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The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-02-09
ENGLAND AND AMERICA.


The Great Chain Of Letters That Binds
the Two Nations.
A most interesting summary of the
business Of the postoffice of the United
Kingdom has been compiled by Mr.. J.
Holt Schooling, member of the Royal
Statistical society Of London. 1t is of
peculiar value to Americans, not only
as affording means of comparison with
our own postoffice work, but because it
shows anew the close bonds of business
and friendship between the two great
nations. Mr.. Schooling illustrates his
statistics with graphic diagrams.
The first thing that strikes the eye in
the report is the cost Of the British post
al service and the profit, for Great Brit
ain makes profit in this department
The wages of employees alone amount
to $50, 800. 600 year, while the total
cost of the department for the same Pc
Rod is $53, 75O. O00
The receipts amount to sos, $50, 900,
leaving balance of $15, 900, 900 profit
year. This would make very star
thing comparison with large yearly de-
felt of our own postoffice were it not re-
membered that Great Britain owns the
telegraph too. Doubtless large tele-
graphic profits offset a deficit in the
strictly postal business. On this point
Mr.. Schooling is unfortunately silent.
While Great Britain exchanges 49,
900, 200 letters with Europe, she ex-
changes 81 900, 900 with America. This
shows the bond between Europe and
America, for the next continent on the
list is Asia, with whom she makes only
90, 900, 900 exchanges.
In the comparison of nations the
United States stands far ahead of any
other, for 1000, 900 letters are ex-
changed annually between us and Great
Britain. The next on the list is France,
with an exchange of %, 750, 900 letters,
and Germany is third, with an exchange
of 20, 800, 900. No other nation APP
proaches nearer than Italy's 6, 800, OO0
The increase in letter writing in the
last so years, due to increased education
and the enlargement of friendship, bus
mess and common interests in general, is
very interestingly shown in the COM
pliers tables. In 1916, for instance, the
British postoffice delivered 10 letters for
every head of population, while in 1894
46 letters for each head of population
were delivered.
With similar intent Mr.. Schooling
says:
Twenty years ago the activity Of
tiny spot in the tiny spot marked Lon
don annually delivered 70 letters in the
United Kingdom for every 100 persons
living on the area of the whole world,
a sufficiently remarkable performance
even then. But now this wonderful
postoffice machine delivers in these lit
tie islands only number of letters that
suffices to provide each unit of the
worlds population with nearly / ID let
ters annually, and this without includ-
ing any of the other considerable items
of postal matter, such as book packets,
post cards, newspapers, circulars, tele-
grams, etc. y
The comparative diagrams indicate
the amount of postal matter exchanged
by the United Kingdom with the other
continents. They show how closely we
are bound to the queens realm through
the ties of the post. New York Herald
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-02-09

After an absence of three years the
expedition under Lieutenant Hourst has
safely returned to Europe from the Nj
ger. The party assembled the Senegal
river and then carried the sections of
an aluminium boat overland to the up
per part of the Niger. On reaching this
river the pieces of the boat were put to-
gether and two native boats purchased.
In these the expedition sailed down the
Niger to Timbuktu, where a stay of
ten months was made. The voyage
from Timbuktu to Lokoja, at the con-
huenee of the Niger and Benue, seems
to have been arduous, but from that
point the expedition was towed by
launch belonging to the Royal Niger
company to the coast at Wari How
much fresh Typographical information
Lieutenant Hourst's party has obtained
is not yet stated. This will depend on
the highest point reached on the Niger.
Reuters message states that the expedi-
ton First met the river Niger at
Hayes, but that town is on the Sene-
gal river. There can be no doubt, how
ever, that much valuable scientific in
formation was obtained, for the expedi-
ton travelled slowly and was admirably
equipped. One novelty was the use of
monograph for reporting the native war
songs. The expedition kept peace with
the natives throughout the journey, in
which it differs greatly from some of
those previously conducted by French
explorers in that region. Mature.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-02-09
THE ART OF CONVERSATION.


