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The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1894-01-16

81 took most every kind of medicine
that could hear of, with no good results
until commenced on DIR. Greene's Ner
vura blood and nerve remedy, which re-
lieyed me of nervousness and gave me
strength so that l was able to walk ano
work. | consider DIR. Greene's Nervnrs
blood and nerve remedy the best medicine
there is for nervousness and to give
strength to any weak person"
Then personally appeared before me l.
w. Porter, of West Berlin, VT, to me per
sonally known, and subscribed and swort
to the truth of the foregoing statement"
CARLOS l.. SMITH, Notary Public.
Well may Mr.. Porter be called hero
well may every inhabitant of the civilized
world read of his experience and we'll may
all mankind rejoice at its termination
The horrible sufferings which he exper-
fenced from disease were even worse thar
those of the war and prison. But he is {
we'll man at last and cannot say enough
in praise of this remarkable remedy
His restoration to health after so many
years of suffering is indeed most wonder
| full.
If you are suffering from any form o
nervous or chronic disease, indigestion
weakness, kidney or liver complaint, take
DR.. Greenes Nervura blood and nerve
remedy. 1t will cure you.
Dr. Greene the noted specialist in thu
cure of all nervous and chronic disease
can be consulted at his Office, 80 Yves
18th St, New York, free, personally or By
letter.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1894-01-16
MEMORIES OF THE WAR.
The Horrors Of Libby Prison
Revived.
An Event Which Will Surprise Even Old
Soldiers.
The Most Wonderful Experience of the
Army Ever Recorded.

We never tire of hearing of the thrilling
adventures of the war and the wonderful
escapes from Libby Prison. The recent
removal of this famous Jail to Chicago
renders any facts about it at this tint
par .icularly interesting.
most fascinating story has just come
to us of man who passed five months OF
agony in this prison. The experiences oil
this person during and since the war are
the most remarkable that have ever been
brought to public notice. This man is
none other than the well-kEown Mr.. l.
w. Porter, of West Berlin, Vt. He writes
the following interesting letter:
"Snce my return from the war my
health has been growing poorer from ex-
posure and hard service and the horrors
of five months imprisonment in Libby
prison. came home a complete wreck
and was sick for a whole year. during
which time / did no work at all being
confined to my bed for about halfthe time
AFTER l got up | was so weak that
could not walk but short distance and
then was obliged to stop and rest. About
two years ago found myself in very
bad condition with nervous prostration
the results Of my long time poor health.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1894-01-16

The doctor of hospital ship COM
planned to a visitor of lazy colored man
whom he could do nothing with. eve
don't like to throw the rascal out, but il
is easily seen he is only shamming."
well, doctor" said the visitor, after
little reflection, 'lend me few yards
of string and that niger will be miles
away before night"
He got the Irvine, and putting ON a
melan choly air he went to the darby s
berth.
Every bad?' he said.
Eyes, massa," replied Sambo. "Dreb-
full sick"
The visitor made no further remark,
but placed one end of the Irvine at his
head and drew it slowly-very slowly
until it reached his toes. Then he meas
ured him across the chest. The fellow
looked the picture of establishment and
terror and gasped:
'What dis for?"
MY poor fellow, the doctor knows you
are not going to recover, and it is only
an expense keeping you here without any
chance of doing you good. have just
been taking your measure"-here he low
cred his voice still more-"for coffin.
Wen bury you with honors tomorrow.
It's the custom here in case like yours.
'Tis best for all hands, You know"
No one knew how or when the negro
got clear of the hospital ship, but there
was no trace of him in the morning. -
London Tit-Bits
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1894-01-16
weddlne wreaths Of the world.

