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well, and after number Of such mis-
haps the tanner, though he will not adj
NIT it, perhaps even to himself, is apt
to become afraid of his animals. Then
he has recourse to stimulants to STEADY
his nerves. before going into the ring.
But by this treatment his nerves are not
steadied; rather they are the more
shaken. And the more he drinks the
more unfit he is to face the danger and
the likelier to take some reckless step
which will result in his serious injury
or death, for it is undoubtedly fact
that tanners are not infrequently MANNED
for life, and even killed. Such a case
was that of the tanner Heigenreich, who
was torn to pieces some years ago while
giving an exhibition in Russia. "A large
lion sprang upon him and literally tore
his life out before the eyes Of the spec
tators. Nothing could be done to save
the man. Nothing can ever be done in
such case
Perhaps the best safeguard against
these dreadful accidents safeguard
better than hot irons or revolvers-is a
ready line of hose, with a strong pressure
of water, which can be turned on at a
moments notice, 1t has been found that
a lion struck by powerful stream Of
water will drop his bleeding victim
when prodding with iron hooks or SINH
lar measures will only make him hold on
the tighter.
Thus it is absolutely fatal to the
tanner to fall into any fear. AS soon as
he gets the idea that he is going to be
killed he had better give up the work
at once, or the chances are that he will
be killed Cleveland Moffett in Nc
Clure's Magazine.
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..saoredn water Analxned.

A scientific analysis has lately been
made in England of the Zem-Zem water
from the sacred well at Mecca, which,
according to the Arabs, is the well that
the angel showed to Hagar, and whose
water saved the life of IshmaeL After
reading the results Of this analysis one
cannot wonder that pilgrims who drink
the water are frequently attacked by
cholera
The specimen examined, which was
Theoretically sealed in tin bottles 40
years ago by Sir Richard Burton during
his visit to Mecca in~the disguise Of a
dervish, contained 90 grains of chlorine
to the gallon. Water which contains so
little as grains Of chlorine to the gal
lon is ordinarily regarded as scarcely fit
for human consumption.
Moreover, in the case Of the Fem Fem
we'll it is believed that the chlorine
originates from the custom of pouring
the water over the pilgrims and allow
ing it to run back into the we'll The
sacred water was found to possess an
extraordinary degree of hardness, ="
three times as great as that Of average
water. 1t also held 30 times as much
ammonia compounds as drinking water
should contain
No bacteria were discovered, but this
is accounted for by the fact that the
water had remained for so long time
sealed up in entire darkness. Forty
years Of such confinement had complete
ly sterilized it, but the chemical inn
purities remained Youths Compan-
ion
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IMMENSELY Of The HEAVENS.
A Peep Into Space That Fairly DazzIes the
Imagination.

