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The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1893-08-29
LONELINESS OF THE PACIFIC.
Four Thousand Mile Trips May BE Made
without Seeing . sail.

without Seeing = sail.
Il notice an item in the press stating
that the City of Peking in her recent
trip sailed twelve hundred and forty
miles without meeting single sail,
and this fact is cited as showing the
loneliness of the Pacific ocean, says .
writer in the Washington Star. in
the summer of 1850 left San FrancI
60 on a sail vessel formerly from Bal
timore) for Panama, distant four thou
sand miles, and on the entire route
which lasted forty-three days, we never
saw sail Loneliness is no word for
it. especially when we lay becalmed IL
the tropics. with our vessel floating "a
helplessly about as chip on mill
pond, the ground swells keeping up the
monotonous roll of the vessel from side
to side all day and night and day after
day, each roll being accompanied by
flap of the sails and a creaking OF tbs
rigging that might have passed for the
flap of the wings and the wall of lost
spirits When we read about Noah and
his ark we are apt to think that he
must have had rather lonely time
but then he was out only forty days
and besides, with all the animals, etc,
on board, he had plenty to occupy hi
time and attention, and if he wanted
amusement to while away the time he
had only to start sparring match be
tween the monkeys and parrots True
there is no report of any such proceed
ing on his part, but that is doubles,
because there was no modern news
paper reporter on board. tell You.
man can't realize what loneliness is
until he has made some such trip. anS
if he wants to complete his educa tior
in that line he should preface it with
tramp of two thousand miles over the
mountains and acr oss the deserts amic
wolves and wild Indians, as thousands
of '49-ers did"
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WORSE THAN RATTLEsNAkEs-
skunks which Attack Sleeping Campers
Their Bite Causes Hydrophobia.

skunks which Attack sleeping Campers
Their Bite Causes Hydrophobia
"It is not the rattlesnake or tarantula
whose bite is most dreaded by campers
out on the far western plains. The
hunters and cowboys are far more
afraid of the skunk, and that for
reason that might astonish great
many people who do not know the
plains country"
The land surveyor from New Mexico
was talking.
Like the prairie dog and badger,
hole in the open prairie. In size and
markings and characteristic means of
defense and offense it closely resembles
its relatives in the east. Like them it
is earnivorous, and prowls about at
night for small birds and mice and in
sects, and when occasion serves, is an
inveterate robber of poultry yards. 1t
person comes upon it away from its
hole, the skunk doesn't waste its ener-
gies in trying to run away, but impo-
litely turns its face from the intruder
and stands its ground with confidence
that no one will be tempted to APP
proach too near 1t is its fearlessness
of man that makes this wretched little
beast such terror, for it will boldly
enter a tent or come anywhere that
persons are asleep on the ground, and
if it finds nothing about that
better suits its taste, will be-
gin without hesitation to eat
at the hand, face or any other part of
sleeper's person that chances to be
exposed This would be bad enough
of itself, for the creatures weasel teeth
are as sharp as knives, and man may
find himself badly lacerated when he
FULLY wakes to what is going ON. But
the mastering horror of the skunlSs
bite comes from the fact that it almost
invariably results in hydrophobia to
the victim. Why this should be | can't
pretend to explain, and probably mo-
body else can tell; but every plainsman
knows it, and the cowboys dread the
beast worse than they do the rattle
snake.
"The period shown by the army rec
ords in which the greatest number of
people died from this cause on the
plains was between the years 1871 and
1875. During this time many persons
were bitten, most of them fatally. Col
r. j. Dodge of the regular army, who
died the other day knew by report of
sixteen cases. every one of which
proved fatal One army doctor, Assist
ant Surgeon Janeway, stationed at
Fort Hugo. reported in the Medical
journal eleven cases that he treated
or knew OF, in ten of which the patient
died OF hydrophobia. 1t was in those
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1893-08-29
ESTABLISHED 1879

