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The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1896-08-04
Leader of Newspapers,
The Foremost Position,

When 1.-THE Philadelphia Reco rdr nm
oertook nineteen years ago 20 demon
strate that the best OF morning news
papers could be made and sold for one
cent publishers were generally skepti-
cal. But the world of readers was not
asleep. Consequently ''The Record" was
not long In reaching a commanding posi-
ton, and, improving upon this, its cir
culation and influence were finally recoR-
nized among the foremost OF Americas
great journals. Hence the compliment
of imitation, which is now paid to it in
every city of note from the Atlantic coast
to the Mississippi Valley. Every city
worth mentioning now has one or more
good one-cent morning dailies, though so
recently as only 10 years ago, Philadel-
phta and "The Recordn stood alone in
this resDect
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1896-08-04
"DEAR, YOU'RE so TALLp
The Way the Small Girl Makes the Big
Man Vain

The Way the Small Girl Makes the Biz
Man Vain.
The short girl has many advantages over
the tall one. She has to 60 through life
looking up, and nothing Is SO becoming to
eyes as that Her lashes show more and SC
does her hair There are curves Of cheek,
chin and throat that look their prettiest to
man who must glance down at them
A small girl is more easily held and
more easily kissed 1t is nicer to have to
lift her face up by the chin, and it is more
epicurean and satisfactory to reach down
to the upturned lips.
1t is comfortable, when you hold girl
on your knee, to have her head just come
to your shoulder instead of having 1t hang
over-surplus, as it were. Everything
about a small girl Is likely to be provoca-
tion-the unexpectedly tiny hand, the dis
tracing morsels Of feet, the little head,
the little nose.
A small girl can be fascinating even In
a temper. She can be SO delicious when
she cries, she can be 90 lovely when she
pouts, and none of these moods sits well on
big woman. Then, too, the man In love
Is inclined to pet names, and he wants to
call his girl Birdy," whether she weighs
200 or not. Yet he is not insensible to the
Appropriateness Of the title when given to
real little thing
A man likes to feel big, by comparison
at least. A really large man does not OBJ
ject to seeming almost giant beside the
girl of his heart, and 1t is almost necessary
to the short mans vanity that he shall
seem big to the little creature he is going
to marry.
It is very fetching to have ones girl say,
Please, dear, my neck gets SO tired;
you're SO tall !" Don't you know what
that meanss Wen, get bit of girl and
you will find out On the whole, the small
girl has the best Of it.-Kansas City Star.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1896-08-04
ENGLISH SOCIETY.
The Modern Institution Includes Some
thing More Than Birth and Rank.


The Modern Institution includes Some
thing More Than Birth and Rank.
What originally constituted right to
be In good society In England has been
discarded. Birth and rank count for moth
ing unless they bring with them into the
great market of society other claims to
success, and the best claim to be leader
of fashionable society in England is to be
able to provide the greatest amount Of
amusement. Every man and woman are
expected to contribute their mite to the
common fund Of amusement, and those
who contribute the largest amount are the
acknowledged heads of society. 1t is i'm
possible that it should be otherwise, for
agricultural distress depreciation in the
value and rental Of land-has broken
down the territorial aristocracy Of Eng
land, and the moneyed aristocracy has
taken its place. The growing size of So
ciety, the luxury and the variety of amuse-
ments it offers arc some of the indications
that 1t is based upon wealth, for such So
ciety could never have come into existence
In a purely aristocratic and therefore a
poorer community.
Whether 1t Is an ideal state or not is
hardly matter over which we need agi-
tate ourselves. That 1t Is much more
amusing, much more interesting, than
the society which it has superseded there
can be no doubt. There is less restraint,
more sense Of enjoyment and we get much
better value for our pains and money than
in the days when cold exclusiveness con-
stituted the distinctive mark of good
but very dull society. It may seem a
somewhat sweeping assertion to say that
there is not such thing as good society
in this fin de steele time, but there is GER
tainly none in the sense In which our pred
ecessors understood It, and could they but
look for a moment upon modern English
life they would be amazed What was sim
ply an aristocratic caste has been swept
away, and the heterogeneous mass which
now calls itself good society is, at any
rate, clever and sharp enough not to be
beguiled by any will o. the wisp or to re-
ceive any one who does not possess some
special qualifications to be enrolled In its
ranks.-London Saturday Review.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1896-08-04

