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Made Figures.

Government funds were placed at the
disposal OF Plaza's managers for cor
rupuon. Officers Of the election perpe-
trated frauds in the most fragrant man
ner and on election day all the powers
or the government were exerted I'm be-
half OF LeOnidas Plaza. and ho was de-
ciared elected. Garcia stood nowhere
When the returns were published the
people We're stirred with Indignation
They put In circulation sheet entitled
For History" in which they denounced
the government.
II was signed by Z. 900 citizens of Onto
who declared that they had voted for
Garcia. although the returns showed
only 1000 votes cast i'm that city for Gar
cia against Il 900 for Para
More than 5000 citizens Of GuavaouIl
signed the sheet declaring that tbay
h7d voted fo- Garcia, vet the govern
ment recorded only 500 for Garcia
against $500 FOR Plaza.
Throughout the republic For History
showed 5000 votes for Garcia against
1000 for Plaza. but the Official report
for Plaza
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STUFFING GAME
TOO ANTIQUATED
In Ecuador They Never
Bother Ballot Boxes.
JUST CHANGE THE FIGURES
Thousands of People Swear They Voted
for One Man, But Another
Won-RevOlution

CITY OF MEXICO. Aug. 31.-These
are days of tempest in Ecuador Revo-
iutionary agitation has succeeded the
calm which followed the accession OF
Gen. Leonidas Plaza to the Presidency.
The partisans Of Lizardo Garcia, the
adversary OF Plaza in the contest for
power, accuse the new chief magistrate
OF perfidy and plan to overthrow him
by revolution.
Kevolts have occurred in four differ
ent provinces. The insurgents. although
rev IN number, have successfully resist
ed the federal troops. Desertions are
occurring In the northern provinces with
extraordinary frequency.
J hey are not confined to single in
oIVlduals. but embrace from twenty-five
the deserters leave the army in bodies
sufnciently strong enough to resist all
attempts Of the authorities to bring
them back.
Martial Law.
Martial law is paramount in six prov
inces- 1t is certain to be established
Throughout. the republic
Lizardo Garcia was the choice Of the
people for the Presidency. but the gov
eminent brought this choice 10 nauRbt.
Under the administration Of Gen. Fiov
Aifaro' President during the last term.
concessions were granted TO foreign cor
porations to build railroads and Improve
naroors, and loans were negotiated with
foreign countries to enable the govern
ment to pay the contractors. Corrl1D-
ton was involved IN all this. and
PRESIDENT Alfaro, the chief beneficiary.
round II necessary TO have a relia HE
friend TO succeed him TO the Presidency.
ana ne therefore selected General Plaza
as MS candidate against Garcia. lie in
StIucted soldiers and police TO interfere
WITH the campaign Of Garcia. Secret
agents spled upon Garcia partIsans and
names Of voters known 90 he e,,r,,C,.t
ing him were given to officials with the
object OF having these vOtefs kept away
from the polls
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In Jail.

When the leaf appeared. the govern
ment was disconnected. but took no
steps to suppress II. It was not pre-
pared 70 commence hostiIities 1i.or
thrce-nftas Of the people
President Alfaro commenced to ar
ganize the army. while the Garciaists
prepared for conflict with the govern
ment
Tho Garciasts demanded a proper IN
Vestigation Of the charges In For His
tory and threatened 10 precipitate re-
volt II Plaza was inaugurated
In reply 20 the threats and demands
Alfaro appointed General Plaza com
mander-in-chIef Of the provinces OF
Esmeraldas. Manabi. Guayas. FI ORC y.
Los Rios, and ordered Commandment
flFademeyra, GarCiaiS- leader I'm Onto
imprisoned with the Intention OF fDrcins
me surrender Of the original OF the
| For History" sheet
But tha Garcieists were not intirnfdat-
! ed Even the threat OF the minister Of
the interior 10 arrest all the citizens Of
Quito who signed the offending sheet had
no effect
The release OF Commandante Rivade-
mcyra was demanded. and then inSurrpc-
ton broke out in the four northern prov
| lnces II has Increased in activity ever
since
The Garciaists. though few In number.
are in rebellion everywhere IN Ecuador.
| Many circumstances have recently com
| bined 10 favor them. Chief Of these are
the inability Of the government 10 full
nj Its obligations 70 foreign contractors
and the enmity II has stirred I'D among
Colombian liberal revOlutiOnists by ban
! lshinS their agents
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Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1904-07-21