season, less than two months rain was
sufficient to form an arch of green trees
thirty feet high leaning over the track
so as to shade it completely.
The constant change from dryness in
tile day to soaking moisture at night,
even in the dry season. would soon
ruin the best of timber, but nature fur
nishes still quicker means of getting
rid of it, in the shape of an ant or
wood-louse, which is careful not tomar
the outside of his domicile, but viii
patiently honeycomb the inside, until
what looks like a solid 12x12 stick is
but shell from q to 4 inch thick,
filed with dust and ants. The native
timber suffered so much from the in
roads of these pests that, upon hear
ing that yellow pine was used in Pan
anna to avoid them, trial of it was
made on the Antioquia road Georgia
pine had to be shipped by way of New
York, at cost of nearly 500 per 900
feet, board measure, when put in place
When / left there the first of my yell
low pine trestle was being replaced. 1t
had been built less than four years.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1893-08-29
The ONLY FEMININE MASON.
She Was the Grand Junior Warden and
Pillar of Beauty.

Pillar of Beauty.
s'Was there ever woman mason?"
eyes, one, and only one 1t was
found that she couldn't keep a secret.
And so it has been ever since that
woman has nothing to tie to- to make
her eligible to masonry.
This was the reply of Robert Walton,
of Rugby, Tenn, who is member
of Alhambra Temple in Chattanooga,
says the Cincinnati Star.
This woman, then, was member
of the first lodge?"
.'She was. She was the grand junior
warden and pillar of beauty. With the
worshipful master she resided in a
beautiful garden, that has come down
in history as the most beautiful spot
in which human beings ever lived and
loved With the worshipful master
she was warmly interested in building
up an ideal lodge of Free Masonry.
But in an evil hour one appeared at
the outer wicket. He was fallen ma
son. One who had fallen into the
uttermost depth, and was forever dis
graced. But he was most cunning OF
speech, and he prevailed upon the
beautiful grand junior warden and
pillar of beauty to let him in. She did
SO. The world knows the rest of the
story. The first woman had broken
her vow, and let in one who of all
creatures was the last to expect recog-
milton and favors because of his fallen
estate. And so the first lodge was cor
rupted because of a woman, and woman
has never since been received as
member in masonry. The first lodge
was thus broken up, and the worship
full master and the fair grand junior
warden and pillar of beauty were ex-
PEELED from their beautiful paradise.
But though woman has never been ad-
mitted since, she has redeemed herself
as helpmeet to masons of all times
and degrees, and has come to be recog-
nized as his peer in all the virtues and
activities of life, and men worship at
her shrine of purity and beauty. God
bless woman, and, though we cannot
have her in our lodges, what would we
do without her?n
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1893-08-29
ANTS OF HONDURAS
They Devour Every Animal in the Line of
Their March.