It has always seemed to me that it
was infinitely better that the farmer
should have market at home, mar
ket at his very door. than to be compel
led to seek market in distant coun-
tries and among distant populations
As long as there is a demand at home it
is self evident proposition that it is
better than to seek consumers abroad,
and that the home demand is safer,
more reliable and more profitable than
any foreign market can possibly be.
American buyers are the best in the
world Hon. William Mckinley.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1896-08-04
THROUGH WONDERLAND.
Personally Conducted Tours to Yellowston
Park via Pennsylvania Railroad.

Personality Onducted Tours to Yellowstone
Park via Pennsylvania Railroad.
The Yellowstone Park is one of the
most wonderfully attractive regions of tbs
world. Its beauties of scenery, the wild
grandeur of its mountains and canons
compel the admiration of every visitor
while its phenomenal geysers and curious
mineralogical formations make it a rich
field for the investigation of the scientist
Universal interest attaches to it, and in
order that the natural desire to visit il
may be accomplished in the most salts
factory manner the Pennsylvania Rail
road Company has arranged for a tour
covering period of sixteen days, leaving
New York and Philadelphia, Thursday
August q.
As the tour will be run under the per.
sonally-c0nducted tourist system inaugn
rated by the sbove-named company, it il
hardly necessary to give the assurance
that it will be arranged in the most com.
plete manner. 1t might be well to state
however, that no other means of seeing
the park thoroughly is comparable to thai
afforded by well-ordered personally con
Quoted tour.
A special train, consisting of dining,
Pullman vestibule drawing-room sleeping
comparatively anu ODSoTVatlOn cars,
which will be the best that can be secur.
ed, will be provided, in which passengers
will live en- route, and whenever the jour
ney is broken the choicest rooms in the
leading hotels will be reserved for the use
of the tourists, for which regular rates are
paid, 30 that the guests, although mem.
beers of party, enjoy all the privileges Of
individuals who may have made then
own selections.
The party will be conducted throughout
by tourist agent especially selected fol
his ability and experience, with chaperon
to look after the comfort of lady passen-
gers.
The rate, covering every necessary ex'
pense, will be $210 from Boston, and $500
from New York. Philadelphia, Baltimore.
Washington. and Harrisburg proportion
ate rates from other points.
Detailed itinerary will be sent on applica.
ton to Tourist Agent, los Washington
Street, Boston; l196 Broadway, New York
$50 Fulton Street, Brooklyn, or Room All,
Broad Street Station. Philadelphia.
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The VALUE oE SALT.

An Industry Ruined For the Purpose Of
Saving Six-tenths of Cent Per Capita.
The per capita consumption of salt,
for all purposes, in this country is Sc
pounds per annum. The Mckinley duty
was 81. so ton The Wilson German
Diners placed it on the free list If the
consumers reap the whole benefit of the
81. so ton, it means saving to them
of less than 4 u cents each, even should
they reap the benefit ON the entire con-
sumption. In point of fact, the duties
collected in 1891, the highest under the
Mckinley law, were $40S. 700, or less
than six-tenths of a cent per capita
To accomplish this saving of $4O8,
700, the wages distributed in the Wy
oming valley saltfield alone fell off
1886, 900 in 1895 below the amount in
1891, while the railroads running
through that field lost $500, 900 and the
coopearge and cotton bagging industries
lost $435. 900. Here is loss in one salt
field alone of 81, $40, 900, as against a
possible saving of $4O8, 790.
And there are many other saltfields
in the country as productive as that in
and around Wyoming county, N. Y,
which have suffered as heavily. The
item of labor in the salt plants alone in
this one field has been. decreased by an
amount substantially equal to the duty
collected in 1891, and yet labor in the
salt plants suffered but one-fourth Of
the loss directly occasioned by free trade
in salt.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1896-08-04

