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Gloucester County Democrat., 1905-07-13
A Pertinent inquiry and Suggestion.

A Pertinent inquiry and Suggestion.
The st. Louis Globe Democrat is not
entirely happy as to Panama canal do
ings. 1t in the course of an elaborate
editorial on Mr.. Wallaces resignation
says: Graft was at the bottom of the
stagnation along the canal during
French days. Has graft made its ap-
pearance under the American regime?
This is one of the things the president
may need to inquire into The CD
is tnoroughgoing Republican organ;
therefore its question as to graft and
its suggestion to the president come
with the more force. if not with great
er pertinency, than if emanating from
Democratic sources. Taken in connee-
tion with its editorial on the Morton
muddle, which | quoted in extenso in
my last letter, it is clear that the CD.
is not well satisfied with some things
now being done or left undone by the
powers that be.
Gloucester County Democrat., 1905-07-13
That Extra Session.

The st. Louis democrat has
the gall to undertake to lecture GER
tain Democratic newspapers touching
certain more or less irreyerential re-
marks which they have from time to
time made about the continuous per-
formance of postponing the extra ses-
sion of congress. The CD. should go
a little slow. The Democratic papers
have ample cause to make invidious
remarks on the subject. In the first
place, there was no sense in an extra
session; secondly. we were told that it
would be called in March, then Oct. /,
then Oct IS, then Nov /, then Nov. 16
and now that it will not be called at
all. The extra session was to tear
things up by the roots-but there is to
be none; hence Democratic papers
have right to guy the administration,
and the CD. should keep mum and
take its medicine
Gloucester County Democrat., 1905-07-13

It may be that old King Leopold Of
Belgium has hit upon scheme for
transforming himself from the most
unpopular into the most popular sover-
eign in Europe by his proposition to
donate his huge fortune to his people,
That sort of thing sometimes works
wonders, as was proved by the way
that Mark Antony stirred up the Ro-
man popuIace against Brutus. Cassius
ct al. by reading Caesars will, wherein
the immortal Julius bequeathed his
fortune to the public.
Gloucester County Democrat., 1905-07-13
Postponina the Evil Day.

AS to the third remedy, which sim
ply postpones the evil day-issuing
new bonds-that will not be resorted
to unless the congress absolutely re-
fuses to raise more revenue, for the
Republicans fear that should they is.
sue bonds in time of peace after all
the abuse they heaped on Grover
Cleveland for issuing bonds to cure
the deficit produced by the Mckinley
tariff bill they would not carry one
third of the states in the Union. Con-
sequently they have no idea of issu-
ing bonds except as dernier resort
Therefore by the process of elimina-
ton or exclusion we discover the plan
which the Republicans will most prob
ably adopt to cure the deficit, and that
is to increase the revenues. That they
will agree on the general proposition
to increase the revenues is quite like
ly. When they come to the how of the
increase they will split wide open as
Georgia watermelon. There are two
ways, and only two, to make the in
crease-frst, by laying additional in
ternaI revenue taxes; second, by re-
ducing the tariff. The proponents of
these two propositions will make the
fur fly from the hides Of each other in
a fashion that has not been equaled in
vigor since the days of the celebrated
joint discussion betwixt the cats of
Kilkenny.
Facing either alternative, the Repub-
licans will be between the devil and
the deep blue sea. They will not dare
to levy a general stamp tax in a time
of peace. They dread the vexation
and consequent wholesale loss of votes
which such a measure would create;
hence if the stand patters drive them
into leyying more internal revenue
taxes they must raise them from beer,
whisky ana tobacco and thereby dis
gruntle the whisky. beer and tobacco
men, with prospect of losing their
vote. OF course, to save their own ba-
con, the. stand patters will try to load
the whole thing on the whisky, beer
and tobacco men. The latter will do
their best to escape new burdens By
forcing the Republicans to increase the
revenues by revising the tariff down
ward A proposition to revise the tar
iff downward pumped into Repub-
iican congress will have precisely the
same effect on that assemblage of the
representatives of special interests as
the Goddess of Discord produced at
the marriage of Peleus and Thetis by
flinging among the wedding guests a
golden apple on which was the in
scription. let the beauty take me"
The Republican leaders stand in NOR
tai dread of the stand pat tariff bar
ons, who, If their Iargess is interfered
with threaten to cut off the sinews Of
war which would be like shearing
Samson Of his locks.
Whichever horn of the dilemma the
Republicans take they will be impaled
upon 1t and be In a frame of mind to
exclaim with Satan IL Paradise Lost:
Me miserable. Which way shalt fly
Infinite wrath and infinite despair
Which way fly ig hell
That there is a strong but not
majority sentiment among Republicans
Gloucester County Democrat., 1905-07-13