1t was in Honduras, near the Carib-
bean coast, that | first saw the war
rior ant, SAYS writer in the Louisville
Courier-Journal-th strong insects
which march through the tropical for
ests in armies, attacking every living
creature in their path. One intensely
hot day native came running in, and
in excited gestures babe me follow him.
| did SO, wonderingly. There on the
rolling savannah stretched wide,
black belt, extending far back into the
deep shadows of the adjacent forest.
1t rose and fell with every formation
of the ground, and, like huge snake.
slowly crept toward the village.
In countless multitudes they
swarmed over the plain, marching
in compact order like well-drilled
army. Before them scurried hetero-
genous mass of lizards, grasshoppers,
frogs, beetles and all other manner of
insects and reptiles in wild scamper
to escape to a place of safety. Pres
entity the advance guard reached my
hut and disappeared within; then the
main column appeared, and soon the
roof, floor, walls and rafters were black
wish them.
Like the soft rustic of dried grass
stirred by gentle breeze came
the sound of their presence in the
leaves Of my matched roof. The sound
increased in loudness as the rats, mice,
lizards, cockroaches, centipedes and
others of their ilk who had long made
the root their home tried vainly to es-
cape. Some succeed ed in getting away
from the house, but only to fall victims
to the surrounding hordes without.
One large cockroach, noticed, made
a plucky fight, but oyerpowered by
numbers, he gradually relaxed his eff
forts and was soon dismembered, each
ant carrying off portion of his body
as trophy. The most exciting battle
was with snake about three feet long
which tried to slip away unseen. The
ants quickly surrounded him, however,
and fought with terrific ferocity
With every switch of his tail the snake
killed score of his tormentors, but
their places were soon filed with the
black swarm which swept increasingly
on.
Finally the writings of the snake
became fainter, and at last ceased en-
tirely, and then, and not until then,
did the ants relinquish their attack.
All day long they marched through
the house until at shutdown the end of
the column had past and was lost to
view in the thickness of the forest. |
afterward learned that the warrior
ants refuse to touch any food that they
themselves have not caught and slain,
which accounts for my provisions re
naming unmolested.
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The day before Christmas; the ground
covered with deep coat of snow. Far
up in my little fat could hear the
faint jingling of the sleighbells in the
street below. The few little sparrows
that ventured up so high stood picking
the crumbs from the window ledge
What comfort | found in these little
brown birds. told them all my trials.
They proved better confdants than my
garrulous neighbor below. They
seemed to listen with little heads
turned thoughtfully one side, lingering
but moment, then flying home to
their nest, that l knew was far happier
than mine.
We had a quarrel that morning, Ted
and |. 1t was our first tiff. All through
the breakfast we sat in silence. When
he stopped to kiss me, lurking demon
must have been aroused, as / exclaimed
fercely:
do not dare to kiss mel Go and kiss
that other woman"
He said not word; only looking re-
proachfully at me, he left the house to
go to that great, busy, bustling store,
to put up with many trials and annoy
ances with no word of comfort
Suppose, l thought, that some
thing dreadful should happen to Ted.
Could ever forgive myself for my an
ger? Surely might have asked for an
explanation. If he refused. then / would
be justified in my conduct"
was startled from my meditations
by violent ringing of the doorbelL
"a dispatch" thought l. Il have
driven him to something desperate
What relief to meet burly express
man carrying up large, square parcel
addressed to Mrs. Boggs.
With trembling fingers l united the
wrappings to findan exquisitely framed
erayon portrait of Ted. The smiling,
handsome face seemed to gaze reproach-
fully at me as read through fast fall
ing tears: ITO my dear little wife. A
merry, merry Christmas. The name OF
the artist arrested my attention. read
with amazement the name of elsie
Grey"
1t came upon me like flash Ted
had had his portrait taken as Christ
HAS Rllt. Inc AcbbcES IcCSAfCu were
from the artist To explain was to
spoil the little secret.
! burst into tears of joy and re
pentance When Ted came home | ran
to greet him.
Forgive me, dear love, for doubling
you" l murmured.
He silenced me with kiss
Three years have passed. Ted has
risen from floor walker to foreign buyer
at fine salary. We livein another fiat
lower down, with more light, room and
air. The neighborhood is more aristo-
cratic We keep hired girl. We are
very, very happy, with not one cloud
to mar our domestic peace. We have
a baby girl, and I've called her Elsie
Grey Boggs to remind me of my foolish
doubts, and our first tiff. "-Woman's
Home Journal
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1893-08-29
RAILROADS IN THE TROPICS.
1t IL Hard to Keep the Growing Foliage
from Becoming an Obstruction.

from Becoming an Obstruction.
Apropos of the projected Pan-Amer-
lean railway, it is to be noted that not
only is the first cost of railway con
struction in tropical countries very
heavy, but the annual maintenance of
way is expensive to a degree which
cannot be appreciated by those who
have no experience in this connection.
The Antioquia railroad in Colombia,
says Charles p. Yeatman in the Engi-
neering Magazine, cost in single
year, for repairs of track and bridges,
So. 266 per mile. The Cauca railroad,
in the same year, cost S3,sS7 per mile.
These two roads are in Colombia and
are sometimes mentioned either as
future feeders of the Pan-American
railroad, or parts of its main line. On
the Antioquia road, if the underground
were cut at the beginning of the raipv
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1893-08-29
MOUNT HOLLY BURLINGTON j. AUGUST 49,

