father"
Eyes, know it." she replied, 'but
he can't help it. His father died when
he was six years Of age, and I've done
my best to get another and failed. He
can't have what can't get. Would
you care to try yourselfw
The listener had fed.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1902-07-03
IRRIGATED CABBAGE.
Colorado, of "spud" Fame, Now Adds
Cabbage to the List.

Cabbage to the List.
Greeley, Colo, famous for its pota-
toes, or "spuds," has during the last
few years developed into an important
cabbage growing center, according to
a Country Gentleman correspondent, in
whose account of the industry occurs
the following:
Transplanting is done from the 4th to
the Both of June, according to variety.
The plants are then from six to eight
inches high. The rows are furrowed
out thirty inches apart and the plants
set in the side of the furrow fifteen to
eighteen inches apart. Local growers
still prefer to set the plants by hand
with a dibble, though machines are
made for the purpose. AS soon as a
row is set the water is allowed to run
through the furrow, watering the
plants and firming the earth around
the roots. A week later the field is
gone over again, filling in all missing
plants and watering a second time. AS
soon as the ground is dry enough it is
cultivated twice in Il row and hoed. II
10 lGpCsllNQ GNSl ACI het9 III
less it rains, followed in each case by
cultivation until the plants get too
large, which is generally from Aug. 10
to 90 After this irrigation alone is
continued as necessary.
One grower increases his yield great
ly by irrigating at times with liquid
manure On the line of the lateral
above the cabbage field he throws up Il
dixie or small earth embankment
around a space into which manure Is
drawn. The water in the lateral is run
into this Enclosure and thence through
the field The manure should be stirred
up with a fork occasionally while the
water is running over it. In the inter
walls between irrigations, when the wa
ter is shut off, fermentation proceeds
very rapidly, and the value of the ma
nure is greatly increased. By this
method 100000 pounds have been
raised on patch measuring 400 acres,
or at tie rate of $1,000 pounds per
acre. The variety grown was Ne Plus
Ultra.
The irrigation of cabbage and the
application of liquid manure by irriga-
ton might be introduced at the east
with great advantage. There the crop
is grown to Il great extent on lowland
near which there is often some stream
from which ditch could be taken out
at little cost. With the irrigation ditch
once dug cabbage and other vegetables
could be watered when transp1anted
by the western method at an insignifi-
cant cost of time and labor. the plants
would suffer less setback, the gardener
would not be taking chances on the
weather, and he would lose fewer
plants i'll transplanting. Besides, the
yield could be enormously increased at
almost no expense by the application
of liquid manure by irrigation.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1902-07-03


Let us, standing by our fathers
graves, swear anew and teach the oath
to our children that, with Gods help,
the American republic. clasping this
continent in its embrace, shall stand
unmoved, though all the powers of
slavery, piracy and European jealousy
should combine to overthrow it; that
we Shall have in the future, as we
have had in the past, one country, one
constitution and one destiny; that our
sons may gather strength from our ex-
ample in every contest with despotism
that time may have in store to try their
virtue and that they may rally under
the stars and stripes to battle for free
dom and the rights of man with our
olden warcry, Liberty and union, now
and forever, one and inseparable."
John Jay, July 4, 1861.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1902-07-03

