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The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1896-08-04
Rastus' n,rthd.v

In the northern part Of Georgia I
came upon negro cabin, and, as APP
preached, it became evident that some
extraordinary commotiOn was going on
within. In fact, shouts and yells Of ter
ror succeeded one another so rapidly
that hastened to see what could be the
trouble.
AS drew rein before the door half
. dozen ragged pickaninnies ran out
All but one CT them were screaming
and crying at the tops Of their voices.
while the odd one, as merry as the 9TH
ers were sad, began tumbling cart
wheels and standing ON his head. At
this moment man, evidently the head
Of the household, appeared in the door
way, and in answer to my inquiries
gave me the following explanation of
the mystery:
Eyer see, sab, dis is 'Rastus' birf-
day." indicating the one whose joyful
antics l have just mentioned. ''Now,
pze powerful hard up jes' at presen'
an didn't hab no money ter celebrate in
de usual way. An it jes' bruk me all up
ter see de res habin jes' as much fun
ON 'Rastus' birfday as 'Rastus was
habin hisself So, times bein so hard.
de only way could see was ter glib der
res all lickin, an dat kinder raises
'Rastus up ober de odders"
A quarter flung to 'Rastus proved q
charm that raised him still higher and
dried the tears of the others in an in
slant. Happier children than these same
piokaninnies as rode away. a moment
later. 1t would be hard to find. Youths
Companion
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! lot, but 1t dsdnt go. ia after gitrin a
few swift kicks A 81 SOME q tn gang,
out he walks, woscin less in tn knees
and shalxin all over, mes up in TIL
street. Cheyenne Rike2Mas master o.
ceremonies. Twenty PAGES, gents, says
he. Shoot an advance ashootin. Air
ye ready? One, two, three--firep
How twas did, nobody ever even
guessed. Ben was 8 good a shot as they
was in Wyoming. Maybe tn ledge
was, too; but he was so shAky they say
he cd hardly hold his gun Anyways,
they was only four r five shots took
then pore ole Ben throws up is ham 8
an drops-Sherman'd got i'm in tn
forehead, slick an clean.
while they was pickis Ben up an
carryin i'm inside, Sherman got lost in
tn shuttle Eff he hadn't he'd "a sho'
BEN killed. But he sneaks off an lays
low som 'eres an nobody sees i'm ontell
late that day.
Bout supper time one o. tn boys
comes rushin intuh tn Eagle Bird en-
sid BILE frustrated. VIVA dye think,
boys? says he, wen he ketched lis
breath. 'Th' Wilder Buck and that
skunk Sherman is spliceal'
90 course tn gang thinks he's joshin
an snorts at i'm quite a lot, but he
sticks t. tn story. Yessir. he says,
they was tied up an hour ago b. ledge
Billings. It's straight
can SO it was Pore Ben want even
stiff, mr. they hadn' t got i'm laid out,
b'fore that son of a gun an tn wilder
was hitched duly 'cordin t. law. o.
course tn boys shiVereed 'em, and then
give 'em three hours t. leave town, but
that didn't do no good. ledge Sherman
had the wilder an 'er wad, an pore ole
Ben gifts nothin but bang up funeral
an six feet O. dirt t. lay in.
"All tn ole gang th't went intuh tn
Sweetwater rush r'members all about
this yarn; an. say, I'll bet they wa MT
one O. 'em but what's ben more r less
leary O. widders sence then. They re
mighty queer sort O. cattle, these women
folks, an gives 'em up. ''-Exchange
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1896-08-04

The silver bug should not delude him
self with the idea that the only enemy
he has to combat is the goldbug. There
are others. The copper bug is abroad in
the land His arguments are finding
fixed Judgment in the minds Of many
who have rejected the goldbug and the
silver bug
Every argument advanced for free sill.
yer applies with greater force to free
copper. The widows mite was copper.
The money Of the poor is copper. 1t has
been coined into money by nearly al
the nations of the earth for q Thousand
years.
If the government with its stamp car
make SO cents Of silver worth a full dol.
lar, it can make 3 cents worth Of copper
worth 81.
If the So cent silver dollar will bring
prosperity and give money TO all the
people, the 3 cent copper dollar will
bring those blessings in greater measure.
If the debtor can save AZ cents on
every dollar under free silver, he can
save 81 cents on every dollar by paying
with a cent copper dollar.
The copper bug certainly has better
scheme than the silver bug. If the argu-
ments Of the silver bug are sound, those
Of the copper bug are sounder.
But let us suspend Judgment, breth-
rem, until we hear from the man with
the leather dollar. = Chicago Times
Herald.
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The People Of Madeira,