Ny good friend, Hon. John Wesley
Gaines of Nashville, Tenn, was re-
Gently dumfounded to discover that
there is not a copy Of the Bible in the
law library OF the supreme court of
the United States. Everybody else will
share his amazement. The attention Of
the American Bible society ought to be
Immediately called to this strange
state Of affairs.
Gloucester County Democrat., 1905-07-13


WMeI1SENT appearances indicate
E-W that all the Democrats have to
do is to stand still and see the
salvation of the Lord.
The Republican administration is
confronted with large and constant
ly growing deficit in the revenues. Dur
ing the last campaign, when it was
charged by Hon. Henry G. Davis and
other Democrats that there was a
deficit and that it was increasing, the
charge was either fatty denied or whis-
tied down the wind by saying that by
June 30, 1905, the end of the fiscal
year. things would even themselves
up. but they have not done so. That
answer, which was only a transparent
fable, seems to have been sd good
enough Morgan" till after the election.
Now, however. that no general cleo
ton is impending, there is no longer
an attempt to deny the deficit, which is,
on the face of the treasury figures,
over $30,000000. nearly twice what
of the treasury, said it would be. The
truth is that it is much more than the
treasury figures show. for an effort has
been made to minimize it by putting
off the payment of debts till July and
August which should have been paid
in May and June.
One great question confronting the
administration is to devise plan to
stop the deficiency There are only
three ways known among men first,
to economize: second, to raise more
revenue; third, to borrow money by a
new issue of interest bearing bonds.
Republicans cannot economic. Theirs
is the best disciplined party the world
ever saw-the most perfect political
machine ever devised by the wit of
man. Individual thought and action
are reduced to the minimum Bossism
is at the maximum. The Republican
party has wrought many important
works. 1t is capable of doing many
things, but there is one thing which
to it is impossible, and that is to re-
duce expenses There is no such word
In its vocabulary as economy. What's
bred in the bone will not come out of
the flesh. 1t began in the flush days of
the civil war, and, having then formed
the habit of extravaganza, it has ever
since continued and will continue al
ways in it's career of wicked and wan
ton waste. So among all the Repub-
Iicans who are Matching schemes to
make buckle and tongue meet precious
little thought is given to cutting down
appropriations.
Gloucester County Democrat., 1905-07-13

Mr. Baifour, English premier, speak
ing at the Whitelaw Reid dinner. in
forms this republic that she must now
mix up in old world entanglements be
cause she is world power, don't you
know. And there will be sapheaded
American idiots to applaud the sentf-
ment Such men as George Washing
ton and Thomas Jefferson are old fo-
gies too ignorant to comprehend high
diplomacy Evidently Mr.. Balfour
takes us for a nation of fools.
Gloucester County Democrat., 1905-07-13

on mortgage In amounts % suik Apply
gRNEsT REDFIELD
AYR .s'oi-1 oaouzv N. j.
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1905-09-07
THE PACKING SHED.
It Should Be Kept Free from Rubbish
Of All Kinds During the
Fruit Season.

Did the thought ever occur to you
that you probably allowed too much
filth to accumulate about your pack
ing-shed? People who eat fruit are
just as exacting on points of cleanlt-
ness as are other food-eaters. No one
would think Of Offering for sale piece
of meat with unwholesome looking
stains ON it such as spots Of decay.
mildew, red spctches, etc. Neither
should q man with crate Of peaches
bearing stains on the wood ask GUS
toner to purchase. 1t is very wrong,
declares the Midland Farmer, to offer
unwholesome fruit for sale, and all
unclean fruit is unwholesome. Germs
of decay are germs of disease, and peo-
pie are beginning to realize that it is
not safe to eat that kind of fruit.
Therefore never allow waste fruit to be
heaped about near your packtng-shed;
have it carted away some distance.
Piles of decaying fruit draw flies, in
sects and other unwholesomeness.
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1905-09-07

