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The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1896-10-13
The Policy to Stand Rx.

Vote the Republican ticket, stand by
the protective policy, stand by Ameri-
can industries, stand by that policy
which believes in American work fol-
American workmen, that believes il
American wages for American laborers,
that believes in American homes fo1
American citizens Vote to maintain
that system by which you can earn
enough not only to give you the COM
forts of life. but the refnements of life;
enough to educate and equip your chill
dren, who may not have been fortunate
by birth, who may not have been born
with a silver spoon in their mouths
enough to enable them in turn to edu-
cate and prepare their children for the
great possibilities of American life. ]
am for America because America is for
the common people. Hon. William
Mckinley,
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1896-10-13

The simple and effective method of
teaching English to the children of Ital-
ians, Portuguese, Polish and German
Jews used in the north end schools of
Boston might profitably be adopted by
other cities which are obliged to face
the fact that within their borders are
thousands of foreign children who know
nothing of the customs, institutions or
language of this country A writer in
the Boston Transcript thus describes the
method:
The children, within few days after
their arrival, are sent to the public
schools, as rule without compulsion,
and here they are first of all taught the
English language. 1t is done by a sys-
tenn of object lessons. The teachers in
the elementary rooms are young women,
as men would not be patient enough to
accomplish the best results.
The teacher may point to her eye and
say, "This is my eye, repeating it sew
eral times and requiring the pupils to
repeat it in unison. Other portions of
the body are pointed out in similar
manner, and then familiar objects in
the room are in the same way brought
to the attention of the children.
Later, when they have made sufficient
progress in the language, it becomes de-
sirable to teach the different lenses To
accomplish this, boy or girl is directed
to run slowly round the room, when the
teacher and children say in unison,
"That boy is running" repeating the
sentence several times. The boy is then
told to halt, and the teacher and pupils
say in unison, "That boy did rum"
again, '"That boy is standing STILL,
''That boy can run, . ''That boy is
walking" ''That boy walks fast, 81
can walk, - II can run, 81 did walk, :"
etc.
These and other sentences, as they
are spoken, are written ON the black
board by the teacher, and the pupils
write them on their States Thus they
are taught the language and taught to
spell. read and write almost simultane-
ousiy.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1896-10-13
SUGAR NOT INJURIOUS.
The Idea That 1t Destroys the Teeth Il
RidicnIn.l

me Idea ThaC IL destroys the Teeth Is
Ridiculed.
A writer i'll the Contemporary Re-
view devotes most of an article on
champagne 10 the popular idea that
govt is produced by the sugar contained
in that drink. The paper is mot a
medical paper, but the writer brings
forward considerable evidence to show
that champagne has nothing to do with
the production of govt, and in an aside
speaks of that other popular notion that
sugar destroys the teeth. He says:
''In confederation of the fallacy of
the sugar and govt idea it may be mem
toned that the still more reprehensibIe
dogma, from sanitary point Of view,
that sugar ruins the teeth is equally
false Indeed, how the idea ever came
into existence is a mystery, seeing that
the finest, whitest and strongest teeth are
found in the mouths of negroes brought
up on sugar plantations, who from the
earliest years upward consumed more
sugar than any other class of people
whatever. Those at all skeptical of the
value of this fact have only to look
around among their personal friends
and see whether the sugar eaters or the
sugar summers have the finest teeth,
and they will find, other things being
equal, that the sugar eaters, az a rule,
have the best teeth. The only possible
way for accounting for this libel against
sugar seems to be by supposing that it
originated in the brain of one of our
economically disposed great-grandmoth-
ers at the time when sugar was shil-
hngs a pound in order to prevent her
children gratifying their cravings for
sweets at the expense of the contents of
the sugar basin. -
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1896-10-13
The Compass Plant,

The compass plant is one of the odd
est creations of the vegetable king
dom. 1t derives its name from the fact
that its leaves always point directly
north and south. So if you are out on
a western prairie and lose your way
just look for one of these plants and re-
member that they always point in the
directions indicated. Botanists call
this curious plant Selphium Iaoinia-
tunl. 1t is unpretentious in appearance
and bears yellow flowers that are not
unlike field daisies. 1t has a remark
ably thin leaf, SO thin as to be notice
able even to the untutored eye. The
compass plant is really a western
Tower and is indigenous to the prairies
If that section.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1896-10-13

