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La democracia. (Ponce, P.R.) 1890-1948, 1897-02-22

pERTENEcEN al numero de los que ira
bajan por las ideas.
BIanoo, Guillermety, Nunez, Ramos,
Vale, ..... PERTEN
ahora, deepu6s de quedarse en- sus
casas Y de no meterse en- poHttcu, Y de
deiarnos a los demas que nos reventase
mos, vienen, no prestar auxllio en-
ningun sentido, sino romper la cohe-
sion, a dividir la hueste sagrada de los
que luchan; a engendrar ell repugnante
cisma.
Dios Sc 10 perdone
ST Sc tratara de realizar un sacrificio,
de meter ell hombro a una empresa,
Gle empujar un compatriota, estos hom-
bres nos dirfan
&-Estamos desenganados: no conteis
con nosotros; id otras puertas.>
Sc trata de fomentar la indisciplina,
de rebelarse contra una asambIea, de
hacer algo negative, y ahf surgcn ellos.
Lo deploramos. por ellos.
Y esoriben
-~No difcultamos preoisamente la
formacI6n del partido fusionista-par
t1do LIBERAL, cabalierOs realizamos
ningun acto que altere la actual har-
m0nfa.>
Y, sin embargo, queda alberto el
banderfn de enganche.
La democracia. (Ponce, P.R.) 1890-1948, 1897-02-22
| DIDSTRO 7 SINlESTRO

Es chocante.
Los periodicos integristas han toma-
do con mas calor que los mismos inte-
resados la question de La disidencia.
Y La Hetegridad es hasta ell presente
Ell paladfn mas esforzado con que cuen-
tan los senores Rossy, Barbosa y Sam
chez Morales.
Esto Sc comenta por ST solo.
Asf los pone en- TN iris,
al aplaudirles ahora,
esq eterna acusadora
de los hijos del pals
Por 10 demas va van aparcciendo al
hesiones.
Personals que hasta la fecha permane-
cieron retraidas, negandO su concurso Y
sn apoyo la agrupacion autoaomista.
aparccen ahora para secundar la ingrata
labor del cisma.
Tai actitud nos trae a la memoria los
siguientes versos de un autor antique.
dPuedo ser util?.. Ne voy
3 casa, sin vacilar.
La democracia. (Ponce, P.R.) 1890-1948, 1897-02-22
Conmigo no hay que contar.
1 sEstorbo?. Pues aquf estoy.

A pesar de todo confamos mucho em
la sensatez en- ell buen sentldO de
nuestros conciudadanos.
Seran cautos prudentes,
V a la postre es de Greer
que los pocos disidentes
al fin no lograran Yer
nuestras huestes desunidas,
aunque lie presten su auxilio
esas firm rs recogidas,
por favor, domiCilio.
Por muchas vucltas que sc lie de, no
pnede menos de lamar la atencion la
couducta de esos frmantes que perma-
necfan retirados Ell absolute de la polf-
tlca
Pero son6 la hora de la discordia y
ahf los tienen usteles dispuestos rom
per lanzas, no contra ell enemigo comun,
sino contra sus mismOs correllglonarios.
salen al redondel,
yscreen muy liso muy llano
desempenar Ell papel
del perro del hortelano.
En- ell ultimo numero de Ell Pals lle-
gado esta ciudad aparecen dos nue.
vas adheslones.
Las de Fernando J. Matfas Fran
cisco Cintron.
Nos felicit amos.
La democracia. (Ponce, P.R.) 1890-1948, 1897-02-22
ADHESIOUES
Caguas, Fe5rero %.
DEMoCRACIA--Ponce.
LUIS BON NAFOUX.