All women work; some In their
homes, some in church, and some in
the whirl of society. And in stores,
mills and shops tens of thousands are
on the never-ceasing treadmill. earning
their daily bread.
All are subject to the same physical
laws: all suffer alike from the same
physical distur bance, and the nature of
their duties. in many cases. quickly
drifts them into the horrors of all
kinds of female complaints. ovarian
troubles, liberation, falling and dis
placements of the womb, leucorrhGa,
or perhaps irregularity or suppression
of monthly periods" causing back.
ache, nervousness, irritability and
lassitude.
Women who stand on their feet oil
day are more susceptible to these
troubles than others.
They especially require an invigorat-
ing, sustaining medicine which will
strengthen the female organism and
enable them to bear easily the fatigues
of the day, to sleep we'll ut night. md
to rise refreshed and cheerful.
How distressing to see q woman
struggling to earn livelihood or per-
form her household duties when her
back and head are aching. she is SO
tired she can hardly drag about or
stand up, and every movement causes
pain, the origin Of which is due to
some arrangement Of the female or
ganisM.
Miss r. orser Of II warrenton Street
LYDIA e. Piakhan's Ve1etahie Cez
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1905-09-07
THE OLD ORCHARD.
How It Nay Re Treated 30 as to Re
storS It to q Profitable
Rnsis

Az an orchard, 1t had always been
q failure. The trees had come from
the refuse of an abandoned nursery.
Ninety mine men. in hundred would
not have taken the trees as gift and
the one remaining man took them be-
cause they were cheap. .,.
For 30 years part of the trees stood
and grew. The others died, most Of
them early. Occasionally they pro-
.duced apples. but did not take this as
the serious part of their existence. The
chief purpose was to cucumber the
ground, making 1t less valuable for
other purposes and of no account as an
orchard.
In course of time the farm had q
change of owners. The new man had
an idea. The orchard was not profit
able, but it had never been fairly treat
ed. Good trees could not he made from
poor stock, but there was a possibility
of bringing about better condition
than then existed.
The soil was a light, gravelly loan,
not a good place for an apple. More
over, the laid had been exhausted by
continual cropping for many years.
This, with poor stock in the beginning,
had resulted in stunted, half-starved
trees.
The first step was to pillow the ground
in the spring and SOW to rye. When
it had grown large enough to afford
pasture, hogs were turned in, who wal
lowed down the green straw and gath
cred some lard into themselves. The
next year the ground was again plowed
and sown, and the hogs called in for
the harvest. Four times was this re-
peatcd, to the great satisfaction of the
animals and, as it proved, to the bene-
fit of the trees.
1t was by that time evident that a
change had taken place. The trees
grew as they had never grown before.
There was fruit in abundance. too. The
orchard come up smiling with its bur-
den on "off" years when it was good
to have apples: 1t bore every year and
was the most profitable part Of the
farm. H0lt
A part of the original orchard was
fenced of and received such treat
ment as trees usually receive in a cul-
tivated field given up to the ordinary
farm crops. After six or seven years
they did not look as though they could
have been set at the same time with
their more thrifty neighbors.
II potash and phosphoric acid had
been applied the results should have
been still better, remarks the Ohio
Farmer. AS it was. the ground re-
ceived a supply Of much headed hui
mus and such other fertility as come
from pasturing. Results as good or
better might be obtained by many
from orchards now considered unprof-
table.
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1905-09-07
SAME ROAD IN OPPOSITE DIRECTION
SHOWING PROPER WIDTH AND
CROWN

~
i've were operated at the school. These
included, besides the widely known
King drag, the v drag, the Stevenson
ditch cleaner" the Russell road lev
eler and the Smith steel road drag.
These drags were all shown and oper-
ated by the inventors. themselves, and
1t was made plainly apparent that all
can do first-class work. So much in
terest was aroused in these road drags
that the commission has decided to
thoroughly test each kind on section
Of earth road and to report the results
in q bulletin.
mo feature of the many demonstra-
tions in road construction attracted
more attention than the building of q
reenfosced concrete culvert. At the
present time many road experts in
Iowa are carefully considering the adj
visibility of displacing expensive and
unsatisfactory wooden culverts with
durable structures of concrete reen-
forced with steel. The commission
has prepared standard plans and speci-
fications of simple and inexpensive
concrete culverts for distribution
among Iowa road officers"
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1905-09-07
The Sick Cow.

