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Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1903-02-12
CONCERNING CALENDARS.
Some Interesting Ones Date as FGl
Back as The e nIlrLh Century.

Some Interesting Ones Date as Fer
Back as the Fourth Century.
Among the Greeks and Romans al
manacs or calendars were not written
for the general public, but were pre-
served as part of the esoteric learning
of the priests, whom the people had to
consult not only for the dates of the
festivals, but for the proper times when
various legal proceedings might be in
stituted. About 800 B. c., however,
one Encius Flavius, secretary to APP
plus Claudius, stole these secrets by re-
peated applications to the priests and
collated the information so gained. 1t
was really publishing an almanac
when, as Iivy relates, Flavius exhibit
ed the tasti on white tables around
the forum. From this time similar
tablets containing the calendar, the
festivals, astronomical phenomena and
sometimes illusions to historical events
became quite common. They have been
dug up in Pompeii and elsewhere.
There are also extant Christian cal
endars dating as far back as the fourth
century, which give the names of the
saints and other religious information.
One of the most famous of the cal
endars of the middle ages is that COM
piled by Petrus of Dacia in A. d. 1900.
A manuscript copy is preserved in the
Savilian library at Oxford. The Sym
bolical Man or Man of Signs (Homo
Signorum), still a common feature in
almanacs, appears in this book, not, it
is conjectured, for the first time, as it
seems to have been a survival from the
time of Ptolemy's ''Almagesi," a collec-
ton of classic observations and prob
lens relating to geometry and astron-
omy.
The first printed almanac was the
PRO Pluribus Annis,'' issued at Vienna
in 1857 by an astronomer named Pur-
bach. The earliest known almanac de-
voted expressly to the year of issue
was published by Rabelais in 1888.
Thenceforth the ephemeral yearly
character of the publication came to be
definitely recognized by almanac max
ers. Nostradamus set the fashion of
Incorporating predictions of coming
events into almanaes, fashion that
has continued to this day in all purely
astrological brochures of this sort
despite intermittent efforts to sup
press it by royal authority in France
and elsewhere.-Era
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1903-02-12
PICTURESQUE BRITTANY.
A Iarkpi scene an This Quaint
French Province.

n NAATkGg scene An TINS AuAEnt
French Province.
Brittany is d land where the peasant
till the earth in zouave trousers, torea.
dor jackets covered with arabesque
embroiderics and green waisteoats
around which run lines OF crimson.
The women wear shorss red skirts.
great medici collars and colts that fut.
ter about their heads like the wings of
doves. From beneath the points of
their black caps the children gaze al
you with wide eyes full of the curiosity
of animals.
These people live in houses built of
sculptured granite and sleep in open
work closets carved like the mouchara-
bieks of Egypt
In spite of the Breton Interiors and
Returns of the Fishermen with
which painters swamp the market this
race is still unknown or misunder-
stood, for they should be seen not in
paintings, but in their homes, in their
old time streets, on market days and
when, in fair time, the tents are pitched
in the village market places.
Fiery little horses draw to market
fish, fine vegetables and all the early
produce of Roscoff. They are spread
out upon the sidewalk Chickens
cackle; goats bleat; pigs, tied by the
leg, strain toward the vegetables, sniff.
ing at the fresh green's.
Farmers in sabots, carrying great
n
the two ribbons of their felt hats float
ing down their backs, pick their way
among the Oman china displayed on
the -capacious soup tureens,
cider jugs and plates covered with
painted flowers and grotesque figures.
The peasants converse with but few
gestures; they bargain in gutteral
tones
These taciturn people forget them
selves in the barrooms on fair days.
The tayerns are full of noise You
may hear the sound of an accordion
and the plaintive note of the biniou "a
sort of bagpipe), leading monotonous
dances.
Into the harbor come boats laden
with fish; other boats go out. The
fishermen are full of business. Next
week will occur the departure for the
new country. There are women who
weep.
Above all this agitation the smoke of
the village chimneys mingles with the
great white clouds. The quiet sea mir
rors the sun.-Artist Castaigne in Cen
fury.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1903-02-12
THEY Drink SEA WATER.
Cockatoos and wild Pigeons Do Not
Seem to Mind 1t.