Felicitamosles calurosamente por sus
eorrectos bien razonados artfculos
4 sDiside1ates.? y Ellos nosotros publ
cados edicion del 20. Es justicia.-
Jose J. Alvarez, Sola, VI. Escoda. r.
Alvarez.
La democracia. (Ponce, P.R.) 1890-1948, 1897-02-22
De Camuy


Sr. Director de La DEMooRACIA.
Ponce.
Ell nuevo partido liberal sagastino
presidido por Munoz Rivera esta iden-
titicado con los autonomistas de aquf,
nuestros incondicionales de tendencias
lIberales simpatizan con tl.-,yos6 Soto.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-09-14

According to the best authorities
upon the subject, the idea of using
white tale in the manufacture of pipes
is of comparatively recent date, COM
pared with the age Of the habit of smok-
ing, and what is still more curious is
the fact that in the oriental countries
which produce white tale, or meer-
schaum, as it is called, and where the
use of tobacco forms part of the eduoa-
ton of the faithful, the people never
dream of making this substance into
pipes They make bowls and goblets Of
it, but no pipes. 1t may be that the
long pipestems which allow the smoke
to cool and lose its aoridity before
reaching the mouth leave the oriental
smoker quite Indifferent in regard to
the quality Of the bowl. At all events,
one never sees a Turk with a meer-
schaum pipe. Courier des Etats Unis.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-09-14
THE SULTAN's HEIR.
He Is His Eldest Brother, Who Is Rare
Seen In Public.


He Is His Eldest Brother, Who Is Rarely
Seen In Public.
The sultan's heir is not his eldest
son, but his eldest brother, according
to the London Echo. The eldest male
succeeds. Such is the law of Islam and
the fruitful source of dynastic murders
in almost every reign since the Turks
became a power. The sultan has four
brothers-not one only, as was lately
alleged. This eldest brother is Rechad
Effendi-that is to say, he is eldest aft
er the ex-sultan, Murad V, who, being
insane, is not counted. The third broth
er is Waredin, and the fourth SULLIVAN.
The sultan's eldest son, Prince Selim,
has no earthly chance of succeeding his
father He has too many uncles and
uncle's sons for that. But Prince Selim
is lucky, if he knows it, for he is not
dangerous. !" He lives a life of freedom,
whereas the heir is, by the custom of
the Ottomans, kind of life prisoner.
Rechad Effendi is rarely seen. Every
time he drives out he is escorted by a
troop, less by way of an escort than as
guard. The few who do know him
like him, for he is said to be cour-
teous, humane, well informed man, ac-
quainted with current politics and keen
ly interested In them. He is good
farmer. The pretty palace known as the
Tcheragan is his residence. OF course
Rechad's visitors are searched before
they are admitted and when they are
leaving by the sultan's officials. Dur
ing times of trouble in Armenia, Con-
stantinople and Crete Rechad is more
narrowly watched than ever, for the
sultan and his clique know that Reohad
is popular. Unlike the sultan, Rechad is
one of the most handsome men in Con-
stantinople
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-09-14
CURIOUS INSECT.

A Butterfly That Enjoys Only Five Hours
of Life.
1t is in August that the naturalists
observe the marvellous insect which is
born, reproduces and dies in the period
Of a single night, on the banks of the
Marine, of the Seine, and of the Rhine.
1t is the ephemere of which Sirammer-
dam has written and which is spoken
of in Aristotle.
The life of this insect does not last
beyond four or five hours. 1t dies to-
ward II O'Clock in the evening, after
taking the form of butterfly about six
hours after midday. 1t is true, how
ever, that before taking this form it
has lived three years in that of a worm,
which keeps always near the border of
water in the holes which it makes in
the mud.
The change of this worm in the
water to an ephemere which flies is SO
sudden that one has not the time to see
it. If one takes the.worm in the water,
the hand cannot be taken away before
the change is made unless by pressing
the worm slightly in the region of the
chest By this means it can be taken
from the water before the change takes
place
The ephemere, after leaving the
water, seeks place where it can divest
itself of a fine membrane or veil, which
entirely covers it. This second change
takes place in the air.
The ephemere assists itself with the
point of its little nails as firmly as it
can. 1t makes movement similar to
that of shiver, then the skin on the
middle of the back breaks apart, the
wings slip out of their sheath, as we
sometimes take off our gloves by turn
ing them inside out After this strip
ping the ephemere begins to fly. Some
times it holds itself straight up on the
surface Of the water on the end of it's tail,
Tapping its wings one against the
other 1t takes no nourishment in the
five or six hours which are the limit of
its life 1t seems to have been formed
but to multiply, for it does not leave
its state of worm until it is ready to
deposit its eggs, and it dies as soon as
they are deposited.
In three days time one sees appear
and die all species Of ephemeres. They
last sometimes until the fifth day, for
the reason that some malady has affect
ed some of them and prevents them from
changing at the same time as the
others Exchange
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-09-14
QUEER LIBRARY FREAKS.
Funny Requests For Books That Anus
and Amaze Employees.

