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The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-03-02

Only about eight or nine of the life
insurance companies of the country in
sure women at the same rates as men.
A considerably larger number insure
women, but charge them an additional
So per 81, 900, and still more even do
not insure women at all 1t is the opin-
ion of those qualified to speak that the
companies charging the excess rate are
not justified in doing so and that the
practice will not long be continued.
The mortality rate experienced among
its women insurers by one well known
company has been about so per cent Of
what was expected, and it has insured
several women for the full amount it
will issue on any one life-that is, $50, :
900. The heretofore unfavorable atti-
tude of insurance companies toward
women has been due undoubtedly to the
fact that few if any women had an in
surable interest, but that day has passed.
As the avenues of occupations have
widened thousands of women today
are the sole support Of children or par
ents, and those thus dependent on them
need the protection Of insurance as
much as if the family breadwinner
were a man.
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unauthentic portraits Of FRANKLIN.

1t seems the height of absurdity to
look upon the so called ''Sumner Por-
trait of Franklin at Twenty, belonging
to Harvard university, as an authentic
portrait. Where did Franklin, who was
grubbing for funds to carry him home
at the time this picture is supposed to
have been painted, get the money for
the purple and fine linen" in which he
is arrayed, let alone to pay the artist
for his work? Aside from franklin s cir
cumstances being against its authentic
ity, his Autobiography" is silent upon
SO important subject as this portrait,
and its history is purely mythical
Another picture that has no better
claim to be considered a likeness of Ben
jamin Franklin hangs in the Metropoli-
tan Museum of Art and was painted by
Stephen Elmer, an English still life
painter There is nothing to show that
it was given the name of Franklin until
1924, when plate engraved by Ryder
and published in 1882, as 1.-THE Politi-
clan, was relettered and issued with
the name of Franklin.
The last picture to be mentioned in
this expurgatorial list is Of the first i'm
portance as a work of art. Itwas paint
ed by Thomas Gainsborough and is in
the collection of the Marquis of Lands
downe, but it is clearly not Benjamin
Franklin. 1t is, in my opinion, the por-
trait of Governor William Franklin. -
Charles Henry Hart in Mcclure Is Maga-
zine.
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TWO CLASSES OF READERS.
Those Who Like Dickens and Those Who
Adore Thackeray.

Adore Thackeray.
"About 10 years ago readers used to
be divided roughly into two classes
those who liked Dickens and those who
adored Thackeray, F" writes the critic
Droch in The Ladies' Home Journal.
Each class used to view the other with
more or less contempt. OF the two the
Thackeray people felt themselves consid-
erably superior to the Dickens people.
There were not so many of them, for
one thing, and that in itself gave them
a feeling of exclusiveness something
like the attitude assumed by George
Meredith's admirers of the present day..
But Thackeray's complete works for
So. 80 rapidly abolished the aristocracy.
Artificial barriers do not long count for
much with great writer
"You no doubt very soon found out
that in certain moods there was nothing
more satisfying to you than 'Pendennis,
and at another time the best novel that
you ever read was David Copperfield.
have no doubt that in the long run
deep in your heart you will cherish a
finer affection for the one than the other.
That is matter of temperament and
your surroundings. The one you like
best fits best into your life as you are
making it. You will discover that a
change Of scene or occupation often
brings you into sympathy with writer
whom you never before appreciated A
great sorrow will sometimes reveal
George Eliot to you; a little journey in
England will show you new beauties in
Trollope; wave of war feeling in Eu-
rope and people begin rereading Tolstoi s
War and Peace. -
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ESTABLISHED 1879.
4vs, WINE you were ngnrlng the