1t Means Saying Old Things In a New
and Charming Way.
Takers are not those who have news
to tell Their mission is, as Pope de-
scribed the poets, to put into words
what oft was thought before, but not SO
we'll expressed. The mind is unequal to
the strain of taking information as such
all the time. We read just as we dress
in new garments-not because we are
naked but because we want to vary our
garments We read poetry for inspira-
ton, science for the laws of life and
nature, newspapers for general informa-
ton, essays and history for relaxation
and the basis of knowledge. Any one
we'll read in these must be an entertain
ing companion, if the faculty of impart-
ing the sum of them be given. In other
words, if he or she be a good talker.
Lord Macaulay, one of the best in
formed men of his time, was so irresist-
ible talker that whole companies sat
for hours to listen. His love of talking
was SO inordinate that cessation of his
wondrous outflow was loosely alluded
w az DIl11ldAb udcu VI sll6uC6.
They had, it is true, more time to talk
in other days than we can set aside now,
and there were other occult influences
not less conducive to engaging garrulity.
In those times the streets were filed
with picturesque shapes and colors-the
nameless grace of costumes and equi-
pages now seen only on the stage. No
wonder that, surrounded by birds of
such brilliant plumage, courts and kings,
robes and plumes, clashing swords and
rustling silks, our fathers and mothers
talked we'll. But in revenge we have
vaster field to draw on for sprightly con-
versation. The schoolboy of today has
greater fund of knowledge by merely
learning life's needs than the best edu-
Gated of the ancients. But he should be
encouraged to make use of this by talk
Philadelphia Times.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-02-09
A TIeERIsH TURKISH MOB.

Murderous Bludgeon Men In the Streets
of Constantinople.
Such men as the bludgeon men one
does not often see in the streets of Con-
stantinople. OF the better class of Turks
there were none among them. They
were of class like the wharf rats and
longshoremen of western lands They
were of all shades of color, from the
white skinned Lac and Circassian to the
brown and hook nosed Kurd and the
coal black Nubian from Africa Their
faces were a study of fearful passions.
There were faces scanned and SCARED
like the head of a fighting bulldog; faces
distorted by malice and greed; faces
scared, as by fire. case hardened in ig-
norance of all except vice and ferocious
as an angry tiger. Some of those faces
burned their way into my memory and
remained for days, haunting revela-
ton of brutal instincts and beastly de-
sires which made one wonder how it
was possible to have lived in safety for
weeks in a city containing such men.
These men were not armed, in the
common sense of the word. Some of
them had revolvers, and the most of
them had knives. But they seldom used
either, for awkward questions might be
raised if the police were called to &C.
count for failing to arrest armed civil
ians on the streets. Carrying ak helves,
pickax handles, heavy clubs, like base
ball bats; Jagged fragments of broken
scantling-oarrying anything that can
crush the skull of man-this horrible
rabble flooded the streets of all Chris
tian quarters of the city, like an all des.
olating tidal wave, silent but irresisti-
BILE. Their silence by day was almost as
terrible as their bowls by night They
would be seen going along the street,
when they would meet an Armenian
who had ventured to attempt to reach
his home. Without word they would
break in his skull and go on their way,
entirely unmoved and hardly having
spoken loud word. If resistance was
offered, they had only to say. ''The
Giaours resist" and horde of their
fellows would come running from all
directions to destroy one who had prov
ed his seditious quality by daring to re-
sist Mussulman. "a Bystander's
Notes of Massacre, by IVAN Troshine,
in Scribner's.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-02-09

There was never remedy so eminent
ly successful, so far above and beyond all
competition, as Paine's celery compound.
Paines celery compound effects marvel
GUS cures.
Where other remedies miserably fail,
and where doctors do not succeed, there
Paine's celery compound IS found curing
disease, making people well and happy.
Here is the case of Mrs. Half, who lives
at l40 Summer avenue, Newark, N. j.,
and whose portrait is printed here.
"My DOCTOR" she says, 'called my dis
ease liver complaint, stomach trouble,
nervous dyspepsia, and almost every
other name you could think of. When
was in Portland, Ore, l had enlargement
of the liver, and the doctor thought all
the troubles came from that severe spell
of illness. That was IL years ago, and
have done nothing but doctor ever since.
l have had the best physicians examine
me, and see if they could do anything for
me. For months at time my stomach
and liver have been so sore that | could
lie IN bed only in misery, and with such
severe pain in my back, and so weak that
l could hardly talk.
"After had bad night l would send
for the doctor, and he would leave me a
small box of powders and one or two
other medicines, and it would cost me 81
every time l had one of these spells. l
believe have taken more medicine than
any other living woman.
LAST March had call from lady
friend of mine, who asked me, What is
the matter with your 1 replied by say
ing, How we'll you look ? Yes she
said, 4 never felt so well in my life.
She is woman of As. And now she
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-02-09

said, L want to give you little advice
have been almost at deaths door with
liver trouble. After the doctor had done
all that he could for me told him not to
come again. l showed him a bottle of
Paine's celery compound and told him l
was going to give that fair trial. AS a
result am strong and we'll.
81 sent right over to the drug store and
got bottle of Paine's celery compound,
and when I had taken two bottles the
soreness had left my stomach and my
side felt much better. After / had taken
four bottles my side was much stronger,
and was in better spirits and felt as
though might live and not be in such
misery. Working people nowadays work
the vitality all out every week, and all I
ask is to be able to earn the money l
have to every week.
"Paine's celery compound has enabled
me to do this, and has done me more
good than all the doctors put together.
"Why, my nervous system is so entirely
strengthened that fell like new being,
and what is more, I look the good the
medicine has done me, right in my face
and eyes. Just tell all poor women for
me that for medicine to build one up,
give PaIne's celery compound fair trial,
and if it does not do it, then they might
as we'll die. have recommended it to
several and it has helped in every case.
l have great deal to worry me, and a
dose of the compound gives me quiet
sleep and then can work. If any one
wishes to write me they can do So"
Why should sick person do anything
else but try a bottle of Paine's celery
compound
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-02-09

