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A DEADLY SNAKE.
The Extremely venomous Nature Of
Cobra's Bite.

The Extremely venomous Nature Of
Cobra's Bite.
A vivid notion of the intensity Of
cobra's venom is given by the expe-
rience of DR.. Francis T. auckland, says
the Washington Post. He put rat into
cage with a snake of that species, and
it was killed after plucky fight Upon
examining the skin Of the dead rat i'm
mediately afterward, he found two very
minute punctures, like small needle
holes, where the fangs of the cobra had
entered. The flesh seemed already to.
have actually mortified in the neighbor-
hood of the wound. Anxious to find
out if the skin was affected, Dr. Buck
land scraped away the hair from it with
his finger nail. Then he threw the rat
away and started homeward. He had
not walked one hundred yards before,
all of sudden, he felt as If somebody
had come behind him and struck him a
severe blow on the head and neck. At
the same time he experienced a most
acute pain and sense of oppression
about the chest. He knew instantly
that he was poisoned, and SO lost no
time in seeking an apothecary shop,
where he was dosed with brandy and
ammonia. He came very near dying.
Undoubtedly small quantity of venom
had made its way into his system
through a little cut beneath his nail,
where it had been separated slightly
from the flesh in the process of cleaning
the nail with penknife a little time
before
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How people Die.

A French medical journal. quoted il
the London News, has arrived at the
conclusion that the annual mortality Of
the entire human race amounts, rough
" speaking, to ss, 900, 600 persons. This,
it is observed, implies that the average
deaths per day are over 81, 600, being at
the rate of 8, $50 an hour. The notion
of 90 people dying every minute of the
day and night all the year round pre-
sents our death statistics perhaps in the
most lugubrious aspect that is possible.
Pursuing his cheerful researches this
authority finds that fourth OF the race
die before completing their sth year
and one-half before the end of the 18th
year; but the average duration OF life
is nevertheless about SO years Further
he has ascertained that centenarians
are so rare that not more than one per-
son in hundred thousand attain this
patriarchal age.
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ABOUT PERFUMES.
Connoisseurs who Can Name Each FRA
grant Odor.

Connoisseurs Who Can Name Each FRA
grant Odor.
The learned in scents claim that they
can distinguish and name each element
of any compound odor, just as the mu-
stefan can discriminate and trace the
sound of the various instruments that
are rendering the crowded symphony,
says Harper's Bazaar. Doubtless these
learned ones couSl distinguish, on com
ing into lady's drawing-room, all the
various breaths imprisoned in the pot
pourri jar-the rose leaves, the cassia
buds, the orange flowers, the orris root
the vanilla, the benzoni and cinnamon
and musk and alcohol, and all the in
Vulnerable rest But to the ignorant in
snch fine points the pleasure is perhaps
just as keen, let the learned deny it as
they may. Yet many think themselves
accomplished in this branch whose
education is still very far from finished.
We remember, at the time of famous
Oriental exhibition in this country,
when people were possessed with the
delights of tho altar of roses to be
bought there, that the Oriental stock
of altar ran out, and it was replenished
from Yankee dealers stock of oil of
geranium, and the sale continued just
as before, entirely undiminished, and
with warm adulation of the strange,
rich sweetness of the real Turkish and
Persian altar of roses, And although
the oil of geranium is undoubtedly u
rich perfume, yet the crafty Orientals
must have laughed in their loose sleeves
at the way in which it took the place of
the at once far richer, and more deli
cate, and four times more costly object
of the bulbul's worship.
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HAPPINESS IN A WOODEN SHOE.
Chicago Elevator Mans Scheme to Pre-
vent His Toes Being Hurt.

a Chicago Elevator Mans Scheme to Pre-
vent His Toes Being Hurt.
Several of the boys and men who run
passenger elevators in various office
buildings in the city have lately been
noticed wearing a big wooden shoe on
one of their feet while on duty, says the
Chicago Tribune.
us that the badge of the order Of
elevator conductors?n one Of the boys
was asked.
''Hardly-can't you guess what 1
wear that relic OF old Dutch days for?"
st might be to kick the people who
swear at you for taking them beyond
their floor
But it isn't-so guess again."
Give it up!"
''Well, sir, few of the brighter ele-
vator operators in Chicago have come
to the conclusion that they've had their
feet, and particularly their toes,
tramped upon and in many instances
broken, just aa frequently as is agree
able. Indeed, the point of comfort and
endurance was passed some time ago.
Lately one of us hit on the idea of wear
ing big wooden shoe on the foot
nearest the dooT, which is the one that
always gets stepped on. 1t works like
a charm No other shoe that's made
could possibly give us the necessary
protection. People may step on that
and fall over and onto it as often as
they please, and where we used to grind
our teeth in pain we now smile and
lseep comfortable. It's not generally
known, but from two to ten elevator
men in this city have a toe on two
broken and mangled every day by peo-
pie tramping on them. But our millen-
MUM has come in the big wooden shoe"
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VINO, in country where the birth of
daughter was considered calamity,
secured to the sex rights which are only
unwillingly and under pressure being
conceded TO them by the civilized ma
tons of the nineteenth century de-
serve the gratitude OF humanity. II
Mohammed had done nothing more his
claim to be a benefactor of mankind
would have been indisputable. Even
under the laws as they stand at present
in the pages of the legists the legal POI
sition of Moslem females may be said
to compare favorably with that of Euro
pean women.
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LEAP YEAR.