How do people remember anythinR9
How do they 'reminiscei" Mr.. Locker,
struck by the scantiness of his own recol-
lections, says, Wonderful fellow, James
Boswell" AS rule, If you ask anybody
about some great person whom they knew
well, they remember next to nothing. It
Is said that Dean Milman, who was much
attached to Macaulay, had very little Of
moment to tell about him. Yet Dean Mil
man was no stupid man, though the amia-
BILE critic who attacks Mr. Saintsbury SO
often in The Saturday Review seems to
hold that Milman had bad style-because
Macaulay said so. This is depression To
remember about people is a special gift.
They amused, they delighted us, and we
cannot say why. About the little saw Of
Lord Tennyson remember next to moth
ing was in too great fright Boswell
took notes Immediately after his talks
with johnson. Lockhart thought this
wrong-not honorable. One is glad Bozzy
was Of different opinion We have all
reason to be grateful to James
"Reminiscences are not possible to me,
yet would fain say, without going into
details, how pleasant memory one keeps
of a man in high social place, lately dead.
Lord Bath was not prominent In politics.
He wrote but little and rarely What one
recalls now are his unaffected goodness, his
charm, his kindness, his great knowledge
of letters, the humor of his conversation,
the Dlsassntneas and courtesy Of his man.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1896-08-04
CAUSES OF swARMlNo.


Three Prime Factors, Bees. Brood and
Nectar, Are Necessary to Swarming.
GAS an influence in swarming, do
not know what difference there would
be as between old and young bees, for l
have not observed ON this point. / do
know that heat bears no little infiu-
ence. For the whole of my agricultural
life it has been my custom to discour-
age swarming. Before the flow and
when they are not making living. if
can keep them with just enough stores
to keep breeding going on nicely, have
very little swarming. even though the
colony be strong and the weather hot.
The same conditions with plenty of
stores will increase the swarming prob
ably 25 per cent. Add next nectar from
the fields in plenty, and the swarming
fever goes up to high pitch. " Thus
writes correspondent of The Bee Keep
er's Review, and authority for the fol-
lowing:
Many bees, much brood, abundance
of nectar, a crowded condition and hot
weather will bring about swarming in
a high degree If the time be May or
June, a slight decrease for July, and
rapidly diminishing toward the close of
the summer The absence of any one of
these factors lessons swarming. Take
away the surplus of bees and you take
away swarming Leave the bees and
take the brood and you stop it. Leave
both bees and brood and take away the
feed, and there is no swarming. Album
dance of old stores will be stimulus to
swarming i'll about 25 to 90 per cent as
compared with nectar gathering. All
the other conditions present and temper
allure below normal will retard swarm
ing 20 to % per cent as against excessive
heat. A crowded condition, with all the
other factors present, will augment
swarming 20 to 40 per cent. Giving
full sets of extracting combs and album
dance of room will decrease swarming
much more than the sazse room if they
have to build the comb. Any manage
ment that takes the bees out of the brood
chamber will decrease swarming. Civ
ing full sets of comb, thus making it so
convenient for the bees to congregate in
the super, is why those run for extracted
swarm less than those run for comb 1t
relieves the pressure of both bees and
honey in the brood nest.
Bees, brood and nectar are the three
prime factors necessary to swarming.
Crowding and heat are secondary factors.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1896-08-04
FIRsT FLOOR PLAN.

be taken down and rebuilt to a greater
depth, entailing a cost Of over IS, 900,
which the owner had to pay extra
These are matters that are happening
every week, though they are seldom heard
of In print and only show the great
need Of care in the selection of guide and
counselor that has experience and wisdom
enough to steer clear of trouble Another
thing that is important "don't take any
and everybody's advice, " for general adj
vice of this kind that costs nothing is apt
to. be dear If followed. Do not ride too
many hobbies or make your building
operations an experiment, trying new
tangled notions and articles, but let the in
ventors of new things do their own costly
experimenting and when success and econ
omy are assured then is the time to use
them, for good thing will always win its
own way into the trade in spite of all opposi-
ton.
Every sensible building ought to sell for
a profit, and if the ground is right the land
profits will always bring the whole out at
q fair profit in even ordinary times. Build
so that you have a marketable commodity,
and you are always on sound money
basis and can turn quickly when 1t be-
comes necessary.
The house here shown is one of the lat
ter kind 1t is staple, sensible in every
way and will always be ready for bust
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1896-08-04