They are as harmless as their coun-
try. The stranger meets with no snakes,
and need not fear mosquitoes, neither
has he to take any precautions against
being molested in the most out of the
way parts. Everywhere ciyility. polite
ness and pleasant faces will greet him.
The prices asked are grotesque-often
five times what will be finally accepted.
Some find the absence of fixed prices
abroad great nuisance. but the bar
gaining in Madeira is SO good humored
and can be. made so amusing that the
change of custom in this respect is rath-
er refreshink -. s..
There is one rss1 may aeeouni
for the comparatively few visitors I'd
the island-there are neither golf links
nor cycling roads All Madeira can dc
is to provide very limited cricket
ground and five miles Of fairly level
road, Most of the ways near the city
are paved with ''nubbly" stones and
are trying to the feet. but in the country
this paving ceases. Good Words.
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wAN1gD-1aags THOUSAND WIVES.


a lily ON Vancouver lbl800 W mere w omen
Are ~ Premium.
There is a city in the western part of
Canada, close to the Pacific ocean,
which is named by all who visit it the
most desolate spot upon the face Of the
earth. Its climate is good, it's natural
resources excellent, its houses fair, its
streets we'll paved. yetwithin this town
there is an air of forlorn detection that
strikes the most careless traveller that
comes within Its boundary.
It is on Vancouver island--a sweet,
fair spot. And the desolation is caused
by one thing-one only--the lack Of
women and girls. q
product than others Or its locality.
There are many towns upon the island,
but this one lacks women SO sadly that
in recent census of the place it was
found nearly 8, 600 short. This number
included count OF serving women,
women to do the work Of the house,
| cook and wash and iron. It also included
working girls and women who are not
expected to marry. And, of course, il
took in the queens of the city, the fail
matrons Of the homes and the mistresses
of the pretty Establishments
Today the doorsteps of these hou JET
yawn vacantly and the vines futterine
over the portals seem to say, She comes
not yet.
The greatest bargain sale Of wives
ever known took place upon recently
opened domain a few years ago. A
frantic call was sent to the cities for loo
women. And poor girls out Of fun and
curiosity and willingness to have q
home, went out there. The men met
them at the station. The girls looked
them over shyly. By wening all the
girls had found boarding places in the
wooden shanties of the town" And
by Sunday the parson was kept busy ty
ing the nuptial knots. The prettiesI
girls and the richest ones got the
wealthiest men. A girl with $50 was al
heiress and a man with 500 prince.
The plain girls took up with poor fel
lows, with hopes and chances. 1t was 9
quick, natural selection
One very handsome fellow, witt
blond curls, got very pretty girl
though neither had cent 1t was case
of beauty. The rude courtship was car
ried ON in the three evenings between
the time the gvls arrived and Sunday
and within week there were nearly
100 small wooden houses going up IL
the town.
There is no name for this peculiar
state of society where women are want
ed to make homes and where money Il
laid down for them and paid to them tt
queen it over home. A glazing head
line in an English paper once called il
"The Barter of Women In America
But among those who see the satisfac
tory after workings it Is merely thu
good natured consent of the girls to ad
just themselves to their country, which
is yet new enough not to be as evenly
distributed as twill be when the TWEEN
ty-first century man and woman com'
in.-St. Louis Globe Democrat
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TIE SOULS SONG.

A captive In restricted cell confined.
My spirit scars despite grim walls and bars
And stDestk when fl secs the mystic stars.
And when soft moonbeams. kind, ashanti have
shined,
As though my clustered soul they had OWNED
When cooling zephyrs herald day in east,
And bird Threats answer make from tree and
vine
To deeper song my soul doth e'er incline
And longs at mathis to assist as priest,
Alas, may not join the vocal feast
Rich clustered jewels pass my thought in train,
Which lose their order ere they reach my
tongue:
Only their Swallowed form by me is sung.
Conceived in pleasure, told, alas, in pain,
AS some wild bird is captured, but when slain
Not Away in prison wall of clay
Shall my poor restricted song deplore:
Beyond the paths ethereal clouds explore,
When sunset leaves ajar its opal door,
I'll Fing, unfettered, at the dawn of day.
Arthur Howard Hall.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1896-08-04

