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The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-11-30
SAMPLE CORPSE.
Scheme OF an Ohio Undertaken For IA
vSrtising Embalming.

Scheme OF an Ohio Undertaken For Al
vSrtising Embalming.
An Ohio undertaken named Pearce
doesn't allow sentiment to interfere
with business. He can't see why the
shoemaker adjoining his establishment
shonld advertise his skill by displaying
his samples or the tailor across the
street hang his latest sartorial confec-
ton in his front window, while the en-
balmer's good work has to find lodg-
ment beneath six feet of earth almost as
soon as it has been accomplished.
Mark Twain, when he was shown the
mummy of Pharaoh who lived in the
time of Moses, shrugged his shoulders
with contemptuous Indifference and re-
marked to the curator of the museum:
Haven't you got corpse that is a
little fresher?''
All Mark has to do is to visit the fu-
neral direction establishment of Mr..
Pearce at Ardmore. There he will prob
ably find something more to his fastidi-
GUS fancy in the shape of sample Of
embalming, kept on view by Mr.. Pearce
for inspection by his customers. The
Subject" has now done service for a
period of three years, and the proprietor
confidently expects that it will last as
long as he remains in business
The body in question has been in the
very warmest workroom of his estab-
lishment all this while, and the leather
like flesh of the corpse is totally free
from odor or putrefaction. Some say
the hair on body will grow after
death. This probably originated in the
mind of dramatist or novelist, who
wanted to questionable his readers to
sell his books, for there lies Mr.. Pearce' S
dead man, with his very last hair cut
the same as it was two or three years
ago. Then some say that the hair will
fall out, but you couldn't pull the hair
out of that body with tweezers. Each
hair seems to be particularly riveted in
to the hardening leather and bone.
Even the fuzzy, lighter hairs of all
other parts of the body remain the same
as they were at death.
Formaldeheyde, a product of wood
alcohol, and comparatively recent
product, is the fluid with which the
body was embalmed, and Mr.. Pearce
says that there is now fluid, with 9TH
er elements added, that is far better
than the l4O ounces, or little over one
gallon-$3 worth-of the formaldeheyde
used for the dessication of the body in
question. New York Herald
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Discovery. Thousands of corpulent people
who need this medicine have failed to take
it because of its worldwide reputation as a
blood maker and fiesh-buifder. They i'm
agine because it has an established reputa-
ton for building up the flesh and strength
ening emaciated people, that it will make
corpulent people more corpulent. This is
a misconception. The Golden Medical
Discovery" builds firm, healthy flesh but
does not raise the weight above a natural
normal figure. Unlike cod liver oil, it
does not make soft, fabby flesh. It builds
solid, healthy flesh but tears down and ex-
cretes the weak, half-dead tissues that con
stitute corpulency. 1t makes the appetite
keen, the digestion perfect, the liver active,
the blood pure and the nerves steady. 1t
cures all blood and skin diseases. An
honest dealer will not offer worthless sub
stitute for the sake of extra profit
Il got cancer on my tongue and had it cut
out" writes Peter J. Kroeker, of Innan, McPher-
son Co., Kans. Il consulted fifteen different
physicians without deriving any benefit. At last
/ turned to DIR. Pierce's Golden Medical Discov-
cry. PERSISTED in its use and my health is bet
ter than ever before. Formerly every accidental
wound received would tester and would not
heal Now, such decorations heal themselves"
Cure - always. GRIPPE = never. Doctor
Pierce's Pleasant Pellets for constipation
and biliousness. Constipation is the cause
of many diseases. Cure the cause and you
cure the disease. One Pellet is gentle
laxative, and two a mild cathartic. In
obstinate cases use the Discovery in
connection with the Pellets" Druggists
sell them.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-11-30
a VIRTUE OF OLIVE OIL.
Man-of-war's Men Say That 1t win Pre-
vent Intoxication.

