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The Washington times., 1902-10-19
ARMY ORDERS.

Leave of absence for two months, to
take effect upon the completion of tbe
artillery target practice of his company,
is granted Capt. Frank X. Ferguson,
Artillery Corps.
The following transfers are made in
the Artillery Corps:
First Lieut.. Henry NJ. Merriam, from
the One Hundred and Fourteenth Com
pany, Coast Artillery, to the Fifty-fourth
Company, Coast Artillery.
First Lieut.. Arthur T. Balentine, from
lery, to the One Hundred and Fourteenth
Company, Coast Artillery.
First Lieut.. Charles T. Boyd, Fourth
Cavalry, is detailed by the Secretary of
War as professor of military science and
tactics at the Nevada State University,
Reno, Nevada. and will report at the
university for duty accordingly.
Col James A. Buchanan, Porto Rico
Provisional Regiment of Infantry. now
on sick leave of absence, will proceed tc
Washington Barracks, District of Co
lumbia, and report to the commanding
oficer General Hospital, at that post,
for treatment.
Veterinarian Richard H. Power, Ar
tillery Corps. is relieved from duty at
Fort Walla Walla, Washington, and will
proceed to Fort Riley, Kansas. and re-
port to the commanding officer for duty
at the artillery subpost.
The eavs Of absence granted Capt.
Ola W. Bell. Seventh Cavalry, is ex-
tended two months.
Col. earle A. Woodruff Artillery
Corps, Is detailed as member of the
examining board convened at Governors
Island. New York city, vice Brig Gen.
John /. Rodgers, U. S. A, retired from
active service.
Second Lieut. Richard H. Williams,
Artillery Corps, will report to Col.
Carle A. Woodruff. Artillery Corps,
president Of the examining board, con-
vened at Governors Island. for examina-
tion for promotion.
Leave OF absence for four months is
granted Major William Stephenson, sur
geon. U. S. A.
The leave of absence on surgeons s GER
tificate OF disability granted First Lieut..
Oliver P. M. Hazard, Second Cavalry, is
extended one month on surgeons ccrtif-
cate of disability.
Capt. Edgar Russell, Signal Corps.
will proceed TO Fort Barrancas, Fla,
and Fort Monroe, Va, on official busi-
ness pert aiming to the signal corps of
this du.y will return to his proper sta
ton in this city.
Leave of absence for one month is
granted Second Lieut. Frederick B. Hen
ressy, Artillery Corps.
The following changes in the stations
and duties of contract surgeons, u. 5.
A., are ordered:
Contract Surgeon Robert p. Cooke is
relieved from duty at Fort II. q. Wright,
New York, ane will proceed to Chicka-
mauga Park. Georgia, and report on
November Q. 1902. to the commanding
officer 4 Camp George II. Thomas for
duty.
Contract Surgeon Raoul A. Amador.
now on leave of absence in New York
city, is relieved from duty at Camp
George H. Thomas. Georgia, and will
proceed 10 Fort Revere, Massachusetts,, |
and report 20 the commanding officer OF
that post for duty.
The Washington times., 1902-10-19
ENGLISH sH1pYARDs IDLE.

LONDON, Oct. 1s.-"Engineering"
says that not since the autumn Of 1897
has the tonnage of merchant ships in
course of construction in the United
Kingdom been so low as at present. Five
years ago the work on hand which had
been fiuctuating for some time between
100000 and 100000 tons. began to show
steady Improvement, and finally reached
the top point of 1.414.12O tons. Then
came steady drop to 1.000.714 tons, the
decrease being about 10000 tons month.
This denoted continuous paucity Of new
work to make up for the completion OF
old orders. The decrease was due as
much to the absence Of home orders as
those from other countries. as the pro-
portion of foreign ships being built was
fairly normal.
The Washington times., 1902-10-19
AMERICAN STOCKS IN LONDON.