The sick COW should not be permit
ted to remain with the other COWS,
for in many cases the disease with
which q cow is sick is a CONTAGIOUS
one, but this is not always discernible
at the time the cow is first taken sick.
Milk from a sick COW should not be
used, even for the feeding of farm an
finals. Give the animal the benefit of
free air and moderate sunshine and
deprive her of food for awhile, unless
It be some sickness whose character
is known Often the sickness is merely
the result of too high feeding. II the
ailment is q very serious one 1t will
pay Letter to call a veterinarian than
to riGk not doing the proper thing for
the Ilicf of the animal.-Farmers' Ike
view.
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1905-09-07
cu.Yoa 40 4, o !, !, !, q,


In Quito. Ecuador. Il IL usual ia nm.
cover ones head when there ~ a A.sh
Of lightning. This IL probably !. relic
Of 6re-worshiping days.
An old man named Kuss was hnr,.a
in Egregy, Hungary, with his fortnre
of $4,000 in his cofin. His relative.
heard Of 1t and exnumed the body ana
divided the money.
There is living at Recife, near Per.
nambuso, child OF five and one-half
years who is four feet and two inche.
in height, and who boasts a mustacha
and deep bass voice.
An egg with perfect yolk and con.
tanning another egg about the size Of a
linnet's egg. which also had a good
shell and was perfect, has been laid nv
q hen belonging to . Swim don fEnp
kradesman.
Many curious instances Of old laws
may still be found in England. In
Chester the man who fails to raise his
hat when funeral Is passing becomes
liable by an old law to be taken before
. magistrate and Imprisoned.
Organ grinders in vervieres Rel.
GUM, are by law compelled to apnear
every morning before the police super-
intendent and play their instruments
The organs which chance to be out of
tune must be set II order before a IL
cense to play on the streets will be
granted. t
The following Is An onicial report
sent to his superior by the station
master at Nimba, ON the Uganda rail-
way: ITO station Nairobi. from station
Venani. From stationmaster. Guard
No. reports struck giraffe at mile 1873.
No damage to permanent way or train.
Driver states giraffe ran on uniniured.
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1905-09-07
HOPED TO Be STIRRING.
Uriu Was Enclosed IN the Room by
Much Sickness" But
Was Brave.

Admiral Uriu is among the officers of the
japanese navy who began acquiring hon
ors early in the fight with the Russians. A
Detroit "boy," who has advanced rapidly
in cur own navy, relates the Free Press,
writes this home:
Ne ms a. xer hoer
student or more conscientious in the per-
Torrance Of the manifold duties imposed
upon cadet.
Zone day he was i'll. The surgeon ex-
amined him and made report that Uriu
was not in condition to perform his daily
work. But the little fellow had sense Of
obligation beyond this, and wrote thus to
his favorite instructor:
You have seen that do not to-day
stand before you. l am inclosed in the
room by much sickness. 1 do not feel like
making the stir. Tomorrow hope great.
" to find it easy to make the STIR"
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1905-09-07
Lesson for Women.

Jersey Shore Pa, Aug. 2sth (Special)-:
"Dodd's Kidney Pills have done worlds Of
good for me-" That's what Mrs. g. Is.
Earnest of this place has to say of the
Great American Kidney Remedy.
tinues, .and had not been out of bed for
five weeks. Then 1 began to use Dodd's
Kidney Pills and now am SO can work
and go to town without suffering any,. l
would not be without Dodd's Kidney Pills.
have good reason to praise them every
where"
Women who suffer should learn lesson
from this, and that lesson is cure the
suffering will cease" Wo,nan's health de-
ponds almost entirely on her kidneys.
Dodd's Kidney Pills have never yet failed
to make healthy kidneys.
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1905-09-07

skilled in business methods, as are the
men intrusted with the affairs of great
business concerns, it would be entirely
possible to maintain every mile of
roadway in the state in good condition
and gradually to build hard surfaces
along the main travelled roads without
increasing the present road tax a sim
gle penny. Contrast the highways of
Iowa of to-day with those which it is
possible to have by earnest, thoughtful
attention to this important subject.
Without doubt there is a statewide
need for trained road builders and the
good-roads school, within few years,
must prove most potent factor in
solving the good-roads problem.
I'm the road demonstration work,
three sections Of earth roads were
built, two with reversible graders and
one with an elevating grader. all OPP
Grated by experts. In addition, six
kinds of road drags were exhibited and
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1905-09-07
THE BEST HOUR.

