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The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-10-19
Orsini's Headaches.

DR.. Lees told one amusing story about
Orsini at Blaydon Hall. which showed
the latter as very simple man. Orsi-
nj, at one time, complained every
morning of his head. 81 ave one bad
headache, - he used to say at breakfast
to Mrs. Cowen. One night Joseph Cow.
en- detected strong smell of gas pro-
ceeding from Orsini's room He went
to see what was the matter and found
the explanation Of Orsinis bad head
aches. The room was quite dark, and
the gas had not been turned off "What
did you do with the gasp asked Cow
en-. Blew him out, said Orsini, who
had never seen a gas burner before. The
headaches then ceased. They were eff
fectually cured some months later at
the instance of the emperor of the
French. -Westminster Gazette.
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DR.. Weir Mitchell, lecturing to a
school of nurses lately upon the neces-
sity of self control in emergencies, told
the following incident: lone of his pa
tients, while in low, nervous condi-
ton, swallowed by mistake dose from
the wrong bottle. She shrieked out that
she was poisoned One of the nurses
screamed 'Aconitel' and began to cry
Historically. The other nurse, seeing
that the patient was going into convul-
sions from terror, when relief would be
impossible, said coolly: Don't be fright
ened. Look here, taking mouthful Of
the dose herself She then went outside
to rid her mouth of it. procured an
emetic and sent for doctor and stom-
ach pump Her calmness saved the life
of the patient. !"
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OFFERED HIM TWO WIVES.
King CetewayO Appreciated the Tenor's
Singing of 'fOId Dog Tray"

King CeCeWayo Appreciated the Tenors
Singing of sold Dog Tray"
"There is much in a name, or at least
! think so" said Albert Gerard Theirs
the tenor, who once sang for old Cete-
wayo, king of the Zulus Mr.. Gerard
Theirs several years ago bore the leu
tonic cognomen of Thesis and had it
changed to Theirs. His fame spread, and
his middle name was welded to his sur
name with hyphen.
81 am more French than German,
he continued, land my vocal method is
not at all German. Many people i'm
agine that a German vocalist is mas
ter of the cultural, and that is one rea-
son why had my name changed. I have
no prejudice against the German meth
cd, only prefer the French method of
singing. People who were introduced to
me used to ask if / was German. AS 1
speak French and not German, con-
cluded to change my name to Theirs.
My wife is an American, but she has
lived SO long in Paris that she speaks
French like native and has nothing
German in her appearance or manners. :"
"Did you sing in French to King
Cetewayo?"
emo; sang in English. The old
Zulu was in captivity when I saw him
in Africa. was singing in Cape Colony
in my boyhood days with an English
opera company, and after it stranded 1
visited the dethroned African monarch.
The English kept him guarded at a
farmhouse, but allowed him privileges.
l sang several operatic airs for him, but
they did not please him, and in despair
tried odd Dog Tray He liked it,
and when told the story he said dog
was faithful and wished me to sing it
again. Then he embarrassed me exceed
ingly by presenting me with two of his
wives Each was more than six feet in
height and black as the ace of spades. l
declined his royal offer, although he de-
clared the wives would not be missed. :"
New York Commercial
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-10-19

Asparagus roots may be planted in
spring or fall provided the ground is
moderately dry, otherwise it is better
to plant in the spring. The land mus
be well prepared and can hardly be too
rich. Good strong 1-year-old plants are
ty many preferred to older ones. For
garden culture American Agriculturist
advises that the rows be not less than
three feet apart and the roots planted
two feet apart in the rows In field cul
ture, where horse cultivation is prao-
ticed, three to four feet of space is Civ
en- each way. The easiest way Of plant
ing is to make burrows with the pillow,
10 OF 10 inches deep Level and mellow
the bottom of these, and if the ground
is not already very rich spade in some
decomposed manure, filling up the
trenches so that the bottom is about six
inches below the surface of the land.
Plant the roots in these. covering them
with three inches of SOIL and as the
shoots grow fill in the trench gradually
until it is level. The ground is to be
kept mellow and clear of weeds through
out the season. After two years few
stalks may be cut off each year, but a
full crop should not be cut before the
third year
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Pullman Cars.