Funny Requests For Books That Amuse
and Amaze Employees.
Once in awhile the clerks in the pub
lie library get hold of a good joke
through the ignorance of people who
come there to take out books. 1t was
not long ago that a woman who was
anxious to join the Daughters of the
American Revolution came there tc
look up her family history and get her
facts and claims ready to submit to the
committee on membership She went
about it in rather a queer way After
looking about aimlessly through the in
dex for time she discovered Losing s
Family History Of the United States. -
She wrote her request for the books ON
one of the cards provided for that pur-
pose and was quite indignant with the
clerk who handed it to her because it
did not contain what she wanted
1t was not long after this incident
that another woman, who, from her
dress and appearance, the clerks thought,
might be literary, wrote on one of the
cards request for THE Autocrat OF
the Breakfast Table.
Holmes Autocrat, do you want?''
politely asked the clerk.
"Oh, I don't care whose it is, was
the reply. II on a.want to find out if it
is proper to use lotsnpicks at the break
fast table -
Another request for magazine which
the applicant said was called Brain
kept one of the clerks busy hunting half
an hour before he discovered that what
was wanted was the magazine called
Mind. Still another clerk was shock
ed the other day by request for Wash
ington Irving's Alabama The clerk
mildly suggested "Alhambra. Chi
cago Times Herald
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-09-14
New England Meeting Houses

Cotton Mather said: 81 find no Just
ground in Scripture to apply such a
trope as church to house for public
worship. A meeting house is the term
that is most commonly used by New
England Christians, and every town,
for the most part, can say we have a
modest and a handsome house for the
worship of God, not set off with gaudy,
pompous, theatrical fneries, but suited
unto the simplicity of Christian wor-
ship.
The people were seated in the early
days, says DR.. Ezra Hoyt Byington, in
his book on 1.-THE Puritan In England
and New England, on rough benches,
men and women on opposite Sides
Pews were not provided first Now and
then special vote was passed by the
town authorizing some person to build
pew in the meeting house at his own
expense. Squares on the floor, about
feet by 6, were decided to individuals,
on which they erected pews to suit
themselves. The best seat was some
times assigned to the man who paid the
AASDesU Tax III tno parish. SOmeGlmeS
the committee was instructed "to
have respect upon them that are 90
years old and upward, others to be
seated according their pay" In one in
stance we have record that the COM
mittee was instructed ''to have respect
to age, office and estate, so far as it
tendeth to make a man respectable, and
to everything else that hath the same
tendency. y
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-09-14

Health and strength carry us through
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Of peril. A perfectly strong man with
rich. pure blood, has nothing to fear from
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consumption with impunity. If there is
a weak spot where the germs may find an
entrance to the tissues, then the trouble
begins Disease germs propagate with
lightning-like rapidity. Once in the
blood, the only way to get rid of them is
to kill them. This is what Dr. Pierce's
Golden Medical Discovery is for 1t puri-
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the germs, but that is only part of what
it does. 1t assists digestion by stmula-
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The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-09-14
STREET CAR CONDUCTORS.
They Work Harder and Rate Lower Than
Their Steam Road Brothers.

