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Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1904-04-07

While not promising boom prices for
farm products such as prevailed two
and three years ago, the year 1904 still
holds out a promise for a, large meas
ure of agricultural prosperity for the
farmers of the country During the
past year there has been a gradual set
Ting of values down to hardpaD
basis, the speculative element has been
eliminated from all lines Of business,
the water has been squeezed out of in
fiated securities and values of all kinds,
and all this has been done without seri-
GUS damage to the country at large
There is healthy demand upon mill,
mine and factory for their products,
but a modicum Of unemployed labor.
and all the American people are hungry
every day, and the farmer must feed
them. All the cotton, corn, wheat,
oats, hogs, cattle. dairy products and
poultry the farms can produce will be
wanted at fair prices. To put things
just right there should be scaling
down of at least 10 per cent in wages
for farm help and all tie commodities
which enter into tile farm expense nc
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1904-04-07

In the states of Illinois. Iowa, Kan
sas and Nebraska, the four great corn
producing states, there is wonderful
interest being developed in the study
of the corn plant. Hardly an institute
Is being held this winter which does
not provide for an exhibit of corn and
the payment of good premiums for the
best samples shown, and which does
not devote at least full half day to
lectures and discussions of corn in all
its phases from the preparation of the
field for the crop to it's final harvesting.
The experiment stations are developing
many new and highly important facts
about this cereal, it's type, pure breed
ing, culture and selection of seed, and
enough undisputed testimony has been
presented at these meetings to prove
beyond a question that it is easily pos
sible to increase the average yield of
the cornfelds at least ten bushels per
acre.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1904-06-14

field branches Of the war department, l6.
600 employees at navy yards and a few
thousand in other parts Of the service.
The report deals only with l50.3s3 EN-
ployes. whose work is as follows: Clerical
l02,43l; professional, technical and scien
tifc, $3.50; executive, I,67; mechanical
7lsl; subelerical and lsborers, 26,SSs, aud
miscellaneous. 5,5lT.
OF the l50,3S3 there are l37,O6l males
and 1892 females; 1850 native and
IA ,S0s foreign.
Those less than twenty years old mum.
Der 3422, between 20 and so years, 1867,
over 80 years, l0l Employees between 30
and 40 years number 46. 1872 20 to 80 years
392lS, 40 10 80 years, 90,394.
Those who have served less than one
year number 30, 1872, one TO FIVE years,
81, 1853, FIVE to ten years Is ,l2s ten to TWEEN
ty years q 700, 80 10 40 years 2,6l0, Oven
40 years, 1913.
Employees who receive less than $40 q
year number 50.00l. from 500 TO $50
LOB; $1,000 to $500, 22,Ss6; $1,000 Ia
800, 1875; $500 and over, 85l.
Then there are l3 93S who work without
compensation This number is made mp
almost wholly Of substitute rural free de
livery carriers.
The importance Of Uncle Sam as a cit
izen of Washington is shown by the fact
that his employees here nun Der 1898 men
| and 6,SS2 women.
JACOB WALDECK.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1904-06-14
SCHOOL DAYS DRAWING TO A CLOSE

The high school class Of 1904 will soon
pass out of existence and the members
will take their places in the ranks Of
the alumni The 40 members OF the class
are the remnants Of ITO who entered
the freshman class fo,r years ago.
Next in importance to the graduating
exercises are the class day ceremonies.
This Is an occasion especially for the
members Of the class and their invited
guests. The occasion was duly observed
in the high school building by the mem
bers OF the class OF 1904 this afternoon.
The program consisted az an address by
the president. Joseph Kehoe; history OF
the class, Ray Baker; class will, Harold
smith; prophecy, Luta Warren; class
poem, Miss Hall; grafton, Hilworth Jones.
Joseph Kehoe is class president: Muriel
Spellman, vice president; Andora Cox, sec
rotary: Dudley Hardy, treasurer; Ray
Baker sergeant alarms.
At che Tacoma theater tomorrow eve
ming the regular graduation exercises will
be held. and the 46 graduates viii re
ceive their diplomas. Thursday afternoon
the class win have a picnic at Magnolia
beach. A reception and banquet will he
given BY the alumni ASSOCIATION on Frida
night, and the career OF the class OF 1894
viii be ended
The program for the exercises at thc
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1904-06-14