The wreath which graces the head of
bride ON her wedding day has been sung
by more poets, even the great ones like
Schiller, than any other .chaplet of fame
or honor In the early days the Jews
saw in the wreath a sign of what for
them was the most beautiful and pre-
cious-the promised land-and of the
myrtle the bridal crown was woven.
Later this myrtle wreath became the
symbol of womanly purity and as such
is worn by every girl bride in Germany.
In many parts Of Germany the sprigs
from which the wreath shall be twined
must be taken at fixed hour of the
night between certain holy days. And
in both Denmark and Germany families
possess myrtle trees which have for quite
a generation or more furnished the
bridal wreaths at family weddings. In
Greece the myrtle and the rose were con-
sidered the favorite flowers of Venus,
the twining of the two together signify
ing the union Of love and virtue. In
England, in France and in Poland, as in
America, the orange blossom reigns SUI
preme in wedding chaplets. In Italy the
white rose has taken the place of the ey-
ergreen and fragrant myrtle wreath. In
Spain it is the red, red rose that adorns
bride, and Portugal's wedding flower
ia the carnation. New York SIM.
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IOusneSss InuIgtslIUH OF UybpeP5Iai use
DR.. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1894-01-16

l knew an old negro in Tennessee who
reioicees in the name of Niagara Falls.
His companions have shortened it to Mig
ger Falls, but he was really christened
after the great cataract.
| also knew a colored woman who proud
ly tells you that her name is Virginia
Georgia Alabama South. Another, who
enjoys the cognomen of Amanda June Day
is a schoolteacher and signs her name A.
June Day.
In Mississippi town was passing
along a side street when coal black ne
gress came out of door shouting" Glory,
Glory Halleluiahr' / thought she was
crazy and stopped to see what she would
do next.
She looked around a moment and then
repeated her call, louder than before. This
time / heard the answer from behind a
fence:
"Yere is, ma am. What yo' want?"
"Nebber yo' min what l want You
come here
Immediately there appeared from be-
hind the fence one of the blacklist picca-
ninnies ever saw, and on inquiry ! learn
ed that his name was Glory Halleluiah
Jones.-St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1894-01-16

BY means of a peculiarly unique inn
provement in wheel molding machines,
wheels are now cast in sections in the
same mold, SO that the various parts mt
with perfect accuracy when finished and
bolted together. In the ordinary types OF
wheel molding machines the block is car
ried round the mold on a radial arm, sup
ported on a column in the center of the
mold, or the mold itself is rotated while
the block remains stationary, the center OF
rotation in eitherscase remaining fixed. 1t
is obvious that if the whole of wheel re-
Quired to be cast in two sections were
nodded at once in machine having fix
ed center of rotation, it would be found
when removed from the mold, and the
edges planned up, that each of the two
parts would be less than semicircle to
the extent of the metal removed by plan
ing, so that the whole would not form
true circle. 1t has been customary, there
fore, to mold each half separately in dis
tinct molds. In this new machine, how
ever, as described in the Philadelphia Rec
ord, the radial arm is mounted on an axis
which may be set at any required degree
of eccentricity to the center of the pillar,
so that, while the axis of rotation of the
radial arm is in one position, any desired
portion of the wheel can be nodded. The
axis of rotation may then be altered to
another position, and then another portion
of the wheel nodded until the requisite
sections are completed York Sun.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1894-01-16
A Poultry Problem.

Peter Collier, director of the New
bulletin issued results gained in endeav
ors to settle the question whether hens
will lay as well when kept away from
males. He reports pen of eight pullets
kept without a male produced eggs at
about 80 per cent less cost than an ex-
actly similar pen with which a cockerel
was kept. Another pen without male
gave during the first three months about
the same proportionate excess of product
over aneexactly similar pen with which
cockerel was kept. Then the feather
eating habit developed, and the egg
product diminished, but during eight
months the total egg yields for each pen
was very nearly alike. In each of the
two pens without male birds some pull
let's had begun to lay from one to two
months earlier than any in the CORE
spending pens where male birds were
kept.
The feather eating usually appears
after feeding for any length of time an
UNMARRIED ration deficient in some con-
stituents, more especially heterogeneous
matter, but the habit has developed from
idleness among fowls having a ration
which gave satisfactory results with
other similar pens Of fowls fed at the
same time. The vice should be stamped
out by the removal of the first offender.
The somewhat close confinement neces-
sary in any trial where careful account
Of the food is kept will always make the
conditions more or less unfavorable to
the largest egg production.
In these experiments no attempt was
made to force the laying, and the broody
fowls were allowed to sit at will. there
being many nest boxes in each pen.
About the same number became broody
in pens having male birds as in those
without. The trials show that where
the eggs are not used for Matching it is
neither necessary nor economical to KEEP
a male bird with laying hens for egg
production
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1894-01-16

