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The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-11-09
ALL THE OK UTILIZED.

Every Particle Put to Use-On1y Its Dying
Breath Lost.
In an article on the Wonders of the
Worlds Waste, William George Jor-
dan, in The Ladies' Home Journal, de-
tails how science at the present day
utilities the OK ''Not many years ago,
he says, when an OK was slaughtered
40 per cent of the animal was wasted.
At the present time nothing is lost but
its dying breath. AS but one-third of
the weight of the animal consists of
products that can be eaten, the question
Of utilizing the waste is serious one
The blood is used in refining sugar and
In sizing paper or manufactured into
doorknobs and buttons The hide goes
to the tanner; horns and hoofs are trans
formed into combs and buttons; thigh
bones, worth $50 per ton, are cut into
handles for clothesbrushes; fore leg
bones sell for $50 per ton for collar but
tons, parasol handles and jewelry; the
water in which bones are boiled is re-
duced to glue; the dust from saving
the bones is food for cattle and poultry;
the smallest bones are made into bone
black Each foot yields a quarter of
pint of neatsfoot oil; the tail goes to the
soup" while the brush of hair at the
end of the tail is sold to the mattress
maker. The choicer parts of the fat
make the basis of butterine; the intes-
tines are used for sausage castings or
bought by gold beaters The undigested
food in the stomach, which formerly
cost the packers of Chicago $50, 900
year to remove and destroy, is now
made into paper These are but few
of the products of abattoirs All scraps
unfit for any other use find welcome in
the glue pot, or they do missionary
work for farmers by acting as ferti-
lizers"
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-11-09

A sailmaker's mate in the navy who
into business with some money he had
fallen heir to made a success of the
monomania dodge 1t is the business of
a man-of-war sailmaker's mate to sew
up members of the crew who die at sea
IN hammocks preparatory to their be-
ing cast over the side This sailmaker' s
mate appeared on deck one day with a
queer look in his eye and announced to
his shipmates forward that he was dead
and that he was going to prepare him
self for burial in the deep. Some Of the
men watched him as he went to the
sailmaker's storeroom and began to sew
himself up in a new hammock When
he had got the job about half finished,
the men informed the officer of the deck
of the case, and the sailmaker's mate
was put under observation in double
irons When he was released from the
brig, still under observation, but appar-
emily not aware of the espionage, he
went direct to the storeroom, got an
other hammock and began to enshroud
himself again. The skipper of the ship
reduced him to the rate of seaman for
this, for the purpose Of keeping the man
away from the sailmaker's storeroom,
thinking that if he was removed from
the sight of the stored up hammocks
his mania might leave him. The night
Of the day he lost his rate the ex-sail-
makers mate broke into the storeroom
where the new hammocks were kept and
sewed himself up for burial again. Then
the fleet surgeons held a survey on him,
and he got his discharge He started a
tobacco store for sailors near one of the
navy yards, and for some time he made
it practice to stand in the doorway of
his shop and grin when any of the board
of surgeons who had pronounced him
insane passed by, as they were oompell-
ed to do on their way to and from the
navy yard New York Sun.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-11-09
The Magnet In Surgery,

The following remarkable account of
the extraction Of needle from the
body by means of a magnet is given by
Cosmos:
"A young laundress thrust q broken
needle into her right hand while wash
ing clothes. The needle having disap-
peared in the flesh, the surgeon who
was consulted several days after the ao-
e1dent refused to perform an operation,
fearing lest he should be obliged to make
large number of incisions among the
hgaments of the articulation. Two
months afterward the girl lost the use
of her right hand, and the least moye-
ment of the fingers caused her exquisite
pain Drs. Gorinewski and Cerestin
then determined to extract the needle
with the aid of magnet, drawing it
into fieshy region where an incision
could be made without danger. To
cause this movement they chose a very
feeble electro magnet, but a difficulty
arose. The needle having entered point
first, it would have to be drawn out
backward, the broken part in advance.
1.-The first trial lasted two hours.
with short intervals of rest, without
appreciable results. Before the third
trial the girl said that she felt prick
ing in the palm of the hand near the
place where the magnet had been APP
piled and where the needle ought to ap-
pear. At the ninth sitting finally the
needle appeared beneath the skin and
came out whole, broken end first, with
out pain and without loss of blood. II
fixed itself to the pole of the electro
magnet, and the young laundress was
cured This result-the drawing of
needle through the fiesh-is very re-
markable. In 30 hours after the first
trial this needle was extracted from the
inside of the hand, after lying there
more than two months. '-Translation
For Literary Digest.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-11-09
OLD TIME FLYCATCHtNG.
Primitive Method of Getting Rid of tn,