at the gate, that you keep them con-
iined?'
mo, they are not bad" he said; con
The other hand, none of them are strictly
good, in view of the fact that the coroner
hasn't been called for any of them"
ms remark puzzled me greatly.
| shall write to the Times Biology and
Colonial Curiosities editor to see if he can
explain it.
"HowY ] said genially to a magnificent
brave | met in the grounds. He main
tanned gloomy silence, heing engaged no
doubt, in musing over the departed glories
of his race and of his ancestral tepee on
the messy banks Of the Connecticut river,
lis the great chief thinking of the happy
hunting grounds l ventured sympa-
thetically.
mo, buddy; I'm Just wondering if YOU
had spare Turkish cigarette in your
jeans. | left mine ON the piano"
/ shall CERTAINLY write to the Times
about this.
Marmaduke Squeezledeane, Bart.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1904-06-14

always wanted to meet the noble red
man, don't you know. | have always
much admired his virtues and stoical
though romantic temperament, as des-
crihed in books, and longed to hear him
lift his sonorous voice in poetic eloquenee.
/ found quite colony of Indians near a
large city in a park admission 10 cents,
children three for quarter. As | had
watched in vain to encounter few chiefs,
squaws aud pappooses on the ears or in
the hotels and barbershops, was con
strained to visit these, although it is a
shame that they are kept in captivity
"Are these had Indiansy" | asked man
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1904-06-14

Tacoma theater Wednesday evening will
be as follows:
Music ...s-s.- ..s.ss............ Orchestra
Prayer ................ Rev s. z. Brokaw
Essay-"The Resistance Of the Tea Act
and Its Effect" prize essay for
prize offered by Virginia Dare
chapter, d. A. R., Bertha Mattison
Recitation--"A Court Lady Martha Smell
Essay-'A Potent Factor in Modern
Warfare ........,......A Arthur Cook
Music-"Out on the Deep ...... Chorus
Recitation-"A Selection from Sohrab
and Rustrium' ........... Eva Pearsall
Essay--"True Nobility. Ruth yesterday
Defamation The Ballad Of Easr and
West" ......,...... Raymond Hopkins
Music-"Be Glad Lass aud Lad" .....
................. Chorus, Girls Voices
Recitation Romaunt Of the Page.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. Lulu Nash
Essay-"Inhuenee Of Literature" ...
.......,............. Flora Mcdonald
Recitation" Buddha's Plea for Mercy"
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. Meta McDaniel'
Music" Bonnie Doom" ... Boys Choru.
Reeitation-'The Man From Troy.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. Perla ,Johansor
Naledictory .....,............ Andora Coz
Presentation Of Diplomas ...,......M. L
Clifford, President Board Of Education
The graduating exercises OF the eighth
grades viii be held at the Tacoma the
alter Thursday and Friday evenings.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1904-06-14
CLAIMS TO POSSESS
CR0MWELL'S HEAD

S, f. Wilkinson, of Kent, England
claims to possess the head of Oliver Crom
we'll The head is well embalmed The
skin remains on the eyelids, the nose and
tongse are still perfect, and the famou.
wart is traceable on the right eyehd The
point of the pike on which the head was
impaled when placed on the top OF West
minister hall in 1861, still remains in the
skull The head fell from the hall dur.
ing a storm, was picked up by sentry
and passed through many hands before
Wilkinson became the owner.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1904-06-14
LYNCH LAW"

The most generally accepted explanation
OF the origin Of the term lynch law is in
dertook to maintain order by taking into
his own hands the punishment of all dis
orderly or disGffected persons. In Eng
land lynch law was early known by the
name OF Lydford law; in Scotland it was
called Cowper law Except in the early
settlement Of California before civil gov
eminent had been established, the practice
OF lynchng in the United States was sci
dom resorted to until after the civil war.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1904-06-14

sary expenses. This array of civil EN-
ployes is nearly three times as large as
the combined army and navy.
Statistics concerning persons engaged
in the civil service have been worked up
by the census bureau.
II is explained in the report that these
figures do not include $1,000 postmasters
and employees at smaller postoffices. about
$4,000 employees with small salaries in the
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1904-06-14
NO POLITICS FOR TEDDY
AT HIS SUMMER HOME

