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Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1904-10-13

An editor writing in his paper says
it is the girls who are to blame for the
universal tendency Of young men to
leave the farm for city life. Girls pre-
fer the city man with his soft hands
and clothes unstained By the soil, so the
editor says. Yes. yes. IT'S always the
woman. isn't it?
ELIZA ARCHARD CONNER.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1904-10-13

R / is notable that the first really
# effective movements for inter
81 national peace and universal
- hpntlnrhnnd s.hn1nld hnx-n lAon,, ..4,t
Holbrook argus., 1904-07-09
A Fool and His Wisdom.

A story, which is credited to Major Pond by the New York Tribune, tells of weak-minded lad who went to the miller's to have some grain ground. The miller said to him:
 "So you are a fool, eh?"
 q guess am," replied the youth.
 "A fool, eh? A natural" unused the miller. "yye haven't many natural fools hereabouts. Do you mind if ask you few questions?"
 "Oh, no, sir, of course not" the lad answered, politely.
 "Well, my boy, since you are fool," began the miller, q want you first to tell me what you know, and afterward what you don't know. Now, to begin, what do you know?"
 q know" said the boy, "that the miller's hogs are fat"
 "Good Very goodv said the miller. "That is what you know. Now tell US what you don't know"
 q don't know whose grain fattens en-" replied the youth.
Holbrook argus., 1904-07-09
FREAKS OF HAIRDREsslNa
Melted Butter for Hair Oil Used By
 the Abysstniaus.


 In Abyssinia one method of doing the hair that is adopted by warriors Is to stroll into the market place, buy pound of butter, and, putting 1t upon the top of the hair, stand still while the sun arranges things. When the hair is thus dressed with melted but ter the Abyssinian knows that fate cannot, or will not, touch him-he Is a picture of well-dressed elegance done in oils. Another style is to tress the hair, and every tress means some thing. A young warrior with a head of hair undressed is of no account; he has not yet killed man. When, how ever, he has done so all his hair is shaved except enough to make one tress, which is of the same significa- ton as a notch on pistol stock. Af- ter that every man he kills entities him to add another tress, until as conquering hero of 100 tresses he is a formidable man to try conclusions with, says the Chicago News.
 Some of the New Hebrides people do their hair up in bunch on the top of the head and stain 1t yellow, while the inhabitants of Ombat island pass 1t through a tube so as to make Q kind of plume. The Marquesas chiefs favorite method is to shave all the head except two patches, one over each temple, where he cultivates two horns of hair. No doubt this is to rem der him more thing of terror to his enemies than of admiration to his friends. His reason for shaving the rest of the head is to alloAmore space for tattooing, as if all tGe available skin of the body were not enough.
 No one has visited Fiji in the past without being astonished at the fear full and wonderful styles of hairdress- ing. They are geometrical, monument tai, pyramidal and trepazoidal. An ad- ditional factor in this production of the grotesQue is that the hair varies in color as lime varies in bleaching power, or as the juice of the mangrove in coloring matter. Between black and white the colors run through the blue-black and all shades of red and yellow. Often half the hair is red and the other half white, giving kind of piebald effect.
Holbrook argus., 1904-07-09
HIS WIFE PACKED THE TRUNK.
Therefore the Man Hesitated Before
 Taking Anything Out.

Therefore the Man Hesitated Before
 Taking Anything Out.
 A man on business trip arrived in town and went to a hotel. Shortly after a friend called and was shown up to his room. He found the traveller sitting in chair, surveying with a gloomy countenance trunk which stood against the wall.
 "What's the matter?" asked the call CT.
 q wanted to get suit of clothes out of that trunk" was the answer.
 "Well, what's the difficulty-lost the key"
 "No, have the key all right" said the other, heaving a sigh. "I'll tell you how 1t is. My wife packed that trunk. She expected to come with me, but was prevented at the last moment To my certain knowledge she put in enough to fill three trunks the way a man would pack them. If I open it the things will boil up all over the room and would never get half of them back. Now, what Pm wonder ing about is whether it would be cheaper to go out and buy new suit of clothes or two additional trunks."- Tit Bits.
Holbrook argus., 1904-07-09
Refused to Serve.