Primitive Method of Getting Rid of the
Troublesome Pests.
Newton M. Wilson, living one mile
east Of town, says Scottsburg (Ind. J
communication, has hanging in his barn
an interesting keepsake in the shape of
a hycatcher. 1t is not SO curious in it.
self as it is in showing the primitive
methods resorted to by the farmers in
early days to rid themselves of flies It
is simply two smooth walnut boards,
perhaps 80 by 10 inches, beveled at one
end and fastened together by two whang
cords strung through matched holes.
In the antebellum days people never
thought of keeping flies out of the
house, the problem was to dispose Of
them as they swarmed through the
rooms, making life miserable generally.
In fact, the use of netting to prevent
their ingress is of comparatively recent
origin, the invention of this much need
ed article dating back only 10 OF 30
years.
As everybody knows, flies are excep-
tionally thick in farmhouses, even
where screens are used, and when they
are not they are almost intolerable. In
the olden days the method most COM
monty employed in the country to de-
stroy the troublesome fly was the use of
such instruments as the one described
above The boards were beveled and
hung in such manner that by their
weight they separated at the bottom,
and thus hung in an inverted Y shape.
To attract the flies they were smeared
with molasses ON the inner surface.
Thus prepared, they were suspended
in convenient places about the house
in kitchen, hallway, porch, which gen.
orally served as the summer dining
place. and especially in passageways.
It was common duty of every member
of the household when passing one Of
those catchers to clap the boards togeth-
er, thus MASKING the flies which had
collected thereon. The cook clapped
them in the kitchen, the hands as they
passed to and from the house at meal
times did likewise, the whole household
clapped them together hundreds of times
day, and thousands of pestiferous flies
met their doom.-St. Louis Republic
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-11-09
DO YOU SUFFER ?
What a Physician Has to Say
About This Season.
Authorities Say Rheumat ism is
Unusually Dangerous.
Significance of Its Alarming In
crease During this Fall.


There has been so much discussion r.
Gently about the alarming increase of
rheumatism in this section, that MOUNT
HOLLY News man was instructed to inves-
tigate.
A member of the board of health said /:
"Do not quote me as saying that rheuma-
tism is necessarily a mortal disease 1t
isn't. But there are often times when it
leads to heart complication or disturbance
of the brain, and results in death.
"And, whether dangerous or not. the
suffering is always intense. Anxiety and
care, mental shock, and injuries lead to
rheumatism, but the prevalence of this
disease at this time in Mount Holly and
vicinity is undoubtedly owing to the damp
cold weather of the fall months.
The usual treatment of rheumatism is
uncertain, inefficient, and disappolntns
as is acknowledged by many physicians.
Henry G. Robe, who resides at No. Syc-
amore St., Buffalo, and who is promi-
nent 6. A. R. man, recently created con-
siderable stir by going before Jas. W. Chat.
man, notary public, and swearing to the
truth of the following statement:
early last fall, had severe attack oil
rheumatism, accompanied with great
weakness, exhaustion, and indigestion.
was incapable of anything like work, but
my health was fully restored by the use Of
that vegetable medicine, Paine's celery
compound. 1t has brought joy to our
household, and the physician who discoy.
cred it may truly be called the Good Sa
marian"
Inquiry among our druggists shows thai
this compound has been used by quite 9
mum Der in Mount Holly and no case o.
rheumatism or neuralgia has failed tc
yield to it's curative powers.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-11-09
Try Grain-Oi Trv Grain-o,
Personally Conducted Tours via PennsyI-
vanla Railroad.
SEASON OF 1878.

The Personally-C Conducted Tourist Sys
tenn of the Pennsylvania Railroad Com
pany is the most complete and elaborat,
system of pleasure travelling and sight
seeing yet devised. 1t is the consumma
ton Of the ultimate idea in railroad travel
the final evolution of unassailable perfec
ton
For the season of '97 and '98 it has ar
ranged for the following tours =
Callfornia.-Four tours will leave New
York, Philadelphia, and Harrisburg Jan
uary s, January "a, February is, anc
March 10. With the exception of the
first party going and the last returning
all of these parties will travel by the
Golden Gate Special" between New
York and California, stopping at interest
ing points en- route
Florlda.-Four tours to Jacksonville
will leave New York and Philadelphia
January 20, February and %, and March
!. The first three admit If stay of two
weeks in the "Flowery State" Tickets
for the fourth tour will be good to return
by regular trains until MAY 81, 1898.
Old Point Comfort, Richmond, and
Washington.-Three six-day tours will
leave New York and Philadelphia Fetru-
airy 10, March 16, and April z.
Old Point Comfort and Washington.
Three four-day tours will leaye New York
and Philadelphia December %, January
29, and April %.
Old Point Comfort.-Six tours will leave
New York and Philadelphia December 28,
January 20, February 10. March 10, April
7 and %.
Washington.-Seven tours will leave
New York and Philadelphia December %,
January Ii, February 8, March and 81,
April 81, and May 10.
Detailed itineraries of the above toura,
giving rates and full information, may be
procured Of Tourist Agent, 1I06 Broad
way, New York: $50 Fulton Street, Brook
Ign; 7S9 Broad Street, Newark, N. j.; or
Geo. W. Boyd, Assistant General Passen-
ger Agent, Philadelphia.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-11-09
HER ACCOUNT DocToRED.
This Girl Kept an Expense Book and Lost
Husband.