The beautiful daughter of Colonel
Ross was standing by Channing's bed
alone when the doctor led the mother
and her young companion in. The lieu
tenant had been dead 90 minutes. The
dark eyed woman did not turn. She had
forgotten everything in all the world
save only Channing's face. When the
southern girl dropped down at the bed
side and screamed for her husband, she
started.
lis the poor thing erazy?" she asked
duly of Mrs. Charming.
"No. But she was not married to
him. Only she was to have been mar
ried at Santa Maria two or three days
ago-I forget when. He sent for her. "
THAT can't be true, because l am his
wife,
Mrs. Charming caught at the bedpost
with her shriveled old hand. "Non-
senseP' she said.
Indeed it is true. Aren't you his
mother?'' She put her arm tenderly
about the bent shoulders. 81 thought
you were. You look like him. He and
l were married last night at midnight,
when they told us he was going to die. ;"
''Annal Come away, ANIMAL You've
no right there. Get up This girls his
wife. He didn't love you. He married
her. He married her-last night.
1t was cruel, but Mrs. Charming had
gone mad.
For five years afterward Colonel Ross
cared for the insane mother Of his
daughters husband-even when his
daughter was dead.
But until Charming was buried in the
graveyard on the hill, where the coyotes
dug up the mounds at night, and the
prairie dogs barked shrilly, and the
snakes glided along the dry, baked earth
into their holes-until he was buried
there the two women staid by her.
Their trust in the dead man never fall
tered. The girl believed he had been
ensnared ON his deathbed, the wife
that he had never loved the childish,
pretty Virginian. Yet neither, out of
pity, spoke her convictions.
Watching over his mother, they sat
in the room where he had died and lis
tened to the thud of the soldiers feet
as they marched by outside, following
the young officers flag covered coffin.
Then there was long, long silence.
They were wide apart-the wife with
her beautiful head in her hands, the
girl looking straight at the wall, the
old woman muttering and scratching at
her gown with her crooked fingers.
At last came the sound of faroff
volley of musketry. The girl jumped
up "What's that?"
1.-THE firing over his grave.
In moment it came again. The girl
stood swaying; the wife sat with hel
head still bowed. It was no new sound
to her.
A pause-then the last volley. The
girl fell, and the woman. lifting hei
head, stared stupidity at the pretty, dead
face, at the fixed, childish eyes that still
looked hurt, while the mother muttered
in the corner and taps shrilled from the
bugle over the grave of the man they
had loved. -Gwendolen Overton in Sar
Francisco Argonaut.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-02-09

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The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-02-09
ELECTRIC Culture.

Professor Bailey Of Cornell university
shows that this fact is mainly owing
TO the careful compilation of data
which has been made by himself. He
shows that the effect of the light is
marked even at distance of 100 feet.
From his experiments are drawn the fol-
lowing conclusions: The influence of
the electric arc light upon greenhouse
plants is greatly modified by the use of
clear glass globe, or the interposition
of glass roof Plants which are much
improved by naked light may be ben
Gifted by protected light The light
can be suspended even above the house
with good effect. As rule plants are
earlier under the electric light than
when grown under ordinary conditions.
Lettuce is greatly forced and improved
by this light. An average of five hours
of light per night hastened maturity
from week to ten days at distance of
from 10 to 12 feet. At 40 feet, with
diffused light, the effect was striking.
The light appeared to injure young,
newly transplanted plants. Radishes
were benefited by the light Caulifiowers
grew taller and made fewer and smaller
heads
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-02-09
"REs augusta DoMI.n