Seem to Mind 1t.
I'm 1881, while resident ON Gazelle
peninsula, the northern portion of the
magnificent island of New Britain, in
the south Pacific, had many oppor-
tunities of witnessing both coekatoos
and wild pigeons drinking salt water.
/ was stationed at a place called Ka-
baira, the then 'farthest out trading
station on the whole island, and as
had but little work to do l found
plenty of time to study bird life in the
vicinity. Parrots of several varieties,
all of beautiful plumage, were plenti-
full, and great hocks of white coeka-
toos frequented the rolling, grassy
downs which lay between my home
and the German head station in
Blanche bay, twenty miles distant,
while the heavy frost of the Httoral
was the haunt of thousands of pigeons
These pigeons, though not so large as
the Samoan or eastern Polynesian bird,
formed an agreeable change of diet for
us white traders, and by walking about
| fifty yards from ones door half a
dozen or more could be shot in as
| many minutes.
my nearest neighbor was German,
and one day when we were walking
along the beach toward his station I
noticed some hundreds of pigeons fly
| down from the forest, settle on the
margin of the water and drink with
apparent enjoyment. The harbor at
this spot being almost landlocked and
the water as smooth as glass and with
I out the faintest ripple, the birds We're
enabled to drink without wetting their
plumage My neighbor, who had lived
many years in New Britain, told me
that this drinking of sea water was
! common to both cockatoos and pigeons
| alike, and that on some occasions the
beaches would be lined with them, the
cockatoos not only drinking, but bath
ing, and apparently enjoying them
selves greatly. During the next six
months. especially when the weather
was calm and rainy, l frequently no
ticed pigeons and cockatoos come to the
salt water to drink.
'At first / thought that as fresh
water in many places dubbed up
through the sand at low tide the birds
We're not really drinking the sea water,
but by watching closely l distinctly
saw them walk across these tiny run
| nels without making any attempt to
drink Then, too, the whole of the
Gazelle peninsula is cut up by count
less streams of water, and rain falls
| fhr0J1ohO11f thn vpnr n c n rIIIn What
causes this unusual habit of drinking
sea water? Another popularity of the
New Britain and New Ireland pigeon
is its fondness for the chilli pepper
berry. During three months of the
year, when these berries are ripe, the
birds crops are full of them, and often
their flesh is so pungent and smells SC
strongly of the chill as to be quite TN
eatable" chambers Journal.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1903-02-12

To Beck Medredossky and Mrs. Beck Medredos-
sky, has Nife, Simon EluTa and Annie BlltB his
wtfe
By virtue of order of the Court OF Chan
Gerry OF New jersey. made on the day of the date
hereof, in cause wherein Alfred B. hickman is
complainant and you and others are defendants
you are required to appear, plead, answer or de-
muir to the bill of said complainant oil or be-
fore the fourteenth day of March next or the
said bill will be TAX en- confessed against you.
The said bill is filed to forecIose a mortgage
given by Robert g. Bloomingdale and Marga-
ret l.. Bloomingdale, his wife, to Richard G.
Souder, dated the eighth day of March, eighteen
hundred and seventy-six ON lands in the Town
ship OF Franklin, in the County OF Gloucester,
which said mortgage was assigned to .the COM
plaintant; and you Beck Medvedossky, Simon
Blum and Annie Blum are made defendants
therein because you own said lands or some
part thereof; and you Mrs. Beck Medvedossky
are made defendant because you are the wife
of Beck Medvedoss1y and as such have an
ncohate right of dover in said lands or some
part thereof.
A. II. SWACKHAMER,
Sol'r. of complainant, No. Cooper st., Wood
bury, N. j.
Dated January ID, 1903 1903 SITS.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1903-02-12
FIRST OF ALL EvlcTIoNs.
Magyar Version of the Expulsion
From the Garden of Eden