FTS URKEY takes rank among ma
81 tions as a civilized country.
@ China does not yet the women
of China have more liberty and
better education than those of the sui
tan's realm.
Investigations show that while the
red Indian squaw of America does the
hard work of the family she has rights
and authority that are never contra
dicted The Turkish married woman
appears to have just one right; the
Turkish girl has none at all. Turkish
women have their apartments sacred
to themselves. When a Turk wishes
TO go into his wife's rooms he advances
cautiously toward the threshold If a
that is sign that some woman friend
is visiting his ladies'. No Turk or Mo
hammedan may look upon the face of
any woman except a relative or inmate
of his own harem, so if the slipper be
at the door the lord and master must
withdraw
1t is said that many a time the WON
en- of a harem put a pair Of slippers
upon the threshold of their apartments
when they have no company, merely
because they do not want to be both
cred with their man around. In this
respect the Turkish wife has the adj
vantage of her western sister. who has
no den or corner sacred from the in
trusion of her huband when she does
not wish to see him. Western law and
custom give him the right to break
in upon his wife by force. if he chooses,
at any time and place.
The Mohammedan religion and ORR
entail views of the sex question are TO-
gether responsible for the degradation
and subsection of Turkish women. Re
Gently one or two Turkish women have
escaped from their country to tell the
western world of the life of woman in
the Ottoman empire. In Constant
nople the Turkish women and girls of
the wealthy classes have occasionally
opportunity to make the acquaintance
of western women. At once the de-
sire to be free and to know something
arises in the soul of the woman of
Islam. She longs with the longing of
the slave to be free She is FESTIVE and
rebellious. So true is this that three
years ago Sultan Abdul Hamid issued
an edict forbidding Turkish families to
employ foreign teachers in their fami-
lies.
One Turkish girl was handed over by
her father to be the property of an
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1904-07-21

other Turk. old as her father himself
and extremely repellent to her but
that was nothing. The girl was not
even the first wife of the man to whom
her father gave her. but that again
was nothing The girl accepted the
situation and bided her time. She as
ISOLATED all that was possible with
western women; she learned all she
could of their ways and languages,
Finally one morning the girl was miss
ing. Her western women friends had
aided her to escape from Turkey in dis
guise, and the 50 called civilized land
that degrades and Expresses women
worse than is done among the savage
Moros of Sulu saw her no more. She
is now in Europe trying to interest
free white women in the hapless hope
less condition of their sex in Turkey.
Another Turkish lady is Princess
Hairie Ben Ayad Her husband, a
member of the party of Young Turkey,
had incurred the suspicion Of the sui
tan's spies, but managed in time to
elude them and get away Ito Europe, :"
as Europe outside of Turkey is signif-
cantly and fittingly called in the Otto
man empire After a time Princess
Hairie got away with her children and
joined her husband She. too, is lectur-
ing to European audiences on the de-
plorable condition of Turkish women.
She expects to come to the United
States where she VIII tell ner story,
in the hope that somehow a way will
open for the uplifting of womanhood
in her native land.
When wealthy Turk wishes to make
the most acceptable present to a friend
or man high in authority. to this day
be gives that individual the most beau.
tiful girl slave he can find. He dresses
her gorgeously, adorns her with the
richest jewels he can afford and hands
her over.
In all Turkey there is scarcely an
educated woman. 1t is the policy of
the government to keep women in alb
solute ignorance and to encourage in
all ways the traditional belief that wo-
man has no soul, only q body. Abdul
Hamid knows well that educating wo-
men will sound the death knell Of
oriental <aespotisrn.
MARCIA w. CAMPBELL.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1904-07-21
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BURYING TREE TRUNKS.
Dement'S of Mounding With Earth.
The Root Feeding Surface.