One of the great lessons of history is
that agriculture cannot rise to its high
est perfection and reach its fullest de-
velopment without the aid of COM
merce, manufactures and mechanical
arts. All are essential to the healthy
growth and highest advancement of the
others. The progress of one insures the
prosperity of another There are nc
conflicts; there should be no antag-
onisma They are Indispensable to each
other. Whatever enfeebles one is Ger
tain to cripple the rest. -Hon. William
MoKipiav
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1896-10-13

There are "a wooden and worsted
mills in the state of Rhode Island, and
So of them employed 19, orc hands when
running full time in 1892. 1t is be-
lieved that only Is out Of the 81 mills
are now running at all, on full or part
time, and that only 2,475 hands are
earning any wages. This is free raw
material object lesson. the result of free
trade in wool, among the wooden and
worsted factories.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1896-10-13
she SANG Cronch,s SONG.

''The death Of poor Crouch, says an
English correspondent of the Baltimore
Sun, "brings to mind pathetic Incl
dent which occurred at one of Mile. I'll
tens concerts in the opera house at
New York in 1876. The famous singer,
as an encore, sang Kathleen Mavour
men,, the only time she did so while in
the United States. 1t excited furore of
applause, and ON Mile. Titiens leaving
the stage she was informed that ID man,
supposed to be lunatic, was fighting
his way over the barriers from the pit
to the stage, determined to speak to the
singer. The prima donna told the au-
thorities to let him come to her. On en-
tering, the man burst into tears, sobbing
out, oh, Mile. Titiens, l never before
heard my song as you have just sung
it' Your song, was the astonished re-
ply. why, you are not Crouch, surelyT
Il am indeed, replied the composer,
even then an old man, and l felt l
must thank you myself. 1t was indeed
the unlucky Crouch, who had scraped
together the price of pit seat, little
dreaming that his own now world ia
mous song would be the most rapturous-
" applauded item of the night.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1896-10-13

The Republican party for 80 years
has constantly reduced the public debt.
1t has never increased the interest bear
ing debt, and, if it can have its way,
never will. The strange practice or doc
trine of increasing the interest bearing
public debt of the country came in
vogue when the Democratic and Popu-
list parties took full possession of the
government in all of its departments =
Hon. Stpehen B. Elkins, U. S. Senator
From West Virginia.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1896-10-13
For Labor 10 Decide.

Whenever the workingmen of the
United States-I mean skilled and un-
skilled laboring men; whenever they
are ready to work for the same wages,
the same low wages that are paid their
rivals on the other side, their rivals in
England, in Germany, in Belgium and
in France, engaged in the same occupa-
ton; whenever they are ready for that,
which I hope and believe will never be
then we are ready for the free trade
doctrines of the Democratic party. 1t is
a question that addresses itself to the
bone and sinew of the United States. 1t
is a question for the workingmen to de-
termine. Hon. William Mckinley.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1896-10-13

OCCASIONS WHEN ODDlTY WAS AN
IMPRESSIVE FEATURE.
Freak4 Who Have Been Joined In We'd
Ioek-Many Cases of Marriage by Proxy.
Welded by Monograph symbolical
Marriages of India.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1896-10-13
Iced water Attracts Poisons,

A scientific paper adds these new ter
tors to iced water as beverage:
1t says the water possesses the quality
Of attracting to itself the poisonous
gases exhaled by the lungs and the pores
of the body. One of the best ways to
purify freshly painted room is to set
about it basins of iced water, changing
them every few hours. The water in
these basins will be found to be deadly
poisonous.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1896-10-13

''The more the merrier. " Not So
One hand is enough in purse. Moth
ing hurts the stomach more than surfeit-
ing" Yes, lack of meat. Nothing but
what has an end" Not so. A ring has
none, for it is round. "Money is a great
comfort" Not when it brings a thief
to the gallows 1.-THE world is a long
journey. Not so. The sun goes over it
every day. 1T is a great way to the
bottom of the sea" Not SO. 1t is but a
stones cast ga friend is best found in
adversely" Not SO, for then there is
none to be found. 1.-THE pride Of the
rich makes the labor of the poor. Not
SO. The labor of the poor makes the
pride of the rich. New York Ledger.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1896-10-13
The Mckinley Kind.