Peep Into Space Ihat bairly DaNzies the
Imagination.
If our sun were removed to the
pleiades, it would hardly be visible in
am opera glass, with which nearly 100
stars can be seen IN the cluster. Sixty
or 70 pleiades surpass our sun in bril-
hancy, Alcyone being 1000 times more
brilliant, Electra nearly 800 times and
Maia nearly 400. ''Sirius itself takes a
subordinate rank when compared with
the five most brilliant members Of a
group, the real magnificence of which
we can thus in some degree apprehend. ="
If we seek to know the dimensions, not
of the individual stars, but of the clus-
ter itself, we are met with many diff
culties, but on the assumption that 1T
is approximately spherical in shape we
can calculate its diameter to be over
40, 600, 900, 600 miles, so that light
would take seven years to pass from one
extreme to the other If we think Of the
dimensions of our solar system by them
selves or in relation to terrestrial mat
tiers, they appear stupendously enormous.
Neptune, the most distant known
member, has an orbit over 5, 600, 600, 600
miles across distance that a ray of
light would travel in q hours-but the
solar system is to the pleiades but as q
Lillipution to a Neutrality-suspicious. but
as a microbe to mountain, for sphere
the size of the solar system would, if it
were spherical and its diameter that of
the orbit of Neptune, be relatively so
minute that it could be contained more
than 400, 600, 600. 600 times i'll a sphere
the size of the pleiades-in other words,
the limits of the pleiades could contain
100 solar systems as many times over
as there are miles between Neptune and
the sun
1t murt not be forgotten that, al
though there are 2, 300 stars in the clus-
ter, yet with such dimensions for the
entire group vast distances must sepa-
rate the stars from one another. In fact,
2, 300 spheres, each with diameter OF
3. 900, 600, 900 miles, could be contained
in the limits assigned to the group, and,
assuming equal distribution of the stars
in the group each would be at the CEN
ter of a sphere 5000, 600, 600 miles
across, and therefore light journey OF
1877 days from its nearest neighbor. -
Iongman's Magazine.
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There is a wife Of 10 years standing
who is mourning her wedding ring, and
it is all due to fireman S gentle way Of
misleading her The woman lived in
Brooklyn, when her house caught fire
one night, and she escaped with the
youngest child, a sealslSin sack and
silk dress. That's all Her older boy
was in the lower story Of the house when
the fire broke out, with its nurse, and
when the woman was taken into aneigh-
boring residence a tender hearted fire
man followed and broke the news gently
to her that this boy had been burned
and lost in the flames. The mother was
crazed with grief She wore a diamond
pin at her throat, wedding ring and
diamond engagement ring on her left
hand, and ON her right another dia-
mond. In the first wave of delirium she
rushed into the street, tore off the pin
at her throat, tore off all her rings and
tossed them away. The child WASH t
burned, but the young woman never
found her rings, and now she wishes the
fireman had waited till he knew what
he was talking about. New York Adj
vertiser.
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Nile. He tells of an alteration that
took place between one of his most trust
ed servants and a yelled lady, his wife,
which squabble resulted i'll a divorce i'll
less than five minutes The scene
opened with reproaches emanating from
the woman. ''Take care, warned the
man. 81 put you from meP' Nothing
daunted, the virago continued until the
exasperated man again repeated, / put
you from me y Still the torrent of
abuse flowed necessarily. Worried be-
yond endurance the servant entered the
house and secured 30 shillings out of
his years salary Of e10, and returning
to the woman said: Here is your dow
ry. Now for the third and last time
| repeat, j put you from me. At
these words the woman went her way,
and the astonished American learned
that he had witnessed divorce proceed
ings, for in Egypt the assertion, II put
you from me, made three times to a
wife by her husband, constitutes sol
emn divorce without alimony, and once
the words are said the woman has no
right to any further support from the
man. Chicago Tribune.
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The material condition of the day
laborer is much better than it was half
a century ago in every way. Then men
might be seen thrashing the corn in
winter, working by the light of lamp
from $3.50 a. m to 2 p. m, receiving
only sixpence day and their food, and
during the harvest they earned only is.
Cd. day.
A farm servant of IA years of age,
who now earns at least "a year, then
received only his food, the farmer sup
plying him with wooden shoes and a
blouse At II only would he begin to
earn little money. AS rule, the
French laborer is sober, industrious,
Woodworking and thrifty, his chief aim
being to save little money or to buy
land to leave to his children AS a rule,
families are not numerous, and one rare
ly if ever sees such early marriages as
are frequent among the lower classes in
England. One reason is that the mill
tary service is compulsory Every man,
unless physically disabled, is bound to
serve for three years, from 81 to "a, so
they cannot marry till this is over, at any
rate, and many do not till much later.
However, the military service is certain
ly borne without reluctance and as a
matter Of course by most Frenchmen. -
Contemporary Review
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VOL. XIV. NO. 81.
PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD.