1vs, WINE you were ngnlng the
savages.
81 doubt the ACCESSIBILITY of savages, "
I replied. 1.-THE interruption of toma-
hawk flung at us would be worse than
one occasioned by a rattle of the door
handle "
And, after all" added Cynthia,
giving up the savages, there would be
no knowing how long they might have
been peeping at us from behind the palm
trees. "
"On the whole civilized desert is
land would suit us better. "
us such thing ever advertised?''
asked Cynthia.
with 90 years lease. We might
inquire"
There was silence in the library for
space of 20 seconds. Then Cynthia said,
"Ninety-nine years is rather a long
time
eyes" agreed "If we talk hard
the whole time, we shall have said a
great deal.
II think we might allow callers. :"
1t relieved me to hear her say so, but
I chung to the original proposition as
long as could.
"We might be at home, - 1 said, ''on
Wednesdays.
ITO the officers from the barracks -
"And the charming Miss Carruthers y
Unless they stopped the night, .
meditated Cynthia, II don't see how
they could admire the Crown Derby
dinner service Uncle Joseph sent MS.
There was not a suspicion of inter
ruption about, either at the door or at
the window. We heard not so much as
a furtive rustic in the passage, and our
distaste for the rest of the world was
ebbing away. With Cynthia's pretty
head resting upon my shoulder 1 some
how had the patriotism to feel that
England was good enough for even so
absorbed a couple as ourselves
II am not, F." she whispered in my
ear, very good in a boat, you know.
don't always look my best -
"There are not many islands attached
to the mainland, am afraid, an
swered
Then we looked at each other and
laughed aimlessly, but happily
1.-THE island problem, " said Cynthia,
is more difficult-not that 1 do not
care for you tremendously; still it is
more difficult than thought. "
II am devoted to you," was my gal
liant answer, 'but 1 am prepared to
treat the Robinson Crusoe question like
other riddles. -
How do you mean?'' she asked.
ITO give it up" I replied
James Budget.
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distraction, an If ye7d only say the word
It's yer own devoted Terence I'll be
from now to me dyin ind +"
Here l gets me chair up beside her
again, an thin all the shy wint out av
Inc at wanst. l puts me arrum round
her waist an tries to draw her to me.
But before | cud kiss her she twists her
silf away an sez she:
SIS it in earnest We are, Terence?"
''It is" SEE 1; dead earnest. "
well, SEE she, "d'ye promise to be
true, true till death, as the pote sez?''
81 do.
"An will We niver lave me, deceive
me, nor grieve me?"
"Niver, me own jewel"
"An if marry ye will ye always get
up first in the mornin an put ON the
fire an give me cup av tay in bed?"
"Dade will I, me darlint, me precious
wan -
"Thin I'm yers for liver an a day
longer, Terence, me bhoy. Ye may kiss
me-just wan now. Och, och, och, ye
murtherin thafe. How many d we want?'
she cries, for be this tonne l had her in
me arrums an was tastin the delicious
lips av her.
After that twas the delightful even
in we had intoirely. Sittin there at the
fire, sez Katie to me:
"Ye can't tell yet who sent ye that
kyard wild the poethry?"
"Sure an haven the Taste notion. .
tWell, Terence, It's thinkin / am !
can tell ye if ye won't be angry.
Angry, mavourneen, It's delight
ed I'll be. IT'S the foinest Ietther / liver
seen. .
'Arrah, thin, twas seem was We was
that shy ye wud niver spake yer 1--we
widout incouragin, an as tbs leap year
an twas wishin to see We happy l was,
why, twas just mesilf that sent ye that
wee pome av me own composure "
"Ye name it-thrue?'' 1 cries de-
loighted
FAX, tits not word av lie I'm
afther tellin ye, /" SEE She
"Thin hooray for leap yearl'' I
shouts. An ye're the grandest pote as
liver was. Sure ye'll be afther givin me
another kiss or maybes two, as thrif1e
more incouragmint, wudn't We now?"
Loike the jewel she is, she Encouraged
me again.
Be the tonne ye read this tbs married
we hope to be, for I'm just afther seein
Father Donovan about the weddin. -
Scottish Nights.
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SOMETHING ABOUT BEETLES
Their Strange Habits, Instincts and Means
OF Getting Food

