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The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1893-09-12

Wall street barely escaped something
worse than Black Friday ON July IS. It
came pretty near to being black Tues
day. Scores of men on and off the ex-
change will remember it as long as they
live in the way that one remembers a
great peril, and even the men who made
hundreds of thousands through that days
awful drop in values will always look
back upon it with twinge Of terror.
Some time, when these troublous times
have passed and Wall street has chance
to pause for bit of gossip again, great
story will be told about that Tuesday,
story that will astound everybody ex-
cept few of the country's greatest spec
ulators, and story that will make many
people in this and other cities turn pale
and catch their breaths.
They will show then how frightfully
narrow was the escape from financial
catastrophe of crushing magnitude.
They will know that the fate of the
street, and with it the fate of scores of
tributaries to the street, legitimate and
otherwise, of bankers, merchants and
ulduuAdCJu1 GLIB wv AluAuCAOAS w oOOP W
count, hung in the balance, and that a
fingers touch from any one of three
men would have turned the scale ruin
ward And when they learn this they
will probably come as near to really
thanking God as their religion or lack
of religion will let them, because instead
of the one mans finger touch weighing
IL 4 \
sturdy shoulder push from all three of
that days destinies of the street to force
it up into safety.-New York Press.
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The Trouble Between France and Siam

The Trouble Between France and SIAM
The trouble between France and Siam
had been brewing for months, and the
active hostiiities date back to the early
part of the present year.
They grew out of the disputes over the
border line between Siam and Anam,
over which latter country France has
protectorate. At one of the border towns
in the spring force of Anamites and
Frenchmen was attacked and routed by
Siamese troops. For this France de-
manded reparation, as well as settle
ment of the boundary difficulties, and
sent gunboat to Bangkok.
The Siamese government Immediately
began to act on the defensive and sunk
a number of scows on the Menam river
to prevent the near approach of French
vessels to Bangkok, the capital of Siam
Siam has population of about 7,OOO,-
600. which in lower Siam is clusters
about the rivers and canals. The Por-
tuguese were the first Europeans to es-
tablish any intercourse with Siam. This
was in 1911. English traders were in
Siam early in the seventeenth century.
The treaty of 1856 with England prac-
tically gave Europeans free admittance
to Siam, and the English, owing to the
nearness of their Indian dependencies,
have had strong diplomatic influence
in the affairs of the country. So strong
has this beer that many believe that a
war with France will ultimately result
in an English protectorate.-Boston Ad-
uoY.ficar
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Ambassador Bayard has been in
structed to make inquiries in regard to
whether Captain w. G. Minor is still
alive, or whether the government is pay
ing salary to a dead officer. Captain
Minor is retired officer Of the medical
corps, his retirement being due to brain
trouble consequent upon sunstroke re-
ceived in the line of duty in Florida in
1870, and he was sentenced for life in an
English asylum for shooting man on
English soil 81 years ago. 1t is the only
case ON record of murderer borne on
the rolls of the army and drawing the
regular pay of his grade. His pay is
drawn by Richard E. Rice of New Ha-
ven, the appointed CONSERVATION, who files
quarterly certificates bearing the sig
nature of the superintendent of the
Broadmere Criminal Lunatic asylum to
the effect that Captain Minor is living.
The last report from the superintendent
read: He was confined in the asylum
April II, 1879. His offense consisted of
shooting with revolver and killing a
man in the Belvidere road, Lambeth. F"
The relatives of Captain Minor have re-
peatedly made strenuous efforts through
the state department to secure his re-
lease.-Albany Express.
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A state Soda fountain.

