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The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1893-04-11
ICE TEA.
A Texas woman's First Attempt ut Max.
ing the Delicious Beverage.

A Texas woman's First Attempt ut Max
Ing the Delicious Beverage.
There is certain good woman, the
wife of prominent lawyer of Texas,
who has never lived out Of the county
in which she was born. Her husband
attended court at the different towns of
the state, and his wife listened to his
experiences with wonder and surprise.
The Saturday Gazette gives this story;
He never grew tired of extolling the
virtues of "a big glass Of iced tea when
man is warm and tired" and when a
new railroad line was laid out to his ma
tive town his first commission was for
quantity of ice.
The wife was neither surprised nor
displeased to have well-hlled ice-chest,
and on the morning after the arrival of
the ice the lawyer requested her to have
iced tea for supper.
1t was an extremely warm day, and
when he took his seat at the table he
was hot, tired and thirsty
What was his surprise to see, instead
of the refreshing, amber beverage of
his souls desire, the same old steaming
Brown betty tesspoV, anu 1he cups anu
saucers of former days.
Where is the iced tea, Mary?" he
asked.
'sThere it's" she answered, laying her
forefinger on the kissing lid of Brown
Betty; land If you can tell any differ
ence betwixt it and plain well water
tea, you're smarter than be-"
She had boiled the ice.
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LoNooNs COAL CONSUMPTION.
With Less Waste Chilli and Peru Would
Not Have to Be Ransacked.

with Less Waste Chilli and Peru Would
Not Have to BE Ransacked.
Some $4,000, 900 tons of coal are burned
in London yearly. About 100000 are
utilized by the gas manufacturing com.
panies; 1900, 900 are burned in house
hold and Industrial fire CRATES, says the
National Review. Each ton contains
sufficient ammonia to produce, if treated
with sulphuric acid, twenty two to
twenty-eight pounds of sulphate of ann
monia. The total loss of this fertiliz-
ing agent is, therefore. say $3.50 tons
As the price Of sulphate of ammonia is
o pounds and 10 shillings per ton, the
monetary loss is 94,905 pounds every
year. If we were less wasteful we
should not be so much obliged to ran
sack Chill and Peru for artificial ma
nures. 1t is agreeable to learn that the
heterogeneous matter in the 100000 tons
of coal which are used every year by
the gas mannfacturing companies is now
being made a considerable source Of
revenue The value of sulphate OF
ammonia as a fertilizer is now beyond
dispute. Where nitrogen has been de-
OClenb IN bdo SOIL tuS dpPA4SoDkOA ~
450 pounds of sulphate of ammonia to
each acre gave an increase Of nearly
four tons Of potatoes. Sulphate of am
monia, although not quite so active a
fertilizer as nitrate, is held in the soil
with greater tenacity. 1t contains "A
per cent. of ammonia, which is equal to
90 per cent. of nitrogen. Then there
are the tarry hydrocarbon compounds,
from which thanks to the discov-
cry of Kirkham and Perkins) beau
tiful aniline dyes can be ex-
tracted. The tar has been source
of such revenue to the gas companies
that 1t may be seriously stated that
every year there is more coloring mat
ter sent into the atmosphere of London
than would dye all the fabrics woven
by English looms within the same time.
If we take the waste of the hydrocarbons
to equal 20 per cent. of the fuel burned,
we shall find that In the 5000, 900 tons
of coal burned In the metropolis 1,s00,-
900 tons of Hydrocarbons are lost. In
other words, some 100000 cubic feet
of rich hydrocarbons are every year
uselessly thrown into the air Of London,
and the loss is 100000 pounds.
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the men who frequent it, and ask ques-
tions about persons who don't exist as
an excuse for coming here. They seem
to think that being seen in converse
ton with the clerk gives them sort
of right to stay here and satisfy their
curiosity. They have an idea the de-
tectives win come around and order
them out unless they do something of
the kind. / frightened one of these
fellows nearly out of his wits one night
He was a perfect jay, and suffered
He asked if Howard Johnson was in.
Ives, said, there he is and
pointed out our detective, who was
standing close by. Mr.. Johnson
said, here's man wants to talk to
you l winked to the detective and he
tumbled. What did you wish of me,
STRIP he said, crowding him up into this
corner. The fellow turned blue with
fright i g-g-guess m-m-ade m-m-
mistake he suffered. You asked for
Howard Johnson l said, severely
And that's my name said the detec-
tive, taking the hint. 'Y-y-yes,' said
the fellow. 'b.b-but g-g-guess y-you
air d-d-diherent H-H-Howard He
kept edging off as far as he could, and
finally bolted.
''Some of the cranks got up great
cock-and-bull stories. One fellow
called the other night to know if a
Mr.. Harris had left a pair of opera
glasses for him. There had been no
such guest here During the last cam
paign, when the papers were full of
stories about the big men here, we had
as many as thirty or forty cranks pes
tering us every day. A favorite trick
with some of them was to wait until
the papers announced the departure of
big gun, and then come here and
poster us with questions about when
he would return. They always pre-
tended surprise when told he had gone
without leaving messages for them,
and would try to talk confdentially
with us, in tones loud enough to be
heard fifty feet away, about their inti-
mate relations with the big men. We
were overrun with them, and found it
difficult to attend to our business, for
they stuck like leeches- 1t was a great
relief to see them drop off after the
campaign, but we are still annoyed by
enough to make us sore at times. IN.
Y. Sun.
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Thunderstorms are more frequent in
Java than in any other part Of the
world, there being an average of 81
days in each year upon which they oc-
cur. Next to Java comes Sumatra,
which never has less than SO thunder
days" per year. Then comes Hindoo-
stan with So, Borneo with 81, the Afri-
can Gold Coast with 90, and the region
around Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, with 81
The European list Is headed by Italy,
with So thunder days out of the 365, on
an average. Austria has 2S; Baden,
Wurtemburg and Hungary each aver
age %; Silesia, Bavaria and Belgium
have 81; Holland and Saxony, IS;
France, Austria and South Russia, 1e;
Great Britain and Switzerland only 7.
At Cairo, Egypt and in North Russia
and in Sweden and Norway the average
is only per year. In Finland and East
Turkestan thunderstorms are wholly
unknown.
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The jasperized wood of Arizona has
become we'll known by reason Of the
many cabinet specimens, paper weights
and decorative slabs of it that are sent
to the eastern cities, but this is by no
means the only petrified forest in this
country. In tn e Hindoo district Of the
Yellowstone many stumps of trees are
found converted to stone, some Of them
showing knots, grain Of the wood, and
bark as plainly as the living tree, and
the pebbly beaches of the Yellowstone
river are strewn with tons of fragments
Of fossil wood. In the dreary desert OF
the Dakota Bad Lands leaf impressions
are frequently found in the hardened
clay, and at Little Missouri, at the point
known as the Burning Mountain, where
a coal seam has been on fire since no
body knows when, there are half
dozen tree trunks about thirty feet long
This is remarkable on account of the
almost total lack of tree life in this
region at present.
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: PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD.