Their Strange Habits, Instincts and Means
OF Getting Food.
You are all familiar with the common
black beetle known as the tumblebug,
and perhaps may have seen it rolling a
ball with its hind legs, pushing it back
ward. The ball contains the egg of the
beetle, and the creature is taking it to
place Of safety.
A green beetle spotted with white is
called the tiger beetle. He is a clever
fellow and very cunning In his manner
Of securing his prey. He will dig a hole
foot in depth and then crawl to the
top and form himself into a bridge
across the chasm, burying his head in
such manner as to appear like some
thing inanimate, but he will be ON the
alert for the unwary creature that
makes an attempt to cross on his back
In an instant the bridge will give way
and the prey will be precipitated into
the hole The beetle will follow and
quickly dispatch the game, when he
will return, reform the bridge and al
lure another victim.
Old fashioned furniture is often COM
pletely ruined by the Larvae Of beetle
called the anObuim. A peculiar sound
like the ticking of a clock is made by
these beetles when they call to each
other, the noise being made by striking
the jaws against their resting place, and
often in old houses filed with old fur
niture the superstitious, when they hear
this peculiar sound, imagine the place
to be haunted.
Another beetle is found in dark eel
lars, where it thrives upon dust and
trash 1t is so difficult to exterminate it
that it is looked upon as something I'M
canny, and the ignorant regard its pres
ence as an i'll omen.
The sacred beetle of Egypt is not I'M
like our own common beetle, and the
female lays her egg in the same way,
wrapped in substance which is to pro-
tect it and furnish food She rolls it up
into ball with her fore legs, sometimes
carrying it a long distance upon her
head; digs hole in the earth, deposits
her egg laden ball, covers it up, and
leaves it to attain its perfect develop
ment.
The sexton beetle is a curious crea-
ture. He has thick body and powerful
limbs and a most acute sense of smell
No sooner does a small animal die than
the sections gather about the body and
begin to put earth upon it. In a few
hours the dead animal has been covered
and the beetles have laid their eggs in
the carcass, which is to nourish the
larvae.
A remarkable creature is the bonn
bardier beetle, and it is provided with
a strange means of defense. 1t lives in
a community under stones, and when
disturbed discharges fluid of very
penetrating odor, much like gas, which
explOdes as it comes in contact with the
air and passes into vapor. Eighteen ex-
plosions can be made in succession by
one bombardier, and while these are
being thrown off like volley of artil-
lery the beetle effects its escape. The
fluid is like nitric acid to the taste. 1t
causes a sharp pain if placed upon the
tongue and leaves a yellowish stain.
Our Animal Friends
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In front of a window where I worked
last summer was a butternut tree A
humming bird built her nest on a limb
that grew near the window, and we
had an opportunity to watch her close
ly. In fact, we could look right into
the nest. One day when there was a
heavy shower coming up, we thought
we would see if she covered her young
during the rain. Well, when the first
drops fell, she came and took in her
bill one Of two or three large leaves
growing close by and laid this leaf over
the nest SO as completely to cover it;
then she flew away. On examining the
leaf we found hole in it, and in the
side of the nest was a small stick that
the leaf was fastened to or hooked up
on. After the storm was over the old
bird came back and unlocked the leaf,
and the nest was perfectly dry. Amer
lean Sportsman
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Major Padrin of the Italian army has
invented very ingenious contrivance
which is designed to supersede the KNAPP
sack. He has invented a vehicle to
which he has given the name of the cy-.
closac, or the sack on wheels. On this
will be carried the baggage of two sol
diers, and the uprights of the tent will
be used to convert it into sort of
wheelbarrow, which the soldier can
drag behind him when ascending or
push before him when descending The
two soldiers will take 1t turn about to
push or draw the cyclosac, and it is
contended that this arrangement will
not merely enable the troops to march
much longer distances, but to. fight
much better on the field Of battle, being
relieved of all impediments, which can
be left in these light wheelbarrows in
the rear.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-03-02
Mysteries Of Helium.

AS further experiments are carried
with the new gas called helium-which
was recognized in the sun before it had
been found on the earth-the more re-
markable it appears. Many chemists be-
ieve it consists Of two gases, yet they
have not been able satisfactorily to di-
vide it. Professor Ramsay, one of its
discoveries, has failed in every attempt
to make it enter into chemical combi-
nation. Lord Rayleigh has found that it
possesses by far the lowest refractiviy
ever observed in any gas, and surprise
is expressed at the astonishing distances
traversed by electric sparks in darting
through helium.
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A COOKED UP ROMANCE.