1t may sound like Munchausen yarn,
but it is an actual fact that in the squint
eyed little burg Of Sodaville, in Linn
county. in block s of the town plat,
there is soda spring, and that the last
legislature, in its infinite wisdom, pro-
vided that ''inasmuch as there is great
and growing demand on the part of the
public for the waters Of said spring" the
state would spend $500 to improve it.
This is at last the fond realization of the
long felt want which has been loafing
around the country like the ghost of
boyhood's happy days in quest of a
watermelon patch where haply fingered
no vicious dog 1t is grand and inn
posing sight to see the legislative fancy
rising from the sordid contemplation Of
cold and unresponsive hog law and
lowering on halcyon wings over the soft
murmur of an idyllic state soda foun-
tain.-Astoria orr Budget.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1893-09-12

On I, venerable New York Chinaman
who pronounces his name Zone Eye, has
made vacancy in one of the best FAM
HES of Baltimore by complaining against
William Kuhn before United States
Commissioner Shields. Even first fam
lies resort to laundries. 1t seems, and
when Mr.. Kuhn called for his goods at
90 Third avenue and failed to produce
the ticket which wassupposed to be their
equivalent, there was considerable trou-
BILE, which he promptly pacifed with
counterfeit $5 bill.
The SAB which he receivedin change
completely wrecked Mr.. On rs ex-
chequer and might have furnished Mr..
Kuhn with funds for prolonged racket
had not On.I and his partner, One Lung,
chased him down the Bowery and had
him called up before Commissioner
Shields. On | may have some chance of
getting Justice, as he was born on "Malch
II, $780,
A man who would pass e 30 counter
felt on an inoffensive heather who had
helped him 'on the path to godliness by
administering to his cleanliness would
steal sheep and might even remove the
copper appendant from the eyes of a de-
ceased African.-New York Recorder.
A Temperance Mans Awful Experience.
There was an utter collapse of a
Springfield man visiting the Worlds
fair recently. He went into one of the
Chicago hotels and innocently called for
a bottle of apollinaris water, only to be
told in whitening tones by the clerk,
evidently fresh importation from a
blue ribbon district, that that was a
strictly Temperance house, and no intnx-
icating liquors were kept. And the de-
PRAYED Massachusetts citizen felt that
the best thing he could do was to come
home and take the Kelley cure.-Spring-
field Graphic.
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"She was so nervous that she would
scream almost like maniac and then
have fits of crying. After two months
treatment without a cure, l concluded to
try DIR. Greene's Nervura blood and nerve
remedy
Three bottlefuls entirely cured her.
She is now thirteen years old and has
been well ever since and to-day is picture
of health"
Children are prone to have weak nerves
and delicate health. Neglect of nervous
condition, pale look, disordered diges-
ton or general lack of health and vigor
in a child may result in fits, st. Wins
dance, or some other serious nervous dis
ease.
Give your infants and children this
glorious children's remedy, DIR. Greene's
Nervura blood and nerve remedy in the
beginning of the dlsease-when you see
them nervous, restless, wakeful, pale,
spiritless, without appetite, or with APP
petite irregular and bowels constipated. 1t
will make their nerves strong, their blood
pure, their sleep sound, natural and re-
freshing. In fact it will make them well
and strong.
1t is purely vegetable and harmless and
all druggists sell 1t for $l.00. 1t is the dis
covery and prescription of a physician.
DR.. Greene of 35 W. l4th Street. New
York, well-known as the most successful
specialist in curing nervous and chronic
diseases. The doctor can be consulted
free, personally or by letter.
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An Artistic Romance.

Here is romance. 1t is not SO long
ago that we have forgotten when Dem
mis- Bunker, the young artist who had
Just begun to taste the sweets Of appre-
citation, married Miss Eleanor Hardy,
the daughter of Mr.. Alpheus Hardy of
Boston. About the same time, Mr..
Charles Platt, the etcher and painter,
and Mr.. Bunker's chosen friend, mar
ried Miss Harper Mr.. Bunker's death
occurred cruelty soon after his marriage.
Not long after Mrs. Platt died. Their
mutual griefs drew Mr.. Platt and Mrs.
Bunker into sympathy. This lost no
force through lapse of time, and the
other day they were married. Mrs.
Platt is lovely woman of "a. Mr.. Plat
is the author and artist of the two num-
bers "Old Italian Gardens" in the July
and August numbers of Harper's Maya
zine. The two have joined the artistic
colony in Vermont. where they will
spend their honeymoon.-Boston Letter.
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Bathing ON the Beach at Newport.