They Work Harder and Rate Lower Than
Their Steam Road Brothers.
You often think it's hard for the pas
senger conductor of an accommodation
train which stops at two or three sta
tions to the mile to tell who has paid
his fare and who has not The conduct
or of a short run accommodation train
especially must be peculiarly gifted
man. He must be at once both cool
headed and even tempered, or if not he
is total failure
But if the requisites of a railroad
conductor are such, what are the re-
quirements of the man who runs COM
mon street car? Why, as much as those
of the railroad man and several times
more The railroad accommodation con-
ductor on one of the short run trains
which leave the big cities has little
more work, little more responsibility
and requires less real skill than the man
who by grace is called conductor" on
a trolley car of one of our cities
Both men, of course, have thousands
of cares. The railroad man has a certain
number of stops to make and a certain
schedule time allowed for getting over
his run of the railroad. The street car
conductor has an uncertain number of
stops to make, yet he still has his GER
tain scheduled time to make ON his run,
and he must make it. too, or be able to
give an ga No. 1" excuse for failure.
The railroad conductor is always the
biggest man on his train. Is ever the
street car conductor the biggest, unless
every passenger is off and the motorman
also? These things make it hard for the
patient man, who must be polite and
who is expected by the company for
which he works and spurred on by a
dozen or SO sharp eyed "spotters, I" or
''street car detectives" as they call
themselves, to feel as lovely as a spring
morning, and they make his already
nervous work doubly so. The railroad
conductor doesn't meet that phase of
existence once in decade, or if so not
any oftener.
No one presumes to expect SO much
from the knight Of the ticket punch as
he does from the knight of the trolley
rope. Every one who travels on street
cars expects the conductor to know
every CROSS street ON his line and just
where it strikes that street, and, in
deed, he should know this much, but in
addition he is expected to know every
one who lives on the streets along
which his line runs, every one who
lives on all the countless streets which
cross the route of his car and then all
the immediate streets and their inhabit-
ants the whole length of his line The
street car conductor is expected to be
porter as we'll on his car. He must help
people on and off, lift up and lift
down huge baskets and bundles, never
get tired of all the questions which
only the city directory could answer,
and then, in addition, keep all of the
strict rules of the company for which
he works and see to it that all of his
passengers do so too For this work he
gets So or 50 25 day, while the rail
road conductor, who is a very king in
comparison, draws his So or SO per day,
or $125 a month, and is not classed as
social suspect" either. -Pittsburg
| Dispatch
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-09-14

mother and her baby can have lots OF
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and hearty. Health makes them good
natured and happy; but all the delights of
motherhood are lost if the mother is weak
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Mothers of young children are subject to
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The reasons why it is the most perfect
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The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-09-14

1t has been stated that three persons
out of every five in this country who
have attained the age of 40 years are
more or less deaf i'll one or both ears.
A large proportion Of this deafness is
caused by catarrh, and medical treat
ment for difficulty of hearing is usually
directed to the catarrhal source In Eu-
rope much of the deafness is hereditary.
DR.. James Kerr Love of Glasgow re-
Gently read a paper on deafness before
the Royal society of Edinburgh, from
which it appears that congenital deaf
ness may be either hereditary in the di-
rect line or in collateral branches, and
that it depends on not one, but many
anatomical defects Intermarriage of
deaf persons perpetuates but does not
accentuate the tendency of deafness.
The hearing brothers and sisters of deaf
mutes are as likely to have deaf mute
offspring as if they had been deaf mutes
themselves Consequently of parents
emphasizes family defects, and in this
way many cases of congenital deafness
occur. One of the most singular points
of DIR. Loves paper was the assertion
that the state had the right to control
the marriage of persons belonging to
families badly tainted with deafness
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-09-14
An Extraordinary Migration.

One of the greatest mysteries to scien-
lists, one for which there seems to be
no reasonable explanation, is that con-
corning the migration of the lemming,
or Norway rat. Instead of taking place
once year these migrations occur only
once in every II years. When the time
comes for the exodus, the little animals
journey westward from Scandinavia,
allowing nothing to stop their move
ments, which virtually amount to a
headlong flight. They swim the lakes
and rivers and climb the highest noun
tains in incalculable numbers, devastat-
ing the whole country through which
they travel. Naturalists attribute the
movement to some inherited memory Of
fight to escape an expected oataolysm,
but this seems somewhat farfetohed. -
Pittsburg Dispatch.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-09-14
HANGING A GUERRILLA.