A Frenchman went to a brother member of his lodge and said to him: "What does a polar bear doT'
 The brother answered.:
 "What does polar bear do? Why, he sits on the ice"
 "Sits on zee ice"
 "Yes," said the brother, "there is nothing else to sit on."
 "Vell, vat he do, too"
 "What does he also do? Why, he eats fish,"
 "Eat fish-sits on zee ice and eats fish. Then not accept"
 "You don't accept? What do you meanW
 "Oh, non, non. I does not accept. I was appointed to act as polar bear to zee funeral"
Holbrook argus., 1904-07-09
Wasted After Business Hours.

A great many people dissipate more energy between the time when they leave their work at night and when they return to 1t in the morning than they expend all day in their vacations, though they would be shocked and offended if any one were to tell them so. They think that physical dissipa- tion is the only method of energy -sap- ping. But men and women of eXem- plary moral habits dissipate their vi- tality in a hundred ways. They in- dulge in wrong thinking; they worry; they fret; they fear this, that, and the other imaginary thing; and they carry their business home with them, and work as hard mentally after business hours as during them.-Success.
Holbrook argus., 1904-07-09
POLITELY DISOBEDIENT BOY.
Lack of Discipline in Early Life Means
 LawIessuesa Later.

Lack of Discipline in Early Life Means
 Law1essness Later.
 Twenty years ago famous Ameri- can millionaire, speaking of his unruly and pampered little son, said with q smile: "Yes, Harry is politely dis obedient boy" The other day, after q disgraceful career extending over two continents, that boy was placed be- hind the bars, prisoner of justice His polite disobedience was but the seed of future lawlessness. Obedience is not only the soldiers first duty, as we have been told, but the first and most important duty of all of us; and the place to learn it is in the home; and the time, when we are children. The danger of acquiring the vice of disobedience is not confined to the children of the rich alone. It is a constant menace in homes of all grades of society. No greater harm can be done to child than to permit him to be disobedient, either politely or impolitely. There are many trou- bles laid up for him who has not learn' ed early in life to obey. Obedience to parents, obedience to teachers, obedi- ence to employers, obedience to the law, are all allied. Failure in the first means failure in all.
 The question is often asked whether the children of the present generation are as obedient as were their parents and grandparents. Certainly there Is not the outward reverence that char acterized the children of former gen. eration, but we need not say that the feeling of respect and the desire to obey are not there. The danger, how ever, is right here-that the omission of the outward appearance of rever- ence and obedience may lead, in time, to the omission of those virtues them selves. The parent who permits a child to grow up without learning, and learning thoroughly, this great lesson of obedience, commits a crime against society. There are prisons waiting for the politely disobedient boy."-House- keeper. .
Holbrook argus., 1904-07-09
10 WORLDS LONGEST WORD.
Used by Aristophanes fin q Comedy and
 Has 177 Letters.

hub lS ACttCT6s
 "What is the longest word in the world? am not rash enough to at- tempt to answer that question:" said a well-known author. "There is a cer- tain Welsh name of a place which reaches me every now and then, and which I have printed more than once, which is sufficiently formidable. be- lieve that the patient and serious Ger mans have turned out some verbal monsters, and it may be that the Chi nese, the Russians and other races with whose literature am unacquaint- ed have produced series of linked let ters long drawn out which are called words. So I carefully abstain from saying what is the longest word in the world.
 "But I think may venture to sug- gest that there are not many words longer than one which may be found in Liddell and Scott's Greek lexicon. Here is the modest trifle:
 "Lepalotemachoselac achogaleokraniole- lpSduOllll III pOLl llhiliu uIoiipulopui dOliCi- katakechumenokichlepikossuphopha- tfoperisteralektruonoptegkphalokigokl. opeleioha iohagoosiraiobaletraganopterugon
 q hope I have copied it correctly, but there may be slip here and there, and life is not long enough to write it out twice and the good printer, in whom have the utmost confidence, may be excused if he stumbles now and then. In English 1t ought to have 177 letters-there or whereabouts.
 "In its original Greek form the let ters would be not quite so numerous, as 'ch,' 'ps' and 'ph' are represented by one letter. The word is used by Aristophanes, who was comedian, and who therefore must have his lit tie joke, and some of his little jokes, by the way, are not quite nice.
 Tt would look well on menu and I should like to hear badgered waiter trying to shout it down long-suffering tube or a gentleman who has already dined fairly well bawling it out to- ward the end of the banquet" t."-Boston Journal. 7
Holbrook argus., 1904-07-09
Money Talks.