"Get down on the floor here, daddy.
Get down on the floor and play"
And that is the song my baby
Sings to, me at close of day.
Get down on the floor and tumble.
Get down with me, daddy, do;
Get down on the food now daddy.
Me ANTS to sit down on you"
Then overheard goes the paper.
And down on the floor goes dad;
And onto him chambers baby
And baby Is more than gla6:
And daddy's 4 horse and wagon,
Oh, daddy's q ship at sea.
And rolls with a little baby
AS happy as she can be.
Yea, rolls with the babe and tumbles.
Ss And grumbles. and haws, and gees.
And always dimpled baby
With rounded and dimpled knees >.
Sits perched aloft ucfearing,
And laughing with childish glee
r AZ the daddy ship goes tossing
And tumbling across the sea.
And oh, but that ship is careful:
The waves may foam and curl.
But never the ship gees plunging
Too much for the baby girl.
And never the horse gets fractions.
Or plunges or jumps aside
So much as to mar the pleasure
OF the wee little girl astride.
Oh. good is the hour Of cleaning,
When labor is put aside
And daddy becomes a horsey
A wee little girl may ride;
Or daddy becomes plunging
Big ship on the stormy seas,
And is guided and captained onward
BY a baby with dimpled knees.
II. NJ. Lewis, in Houston Post.
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1905-09-07
sod-Bound Trees.

oOUs0OUQU 4ASSOs
Sod bound trees nre not very COM
mon, but they are to be met with.
When a tree has made good growth
and has spread out its top to cover its
feet there is little danger of its be-
coming sod bound, for the branches Of
the tree catch most Of the sunshine
and the grass growth below is meager.
The sod bound condition comes when
the tree is either very young or 80 old
that the leaves are thin and few. The
young tree that il set in grass ground
and has never obtained a very good
hold of the ground is the one most
likely to become sod bound. which
means that the roots of the grass have
taken possessoon Of the soil and are
taking most Of yhe plant food and
moisture. Such . tree can be relieved
only by digging cut the grass and CIV
ing its roots the entire use Of the
ground.-Farmers' Review.
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1905-09-07
GOOD ROADS IN IOWA.
What That State Is Doing to Improve
the Highways in Rural
Districts.

The Iowa highway commission re-
Gently. held at the Iowa state college
an institute for the training of road Of
ficers in building and caring for the
highways of the slate, and the stimu-
lus given to the interests of good roads
will prove of lasting benefit to the
state. Prof. w. H. Stevenson. in maxi
Ing report of the institute, says: I'm
Iowa there are approximately 100000
miles of public roads for the mainte-
nance of which the enormous sum of
81, 456.000 in road taxes is raised each
year, in addition to mulct tax moneys
and the poll taxes. II this money were
used by men trained in the science
and practice Of road building and
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1905-09-07

Boston, tells women how to avoid suck
suffering; she writes:
Dear Mrs. Pinkham:-
81 suffered misery for several years WITH
had bearing down pains, and frequent head
aches; l could not sleep and could hardly
drag around consulted two physicians
without relief, aud as last resort, tried
Lydia E. Pinkham'sVegetable Compound, and
to my surprise, every ache and pain left me.
Isained ten pounds aud am in perfect health.
Miss Pearl Aclsers of 327 North Sum-
mer Street, Nashville, Tenn. writes:
Dear Mrs. Pinkham:-
81 suffered with painful periods, seven
backache, bearing-down pains, pains across
the abdomen; was very nervous and irrita-
BILE, and my trouble grew worse every month.
my physician failed to help me and I
Compound. soon found it was doing mo
good. All my pains and aches disappeared,
aud no longer fear my monthly periods"
Lydia =. Pin!sham's Vegetable Com
pound is the unfailing cure for all these
troubles. 1t strengthens the proper
muscles, and displacement with all it,
Backache. dizziness, fainting. bear.
moodiness. dislike of friends and society
be quickly dispelled, and it will make
you strong and we'll.
You can tell the story of your suf-
full advice free of cost. Address Mrs.
Pinkham. Lynn. Mass.
psusd Succeeds Where others Fill