Let Major McKinl~- p Thanksgiving
turkey be favored " The knowledge
of coming protection and prosperity fol
all American interests and for all the
American people. Indorse his policy,
elect him by the biggest majority ever
given to any United States president.
and let us all enjoy our next Thanks
giving with heartiness that is honestly
and thoroughly American.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1896-10-13
lis. 8. So. 967. s7s l82, 8s4. g4s

A careful examination Of these figures
will doubtless be surprising to many
farmers who have been loaded up with
the Democratic idea of the importance
of the foreign market, wherein to sell
their staple crops, and find that less than
per cent of them are sent abroad.
When farmers recollect that there
was decrease from 591 bushels in
1892 down to 4.54 bushels in 1895 in
the annual consumption, per capita of
our population, of American wheat in
the home market and a decrease of 1874
bushels in the per capita consumption
of our corn within the same period, they
will begin to realize the truth of Mr..
McKinley's statement that prosperity
of manufactures is inseparable from the
prosperity of agriculture. f"
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1896-10-13
THOSE WORLDS MARKETS.
How Farmers Were Fooled as to the Pos
sibility of Their Capture.

HOW FARMERS w ere EOOleQ as To the ROS-
sibility of Their Capture.
IN the campaign Of 1892 the farmers
were urged to overthrow the Mckinley
tariff-to break down our wall of pro-
lection, which, the Democrats told them,
prevented the export of American farm
products. The wall was broken down,
and there has been nothing to hinder
farmers from capturing the markets of
the world, according to the Democratic
free trade theory. With the close of the
fiscal year 1896, it is interesting to
study the results, comparing them with
the first two years of the Mckinley pro-
tective tariff, as follows:
EXPORTS OF AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS.
1891 ... $642, FOL, 344 1896 800. $685. 2lO, 096
1892 1900. 79e.S2S, 2S2 1s96....... 9,SA, IA
Total. 81, Az, orc 576 Total 81 1913 O51, 40
Democratic free trade decrease $319, or, S36
During the two first years of the
Democratic free trade German tariff
our farmers have exported 1919, 027, 1856
less of American farm products than in
the two first years of the Mckinley pro-
tective tariff.
Under the Mckinley tariff, in its first
two years, rs. 10 per cent of all our ex-
ports were farm products. In the two
years of the German tariff only g. S75
per cent of our exports have come from
our farms
As the Democrats lied SO damnably to
farmers in 1892 on the subject Of free
trade, they are not likely to be any more
truthful on any other subject in 1896.
1t is easy, too. to understand why they
won't talk tariff to farmers this year.
The exact statistics of our exports of
cereals are as follows:
PRODUCTION AND EXPORT OF AMERICAN oE-
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1896-10-13
AND He was q LunatIc.

A gentleman was visiting Scotch
lunatic asylum where new premises
were being added. The inmates were
assisting. On seeing one of the latter
wheeling barrow upside down from
the building to the stones, the visitor
asked him why he wheeled it in that
manner. "Oh, said the lunatic, chats
the best way" The visitor took the
barrow, and turning it right side up
said, "This is the proper way. y
That's a you ken," said the inmate.
II tried it that way, but they filed il
fu' O. bricks" So saying, he trotted on
bis usual way.-Exchange.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1896-10-13

Internal revenue collections on to
bacco have averaged less than 500, 700,
900 a year during the last three fsca
years. During the four previous years
1908, the average receipts from this
source were more than $81, 900, 900 ;
year, showing a decrease of So, 700, 0O'
year under the present administra
ton. Whyf Less wages, less smoking
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1896-10-13
Before Black Stockings Were Worn.