Farmer, will hardly fail to find favor.
It will be found of special service in
barns, cellars, storerooms, etc., where
heavy articles have to be moved up or
down stairs.
This ingenious labor saving device is
80 simple in its construction as to admit
of its adoption wherever required. II
consists merely of stout door of strong,
hard wood, so attached to the wall that
it will fit down snugly over the steps
when wanted for use.
When not needed, it can be easily and
quickly turned up against the cellar
wall and held in place by means of a
catch.
This handy continuance renders the
lowering of barrels into cellars or the
elevating of the same into upper stories a
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1894-01-16

Pasteurizing apparatus for diaries and
creameries is now made in Germany and
shipped to this country. But it need not
be. Let some of the dairy chemists at
our agricultural stations take the mat
ter in hand and invent a pasteurizing ap-
paratus of their own. 1t was an agricul-
tural experiment station professor that
gave the world the Babcock milk and
cream test. That is what these stations
are for-to find new and better ways of
doing things for the farmer, live stock
breeder and dairyman.
Two hundred men cannot run cream
cry successfully when they all want to
be boss and not one of them knows any
thing about the creamery business.
The late secretary of agriculture, Jere-
miah Rusk, had he remained in Office,
would next have taken up, in the inter-
ests of American dairymen and cream
erymen, the especial investigation of ole
omargarine manufacture
One milkman who does not deliver
milk on Sunday says he carries Satur-
day evenings milk around late on Satur-
day night for his customers Sunday use,
while the Sunday nights milk he deliv-
ers on Monday morning.
Both creameries and private dairymen
should pay more attention to the devel-
opment of a cream trade. There are great
possibilities in it.
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A lady correspondent has this to say;
81 want to give piece of my mind to 9
certain class who object TO advertising
when it costs them anything-this won't
cost them a cent
suffered living death for nearly two
years with headaches, backache, in pair
standing or walking, was being literally
dragged out of existence, my misery in
creased by drugging.
At last, in despair. | committed the sir
of trying an advertised medicine, DIR
Pierce's Favorite Prescription, and it re-
stored me to the blessedness of sound
health. | honor the physician who when
he knows he can cure, has the mora
courage to advertised the facts"
The medicine mentioned is guaranteed
to cure the delicate diseases peculiar tc
females, as Female Weakness" periodi
cal pains, irregularities. nervous prostra
ton, spasms, chorea or st. Vitus's Dance
sleeplessness, threatened insanity.
To permanently cure constipation, bill
iousness, indigestion or dyspepsia, use
DR.. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1894-01-16
A Help to shop Ding.

The passion for shopping is strong
one in the breast of the average Ameri-
can woman, and now that the perpetual
variety show idea has taken root in this
town we are likely to see even more
widely developed cases of shopping
mania than heretofore. Formerly the
time always came when even the most
rabid shopper was obliged to go home
and rest and change the current of her
ideas. Now, when she gets tired after
four hours struggle at the bargain
counters, she can wander into a conven-
lent theater, get cup of tea for
cents, write letters or kilograms, do a
little sewing, have the use of powder
boxes, hairpins, curling irons and slip
pers, and rest for as many hours as she
wishes in the seclusion of the dressing
room set aside for that purpose. Then
she can go into the main body of the
theater, see as much Of the variety show
as her fancy Graves, and after thus be-
ing refreshed mentally and physically
go forth again to the conflicts of the
bargain counters. Altogether the wom-
ems variety theater is likely to have a
farreaching effect ON future generations
of feminine New Workers. New York
Sun
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1894-01-16