Magyar Version of the Expulsion
From the Garden of Eden.
Among the folklore of the peasantry
of Roumania and some of the adjoin-
ing Magyar states of eastern Europe
is found the story of the expulsion Of
our first parents from the garden Of
Eden. 1t runs thus:
When Adam and Eve fell, God sent
Gabriel, the Magyar angel, to turn
them out of Eden as a punishment for
their sin. Gabriel was received most
courteously, food and drink of the
best being set before him. Now Ga
briel had q kind heart and took pity
upon the poor folk and would not ac-
cept their hospitality, remembering his
errand. So he returned and begged
that some one else be sent to evict the
sinners, as he really could not do it.
The Raphael, the Roumanian angel,
was sent and was received as Gabriel
had been. He, however, was very fond
of a good dinner, and so he sat down
and thoroughly enjoyed himself. The
feast over, he told the erring pair his
errand. They at once began to weep
most piteously and beg for mercy.
Their bitter sorrow SO touched his aft
er dinner heart that he too, returned
and asked that some one else be sent,
as he could not possibly turn out the
poor folk after accepting their hospital
ity. Then it was that Michael, the
German angel. was sent. He was re-
eeived as the others by the trembling
pair and treated even more sumptu-
ously He sat down and enjoyed him
self till the last morsel of food had
vanished and there wasn't drop of
liquor left. Then he arose. and, turn
ing to his host and hostess, said, Nov.
then, out you go, and be quick about
It." Most piteously did Adam and Eve
beg at least for time, even reminding
him that he had partaken of their
bread. All in vain. Thus it was that
our first parents were driven out Of
Edor
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1903-02-12
LITERARY TREASURES.
Some Which Have Been and Som
Which May Be Lost to View.

Some Which Have Been and Some
Which May Be Lost to View.
The world, we have been assured
time and again, knows nothing of it's
greatest men. Perhaps it is equally ig-
norant about its greatest books. Are
we quite sure that the idols in our lit
erary pantheon are arrayed in their
due order of precedence? The rules of
precedence change and who shall as
sert that those prevalent at any given
time are the final ones? But, above
all, are we quite certain that there may
not be notable work of genius lying
unnoticed and unknown amid the
wrecks of the river of time, waiting
only for some lucky accident that shall
reveal it in all its beauty to an aston
ished world?
Such accidents with such results have
been frequent in the history of the
past. Indeed such accidents have pre-
served or have revealed to the world
no insignificant proportion of its now
acknowledged masterpieces.
The books of the Bible themselves
have experienced the narrowest es-
capes from what might have resulted
in their total loss. The most notable
example is that of Deuteronomy. which
disappeared from the Jewish world for
over century. The story of its re-
discovery by the high priest Hezekiah
during the reign of good King Josiah
is set forth in the Old Testament
Shakespeare was practically forgot
ten in the days when Addison wrote
his Account of the Greatest English
Poets," with never mention of the
name of the very greatest, yet it was
shortly afterward that Shakespeare
was resuscitated.
Fitzgerald's Omar Khayyam" and
Blackmores Lorna Doone" dropped
stillborn from the press and later won
a sudden popularity by accident.-Wl-
linn 8 Walsh in El0 Ma zinc
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1903-02-12

tom. sides, Stats and top use half inch
pine. Put the Stats on with screws,
and then it does not make any differ
ence which Stat is taken off to remove
the birds. For single birds build the
coop from II to IA inches wide and 20
inches long and 20 to "a inches high;
for a pair, 16 inches wide, 90 inches
long; trios. 20 by 20. Double coops with
partitions should have two separate
Stats to remove so that the birds can
be taken out of the coop without any
trouble. The top of coops should be
from four to six inches narrower than
the bottom.-American Poultry Jour-
nal
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1903-02-12

ann awfully sorry, Tom, but I'll have
to ask you. for So. The children's
boots
"Great heavensp' growled Oldfoggle.
Didn't give you $40 only the day be-
fore Yesterday
But that was for my winter nat, y
replied Mrs. Oldfoggle, with spirit.
you surely can't expect me to go bare
headed"
"What was the matter with your last
years one? Anybody d think you
were millionaire when l married you.
Many's the hat you had to retrim when
you were with your father, and pre-
cious glad you were to get me and es-
cape it ali. There, don't ask me again
for money for an age-here it is! Now
l want to read my paper. | declare,
women are enough to drive man to
the poorhouser"
Miss Oldfoggle followed the weeping
little wife into the bedroom.
"Oh-h," sobbed the latter, 81 nearly
die of shame when l have to ask him
for money! Oh, if l could only earn
some! AS it is, no matter what he says
to me | have to stand it. | can't even
leave him. IL should starve! What
can do? What can l do?"
Miss Oldfoggle looked at her plying
-ly; then she said softly, you can teach
your children to be self supporting, so
that even if they love him they need
not be the slave of any man!'
MAUD ROBINSON.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1903-02-12
HEATING A PLAYHOUSE.