AS there are great many references
in our scientific exchanges Of late to
the influence Of electricity on germinat-
ing seeds and growing plants we will
state that such experiments are not
new. Researches in that line were car
ried on away back in the fifties. In 1868
II. f. Baxter of Scotland wrote as fol-
lows in The British Botanical Review:
GAS it may be considered law in
vegetable physiology that all plants
have tendency during the termination
of their seeds to develop in two diamet-
REALLY opposite directions, the root and
the stem, the question arose, Might
not this direction be influenced or coun-
teracted by submitting the terminating
seeds to current of electricity? Accord
ingly, a series Of experiments were I'M
dertaken which were carried out with
elaboration of detail After months Of
patient experimenting feel justified in
announcing that no definite conclusions
were drawn from them as to the rela-
tive effect of the electricity, although
each series of experiments was varied
and multiplied. st Louis Republic.
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x RAYS CAN BE SEEN.
Their Effects on Different Parts of the
Human Eye.

Their Effects Different Parts of the
Human Eye.
DIR. Brandes of the University of
Halle has succeeded in rendering directly
visible the x rays discovered by Pro-
fessor Roentgen. The observation made
by Professor Salvioni. an Italian physi-
cist that lenses are in very slight de-
gree penetrable by Roentgen's rays,
suggested to DIR. Brandes the idea that
the invisibility might be due to circum-
stances connected with this fact. He &C.
cordingly resolved to test the effect Of
Roentgen's rays on lenseless eyes.
There are many people who have had
the lenses Of their eyes removed as q
remedy for extreme shortsightedness or
for cataract A girl who had had this
operation performed on both eyes, but
in whose right eye remnant of the lens
had been left, allowed the experiment
to be tried upon her.
Professor Dorm, whom DIR. Brandes
had interested in the investigation, SUBJ
jected the girl quite unexpectedly to the
rays, and, when the strong current
poScCO bA1OuSu buo buDOS Nu1Cu udu DocA
totally darkened, she declared that she
saw light with her left eye Professors
Dorm and Brandes at first thought it
possible that spark had leaped across,
but, when this had been rendered impos-
sible, the girl continued to declare that
she saw light
On further trying the experiment. the
two savants saw the light too They
then continued their Investigations and
ascertained that Roentgen s rays really
affect the retina If we place our head,
completely inclosed in an entirely
Opaque vessel, near the source of the
rays, we see light even with the closed
eyes, and we see it most clearly at the
periphery. Moreover, we continue to see
1t even when a large aluminium plate,
which would completely exclude electric
rays, is placed between Hittorf tube
aud the eye. Utter darkness, on the
other hand, results if thick pane of
glass, which, as is we'll known, is only
In a very slight degree penetrable by
Roentgen's rays. is placed between the
tube and the closed or covered eye
Berlin Cor, London Standard.
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Wedding Postponed.

Sharp Dame-I must frankly tell
you, Mr.. Meek, that my consent to your
marrying with my daughter has been
wrung from me under protest.
Mr.. Meek-Eh? Protest?
Sharp Dame-Yes, sir. / knew that
if l did not consent she would disgrace
the family by an elopement. When she
wants anything, we all have to give in
to her or take the consequences. and
long experience has taught me that /
might as well try to fan off Cyclone as
reason with her when she gets mad,
especially if there is fatiron or roll
ing pin handy. and SO l just give right
up at once. Has the wedding day been
set yet, Mr.. Meek2"
Mr.. Meek-Um-er-not yet, and,
In fact, madam. I'm-I'm little
afraid 1 can't afford to marry very soon
anyhow. Goo-good day. New York
Weekly.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1896-08-04
WHAT THEY EAT IN EGYPT.
KabOb and Green Cakes Form an Ep
curean Meal For Five Cents.