NEW YORK, Oct. 1s.-Quotations for
American securities on tOday's Lon
don market showed few changes
from yesterdays closing level here.
Shortly before the opening of the
New York Stock Exchange, Union Pa
cifc was quote1 y below parity; South
ern Pacific and United States Steel COM
mon, % Atchison common, Erie com
mon and first preferred, Illinois Cen
tral, New York Central, and Pennsyl-
vania, each Il.
Anaconda was quoted above parity;
Louisville, 1 Canadian Pacific, Is; and
United States Steel preferred, u.
The Washington times., 1902-10-19
vi ORPHIN
LAUDANUM, OPIUM AND ALL DRUG HABITS
CURED FREE,

The wonderful discovery of the St.
James Society has made Thousands of
marvellous cures where all other medi
cines and doctors failed. A trial bottle
of this, the only absolute cue for the
drug habit will be sent free Of charge
to any reader of The Times
The result of an investigation of the
many thousand cures made by the St.
James Society has impre ssed us so
strongly with the curative powers of
this great medicine, that letter is here
published from among many thousands
investigated for the benefit of the pub
lic-this one, taken at random, is from
prominent doctor:
Doctor , of Detroit, Michigan.
says: Like many other young doctors.
fell into the habit OF using morphine 20
induce sleep. until the habit grew on me-
i realized that it was my undoing and
tried everything could find to cure me.
Nothing seemed to be of any benefit to
me until ! took the ST. James Society's
Remedy. / heard about it and sent for
a free trial bottle, which was sent me-
and / received more support and encour-
agement from doctors of the ST. James
Society than from all my friends and
brothers of the profession. After ! had
taken two or three doses | noticed a
change come over me. | had no desire
for drugs, and after l had taken full
supply of the medicine | was completely
cured. | find that this great remedy
contains the vital principles lacking in
all others. II acts as perfect antidote,
not a substitute. My friends. who are
T0IAH pot
The Washington times., 1902-10-19
SHEPHERD MEMORIAL FUND.

Subscriptions to the Shepherd memoir
ial fund were received yesterday as fol-
lows: w. E. Barker, SIS; ]. E. Rankin,
$40; George Truesdell. $50; E. G. Kim
ball, s5; John B. Wight, s25; Scott C..
Bone, $40; G. w. F. Swartzell. SIS; a
total of $3.50. This, added to the sub
scriptions previously received. makes
the aggregate s6,163.
The Washington times., 1902-10-19
KING LEOPOLD RESTRICTED.

BRUSSELS, Oct 1s.-The condition of
the health of King Leopold is such that
his physicians have ordered him to re-
frain from yachting and automobiling.
The crew of the royal yacht Alberta has
been dismissed. This probably puts an
end to the Kings project in regard to a
tour Of the United States.
The Washington times., 1902-10-19
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NAVAL NANEUVERS MAY
NOW BE CARRIED OUT
Endof Coal Strike Welcomed
by Department.

The officials of the Navy Department
pective settlement of the anthracite
coal strike, as it will now be possible to
proceed with the pet schemes in strstegy
worked out for the maneuvers to take
place this winter in the Caribbean Sea.
1t was greatly feared at one time by
the naval officers on duty at the Navy
Department that it would be necessary
to abandon several of the important
problems planned for these maneuvers,
because of the increasing shortage of
bituminous coal, as a result of the an
thracite strike.
Contractors Fail.
Early last spring Rear Admiral Brad
ford, chief of the Bureau of Equipment
of the Navy Department, made large con-
tracts for an adequate supply of coal at
normal prices for the navy during the
coming winter. Recently, however, sew
eral Of the bituminous operators have
found 1t impossible to fulfill their con-
tracts with the navy. A large supply
of coal is on hand at Key West and San
Juan. Porto Rico, but this is hardly
sufficient to supply the ordinary needs
of the naval vessels in those waters.
One of the problems planned for the
winter maneuvers was the conveying and
carrying of coal in colliers from Nor
folk to Culebra Island, in the West In
dies. 1t was feared that this problem
would have to be abandoned, but the end
of the strike will probably make 1t pos
sible to continue the original plan.
The Washington times., 1902-10-19

among the most prominent people in De-
troit. can tell you how it made a man of
me. Since then l have prescribed it for
over one hundred patients successfully.
/ have never known 1t to fail. In the
last Medical Society meeting / advised
all my brother doctors to send for sup
ply of this medicine, If they had any pa
tients subject to the drug habit
There are over fifty thousand patients
whose testimonies are similar to Dr.
-. and there are 5000 practicing
physicians who are prescribing the St.
James Society's Remedy. and we have
yet to find one case where this great
remedy failed to make complete cure
The Washington times., 1902-10-19
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Free Trial Treatment.