The creme de la creme are at Newport.
The nobility have established a new
bathing place called Baiiey's beach, at
the end Of Bellevue avenue, In the heart
of the millionaires' quarter. 1t is only
about 300 yards in length, but that small
space the cottagers think they can hold
against the assaults Of the common herd.
No buses or horse cars are allowed to
land passengers there during the morn
ing hours. A bathing house has been
built, with granite portico. In this are
little retreats feet by 10, each of which
bears the initials of the gentleman who
owns it. A stranger could no more buy
or hire one of these bathing houses than
he could engage front seat in the bal
cony of heaven. Fifteen of the houses
belong to the Vanderbilt family; others
to the Astors, the 6tuyvesant Fishes,
the De FORESTS and their clan.
The hours for bathing are from II in
the morning until 1. At II three guards
make their appearance; one patrols the
beach; two others in ifeboat cruise 100
yards out. It is their business to rescue
swimmers who run danger Of drowning
Three young ladies, Miss Clews and the
two Misses Person, put their patience
sorely to the test When Miss Clews'
head appears, the guards take out their
oars as matter of course and head for
the open sea. When the bathing begins,
If stranger makes his appearance on
the beach, men and matrons follow him
with such sad, reproachful chances that
he wonders what he has done now and
sneaks out of the sacred preserve in a
demoralized condition.-Co San Fran
cisco Argonaut.
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We know some very ambitious and
very worthy gentlemen who would like
TO be put into communication with those
capitalists who have the money for a
magazine enterprise. These gentlemen
possess everything necessary to success
except that essential vulgarly called the
stuff And 1t is ''the stuff that is
mighty hard to be got at just now.
Our opinion is that the way to the
founding of a great magazine in the west
must be made clear by and with week
ly publication that shall faithfully rep
resent the west apd honestly reflect west
ern sentiment; that shall wage merci-
less war upon the intellectual hermaph-
rodites and dawdling perverts and petit
coated clay eaters who, on little tinsel
thrones along the eastern coast, presume
to set themselves up as dictators in the
great realm of American literature.
Weare not for any slSirmish with those
humbugs. We are for war of exter-
mination. That war is bound to come
sooner or later. 1t must not be begun,
however, ON the part Of the west until
the west is fully prepared to sail into and
disembowel every last mothers son of
those twiddling twaddling squirts and
their queer little parasites. - Eugene
Field in Chicago News-Record.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1893-09-12

"Here is the best investment I ever
took the extended hand of stalwart
young man with the features of the
American Indian and introduced the
gentleman as DIR. Carlos Montezuma.
Zone would not think l bought the doc
tor for $50. He was butihve years of age
then. 1t was in the summer Of 1871.
was prospecting in Arizona, taking pho
tographs of Indians and Aztec ruins and
gathering curiosities. One day band
of Pimo Indians came into my den with
this handsome fellow here, but he was
not handsome then. He was painted in
glaring colors, with rows of beads around
bis neck. / took a fancy to him as
genuine live curiosity. The Pimos wanted
$50 for him. tried to beat them down,
but they insisted upon their price, and
gave it. The little chap cried for day
or two, thinking was going to kill him,
and he laughs now when he explainsthat
he took me for the devil"
DR.. Monte-uma is in the government
service and is now on his way from the
Colyille reservation of Washington to
the Indian school at Carlisle, Pa, where
he will enter upon the duties of school
physician. The doctor was partly edu-
Gated In Chicago in the public schools,
where he spent five years, and later took
the course in the Chicago Medical col
lege, entering the Indian service Of the
government after his graduation. He
says his life will be dedicated TO the
service of the Indians, and he will never
be perfectly satisfied until the govern
ment properly educates the young OF his
people.-Chicago Inter Ocean.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1893-09-12

A rare flower can be seen in the gar
den north of the fountain in the north
west section of the public square. 1t is
yucca gloriosa, commonly known as
glorious Adams needle and it is stated
this is the first time the plant has
bloomed for 80 or 40 years. Fears are
entertained that the blossom may kill
the plant, and an effort will be made to
preserve it. An authority on botanical
subjects says that the yucca can be seen
to best advantage by moonlight while in
bloom.
As the yucca grows old the lowermost
foliage decays, leaving thick bare
stalk; in fact, giving the stalk quite an
arborescent character. Its height is ex-
tremely variable; its age before flower
ing also varies from 5 to Is years, and its
subsequent intervals are quite uncertain.
The flowers are white and bell shaped,
and are in cluster at the end of long
stalk.-Cleveland Plain Dealer.
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Corn After Corn.