WASHINGTON, D. G., June 14.--Presi-
dent Roosevelt viii spend his vacation
at Oyster Bay. He proposes too, that it
shall be a real vacation, with plenty OF
rest and recreation and just as little poll
tics as possible
The first of the White House delegation
TO Oyster Bay was composed Of the three
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1904-06-14
SEALS READY
FOR The FRAY

After a two days rest, the Tigers viii
be in fine form tomorrow to open week g
argument with the San Francisco players.
The Seals arrived here shortly after 3
o'clock this afternoon, too late to play,
so today's game viii be played off next
Sunday morning
The series with san Francisco is for six
games only. Following this, the Oakland
bunch viii come for one week and the
Angels are scheduled 10 come next.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1904-06-14
Low RATES BRING
MANY FOREIGNERS

NEW YORK, June l4-so great is the
number OF immigrants expected to arrive
this week that the Ellis island authorities
believe it will be necessary to erect tents
on the island.
The great influx is due to the $40 rate
from London which was recently insti-
tuted.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1904-06-14

greatly desires rest. There viii be few
exceptions to this rule. There are, OF
course, few men OF national prominence
whose position entities them to see the
president at any time they may call on
matters OF urgent Importance.
The rule. however. is that no persons
except such as have cards from Mr.. Cor
telyou shall be admitted to the grounds.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1904-06-14
BAD GANG
RUN DOWN

SEATTLE, June l4.--John King, Clyde
Brownhed. Thomas Fay and John Rey-
nolds, gang of alleged burglars, were
captured by the police near Interplay yes
terday.
The men were taken without resistance.
Chief Delaney. accompanied by three de
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1904-06-14

night Herrera played his usual waiting
game and took advantage OF the first open
ing to get in his terrific swing.
O'Keefe and Melody fought 20 rounds
to a draw. -I
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1904-06-14

sake the White House for Sycamore hill
on July ,. The president will remain there
for three weeks and will then then re-
turn to the White House until the middle
of August. Then he will resume the joys
of Sagamore hill until the middle of Sep
tember.
Formal declaration has been made that
there shall be no political visitors at
Oyster Bay, that the president needs and
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1904-06-14

tectives, made the arrest, bringing the
burglars to the city Jail handcuffed to-
gether.
A vast amount of plumber was secured
by the officers, but nothing that would
connect the gang with the Washington
hotel robbery was found.
Star Stables, general livery delivered.
Phone 1879. ~"
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1904-06-14
AMERICAN LEAGuE.

Al Cleveland Philadelphia Q, Cleve
land ?.
AZ Boston Boston 8, ST. Louis ?
AZ Chicago Chicago >, New York l.
At Detroit-De Detroit 3, Washington 0.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1904-06-14
NATIONAL LEAGUE STANDING.
UNCLE SANS BIG
ARMY OF CIVIL
SERVICE employees

WASHINGTON, June a. Uncle Sam
EMPLOYS in the civil service more than Peg.
Oo0 persons. SO, naturally, it keeps the
old gentleman busy getting together money
for the payroll and TO meet other neces-
-: -
Schmidt's Band plays every Saturday
night on Tacoma Ave as
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1904-06-14
MOBILES WILL
TOUR AMERICA

MUNICH. June l4.-Princs George and
Prince Konrad of Bavaria the elder sons
of Prince Leopold, left today for America
to tour that country.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1904-06-14
AMERICAN LEAGUE STANDING.
NATIONAL LEAGUE.

At New York; Chicago 3, New York 2.
AT Philadelphia Philadelphia 8, Cincin-
natl 4.
AT Boston Pittsburg 8, Boston 4.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1904-06-14
YANGER KNOCKED OUT
BY LITTLE MEXICAN

BUTTE, Mont, June l4.--Aurelio Her
rera, the Mexican fighter, knocked out
Benny Yanger in eight rounds here last
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1904-06-14
AcIFIC COAST LEAGUE STANDING.
PACIFIC NATIONAL LEAGUE.

At Butte Butte ~, Spokane 2.
AT Salt Lake salt Lake II, Boise 5.
PACIFIC NATIONAL LEAGUE STAND
ING
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1904-06-14

chopping wood. Tie takes no interest In
fishing.
The Mayflower or the Dolphin will be
kept at the disposal of the family.
When the president returns in Septem-
Der he will remain in Washington until
election day, when he will revisit Oyster
Bay to vote. He will make no tour nor
otherwise take an active part in the cam
paign. a., .,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-04-29
CHAS. COLBERT CAUGHT
Believed to Be Implicated in Mail
Theft in Kansas.