SPECIAL NoTE.-The st. James So
ciety, for the morphine and drug habit,
has met with such wonderful success
In curing patients that an arrange
ment has been made by which all
readers of this advertisement, who
have not already tested it. may have "A
sample bottle sent free of charge in
plain package, together with advice and
counsel from the Society's physicians.
The free trial treatment has cured many
cases. All correspondence will be treat
ed by the Society in strictest confidence.
Your letter will hn returned if desired
All you have to do is to write to the
st. James Society. Suite 2063, 1883
Broadway, New York. and mention hav-
ing seen this liberal offer in the Wash
ington Times.
tie FREE.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1902-03-20
GROUND GYPSUM.
Practical Experience In Using 1t to
Advantage In the Stable.

Practical Experience In Using 1t to
Advantage In the Stable.
Ground gypsum, according to Ca
madam farm investigator, may I'M
doubtedly be used to advantage in the
stable. The heterogeneous compound in
the urine by the aid of certain micro
organisms, always present in the air,
is converted very quickly into carbo-
nate of ammonia. This is volatile and
will escape if some suitable absorbent
or fixer is not present. Gypsum is such
a fxer, converting the carbonate into
sulphate of ammonia, which is not vol
atile.
Practical conclusions from expert
ments are % that the proper place to
use gypsum is in the stable, where I'M
doubtedly the greater waste of nitro
gen, as ammonia, frequently occurs,
and ~ that when The manure heap is
kept compact and moist there is not
any considerable escape of ammonia.
Fermentation increased the availa-
bility of the phosphoric acid. 1t is to
be noticed that a considerable loss of
potash took place. This must be due
to a certain amount of drainage from
the manure soaking into the board
floor. This drainage was no doubt in
creased by the water used in keeping
the manure constantly moist. This re-
suit corroborates the conclusion that
loss Of potash cannot be entirely guard
ed against without a water tight, con-
crete floor if the manure is to be kept
moist by rain or artificial means.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1902-03-20

inducing ailments. The feathers OF a
duck are almost impenetrable and will
withstand almost any degree of cold.
Again, duck cannot stand the amount
of confinement in a house that q hen
can. She is more restless in disposition
and is given to exercise in a greater
degree than is a hen. Indigestion is not
so prevalent with ducks as with chick
ems.
In the first cut is shown a simple
house that may be built at small eX-
pense 1t is plain and has shed roof.
Such a house should be built of rough
boards, II inches by inch, and joints
covered by strips, inches by 1 inch.
The roof should be made water tight
and covered with tarred paper, shin
giles or tin. The outside should be well
drained around the bottom that it may
not be damp. Some advocate board
floors raised six to eight inches from
six inches with dry earth, straw or
leaves. The writer favorS the using OF
board floors in all houses for chickens
but thinks it not essential for ducks.
If the house is well drained on the out
side and the earth floor is covered with
hay, straw or leaves, it will be perfect
ly satisfactory. There must not be
dampness in the house, as the birds
will not do so well. While they are
given to water on the outside, they
must have comfortable quarters in
which to warm up" or "dry out
The building shown may be con-
structed of any dimensions desired, ac-
cording to the size of flock to be kept.
A house II by IA feet will accommo-
date nicely a flock of dozen. There
are no interior arrangements whatev-
er, simply the floor space of the build
ing. 1t is better not to use nests. Some
ralsers use a plain nest, as shown in
the second cut. These nests are made
of one inch boards twelve inches high
and sixteen inches long set fourteen
inches apart and held together in front
with three inch strip. The nests are
nailed to the back of the house. But
more than half the eggs are laid on the
floor of the house or in the yard, and if
permitted a duck will build herself a
nest to her liking.
When two or more breeding pens are
to be kept, the plan of the house shown
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1902-03-20
FLOWER AND TREE.

