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The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-01-19
A PULLING PARIS HOUSE.
1t Has Two Spiral stairways Which Look
Like One at Times.


Like One at Times.
One of the greatest curiosities of Paris
is the house with the double staircase.
1t does not figure in the guidebook and
is not among the places of interest that
are photographed, but, for all that, it
is of greater interest than many of the
things that come within this class
This house has entrances at 80 Rue
Radzivill and at IS Rue de Valois. 1t is
in the quarter of the Palais Royal-that
palace now given up largely to restau-
rants and cheap jewelry shops, and once
the residence of the most licentious of
French princes, the regent d'Orleans.
The quarter is one of the most central
in Paris, and all Americans who have
been in Paris know it, but the house,
which is few steps from the Palais
Royal, the Rue de Rivoli and the Louvre.
escapes general attention because it faces
on dark and narrow streets.
Each staircase begins on opposite sides
of the central space of the house and is
continued separate right up to the roof
They are in a graceful spiral form. The
house is nine stories high, very con-
siderable height for one SO old. AS you
look up the wall you can hardly realize
that there is more than one stairway.
The result of this arrangement is that
one stairway takes you to the first floor
apartment on the right, the second floor
on the left, and so on. The other stair
way takes you to the first floor on the
left, the second floor on the right, and
SO on. You must be very careful to
choose the right stairway when you are
going to an apartment, otherwise you
may mount as far as the sixth floor and
find yourself on the wrong side of the
house. 1t is just as we'll then to 90 to
the top and come down by the other
stairway.
1t is difficult to describe the puzzling
effect of this continuance on those who
see it for the first time. No more in
genious continuance for exciting pro-
family and causing confusion was ever
designed by architect. The beauty lies
in its simplicity, which gives it an ad-
vantage over secret doors and such la
borlOus devices.
1t is favorite trick with those who
know the house to take moderately in
toxicated friends to see it. The man
who knows tells his friend to go up
stairs. Then he goes up himself by the
opposite stairway. When he has gone
up about two stories, he leans over the
balustrade and tells his friend to join
him. The inebriate endeavors to do so,
running mp and down stairs, but never
able to catch the other. New York
journal.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-01-19
COLD FRAMES.
Useful For Winter Gardening How tC
Nor,afrr,nf n.,n ~ c.aa11 rr-.-.-...s

Useful For Winter Gardening How to
Construct One at Small Expense.
The use of a cold frame adds very
materially to the lengthening out of the
vegetable season. Any one handy with
tools can easily construct frame This
should be 8 feet wide and may be of
any length desired. For ordinary family
use frame of four sashes that is IL feet
in length will be sufficient. Of course
for market gardening purposes the ex-
tent is almost unlimited. The best loca-
ton for such frame is where there is
an eastern or southeastern exposure and
shelter from the north and northwest
winds. Common hemlock boards will
answer for the frame, according to
American Agriculturist, authority for
the following:
Before placing this in position the soil
should be dug out to the depth of 10 or
- inches Then posts are to be driven
at each corner and the boards nailed to
these SO that one-half Of their width
is above the level Of the surface The
rear board should be or inches
higher than the front one in order to
give sufficient slope to the sashes. Three
feet from the end there should be a
crosspiece about 2 inches wide to
strengthen the side boards and to serve
as a support for the sashes. The space
from which the soil has been dug out
should now be filled in with the best
and richest garden soil obtainable
The frame is now ready to receive
cabbage, caulifiower and lettuce plants
for early spring transplanting The usu-
al number put under one sash is from
300 to 400. If the weather should be
dry and the sun hot at midday, the
plants may have to be shaded and wa
tered once or twice. After they have
once taken root there is very little trou-
BILE with them. The sashes should be
raised on all warm, sunshiny days and
well covered when the weather is cold.
Thus treated, lettuce plants will be
ready for planting in hotbeds in Janu-
airy or February and the cabbage and
caulifower in the open ground as soon
as the season opens. After the plants
have been taken out the frame may be
transformed into hotbed, or it may be
used to good advantage for transplant
ing tomatoes, eggplants, peppers, etc.,
out of separate hotbed where the
plants have been started. The cost of
construction is but trif1ing, and sashes
ready for use can be procured at small
cost.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-01-19
Two Weeks IN Florida.