Man-of-war's Men Say That 1t VIII Pre-
vent Intoxication.
The glasses were going round when
the man who had been in the navy
spoke: "Wait minute, boys. We've
had several. Let me give you tip that
l learned when / was on the China sta
ton. You are pretty good drinkers, you
Kentucky boys, and you can hold your
own with anybody, east, west or north,
who tries to put you under the table.
But unless you carry out my plan don t
you ever stack yourself up against an
Englishman, and especially an army or
a naval officer. You could knock him
out on whisky, but he doesn't drink
it, except in the shape of smoky Scotch
and Irish denominations. But cham
payne, burgundy, claret, ale, sherry,
madeira, port, pulque In Mexico, saki
in China, palm liquor in Africa. BAN
boos and shandygaff in India, steer clear
of them-that is, unless you have the
good luck to meet certain little, yell
low faced, wizened creole from Louisi-
ana whose recipe Is passed around the
mess table of United States men of war
to this day.
at started in the old days when the
British officers always had the pleasure
of outstaying their American guests or
hosts whenever two ships met on for
eign stations. Then that little yellow
devil came along with his trick, and
the Englishman has never since come
out better than second in any drinking
bout. The secret? Olive oil One wine
glassful before the fun begins, and, if
possible, another later ON, and you can
keep your wit and legs throughout the
dampest evening suppose one of two
things happens Either the oil coats the
stomach and keeps the alcohol from be-
ing absorbed by the system, or else it
floats on top and keeps the fumes from
rising to the brain. But you'll have to
ask the medicine men about that All l
know is its practical result, and that
has enabled us Yankee Doodles to go
home cheerful and clear headed many
an evening when our foreign cousins
were speechless. louisville Courier
journal.
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The OLD OFFICE DEVIL.
He Tells How He Evoluted Into . Coun-
try Editor.

He Tells How He Evoluted Into Coun-
try Editor.
The old time devil was keen to learn.
He had gall. He wasn't afraid to ask
the milliners for advertising or print
ing. He dreamed Of owning paper of
his own. He experimental in thou
sand ways He lived in the Office al
most, being there early and late. He
made battery and copper plated types
before the first type founder thought of
doing it. He did stereotyping in a rude
way, making a matrix from blotting
paper. Desiring to do his work better,
he tried to buy proper materials for
stereotyping, but he was bluffed SO easily
by the prices or talk given him by the
dealers that for many years he supposed
he was the victim of some UNANIMOUSLY
Jealous trusts.
A tramp printer from Chicago made
him believe that gasoline could be
made. The Chicago man pointed to
big can of the fluid and insisted that he
had made it. Gasoline was high priced
then The devil sold the gasoline the
printer said he had made to a rival
Office, and the two divided the money.
make some more" said the devil.
"There is demand for 1t" The Chi
cago printer left that night, and the
editor made the devil pay for the gaso-
line
The editor can recall his last visit
from the tramp printer he learned the
trade" with, the one who made gaso-
line. He came into the "shop" and was
denied work by the foreman. He saw at
a glance that the old days and loose
ways were gone. Neatly dressed, we'll
kept young men and women were at
work in an Office as clean as parlor.
Whose runnin this sheet now?" he
inquired.
"Jack Hill, - was the reply.
II know him." he said laconically.
IT taught him his biz. +"
And then they saw him drift into the
sanctum and heard him say: Hello,
Jackl You're doin we'll. want some
thin to eat and drink.
Gasoline" got what he asked for,
JuSb do Ill bOuI16OS w WIZ Apply. AAO
next morning he called on his editor
friend again, and when he found him
discussing prohibition with two or three
ministers and one or two of the elders
of the town he lurched right into the
editorial den and joined in the talk to
help the editor along. He was very
drunk. He cried and said that naturally
he was prohibitionist, but he really
longed to die and go to heaven, only he
had become ''such id skeptic he
didn't believe there was such place. !"
Then he went to sleep. The preachers
looked at him in pity. The editor spoke
kindly of him as comrade who had
seen better days AS the editor talked
Gasoline awoke and said:
"Jack, if you don't gimme quarter
to buy drink with I'll sit here and
holler.'
And "holler" he did
He "hollered" until the ministers
left.
This may or may not account for the
fact that prohibition has prohibited in
Editor Jack Hills town since the last
visit of his Chicago printer friend
Chicago Times Herald.
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Miss Lucy II. Hitchcock, lecturer, de-
partment of physical culture, Woman's
Christian Temperance Union, Vermont,
wrote on May 16, last:
at affords me pleasure to add my tes-
timony with others regarding the healing
effects of Paine's celery compound upon
an exhausted nervous system"
Aug. IL, 1897, she wrote "As rule l
do not endorse medicines, but l believe
Paine's celery compound to be of diff
ferent order from the ordinary medicines.
Facts cannot be disputed. have derived
go much benefit from the compound that
am glad to heartily recommend 1t, hop
ing others similarly afflicted may be re-
lieved. Any medicine that will relieve
suffering humanity is a blessing to the
world"
A blessing to the world
Paine's celery compound has been prov
en- to be the one great remedy that really
makes people we'll. This estimable wo-
man, whose Christian work is earnestly
directed toward the betterment of others,
and whose eminence in the W. G. T. U.
makes her advice of great value, plainly
indorses Paine's celery compound.
The amount of poor health on every
hand is something shocking to everyone
who stops to think. Hundreds of men
and women in every neighborhood are to-
day carrying about with them needless
load of ailments that thorough refreshing
of their nerves, purifying of their blood,
more sleep and more regularity in the
bodily functions would completely do
away with. Paine's celery compound
will do all this for sick and siling men
and women.
A "hear say" reputation may do for
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-11-30
The Sea.