Benefits of Mounling With Earth.
The Root Feeding Surface.
Iii Informed cultivators have but
faint idea of the reasons why trees
should not be deeply planted. It is
not because of any injury to the
trunks, but because the feeding roots
need the oxygen of the atmosphere
in the preparation of the food just as
much as the leaves do. SO far as the
trunk is concerned, burying under the
earth is benefit rather than an in
jury. II it We're possible to have the
stems or trunks several feet beneath
the surface and the roots only a few
inches the vigor of the tree would be
enhanced thereby. But, though this
is impossible, earth on the surface can
be heaped around the trunk to adyan-
tage as long as we do not bury too
great a root feeding surface This
was well exemplified nearly half a
century ago by peach grower near
Cincinnati named Bolmar. He had
earth by the cart load heaped around
his peach trees. His orchard had the
appearance of being covered by minia-
ture haystacks. The growth and gen
eral health of the trees were so re-
markable that the owner was moved
to secure a patent for the idea The
patent would not hold. No one could
be restrained against earthing up a
fruit tree any more than earthing up
a row of celery. But it was grand
object lesson, and he deserved some
recompense. There can be no doubt
that it would be to the advantage of or.
chardists generally to have mounds of
earth around the base Of their fruit
trees, and it is SURPRISE that such
good practice is 50 generag.f ignored.
Meehan
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1904-07-21
RAISING TURKEYS.
How to Care For and Feed PouIts to
Get Good Results.

How to Care For and Feed Poults to
Get Good Results.
About the twenty fifth day dust the
hen thoroughly with good insect pow
der. and after eggs begin to chip close
the nest up tight, for as soon as the
first poults are out few hours they
will get out Of the nest and stroll off,
sometimes causing the hen to follow
with perhaps few poults, says III.
Simmons in Western Poultry Journal.
hours after all are Matched. After TAX
ing the poults from the nest | put
them in a dry, warm coop with a small
pen in front of the coop about 10 by 10
feet, for if the pen or yard is too large
when the hen is confined in a coop
ner of the yard and not find their way
back to the hen, and if left so for
few hours, even on a fine day, will be
chilled almost TO death.
] think it best not to feed the first
day. For the first few days thereafter
good, sweet breadcrumbs, slightly
moistened with sweet SKINNED milk
now, remember say sweet" not milk
that has stood around for half day or
more on a hot day. Feed very lightly
three or four times day for the first
few days. In the morning | give a
little skinned milk to drink in a shall
low clean dish, being careful to remove
before souring. After they are three
or four days old / put the hen with
the poults in lot or pen Of about 81
by is feet, using 16 foot boards and
having the pen about % feet high,
making the pen tight, so as to hold the
poults in, leaving the hen free to fly
in or out at her will. In this way
have had my success. The hen will
not go far from the pen, and poults
will be happy and contented if they
have grass in the pen and proper at
tention is given.
1t is best to give the hen, before
feeding poults, a feed of corn or other
coarse grain to satisfy most of her hun
ger. so she will not eat the more costly
feed of her young. After the poults
are four or five days old commence
feeding with milk curds or cottage
cheese mixed with breadcrumbs and
steel cut oatmeal. A little coarse shorts
may be added; also commence once a
day to feed a little cracked wheat, and
after two weeks old wheat may be fed
whole. On very fine days | leave them
out of the pen part of the day, but
get them up in the pen by at least 4
O'clock After l get the hen in the
pen | leave her to herself until after
dark then take a fair sized A shaped
coop and put it over her gently and
close up wei for the night. AS soon
as warm Days come be sure to pro
vide some sort of shade for them in
their pen Old boards fastened to south
side of pen and sloPing to north is fine
anu also makes il fine protection from
sudden showers. After the poults be
gin to fly over this pen they must be
given the run of the fields
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1904-07-21
Good RnIconx Plants.

For the balcony, Cobaa scandeus, a
very rapid creeper, is excellent. Good
pot plants from seed sown last au-
tumn will make much quicker
growth than spring sown seedlings.
The fine bell shaped blossoms of this
plant are pale green when they first
appear, changing to a deep purple in a
few days, and the long sprays of fo-
liage which it throws on I'LL sides are
very decorative in themselves, One
good plant will cover several square
yards of ironwork, and the bright vel
low flowers of Tropaolum canariense
harmonic delightfully."- with the SOM
Der purple of the cobRa.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1904-07-21