At the Illinois station there is half
acre from which Is continuous corn
crops have been taken, most of the time
stalks and all, without manure of any
kind having been applied to it during
the whole period. The average of the
last three crops is 48.7 bushels. A half
acre next to this, which has been In corn
the same length Of time, but which has
been heavily MANFRED with stable ma
nure, yielded during the same years an
average of 67.1 bushels per acre, or at
the rate of 1874 bushels more than the
unmanured. These plots are situated
on very black rich land-land that any
experienced Illinois farmer would choose
as his best corn land. In practice it is
not found advisable to crop continuous
~ with corn. If the land is new-that
is, an old blue grass pasture plowed I'M
derive or six profitable crops can be
raised. Then the land should be rested
two years with oats or wheat, after
which three or four profitable corn crops
may be grown, writes Rural New
Yorker correspondent.
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An Economical woman.

An unmarried woman possessed of con-
siderable wealth who died last week in a
town in Pennsylvania was buried in a
grave that was dug 10 years ago. Her
father was buried in it originally, and
after two years his body was exhumed
and placed in vault. 1t was principle
of the family never to spend money use
lessly, and the daughter, realizing that
she herself would need grave some
time, decided that filing up the grave
would be waste of good money and
gave orders that it be kept open for her.
When the not too long delayed day
came (she was then 81 years of age), the
grave was found to be half dozen inches
too short. 1t was heightened, and the
interment was made.-Exchange
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lotion does not :
money refunded
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Are the main-stay Of our republic. 10
them are being cultivated the minds
which are to be our future lawmakers
and leaders in every walk in life How
essential it is that these minds should be
united to strong, healthy bodies. So
many children suffer from impurities and
poisons in the blood that it is a wonder
woman. Many parents cannot find words
strong enough to express their gratitude
to Hoods Sarsaparilla for its good effect
upon their children. Scrofula, salt rheum
and other diseases Of the blood are effect
ually and permanently cured by this ex-
cellent medicine, and the whole being is
given strength to resist attacks of disease
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There was personal encounter ON the
floor Of the house of representatives
Feb. Is, 1893, between Roger Griswold
of Connecticut and Matthew Lyon Of
Vermont, editor of The Scourge of Aris-
tocracy and Repository Of Important Po-
litical Truth and one Of the few victims
of the sedition law, under which he
served term in Jail and paid fine of
81 900.
An old time cut represents the two
congressman hammering each other with
cudgel and tongs. Under gross provo
cation Lyon had spit in Griswolds face,
but at the time of the fracas the house
had not been called to order, though
prayer had been offered by the chaplain.
-RuffaIO Courier.
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The i'll temper, the lack of self re-
straint, the utter unreasonableness which
at the present time in various parts of
the world characterize the relations of
men with their fellows are psychical
phenomena eminently deserving the at
tention of the philosopher. In Central
America, in Colorado, in the Fifth Ave
nue. hotel, in Paris, in remote Siam, even
within the staid and sacred precincts of
the British house of commons, lunacy
and individual responsibility seem tenn
porarily to prevail.
Professional pugilism alone preserves
prudent passivity. While Mitchell, Cor
bett, John L. and their brothers of the
ring keep their heads cool and judicious-
ly refrain from fight, statesmen, legisla-
tors, politicians and other representa-
tives of the so called higher civilization
are flying at one another's Threats and
making day and night hideous with their
howlings. Why is this thus?-William
B. Clark in New York Sun
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Respectfully yours,
j. G. co " GILL,
46 High st. Mount Holly
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Cost Of the Borden Cass.