To see Florida is pleasure; to visit il
Is privilege; but to spend a fortnight
within its borders is an epoc. There is a
great satisfaction in witnessing the ripen-
ing of tropical fruits in their own native
land, and peculiar Joy in wrestling with
old oceans waves when lakes and rivers
at home are all icebound. One appre-
ciates the wonders of modern invention
and railroad development upon leaving
the neighborhood of good skating one day
and finding himself in the vicinity of good
bathing the next. Yet this can be done.
and the man who prefers hunting or fish
ing will take his accoutrements along
with him, for Florida extends a cordial
invitation to all sportsmen.
Whoever would exchange for two weeks
the uncertain climate of the North for the
delightful and Spring-Iike sunshine OF
Florida should take the personally con
Quoted Jacksonville tour of the Pennsyl-
vania Railroad which leaves New York
by special train January 26. Excursion
tickets for this tour. including railway
transportation, Pullman accommodations
lone berth), and meals en- route in both
directions while travelling on the special
train, will be sold at the following rates
New York, $4,000; Philadelphia, $500
CananGaigua. $50 IS; Erie, $54.S5; Wilkes
barre, 5000; Pittsburg, $500, and at
proportionate rates from other points.
For tickets, itineraries, and other infor-
nation apply to ticket agents, tourist
agent at 1876 Broadway, New York. or to
Geo. W. Boyd, Assistant General Passen-
ger Agent, Broad street Station, Philadel-
phia
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-01-19
NEED FOR SLEEP.
The Most Important Compensation Fo
All Elects of Fatigue.

All Effects of Fatigue.
By far the most important compensa
ton for all effects of fatigue is sleep.
Everybody, even the man mentally most
inert, develops when awake a mass Of
mental effort which he cannot afford
continuously without suffering. We
need, therefore, regularly recurring pc.
RODS in which the consumption of men.
tai force shall be slower than the con-
tinuous replacement. The lower the de-
gree to which the activity of the brain
sinks the more rapid and more com.
plete the recovery.
The mental vigor of most men is usu-
ally maintained at certain height fol
the longest time in the forenoon. Evil
dence of fatigue come on later at this
time of day than in the evening, when
the store of force in our brain has been
already considerably drawn upon by the
whole days work If no recovery by
sleep is enjoyed or it is imperfect, the
consequences will invariably make
themselves evident the next day in a
depression of mental vigor, as we'll as
in rise in the personal susceptibility
to fatigue. The rapidity with which one
of the persons experimental upon could
perform his task in addition sank about
third after nights journey by rail
way with insufficient sleep. Another
experimenter could detect the effects Of
keeping himself awake at night in a
gradual decrease of vigor lasting through
four days. This observation was all the
more surprising because the subject was
not conscious of the long duration of the
disturbance and was first made aware of
1t incidentally by the results of contin-
ned measurements ON the causes of the
manifestations of fatigue. Popular Sci
ence Monthly.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-01-19
GREAT GRAPE INDUSTRY.
The Shores of Lake Chautauqua Supply
Half the Country.