A summary of the results of all the
experiments at the stations throughout
the country would seem to show that
in most of the northern states. where
the cost of applying the water is not
too great, irrigation of Strawberries Is
of great value in insuring a full crop
of fruit each season. The water should
be applied at about the fruitipg time.
1t should be applied In burrows and ai-
lowed to slowly ftasv down them rather
thegans Of four yea
Hffinn L ralsizfs 4 Ii Rr~s5a
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1904-07-21

will be found necessary, but their tall
and loose branching habit makes them
especially adapted for training to
greenhouse supports or along parti-
tions. where owing to their wonderful
Righteousness they prove attractive
objects Furthermore, cut sprays keep
a long time and are suitable for many
purposes. although not adapted to ship
ping or much handling
There are many varieties of Schizan-
thus pinnatus. but they seem so inter-
mingled as to be hardly separable The
colors, however. vary from white to
dark purple and embrace a number of
shades and markings. SO much SO that
they have received the appellation of
poor mans orchid and butterfly
flower" S. wiestoniensis, introduced
from England in 1900. is one of the best,
dwarf in stature, with the shades of
color varying even to crimson. Grown
in a cool greenhouse they amply repay
for the space and effort and from their
ease of culture should prove good
subject for the amateur, says writer
in Gardening.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1904-07-21
THE BUTTERFLY FLOWER.
Easily Grown ms Garden Annual
or a Cool Greenhouse Plant.

Many of our readers are no doubt ac-
quainted with schizanthuses as winter
blooming pot plants, but to those who
may only know them as garden annu-
ais the illustration herewith may be in
teresting. The plants are easily grown.
and their requirements are of the sim
pIest character a good potting soil,
with the addition of manure or ferti-
lizer in the last potting, and as they
commence Towering an occasional wa
tering with liquid manure will be
found satisfactory. We have found
sowing the seed in September in three
inch pots an excellent method. The
seedlings should be thinned out, allow
ing only three or four to remain. and
pot on as required. Generally an eight
inch pot will be the final one. Stalking
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1904-07-21
Turkish
w ONE n
Indian squaws Have More
Liberty Than They

~ URKEY takes rank among ma
81 tions as a civilized country.
China does not, yet the women
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1904-07-21
Pantry Notes.

The demand for turkeys always ex-
ceeds the supply.
Incubators should be watched if best
results are expected.
Let geese go to grass and they will
be practically self sustaining.
Fertile eggs do not keep as well as
those produced by an minated hen.
Old hens and, tough ROSTERS make
good chicken s$lad during the picnic
season
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1904-07-21

Fowl House For Bacz1 Yard.
The plan herewith shown. reproduc-
ed from the Feather, is an excellent
one for the fancier who has back
yard and desires a special house for
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1904-07-21
SIDE ELEVATION.

his birds. The dimensions of houses
may be varied to suit the size of yard,
running from fence to fence. The
framework should be substantially
built and boarded on the outside with
tongued and grooved siding. The in
ner side should be boarded also with
the same kind of material, and if pos
sible the space between the walls
should be filled with sawdust.
The floor should be made of tongued
and grooved material securely nailed
to the timbers below. The underneath
part of the roof should be lined with
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1904-07-21
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GROUND PLAN OF Fowl HOUSE

the same material as the sides, and the
outside of the roof should be shingled
or covered with tin. Where the house
joins the fence the cracks should be
well covered to prevent rain from
leaking through, and every precaution
should be taken TO keep the interior Of
the house free from dampness.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1904-07-21

Remedy For Sour Crop In Chicks.
Use half a teaspoonful of tincture OF
nux vomica in each quart of drinking
water, allowing the birds no other
drink. See that they have a plentiful
supply Of green food daily; also keep
grit and graduated charcoal always
before them Reliable Poultry Journal.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-12
MADE ATTEMPT TO
 KILL HIS RIVAL
OSCAR HANNEY COMES INTO FLORENCE AND GIVES HIMSELF UP TO oFFIcERs-HAD WARNED RIVAL.

Florence, October u.-(Special)-Be- cause heAoved too well, Oscar Hanney, young man who lives eight miles west of Florence, is In jail this evening, charg- ed with an attempt to assassinate his rival. Arthur Call.
 Call Is employed as manager for the mother of the young lady for whose hand Hanney Is a suitor. He had warned Call on several occasions to stop his attentions to the young lady, but his warning had been disregarded by Call. As the latter was going to the cotton field yesterday morning at 8 o'clock he was startled by a pistol ball which whiz- zed near his head.
 He dropped In the weeds beside the path and when he rose up a minute later there was no one around. He mo- ticed that the smoke came from ditch by the path and on examination found where some one hau been sitting in the sand and the tracks he had made in his flight. Call rode to Florence and reported the matter to Sheriff o. B. Hill who sent Lawrenceburg, Tennessee for blood hounds.
 Hanney heard that the blood hounds were coming and came In at noon and gave himself up He claimed that he met Call in the path and denied shooting from ambush.