"So your daughter is engaged to an English nobleman, eh?" queried the re- porter as he encountered the millionaire brewer. "How did she manage to cap ture his .lordship?"
 By advertising" replied the m. b.
 "Whatw exclaimed the pencil pusher, "you don't mean to say she advertised for husbandT'
 "Well, not directly" explained the oth- CT, "but I advertised my business. Seer"
Holbrook argus., 1904-07-09
THE PERIL OF AFRICA
If the Negroes Should Rise They Could
 Control the Dark Continent.

Control the Dark Continent.
 In Cape Colony, the oldest and best settled European province, there are but 8S2,19S whites to 2,11S,437 blacks. No such disparity as this exists in any part of our American "black belt" In Rhodesia the whites are but a handful among upward of 100000 war like blacks of the stronger sort, in- cluding the fierce Matabele. In Natal there are 73,095 whites to 806,512 Zulu Kaffirs. In most of German Africa, and, of course, the whole of the con- tinent northward to Algeria, the dis parity is greater still. In the Warm bad district of German southwest Af- rica, whence recently we had news that another German outpost had been overpowered and massacred, there were at last accounts 1,513 white per sons, mostly Boers who have trekked there, to 10000 blacks.
 Recently, too, we had news of the massacre of white missionary and his community of eighteen converts in the interior of Liberia. The scene of this deed is significant, if the news be true, for if the black avalanche is ever to let loose in Africa 1t will un- doubtedly be by the hand of some black who has been inspired by thoughts of black rule and independ- ence, such as those that prevail in NA ,afivn pup ln nphn ever hung over the heads of even the few white settlers in the American colonies in the early days, for the American wilderness was never peo- pied by such hosts of savages as fill the African veldt and jungle.
 For the attempt, at least, nothing is wanted but the Toussaint POuvre- ture, the determined and able black leader who can organize the diverse and mutually foreign nations and tribes and inspire them with com mon motive of revolt. No such leader is in sight. Yet negro King Philip, a negro Pontiac, negro Tecumseh, the stamp of whose foot upon the earth may some day be heard In the earthquake, is neither inconceivable nor impossible.
 We may understand the uneasiness of South African whites over this Hot tentot insurrection. German rule is sufficiently oppressive to light the flame if anything will do it. The Hot tentOts ore n widesnrea1 nation general black insurrection must result in horrible massacres. Yet there could be but one possible result for 1t, as there was but one possible result for the general Indian wars in America. The thousands of whites, with their resources and organization, would pre- vail, and more sternly than ever against the million of blacks.
Holbrook argus., 1904-07-09
DOGS IN GERMANY.
Are Divided Into Three Glasses, aud
 Taxed Accordingly.

Taxed Accordingly. Like everything else in Germany, dogs are divided into classes. The first class contains the dogs that are kept as pets by people in easy clrcum. stances, writes Leipsic correspondent of the Washington Star. To the second class belong those dogs that are used for hunting. The third class includes all dogs that are kept for working anil mals by milkmen. butchers, peddlers, etc., in or near towns and cities. In the city every dog is taxed, but there is distinction made between the three classes. Dogs of the first class are taxed 20 marks (S4.76), those of the second class, 10 marks ($2.3S), and those of the third class only marks $119) per annum.
 The variety of the dog which seems to be the most fancied as a pet in Ger many is the short-legged, elongated dachshund.
 The dogs that are used for hunting are mostly German deerhounds and bird dogs of the setter and pointer types. Beagles are seldom used and are uncommon. Hunting dogs, as a rule, are kept in the country, and very little is seen of them.
 Working dogs are not confined to any particular variety. Any dog that is large and strong may be used, and a great many different kinds are seen. When a person comes to Germany one of the first things that is sure to im- press him as strange is the sight of a dog hitched to wagon with a woman as his mate. In Leipsic working dogs are numerous, and are mostly owned by the poor people. So far as I have seen, the dogs are treated with con- sideration by their owners and seem, In many cases, really to enjoy their l work.
 When the tax upon dog Is paid the dog is registered and the owner is giv- en tag which must be attached to its collar. When a dog is allowed upon street without his muzzle or his tag he Is subject to seizure by the dog police. who are a special branch of the mu- nicipal police. The usual fine in such a case is about 75 cents, where there is no willful intent or neglect on the part of the owner. After a dog has been captured once and its owner warned, if 1t is captured again the fine is much heavier. The only dogs that are al- lowed unOn the streets without mllZZles are those that are unquestionably un- der three months of age. After dog Is captured he is taken to the pound and kept there three days. At the end of that time, if uncalled for, he is either sold or disposed of
Holbrook argus., 1904-07-09
Their Very Best.