The Shores of Lake Chautauqua Supply
Half the Country.
The management of the vineyard is
an interesting study and one which to
be successful requires technical knowl-
edge. In the large vineyards, as a rule,
the owner himself gives personal super
vision to every detail. Sometimes a
manager or overseer performs these du-
ties. One of the largest growers in this
section tells me that the most successful
grower is the foreigner, who, with his
family of eight or ten, comes and leases
or buys 20 or so acres of land, each
member of the family having his or her
part in the work to perform from spring
until picking time, while the winter is
devoted to the making of the baskets
Thus no outside expenditure is incurred,
and when the grapes are sold the pro-
ceeds return to the family as the profit
on the individual labor of each member,
quite in contrast with the large owner,
who is compelled to hire help to do each i
little thing in addition to buying hiss
baskets.
The Concord grape is the only variety
of any consequence raised in this region,
and some idea of the magnitude Of the
business carried on may be had when it
is known that the shipments for one
year from Chautauqua county alone
will amount to $500 carloads, 5000
baskets of 10. pounds each in each car.
These are taken from the grower by
some one of the numerous growers as
sociations, whose business it is to find
market. Strange as it may seem, it is
nevertheless true that three-fourths of
them go to points west of Chicago, while
the other fourth travels eastward.
The making of baskets is an impor-
tant item. Many factories are employed.
The price ranges from 2 to az cents per
basket. Thus the grower who would find
his business in any way profitable must,
in addition to the cost of the basket,
realize at least cent per pound for his
grapes, while today it is a common
thing to find ten pound basket on the
retail market slow sale at 10 cents.
Thus we find that the utmost care must
be taken in the management of a vine-
yard to make it profitable. -Chautau-
guam.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-01-19
A ROYAL CORNER.
How the Sacred. If Lonely, Precinct ws
Invaded by an American.

How the Sacred. If Lonely, Precinct waa
Invaded by an American.
An American attending wedding re-
ception in great house in London con-
graduated bride and bridegroom and
passed the usual compliments with the
host and hostess.
There was great throng of guests,
and he could not linger at the entrance
Of the drawing room when there were
many behind him anxious to offer their
greetings
Perceiving quiet corner to the right
of the bride where a gentleman and a
lady were standing apart from the other
guests he went directly to it, unwit-
tingly coming to stop between two
royal personages.
The American was not aware of the
fact that he was face to face with one Of
the queens daughters and had turned
his back upon another member Of the
royal family. He stood quietly looking
about, hoping to see some acquaintance
in the company with whom he might
have chat, and soon became uncom-
fortably conscious that he was attracting
attention and that the hostess and bride
were casting uneasy chances in the di-
rection of the corner where he had taken
shelter. While the drawing room was
crowded, the company of guests with
one consent avoided the secluded corner
where he and his two royal companions
were stationed.
An acquaintance in the background
perceived his mistake, and coming with
in hailing distance motioned to him.
He left his two companions in exclusive
occupation of the corner, turning his
back upon both as he edged his way
through the throng, while everybody
stared at him. When he reached the
spot where his acquaintance was wait
ing for him, the stage whisper was
breathed into his ear:
"You have been poaching on royal
preserves. You are privileged charac-
ter because you are an American but
no Englishman ventures to turn his back
upon prince or princess. People were
staring you out of countenance because
they took it for granted that you must
be royal parsonage, yet they were un-
able to identify you.
The answer might have been made
that every American is sovereign by
the divine right of equality of free cit
izenship. but this would have been q
meaningless pleasantly in an English
drawing room, where social etiquette
has sanctity superior to loyalty to
democratic principle.
The American thanked his friend for
resouing him from an embarrassing po-
sition, and then stood by and watched
the corner where royalty was isolated
from too close contact with the world
of wealth and fashion.
No guest approached the royal pair
Their presence was an act of condescen-
sion to the host and hostess, and they
remained on exhibition as the patrons
of this social function without having
their corner invaded. Everybody was
careful not to approach them too close
ly, and there was general sense of re-
lief when they departed and the neces-
sity for backing away from them ON side
tracks was removed. Youth Compan-
ion
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-01-19
HEAVEN AND HE'LL.
Various Theories as to the Location of
Paradise and Hades.