row perhaps she will have pie and tea
and next day Il glass of milk and a
lady finger. With this trash in her
stomach = trash except the glass of
milk-she returns to work. Her corset
is laced tight, her skirt is heavy and
trailing, catching up every microbe of
contagiOn that can be conceived, and
in this kind of fighting trim she goes
into an office to compete with man in
a business way. Heaven have mercy
on her misguided soul!
She is a proper object for charitable
consideration, and philanthropic ladies
in the large cities are now doing their
utmost to alleviate her troubles, at
least so far as luncheon is concerned.
The foolish dress can only be remedied
when the Almighty shall send her bet
ter light and knowledge,
The philanthropic ladies are estab-
fishing Office women's lunchrooms in
the heart of city business centers. The
model plan thus far is perhaps that in
operation in Chicago. 1t is the wom-
ans club idea devoted to something
useful. A floor is found large enough
to contain kitchen, dining room, read
ing and rest room. BY close buying
and shrewd management it has been
found that for IL cents it is possible
to provide a hot meat and vegetable
meal of the best quality. Delicious
bread rolls are a cent apiece, meat
sandwiches two for 5; milk, tea, cot
fee or cocoa, cents; potatoes and rice,
cents each, and other dishes in pro-
portion. Such low prices are possible
because each luncher is her own wait
ress. All the food. kept steaming hot
and already divided into portions, is
ranged around upon a three sided
counter in a large. light. clean aired
room. Each girl selects her own fare,
takes plate and napkin from a pile
near by, pays the cashier for what she
gets, then goes into the dining room,
sits down and eats it,
For the privilege of dining room, rest
room and reading room each member
Of the lunch club pays 25 cents a
month. So popular are these business
women's lunch and rest clubs that al
one of them 1000 girls take their noon
meal, at another 1000. A month after
the first one was opened it had 600
members. The feeling of very own
ness, where they can neither be ogled
nor jostled, snubbed by walters nor
yet subjected to the torture of being
forced to see crowds of hungry men
feeding like dumb brutes, is infinitely
comforting.
The ladies of the Womans Exchange
in Cincinnati maintain a general res
taurant which more than holds it's own
against the moderate priced luncheon
places in the city. 1t is we'll patronized
not only by business women of small
means, but by men well financed. New
York moves slowly compared to the
been made. One young lady conducts
on her own account midday restau-
rant for young women downtown and
makes it pay her. She gives a table
d'hote for 20 cents, or a luncher can
choose any article and pay for it sep
nrately. The table d'hote includes
one meat and two vegetables, dessert
with tea, coffee or milk. The New York
Business Womans association, among
it's other enterprises, conducts a noon
for 25 cents. or q customer can buy
what she likes and pay la carte.
ESTHER ZANE.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1902-07-03
The Unattained.

The quickest way to make any man
weary Of his life is to give him all his
hearts desire. The struggle for the
unattained is the secret Of JOY. Here
is man who has been giving his years
to a reckless round Of pleasure. Now
you see him waking up to find that the
deepest needs of his soul are still I'M
touched. Or there is another man who
has given twenty-five years to the ac-
emulation of knowledge, and at last
we see him, like DR.. Casaubon in mid
dlemarch," dying with the stores Of
knowledge all around him, which he
does not know how to use.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1902-07-03
OFFICE GIRLS LUNCHEON.
Sup OF Tea and n Lady Finger, or
Something Substantial:

Sup OF Tea and n Lady Finger, or
Something SubstantiaI:
The girl beginning her career as a
stenographer receives the average pay
of the Office boy who sweeps and dusts
the Office in the morning and runs en-
rands-that is to say, 81 to Sc week.
The reasons she is thus poorly paid
are two: First, there are now SO many
stenographers and typewriters; second,
eleven out of twelve of them could not
write page dramatically and spell
and punctuate it correctly if their lives
depended on it. So, though they have
paid considerable money to learn then
trade, they get almost the poorest
wage and cannot afford substantial
noon meal.
Ten cents a day is the average of
what they can spend for luncheon. 1t
is poor lookout for food supply that
makes rich blood. When the young
woman who works in a city Office goes
to a restaurant for her luncheon, she
looks with her outer eye over the
menu and with her inner eye at that
10 cents. She orders either cup of
tea and piece of cake or glass of
milk and a slab of bakers pie. Tomor-
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1902-07-03

on the China station FOL
over three years, and most of us, for.
ward as well as aft, We're pretty lone
some, as you may fancy, for sight OF
this smiling land of ours We were
eight days out from Yokohama, max
ing for Honolulu to coal ship, when we
were overtaken by the Fourth of July
All the ships in the American navy
you remember, are dressed with bunt
ing from stem to stern ON Independ
ence day, whether the ships are at an
Choir or at sea, in any quarter OF the
globe. Our signal quartermaster made
an especially beautiful job of sIiiI
dressing on this Fourth of July, and
with our hundred foot homeward bound
pennant streaming fat with the fresl
breeze we We're worth looking at.
'But we seemed to be absolutely
alone in mid-Pacific. During the first
three or four days of our homeward
bound cruise out of Japan we had run
across few ships, all flying the Brit
ish flag, but on this sunshiny Fourth
of July morning we seemed to be quite
alone on the sea, but we were not.
"'A SAIL! sung out the boy in the
lookout.
'"The sail was skys'l, still and tiny
as the link in lady's lorgnette chain
and the men up for'ard jammed the
to'gallant fo'c'sle and strained their
eyes for the ship, which was making
for us. A sailing ship approaching you
at sea from the far horizon seems to
make at you in bounds when you your.
self are driving for her, and by the
time we took a second long look at the
approaching ship her huge royals, bel
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1902-07-03

Guinea fowls are easily reared, great
foragers, the flesh is as good as that
of wild turkey, says American Stock
Keeper. They will find their own food
nine months out of the twelve In most
localities of this country, are a pre-
ventive against the depreciation of
hawks, are pleasant to look upon, and,
barring their ugliness to young chicks.
it is a wonder they are not found in
every farmyard.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1902-07-03
A'FamiIy Combine.