AS railroad train was swinging
around sharp curve a passenger in the
sleeping Car was thrown against the in
side window of the stateroom SO vio-
lently that his elbow went through the
glass The Pullman conductor came
promptly to the rescue. asking if he
was hurt.
"No, I'm not, answered the passen-
ger good naturally, "but the Pullman
company's dividends will be cut down
this year by the price of one pane. l
suppose the stockholders can stand it,
though"
1.-THE Pullman stockholders won
have to, ;" said the conductor. sit comes
out of the K, Y. and 2. Railroad COM
pany, to whose train we are attached.
I shall make out damage slip, the
train conductor will certify it, the re-
pairs will be made at the end Of the
route, and the railroad company will
foot the bill. There's mighty little,
tell you, except ordinary wear and tear,
that the railroad company doesn't pay
for. If there is scratch ON the side Of
this car at the end of run, the K, Y.
and q. pays for it, not the Pullman
company. New York Tribune
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-10-19

A card on the outside of Office door says
"Gone to lunch Be back in ten min.
utes." And, the man will be there on
time. That is for some days, weeks OIL
even months, he will Then he will be
at home occasionally for day. He'll tell
you he had headaches turn of cholera
morbus. or maybe he'll say he had lung
in his stomach and felt too miserable tc
move. The lump was probably two Oh
three ten-minute lunches condensed.
The man who bolts his lunches will find
DR.. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets the bes
friend he ever met.
There is no case of bliousness, constjpa
ton, indigestion, "heart burn" or any o
the rest of the nightmare breeding brood
that these little pellets will not cure
They cure permanently. Send 81 cent
in one-cent stamps to Worlds Dispensary
Medical Association, Buffalo, N. Y, anC
receive Dr. Pierce's 1908 page Common
Sense Medical Adviser profusely iIlustrat
ed,
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A Managing WIDOW.

A certain young widow of Indianapo
lis, who has just changed her weeds fo1
brighter hues, gave a dinner party moi
long ago, says the Indianapolis Sentinel.
The rooms were decorated with a great
profusion of flowers. Roses in masses
were on the mantels, and the dinner
table fairly blossomed In fact, the
abundance of flowers was unusual. One
of the guests could restrain her curiosity
no longer, and when the dessert was
brought in said:
Well, Mrs. Blank, you're rather
spreading ON the flowers tonight y
YES, replied the fair widow bright
ly, but tomorrow am going to take
them out to Grow Hill and put them on
poor TOMS grave T"
A regular "1S" shiver went round
the table
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PROMOTED FOR GALLANTRY.
A New York Policeman Rewarded For
Catching Burglar.