The standard railway of America Project
ed by the interviewing switch and BLOCK sig
nal system.
Trafns leave from Mount Holly as follows:
For Philadelphia, $780, 800, 500, $50. 500, s.57,
9.l5 ll.2o A. NJ. 1871, 2sl, 424, 500, 6l9, ss7,
1O.50P. M.
On Sundays. s36 A. NJ, 1905, 500 7.5OP.M.
For Pemberton. 1888. s.26 A. M, l224 EOS. 1892,
4.52 SOC, 7.o3, 7Ss P. NJ. Sundays, 1923 A NJ,
For Browns Mills-in-the-Pines. 1888. 926 A. NJ.
1924, 1882, 4.52 and 1903 P. N. Sundays, 1923 A.
For vincentown, 9.26, IL % A. NJ. $780, sos P. M.
For Burlington Bordentown, Trenton andNew
York. 6.35, 800 1880 A. M, $50, ABS, 5.55 P. M.
For Lewistown, Columbus, kinkora, ETC., A.
NJ. 2.03 P. NJ. On sundays, 500 P. NJ.
For Lumberton, MedfOrd, Marion, Haddon-
field and philadelphia. go, s.4s A. NJ, l.So,
For Toms River. Island Heights, etc., s9s. A.
For Trenton and New York, via Pemberton
and Kinkora. EOS, P. M. sundays, sos p NJ
For Hightstown, 7sS A. M, 2OS 4o2P.M- on
Sundays sos p. NJ.
For Asbury Park and Long Branch 40 A. NJ
Mondays and Saturdays only.
For Tuckerton, 8. 26 A. M, 4o2 p NJ
FOR Beach Haven on Tuesdays, thursdays anu
Saturdays, 9.26 A. NJ and daily at 4.52 ?. NJ.
For Barnegat City, Tuesdays, Thursdays ana
Saturdays, 1926 A. NJ. Saturdays only, 4.oz Am.
1sasns feave for Mount Holly as foiIows:
From philadelphia, $50. TAO, $50, 1000, II 20
A. M, LOO, $50, 400, 4.30. $40, $40, $50. SOC.
1880. 145 P. NJ. On Sundays, sl5 A. M, LOO,
From New York, via Trenton and Burlington
500. $50 A. M, 90 400, 500 P. M.
from Trenton, IA, 9.25, lilo A. NJ, 2.5S, 62O,
7.O0P. M. On Sunday at $40 A. NJ.
From Burlington, $50, 1905, IL 6S A. M, 1892, DAD
7.40P M.
From Browns Milis-in. Pines. $40. 12.lo A.
N. l.55, 5.45, sos P. NJ. Sundays, 40 p M
From Pemberton, (north) 6.35, 7.42, S32
A. NJ, 1919, 4.07, SIT P. NJ. On sundays,
500 A. NJ. FromPemberton (southl, 1886 A
NJ, 1880, I'll. 4.5o. 900. SID P. M. On sun
FROM Vincentown, $780, 1888 AM, 1.55, 400
from Hightstown. via Burlington, l1.o2A. M.
100 M.
From Medford, $685. ll.55 A. NJ, 4.l6, s.s5 P. NJ.
On Sundays, 6.35 P. NJ.
From Long Branch. 2.s5 P. M. Mondays and
Saturdays only.
From Toms River, 7.4s A. M, Az P. M.
From Island Heig hts, 1885 A. M, 40Or.M.
CHAs f. PueH j. r. WooD,
General Manager Gen. Pass. Agent.
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BEHIND The HILL.