Agriculture and manufactures should
go hand in hand; the one enriches the
other; the one trades with the other.
They are mutually dependent one upon
the other. There is no conflict of inter-
est. Agriculture increases in its prod
ucts and its wealth with the growth and
increase of manufactures. Prices are
better, steadier and more reliable to the
farmer with prosperous manufacturing
industries employing labor which con-
sumes and does not compete with his
products Impair or destroy our ability
to manufacture, strike down any of our
great manufactures, and the farmer
would be the first to seriously feel the
loss. Dismiss the army of operatives
from the workshop and send them to the
great unoccupied and fertile lands Of
the west, and the farmer would not only
lose just so many consumers or custom
ers, but, more than that, be would find
them as his competitors in the field Of
production. Hon. William Mckinley.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1896-08-04

On August 6, Is, 20, and q the Penn
sylvania Railroad will run excursions to
the Upper Hudson" under personal es-
cort. Special train will leave Broad Street
Station, Philadelphia, at 7.34 A. NJ, stop
ping at principal intermediate points be-
tween Philadelphia and Trenton.
A stop of one and half hours is made
at West Point, to enable excursionists tc
view the world-renowned United States
Military Academy.
In order to insure an earlier return to
Philadelphia than heretofore, the stop at
Newburgh will be omitted, although
steamer will run point off Newburk b
and there turn.
Tickets will be sold at the following
round-trip rates: From Philadelphia,
Bristol, and intermediate stations, So. 50;
Philadelphia Market street Wharf. For
ence, and intermediate stations, So so
Bordentown. So 25; Trenton, $780, Tul
pohocken, Westmoreland, and inferno.
date stations, $3.50; Upsal, Carpenter, and
Aliens Lane, $3.50; Wissahickon Heights
Highland, and Chestnut Hill. 500.
AT Germantown Junction connection
will be made with regular trains from
Chestnut Hill Branch, and at Trenton
with 6.l0 A. M. train from Philadelphia
Market Street Wharf via Camden
Connection will also. be made at Frank
ford with "a A. M. train from Kensing
ton.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1896-08-04
To Cure
ENTHUSIASTIC OVER ALFALFA.


A Michigan Farmer Is Convinced of Its
Sterling Merits.
For ten. years l have sown small
amount Of alfalfa seed with red clover,
says Michigan farmer i'll The Ameri-
can Agriculturist, and am now con-
WINGED that on my farm, consisting of a
light, sandy loan, it is able to endure
the cold of winter as well as red clover,
and the heat of summer better than
medium, mammoth or alsike. On the
10th Of last May, where few alfalfa
roots had escaped the pillow in the or
chard, it stood to IL inches high, while
timothy and orchard grass were to
inches high and of poor color. The al
falfa was cut close to the ground July
IA and made growth of 10 to Is
inches during the next 80 days, while
the surrounding grasses scarcely grew
at all. The appearance of those punches
of alfalfa induced me last season to try
little of this clover alone Delay in
securing the seed prevented the sowing
until June /. It was then seeded on
level, sandy soil, which had been plowed
early in May and given a moderate
dressing of barnyard manure. There
was sufficient moisture in the soil to
start growth, but the excessively dry
weather prevented development Of
more than to 10 inches during the
season, and it was not cut at all On
one end of the plat purslane was almost
as high as the alfalfa On the Goth of
April, 1896, it was 4 to 10 inches high,
way ahead of the purslane, and is the
most promising crop on the farm. Even
rye does not outgrow it. Contrary to
the common belief, the plants are lar
gest and best where the most manure had
been spread before blowing.
am SO well pleased with my trial
plat that without waiting to harvest q
crop l am blowing a 30 acre field of
light, sandy land, with water IL to %
inches below the surface, to be sown to
alfalfa in short time. AS proof of
the hardness of the plant. last spring
sowed an old garden plat to oats, put
ting ON at the same time little medium
clover, alsike, timothy and sprinkling
of alfalfa
During the drought which followed it
was used as a grazing ground for stock
and tramped very severely. Today the
only clover on the plat is alfalfa. be-
gan sowing rye last August, on the Goth.
The drill had been used to SOW alfalfa
in June, and there remained in the
seeder 10 to 20 pounds of alfalfa seed,
which was allowed to run out as the
sowing proceeded. Timothy and clover
seed were also sown on this field. The
rye made small growth and was pas
tured with horses and cattle. Where the
tramping was not severe there is today
quite fair stand Of alfalfa. but no red
clover or timothy
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1896-08-04
One WAY to be Happx