The standard railway of America Project
de by the lnter-locking switch and block sig
nal system.
Trains leave Mount Holly as fottot0s:
For Philadelphia, $50. 500, 6.52, 7.l0. a, 80
s.5l, 9l6, ll.2O A. NJ, 1917, LIZ, 23u, 9Of, 0.io
6.l7, 7.24. 81. lO.50P. NJ.
On sundays. $50, S.Sl a. M, 1908 Cos ia p NJ
For Pemberton, 7,03, a2S, ll.09, A. NJ, l5f -
5.4i, SO. i06. 7.43, p. NJ. sundays, $40, lu2o
For Browns. Millsin the Pines, 92s A. NJ, 2l0
Az AL, IA, P. NJ. sundays, SIG, i026, A. NJ
For Burling ton, Bordentown, ELECTROMAGNETIC
York, 6.s5, 9.Os, 1880 A. NJ. ESQ 445, 5-NS p. NJ
For Lewistown, Columbus, Kinkora, etc,
l.37, Al P. NJ. on sundays, 100 p Nj
For LumDerton, Medford, Marion ana hau-
donheld 9-35 A. NJ.
For yineentown, 1890, 6.l9 ?; NJ. o,s
For Toms River, Island Heights, etc. 92s'
9o2, a NJ, 2lo, Al, 5.44, p po,,,,,o,,on
For Trenton and New York, via femDettoih
and kinkora, 1877. Al p. M. sundays Ho''
For Hightstown, 7.OS AN. 40, 5.44 NJ. On
sundays 7O5 p. M
For Asbnry Park, Long Branch, etc. 1852, A NJ
2.l0, AL, p. Sundays l6. A. NJ
For Tuekerton and Beach Haven 9-92 A. NJ
For Beach Haven and Barnegat City, satur-
day only, 2.lOP NJ.
Trains teaue for Mount Holly as Jolto'os: =
From Philadelphia. 500, 6S5 $50, 30, l020.
ll.20 A. NJ 1890 l30 $40, 400, 40, 200, 9.zo'
6.lO, $50, 500, lO30 Il.45 P. NJ. On sundays,
80, $40 A. NJ, LOO geo, 1880 P. NJ.
From New York. via Trenton ana Burlington
500, 800 A. NJ, LOO, 100, 9OO P. NJ. 20 IN
From Trenton, IA, 9.25, lilo A. NJ, zoo ''-V'
100 p. NJ. 49,
From Burlington, Ssh 1906, II 80 A. NJ, 3d. a.4o
7.40 P. NJ. sundays As NJ.
From Asbnry Park GO, Hos A. M % =; N N: -
From Toms River, 600 7.57 A. Nj, l24l, SSZ Dol
p. NJ. Sundays $50 Z. NJ.
From Medford, ll.55 A. NJ. - 80
From Browns MilIs-in. the-Pines, 1.l6, So
A. M, 100 40, $50, 6.57 P. NJ. sundays, o.'''
6.55 p. M -
From Pemberton, (north) 6.s5. 7.l9, 7.2s s.51,
HOO A. N. 1910, ill., $50 ?. NJ sundays w
A. M. -
From Pemberton tsouthl, 1883. s.3I A. NJ 10"
54sP M on sun laws ) 80 ia p. NJ.
From Nincentown, 6.45 A. NJ, LBS p NJ ,coo
From Hightstown, via Pemberton, 6OO iuuO'
A NJ, 7.02 P. NJ. via Burlington, LUZ A. NJ
From Long Branch, 69s, HOO a. NJ. sos P. NJ
Sundays 90 P. M. !, A.
From Island Heights, 6.ss. 7.4s. A. NJ. 1928. S-s7
6.22P.M
S. NJ Provost, j. II. WOOD,
General Manager. Gen. Pass Agent
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A Democratic Family Tree.

The Irish teamster melted his army
mules with many adjectives and liberal
applications of his whip.
After many years experience he de-
cided that, while he could not get along
without the whip, yet in an emergency
he selected one sentence as being the
most touching, the most effective. ap-
peal to induce them to get to the front
with heavy load. 1t was this:
Get up, you mulel
No hope of posperityl
No pride of ancestry
Go, mule, gol
Senator Mills damns the Wilson
Voorhees, bill because it is too protect
i've for him
Senator Murphy foughtit until he got
collars and cuffs protected.
Senator Brice monkeyed with the Sug-
ar trust until he got things fixed to
suit himself.
Senator Hill mashed in the wishbone
of the income tax provision and sits in
the shadow of his tent waiting a good
chance to swipe it deathblow.
Chairman Wilson and Senator Voor-
hees look at the patched up affair and
swear it is not the child they nursed--
that it is a mule Its posterity and its
ancestry both go back ON it. Poor, poor
mulel
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HIS AWFUL THREAT.
That Hint About Another Story Brought
the Welcome Quarter.