KGbOb and Green Cakes Form an Epi-
curean Meal For Five Cents.
Margherita Arlina Hamm, clever
writer on the New York Mail and Ex-
press, says that every country has its
own little delioacies, and the British
soldiers who pour into Egypt undoubt-
edly buy from the street hawkers the
green cakes, and possibly the kabobs,
for which the land Of the Nile is ia
nous.
The kabob is broiled meat, but is
broiled In so ridiculous a fashion as TO
be really funny. The peddler uses lit
tie charcoal furnace, something like
those in use by our plumbers. In 1t he
keeps mp a small but hot fire. Attached
to the side of the furnace is a lot of
iron skewers. When a customer ap-
proaches, the hawker takes a small piece
of meat, mutton or goat, the latter being
the most popular, cuts it with a sharp
knife into a long ribbon, winds il around
the skewer and places 1t over the char
coal fire. Some Of the drippings are COL
looted, and, with little salt or salt and
spice, makes pleasant sauce for the
kabOb when it is done. The cooking is
very rapid. What with the heat Of the
fire and the thinness of the meat, it is
thoroughly done in two or three minutes.
The green cakes are nothing more or
less than small wheaton cakes mixed
with chopped green leaves Of various
kinds sailed and baked in a slow oven.
They are pale yellow, yellow gray and
brOwnish gray, with irregular splashes
of green on both the upper and lower
surfaces. They are said to be very nour-
ishing, and they are certainly very ap-
petizing and palatable when fresh from
the oven. Almost any kind Of green leaf
which Is used as human food serves for
making a green cake. The humble cab
bage and the aristocratic petit pois vert,
the watermelon rind and the celery
top. the string bean and even the aspar-
agus tip have been used for the purpose.
In addition to the nutritious leaf there
is nearly always a fiavoring leaf. The
commonest is parsley, and after this
comes fennel. fenugreek, sorrel, bay and
laurel.
The green cake Of the market varies
from to 4 inches in width, but is rarely
more than a quarter Of an inch thick
About one-hah are made by bakers and
one-half by the women Of the working
classes
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A letter, recently published, from
Bonaparte to his friend Paul l. the en-
peror of Russia, shows that but for the
assassination of the latter in 1901 the
Suez canal might have been cut many
years before 1862 Napoleon wrote that
the British threatened to invade Egypt
and that their pride and insolence
should be rebuked. He added: 1.-THE
Suez canal, which will unite the Medi-
terranean and the Indian ocean, is sur
veyed. 1t is work which can be fin
ished within a short time and which
would prove to be of incalculable bene-
fit to Russian commerce I" 1t is inter
esting to note that the diplomatic rep
resentative of France in Egypt at that
time was M. de Lesseps, the father OF
Ferdinand de Lesseps, who finally 40
complished the great undertaking.
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A sympathetIc Youth.

Papa" said George, ''I'm 50 sorry
sometimes about all the trouble give
mamma"
''She hasn't complained.
mo. she's very patient But she
often sends me of to the shops for
things, and they are good way OF, and
l know she gets cross waiting when
she's in hurry"
"Not often, fancy"
''Oh, she's nearly always in a hurry
She gets everything all ready for baking
and finds at the last minute she hasn't
any baking powder, or she gets a pud-
ding all mixed and finds she hasn't any
nutmeg or something, and then she's In
an awful stew, cause the oven is all
ready and maybe company coming, and
can't run very long distance You
know. and feel awfully sorry for poor
mamma
"HumphI Well, what can we do
about itf''
IT was thinking you might get me
bicycle. Boston Traveller.
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Her varying value.

Mrs. Ferguson George. if I should
cease to care for you and fall In love
with some handsomer man, what would
you do?
Mr.. Ferguson with some ferceness)
I'D sue the scoundrel for 800, OOOl
Mrs. Ferguson Applying the corner
of a handkerchief to her eye)-And yet
when l told you the other day how
dearly I'd love you if you would only
buy me that s1S. 90 vase at Spotcash d
Co. IS you only said, "H'mphr-Chi-
rago Tribune.
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THE BREEcHLoADER.
improvements In Gums That Conduos
Rapiditr of Firing.