Various Theories as to the Location of
Paradise and Hades.
He'll and heaven beliefs had their
origin about the year 100 B. O., and
since that time there have been thou
sands of attempts to locate these places,
the one of future punishment and the
other of everlasting happiness. The old
medieval idea of hell is the one which
gives us to understand that the devil
and his imps have their furnaces and
their caldrons and other articles of in
fernal utility constantly working some
where within the bowels of the earth.
On the other hand, we are told and be-
lieve that heaven is an abode of light,
beauty and joy located far above the
earth. One writer believes that heaven
will be on a planet which will be pre-
pared for the saints in the last day, and
another believes that this earth, burned
over and purified by fire, will be the final
resting place of those who escape the
horrors of perpetual punishment in the
hell that has been prepared 'for those
who love sim Dr. Winston, the friend
great race of speculative astronomers, y
believes that hell is located on comet.
But the most curious theory we have
ever investigated was that advanced by
DR.. Mortimer, author of 1.-THE Spirit OF
God as Fire." One of the several sub
stitutes of this remarkable book was one
which gave the reader to understand
that the author believed that heaven Is
located on the inner globe Of the sun.
This substitute was "The Globe Within
the Sun Our Heaven" According tc
Mortimer's theory, our sun is surround
ed by an envelope or photosphere OF
fame 100, 900 miles itself. Taken all
together, this idea of the photosphere is
vast mountainous void. Farther on is
the great globe of the sun itself.
Taken all together, this idea of the
sun may be aptly compared to peach
or plum. The envelope of fame occu.
pies the place of the skin, the ''vast
mountainous void' the place of the
meat of the fruit and the central globe
(true SUM the place of the seed. On this
sun globe, inside the great fiery envel-
ope, DIR. Mortimer believed heaven tc
be situated. The photosphere or envel-
ope of fire he took to be hell or the place
of future punishment for the wicked.
The "nonluminous void,' according to
Mortimer, is the great gulf between, y
which is mentioned quite frequently in
the Scriptures. ST. Louis Republic.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-01-19
News and Notes.

New stock food composed Of rice bran
and waste molasses, so mixed as to be
comparatively dry and easily handled,
is to be introduced.
While more beet sugar comes to New
York than to any other city, it is nearly
all the German product
American wine is not very largely ex-
ported, the total for the last few years
averaging about 900, 600 gallons a year.
The coming orange crop of California
is estimated at 1915 carloads. Last
years crop was 1000 carloads.
1t is not always good policy to drop a
product because the price is low, for the
probability is that farmers enough will
do so to shorten the supply and run the
price well up another year.
Peppermint is produced in New York
and Michigan.
The richer the feed the stronger the
manure and the better the crops of next
season.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-01-19
Reading Women Organize.

The women voters of Reading, Pa,
met recently at the home of Mrs Will
liam Garter, Woburn street, and formed
an organization. Mrs. S. G. B. Pearson
was chosen temporary chairman. Off
GERS for the ensuing year were balloted
for, and the following were elected Mrs.
George Bosom, permanent chairman I;
Mrs. Warren E. Eaton, clerk; Mrs. s.
G. B. Pearson, treasurer. The society
then nominated Mrs. Ellen M. Bancroft
for member of the school committee
and recommended that Mrs. Gertrude
Hussey be nominated as trustee of the
public library. Mrs. Warren Eaton was
chosen committee of one to confer
with the proper authorities in regard to
having woman ON the board of over
seers of the poor. In conclusion, the So
ciety earnestly recommend that every
woman in town qualified to vote should
register and cast her vote at the coming
town election.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-01-19
Spring Seeding to Grass.

George M. CLARK in a communication
to Rural New Yorker writes:
My first experiment in spring seed
ing was timothy and clover, in April,
1850, with oats. The field sloped to the
south and was composed of a moist
loan. The oats and grass came up well.
and the grass was foot high and look
ed we'll when the oats were cut The
oats were cut at the top of the grass,
which let the hot summer sun in on to
the young grass and killed it all. Since
that time have tried spring seeding
several times-more than 100 times-in
all conditions of soil, and in no case
have known of good stand. If one
has plowed lands or wornout grass
fields in the spring that he wishes to
seed to grass, he would better plant
some quick growing crop like oats, bar
ley, millet or some other crop that will
mature by the middle of July, then
clean the land, thoroughly cultivate as
l have formerly described and seed in
September. In this latitude this is the
month to SOW grass seed.
Again, never plant any other crop
with it. BY doing this you will have
free, clean land for the spring crop and
also for this grass crop and secure the
first grass crop at the same time. Do
not forget perfect cultivation. Good
grading and careful seeding in the
month of September will almost invari-
ably secure good stand and, if it has
proper nutriment, excellent results.
Spring seeding to grass, in my expert
ence, has always been a failure.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-01-19
A STORY OF LoNGFELLow.
Mrs. Fields Tells an Interesting Anecdote
of the Author.