years unau the Dunalo practically was
exterminated, and the hunters and
their outfits of helpers, living upon the
open prairie and sleeping in the open
air, were peculiarly exposed to the at
tacks of these vicious night providers
For four years the plains country was
noisome with the carcasses of buffalo
killed for their skins and tongues and
left on the prairie. Gray wolves and
coyotes and foxes had unwonted feast
ing in this vast slaughter yard, and
that circumstance may have had
something to do with the fact that
many of these beasts ran mad, some
times dashing into settlements and en-
campments, attacking every living
thing they met and causing great havoc
of human as well as brute life. AS to
whether skunks run mad, which some
plainsmen hold to be the cause of their
frequent invasion of sleeping people. or
at least of the venom of their bite, has
never been fully determined But the
expectation of finding meat ready at
hand to feast on, with no trouble to
themselves, which condition existed
twenty years ago wherever a buffalo
hunter had been shooting, might natur-
ally have made them unusually fear
less, and made them unwilling to hunt
for their natural food when they could
find SO good chance as would be
offered by sleeping man.
Still every year numbers of persons
are bitten by skunks on the plains east
Of the Rocky mountains and west of
the ninety seventh meridian and some
cases prove fatal, but am inclined to
think that there are fewer deaths from
skunk bites now than there used to be.
Since the country has practically been
turned into one vast cattle range the
poisonous little beasts have been killed
off to some extent for their skins and
the fact that they are hunted may have
made them shyer. Perhaps, also, their
bite is less venomous than in the days of
indiscriminate buffalo Slaughter.
SIT is now about twenty years since
the cowboy of the Texas Panhandle
made his famous ride for life. He was
bitten by skunk while sleeping by his
camp fire, and realized all his danger
Some of his companions remembered to
nave nSdFQ bUdb 4NG 4u4uIeQ niles
away, in town of eastern Kansas,
there lived the owner of famous
MAIDSTONE reputed to possess the
power of drawing the poison from
wounds made by snakes or rabid ami
mails. Night and day the cowboy rode
at full speed for this town and safety.
At every ranch where he halted he
found willing exchange of fresh
horse for his tired animal, and his jour
ney was tireless. 1t was a race for
life, and he won. He reached his
destination on the third day, the mad
stone" was applied to the wound, and
after adhering for days, at last fell off
and would stick no longer, and the
owner Of the stone pronounced him
cured. Whether through this treat
ment or from natural causes, the
wound healed with no further trouble,
and he returned to his herding in the
Panhandle with firm faith in the mad
stone and the thankfulness of one who
has escaped horrible death. IN. Y.
Sun
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1t is thought that the Egyptians and
Etruscans were further advanced in
the art Of dentistry than any other
people in that early period, for teeth
allied with gold have been found in the
mouths OF mummies, indicating their
advanced ideas. These people were
the first to supply artificial substitutes
In the mouth - -
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1893-08-29
MANS WORK ABOUT THE HOUSE
The Kentucky Woman Who Never Liked
the Idea OF Doing 1t.

the Idea of Doing 1t.
Away up on the north fork of the
Kentucky river the Widow Wilson
kept a halfway house, famous in that
section for its excellent fare, says a
writer in the Detroit Free Press, and
when happened to be in that neigh
borhood on one occasion made an eff
fort to get there to stay over Sunday.
/ found it an excellent place and Sun.
day afternoon as l sat in the shade of
the porch the widow found me.
Don't you get very lonesome here
by yourself?" l asked, after few scat
tering remarks.
yes, sometimes" she answered;
''but takin' it up one side an down
tother reckon I'm about ez well off
ez eff had man around.
But you ought to get married." /
argued. you are still hale and
hearty, and husband would be a
good deal of comfort to you"
HE mought be and he moughn't,"
she said, shaking her head. 1--WE tried
two an neither one suited"
what was wrong with them.
"Well, Jenkins, he wuz the fust
one" said she, in a reminiscent tone;
he wuz orney hound that used to git
drunk an come home an thrash me all
over the place. Eff he hadn't been a
drinkin' man / could a stood the
thrashin' but | didn't like the idea
NV both After he died married Will
SON. and he wuz a lazy, ornery thing
that used to git drunk an come home,
an used to thrash him all over the
place"
She laughed softly at the thought
of 1t.
THAT was some better than the
first, said, laughing with her.
mo, 1t wuzn't," she promptly re-
piled
mo? Why?'' asked in surprise.
We'll, I'd kinder got used to Jen-
kin's ways, an when Wilson come !
never liked the idea of doing mans
work about the house"
1T was a new phase of "a mans
work about the house" and for some
time | ruminated about It,
The first normal school ever estab-
lished for women was that opened in
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1893-08-29
RUNNING TELEGRAPH WIRES.