81 saw little girl i'll striped red and
white stockings the other day, ;" said the
woman, land it made me think of the
time when was a little girl myself.
There was no thought of black stockings
then. The small legs of all the small
girls looked like sticks of variegated
candy. The child who had the gayest
combination of stripes was the happiest,
and if the color scheme happened to be
displeasing to our youthful tastes there
was such a feeling of utter woe as
know l seldom feel now that l am
grown up. New York Times.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1896-10-13

The eggs of the mosquito are fastened
together by viscid secretion from the
insects body. From $50 to 800 eggs are
laid at time, and the little boat shaped
mass is so constructed that it will not
overset. 1t cannot be sunk nor in any
way injured by wind, rain or water. 1t
is abandoned by the insect, and the eggs
are Matched by the heat of the sun or at
mosphere. A temperature below freez-
ing is said not to destroy the vitality of
the mosquitoes eggs.
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Birds are perhaps more commonly the
victims of illusions than other animals,
their stupidity about tteir eggs being
quite remarkable. Last year, for in
stance, hen got into the pavilion Of a
ladies' golf club and began to sit on a
golf ball in corner, for which it made
a nest with couple of pocket handker-
chiefs. But many quadrupeds are not
only deceived for the moment by refec-
tions, shadows and such unrealities, but
often seem victims to illusions largely
developed by the imagination.
The horse, for instance, is one Of the
bravest of animals when face to face
with dangers which it can understand,
such as the charge of an elephant or a
wild boar at bay. Yet the courageous
and devoted horse, so steadfast against
the dangers he knows, is a prey to a
hundred terrors Of the imagination due
to illusions, mainly those Of sight, for
shying, the minor effect of these illu-
sions, and ''bolting," in which panic
gains complete possession of his soul,
are caused, as rule, by mistakes as to
what the horse sees, and not by misin-
depreciation of what he hears It is no
ticed, for instance, that many horses
which shy usually start away from OBJ
jects on one side more frequently than
from objects ON the other. This is prob
ably due to defects ia the vision of one
or other eye.
In nearly all cases of shying the horse
takes fright at some unfamiliar object,
though this is commonly quite harm
less, such as a wheelbarrow upside
down, freshly felled log or a piece OF
paper rolling before the wind. This in.
stantly becomes an illusion, is inter.
preted as something else, and it is Gu.
rious question in equine homeopathy te
know what it is that the horse figures
these harmless objects to be. Wher
Russian ponies first began to be shipped
to Harwich, they usually objected tC
pass near donkey. This reluctance
was explained on the hypothesis thai
the ponies seldom saw donkeys in Rus
STA and mistook them for bears. Lon
don Spectator.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1896-10-13
One ON the Princess.

A good story Of the late Princess
Alice has come out on the occasion Of
the striking of medal for the fishermen
at Ushant. She ouce visited the mint
unexpectedly at time when some
medals were being made for noncom-
missioned officers of the army. While
she was being shown through the build
ing, the officials thought it would be a
neat thing to stamp her name and the
date on one of the medals and present it
to her She accepted the gift and then
burst out laughing. The inscription
reads, "For long service and good con-
duct -
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Granhic.

Hicks-Did you ever see boy trying
to take fishhook out of an eel he had
just pulled in!
Wicks-Yes
Hicks-Well, then, you have seen
Joaquin Miller's autograph. -Somer-
vile Journal
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what we Need.

A successful business man has an an
nual surplus, not a deficit; so let US try
an administration aud congress that
will do as we'll by the nation. The
country needs just such protection.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1896-10-13
Medford. Marlton and Philadelphia

Leave Medtord toi Philadelphia at 100. 1907
A. M, 2l3, 5.24, Pm.
On Sundays. sol A. NJ, 3. so PM.
Leave Marion for Philadelphia at TIA, l02t
A. M, 235 5.35, P. M.
On Sundays, S.l4 A. NJ. 4O2 P. NJ.
Leave Philadelphia, Market Street, for Med
ford and Marlton at 100, 1885, A. M, 300, $50
Pm.
On Sundays, 8.45 A. NJ. $50 P. M
Leave Marion tor Medford, S.ll, ll.40 A. NJ
3.54, 6. 20, P. NJ.
On Sundays, 9.39, A.. M, 6.2s p
For further particulars apply to the ticket
agent at the station.
8. NJ. PROVOST, j. Il. WOOD,
General Manager. Gen. Pass. Agent
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In 1S41 Smyrna was visited by con-
fagration which destroyed $4,000
houses The buildings destroyed were
light wooden structures, and fire once
kindled in town of frame buildings
closely crowded together is almost i'm
possible to subdue.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1896-10-13

eff you chose, you could be the light
of my life, said he when they met at
the ball
"Yes?' she said for want of anything
Better to say.
Eyes. But whenever 1 call, you are
out. "-Indianapolis Journal.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1896-10-13

The first paper money used in this
country was issued by Pennsylvania in
1923. In the early part Of that year
e15, 900 was issued ON the credit Of the
colony, and few months later $50, 900
more followed.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1896-10-13
Union transportation Company.
Tnckarton Railroad

Leave Mount Holly tor Tuckerton 9.52 A. NJ
4.4l P. M, daily except Sunday.
Leave Tuckerton tor Mount Holly, 7.0S A. M,
1903 P. M, daily except Sunday.
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The Needs of Agriculture.