That Hint About Another Story Brought
the Welcome Quarter.
Gentlemen, - said a smooth looking
man to the crowd in the cigar store. II
saw a funny thing today"
''What was it?'' asked three of the
crowd at the same time
The smooth looking man leaned
against a showcase and began: i was
going down the street this afternoon,
and as l was passing the postoffice /
heard quite a racket inside. l went in.
There was one of the big Irish women
who scrub out dancing around in the
middle of the lobby with pair of box
ing gloves ON her hands She was hit
ting out in all directions and had al
ready fioored couple of men. An alarm
was sent in, and pretty soon police
man came running down and arrested
her Just as he was about to haul her
out to the patrol box that stands on the
corner near by dignified looking man
stepped out of the crowd and said Let
that woman go Why should l let her
go? asked the policeman. Because the
United States government says that she
can do what she has been doing i
don't catch ON, replied the policeman.
Then read thatp shouted the dignified
looking man, pointing to the sign on
the wall. The policeman turned and
read sign, Letter Box. T"
The smooth looking man stopped here
and looked around expectantly No one
laughed
After depressing silence for a couple
of minutes one of the party said, "Well,
what's the joker
"Why," said the smooth looking
man, Letter box-let her box, see?
Let-her-box. meaning the woman
who had on the boxing gloves.
There was a succession of dismal
groans, and every one save the clerk
walked ont into the night After all
had gone the smooth looking man turned
to the clerk and said hurriedly: Say,
boss, l didn't mean nothing by that l
only wanted to get chance to talk
with You III private.
"What do you wantP" asked the
clerk.
The smooth looking man approached
him and said hoarsely. Il only want
quarter.
well, you don't get it "
The smooth looking mans face took
on a hard expression. Then / will tell
you another story, he said firmly.
mot on your life, you won'tr' shout
ed the clerk, producing the desired coin
And that is the way one man got his
drinks Buffalo Express.
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ESTABLISHED 1879

Bount1es are gifts or rewards from
the general government for services
which are OF will be for the public bene-
fit, and without which assistance Ger
tain industries and lines of business
could not otherwise be established
Observation-Disclosures the Mckinney
tariff the duty on sugar, which had
been about 9 cents a pound, was all
taken off, and sugar was admitted free,
gain to the country of over 500, 00O,-
600. By that act we should have utter
ly destroyed all the sugar planters OF the
country if the law had not provided
bounty of 2 cents a pound on all their
production, amounting to 50, 600, OOO.
We thus saved large and growing IN
dustry, and after paying the bounty mad
a net gain of sol, 600, 900.
Subsidies are similar gifts to enable
our people to build and operate steam
ships and other vessels, and so carry our
own mails and our own merchandise,
instead of relying upon other nations to
do 1t for us, to our great loss and dis
advantage
Reciprocity is an arrangement or
agreement between our own nation and
another nation by which we agree to
admit free of duty certain articles which
we need, but which we cannot raise or
produce here, and in return the other
nation admits to its ports free of duty
certain articles which we produce and
which they need, but cannot produce in
their own land
Brazil produces great
quantities of coffee and rubber, but does
not produce -four nor machinery. We
cannot produce coffee and rubber, but
we have a surplus of -four and machin-
cry We admit free of duty their coffee
and rubber, and they admit free of duty
our -four and machinery, and both ma
tions are benefited, their home produc-
tions are greatly increased, their mar
kets enlarged, and the laborers of each
country find additional work and i'm
droved wages at home.
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suBDuINa WILD BEASTS.
The Special Dangers of the Tanners of Lions
and Tigers.

The Special Dangers OF the Tanners OF Lions
and Tigers.
Now and then, for no reason that any
one can find, lion or tiger that has
been doing bis duty regularly and well
grows suddenly rebellious. He will no
longer balance ON the big ball, no lon
ger stand unprotestingly ON the seesaw
board, no longer ride the horse or jump
the hurdles. He comes out instead with
a plain, pointed leonine mo" for the
whole programme and proceeds to get
square with the game by tearing the
life out of some trainer or groom. APP
parently his pride and hate and revenge
are all stirred up together against all
surrounding conditions, and the people
to whom he has been most obedient are
the very ones he now desires most to
kill When tanners meet violent DEATH
it is often under one of these unforeseen
and inexplicable outbursts of madness.
But there is another and perhaps
subtler source of danger to tanners
Everything goes well for two or three
years, and the tanner, proud of his sue
cess aud swelling bank account, becomes
overconfident. One day he gets nip
from beast or scratch from tigers
claw. This will happen inevitably I'M
less the greatest watchfulness is en-
ployed, and without any vicious inten-
tion ON the part of the wild beast But
the wound fingers on hand or arm, for
wounds from a wild beasts claws or
fangs, however trifiing, are long in
healing and very painful. The member
swells to double its normal size The
wound tears open again and again, and
months pass before the man is healed.
The moral effect of such an experience
is bad Perhaps another bite or scratch
is incurred before the old one is quite
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winks That Pass In Che Night.

An ingenious Brooklyn statistician es-
Inmates that united Brooklyn has over
100, 900 cats, of which more than one
half are unsheltered. He considers it as
a conservative estimate that 10 per cent
of the 1, 900, 900 inhabitants of our sis
ter city are kept awake at night by the
bowling of the 100, 600. This makes
one case of insomnia per cat and leads
one to the conclusion that Brooklyn is a
very sleepless city. If cats and insomnia
prevail with equal virulence in other
cities, it would follow that there are
5000, 900 cats and 6, 900, 900 cases of in
somnia in America Yet no notice is
taken of this pathogenic factor by sys-
tematic writers ON sleep Medical Rec
ord
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Misplaced.