The cost to the county of the trial Of
Lizzie Borden in Fall River, Mass, is
now estimated at $4,000 What Miss
Borden's counsel's fees were may only
be inferred, but the pecuniary rewards
of successful practitioners in New Eng
land are as rule-outside of Boston at
least-not more than one-third Of what
they are in the big cities. For defending
Lizzie Borden in a New York court and
securing her acquittal her leading coun-
sci would not have asked less than $780,
600. The items of the bill of costs to the
county include $500 to Assistant Dis
trict Attorney William H. Moody, 81 400
to Professor Wood of Harvard, $2,574 to
other medical experts, 81 ,587 to stenog-
raphers, 81 $40 to jury fees and 81 ,760 to
deputy sheriffs.
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Cameras to oheck Cruelty.

At,the moathly meeting of the direc-
tors of the Massachusetts, Society For
the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals
President. Angel exhibited pictures TAX
en- with kodaks He proposes to use the
kodaks to.show not only high checkreins
and horses mutilated by docking, to-
gether with owners who drive and ride
them, but also all kinds of cruelty that
can be found on cattle cars, in cattle
yards slaughter houses, markets, horse
racing, polo games and otherwise.-Bos-
ton TNanscript
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AN ATTRACTIVE CHILD.
The Unfortunate Occurrence
Of Her Life.
And How 1t Game Near Making
Her Existence Unhappy.
Her Mother Tells Story Which
Will Greatly Interest All.

Stories of children are always interest
ing. Parents often vie with each other in
seeing which can tell the best story or
most interesting anecdote about their chill
dren.
But here is story told by one mother
which, while it may awake echoes of sad
ness in the minds and hearts of some
parents, will be to others message
fraught with hope and JOY.
The child whose short history of MIN
gIed sorrow and gladness is here given is
the daughter of the well-known Mrs. j..
Learmonth, who resides at 776 Broadway,
South Boston, Mass.
"At ten years of age" said Mrs. Lear
month, "my daughter became affected
with a nervous condition which soon de-
veloped into st. Vitus' dance. 1t was pro-
nounced by the attending physician to be
a very severe attack.
1.-THE mouth would be drawn spasmodi-
cally far to one side, the hands and arms
were restless and constantly twitching.
Her limbs also were weak; her ankles
bent under her so that it was almost i'm
possible to walk.
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wbere tbe.Duke showed Sense.

Complaint arises from certain quar-
tiers because the Duke of Veragua sailed
away home without inditing an open let
ter of thanks TO this country for its en-
tertainment of him. We think that he
did the sensible thing. The infanta in
dited letter of that kind. and it made
everybody laugh. We have good deal
of respect even for commonplace intel
lect that is just bright enough not to
make public circus of its weaknesses
Chicago News-Record.
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A Turkish Priest In the Tolls.

In the Turkish village ON Midway
plaisance there is muezzin named Dire
mar Effendi, priest, very Jealous in the
performance Of his religious duties.
Yesterday afternoon he was arrested on
charge of disorderly conduct and Civ
en- a ride in the patrol wagon to Wood
lawn station.
The trouble arose from growing dis
position on the part of the Turks to treat
the duties of their religion with indiffer-
ence. When Drenar Effendi called the
Turks to prayer yesterday afternoon
they did not respond with what seemed
to him proper amount of alacrity, and
incensed at their slowness he seized a
club and began to beat them over the
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A Cheap Hosting Machine.


old wheel and discarded iron axle and
a handy man can easily make one with
the help of the village blacksmith. OF
course the iron box must be taken out
of the hub and the wheel slipped on to
the square part of the axle and firmly
fastened with wedges. To make the
windlass for the lifting rope, scantling
may be bolted ON to the axle and after
wards rounded off. A ratchet may be
fastened to the shaft to be applied or re-
leased by pulling string, SO that the
load can be held at any desired point.
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head. This attracted large crowd at
once, and guard arrested the priest
By the time he reached the station the
Turks began to be very much frightened
at the thought of their priests being
locked up like common criminal in a
Christian Jail, so a delegation was sent
over to Woodlawn to bail him out in
time for the sunset service, attendance
upon which was secured by moral sua-
sion instead of club.-Chicago News
Record