There is North Side girl who has
laudable ambition to know Just where
her money goes. She has tried two or
three times to keep mental track of her
expenditures, but this always proved
unsatisfactory. At last she decided that
she must keep an exact and minute ac-
count of everything she spent. She got
herself small book with rulings and
margins and pliable cover and set to
work in earnest She put down reli-
giously everything she spent, the exact
amount, the article and the date. She
never allowed the slightest matter to go
till there was chance of her forgets
ting it. When she made any purchases
down town, she went over the list care
fully in the car on her way home and
put the amounts on the outside of a
package. In this way she succeeded in
keeping very satisfactory record Of
her expenditures
There was only one drawback She
was forever leaving the book around.
OF course there are great many people
who are only too glad to read such
things. The servant would see it. The
man who came to tune the piano might
easily have done it if he liked, and she
did not know whether he had or not A
neighbor had once picked 1t up on the
lawn in front of the house and brought
it in, but what was worse than all the
rest was the fact that couple Of girl
friends perused it one day. There were
some things which she had talked a
good deal about that she got for down.
right bargains In fact, after this catas-
trophe everything on her record seemed
to be shamefully cheap. However, she
was unwilling to give up the bookkeep-
ing, and if she didn't carry a notebook
around with her she would certainly
forget something, so she bethought her
self of another expedient. She determin-
ed for the purpose Of mystificatioh to
multiply everything she put down by
ten-that is, to add cipher to each en-
try. In this way she could always tell
that every item really cost one-tenth Of
what appeared ON the book After this
she didn't care who saw it.
There is lot at the side of her ia
TIERS house and rustic seat. One day
she left the book on this seat. In the
evening the young man who had about
concluded to ask her hand in marriage
came along. He noticed the book, picked
it up and looked through it carelessly.
He was amazed. She had always claim
ed to be such prudent girl, and he had
believed she was. Still there he saw:
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-11-09

Centuries ago, people used to fear what
they called the pestilence "Black Death"
was the most terrible thing in the world
to them. They feared it as people now
fear the Cholera and Yellow Fever. And
yet there is thing that causes more mis-
cry and more deaths than any of these.
1t is so common that nine-tenths of all the
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The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-11-09
Pas Prayers.

Once upon a time sickness came to
the family of the poorly paid pastor Of
a country church, says the Omaha
World Herald 1t was winter, and the
pastor was in financial straits A num-
Der Of his flock decided to meet at his
house and offer prayers for the speedy
recovery Of the sick ones and for ma
terial blessings upon the pastors fami-
ly. While one of the deacons was offer
ing fervent prayer for blessings upon
the pastors household there was loud
knock at the door When the door was
opened, stout farmer boy was seen,
wrapped up comfortably.
"What do you want. boyP" asked one
Of the elders
''I've brought pas prayers, replied
the boy
Brought pa prayers7 What do you
mean?''
yep brought his prayers, an they're
out in the wagon. Just help me, an
we'll get EN- in /"
Investigation disclosed the fact that
pas prayers" consisted Of potatoes,
-four, bacon, cornmeal, turnips, apples,
warm clothing and lot Of jellies for
the sick ones The prayer meeting ad-
journed in short order
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-11-09
HUMAN BRAINS.
How Science Views the Difference Between
Men and Women.