New York Policeman Rewarded For
Catching a Burglar.
Hon. Theodore Roosevelt writes an
article entitled "The Roll of Honor of
the New York Police for The Century.
Mr.. Roosevelt says:
Early in our term we promoted a pa
trolman to the grade of roundsman for
activity in catching burglar under
rather peculiar circumstances. hap
pened to note his getting burglar one
week Apparently he had fallen into
the habit, for he got another the next
week In the latter case the burglar es-
capped from the house soon after mid
night and ran away toward Park ave-
nue., with the policeman in hot chase.
The New York Central railroad runs
under Park avenue, and there is a
succession of openings in the top of the
tunnel Finding that the policeman
was gaining on him, the burglar took
desperate chance and leaped down one
of these openings at the risk of break
ing his neck Now the burglar was
running for his liberty, and it was the
part of wisdom for him to imperil life
or limb, but the policeman was merely
doing his duty, and nobody could have
blamed him for not taking the jump.
However, he jumped, and in this par
ticular case the hand of the Lord was
heavy upon the unrighteous. The bur
glar had the breath knocked out Of him,
and the "cop" didn't When his victim
could walk, the officer trotted him
around to the station house, and week
afterward he himself was promoted, it
appearing upon careful investigation
that he was sober, trustworthy and
strictly attentive to his duty.
Here again it seems to me that we
followed the eminently common sense
plan of promoting man who had earn
ed his promotion by faithful and dis
tinguished service and by proved supe-
rior capacity. We cared no more for
the policeman views ON the tariff or
the currency than we did for those of
the burglar. Our interest and the inter
est of citizens generally was to have the
officer catch that burglar and otherwise
do his duty. If he did his duty, we
were for him; if he did not, we were
against him. In neither event did we
care whether the officer had or had not
the backing of the congressional delega-
ton Of the city or the central committee
of the county. Of course, as before, this
exposed us to wild outcries from the
local political bosses and heelers and
much sneering at "civil service reform, +"
but all the outcries and sneers meant
was that we were doing our duty as de-
cent men and as public officials, with
some slight appreciation of what was
implied by the words honor and up
rightness. Political organizations are
eminently necessary and useful, but
when they are seized by professional
spoils politicians of low morality, who
run the machine in their own inter
ests, who clamor against honesty and
defy decency and rail against that de-
vice for obtaining clean government
which is known as civil service reform,
then it is time for all citizens who
believe in good citizenship to rise in re-
volt
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w heuiuktOu, II. ", July d 1851.
Wells, Richardson & Co:
misunderstanding over a year ago
was suffering with nervousness, loss of
appetite and insomnia l was all run
down, and nothing did me any good, I'M
til friend advised me to try Paine's cell
cry compound. took four bottles of the
compound, and l am more than proud to
testify that it completely cured me. l
haven't had an unwell day since / eat
hearty and sleep like healthy baby. l
consider Paines celery compound the
best remedy manufactured, and l most
heartily recommend it to suffering hui
mainly the world over. Sincerely yours,
James s. Mccarthy.
Sleeplessness is the most common, as
we'll as the most alarming, ailment among
those who toll with their brains.
Patient after patient repeats the same
story. He goes to bed at the usual hour,
falls off to sleep very much as usual, but,
instead of sleeping through the whole
night, wakes about three or earlier and
can get mo more sleep after that time"
Carry home bottle of Paine's celery
compound and see how soon insomnia
gives way to sound, refreshing sleep.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-10-19

In spite of being college bred the abil-
ity to earn living in the most bust
nesslike manner has been proved by
Miss Anna 7. Hayes of Louisville. She
is now taking personal supervision of
her fathers farm of 300 acres. She is
devoting time and money to the devel-
opment of special breed of pigs for
the specially cured hams Of which there
is growing demand in the state. The
pigs are fattened on sterilized milk,
meal and apples and are brought up to
uniform weight. The hams are cured
on the farm. The young woman is MAX
ing a complete success of her venture.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-10-19

Is at all times to attend to the comforts OF
your family. Should anyone of them
catch slight cold or cough, call at once
on Wells & Son, Columbus; E. D. Prickit,,
Mount Holly; w. c. Jones, New Egypt
Edw. W. Rossell, Pemberton, and J. H.
Leeds, Rancocas, sole agents, and get a
trial bottle of Otto Cure, the great Ger
man remedy, free. We give it away to
prove that we have sure cure for coughs
colds, asthma, consumption. and all dis.
eases of the throat and lungs. Large sizes
SOC and 25c.
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what wrestlers should Eat.

The Japanese wrestlers are race of
giants; they often weigh from IA to "a
stone At the Imperial hotel in Tokyo
once they brought their champion wres-
tier to my room. He was prodigious in
size and as fat and fair as a baby. He
was Hercules in strength, but looked
like an overgrown cherub of Correggio
"What do you eat2'' asked
''Rice, nothing but rice"
"Why not eat meat2'
"Meat is weakening Beef is 70 per
cent water. Rice is 80 per cent food. I
ate lean beefsteak once and my strength
left me. The other man ate rice and
threw me down. "
My courier said: f'This wrestler is
the champion of Japan. No one can
throw him. Pearson s Weekly.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-10-19

Many years ago the farmers of Aus
tralia imported bum blebees from Eng
land and set them free in their clover
fields. Before the arrival of the bees
clover did not flourish in Australia,
but after their coming the farmers had
no more difficulty on that score. Mr..
Darwin had shown that bumblebees
were the only insects fond of clover nee
tar which possessed proboscis suffl-
GENTLY long to reach the bottom of the
long, tubelike flowers and at the same
time body heavy enough to bend down
the clover head SO that the pollen would
fall on the insects back and thus be
carried off to fertilize other flowers Of
the same species. According to writer
i'll Popular Science News, the humble
bees sent to Australia cost the farmers
there about half a dollar apiece, but
they proved to be worth the price,
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-10-19