A friend in need is friend indeed, and
not less than one million people have
found just such friend in DR.. Kings New
Discovery for Consumption, Coughs and
Colds.-If you have never used this Great
Cough Medicine one trial will convince you
that it has wonderful curative powers in all
diseases of Throat, Chest and Lungs.
Each bottle is guaranteed to do all that is
claimed or money will be refunded. Trial
bottles free at Elmer D. Pricktt's drug
stores, Mount Holly and LumbeIton,
Large bottles SOC, and $l.00.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1894-01-16

A returning traveller from Italy tells the
story of an American fellow wanderer in
Rome Like some other travellers tales
it is to be taken no doubt with certain
grains of allowance.
The second American, who had come
from the plains of the west, visited the
Vatican and was courteously shown over
the papal palace. He asked many ques-
tions and desired to see everything.
After all the customary sights had been
shown the priest who had attended him
asked:
''Is there anything else, Signc- Ameri-
can, that you would like to see?"
"There's one thing" answered the
American, "that l want TO see more than
anything else, and / hain't been on the
edge of it yet.
"What is that, signors"
"The cattle pens"
"The cattle pensS Why, we have moth
ing of the sort, signor."
"You hain't? Then where in the world
do you keep them papal bulls that we're
always hearin abouty' '-Youth's Com
panion.
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The usual treatment of catarrh is very
unsatisfactory, as thousands can testify
Proper local treatment is positively neces
sary to success, bnt many, if not most, &
the remedies in general use afford bu
temporary relief A cure certainly can
not be expected from snuffs, powders
douches and washes. Ely's Cream Balm
which is so highly commended, is rem
edy which combines the important re
quisities of quick action, specific curative
power, with perfect safety and pleasant
ness to the patient. The druggists all sci
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1894-01-16

The best salye in the world for cuts
bruises, sores. ulcers, salt rheum, fever
sores, letter, chspped hands, chilblains,
and corns, all skin eruptions.and positive
ly cures piles, or no pay required. Il it
guaranteen to give perfect satisfaction OF
money refunded. Price % cents per box.
For sale by Elmer d. Prickitt, Mt. Holly
and Lumberton.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1894-01-16
winter Gardening In the North.

From the Ohio station comes some in
teresting items about winter gardening
in the cold states by having glass rooted
houses. So far only the smaller vege-
tables are grown under these glass rooted
gardens, such as radishes, lettuce. toma-
toes and cucumbers. But eventually
peas. beans. elephants, caulifiowers and
other vegetables, as well as fruits, will
be features Of these gardens Of the fu-
ture. The initial cost of inclosing the
gardens with glass and the cost of heat
ing are both being reduced every year as
improvements are made. When heat
ing is reduced one-half and the cost of
covering an acre of land with glass does
not amount to much more than to fer
tilize the fields Of today, garden vege-
tables will be presented fresh to us at
Christmas time as well as in the early
spring days.
Fancy vegetables and fruits are more
profitable under glass than common
specimens. for the southern states and
the canned goods supply the market
with the latter. The northern winter
farmer must produce extra fancy goods
or none at all. In order to do this, the
bulletin says that very fine, well com
posted manure and soil should be used,
and watering and heating should be
studied as a science. With the best of
conditions the plants will produce excel
lent results.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1894-01-16

There was an order in the Church OF
England up to the year 1863, that if q
child died within a month of baptism he
should be buried in his chrisom in lieu
of shroud. The chrisom was white
baptismal robe with which in medieval
times child when christened was en-
veloped. A sixteenth century brass in
Gresham Bots church in Buckingham-
shire represents Benedict Lee, chrisom
child, in his chrisom cloth. The inscrip-
ton underneath the figure stands thus:
OF Rogr Lee, gentilma here lyeth the son,
Benedict Lee, crysom who's soule Thu pdo.
Westminster Gazette.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1894-01-16

Mack-You can't blame me for
laughing when you say such ridicu-
lous things. They're enough to make
horse laugh.
Jack-Then let the horse laugh.
When ] say anything sufficiently ridicu-
lous to raise the risibilities of donkey,
why, then you are at liberty to laugh
as long and as loud as you please. =
Boston Transcript.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1894-01-16