One Way to be Happy
LIS at all times to attend to the comforts of
your family. Should anyone of them
catch slight cold or cough, call at once
on Wells & Son, Columbus E. D. Prickitt
Mount Holly; w. G. Jones. New Egypt
Edw. w. Rossell, Pemberton, and J. II.
Leeds, Rancocas, sole agents. and get a
trial bottle of Otto Cure, the great Ger
man remedy, free. We give it away to
prove that we have sure cure for coughs,
colds, asthma, consumption. and all DIS
eases of the throat and lungs. Large sizes
SOC and 25c.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1896-08-04
BRITISH .clAyr woRsTEps.


Rags Are Light Weight.
BRADFORD, June 20
Talking to one of our leading worst
cd coating manufacturers and discuss
ing pointedly the large volume of trade
Bradford was doing with your side. he
accidentally said:
do you know that thousands of clay
worsteds which are being sent to Amer
lea are being finished with liquid zinc?'
Liquid zinc" said in utter aston
ishment. What's that?"
why, understand that it's simply
Zinc, melted or boiled into thin liquid
and applied to worsted coatings in the
finishing process .
As appeared fiabbergasted. he blurt-
ed of abruptly. Its quite right what
say. for was told few days ago by
finisher who has finished thousands
by this process.
Then explain to me & <ther, . said
anxiousIy.
Very well You, being an expert
enced man in the Yorkshire trade, know
that orders for t3iczands of pieces have
been given out by American buyers
(this was last August) at such low
price that manufacturers hardly know
how to put them together for the mon
ey. Those pieces ordered must weigh,
according to contract, so many ounces
to the yard at such and such price.
But manufacturers soon found out that
if they give full weight of honest mate
rial, according to agreement, no profit
would result whatever So, in order to
make ends meet with more alacrity and
margin. they are simply turning 16
ounce clay worsteds by this zinc process
in finishing into is ounce, adding at
least 2 ounces to the yard of this injuri-
GUS material That, of course, means a
nice profit to the maker instead Of GER
tain loss, for zinc, of course, is cheaper
than worsted. .
was astounded and resolved to in
vestigate further from a reliable cloth
fnisher who has turned out thousands
of finished pieces. Knowing him init
mately. turned the conversation on to
this very subject
Yes, said he, you are right in
your statement. But liquid zinc is rath-
er too fine name for this ignominious
process. We are finishing today thou
sands of pieces yearly and weighing
them falsely with -four. EPSON salts,
salts of lead and salts of zinc. and
though the pieces when finished give no
perceptible signs of containing this
health injurious matter, yet there it is
in the piece, giving to the cloth an in
creased weight, when really the actual
weight of the piece is several pounds
lighter than the scale shows it to be- .
Pig manure may be useful in scour-
ing cloth and necessary to the British
rag manufacturer, but Of these delete
rious matters with which the cloth is
impregnated in the last process before
being worn and 'dried in the piece
the wonder is that people are not poi
soned in heart and life. YANKEE
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tits, of course, very difficult to form any
estimate from the preferences or predilec-
tions Of a schoolboy as to what will be the
bent of the mind of the monarch. His
French tutor declared that he had a marked
preference for French literature, and that,
In his opinion, the modern French painters
and sculptors stood first in modern art.
Like most growing lads, Nicholas II de-
lighted in Jules Verne and in Robert Louis
Stevenson. Among English authors he is
said to be most partial to Scott, Shakes
peare and Dickens, while among the
French authors his favorites are said to be
Victor Hugo and Lamartine. OF his pref
erence in German authors nothing is re-
corded. The German tutors did not live in
the palace, and although he was educated
without any bias against Germany, it was
noticed by those in his company that the
young fellows sense Of humor was much
exercised by the stiff, clumsy, pedantic
and sweeping Germans, whom he seldom
lost opportunity of ridiculing when he
could do it good humoredly. -Review Of
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