Wasn't that romantic2'' said the
elderly maiden boarder
Wasn't what romantic?" growled
the bachelor boarder, as there was no
one else at the table to pay attention to
the lady's question.
Here is story of man who put
down his wife's name in his tax list and
valued her at 81, 900, 000."
"Huhl I'll bet he is figuring on let
ting the taxes go delinquent and having
her sold. "-Cleveland Plain Dealer.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-10-19
TOBACCO CULTURE.


Three Successive Years of Field Expert
ments In Massachusetts.
From the Hatch MASS. station
comes bulletin No. AZ on field expert
ments with tobacco carried on at Hat
field, Agawam and Westfield, with the
cooperation of the Valley Tobacco Ex-
pertinent association of Massachusetts,
Some of the conclusions drawn from the
third year of observation are as follows:
Good mechanical preparation Of the
soil, early application of fertilizers,
early planting and suitable number Of
plants per acre, exert decided infiu
ence on quality and quantity of the crop.
Early planting secures the benefit of
winter moisture Rows 1-8 feet apart
with plants 90 inches apart in the row
at Westfield, and rows 2 28 feet apart
with plants 2 feet apart in the row at
Hatfield, gave better returns than rows
feet apart with plants 10 inches apart
in the row at Agawam.
A timely shallow use of the oultiva-
tor or the hoe for the removal of weeds
favors uniform progress of growth A
careless use of cultivator or hoe invari-
ably checks more or less the growth of
the plants and modifies more or less
their structure and general character.
The different fertilizer mixtures used
have affected in less marked degree
the weight of the crop raised by their
aid than the quality. New lands re-
duced by previous cropping to state
approaching general exhaustion of avail
able plant food-if otherwise we'll fitted
for raising tobacco-have given excel
lent results when supplied with suit
able mixture of fertilizing ingredients.
Such lands are at times preferable to
old tobacco lands overcharged with rem
nants of all kinds of saline ingredients
usually associated with the common
run of commercial fertilizers
Cottonseed meal, linseed meal and
castor pomace have proved equally good
sources of nitrogen for the successful
raising of tobacco, when used in con-
nection with nitrate of soda or potash
sufficient to furnish one-fourth of the
nitrogen called for by the crop.
Nitrate of soda as part of the nitro
gen supply of the fertilizer t25 per
cent? when used in presence of acid
phosphate or dissolved bone black, etc. j,
has been accompanied with better re-
suits regarding quality of crop than
nitrate of potash under otherwise sim
liar conditions.
Cottonseed hull ashes and high grade
sulphate of potash have proved valu-
able sources of potash for tobacco, the
former in the majority of cases leading
Nitrate of potash has produced excellent
results when used in connection with
an alkaline phosphate, as phosphate
Stag meal. or with carbonate Of potash
magnesia. Results with potash mag
nesia sulphate as main potash sources
of tobacco fertilizer are not encourag-
ing.
The difference noticed in the color of
ash, etc., in case of the crop being
raised upon different plats is in several
instances so slight that any attempt at
classifying the various fertilizers used
with reference to their superior fitness
cannot be otherwise than somewhat
arbitrary
The variety of tobacco selected for
the trial was Havana seed.
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Burlington, N. j., Sept. 81, 1877 was
troubled with some kind of a skin erup.
ton that nothing would cure. At last
some one told me to try Hoods Sarsapa-
rilla and before bad taken one bottle il
was nearly all gone and after the third il
was well and l have never had it since.
| do not think it will eyer come back af-
ter so long. w. H. H. Pugh, 1l6 Federal
ST.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-10-19

French experts in the desert of Sahara
are expressing apprehensions at the
gradual diminution of the fertile GASES.
1t is known that the large GASES were
much larger in the time of the ancient
Romans and that they are being con-
stantly reduced in size by the encroach-
ments of the sand dunes The problem
is how to stop these.
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THE wIsTFuL DAYS.
What rs there wanting in the spring