Real Estate Agent-You really ought to buy the house. Now, if you and your wife will only discuss the matter thoroughly
 Peckham-Oh, that's out of the question. We never discuss things. The most we can ever do is dispute about them.--Philadelph Press.
Holbrook argus., 1904-07-09
His Closeness.

Daughter-I don't see why you don't like MT. Spooner.
 Father-Well, for one thing, he's too close.
 Daughter-Oh, father! Were you mean enough to spy on us last evening ?-Phil' adelphia Ledger.
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1904-07-16
U. s. MARSHAL EMMITT DEAD.

Is Called Suddenly After Operation
for Supposed Abcess Of the Liver.
United States Marshal Frank Emmitt
Of Carson City died at the Lane Hos.
pital ins San Francisco last Saturday
morning. Mr.. Emmitt was critically i'll
when he was taken to San Francisco
the first Of last week. He was suffering
from recurring chills and protracted
spells of vomiting, and it was feared
he could not stand the journey to the
city. He made the trip all right and
was at once taken to the hospital. where
his case puzzled the doctors. Nine
physicians were in attendance and eight
Of them said Marshal Emmitt had an
abscess Of the liver. An operation was
decided upon, with chances against
him. The operation was performed ON
Thursday of last week, and his liver
was found normal and his kidneys and
stomach in good condition. After the
operation he rallied rapidly and seemed
to be gaining strength when he col
lapsed suddenly and passed away.
Mr.. Emmitt was native of Oregon,
aged 81 years. He was resident of
Nevada for many years, and was at one
time Sheriff Of Washoe County. He
was United States Marshal at the time
OF his death. He is survived by wife
and six children, who reside in Carson.
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1904-07-16
SELBY WILL HAVE OPPOSITION.
American Company to Build Shelter
at San Francisco.

A bulletin from New York says that
at the general offices of the American
Smelling & Refining Company in that
city its engineers are now busily en-.
gagged upon plans for the construction
of smelter and refinery ON the ont
skirts of San Francisco which shall in.
cur an outlay of no less than 5000, 900.
The plant, at these figures. must be more
pretentious than any in the company's
far-reaching system. although it in
cludes the cost Of refinery. The
volume of ores on the South for which
the company has contracted and the
enormous tonnages at Tonopah have, it
is said, compelled it to reach out for
additional equipment. and San Fran.
cisco. according to the news from the
East. has captured the prize, the bullion
to be forwarded to New York by water.
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1904-07-16
GEORGIA-NEBRASKA.
Populist Nominees Chosen from the
South and West.

At Springfield, Ill. on July 5,
Thomas Watson of Georgia for Presi-
dent, and Thomas H. Tibbles Of Me-
braska for e-Principal, were nom.
mated by the Populist Convention. The
platform demands that all money be is
sued directly by the Government, every
dollar to be full legal tender; demands
postal savings banks, upholds the right
of labor to organize. aud favors the en-
actment of legislation for the improve
ment of the condition of the wage
earners; demands the initiative and re-
ferendum; favors prohibition of the alien
ownership of lands; demands the with
drawal of the special privileges to Trusts
and monopolies. aud declares that the
Government should own and control
the railroads. telegraphs and telephone
systems, and should provide a parcels
post.
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1904-07-16

President Of the Piedmont & Cumber-
land Railroad and Of the Davis National
Bank Of Piedmont, w. ", in addition
to number Of other enterprises He
began his political career as member
of the House of Delegates Of West vir-
ginia in 1865. He served as State Sem
ator from 1867 to 1869. and from 1871 un-
til 1878 he was United States Senator,
declining reelection. He has been q
delegate to six National Conventions,
and was one Of the American delegates
to the Pan American Congress, as well
as member Of the United States Inter.
national Railway Commission. He has
always been Democrat. and his home
is at Elkins, W. v.
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1904-07-16
JUDGE PARKER.