1t is the sea which ennobles every
thing. Between the line and the surf
there was but the ancient foreshore,
covered with prickly tamarisks and
mauve colored heath, with yellow sand
conspicuous here and there. At the linn
it of the foreshore the rugged border
line cut clear into deep and somber
blue. 1t is she-blue as any grape on
this cluster which hangs in the cooling
breeze. The azure deepens, filling up a
good half of the range of sight; the
white sail of a fishing smack floats
alone, like hollow shell; the eternal
monotone of ocean is borne upon the
ear. Draw near and see the leaping sill
yer foam.
Above this intense blue the sky is trans
parently, superbly pale, and the stars
arr hurrying to light their lamps There
is not living soul, nor plant, nor
any sign of the hand of man. There
might be nereids and fauns dancing
on the strand, as in the days when the
world was young. A. Tame in
Journeys Through France"
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-11-30

"Well," said the prosperous looking
man, 81 will not affirm that the Gush-
err spring water is balm for all bodily
ills, but this will say-that it has re-
moved trouble under which had suf-
fered nearly all my life. y
He referred to monetary difficulty,
but he did not think 1t necessary to go
into particulars. Boston Transcript
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Keep your mouth shut when not eating,
drinking, or talking.

The man with weight on his leg can't
hope to win In the race. A man with a
weight on his health can't expect to COM
pete in life and business with those who
are not handicapped. If his brain Is
heavy, and his blood sluggish, because of
constipation, he will not succeed in doing
anything very well. Constipation is the
cause of nine-tenths of all sickness.
Symptoms Of it are sallowness, lIstlessness,
poor appetite, bad taste in the mouth,
dizziness, billousness, and lassitude. Con-
stipation can be cured easily and certainly
by the use of DIR. Pierces Pleasant Pellets.
They are not at all violent in their action,
and yet they are more certain than many
medicines which are so strong that they
put the system all out of order. The
great advantage OF the pleasant Pellets
is that they cure permantly.
Send q one-cent stamps to cover cost Of
mailing only, and get his great book, The
Peoples Common Sense Medical Adviser,
absolutely FREE. Address Worlds Dis
pensary Medical Association, No. 663 Main
Street, Buffalo, N. Y.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-11-30
FORGIVENESS.
fsat In the evening cool

