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Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1906-02-08
THE MANURE sPREADER.

We have never come across man
who used manure spreader who did
not rate it as one of the most valuable
tools on the farm. Some way manure
applied with the spreader always be-
comes safe investment, bringing
quick and sure returns. In no way
does its beneficial use become more
apparent than when the cornfeld is
given top dressing any time after II
is planted up to the time 1t is ten
inches high; this work done on the
places in the field where the soil is a
little thin and again where the meadow
is to be cut for hay a top dressing of
eight or ten loads an acre will produce
almost marvellous results. There are
some things which it is not best for a
farmer to go into debt for under any
circumstances, but any man can well
afford to pay 10 per cent for money
with which to buy a manure spreader.
Then to think that all through the
great west there are no end of farms
where the owners are content with
thirty-five bushels Of corn to- the acre
and right around their barns lie hun
dreds Of loads Of the most valuable
fertilizer to be had, rotting and leach
ing in the sun and rains! Such men
do not appreciate their opportunities
and privileges. They might easily dou-
BILE their corn crop by the exercise OF
a little enterprise, work and manure
spreader.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1906-02-08

Good seed will not always insure a
good crop, but the first step to insure a
poor one is to use poor seed.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1906-02-08

A reader in Indiana wishes to know
the best remedy to prevent worms on
grapes This trouble may be prevent
ed by spraying the vines at proper
times. If he will write to the director
of the Indiana experiment station be
will, be furnished without charge with
a bulletin which will cover the whole
question of spraying time to spray
nature Of solution used, etc.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1906-02-08

One of the most successful stock mer
whom we know got his start twenty
five years ago as a result Of his father
giving him calf. 1t is proper to note
here that when the calf grew into fat
steer the old man did not sell it and
pocket the money. A good many gen
erous fathers do things this way, and
their sons do not grow up to be success
full stock men. There ought to be law
to give boys their rights in matters OF
this sort.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1906-02-08

In the government land Office at
Washington is Mrs. Ann Gridley, a
clerk who has not missed a day from
her desk in forty years. She was
eighty years old in December. Her
husband was naval officer who was
killed during the civil war. she de-
clares she intends to keep on working
till she is a hundred Where is DR.. 0s-
Ier2
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1906-02-08

A very common mistake which we
notice all over the country is the eff
fort of city councils to. start public
parks in sod ground, planting the
young trees in fhe tough sod. If 1t is
desired to lay out and secure public
park the first thing to do is to plow the
land deeply and thoroughly fertilize 1t;
then the trees may be planted. and for
two or three years the land should be
Clearly cultivated. after which 1t may
be seeded down. It Is almost impcs-
sible to make young trees even i've,
much less grow satisfactorily when
sod bound, FOR the trees must make
roots before they can make tops.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1906-02-08

The girls of Girton college, Oxford,
England, have taken up the Japanese
jiu jitsu with vim and enthusiasm.
Miss Roberts is in England promi-
nent jiu jitsu teacher Of her own sex.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1906-02-08

The beet sugar business is developing
rapidly through the irrigated sections
of the west, but is not meeting with
much success where it comes into COM
petition with corn, cattle and hogs.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1906-02-08

This is the season of the year when
the hired man gets his fingers trimmed
up in good shape with the corn shelter
and shredder. Some men are totally
unfit to have anything to do with ma
chinery, being either SO careless or so
foolhardy that it is a wonder that they
are not all killed off.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1906-02-08

We notice that most of the special
lists who go into the squad raising
business soon give it up. 1t seems tc
be one of those things which figure out
well on paper, but rarely pan out div
idends
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1906-02-08
CoCKLEBuRs AND GRASS.