Deacon Jones-I know Of three broth
ers in a neighboring town that would
afford excellent material for a sermon
on the theme of brotherly love.
1t. Tell me more about them, deacon.
Deacon Jones-Well, John. the eld-
est is physician; Thomas, the second
brother, is an undertaken, and William,
the youngest, is a marble cutter.-Chi-
cago News.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1902-07-03
NOTICE TO CREDITORS.

Frances Z. Gaunt, Executrix of the estate
of William L. Gaunt, deceased, by direction
of the Surrogate of the County of Gouces-
ter, hereby gives notice to the creditors
of the said William e. Gaunt, deceased, to bring
in their debts, claims and demands against the
estate OF the said decedent. under oath or affr-
nation, within nine months from this date,
they will be forever barred of any action there
for against the said executriN.
FRANCES E. GAUNT.
Dated June %, 1902 6-26
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1902-07-03

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knowledge of the sufferings of other
women at this season.
There is not the slightest cause for
fear or anxiety at this period if DR..
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1t gives health of body and cheerfu1ness
of mind, and by its aid the pains and
pangs of this critical period are pre-
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Diseases that all other medicines had
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al feel it my duty to write YOU as I have
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Matamoras, Washington Co., Ohio. III have
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such pains in my head and i'll the back of my neck
that thought would lose my mind. Now can
work every day. / recommend Favorite Pre-
scription to all females suffering in the period
OF change of life. 1t is the best medicine I
have found"
"Favorite Prescription has the testi-
mony of thousands of women to its
complete cure of womanly diseases.
Do not accept an unknown and un-
proved substitute in its place.
Keep the bowels healthy by the timely
use of DR.. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1902-07-03
NOTICE TO CREDITORS.

Kate Iadner, Mary G. Smith and Caroline
LANCE, ADMINISTRATORS of the estate of George
Obenland deceased, by direction of the Surrogate
of the County of Gloucester hereby give notice
to the creditors of the said George Obenland, de-
ceased, to bring in their debts claims and de-
mands against the estate of the said decedent
under oath affirmation. within nine months
from this date, or they will be forever barred of
any action therefor against the said Administra-
trixes. KATE LADNER,
MARY G. SMITH,
CAROLINE LANCE.
Dated May 2, 1902. 5-15
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1902-07-03
NOTICE TO CREDITORS.

James w. Hughes, Administrator of Emeline
VanIleer, deceased, by direction OF the Surro-
gate of the County of Gloucester, hereby gives
notice to the creditors of the said Emeline Van
Leer, deceased, to bring in their debts, claims
and demands against the estate of the said de-
cedent, under oath affirmation, within nine
months from this date, or they will be forever
barred of any action therefore against the said
administrator JAMES w. HUGHES.
Dated June 10, 1902. 6-19
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1902-07-03
NOTICE OF sETTLEM EMF.

Notice is hereby given that the account of
Alfred French and John Gaunt, Executors of
the estate of Samuel @. French, deceased will
be audited by the Surrogate and reported for
settlement to the Orphans Court of the County
OF Gloucester, on Friday, July 25, A. D. 1902
ALFRED FRENCH
JOHN GAUNT,
Executors.
Dated surrogate's Office. June I6 1902 600
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1902-07-03
NOTICE OF SETTLEMENT.

Notice is hereby given that the account Of
Wilson T. Jones, Executor of the estate Of
Mary Downs, deceased, who was Executrix OF
the estate of Francis A. Downs, deceased, will
be audited by the Surrogate and reported for
settlement to the Orphans Court of the County
of Gloucester on Friday, July %, A. D. 1902.
WILSON Il. JONES,
Executor of, &c.
Dated surrogate's Office, June l6, 1902. 6-26