Eastern papers announce that Charles
Colbert who was implicated with Ed
Griffith in getting away with the $1,000
which the latter stole out of his father $
postofice IN Great Bend, has been cap
tured in Wilmington, Del The federal
officers in Topeka have as yet had no no
LITIGATION of the matter, beyond what they
have noticed in the newspapers.
Griffith stole the package on March 10
of this year. He was arrested and sent to
the federal penitentiary for term OF Two
years by Judge Pollock a the recent term
of the United States court. He told the
whole story of the affair at the time and
implicated a woman named Ola and a
friend, Charles Colbert, the one who was
arrested.
According to the story Griffith was in
fatuated with the woman and stole the
money in order to live with her He gave
Colbert about half of it, the latter know
ing that it was stolen Colbert went to
Colorado The officers have been looking
for him for a long while and according
to the eastern newspaper dispatches
Thursday, have located him at Whining
ton, Del .-,.,
Colbert got the money from Griffith
while the latter was in Colorado, ana
there is some question to whether he
will be tried in the Kansas or Colorado
federal court. His home is at Great
Bend, where he acquired some little rep
utation as a ball player. He and Griffith
were intimate friends and chums:
The officers will likely bring Colbert ana
the woman to Topeka at an early date
If the former pleads guilty the woman
will be released but if he chooses to fig Mt
she will be held witness.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-04-29

after thinking a spell, we just put
our head down under the water and
shouted:
bill Bryan's lost his voicel"
Well, sir, those trout We're so plumb
tickled that they came up to the Sur
face of the water most cheerful and
suffered 'emselves to be caught.
Not bad, that. for a presidential year.
We concentrate our attention upon the
bait for a glorious 80 seconds and then
we try again.
Well, sir, last summer there was a
couple of these lady missionaries
spending their vacation out at Belmar.
on the Jersey coast. and they took it
in their heads that they would like TO
see the poor fisherfolk in that neigh
borhood, so that they could dissemin-
ate little sunshine in their lives. Well.
sir, one day they made a trip to the
fshermen's section, and they struck a
place where there were a number of
fishermen sitting around smoking. Not
saying anything, you understand, but
just sitting around smoking with wood
en- looks on their faces.
Well, sir, there was a lot of washing
out on the line. and in that wash there
was lot of wooden clothes. because the
fishermen have to keep themselves
good and warm when they go through
the surf in the winter.
Why" says one of the missionaries,
what beautiful underclothes. Where
did you get this wool from, my good
Well, sir one of the fishermen takes
his pipe out of his mouth without
changing a line of the wooden face.
sheep fish, he says. THE water
hereabouts is all crowded out of shape
with en- says he, and he puts his
pipe back in his mouth.
The rest of them don't say anything.
you understand. but just keep right on
smoking with a PARKWAY look in their
eyes.
Gracious! And do you mean to say
that the wool grows on these sheep
fsh?'
All the fishermen nod their heads.
still looking straight in front of them
and smoking hard.
And do you shear them?" asked one
of the missionaries.
mo. ma'am." said the truthful old
salt. I'VE don't shear them. Bless
you, no. We just chases 'em against
the sharp rocks at the bottom of the
ocean, and that scrapes the wool off
their hides. We just go around In
boats and pick the wool off the wa
ter
The honest old fishermen all cross
their legs together. still smoking hard
and looking straight ahead with wood
en- faces. Suddenly they all uncross
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-04-29
DAWSON ENTERS TIE LISTS.
Shows What He Can Do With English
When He Tries.