A friend who owns farm Of 800
acres which he is compelled to rent
finds that the careless farming done
by his tenant in the growing Of corn
and crops Of small grain has filled the
farm full of cockleburs and wishes to
know what he had better do to get rid
Of this pest. 1t cannot be done by any
method in any one year, for the ground
is probably so full Of the seeds that
even if none were allowed to go to
seed from now on there would still be
plenty on hand at the end Of four
years. We think he will have to try
the grass cure for this pest-seed the
land down and either NOW it for hay
or pasture it for series Of years. By
thus doing he will not only get rid Of
the burs, but he will rest and very
greatly improve the fertility Of his
farm. A farm in grass never grows
poorer; farm devoted to grain grow
ing by tenants is on the highroad to
impoverishment Every quarter sec
ton farm in the west should carry not
less than forty acres Of grass all the
time. Then the old man can leave a
decent piece of land for his son to
work
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1906-02-08

There will be but little Improvement
in agricultural methods the country
over until in some way the one year
renter is disposed Of, From the very
nature of things his methods and prac.
tees place a ban on all good farming
Being here today and gone tomorrow,
he can play nothing but skin game
and he always does it to a finish.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1906-02-08

The yellow refrigerator car which is
SO common a sight on all our railroads
represents one of the greatest eco
nomic changes which ever came to the
country and at the same time repre-
sents the concrete economic rascality
of the country as well. 1t represents
the wealth and greed Of the trusts and
the financial hides Of the little ship
pers.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1906-11-22
COMMERCIAL COLUMN.
Weekly Review of Trade and Latest
Market Reports.

New York;. G. Dun & Co.'S
weekly Review OF Trade says:
Trade expands under the stimu-
lating influence OF colder weather
and mercantile collections improve,
although rates for money continue
high. Travelling statesmen send in
large orders to leading distributing
points, but movements OF merchan-
disc is still retarded by inadequate
transporting facilities. Seasonable
lines of wearing apparel and holiday
goods attract most attention, while
staple articles of every description
are in steady demand. Current bus
mess is good and prospects for the
future were never brighter. Labor
disputes reach amicable settlement in
most cases, wages being advanced
in numerous transporting and manu-
featuring industries. The most strik-'
ing development of the week was the
unprecedented output of pig iron in
conjunction with large imports and
advancing prices, indicating the
greatest activity ever attained by
steel mills. other industrial reports
were scarcely less gratifying.
Leading commodity markets have
developed strength during the past
week, especially those in which spec
ulative operations for the short &C
count had been carried to extremes.
Recovery in wheat had the additional
support of unsatisfactory receipts at
the Northwest, and although the
small movement was probably due
lin large measure to the car shortage,
1t gave rise to smaller estimates of
the crop in spring wheat States.
Liabilities of commercial failures
thus far reported for November
amounted to s2,376,42S, of which
SSS3,601 were in manufacturing,
$1,362,346 in trading and $SO,5S1 in
other commercial pursuits
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1906-11-22
MiGs Emmo Cole

A mother should come to her chi1d's
aad at this critical time and remember
t3'at Lydia E. Pinlham's Vegetable
t,psnpound will prepare the system for
we coming change and start this try
: khg period in n young girls life without
Y pain or Irregularities.
Miss Emma Cole of Tu1lahoma, Tenn,
writes
Dear Mrs. Pinkham:
"a want to tell You that am enjoying bet
- health than have for years and owe
~ all 70 Lydia e. Pinkhams Vegetable Com
bound
= When fourteen years of age suffered al
most constant pain, and for two or three
years had soreness and pain in my side
aches End was dizzy and nervous and
llors all fsileJi TO help me-
- II 7dia f PinkhaIn's Vegetable Compound
Tivle recommended, and after taking IL INV
az began TO improve rapidly, and l think
VeStaved my life / sincerely sope my expert
Ice viii be a help to bother girls who are pass
erbg from girlhood TO womanhood for know
,Iyour Compound will do as much for them"
If you know of any young girl who is
sick and needs motherly advice ask her
to write Mrs. PinkhaIn, Lynn, Mass
and she viii receive free advice which
viii put her on the right road to a
strong. healthy and happy vomanhood.
Mrs Pinl<ham is daughter-in-law of
Lydia K. Pinkbam and for twenty-five
years has been advising sick women
free of charge.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1906-11-22
Waited For Greek SInrer.

