The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1893-06-13
ESTABLISHED 1879

and pair of gum boots filed with the
! legs of hickory overalls, and a long,
lank Jefseyman-tha ought to pass
for picturesque, hadn't it? But none
of these hunters ever said anything to
me about an infnitesimal sac envelope
| ing precious perfume nor ever COM
planned about having to journey many
painful miles and miles to reach the
marts of trade, nor have / any recollee-
ton of their demanding many times
its weight in gold for the precious per-
fume Not any hunters that / ever
dealt with. They just jumped aboard
ferryboat, landed on this side and
hoofed it up here, and chuclxing on the
counter what they had to sell, said:
There ye be, Cap'nl Didn't hev
much luck yisterd'y, an only slashed
the pods out O. ten They're good uns.
though OFT be wuth ten cents pair,
Cap'n.'~
eyes. Those picturesque hunters
who risk their lives on the trail of the
musk deer in Central Asia mountains
can do better by packing their grips
and coming over here and chasing the
willy muskrat on the Jersey marshes.
They might have to wear more clothes,
but they'd get more musk, and find a
market right under their noses. Yes,
my son. The effete Orient is no place
for the musk hunter nowadays The
robust Occident bechons him, and he
had better come He needn't fetch his
spear with him. He can get one here
for fifty cents"
But" insisted the seeker after infor-
nation, surely someone sells the gem
uine Oriental musk yet
yes; oh, yes" replied the frank
druggist Theresa good deal of it
sold yet But it's all nonsense What's
the useP A drop of Jersey musk will
reach just as far and last just as long
as drop of the most aristocratic article
that ever came from Asia A lady car
rying a drop of the imported musk to
church with her will not make the con-
gregation bit sicker than if she had
insinuated some of the home grown
stuff into her garments. Neither will
the high-collared youth who sits down
next to you at the theater. exhaling
"reminiscences of an Asiatic musk deer
hunt arouse within you any greater
impulse to sweep down upon him like
an army with banners and dust the
floor with him than will the same young
man if he is simply exhaling pervad-
ing suspicion that there is a muslzrat
hole hard by. Then l say, what's the
use. There amt any. No one can tell
the difference, and / keep the home ar
ticle. Some of the finest aud most del
icate colognes | sell to-day get their
pungency from the aromatic secretion
of the muskrat of the Jersey marshes
| mention myself; but if should place
one hundred New York druggists in a
bunch and let you chuck stone at the
bunch you couldn't hit a man In it who
doesn't have just as intimate relations
with the Jersey muskrat as have
"Then," said the information seeker,
''the Jerseymen who hunt the muslrat
must make nice thing out of it 4"
AS far as it goes, yes, replied the
druggist. But as ten or dozen pair
of muskrat pods will make enough ex-
tract to last year in any drug store
with fair trade in perfumes, there
might be more money in it for the hunt
ers than there is. But then, you see.
the musk pod isn't all there is to the
mushrat He is an animal of great re-
sources, the muskrat is For instance,
he furnishes the material from which
many thousands of sealskin caps.
gloves, muffs and trimmings are made.
and he is to large extent, the rabbit
stew of the cheap restaurants. So you
can readily see that neither the musk
deer, the seal nor the rabbit will be ex-
tinct so long as the great American
mushrat lives, breathes and has his be-
ing. IN Y. Sun. -as.saz