My boy was young; he could not know
The way earth's Maynard currents flow,
And so, in early shadows bound,
His mls-manned shalop ran aground
He grew ashamed of his disgrace
He could not look me in the face,
For, mother, every man. said he,
Has scorn, and only scorn, for me;
1 must go forth with alien men
And grapple with the world again.
1 cannot stay and face the truth
Among the people of my youth.
Where men are strange and scenes are new
There may be work for me to do.
And, when / have redeemed the past
will come back to you at last
And so watched while my boy, VIII,
Went down behind the hill
He climbed the hill at early morn
Beneath whose shadow he.was born,
He stood upon its highest place.
The sunrise shining on his face;
He stood there, but too far away
For me to see his tears that days
My thoughts. my fears, cannot tell
When he waved back his sad farewell.
And then passed on, and my boy, WIN,
Went down behind the hill
Went down the hill henceforth for mo
One picture in my memory
Crowds every other from its place
boy with sunrise on his face;
His sunrise-lighted face 1 see
The sunset of all joy to me,
For when he turned him from my sight
The morning mixed itself with night,
And darkness came, when my boy, VIII, zzH
Went down behind the hill
The world is wide, and he has gone
Into its vastness, on and on,
know not what besets his path,
What hours OF gloom, what days Of wrath,
What terrors menace him afar,
What nights of storm without star,
What mountains loom above his way,
What oceans toss him night and day,
What fever blasts from desert sands,
What death-cold winds from frozen lands,
What shafts Of sleet or sun may blight
NY homeless wanderer In his flight
only know the world is wide
And he can roam by land and tide.
IT'S WIDE ali mel in every part
But narrower than his mothers heart
A joyless heart since my boy. Win,
Went down behind the hill
know he bravely fights with fate,
But ali, the hour is growing late;
watch the hill by day and night,
1t dimly looms before my sight,
And fast tho twilight shadows fall;
The night is glooming over all:
But in my boy faith is given
As saints OF old had faith in heaven:
know that he will come again,
His praise on all the lips OF men;
He will come back to me at last
With deeds that shall redeem the past,
Nor desert plain, nor mountain steep,
Nor storm, nor thunder on the deep
Nor tempest in the east or west,
Shall hold him from his mothers breast.
And though the world grows blind and dumb,
feel, know, that he will come;
And l am waiting for him still,
And watch the summit of the hill;
Sometimes think 1 see him stand
And wave welcome with his hand.
But tbs cloud upon the rim
OF sunset-and my eyes are dim
IT'S but mist made by the tears
That thiclxen with the growing years.
watch while there is light to see
And dream that he will come TO me;
And though tbs dark within, without
will not shame him by doubt;
The all-enfolding night draws near,
But he will GOMEZ will not fear
But, ah, It's long since my boy, VIII,
Went down behind the hill
S. W. Foss, in Yankee Blade.
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"Wales,n said western Welshman,
''has given three presidents to the
United Saskatchewan, Adams and
Monroe. Thomas Jefferson was pure
Welsh, too, and the Welshmen of New
York are now organizing movement
to erect grand monument to him.
There are five million Welsh and their
immediate descendants In this country,
and over one million two hundred thou
sand pure Welsh and their first des-
cendants. The Welsh, Irish and Scotch
are, In my opinion, all offshoots Of the
little band Of Aryians that passed over
from Little Brittany and settled on
what are now the British isles"
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strIot stnga Oensorship.