legends and Superstitions Connected
VIII. That Particular Period of Time.
! b. advent Of leap year. and the
break IN the regular order Of days make
anything in regard to the "bissextile"
or leap year" Of more than ordinary
interest, says the st. Louis Republic.
Leap year has always been regarded
with awe and superstition by the peo-
pie OF all countries. The peasantry of
England affirm that peas and beans
grow the wrong way in their pods
that is, the seeds are set contrary to the
way they are in ordinary years. In
Belgium the rural folks maintain that
leap year is not only unpropitious for
all farming operations, but that
throughout the year the young Of the do
nestle animals will not thrive as at
other times. A similar fatality, they
argue, extends to every kind of grass
and plant, which becomes stunted or is
blighted before attaining its normal
size, The same peculiar ideas prevail
in Russia. Turkey, Tartary, India and
Arabia. The Russian proverb says:
IF st. Cassian February 29) looks on
COW she will wither." In Arabia they
say: s'As weak as a bissextile camel"
and in Turkey and Tartary they call
all hunchbaclxs, dwarfs and other
deformed men, women and chill
dren s'leap-year freaks" but there
are exceptions to this as well as to all
other rules, for we find that in Italy,
Greece and Sicily the rural prover6
says, referring to leap year: PLANT
much corn and vine, It's 1.-THE yearl good
for bread and wine.r The ancient
Romans considered February 30 most
critical season, always reckoning it
among their unluclxy days. That this
belief has not by any means lost ground
is evidenced by deep-rooted dislike
parents have to child being born on
leap day, it being popular notion that
to come into the world at such an odd
time is ominous as signifying the babes
speedy exit. A variety of this supersti-
ton exists in Tuscany, and according
to piece of the folklore of that coun-
try when child is, born on leap-day
either it or it's mother will die before
the end of the year. Hampson in his
'Medii Gvi Kalendarium" quotes the
following from an old Saxon treatise:
"Some assert that the bissextus, or leap
day, comes through this, that Joshua
prayed to God that the sun might stand
still for one days length that he might
sweep the heather from the land. It is
true that the sun did stand still, but the
bissextus is not through this, as some
do think
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uNTHlNKINe YOUTH.
The "Mental Grasp" of Sweet Girl
Graduates.


The "Iental Grasp" OF Sweet Girl
Graduates.
81 was mother confessor at the queer
est confessional the other day. writes
the Autocrat Of the Tea Table in the
Minneapolis Times. zone of the sweet,
attractive girls, whom everybody likes,
said to me, with real concern in her
voice: DO you know, / never think
tried not to smile at her seriousness,
and replied, consolingly: Well, my
dear, you could not expect to grapple
with abstract problems at your age
But she was not to be consoled. No,
but, literally, cannot think, abstract
ly or concretely, or any other way.
never reason anything out like other
people
s.Yet she is girl of unusual intelli-
gence and a high school graduate. 1t
seems to me there is something radical
" wrong with system of EDUCATION
that can produce such results. Train
ing is too much a matter Of knowledge,
and too little matter Of growth A
fig for all the facts that can be learned!
A few good books of reference would
answer the purpose of education, If
knowledge were all it gave. It should
give rather mental grasp and balance,
and perfect understanding and con-
troll of every faculty.
Mental grasp? Fancy accusing our
sweet girl graduates, or our boy grad
yates either, of possessing it. They
know little more of using their brains
than when they began their education.
What two young people were over
heard to talk sense for more than five
minutes together? What young person
has the least conception, unless he has
happened to stumble upon it by natural
tendencies, of the pleasure of independ-
ent thinking? There are few delights
so satisfactory as that Of observing,
reasoning, drawing deductions and then
finding in flash Of recognition that you
have discovered for yourself some
truth you have heard all your life and
never fully comprehended. If only the
fevered, hurrying world wo@ld stop to
think. If only the youth Of the day
were trained in the lost art OF reason,
inpr'
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SLAMS GREAT WOMEN.
NIoslem Women who Compare FnvOrably
with Europeans.