1t is a curious fact that success Is
sometimes won by those who have no
enthusiasm for the profession they fol-
low. Fanny Kemble was by no means
fond of acting and would gladly have
left the stage earlier had not circum-
stances bound her there.
A brilliant young violinist played one
day for Mrs, Gladstone, and the latter
said to her;
us there anything you care more for
than your Stradivarius?'
The young lady oolored little. ''The
violin is not an absorbing passion with
me, " she replied modestly.
perhaps you have artistic talentr"
the hostess suggested.
Indeed l have not, was the honest
response. But, Mrs. Gladstone, love
TO cook. / really believe l could make
a chef if had the opportunity to prac-
tice. Youth $ Companion.
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Concessions and Aceessions

Senator Brice, with much difficulty, is
explaining to his Ohio constituents the
many concessions he has been compelled
to make in order to secure the passage
of the Wilson bill. The senate investi-
eating committee expect him to tell
very soon the number of accessions to
his already accumulated trust fund the
tariff manipulation has added.
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The question whether there be such a
thing as a tidal wave | once asked the
captain of an Atlantic liner. "Oh,
yes, . he answered; I'VE keep a tidal
wave for the passengers and the newspa-
pers. If you want to know what II real
ly is, | will tell you. 1t is when pow
erful ship is driven through a head sea
at such speed that before she can clear
herself of one big wave she is into a Sec
ond. The second and first together are
too much for the ship, and she carries
away deckhouse on bridge or boat or
two. That is tidal wave. Cor.
New York Tribune.
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The Democratic party, after a wait
of 10 months, have at last an opportu-
nifty to rejoice in genuine boom. The
rivers throughout the north and great
west have swollen to great floods. This
Is about the only thing that has oc-
,urred since March, 1898, that Demo-
ratic stupidity could not prevent.
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Secretary Carlisle has not yet decid-
ed whether the forthcoming issue of
bonds shall be for $50, 900, 600 or $50, :
600, 900. The present deficit is about
&7S, 900, 600 Some of his advisers think
he had better cover the whole amount
by the new issue, as he will not be able
to make another issue before January.
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COLOR HEARING.
DIR. Colman's Interesting Theory About the
Relation of sounds to Color.


Relation of sounds to Color.
John Lockes blind man. who hazard
ed the guess that the color scarlet was
probably something like the sound of a
trumpet, is generally thought to have
simply spoken according to his lights,
or rather lack of lights, but it appears
from DR.. w S Colmans articles ON
this subject that we have now laid the
foundation of a science of color hearing
The term is defined by him as applying
to the special case in which color sem
sation is excited by some auditory slim
ulus-as, for example, by the pronun'
citation of the vowel sounds. It is not a
matter of association, as in the case OF
the ''shrill squeak evoked by the filing
Of a saw or the drawing Of slate PEN
oil down slate. DIR. Colman estimates
the number of people who possess the
faculty of color hearing as under IL
per cent and mentions a case described
by Flournoy, in which the vowel Il"
awakened the impression of an orange
circle with an "i' in black in the CEN
ter.
Ineophile bhuViol, uiiuti 'hu I'M"
ence of hasheesh, heard the sound equiv
alents whatever they may have beem of
various colors The notion is, at all
events, of respectable antiquity. DIR.
Colman cites as believers in color hear
ing Hoffman, Goethe and Hans Sachs
and refers to the case of st. Catharine
of Siena, who had bright red color
sensation whenever she saw or thought
of the host. " The Lancet, which COM
ments learnedly ON DIR Colman's theo-
ries, feels disposed TO think that the red
ribbon which adorns the dark blue bon
net of the female members of the Sal
walton Army is parallel case and not
difficult to explain ON the principles OF
conventional metaphor. London News.
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Sweitzer cheese is comparatively un-
known in Ireland; hence the mistake OF
an Irish immigrant employed by down
town grocer. His first job was to go
down the cellar to slice off 10 pounds of
sweitzer cheese. He came running up
the cellar and astonished his employer
by saying the cheese was full of mice
and reaches, aud he knew what he
stated was right, because he had seen
the holes whore they went in. -Phila-
delnhin Gall.