Demetrius Dimitroulias, a Greek
who killed one brother and cut Off
an arm of another brother of De-
metrius Alevizas two years ago in
Greece and then became a fugitive,
landed at Ellis Island from the
steamship st. Laurent. Demetrius
Alevizas, who was formerly a fellow
townsman Of the murderer, was
waiting with United States officers at
the island for him. Alevizas jumped
on Dimitroulias as he stepped of
the gangplank. The officers arrested
Dtmitroulias. Dimitroulias said that
Alevizas' brother Costa had wronged
a member of the Dimitroulias family
and that, therefore, he, Demetrius Di-
m1troulias, had shot Costa, inciden.
tally carving off one arm of another
Alevizas.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1906-11-22
Some Cat superstition.

Napoleon Bonaparte showed a NOR
bid horror for cats. The night be
fore the battle of Waterloo a black
cat passed near him, and at the sight
the great warrior was completely un-
nerved. He saw an omen of defeat
Henry Ill of France swooned when
ever he saw a cat, and one of the
Ferdinands OF Germany would trem-
bic in his boots if a harmless tabby
got in the line of his vision.
Among the Romans the cat was
"a symbol of liberty. The Egyptians
theld the animal in veneration under
the name of Aelurus, a deity with
human body and cats head
Whoever killed a cat. even by acct
dent, was put TO death. Diana as
'samed the form OF a cat and excited
the fury of the giants.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1906-11-22
Fell On Youths Shoulders.

BY a curious chance, the life of
James Moran, IL years old, was
saved when he fell five stories from
the roof of 455 West Forty-eighth
street. butchers boy, Julius Selig-
man, of sos West. Fifty-second
street, was passing in the street at
the time that Moran lost his footing
ana fell. Moran landed on Selig-
mans shoulders and the butcher boy.
sturdy fellow, threw up his arms
and succeeded in grasping Moran
ABOUT the waist and neck, so that
only his feet and legs struck the
ground. Seligman went down with
him, but the force of the Moran bows
fall had been borken.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1906-11-22

Physicians are at last gradually
coming to regard olive oil as of great
therapeutic value, and l notice they
. are prescribing it for many COM
plants. An old friend of mine. an
expert, insists that pure olive oil is
an unfailing cure for sluggish action
of the bowls, dyspepsia, liver COM
plant, kidney disease, weakness,
wasting, etc. This oil cannot be had
for less than SO a gallon or 81 a
quart.
"Adulterated olive OIL" he says.
lis useless for any medicinal pur-
pose. AS a cosmetic nothing equals
olive oil. There is no better hair
tonic or dandruff cure. AS skin food,
it surpasSes all creams. 1t can be
used to great advantage for burns,
scald, cuts and wounds of all kinds.
A drop will cure earache."
Fagged-out society beauties may
find their salvation in olive oil. A
reigning London divinity went to the
Kings physician and asked:
What shall l take for my com
pleXion? l am a sighti"
Take olive oil, live on 1t, live in
1t, live with 1t, drink it, dress your
food with it, lubricate yourself with
it," was the reply.
vice the young woman soon had a
complexion of''rosy blond, pink da-
mask and glorie de Dion roses" and
began to give beauty luncheons.
Five years ago-long before I be-
came interested in the medicinal vir-
tues of olive oil wrote of the cele-
brated Washington beauty who
bathed daily in olive oil and had
the loveliest complexion ever seen.
The statement was true. Now comes
Callahan, adding:
"A thorough rubbing with pure
olive oil after the bath gives sanity
softness to the skin and plumpness to
the form. 1t is also perfect for the
facial massage and for rough or
chapped hands or lips. Rubbed into
the skin. it causes hollow places to
round out and removes wrinkles.
1t makes the best liniment in tho.
world If mixed half and half with
pure terpentine. Victor Smith in
New York Press.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1906-11-22
Three Months, Suicide RECORD.

One hundred and ninety-one per-
sons committed suicide in New York
City during the three months pre-
vious to July 1 last, says the report
OF Health Commissioner Darlington,
just sent to Mayor Mcclellan.
OF this number 20 died by carbol-
ic acid, SO by gunshot, II took gas,
20 hanged themselves, one died from
Paris green, 9 by jumping, one by
chloroform and one by leaping in
front of train. Only women
hanged themselves, while II men
died by this .menas.
Slxty-Seven persons were killed by
electric cars during the quarter, Al
OF the total number being in Brook
Ign.
The total number of deaths by &C
cident and negligence during the
three months was 965.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1906-11-22
Ghost OF An Old Fraud.