MosIem Women who Compare FRvorably
with Europeans.
In the early centuries of Islam,
almost until the extinction of the Sara
senic empire in the east, says the
Nineteenth Century, women continued
to occupy as exalted position as in
modern society. Zobeida, the wife Of
Horun, plays conspicuous part in the
history of the age, and, by her virtues,
as well as by her accomplishments,
leaves an honored name to posterity.
Humieda, the wife of Frank, a Medenite
citizen, left for many years the sole
guardian of her minor son, educates
him to become one of the most distin-
guished juris-consuls of the day,
Sukinah or Sakina, the daughter of
Russian and the granddaughter of Ali,
was the most brilliant, most accom-
plished, and most virtuous woman of
her time---'la dame DIES DANES de son
temps, la plus belle, Ia plus gracieuse,
la plus brilliante de qualities, as Perron
calls her Herself no mean scholar,
she priced the converse of learned and
pions people Duran, the wife of the
Caliph Mamun; Ummul-Fazi Mamun's
sister, married TO the eighth imam of
the house of Ali; Umm-i-IIabil, Namun's
daughter, were all famous for their
scholarship.
In the 9th century of the Hegira, the
Sheilha Shuhda, designated Fakhrun-
nissa (.'the glory of women'D, lcctured
publicly at the Musjtd-i-Jama of Bag
dad to q large audience on literature,
rhetoric and poetry, says writer in
the Nineteenth Century. She occupies
in the annals of Islam a position Of
equality with the most distinguished
ulemas. What would have befallen
this lady had she flourished among the
Acknowledgements of st. Cyril can be
judged by the fate of Hypatia. Posi-
bly, she would have been torn to pieces
by enthusiastic Christians, but she
would to q certainty have been burned
as witch. Dzat-ul-Hemma, corrupted
into Dzemma, ''the lion heart the
heroine of many battles, fought side by
side with the bravest knights.
1t is calumny, therefore, to say that
the Islamic system has lowered the
status OF women. The teacher who, in
an age when no country, no system, no
community gave any right to women,
maiden or married, mother or wife
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NlTRo-eLYceRINE HEADACHE.

Whrt Causes 1t and the General Effects
of single Whit of Nitro.
"A nitro-glycerine headache will
make a man about as uncomfortable
under his hat as anything | know Of, !"
said an oil producer from Bradford, Pa,
to group Of men who were discussing
the sensational attempts upon Russell
Sage's life, among whom was Phila-
delphia Record man. "a single Whit
from can Of the explosive will make
a man imagine he IS just getting over
the effects Of night with the boys.
ro-glycerine, as you may know. is
utilized very extensively in the oil
country for shooting oil wells. Hun
dreds of tons Of the explosive are used
every year. and the men who manu-
factrre it and torpedo wells would make
q small army if they were all turned
loose together. The business they fol
low, too, Is about as dangerous as the
military business in war times, for not
year passes that a dozen or more
shooters, as the men who torpedo the
wells are called, do not get blown up.
Nitro-glycerine goes off at o very slight
shock, or at contact with fire, and in the
oil country the man who handles gly-
cerine Is looked upon as an unfortunate
being with one foot in the grave. The
chances are ten to one that if he sticks
to the business long enough he will be
blown up.
IA nitro-glycerine headache is caused
by the smell Of the nitric and sulphuric
acids which are used in making the
explosive. Sweet glycerine oil, as
everyone knows, is very harm-
less liquid, but when subjected to
the action Of the two acids named the
resulting millS-lilxe fluid is the most
deadly explosive agent known. Men
who make nitro-glycerine are at first
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RAILROAD TIME TABLE.