Mrs. Fields Tells an Interesting Anecdote
of the Author.
Speaking of Longfellow, in her vol
ume of literary "reminiscences, Mrs.
Jane J. Fields says:
Ellis kindness and love Of humor car
ried him through many tedious inter-
ruption. He generously overlooked the
fact of the subterfuges to which men
and women resorted in order to get an
interview, and, to help them out, made
as much of their excuses as possible.
Speaking one day of the persons who
came to see him at Nahant, he said {:
One man, perfect stranger, came with
an omnibus full of ladies. He descend
ed, introduced himself; then, returning
to the omnibus, took out all the ladies.
one, two, three, four and five, with a
little girl, and brought them in. I en-
tertained them to the best of my ability,
and they staid an hour. They had scarce
ly gone when forlorn woman in black
came up to me on the piazza and asked
for dipper Of water. Certainly" |
replied, and went to fetch her glass.
When brought it, she said: "There is
another woman just by the fence who is
tired and thirsty. will carry this to
her. y But she struck her head as she
passed through the window and spilled
the water on the piazza. ooh, what
have doner' she said. eff I had a
floor cloth, would wipe it up" "Oh,
no matter about the water" said, "if
you have not hurt yourself F" Then I
went and brought more water for them
both and sent them on their way re-
freshed and rejoicing.
"It would be both an endless and un-
profitable task to recall more of the Gu
rious experiences which popularity
brought down upon him. There is a
passage among Mr.. Fields notes, how
ever, in which he describes an incident
during Longfellow's last visit to Eng
land which should not be overlooked.
Upon his arrival the queen sent grace
full message and invited him to Windsor
castle, where she received him with all
the honors, but he told me no foreign
tribute touched him deeper than the
words of an English hod carrier who
came up to the carriage door at Harrow
and asked permission to take the hand
of the man who had written the Voices
of the Might -
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-01-19
TRAPPING CROWS.
NJ Is Not an Easy Matter 70 Net the why
Birds.


Birds.
Crows are trapped and sold to sports
men for shooting matches, usually bring
ing $40 per 100, but, like other things,
when scarce they bring more
1t is no simple matter to trap crows,
for the crow is willy bird, and to catch
him in u net set for that purpose re-
quires skill, and patience as we'll, but
the hunger of the crow is always the
trapper's greatest aid. One man alone
would make but little Roadway catching
crows and would probably sit all day in
his little bough house ready to spring
his net, but the crows would give his
bait wide berth because they would
know that he was there.
After placing the carcass of some ami
NAL on a field the net is set close to il
by bending poles of saplings, on which
the net is hung fiat to the ground, where
they are held down by triggerlike pegs,
and line run 80 yards or more to a
house built of boughs, where the trap.
per is secreted.
Another carcass is usually laid some
hundreds of yards distant on the same
or another field, where there is no net
set The trappers, usually two in num-
Der, go into the bough house together
before daylight, and when the crows be-
gin to assemble on the fields one of them
goes out and walks away. The crows,
seeing him leave, grow a little holder
and approach the bait in ones and twos,
but stop only long enough to get beak-
full Of the flesh and fly off again. The
carcass where there is no net set is Of
course the best patronized, but the trap
per on the outside makes it his business
to walk near enough to that to keep the
crows from settling on it in numbers
and thus satisfying their hunger with
out going to the one where the net is.
After awhile their hunger gets the bet
ter of their judgment or their fear, and
they gather on the carcass where the
net is This is the opportunity of the
man in the bough house, who, with a
vigorous pull on the line, springs the
net over them. Quick work must be
done then by the trappers, who rush ur
to the net. to keep the trapped crows
from crawling out at the ends and the
front, where it is not staked fast to the
ground. With their hands covered with
stout buckskin gloves, to keep the crows
from biting and scratching them, the
captured birds are put in bags ready tc
be carried off the field. From 40 to 60
are frequently caught at one pull, but il
is a rare thing to get more than two
springs of the net in one day. -Phila-
delphia Record.