National pride, national prestige and
national safety demand a respectable
merchant marine.
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oner trarns for Mount HOLY lsaue as J0stOu

Otae7' trdifas Tor MouFt Holly leave as Jottoi0s;
From New York. via Trenton and Burlington,
500, $50 A. M, LOO. q TO- 400, $40. 500 P. NJ
From Trenton. As, lao 9.25, il. u A. NJ, 2.53,
ia, 10, 100, 1855 Z. NJ.
On Sn days. $40, ll.5O. A. M, 4.t5, sos, NJ.
From East Burlington, 100, 1888, S.26, As, ~
1913. i0.45, ll.4S A. M, 1906. $780, 4.52, 20. 5.5S
$50, 7.tO. 100, $50. 1890 p. NJ.
On sundays, 800, 800, 10 30, A. M, $780, 2.35,
100, $40. 4so 4.55. $50, 500, $50, 7lO, 745 s.4b
l00UP.M
From Toms River, 7.4S A. M, 4.02 P. M.
From Asbury Park, 2I3, P. M.
From Medord 1855 NJ.
From Long branch, l.55, P. NJ.
From Iemberton (norIh) 6.35. 1928. 1855. A. M,
l2.40 4.07. $40 p. M
On Sundays, 500 A. NJ, 5i2, p. M
FROM Pclnberton (south), 1856 A. NJ, 4.4f P. NJ
From Vincentown, $50 A. M, l.32 P. NJ.
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PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD.
THE STANDARD RAILROAD OF AMERICA.
PROTECTED THkQUGIs9uasBYess
B|asi Sishals and IasfI5skIHg STi.cc.ssss
IN EFFECT OCTOBER IS, 1906.

Trains leave Mount Holly as JolIoUs:
For Philadelphia. 5.sO 500, 6.52, ITO. 749. s.57
=9.l5. lle0 A. M, 1887. 230 ALB 500. 6lS, ss6
1880 p. NJ.
On sundays, 1856 A. NJ. 1905. $40, s50P.M.
For Pemberton, 1885, 9.26, A. M, l.37, s3s 447
6.05 7.3y, p. n.
On sundays. 1923, A. M. Cts P. M.
For Bordentown, Trenton and New York $50
7-4g. Is, u .05 A. NJ, 1890, 800, 4.I0, AZ. 5.53
725, P. M.
On sundays. 1000 A. NJ. 2.O5. 6 O5 M
For East Burlington, $50. 725, 7.49. 1872, $50
g.l5, 1918. Il05 A. M. 1890 800, 40, 447, SIS
5.:3, 626 7.2J. S.45. l0OOPM
On sundays 7.25, s3O. 10 90 A NJ. 100. 2O5, 23(
3.l5, S4l 4.l0, 800, 535, sos GAS, 7.l5, s.ls
go. P. NJ.
For Lewistown, Columbus, Kinkora, etc.
LII, AT Pm.
On sundays, 6.a5 P. M
For LumDerton, Medford, Marion and Had
donield, 9-3J AN.
For Fincenfown, 1875, 6.06 P. M
For Toms River, 1925. A M, All, pm
FOR TuckerLon, Beach Haven and Barnegat
City, 9.2I A. NJ, 447P.M
For Asbury Park and Long Branch, 9.26 A. NJ.
Trains teaveJor Mount Holly as JoSIoa0s:
Fr"m rhiiadephia. $50, 30, $50, 1000 ll.2t
NM 1870, 30, 400, 4.3O, $40, $40, $50, $780,
1920. l.45 P. NJ.
on Sundays, 9.15 A. NJ, LOO, 800 1890 P. NJ.