Palms and ferns should never be al
lowed to stand in draft.
When moss is seen on fruit trees, it
may be taken as evidence of lack of
thrift in the trees,
The ideal soil in which to set a plant
is one that is moist, without being wa
ter soaked. neither too dry nor too wet.
Dust is a great enemy of window
plants in connection with dry heat.
Care must be taken to keep the air
moist.
In India the tea plant is naturally a
tree, but by means of pruning it is kept
so small that it seems to be only a
bush.
For setting in a dry soil the plant
should be well rooted and stocky, as it
must depend on the roots it already
has to make start.
Vines of all kinds flower and fruit
freely only after they have reached the
top of their support. When they have
arrived, they set about blooming.
Peonies should be planted in October.
Once planted they should not be dis
turbed. but should be allowed to form
strong clumps. Thus treated the flow
ers increase in size and beauty with
each succeeding season.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1902-03-20
Things That Are Told.

The blossoming of peach and plum
trees can be retarded by spraying with
whitewash.
Chairs Choice peach received high
commentator at the New York Fruit
Growers association meeting.
Sod culture in orchards is all nom
sense, according to Mr.. J. H. Hale. He
favors cultivation and cover crops.
Professor L. FL. Bailey believes two
year trees are preferable to older ones
for setting in an orchard and cites a
case where two and six year old trees
were set in an orchard, and after a
very few years the young trees were as
large as the old ones.
Sow onion seed in flats in a hotbed
or in a greenhouse and transplant the
onions to the open ground as soon as
the latter is in working condition.
For profitable general field culture
the sweet potato requires at least four
months of warm weather, free not only
from frost, but from cold winds and
from cool nights.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1902-03-20
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PEACH POINTS,
BY r.. Morrill,, the Famous Grower.
What u Peach Man Must KNOW.

BY r.. Morrill,, the Famous Grower.
What n Peach Man Must Know.
Following is only a small part of
some terse talk on peach culture given
by R. Morrill,, the famous fruit grow
er, before the Illinois society:
The man who can make success of
peach growing must love the business.
He must understand a few essentials
in selecting a location; he must know
that elevation means everything to a
peach orchard under trying conditions;
he must understand the effect of tenn
peratures on plant life and on peach
buds particularly; he must know that
cold air runs down hill as readily as
water; he must know that the buds
moving air as they do in still air, as,
for instance, they may not kill on the
top of a plateau and on the side of a
hill, but kill at the lower level; he
must know that there must be a prop
er balance maintained between root
and top in the care of his trees.
L spoke about the proper balance be-
tween root and top. The balance must
be preserved by a careful culture Of
the soil without mutilation of the
root, at the proper time. The proper
time is when growth commences. Be-
gin your culture and hurry it forward,
and keep at it. Then cease at time
Which you must determine from your
own conditions. On my soil, which is
not heterogeneous soil, if a tree is bear
ing heavy load, | will carry on that
cultivation as long as can get around
that tree. until the branches begin to
hang down. If it. were a highly nj
trogenous soil, would stop bit ear
lier, but stopping anywhere in the mid
die of summer would be to put a check
on the tree.
would trim severely any peach
tree; would trim it for symmetry and
to throw the balance of power with
the root; | would trim it because | get
better fruit; | would trim it because it
is a method of thinning the peaches; l
would thin the fruit of a good crop be-
cause the formation of seed is a draft
on the tree and devitaliZes it. 1t can
not mature large crop of pits, but it
can mature large crop of peaches.
If it is compelled to mature a large
crop of pits, it is in a state of semi
exhaustion. and next year perhaps you
will hear of the June drop. A tree
carefully cultivated, fortified, thinned
and trimmed never suffers from June
drop. and it will add from five to eight
degrees to the ability of the tree to
stand cold weather. and that frequent
ly makes the difference between an
immense profit. after a hard, trying
winter, and nothing.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1902-03-20
Cleanliness tbe watcbword.
Ennds That Tainf Milk.