T<asn. r,ave from Mount Holly as follows;
For Philadelphia. $50, 600, 6.5s, 1870. sol
s.57. 9l5. it.so A.. NJ, 1881, 23l Al, ooo' ois
sssssxs. ass A. M Izos, $50, $50 P. NJ,
For Pemberton. 7.3S. 9.26 A. n, 1924, s03s 80,
81, COS, 7os. 1888 PM. Sundays. 1928 AN, Coz
FOR Browns Mills.in- the-Pines, z.oS. s2e A, NJ
1924, 3.s2. 4.5l and 7.05 P NJ. sundays, los'
For vincentown. go, ll.2s A. M .Ss, 60 ?: NJ.
ForBuriington, Bordentown, irentonand New
York, 6.38 800, 1850 A. M. 80, 4.Ss, 555 p N
For Lewistown, Columbus. kinkora, etc, s-oS
332P. NJ. OnSundays, Cos P. M.
For Lulnberton, Medtord, Marion, hau9on
held and Philadelphia, 6.32, 9.4S A. M, l.zo
5lOP. N. On Sundays, LA
or Toms River, Island Heights Long Branch
For Trenton and New York, via Pemberton
and Kfnkora, 20S 7. NJ. sundays. 500 P NJ
Sundays COS =.
7rafnsIeave for Mount Holly as fouows:
From philadelphia, $50, TAO, $50, 1000 II "a
A. M, LOO, $780, 400, 4.S0. BIO GU, ooO' S.oV
From New York, via Trentonan Burlington
500, 800 A. NJ, LOO. 400, 800 P. M, ..
from Trenton, IA, 9.25, Hos A. NJ, 2.5S' 9.SS'
FROM burlington, $50. 1905 1888, A. .as2. $40
From browns Mills-in-the-Pipes, ego A. NJ,
1918, 155. 545, sos p. M: sundays, o;0o, p M
From PembertoD, (northl d.5S, I.4o, So A. M
(south), 1886 AN, 1880, I'll, 4.5o 500, SIS P NJ.
ON sundays, 5.l3, P. NJ. on
From vincentown, 6.oos lo.oo AM LOO tOV'
From Hightstown. via Burlington ll.o2A. M.
TOO p. NJ
On Sundays, 6-32 Pm.
: From Long Branch, 2.35 7. NJ
From From T 5slan hi Heishss. 400
From HiRhtstoWn, TIA. 1000 A. NJ. l.O5 Z. NJ Oii
Sunday 6.45 An
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yn,nese PATIENTS.

European doctors in China find the
Cc.estials somewhat trying patients.
John Chinaman rarely obeys the in
structions how to take his medicine, but
consults with his friends on the subject
and follows the advice of the majority
AS the native practitioners furnish very
large doses, John is apt to think that
the foreigner has been mean In giving
him small quantity. and so takes two
or three doses at once.
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JUDO a Man eY us NOSE.
The way Chicago Merchant Estimates
Character,

The Way o Chicago Merchant Estimates
Character.
ssThat was an interesting and true
little item that the Tribune reprinted
from some horsebreeder's paper telling
the character and disposition of horse
by his nose" said an old State street
merchant; ''but let me tell you that |
can pick out stingy, small-minded
man or one that is liberal, big-minded,
ETC., quicker by glance at noses than
most any man can the extremes in
horses. Nine out of every ten men who
have concave nose, and particularly if
it's small, are stingy or intensely sell
fish and narrow-minded and mean, and
it wouldn't be necessary for you to have
but precious little to do with 'em, espe-
cially in business way, in order to
find it out.
when you see a large or good-sized
nose that is convex in build, and espe-
cially if it has more or less of an intima-
ton of the Roman school about it-as
architects would say-you can depend
that its possessor is a liberal, broad
minded fellow, and usually, too, schol-
arly. / guess I've cleared close onto
one million dollars during the twenty
years that I've been running q store in
Chicago, and half of that owe to hav-
ing always made point Of reading
people by their, noses. And what I've
said applies to women just as much as
to men"
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Crows with Human Laughter

There is a species of crow in India
which assemblies in hocks Of about
twenty or thirty in the recessss of for
ests, and whose note SO exactly re-
sembles the human voice in loud laugh
ing that person ignorant of the resi-
cause would fancy that very merry
na,3-c vas close at hand.
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watcnsa Growing smaller

Watches were appreciably reduced in
size after the invention of the fusee to
obviate the inconvenience of variations
of power of the handspring. The
watches made early in the sixteenth
century generally strongly contrasted
In size and portability with those worn
in fobs by men in the eighteenth CEN
fury, and which were thick, round and
heavy.
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THE RANcocAS.
NORMAN V. P. LEWIS /.