sat IN the evening cool
OF the heat baked city street
Musing and watching a little pair
Who played on the walk at my feet
A boy the elder, Of strong, rough mold;
His sister, a blossom sweet.
When, just in the midst of their play,
Came an angry cry and blow
That bruised the cheek of the little maid
And caused bright tears to flow
And brought from my lips quick, sharp reproof
On the lad who had acted so.
And he stood by, sullen and hard,
While the maid soon dried her tear.
He looked at her with an angry eye.
She timidly drew near.
Don't be cross, Johnnyi' "a little sob).
"Let me fordive 90, deari'
And the cloud is passed and gone,
And again in their play they meet,
And the strong, rough boy wears kinder mien
And brighter the maiden sweet,
While a whisper has come from the heart of
God
To q mana man on the street.
English Illustrated Magazine.
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a woman-s movemen,.

The presidents of the 80 literary club.
which compose the Federation of WON,
ems Clubs in Kentucky at a recent
meeting which they held for the pur-
pose of interchanging ideas upon club
work decided among other things to en-.
deavor to establish a bird day in the
public schools of the different cities Of
the state. This will be one effort in a
movement to preserve the birds. The
presidents will also use their influence
to have literature upon the subject dis
semlnated, as they believe women are
Ignorant of the vast destruction of
birds caused by their feather trimmed
hats
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-11-30

The grand specific tor the prevailing
malady of the age, Dyspepsia, Liver Com
plant, Rheumatism, Costiveness, General
Debility, etc, is Bacon's Celery King for
the Nerves. This great herbal tonic
stimulates the digestive organs. regulates
the Liver and restores the system to vieor-
GUS health and energies. Sample free.
Large packages SOC and 25c Sold only by
Wells d Son, Columbus; f. D. Prickitt,
Mount Holly; W. G. Jones, New Egypt
Edw. w. Rossell, Pemberton, and H. H.
Leeds. Rancocas.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-11-30
She wasn't Guessing.

Can occupy half this seatS' asked
the western drummer after he had sue
ceeded in pushing his way into the
crowded car
81 don know. sir, - said the Boston
girl, but if you intended to ask my
permission to try it beg to inform you
that you may do SO. ~
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-11-30

81 suffered with catarrh in my head for
several years and failed to obtain relief
from medicines. was advised to try
Hoods Sarsaparilla. After taking three
bottles l was cured and recommend this
medicine to every sufferer with catarrh. !"
Mks. ELLA M. MYERS. Moscow Mills,
Maryland.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-11-30

Instant relief and permanent cure by
the great remedy Otto's Cure for Lun-
and Throat diseases. Why will you irri
tate your throat and lungs with that hack
ing cough when Wells & Son. Columbus
E. D. Prickitt, Mount Holly w. C. Jones
New Egypt Edw. w. Rossell, Pemberton,
and II. Ii. Leeds, Rancocas, sole agents
will furnish you free sample bottle OF
this guaranteed remedy? It's success is
wonderful, as your druggist will tell you.
Sample free. Large bottles SOC and 25c.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-11-30

The hagfsh, or myxine, has custom
of getting inside the cod and similar
fishes and entirely consuming the in
terror, leaving only the skin and the
skeleton.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-11-30

At the beginning of this century a
most peculiar cholera remedy was in
use in Persia. 1t consisted in wadding
up leaf from the Koran and forcing it
down the patients throat.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-11-30

AS well as the handsomest, and others are
invited to call on any druggist and get free a
bottle OF kemp's Balsam for the Throat and
Lungs, remedy that is guaranteed to cure
and relieve all Chronic and Acute Coughs,
Asthma, Bronchitis ard Consumption, Price
Is cents and SO cents.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-11-30
Leather and Kerosene.