improvements In GUNS That Conduos 70
Rspidity of Firing.
Let us examine breechloader and
see what improvements have been made
which may conduce to rapidity of fire.
We see that in the older pattern three
motions were necessary to open the
breech. First the bar which is fixed
across the base of the block had to be
removed, then half turn had to be
given to the block to free it in its bed,
and then it had to be pulled forward
Lastly, it had to be thrown back On its
hinge, SO as to open the gun from end to
end. We are shown that in later pat
terms the cavity or bed into which the
block fits is made in the form of cone,
so that the breech block itself can be
TUNED outward without any preliminary
motion forward. In artillery work time
is everything, and any one motion of
the gunner's hands and arms saved is
point gained.
Now let us look at the mechanism by
which the recoil or backward movement
Of the gun is checked at the moment of
firing. The gun slides into it's cradle,
and its recoil is counteracted by buffers
which work in coil, something in the
fashion of the coil springs which we see
on doors Iron spiral springs push the
gun back again into place. Another in
teresting piece of mechanism is the cleo
trio machinery by which the gun is fired.
When the recoil has taken place, the
wire. along which runs the electric cur
rent. Is pushed out of place, SO that it
is impossible to fire the gun, even though
it be loaded, until it has been again
fixed in it's proper position ON the cradle.
Truly modern cannon is a wonderful
machine, and yet it is only develop
ment from the sort of iron gas pipe which
was used in the middle ages.
Hard by is a gun which has come to
grief In experiments which are carried
on at Shoeburyness guns are charged to
their full, or, as in this case, more than
their full strength. There is an ugly
cash running down the outer case or
jacket, as it is called, Of the gun, and
the latter has broken and nearly jumped
out of It's cradle. Nursery phraseology
certainly comes in strongly In the tech
nical slang of gunnery when we have to
do with Woolwich infants. Chambers
Journal.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1896-08-04

Daniel Chester French has attained
the honor of being the first American
artist to whom permission has been
granted to erect an outdoor statue in
Europe. The statue will be OF George
Washington and will cost $40, 900. A
group of American women in Paris
formed themselves into Washington
memorial association, and, after rails
ing the necessary funds, have secured
the consent of the municipal authorities
Of Paris to erect the statue in the French
capital ON Rue Washington
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In the White House mail ON June
was letter addressed to 'His Excel
lency, James Monroe, President of the
u. s." 1t came from British Guiana
and contained an urgent request for the
autograph of the author Of the famous
doctrine against foreign entertainments
on the American continent The writer
L. a Venezuelan resident Of British
Guiana. who evidently expects great
things of President Monroe" in the
territorial dispute between Great Brit
ain and Venezuela. Washington Star.
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Vegetable FIowers.

The far famed vineyards of the Rhine
are a great disappointment to tourists
who see them for the first time. Vine
clad hills may have pleased the poets,
but apart from the sentiment aroused
by the remembrances of the exaggera-
lions Of such writer's they are not in
teresting and it is difficult to see how
any one could have raved over their
beauty. "a potato field is better" said
one disenchanted traveller. Many flow
ers produced by edibles are worthy Of
place in our gardens. The scarlet run
ner is too well known to need common
dation. An innovation recently seen is
what is known as the broad bean. Farm
ers use them for food for cattle, though
they are considered a table delicacy in
foreign countries. The flower is one Of
the most peculiar seen in the vegetable
world, being white with jet black mark
ings. The white being as pure as that
Of the sweet pea, the effect is striking.
Brooklyn Eagle.
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How / would like to live in a
house, said Miss Flatdweller, where
there was room to go about, and where
could go up and down stairs.
How delightful it u.s.. said Miss
neutrality-suspicious. to her friend,
Miss Flatdweller, whom she was visit
ing, ito have room to move about in,
to be able to go from one room to an
other when you get up in the morning.
New York Sun.
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Mrs. Kruger, the wife Of President
Kruger Of the Trsnsvaal, who is an ex-
tremely homely woman. does nearly all
her own Homework, cooking meals,
making her own bed, and always takes
q hand in the family washing. When
her husband has Estate guests" to din
ner the good lady will trust the task Of
waiting on the table to no one, and.
DOMINIC a white apron, she performs
the Office Of butler. Her husband has a
private fortune of SOS, 900, 900, but it's
"Aunty" Kruger's boast that they live
ON their "coffee money! perquisite
Of %, 900 year allowed them by the
government
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The oldest mountain railway in Eu-
rope is the Rigi. opened in 1871, but
the Mount Washington railway in
America was established in 1868 This
is also one Of the steepest. And another
Is the Green mountain line. also in the
United States. The Petersburg in Ger
many Is very steep. but the steepest Of
all is the Mount Pilatus in Switzerland