The strict censorship of the italian
stage after the fall of Rome is graphic
ally described by Salvini. The words
God" ''Redeemer," madonna" IAN
GEL" saint" ''pontif," purple, "
'.monsignor," priest were forbid
den. Religion" republic" unity, :"
French" 'jesuit," ''Tartuffe, for
eigner," patriot" were equally in the
index. The colors green, white and
red were prohibited; yellow and black
and yellow and white were also for
bidden. Flowers thrown on the stage
must not show any of those colors
prominently, and if 1t CHANGED that one
actress had white and green In her.
dress, another who wore red ribbons
must not come near her.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1893-04-11

Up In Barre. VT, lived many years
ago a man and woman who believed In
free love, and began living together
without ceremony beyond mutual prom
sse. Long afterward the man fell
In love with some one else and asked
the woman to release him from his
promise. She wouldn't. Still later the
woman found her affinity, and pre-
ferred similar request. The man In
turn refused. Thus they lived together
without any tie except mutual hatred
for years. never conyersing.
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There Is mourners' corner in one OF
the cloakrooms of the national house OF
representatives and another in the SEN
ate cloakroom, where the disappointed
and disgruntled congregatc to express
their dissatisfaction with the existing
order of things. There, 1t Is averred,
statesmen gather to sit with the corpses
of their dead hopes and ambitions, and
each place is known locally as cham
Der OF signs. A joke or good story Is
never heard thore.
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TUCKERTON RAILROAD.

Leave Mount Holly tor Tuckerton, 9.26 a.
m 4 80 D. m, daily, except Sunday.
For Beach Haven, 926 q M, Tuesdays, Thurs.
days and Saturdays, 4.52 p. m. daily, except
Sunday.
Leave Beach Haven for Tuckerton, $50 a. M,
daily except sundays, 800 p M, tuesdays
Saturdays only.
Leave Tuckerton for Beach Haven, 4.55 a. m.
on MONDAYS only. 1920 a. m, Tuesdays
Thursdays and Saturdays, 1855 p. m. daily
except Sunday.
Leave Beach Haven for Mount Holly, 800 g.
M, daily except Sunday. geo p. IN. Tues
DAYS, Thursdays and Saturdays.
Leave Tuckerton tor Mount Holly, 7.OS g. M,
3.l6 D. m, daily except Sunday.
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Known 70 the Ancsentu.

The cat-tail Of the American swamps
Is almost exactly the same plant as the
egyptian bulrush. It Is no longer used
Tor making paper, as 1t once was, but
from its root is prepared an astringent
medicine, while its stems, when pre-
pared dry, are excellent for the MANN
tacture Of mats, chair-bottoms and the
ike.
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sTOckApEs or Tusks.
A Century's supply of Ivory Heaped Up
In the Interior of Africa.

A Century's supply of Ivory Heaped Up
in the Interior of Africa.
'sThe ivory trade shows a most re-
markable increase" Commercial Agent
Mohun writes from the Congo to the
state department. Ivory is the most
valuable article exported, 1t all comes
from the high Congo, both north and
south of the river. Steamers bring 1t
as far as Stanley pool, and from there to
Matadi two hundred and fifty milesl
native carriers bring It on their backs.
1 have seen In one day five hundred car
riers come to Matadi, each man carry
ing tusk averaging sixty-five pounds
in weight. When tusks weigh two hum
bred pounds, which not infrequently
happens, four men carry them.
ssMost of the ivory now coming down
is known as dead ivory Some Of the
elephants from which these tusks came
were killed one hundred years ago and
the kings of villages have been storing
it, placing the last tusks brought IN
on top of the pile. and when they
required some goods from the coast
traders the tusks from the bottom
layers were taken. This system has
prevailed for years, and it is estimated
that there Is enough ivory stored In the
interior to supply the world for the
next century. 1t is estimated, but
upon whose authority cannot discover,
that there are still at least two hundred
thousand elephant in central Africa.
1.-THE only live or new ivory which
now comes down is that procured by
hunters attached to the different trad
ing houses may add that live ivory
commands higher price than the dead.
A state expedition visited native king
some months ago in the interior. Upon
leaving the commanding officer pre-
sented the king with a uniform coat,
cooked hat and sword. The king, in
return, presented the officer with one
hundred and fifty tusks of ivory, aver
aging two hundred and twenty pounds
each, and provided carriers to take
them to the river. Th Sc people do not
recognize the value, and laugh at the
trader for buying. Some of these kings
have stoclrades of ivory built around
their dwellings"
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A new story by Charles T. Browne
(Artemus Ward) is published by the
New York Advertiser. As young
Brownies health was delicate and his
father and only brother had died young,
he was urged by his friends to give up
certain indulgencesS and save hinsels
This caused him to relate the following
anecdote to Mr.. Knight II once knew
an old fellow in the west. living mainly
by himself. who said he had always
been making sacrifices as to appetite,
giving up one thing after another for
the sake of health. At length, when he
was about eighty years old, he had
simplihed his diet until he was Just liv-
ing on whisky and pork. But one day
he said to me; i guess I've got to give
M the pork-'fraid it's hurtin' me-"
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OFF TO DREAMLANp.