"Oh, lady," said brave and courteous knight,
While waiting for his supper at an inn,
sTo me it is a very painful sight
To see you blistering your very pretty skin
Over that broiling fire and blazing light.
And though a thousand triumphs might
win
In field or tourney or in offhand fight,
really think it would be quite sin
For me to now forsake you in such plight.
$50, while tire not of the battles din,
Because / am brave and courteous knight,
If ! might hope your fairy hand to win,
Iwould change places, If you think it's right,
And stir the porridge thick or stir it thin,
Just as you bid me, morning, noon or night,
And thus together we might keep the inn.
For, cased in armor, I'm protected quite,
While you would save your lily, milk white
skin"
So runs the legend. Thus do men explain
The queer design by which is still bedight
The sign that marks through wind and sun
and rain,
"The Hostelry of the Most Courteous
Knight
Rudolph F. Bunner in St. Nicholas.
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A Race of Dwarfs.

The inhabitants Of the Andaman is
lands are said TO be the smallest race of
people in the world. The average height
of a full grown Andaman is less than 4
feet and the anthropological experts
who recently visited them found but few
that weighed over rs pounds.
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SONG.

Thy dark eyes to mine, AithnA
Lamps of desired
Oh. how my soul leaps
Leaps to their frel
Sure, now, if in heaven,
Dreaming in bliss,
Heard but the whisper,
But the lost echo. even,
OF one such kiss,
All Of the soul of me
Would leap afar.
If that called me to thee,
Aye, would leap afar,
A falling start
Ian Cameron in New York Tribune.
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PENNSYLVANIA
RAILROAD COMPANY.
Personally Conducted Tours
MATCHLEss IN EVERY FEATURE.
CALIFORNIA

Three tours to CALIFORNIA and the PA
CIFlC CuAST Will leave New York and Phil
adeIphia January q, February "a. and March
n, 1897. Five weeks in California ON the first
tour, ana four weeks on the second. Passen-
gers on the third tour will return on regular
trains within nine months. Stop will be made
at New Orleans for Mardi-Gras festivities on
the sac0pd tour
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All trees have seeds. In some, how
ever, the seeds are so small in proper
ton to the size of the tree that they al
together escape ordinary notice.
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WASHINGTON

Tours, each covering period OF three days,
will leave New York and Philadelphia Deem
Der %, 1896, January 81, February IL, March H.
April and p, and May IL. 1897. Rates includ-
ing transportation and two days. aecommoda-
ton at the best Washington Hotels $i45O from
New York, and $ll.50 from Philadelphia.
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DON'T STOP TOBACCO,
How To Cure Yourself While
IIai1no Ii

Using It.
The tobacco habit grows on a man until his
nervous system is seriously affected, impair
ing health, comfort and happiness. To qui
Suddenly, is too severe a shock to the system
as tobacco to an inveterate user becomes a
stimulant that his system continually Graves
"Baco-Curo" is a scientific cure for the tobacco
habit, in all its forms, carefully compounded
after the formula of an eminent Berlin physi
clan who has used it in his private practice
since 1872, without a failure. 1t is pure ly vege
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"Baco-Curo." 1t will notify you when to stop
We give written guarantee to cure perma
nently any case with three boxes. or refund the
money with 10 per cent. interest. "Baco-Curo"
is not substitute, but scientific cure, that
cures without the aid of will power and with
no incorvience. 1t leaves the system as pure
and tree from nicotine as the day you took
your first chew or smoke.
Cured By Baco-Curo and Gained Thirty
Pounds.
From hundreds of testimonials, the origin
ais of which are on file and open to inspection,
the following is presented:
Clayton, Nevada Co., Ark, Jan. 2s. 1895.
Eureka Chemical 4 Mfg, Co., La Crosse
Wis.-Gentlemen: For forty years l used
tobacco in all its forms For twenty-five years
of that,time was great sufferer from general
debility and heart disease. For fifteen years
tried to quit, but couldn't. took various
remedies, among others 'No-To-Bac." ''Ihe
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and have increased thirty pounds in weight
and am relieved from all the numerous aches
and pains OF the body and mind. could write
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and condition.
Yours respectfully,
p. II. HARBURY
Pastor c. P. Church, Clayton, Ark
Sold by all druggists at $l0O per box three
boxes, Thirty days treatment) $3.50 with iron
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and Boston Mass
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'Sir, am a self made mani
"Who interrupted your" - Strand
Magazine
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For detailed itineraries and other Informal
tion, apply at ticket agencies or address Geo.
W. Boyd, Asst. Gen'l Pass Agent, Broad
Street Station, Philadelphia.
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FLORIDA

Jacksonville tours, allowing two weeks in
Florida, will leave New York and Phil del
phia January 26, February and g. and March
8. 1897. Rate, covering expenses en- route in
both directions, 5000 from New York, an
&iR PARLIAMENTARY
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Union Transportation company.
ruckerton Railroad.