The Kelley motor swindle Of the
eighties was recalled in the Real
Estate Exchange salesroom on Vesey
Street, when 80 shares of the stock,
which sold around par in the days
when many shrewd business men
were bamboozled into the belief that
Kelley had discovered perpetual mo-
ton and the secret of overcoming the
force OF gravity, were knocked down
Tor 81. The Kelley motor stock was
sold along with many thousands of
dollars worth of gilt-edged railroad
bonds and stocks by the executor OF
the estate of the late Isaac T. Frost.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1906-11-22
a WelI-Known Remedr.

One of the oldest, safest and most IA
vorably known remedies in the world to-
day is Brandreth's Pills-a blood purifier
and laxative. Being purely vegetable they
can be used by old or young with perfect
safety and while other remedies require
increased doses and finally cease acting
altogether, with Brandreths Pills the same
dose always hes the same effect, no matter
how long they are taken. One or two pills
taken each night for while is the best
thing known for any one troubled with
constipation, indigestion, dyspepsia or any
trouble arising from an impure state of
the blood.
Brandreth's Pills have been in use for
over century and are sold in every drug
and medicine store. plain or sugar-coated.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1906-11-22
A Theatrical superstition.

They were rehersing a new play
and everyone was nervous, for the
hrst night was close at hand.
The play was a tragedy, yet at
its end the dying heroine, as the
curtain descended, said:
Three beers, please"
Those words concluded the play.
Yet they were entirely out OF keep
ing. The concluding words should
have been: 81 die, but since I have
saved you l die happy" or some
thing to that effect
dramatic critic new to the BUSH
hess asked how it was that the TRACE
1y ended with Three beers, please. ,"
and the stage manager said:
Superstition. 1t is always thought
bad luck in rehearsaSs of new play
% speak the last sentence before the
opening night. He who has the last
sentence to speak substitutes some
meaningless phrase for it. If he
Jared to speak the true phrase the
prospects of the play would be
thought doomed - PHILADELPHIA
Bulletin.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1906-11-22
COFFEE IMPORTERS
Publish a Book About Coffee.

There has been much discussion as
10 coffee and Postum lately, so much
In fact, that some of the coffee i'm.
porters and roasters have taken to
type to promote the sale OF their
wares and check if possible the rapid
growth Of the use of Postum Food
Coffee.
In the coffee importers book a
Aehapter is headed Coffee as a Medi.
cine" and advocates its use as such.
Here is an admission of the truth,
most important to all interested.
Every physician knows, and every
thoughtful person should know, thar
habitual use of any medicine" of the
drug-stimulant type of coffee or
whisky quickly causes irritation of
the tissues and organs stimulated and
finally sets up disease in the great
majority of cases If persisted In. 1t
may show in any one of the mary or
gans of the body and in the great ma
Jority of cases can be directly traced
to coffee In most unmistakable way
by leaving off the active irritant-
coffee-and using Postum Food
Coffee for matter of 10 days. If
the result is relief from nervous trou-
bic, dyspepsia, bowel complaint.
heart failure, weak eyes, or any other
malady set up by poisoned nervous
system. you have your answer with
the accuracy. OF denomination in
mathematics.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1906-11-22
new YORK DAY BY DAY.
Some Of the Things Done Daily in the
Metropolis.
abbie. "At Rest

Friends of Henry Dreyer, mid
dle-aged bachelor and one of the pro-
prietors of the Idle Rest Hotel, Ben
sonhurst. have frequently expressed
surprise at the affection which Mr..
Dreyer has lavished upon an aged
Maltese cat. Abbie. A day or so ago
Abbie died. Mr.. Dreyer, intensely
grieved, invited his intimate friends
to call upon him. There, in the mid
die of the room, they saw a tiny
white casket. Laid within it was
the body of Abbie. At the head of
the casket stood four lighted candles
and upon silver plate on the cover
was inscribed "At Rest" A wake
was held, and with meats and drinks
the company mourned. Mr.. Dreyer
declared that Abbie should be given
burial the same as a human being.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1906-11-22
Women who Wear Wen.