There is one use of kerosene which is
seldom mentioned. 1t often happens
that when heavy shoe OF boot has been
wet it hardens and draws so that it
hurts the foot. If the shoe is put on
and the leather thoroughly wet with
kerosene, the stiffness will disappear
and the leather become pliable, adapt
ing itself to the foot If oiled while
wet, the leather retains its softness a
longer time. The kerosene does not in
jure the leather at all.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-11-30

Gray horses are usually the longest
lived. Creams are decidedly delicate
and are seriously affected by very warm
weather.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-11-30

The medical department of the queens
household costs 60. 700 yearly and COM
prises "a persona
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The Homeliest Man in Mount Holly

Don't read or sew facing the light. II
will injure the eyes,
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56 Warren St.. New 70

% Warren ST.. New York City.
Rev. John Reid, Jr., of Great Falls,
Mont, recommended Ely's Cream Balm
to me. | can emphasize his statement,
ut is positive cure for catarrh if used as
directed. "-ReY. Francis W. Poole, Pas
tor Central Pres. Church. Helena, Mont.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-11-30

The man who has nothing to boast of
but his illustrious ancestry is like a pota-
to-the only good belonging to him is
underground.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-11-30

Hoods Pills are the best family cathar.
tic and liver tonic. Gentle. reliable. sure.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-11-30
Right Kind of Advice.

fla door refuse to stay open, nail a
wedge on the floor behind it.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-11-30
There Is a Glass of People

There Is Glass of People
Who are injured by the use OF coffee. Recent
~ there has been placed in all the grocery
stores new preparation called GRAIN-O,
made OF pure grains, that takes the place OF
coffee. The most delicate stomach receives
from coffee. 1t does not cost oxofN as much
Children may drink it with grea3 Benefit Is
for GRAIN-O.
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h just as much,
and sometimes
more than thin
people. Like thin
people they suf-
fer from illnesses
and dis orders
that are caused
y by indigestion
and torpidity of
the liver.
There is a sure
and speedy rem
edy for ills of this
description. 1t is
Doctor Pierce's
Golden Medical
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-11-30

The days and the people grow shorter
as Christmas approaches.
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This Your Opportunity.

Copperas dissolved in water is one of
most valuable of disInfectants.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-11-30

On receipt of ten cents, cash or stamps
a generous sample will be mailed of the
most popular Catarrh and Hay Fever Cure
(Ely's Cream Balm) sufficient to demon
strate its great merit. Full size Soc.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-11-30

Now get your football hair cut.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-11-30

Is especially true Of Hoods Pills, for no med
cine ever contained so great curative power in
so small space. They are whole medicine
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-11-30

Many Children Are Troubled with Worms
Mother Grey's Sweet Worm Powders cure
Feverishness and Destroy Worms. Used By
Mother Grey, u nurse in the Children's Home
New York. At all druggists, Csc. Sample
FREE. Address, Allen S. olmstead. lie Roy,
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1897-03-21

be tempted too far up the field. for the
back who deserts him goal-keeper IS sim
ply seeking trouble. One OF the best OF
our school teams was knocked out of the
cup competition at the close OF last sea-
son owing TO a backs desire TO do half
backs work. couple Of speedy little
forwards were bringing the ball up
when they were met on the half
way line by the impetuous back. Amid the
cheers Of the spectators the latter beat his
two opponents and kicked the ball down
the field. This, the lookers-on agreed,
was rafting good play on the backs
part. Five minutes later the forwards
had their revenge They tempted the back
again, and, avoiding his rush. galloped
away and scored the winning goal Bad
play on the backs part was the verdict
Of the inconsistent crowd"
"And as TO the training, Mr.. Doyle7
Have you any secrets to disclose?" /
asked.
NO. I think not" laughed my in
formant. Regular habits will keen a
player in good form, and the training
should consist OF long walks and short
sprints, with little or no kicking. Above
ALL" concluded Mr.. Doyle, "let the young
player train HIS temper