Alton Brooks Parker, the nominee of
the Democratic party for the Presidency,
was born at Cortland. New York, in
1852. He was educated in the public
schools and at Cortland Academy. He
taught school while studying law and
graduated from the Albany Law School,
His first public Office was that of Sur.
rogate of Ulster County. He managed
the campaign which made David B.
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1904-07-16
Cured His Mother of rheumatism.

"My mother has been a sufferer for many
years with rheumatism" says w. H. How
ard, of Husband, Pa. "At times she was
unable to move at all, while at all times
walking was painful. ! presented her with
bottle of Chamberlain's Pain Balm and
after few applications she decided it was
the most wonderful pain reliever she had
ever tried, in fact she is never without il
now and is at all times able to walk. An oc-
casional application of Pain Balm keeps
away the pain that she was formerly troubled
with" For sale by Mrs. II. NJ. Schneiders
& Co.
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1904-07-16
Sixteen Hours Making the Platform.

Sixteen Hours Making the Platform
After continuous session Of sixteen
hours the Committee ON Resolution.
perfected the platform that was sub.
mitted to the Democratic Convention
The platform is compromise accept.
able to all of the interests involved. II
may be said in general way to have
been a concession to the Bryan wing OF
the party without in any way sitting
the declarations of the conservatives,
The absence of any pronouncement on
the financial question IS most significant
and discloses the utter impossibility OF
finding any declaration upon the money
question acceptable to all.
After declaring its devotion to the es-
sential principles of the Democratic
faith the planks of the platform are on
capital aud labor. Constitutional guar.
antee, waterways. economy Of admins
tration, Government contracts with
Trusts, executive usurpation, Trusts,
reclamation of arid lands, Isthmian
canal, election of United States Sena-
tors by the people. Statehood for the
Territories. merchant marine. reciproc-
ity, Monroe Doctrine, navy and army,
school and race question, arraignment
of the Republican administration. and
an appeal to the country invoking sup.
port for the Democratic candidates.
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1904-07-16
A RETRACTION.
The Curtis Publishing Company Made
q Mistake.

Ladies Home Journal for July: "In
the May number of the Ladies' Home
Journal we published, in the article en-.
titled The Patent Medicine Curse, an
analysis of Doctor Pierce's .Favorite
Prescription. in which that preparation
was represented as containing. among
other ingredients, tincture of digitalis,
tincture of opium and alcohol. Imme-
diately upon publication of the number
a suit for damages was instituted by the
r. V. Pierce Medical Company of Buff.
alo, N. Y, proprietors of the preparation
in question, against the Curtis Publish
ing Company, based upon the claim that
none of the three ingredients was con-
tanned in the medicine.
Upon the fling of the suit. we, of
course. Immediately looked into the pub
lished analysis. 1t appears that this
particular analysis had been made, if
made at all, fully 25 years ago. We,
thereupon, employed three leading
chemists in different cities to make an
analysis of the preparation from bottles
bought in the open market. These an
alyses, one and all, now show to us
concluslvely that not single one Of the
ingredients mentioned by us in the
analysis quoted-that is, either digi alis,
opium or alcohol-was contained in the
bottles analysed. We then-the Presi.
dent of this company and the writer
personally visited the r. V. Pierce
Medical Company at Buffalo, and were
there convinced that the officers of these
company were absolutely truthful in
their claim that not one of these iDjuri-
Gus ingredients was contained in Doctor
Pierce's Favorite Prescription. Naturally
since the analysis we printed has been
proved erroneous. the deductions made
in connection with this preparation
were unwarranted and unfounded.
under these circumstances it is now
perfectly plain to us that this magazine
was unintentionally, but nevertheless
absolutely misled in making the original
statement, and we hereby. of our own
volition, make this unqualified acknowl-
edgment of our mistake to the R. v.
Pierce Medical Company and to our
readers.
1.-THE mistake was honestly made,
but it was mistake"
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1904-07-16

Tbirty-five thousand tons of coal
stored in the Southern Pacific bunkers
at Sparks are on fire and may prove a
a total loss. The railroad people hope to
save the majority of the coal by cutting
an opening across the heap. The loss
will probably reach 5000, 600 if the fire
be not checked.