What b there wanting in the springf
The air Is soft as yesteryear,
The happy nested green is here,
And half the world is on the wing.
The morning beckons, and, like balm,
Are westward waters blue and calm,
Yet something's wanting in the spring.
What Is it wanting in the spring?
o April, lover to us ALL
What is so poignant in thy thran
When children's merry voices ringH
What haunts us in the cooling dove
More subtle than the speech Of love,
What nameless lack or loss of spring.
Let youth go daily with the spring.
Call her the dear, the fair, the young,
And all her graces ever sung
Let him, once more rehearsing, sing.
They know who keep broken tryst
Till something from the spring he missed
We have not truly known the spring.
Robert Underwood johnson in New York
Sun
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MY MOTHERS VOICE.

Oft in my happy dreams of Infancy
voice was heard in that blest "fong ago, F"
Now rising sweet and clear, then soft and
low
In ripping tones of wondrous melody.
All through my childhood rang that happy
voice,
Which fainter grew, as youth came on apace,
Yet echoed on, when, weary of life's race,
I heard its tones, which babe my heart rejoice.
Far from that happy home, yet not alone,
wander, bearing in my heart that song,
Which fingers, guarding me from every
wrong.
ever hear its old, familiar tone.
Martha A. Kidder in New York Home Jour
oil
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Apples and Apple Shippers.

At the third annual convention of the
National Shippers association at Buffa-
10 delegates in attendance represented
every state east of the Mississippi. The
estimate of the crop of 1897 is below a
full crop. Delegates estimates show a
considerable falling off in the east. while
the west, particularly Illinois, Iowa,
Missouri and Kansas, shows decided
increase both as to percentage of crops
and acreage in bearing. 1t is thought
that the crop will be considerably below
that of last year, but about equal to the
average for the United States.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-10-19

Mrs Eastlake-You visited Venice
while you were in Europe, hear, Mrs.
Trotter?
Mrs. Trotter-Yes, indeed, and we
were rowed about by one of the chande-
liers for which that city is noted. -
Harper's Bazaar.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-10-19

Don't give them tea or coffee. Have you
tried the new food drink called Grain % 1t is
delicious and nourfshing and takes the place
OF coffee. The more Graiu-O you give the
children the more health you distribute
through their systems. Grain-O Is made OF
pure grains, and tastes like choice coffee but
costs about Il as much. All grocers sell it. l5c
and Csc.
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From sire to SON .

AS family medicine Bacon's Celery
King for the nerves passes from sire to
son as legacy. If you have kidney
liver or blood disorder get free sample
package of this remedy at once. If you
have indigestion, constipation, headache
rheumatism, etc, this specific will cure
you. Wells & Son. Columbus E. D.
Prickitt, Mount Holly w. G. Jones, New
Egypt Edw. W. Rossell, Pemberton, and
J. H. Leeds, Rancocas, the leading drug
gists, are sole agents and are distributing
samples free. Large pack ages SOC and 25c
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-10-19

Lace is universally used this season on
both light and dark gowns. We have
lace vests, lace cravsts, lace bows in our
hats, and lace everywhere that 1t can be
arranged with good effect.
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for those who go to-day and get a package of
GRAlN-O. 1t takes the place OF coffee at
about " the cost and can be gwen to the
children as well as TO the adult with great
benefit. 1t is made of pure grains and looks
and tastes like the finest grades of Java coffee
cup of Grain-O builds up Ask your grocer
tor Grain-O. l5c and 25c
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-10-19

The man who tries to turn out to the
left always goes home with an impress
sion that the streets are filed by crowds
of boorish persons. Milwaukee Jour
nal
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Light colors in cloth are the correct
thing for afternoon and reception gowns,
and all sorts of jeweled embroidery on
bright velvets are used as trimming.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-10-19

In the northern parts of China there
are many villages which are almost de-
serted in winter, the inhabitants going
south, where they live by begging
They form regular guilds and literally
compel shopkeepers to help them by
threatening to cause riot in front of
their stores, which Chinese merchants
abhor