Haud facile emergunt, quorum virtutfbus
obstst res augusta domi.-Juvenal.
Although, since Babel's impious crime,
TIL investigation of first causes
Has occupied deal of time,
And must until this planet pauses.
In all the quaint competing schemes
OF metaphysics could mention,
The ''res augusta domi" seems
To meet with less than due attention.
Strephon, my friend, a youth Of parts,
Who daily scribbles for his dinner,
Ventured to rhyme of "hearts' and sdartse'
And such stale copy to Corinna.
Her father fumed, her brother swore,
Her portly mother murmured, 30 myi"
The turnkey kicked him through the door.
And all for tres augusta domi."
Poor Strephon's case In some such way
would explain and several others
Where chill December married May
And men eloped with their grandmother,
Where peers were seen behind cab,
And love through open windows flying,
Where honor ceased to feel q stab
And age was left alone in dying.
Girls have known whose charms compared
With Helen's, girls as histriohic
AS Siddons, Terry, Bernhardt, Baird
They wax not fat upon their art,
Nor famous. If you want to know why
They can't afford to "dress the part
Again tits tres augusta domi."
This law of nature will explain
Why Delia's driven to discuss 1t
If she shall trudge through mire and rain.
Or treat herself and boldly bus it;
Why dukes from Liverpool embark
To seek some nasal talking spinster,
Why demagogues go to the park
And Irish patriots to Westminster.
Perhaps you think from choice spend
My powers in writing down to noodles.
Sooner, believe me, would bend
My mighty mind to teaching poodles.
Oh, rich in faith, but poor in brains,
I'd see the editors at Toni
And all their henchmen hung in chains
But for the ''res augusta domi. -
st. James Gazette.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-02-09
CELERY CULTURE.

Views of Eastern Market Gardeners and
Western Celery Growers ON Varieties.
An enormous impetus has been given
to celery growing since the introduction
Of the self blanching sorts have been in
troduced. With proper management GEL
cry may now be had nearly all the year
round, and consumers have become more
discriminating as to the qualities Of the
different varieties, as is evidenced by
the following inquiry from one Of the
largest celery growers in Ohio: "Is it
not advisable for growers to use more
of the self blanching varieties of celery,
like Perfection, Heartwell or Perle lie
Grande, and less Golden Self Blanohing,
and are not the pink and red varieties
the best for marketing?" This inquiry
was submitted to number Of expert
enced celery growers in various sections
of the country by The American Agri-
culturist, and their replies, some of
which are here reproduced, show how
the tastes Of buyers differ In different
localities and how important 1t is for
growers to acquaint themselves with the
requirements of their markets. Nearly
all agree that the eating qualities of the
pink and red varieties are superior to
those Of all others, but for market pur-
poses they are almost worthless.
From Hudson county, N. j.. came
the following: If all the good qualities
of the Pink Plume celery were known,
it would take the lead. 1t is strong,
healthy. compact grower, not quite SO
rank as the White Plume, with no tend
ency to rust, stems very solid and crisp,
extra early and long keeper, remain
ing, when properly trenched, in perfect
condition into the spring.
A contributor from Queens county,
N Y, writes: The pink varieties are
decidedly better than other sorts, wheth-
or self blanching or not. They have a
rich, nutty flavor. do not consider the
self blanohing sorts as vigorous as the
green and pink varieties. The absence
of color is an evidence of loss of vital
ity, and as all kinds of celery require
earthing up to make them tender and
delicious am decidedly in favor of the
pink and green sorts, but it must be I'M
derstood that any given variety will not
be equally good in all soils and locali-
ties.
From Middlesex county, Mass, comes
the information that Boston market eel
cry leads in Boston markets.
A writer in Ottawa, Mich, tells that
all large growers raise White Plume ex-
clusively for the summer trade, Golden
Dwarf and Perfection Heartwell for
winter. The pink varieties do not take
in the market. An Illinois correspond
ent tells that the red kind has not
made its way in his markets as yet. In
Bureau county the large celery growers
commence to grow more self blanching
varieties for early trade, such as the
White Plume, Perfection Heartwell and
others. The reply from Ottawa county,
Ills, is as follows:
Three-fourths Of all the celery seen in
our markets is Henderson's White
Plume, for the reason that it bleaches
earliest. The green sorts are far supe-
rior in quality, provided they are well
bleached, but the pink celery is GER
tainly the best of all.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-02-09
We recommend them,
as they fit like a glove.


Washington at the present time is the
most attractive city on the continent. Its
architectural grandeur has often been
commented upon, and its various depart
ments and institutions are among the
most interesting in the world The Capt.
toll, the Treasury, the Bureau of EngraY-
ing and Printing, the Smithsonian Instl-
lutte and National Museum, and the new
Congressional Library are all intensely in
teresting, and the great Monument affords
view long to be remembered.
The next personally-conduc,ed tour of
the Pennsylvania Railroad will leave
New York and Philadelphia February IL.
Tickets. including transportation, hotel
and every necessary ex-
pense, will be sold at the following rates
From New York, Brooklyn, and Newark,
$3.50; Pnillipsburg, N. j., $l450; Potts
vile, $l4.30; Cape May, $l2.75; and at
proportionate rates from other points.
For tickets, itineraries, and full inform
alton apply to ticket agents; tourist agent
1895 Broadway, New York or Geo. W.
Boyd, Assistant General Passenger Agent,
Broad Street Station. Philadelphia.