II rs astonishing how great change a
few years.Of married life often make in
the appearance and disposition of many
women. The freshness, the charm, the
.erliliance vanish like tho bloom from a
peach which is rudely handled. The
matron is only dim shadow, a faint echo
OF the charming maiden. There are two
reasons for this change, ignorance and
neglect. Few young women appreciate
the shock to the system through the
change which comes with marriage and
motherhood. Many neglect to deal with
the unpleasant pelvic drains and weak
neSSeS which too often come with mar
rage and motherhood, not understanding
that this secret drain is robbing the cheek
OF It's freshness and the form of its
fairness.
AS surely as the general health suffers
wnen there Is dersQgement of the health
OF the delicate womansg organs. so surely
when these organs are>established In
nealee the fQce Sn4<0Ffn>at oRce witness
to the Tact in fcS<~sd comeffnesN Nearly
a million women haze found health and
happiness IN the use Of DR.. Pierce's> Fa-
yorlte Preseriptions. IT makes weak wom-
On strong and sick women well. Ingredi
ents on label-contains no alcohol or
harmful habit forming drugs. Made
wholly of those native, American. medic
inal roots rnost highly recommended bv
leading medical authorities of all the sew
eISl schools OF practice for the cure of
wQman's peculiar ailments.
For nursing mothers, or for those broken
down IN health by too frequent bearing OF
children, also for the cxpectant mothers
20 prepare the system for the coming OF
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1906-11-22
Insured For sixtr-one Years.

Charles Rhind, the oldest policy
holder in the Mutual Life, went to
the home office of the Company and
realized on his policy that he had
taken out 611s years ago. Mr..
Rhind, who is 81 years old and lives
at 353 West Fifty-seventh Street,
took out policy in the Company in
1S45, less than two years after the
Company was formed. His policy
was an ordinary life one for $4,000.
In the time he has held it, according
to the Company, Mr.. Rhind has paid
In $15O2.5O. Wednesday he drew
$4315.S6.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1906-11-22
Live Stock.

New -Beeves-Dressed beer
in good demand for prime and
choice; common beef slow; native.
s u a loo. per pound; Texan beef,
5.7k q 7c..
Calves-Steady; veals, 5. OO@ 9 90
grassers and Westerns nominal !:
dressed calves steady; choice do.
firm; city-dressed veals, S113c. per
pound; selected carcases, 13Hc.:
country-dressed, 6@116c.
Sheep and Lambs-Sheep steady:
lambs steady to firm; sheep, 3.OOm
500; lambs, 7.OO@7.37k; do,
choice, 7.75; culls, 4.50@5.0O.
Hogs - Market barely steady.
heavy to light State hogs, $500.
CTS.
Chicago. - Cattle - Common and
prime steers, 4.00@7.30; COWS. 2.65
a 4-75; heifers. 1900 500; bulls.
2.40 "a $50; calves, 800 "a 500;
stoekers and feeders, 2.4O@4.5O.
Hogs Market strong to sc. high
ar; choice to prime heavy, $500
$40; medium to good heavy, 6.I5@
6.25; butchers weights, 6.25@6.4O:
good to choice mixed, SOS 6.15s
packing. 5.6006.1O; pigs, 500.
6.15>
Sheep Market strong; sheep.
$3.50 5.75; yearlings, 5.25 @ $40:
lambs, 5.50@76O.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1906-11-22
30 Model For Him.

DR.. Stephen II. Robin, pastor of
the Columbus Avenue Universalist
Church, Boston, was calling on an
old lady, one of his Pensioners, be-
fore going away on his summer va
cation, when his church is always
closed. The old lady evidently does
not believe in ministerial vacations.
for she said:
Doctor, remember Satan never
takes a vacation
My dear madam answered the
doctor, Il never did believe in imi-
tating Satan. Boston Herald.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1906-11-22
ss1, ZOO To BE State Senator.

Francis H. Gates, of Chittenango.
Madison County, spent $3I,7O0 to
be reelected Senator. The Office
pays $500 a year. Senator Gates,
who is a millionaire and a Republi-
can, was turned down for renomina-
ton this year, but organized a party
81 his own, called the Square Deal
party. DE then got the Endorsements
or the Democratic and the Prohibi-
ton parties. Assemblyman Tom
d. Lewis, of Oswego, who ran against
him, spent S1276.