A Simple Method With Hot Water
Pipes and Kerosene Lamps.
A Rural New Yorker correspondent
which he has used for ten years in
heating planthouse measuring about
s by II feet. He says: use a hot wa
ter circulation in iron pipes, and the
heating is done by kerosene lamps I'M
der two tin boilers. The boilers are
bell shaped and set up with mouth
down. The hot air, after having done
its work of heating the water, is con
trolled by a tin drum, at the top of
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1903-02-12
Gloucester County Orp hans Court.

In the matter of the es-
tate of William Brandt Order to
deceased, applica-
ton for order to sell Show Cause
lands to pay debts
David VanHook, Administrator of the estate
OF William Brandt deceased, having exhibited
under oath, a true account of the personal es-
tate and debts of said deceased, whereby it APP
pears that the personal estate of the said William
Brandt, deceased. is insufficient to pay his debts
and requesting the aid of the Court in the pre-
misses 1t is on this thirteth day of January,
A. D., 1903, ordered that all persons interested
in the lands, tenements and hereditaments and
real estate Of the said William Brandt, deceased,
appear before this Court at the Court House. in
the City of Woodbury., on the third day of April,
next, at ten o'clock a. M, to show cause why so
much of the said lands, tenemenIs, heredita-
ments and real estate of the said William
Brandt, deceased, should not be sold as will be
sufficient to pay his debts or the residue thereof
as the case may require.
And it is further ordered that this order be
published according to law, in the GLoUcEsrER
COUNTY DEMoCRAT
JOHN S. JESSUP,
WILLARD F. Dubois Surrogate. Judge.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1903-02-12

Monday, the sth Fay Of March, next
between the hours of u 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 the following described lot or piece of
land and premises situate in the First Ward of
the City of Woodbury., County OF Gloucester
and State of New Jersey and is bounded as
follows
Beginning at a corner in the Westerly line of
teen and twenty-four hundredths feet Southerly
from the Southwest corner of Cleveland street
and Park avenue, thence (l) by other land of
said Chew and the rear line of Howard W. Pier
sons lot, North sixty-three degrees and nine
minutes West, one-hundred and thirty-five and
ninety-five hundredths feet to a corner of said
Persons lot; thence (2) by other land of said
Chew, South twenty-six degrees and fifty-one
minutes West, forty feet to a corner; thence (3l
by the same South sixty-three degrees and nine
minutes East, one-hundred and thirty-five and
Westerly line of Cleveland street aforesaid;
along which it runs (4) North twenty-six de-
grees and htty-one minutes East, forty feet to
the place of beginning.
Containing ., 43S square feet of land.
Being part of the same land and premises
that Belmont Perry ct TX by deed dated Novem-
Der l6, 1896 and intended to be forthwith re-
corded granted and conveyed to the said Septi-
mus A. Chew.
Seized as the property of septimus A. Chew
ct. ux. ct. ais, defendants, and taken in execu-
lion at the suit of Hannah Pancoast complain
ant, and to be sold by
ERNEST REDFIELD, Sol'r. Sheriff.
Dated Feb 3, 1902. Prs fee IS 10
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1903-02-12
IN CHANCERY OF NEW JERSEY.

10 44fgzeda W. LsChdrd.
BY virtue Of an order of the Court of Chan
Gerry OF New Jersey made on the day of the date
hereof, in cause wherein Joseph r Beckett is
complainant and Y II and others are defendants,
you are required ~ appear plead er, or
aenur to the bill OF said complainant, on or be-
lore tine twentN-seventh day of March next. or
the SAID Dill will be taken as confessed against
you.
Inc said bill is filed to foreclose n mortgage
given ny Septmus Chew and wife TO com
plalHant GATED the twenty-seventh day of Octo-
"er eighteen hundred and ninety eight on
anis in the township OF Deptford County of
iioncester and State OF New Jersey; and you
ere made defendant because you own said land
Dated January % 70 3.
SAMUEL II. RICHARDS
p. o. Address. LOG Market street Camden 4
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1903-02-12
HOW TO Make a Table Fernery.