The presence of wild garlic or wild
onions in pastures, the use of turnips
and other feeds containing oil must be
avoided where cows are giving large
amount of milk. Feeds which have a
bad odor, such as silage, must be fed
right after milking and at no other
time; otherwise the milk and resulting
butter is apt to show the effects. In
all cases keep these feeds away from
the COW during milking time. Taints
from silage or other foul feeds are
transmitted through the air; conse-
quently if the air is full of silage odor
the milk is apt to show it. If, however,
feeds of this kind are given directly
after milking the product from the cow
cannot be distinguished from that pro-
duced from other feeds, although con-
densing factories and some creameries
prohibit it's use.-New England Home
stead
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1902-03-20
NuT TREES Will PAY.
Their Advantages Especially For
Roadside Planting.

their Advantages Especially For
Roadside Planting.
The black walnut and the butternut
may be grown in almost any deep, rich,
moist SOIL They each have quite a
wide range and thrive in almost any
good soil that is not too dry. These
two well known nut trees are often
found together, but the walnut is more
common in the south and west, the but
ternut in the north and east.
The chestnut has a somewhat mar
rover range, but succeeds well on most
sandstone ridges and in soils that con-
tain little or no lime. The foreign chest
nuts may be successfully grated on
our native. The nuts are larger; but,
so far as | have tested them, they are
inferior in quality. 1t seems to me that
the common American chestnut is adj
mirably suited for roadside planting
wherever the soil is congenial.
Several species of hickory might also
be used. For ornamental purposes
there are few trees that excel the hick-
ory in variety and beauty of foliage.
The nuts are also valuable, the better
varieties commanding a good price in
the market Among the more desirable
sorts are sthe better varieties of the
shell or shag bark and the white heart
hickory. In favorable sections south
Of latitude 40 degrees the pecan can be
easily grown.
The hickory in it's varieties is per-
haps less particular in its soil require
ments than almost any other nut tree.
1t is found on sandy ridges, clay hill
sides and rich lowlands. 1t is tree
that delights in a shade of underbrush,
but grows well in open groves. Hick-
DRY nuts are extremely variable in size
and quality. Only the large, thin she'll
ed, sweet kerneled varieties should be
selected for planting. The pecan is a
southwestern species. Its eastern natu-
raj limit is central Kentucky and its
northern a little north of the Ohio riy-
er. 1t is believed by some that it may
be successfully cultivated wherever the
peach is grown.
Our age is too eminently Materials
tic to see beauty absent from money
value. To those who can only be in
duced to plant trees because it will pay
in dollars and cents urge the superior
advantages of our nut bearing trees,
especially for road planting, says Will
liam R. Lazenby of Ohio in American
Agriculturist.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1902-03-20

next, between the hours of IL and O'Clock, 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:
All that certain tract or parcel of land and
premises hereinafter particularly described sit
uate in the Township of Harrison, in the County
of Gloucester and State of New Jersey and
bounded as follows, viz: Beginning at stake
for a corner in the middle of the public road
leading into Barnsborough and Pittstown Turn
pike from the Union road, which stake is now
made corner to the parties respectfully and
from thence running by said Wares other land
and north twenty-six degrees west, twenty-seven
chains to stake corner; thence south eighty
one degrees west, twenty-four chains to stake
in the line of Kier's land thence by the same
south seventeen degrees and three-quarters east
twelve chains to a stone corner to said Kiers
land; thence by lands of said Ware south forty
degrees and thirty minutes east fifteen chains
and fifty links to a stone corner to Hampton's
land; thence by the same and crossing the public
road aforesaid south sixteen degrees and ten
minutes east twenty-four chains, forty-eight
links to corner thence north sxty-six degrees
fifteen minutes east seven chains thirty-eight
links to the middle of the turnpike aforesaid;
thence along the same north twenty-nine de-
grees east twenty-nine chains seventy-one links
to a corner where the middle of the public road
aforesaid intersects with said turnpike and
thence along said road to the beginning. Con
tanning one hundred acres exclusive of fifty
three hundredths sold to Thomas Simpkins
Being the same premises which Samuel 7. Sooy
and Harriet Sooy his wife. by deed of convey
ance bearing date the seventeenth day OF March
eighteen hundred and ninety-four, and intended
to be forthwith recorded for the consideration
therein mentioned conveyed to the said Edward
e. Sharp in fee, and this mortgage is given to
secure a part of the aforesaid consideration
money.
Seized as the property of Edward E. Sharp
ct ais, defendants, and taken in execution at the
suit Of Samuel t. Sooy, complainant, and to be
sold by
Dated Feb. 90 1902.
A. II. Swackhamer, Solicitor. 227