Running on 50 still and quiet
In and out with constant turning,
It'll tits lost in wider river,
All the time.
Where the dark clouds overshadow,
And the wind so soft is blowing.
Or the sunbeams, in the springtime
Constant shines.
Winters ice has closed around thee,
Summers sun has set thee bounding,
Father Time has made thee younger
Every year.
Merry children have enjoyed thee,
Thou hast been a shroud to many
Like thou fiowest on, to Heaven
We draw near.
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SAFE. SURE AND SPEEDY CURE

Rupture, Varicoceie ana Special Disease
Why be humbugged by quacks, when you can
find in Dr. Wright the only regular physician
In Philadelphia who makes q speciality of the
above diseases and cures themf Cures guar
anteed, Advice free, day and evening. Stran-
gers can be treated and return home same day.
Offices private. DIR. w. II. WRIGHT,
al North Ninth street, above Race,
p. o, Box 800. Philadelphia
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What is

Castora Samuel Pitchers prescription for Infants
and Children contains neither Opium, Morphine
other substance. 1t is harmless substitute
for Paregorc Drops Soothing Syrups, and Castor Oh
It is Pleasant guarantee is thirty years use by
millions Of Mothers destroys Worms and aays
feverisI,ness Castoria prevents vomiting Sour Curd'
curcs Diarrhoa and Wind Collie Castoria relieves
teething troubles constipation and hatuiency
(astoria the food, regulates the stomach
ana 1oxye1s irving healthy natural sleep. Cas-
forfa ia tho Children's Panaceathc Mothers Friend
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rucxERToN RAILROAD.

Trains leave Beach Haven for Tuckerton at
65OA. NJ daily except Saturday 3.05 ?. NJ Tues
DAYS. Thursdays and Saturdays, and TIC p NJ
Saturdays only.
Returning leave Tuckerton for Beach Haven
at ABS A. N on Mondays, 1920 A. NJ tuesdays
Thursdays and Saturdays. and 5-52 daily ex'
cept Sunday.
Leave Mount Holly for Tuckerton. 9.25 A. NJ,
46l P. N. daily. For Beach Haven NO a. M. Oh
TUESDAYS. Thursdays and Saturday; 4.5l P. NJ
daily. IN. min.
Leave Beach Haven tor Mount Holly, fhila-
deluhia. etc, 80 A. M. daily. and 800 P. NJ on
Tuesday Thursday und Saturday. Leave
Tuckerton at 7.u3 A. NJ. and 8 20 P. NJ
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out ON my right leg. The hum0r spread all
over my legs, back and arms,
A Foul Mass of Sores,
swollen and itching terribly, causing intense
pain II the skin was broken BY scratching,
and discharging constantly. it's impossible
to describe my suffering in those years Of
agony and torture. spent
Thousands of Dollars
in futile efforts to get well, and was discour-
aged and ready to die. At this time / was
unable to lie down in bed, had to situ up al the
time, and was unable to walk without
crutches. had to hold my arms away from
my body, and had to have my arms, back and
legs bandaged by my faithful wife twice day.
Finally friend who was visiting at our
house, urged me to take Hoods Sarsaparilla.
l began by taking half teaspoonful. My
Stomach TVas All Out Of Order
But the medicine soon corrected this, and in
six weeks / could see change in the con-
dition of the humor which nearly covered my
body 1t was driven to the surface by the
Sarsaparilla, the sores soon healed and the
scales fell of. was soon able to give up
bandages and crutches, and happy man
was. had been taking Hoods Sarsaparilla
for seven months; and since that time, nearly
two years, Ihave worn no bandages whatever
and my legs and arms are sound and well.
The Delight
of myself and wife at my recovery it is i'm
possible to tell. To all my business friends
in Boston and over the country, Recommend
Hoods SarsaparilIa
from personal experience" S. G. DERRY, 40
Bradford street. Providence, R. l.
If you are Bilious, take Hoods Pills.
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pembcrson ana nfghtstosn Railroad.

rrains leave Aount Hofly for New Egypt
Cream Ridge, High stown. etc. at 1.55 a. NJ
xU5 45l P. NJ. sundays, 6-U5 p M
Trains leave Philadelphia and connect Ior
New Egypt, Cream Ridge, Hightstown, etc.
$50 A. NJ, I00 and 400 P. N. Sundays, 5.O0 7. M.
Trains leave Hightstown tor New Egyp.,
ut TIA, l0.aa a. NJ, 7.oi P. NJ Sundays. $40
Il.
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RUPTURE

RUPTURE s y $s$s IS
Arch St., Philadelphia, Pa, s. Jones Philips,
Kennel Square, Pa; T. A: kreitz. slatington.
Pa; e. M. Small, Mount Alto, Pa; l.. H. Kun
kel, 4s7 n. Tenth ST., Allentown, Pa; Rev. S.
II. Shermer, s nnbury .Pa.;J.U Fehr 1921 Chest
nut ST.. Reading, Pa; d. j. Dellett, 2l4 s.
Twelfth ST., Reading, Pa; j. Yates, 424 Vine
ST., Philadelphia; VIM. Dix, 1926, Montrose
St., Philadelphia; II. j. Rowe, 800 Elm ST..
Locust St, heading, Pa. Send for circular.