Assistant Attorney General John S.
Dawson enters denial that he wrote
the Burrow letter. He says he can
prove an alibi. Mr.. Dawson says:
Those who credit me with the
of Mr. Burrows effusion
do me irreparable injury. both as the
lawyer am trying to be and as the
pedagogue I am endeavoring to live
down. First, as a lawyer, must re-
mark that many of the Burrow inter-
rogatories are irrelevant, being barred
BY the statute of limitations. Second
as an erstwhile dominic, [ repudiate
the authorship of any literary produce
ton which tolepates a prodi6al inter
spersion of plebeian numerals. And
the split nfinitive-shade of Alex
ander Baini What next2
THE punctuation is not mine
there is a dearth of the dash paren-
thetical. Neither the syntax nor the
prosody show an unconscious assinli-
lation of any diction of mine.
But my alibi is indisputably estab-
lished when I solemnly declare that it
has ever been my habit, when any
acrimonious deuteropathy has been
fermenting in my system, to relieve
myself in rhyme-usually in anapestic
tetrameter distichs or Byronic stanzas.
Prose I reserve for panegyrfc alone"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-04-29

their legs and then cross them again
the other way.
but bow do you chase the poor fish
against the sharp rocks?'' asks the
missionary, with her eyes bulging big.
Dog fish" says the fisherman, says
he.
A subtle story this. with a delicate
wit and the true fish flavor. We ex
anime the bait and are relieved to find
that it is not deteriorating with age.
Thus refreshed, we think again and
soon are soaring high above the dry
and dreary facts of unfmagfnative
man. In our swirling fight Of fancy
we describe the following tender little
aerial figure:
Well. sir. you know our tabby cat
the one with the bob tail. Wen, sir
last month my wife says to me, Jim. .
she says, those kittens eyes will be
open tomorrow. so ye'd better fix EN-,
she says, she being tender hearted by
nature and thinking it bad luck to
drown kittens herself.
"Wel, sir. takes them down to the
lake and drops EN- overheard in a
peach basket according to custom. and
thinks no more about it. For eight
years now I've done the same trick.
and by this time 1t comes so natural
that I don't think any more about it
than about digging bait No, sir, not a
bit.
Well. sir, yesterday I was down to
the lake cutting a fishing pole in the
swamp when suddenly I hears a play
full caterWauling, only something
fierce First OF I thinks it's a litter of
wild cats. and so I proceeds cautious:
Well sir. down at the waters edge 1
found that old peach basket, and inside
it was four Kittens just as fat and
saucy as you'd want to see, and as
rubs my eyes and looks again a moth
erIy looking old catfish jumps out of
the basket and fiops away into the
deep water. Yes sir, and there that
tender hearted old catfish had been
mothering that litter of kittens. Yes,
Sir. and as / stood there quiet back she
Topped into the peach basket, and be
gan teaching them little kittens how to
catch muskrats. Yes. sir! Just as
naturali
What a glorious thing is bait, and
what a despicable thing is grammar
Our thoughts and fancies surge within
us and will not be denied. We glide
and curvet in the blue empyrean OF
rhapsodicaI fancy. and we look down
with a superior eye upon that stoop-
shouldered old plOdder called man.
For the gentle spring days have
come. the balmy blissful days when the
sun is just right and the earth seems
to have reached the very limit. and as
we sit here, with our float bobbing up
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-04-29
WANT STARCH FACTORY TRACT.
Commercial Club Would Use 1t for
Factories.

The Commercial club is negotiating with
the owners of the starch factory tract
east OF the city to buy it if a satisfactory
figure can be agreed upon to be used for
locating new manufa curing concerns
Tom Anderson would not announce the
figures which the organization is willing
to pay.
Noticing the inducements which other
cities have been holding out to manufac-
turing concerns which contemplate going
to other cities, the Commercial club rec
ognized the necessity of doing something
of similar nature. To meet this end II
was deemed best to secure a large tract
upon it, rent free, to new companies
which wish to come to Topeka. Should
any of these concerns wish to buy the
ground later that avenue is open to them
and on the other hand should they de-
sire to leave the city at any later time
the property will revert back to the own
ership of the Commercial club.
The starch factory tract is five acres
large and has excellent auxiliary advant-
ages. Side track rights of way can also
be had and will accompany the purchase
If it is made. The river is close at hand
for sewerage purposes Both the Santa
Fe and Rock Island trains run close by
and good shipping facilities can be OBJ
tanned.
1T is necessary" said Major Anderson
this morning, for us to do something OF
mentS and Topeka will do the Same.s W q
will get a good location soon. At the
present time we are dickering with the
owners of the starch factory land, and It
looks as though we can arrive at a salts
factory deal and get possession of it, 3"