To make pretty table fernery make
a birch bark box 6 inches wide, 8
inches long-or round if you prefer it,
and 8 inches deep, says the Cincin-
natl Enquirer Paste cloth around the
edges inside to prevent bits of earth
from finding their way out. Plant in
the box roots of small ferns, filing the
spaces with green moss or running
pine" Sprinkle every day and keep in
a cool place at night. and your table
fernery viii keep fresh and green all
summer.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1903-02-12

1t is possible now to send 100 pounds
of freight half way around the world
for the small sum of 40 cents. We used
to get that much for hauling the same
amount by team a distance Of fifty
miles.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1903-02-12
A SHIPPING COOP.
One You Can Build Yourself With
Very Little Trouble.

Very Little Trouble.
Here is very neat and attractive
coop and about the best coop for
shipping to nearby customers and the
showroom. When you ship your birds
to the poultry show, line the inside of
the coop with unbleached muslin to
prevent your birds from soiling their
feathers. Whenever you use the coop
to ship birds to customer, request him
to return the coop, and it will last for
several shipments. In building the
eoop use good, sound and light materi-
al For the ends and partition use three
quarter inch dressed pine. and for bot
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1903-02-12
NOTICE OF sETrLEmENT

Notice is hereby given that the account of
Samuel d. Lodge, administrator of the estate of
John B. Alfred, deceased, will be audited by the
Surrogate and reported for settlement to the
Friday, February 9th, 1908.
SAMUEL d. LODGE.
Dated surrogates Office, Jan 10, 1908. 70.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1903-02-12
4RolrsXag|1.
z2ssSGoyFRS'
cLoTILDE souPERT.

The Rose For the MiIIion-Appreci-
ated by the Amateurs.
Clotilde Soupert is useful wherever
roses may be grown. either for pot cul-
ture or bedding purposes. 1t is almost
hardy in the latitude of New York and
can be grown farther north if protect
ed from hard freezing and winter sun
light. 1t is covered with large bios
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1903-02-12

The production of farm and garden
crops is being carried ON very success
fully in connection with the state insti-
buttons of the western states. In the
state of Iowa extensive additions have
been made during the past year to the
farm lands of nearly all the state insti-
tutions, it being found that when under
proper supervision the convicts and a
very large per cent of the imbeciles can
thus not only contribute largely to their
own support, but in the doing of the
work are greatly benefited mentally
and physically. A sight which might
have been seen last July at one of the
insane hospitals was a brigade of sew
enty-fiye patients engaged in hoeing
forty acre field of potatoes. The super
intendent had told them that if they
did not hoe for dear life they would not
have any potatoes for winter use, and
you should have seen them hoe. They
had plenty of potatoes.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1903-02-12
70 CREDETOns.

Charles e. Elliott and William e. Elliott, ex-
ecutors Of William Elliott. deceast d, by di-
rection Of the Surrogate OF the County Of Gloii-
cester hereby gives notice to the creditors Of
the said William Elliott, deceased, to bring i'm
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 executors.
CHARLES e. ELLIOTT,
WILLIAM E. ELLIOTT.
Dated December "a, 1902. LOB
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1903-02-12
OF SETTLEMENT.

Notice is hereby given that the account of
OF Jonathan D. Gray, deceased, will be audited
by the Surrogate and reported for settlement to
the Orphans Court of the County of Gloucester
on Friday, February 9th, 1908
CHARLES r. BARKER
Administrator
Dated Surroga.es Office, Jan. 10, 1903 I22.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1903-02-12
NOTICE OF SETTLEMENT.

Notice is hereby given that the account of
Benjamin Williams administrator of the estate
of Jonathan T. Bachelor, deceased, will be
audited by the Surrogate and reported for
settlement to the Orphans Court of the County
OF Gloucester, on Friday, February 9th 1908
BENJAMIN WILLIAMS,
Administrators
Dated surrogate's Office, JAM 10, 1868. Egg.