He Accepted His Fate without Word
or Tear.
A shot had been fred at us as we rode
along the highway in column of tours,
and trooper reeled and pitched from
his saddle, shot through the heart. The
shot was fred by guerrilla hidden in
cornfeld, and we got the order to
throw down the fence and ride through
the field. He was captured at the far
end Of it, just as he was about to gain
the woods. He was a man 80 years old,
grim and grizzly, and with eyes of def
ance.
"Waal, what is it?'' he quietly ask
ed of his captors.
DO you live about herer'
In the cabin down thar"
Got family2"
eyes,
"Want to bid EN- goodby?"
81 reckon. -
Come along"
The cabin was reached in five min
utes. A gray haired woman and girl
of 15-wife and daughter-stood in the
! OpoA uOOI.
"What is it, Jim?' asked the wife as
the man stood before her.
"Gwine to kill me, reckon, he re-
piled.
'What fur?''
Fur KILN one of them"
"Hul Goodby, Jiml'
"Goodby, daddyp' from the girl
"Goodbyp'
| No handshakes, no tears, no senti-
ment, no pleading. Ten rods below the
house was large shade tree. Two or
three halters were knotted together, the
rope thrown over a limb, moose slip
ped over the mans head, and next mo-
ment he was dangling clear of the
ground. He had no excuses, made no
plea. asked no mercy. He went to his
death with the stoicism of an Indian.
Wife and daughter stood in the doorway
and saw all. but there were no tears,
no outburst. AS we were ready to ride
away the woman came slowly down the
| spot, looked at the body for half a mo-
ment, and then turned to ask:
Is Jim dead?"
Eyes, answered the captain.
"Hul' And she walked slowly back
to the house and entered it, and shut
the door, and we rode on and left the
corpse hanging. Detroit Free Press.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-09-14
MONEY TO BURN.
They Burned 1t and Later Wished The,
Had Kant tho

They Burned 1t and Later Wished They
Had Kept the Fuel.
"When Burnside made his mud march
on to Fredericksburg, we men in the
advance had some gay times, remarked
a veteran of the civil war. cit was
long while before the Johnnies would
let us cross the river, but when we did
get across we made the fellows who had
been shooting at us for the past three
hours get right up and dust for safer
quarters. The infantry soon followed us
and took up their position along the
river toward Falmouth, while we Skin
mished through the town. When we
came to the Planters hotel, we just
walked in and took possession. Every
body had deserted the place and we did
just as we pleased. In going through
one of the rooms l came across three
bundles of Confederate notes. Each
bundle was labeled to contain So, 900,
and as l held them aloft shouted to
the rest of the men that we now had
money to burn. They laughed, and l
thrust the notes in my pocket. The
Johnnies had taken or destroyed every
thing to eat, and, as for liquor, there
wasn't any in the town.
AFTER satisfying ourselves that there
was nothing further to be had in the
Planters hotel we sailed forth and
walked up toward the home of the
mother Of our country-George Wash
ington's mother. We had had no break
fast yet, and now it was close on to
noon. One of my companions had some
coffee in his haversack, SO thought we
might have a little coffee if nothing
else. Well, we got the coffee out and
then discovered that we had no firewood.
There was some tall swearing just at
that time, for the Johnnies hadn't left
so much as match behind them.
1--WE got itP l cried, and / hauled
out the three bundles of notes had
found in the Planters hotel. My ex-
preston was greeted with shout by
my companions and-we had money to
burn. We soon had the fire going and
the coffee cooked. Need I say to any
soldier that we enjoyed our coffee at
price which seems rather high-$15,-
600? We We're soon through and marched
back into the town only to see our men
trying to buy some tobacco without
money. How strange it seemedl They
had not cent, while we had money to
burn and burned it.
-Four years after / regretted having
had this money and burned it. While
in Washington in the winter Of 1865 /
had the modification Of seeing an ad-
vertisement for this identical package
of notes and Offering 90 per cent on
their face value for their return. They
were Virginia state bank notes; hence
their value Whenever | hear that a
man has money to burn think of my
$15, 900 and shed tear of regret that
burned it. New York Telegram