She-How is it you were not at West
ends reception?
He-I staid away on account of per
sonal matter.
She-May ask what it WASP
He-Will you promise to keep it secreti
She-Yes.
He-Well, they failed to send me an in
vitation. Chaff.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1894-01-16

Head of Department What's this ly-
ing on my desk? The last dunning let
ter received from my tailor duly ini-
tailed by all my clerksl Obi dear, what
have | donea Actually sent it round
to be duly noted without taking the
trouble to look at iti-Fliegende Blat-
ter.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1894-01-16

Cook-Yes, my mistress is a prima
donna and horrible creature. She
treats me like the dirt beneath her feet,
but | revenge myself by opening the
drawing room window when she is not
at home and by bowling with all my
might, so that the neighbors may think
her voice is cracked. -Fliegende Batter
ssz&SEsQ
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1894-01-16
THE DEADLY ELECTRIC WIRE.
How to Handle 1t In Accidents without
Danger to Life.

How to Handle 1t In Accidents without
Danger to Life.
Now that all of our cities and many of
the country villages are threaded with live
electric wires, it becomes one OF the first
essentials of practical education to instruct
all classes and conditions of people re-
Qarding these elements of danger and or
possible death. Now as matter OF fact
it is quite possible to handle heavily
charged electric wire, without danger, II
it is done in the right way. 1t is only
necessary that the agent used shall be a
nonconductor of electricity, and that great
care shall be taken not to allow the dan
gerous wire to touch the human flesh. An
experienced electrician gives the following
suggestions, which it would be worth
while for every reader to keep in mind,
since no one can possibly tell when it may
be necessary to apply some such knowl-
edge as is here given
''For the purpose of removing danger
Gus wire, there is nothing better nor more
convenient than the coat one has on his
back. There is not wire in use in Bos-
ton that cannot be handled without the
slightest risk with a piece of cloth. 1t Is
almost as good a nonconductor as rub
Der, ana q coat IS really DeUUer tAdu FupDer
gloves, as they are thin, and the wire will
burn through them more quickly than it
would through several thicknesses of a
coat. There is nothing safer for removing
a wire than a stick. With a stick or a
piece of board wire can be lifted from
an object and held suspended while it is
being removed, without danger to the per-
son holding the stick.
''In fact, anything that is not metallic
is perfect safeguard from an electric cur
rent if it is properly and carefully handled;
that is so that the hand is completely re-
moved from all danger of contact with the
wire. In the use of all these appliances
there should be no delay, as there is al
ways danger, if much time elapses, OF the
wires burning through the article used
and thus coming in contact with the hand.
In fact, it is much like handling hot
piece of iron, and the precautions to be OBJ
served are much the same. For the want
of anything better newspaper can bt
used with safetys.in handling even heav.
lily charged wire, but it should be folded
as many times as is practicable, on account
of its burning SO readily. But of al
things anything metallic should be avoid
ed. Good Housekeeping.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1894-01-16

Is undoubtedly a disease ofthe blood, and
as such only reliable blood purifier can
effect a perfect and permanent cure.
Hoods Sarsaparilla is the best blood puri-
fer, and it has cured many very severe
cases of catarrh, Catarrh oftentimes
leads to consumption. Take Hoods Sar-
saparllla before it is too late.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1894-01-16

Best Fashion Journal published. Is
sued monthly, only so cents year, post
pad--worth $500. Mail FIVE 2-cent
stamps for a copy and be convinced, to
]. H. RINeor & Co., Publishers, Union
J Square, N. Y.
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In Had company.

Learned Judge (severely)-John Jones,
the jury have taken avery lenient view
of the case. You have had very mar
row escape, and it should be lifelong
warning to you. After this you ought
to keep away from bad company.
John Jones-Yes, yer honor, ye won't
see me here again in hurry. Judy.
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Porter-Yes, sir; that man is hyp-
ocrite, if there ever was one. While
protesting the warmest friendship for
me, he was for whole year stabbing
me in the back, and / never knew it.
Irwin--Goodness graciousi What
kind of back have you got?- Grenoble
ManfhIv