IucKertOn ItaIIrOaus
Leave Mount Holly tor Tuckerton 9.52 A. N.
4.4l P. M, daily except Sunday.
Leave Tuckerton Tor Mount Holly, 7.08 A. M,
303 PM, daily except Sunday.
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From Calcutta to Washington the
FoYage is 9.S48 miles in length.
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Medford, Marlton and Philadelphia.
Leave Medtord for Philadelphia at 100, 1907
M, 2.l3, 5.2i. Pm.
On Sundays sol A. M. $50 p M.
Leave Marion for Philadelphia at TIA 1920
A. M. 2.35, 5.35, P. M.
On Sundays, S.14 A. M, 400 P. M.
Leave Philadelphia, Market Street, for Med
ford and Marion at 100, 1880, A. M, 800 $50,
Pm.
On Sundays, s.45 A. M 5.3OP.M
Leave Marion tor Medtord, S.ll, 1l.4O A. NJ,
3.5, $40, Pm
On Sundays, 9.39, A. M, 6.23 M.
For further particulars apply to the ticket
agent at the station.
j. b. HUTCHINSON, j. r. WOOD,
General Manager. Gen. Pass. Agent.
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PENNSYLv ANlA RAILROAD
THE STANDARD RAILROAD OF AMERICA.
PROTECTED THROUGHOUT BY
Block Signals and IntGrl0Ckilg Switches
IN EFFECT OCTOBER Is, 1895.

Trains leave Mount Holly as JoItows.
For Philadelphia, $50, 500, 652, ITO, 749, $751;
9l5 l.2O A. M, 1851, 2.3O, 4.23 5,04, 6lS. $685.
1880 P. M.
On Sundays, s.2s A. M. 1908. $40, s.5OP.M
For Pemberton, 1886 9.26, A. M, l.37, 1882 447,
500, 1888, p. NJ.
On Sundays, 1923. A. M, 800 P. N.
For BOrdenJOwn, Trenton and New York, $780,
749, 915, ll.05. A. NJ 1880, 800, 40, AL, 553,
7.25, p M.
On Sundays, 1000 A. NJ, 2O5, zI5P.M.
For East Burlington, $50, 7.25, 7.49, 8.22, $50,
9.l5 1915, ll.05 A. M. 1890, 300, 40, AL 5l5
5.53, 6.26, lbs. S.45. 1000 P. M.
On Sundays 725, $50, 10 90 A M, 1900, 205, 80
Bis, 3.4l, 4.l0, 500, 5.35. 6.05, GAS, tbs. SI5
800. P. NJ.
For Lewistown, Columbus, Kinkora, ETC.,
l.37, 4.47P
On Sundays, 6.05 P. M.
For LumDerton, MedfOrd, Marlton and Had
donheld, 9.35 A. M.
For Vincentown, 1875, 500 P. M.
For Toms River, 1926, A. NJ, AT, Pm.
For Tuckerton, Beach Haven and Barnegat
City, 926 A. M, 4.47 P. M
For Asbury Park and Long Branch, 9 26 A. NJ,
Trains leave for Mount Holly as JottosOs:
From Philadelphia. $50, 1850, $780, 1000, Il.2O
A. NJ 1890, ESQ, 400, 4.30, $40, 6l0 $50, 500,
1870. LAB P. M.
On Sundays, 9.l5 A. M, LOO. 500, 1880 P. M.
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OLD POINT COMFORT TOURS
RETURNING DIRECT. OR VIA

RICHMOND AND WASHINGTON
will leave New York and Philadelphia Decem-
Der rs. 1896 January Is, February 20, March Is,
and April 10, 1897.