The Noise Not Due to the Wind But to
Atmospheric Conditions.
You have all heard the hum ming and
singing of telegraph and telephone
wires as you passed the poles along the
streets. No doubt you have concluded
that this is caused by the action of
wind on the wires and given it no fur
Their thought. But it is not true, says
the Boston Journal of Commerce, that
the singing is caused by the wind, and
if you are at all observing you will no
tice that often the humming sound is
to be heard on cold winter mornings
when the smoke from chlmneys goes
straight up until it islost in the clouds
and when the frost on the wires is as
fuzzy and thick as a roll of chenille
fringe.
The wind has nothing to do with the
sound. and, according to an Austrian
scientist, the vibrations are due to the
changes of atmospheric temperature,
and especially through the action of
cold, as lowering of temperature in
duces shortening of the wires extend
ing over the whole of the conductor. A
considerable amount of friction is pro-
duced on the supporting bells, thus in
dueing sounds both in the wires and
the poles.
When this humming has been going
ON birds have mistaken the sound for
insects inside the poles and have been
seen to peck with their bills on the out
side as they do upon the apple and
other trees. The story is told of bear
that mistook the hunming noise as
coming from nest of bees and clawed
at the pole and tore away the stones at
its base in the hope of finding the
much-coveted honeV
cnnnrc nM TILE Giii e
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1893-08-29
Pemherton ana Hfghtstown Railroad.

Trains leave Mount Holly for New Egypt
Cream Ridge, Hightstown, ETC.. at 7OS A M
lS3, 607 p. NJ. Sundays, 705 P. M.
New Egypt, Cream Ridge, Hightstown, etc.
500 A. NJ, y. 80 and $40 P. M. Sundays, 60OP N.
Trains leave Hightstown tor New Egypt,
Pemberton. Mount Holly ana Philadelphia
at 1906 1000 A. M, 7.O5 P. N. Sundays, 60
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1893-08-29
TUCKERTON RAILROAD.

Leave Mount Holly for Tuckerton and Beach
Haven, 952 a. m, 1872 p m, daily, eAcepi
Sunday. 30
Leave Beach Haven for Tuckerton, 800 p.
M, daily except sunday and $40 p. N. ON
Saturdays only.
on Mondays only. 3.02 p. m. daily except
Sunday.
Leave Beach Haven for Mount Holiy, 900 H.
M, 800 D. M, daily except sunday.
Leave Tuckerton Tor Mount Holly, 1.OJ a. M,
500 D. M ;, daily except Sunday.
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What is

Pitchers prescription for Infants
and Children contains neither Opium, Morphine
other Narcotic substance 1t is harmless substitute
Paregoric, Drops Soothing Syrups, and Castor OIL
Its guarantee is thirty years use by
Mothers. Castoria destroys Worms and allays
Castoria prevents vomiting Sour Curd,
cures Darrhma and Wind Collie. CastOra relieves
teething troubles, constipation and hatulency.
Castora assmiates the food, regulates the stomach
and bowels, giving healthy and natural sleep. Cas-.
toria Children's Panacea-the Mothers Friend.
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you only had brother to give him a

you only had a brother to give him a
good horse whipping"
The idea of anyone thrashing my
handsome, manly Ted appeared so
touching that burst into tears, where.
upon my listener proclaimed me at once
to be Just the style of woman to be
imposed upon" in fact a little simple
ton. She even suggested that in the
absence of home and brother there was
nothing left but desperate Irritation
to bring him to terms.
Looking back I had one thing to
thank my not over-generous relative
for; that she had brought me up in the
fear of God, and the evil counsel of my
neighbor failed to lure me from the
path of duty.