How Science Views the Difference Between
Men and Women.
The weightier brain would seem also
to indicate, a priori, the greater intel
lectual power, and this, too, is borne
out by undoubted facts Women, it has
often been said, have yet to produce
their Newton, their Dante, their Aris-
totle, their Pascal, their Goethe. The
assertion is very feebly met by the con-
tention that women's education has
been for centuries neglected
1t was not education which enabled
Pascal as a child to see his way through
problems which not one man in ], 900 can
understand after prolonged mental drill
1t was not education which gave the
race its great men poets "They nsped
in numbers for the numbers came. I"
But where are their feminine equals?
We will, however, take an art in which
women have enjoyed far more training
than men-the art Of music. There are
some excellent women pianists and vio-
linists, but where are the female Bachs,
Beethovens, Mozarts and Wagners2 Ma
ture only can explain the absence Of
great women composers as of the femi-
nine compeers Of Titan and Raphael,
the technique of whose art seems pecul-
iarly fitted to women
Nature tells us that she cannot form
the matrix out of which commanding
intellectual geniuses of the female sex
would proceed. Why this is so we may
partly guess, but cannot wholly know.
We see that nature has divided the
world into sexes for her own purposes,
and that to each sex peculiar functions
are assigned. We see that the physio-
logical functions of woman necessitate
a different anatomy from that of man,
and we infer that these functions and
this structure preclude, speaking gener-
ally, the kind of effort which we call
supreme genius, as also that kind of
effort which we call sustained executive
power. While women are not SO far
differentiated from men that they can
not enter with pleasure into men 8
works, and, often in great measure,
share In their production, it remains a
fact that it is mans particular organi-
cation which is alone capable either of
the highest manifestations of genius or
the most sustained exhibition of energy.
Whether it will always be so we do not
know, for we cannot peer into the fu-
ture 1t is sufficient that it not only is
SO now, but that it always has been SO,
and that science does give us some good
grounds for believing that the fact is
deeply rooted in the very structure of
sex--London Spectator
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-11-09

A girl from town is staying with
some country cousins who live at a
farm. On the night of her arrival she
finds, to her modification, that she is
ignorant Of all sorts of things connected
with farm life which to her country
cousins are matters of everyday knowl-
edge. She fancies they seem amused at
her ignorance
At breakfast the following morning
she sees ON the table dish of fine hon
ey, whereupon she thinks she has found
an opportunity of retrieving her humil-
iating experience of the night before
and Of showing her country cousins that
she knows something of country life
after all So, looking at the dish of
honey, she says carelessly:
"Ah, | see you keep bee Pear
sons Weekly
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-11-09

John Beckwith, the warehouseman,
received letter the other day address
ed IN a round business hand and bearing
the Oakland postmark. He glanced at
1t, rubbed his forehead refectively q
moment and then, without opening the
envelope, tore it into bits
Why did you do thatp" asked his
partner. THAT might have contained
something of Importance. -
mo, it didn't. wrote it myself"
Are you in the habit of writing let
ters to yourself?''
Yes. | have to. Now, IL I hadn t
written that yesterday and mailed it /
would have forgotten that bunch of
braid, two dozen pearl buttons and five
yards of haircloth that have got to 60
down town and buy right now. Once,
though, wrote letter to myself about
something l wanted to remember and
forgot to mail it for two weeks. San
Francisco Post
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-11-09

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The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-11-09
For Your Projection.

Catarrh cures" In liquid form to be
taken internally, usually contain Mercury
or Iodine of Potassa, or both, which are
injurious if too long taken. Catarrh is
local not a blood disease, caused by cold
and damp weather. 1t starts in the nasal
passages. Cold in the head, If repeatedly
neglected, results in catarrh. Ely's Cream
Balm is the acknowledged cure for these
troubles and contains no mercury nor any
injurious drug.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-11-09
wilmer MoLean,s Two historic Houses,

" NAcA<chnb Two ulbLOr1c houses.
General Horace Porter describes the
surrender of Lee in his Campaigning
With Grant" in The Century. The sur
render took place in the house of Will
mer Mclean, it will be remembered.
General Porter says: 1t is a singular
historical coincidence that Mclean s
former home was upon Virginia farm
near the battle-ground of the first Bull
Run, and his house was used for a time
as the headquarters of General Beaure-
gard. When twas found that this fight
was so popular that it was given an en-
core and second battle of Bull Run
was fought the next year on the same
ground, Mr.. Mclean became convinced
that the place was altogether lacking in
repose, and, to avoid the active theater
OF war, he removed to the quiet village
OF Appomattox, only to find himself
again surrounded by contending armies
Thus the first and last scenes of the war
drama in Virginia were enacted upon
his property.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-11-09

The Spanish main is the circular
bank of islands forming the northern
and eastern boundaries of the Caribbean
sea, beginning at Mosquito and includ-
ing Jamaica, Santo Domingo, the Lee
ward islands and the Windward islands,
with the coast of Venezuela, in South
America. The word "main' has no af-
dnity with the English word as in MAIN
land, but comes from the Spanish word
manea, shaokles, given in reference to
the imaginary resemblance of the broken
thain of islands to that in early days. IA
miliar article. Boston Transcript.