Swing high swing low,
Now to Dreamland babyll gos
Softly white lids futter down,
Baby's OF to Dreamland town
Swing high
Swing low;
on to Dreamtown
Babyll go.
Swing low, swing high,
Baby must not stop to cry;
He must sail and sail away
on to Dreamland every day.
Swing high.
Swing fast;
Baby's journey
Almost passed
Swing high. swing slow,
Baby's head is dropping low;
Now it rests on mothers breast
That is Baby's sleepy nest
Swing high,
Baby dear,
Angels watch
And hover near.
Swing high, swing low,
Baby's almost there, know
Now, with tiny reaching hand,
He opes the gate to Dreamyland
Swing low.
To and fro,
While we wait
At the gate
For Baby's trip to Dreamyland.
lay Phillips Tatra, In Good Housekeeping
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Pemperton ana Hign.s1own RaiIroad.

Pemberfon and HfghtsfOwn Railroad.
Trains leave Mount Holly for New Egypt
QO8. 452P n Sundays, sos P. NJ.
Trains leave Philadelphia and connect Tor
6SOA M 100 and 400 P. NJ Sundays, 500 P. M.
Trains leave Hightstown tor New Egypt,
Pemberton, Mount Holly and Philadelphia
at 7.06, 1000 A. NJ, 7.05 P. N. Sundays, o-I
AN
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What is

Castoria is Dr. Pitchers prescription for Infants
and Children. neither Opium, Morphine nor
other Narcotic substance. 1t is harmless SUBSTITUTE
for Paregorc, Drops Soothing Syrups and Castor o.
IT, ,s pleasant Its guarantee thirty years. by
millions of Mothers Castoria destroys Worms and allays
fevershness Castoria prevents vomiting Sour Curd'
cures Diarrhoea and Wind Collie. Castoria relieves
teething troubles, constipation and hatuiency.
Casora assimiates the food, regulates the stomacn
and bowels, giving healthy and natural Sleep Cas-
toria is the ChiIdrens Panaceathe Mothers Friend
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Best materials always used. Pure colors,
best White Lead and Zinc and Pure Linseed
OIL. All kinds of painting done; Sign, Orna-
mental, Frescofng, Granting, Calcimining,
Glazing, sc. Work solicited from all around.
None But competent and experienced men
employed, ana all work guaranteed. All or
street, or t. b. Bullock's store, G rden street
Mounf Holly
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Castoria.

sCastoria is an excellent medicine for chill
dren. Mothers have repeatedly told me of its
good effect upon their children"
DIR. G. c. OsoooD,
Lowell, Mass.
"Castoria is the best remedy for children OF
which am acquainted. hope the day is not
far distant when mothers will consider the real
interest of their children, and use Castoria In
stead of the variousquack nostrums which are
destroying their loved ones, by forcing opium,
morphine, soothing syrup and other hurtfu
agents down their throats, thereby sending
them to premature graves"
DR. J. f.. KNcHELoE,
Conway, Ark.
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Th osutaur COMPANY n Murray New York City
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Mount Holly Post once.
NAILS LEAVE as FOLLOWS:


csAMUEL A. ATKINSON,
ATTORNEY AT LAW, SOLICITOR AND
MASTER IN CHANCERY.
No. 100 Main St., Opposite Washington house.
Mount Holly. Nd.