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The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-07-20
NATURES CYCLE PATH.
The Sandy Shore of Lake Erie Is Admira
bly, Fitted For Wheeling.

The Sandy Shore of Lake Erie Is Admira-
bly, Fitted For Wheeling.
Most Of us at one time or another have
basked for awhile upon some sandy
beach of ocean or lake We have bathed
in the surf, gathered shells upon the
shore, and thus whiled away many idle
hours, but it was reserved for the BIZ
cycle to make us really acquainted with
those stretches of beach and shore which
seem to have been purposely prepared
by kind Mother Nature as a glorious
cycle path Whether or not she orig
inally intended it for wheels, she GER
tainly spends great deal Of her time
in keeping the path in repair, and those
active servants of hers, wind and wave,
rain and sun, are kept very busy at
work upon it all the time.
This long and varied path stretches
in it's entirety hundreds of miles along
our ocean shores and around the borders
of our great lakes, but the particular
bit with which we became familiar dur
ing happy summer weeks, and to share
in whose delights / would tempt others,
is comparatively small portion ON the
southern shore of Lake Erie. 1t begins
with the extreme end of Cedar point,
which with its long arm holds in por-
tion Of Sandusky bay, and extends east
ward Is miles or more up the shore.
This sandy shore continues all the way
to Cleveland and beyond, but because
of some intervening piles Of rock one
cannot ride the whole 80 or go miles.
The shorter distance is, however, enough
for a summer days ride, especially if
one takes it comfortably and letsurely
and appropriates to himself the count
less joys spread before him. -Graoe
Wiokham Curran in st. Nicholas.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-07-20
A WEE BIT SANG.

When my bert is wac, an Pm like tae greet,
An a seems bitter that aimee was sweet,
An hfes road hard tae my weary feet,
just sing a wee bit sang.
Nae laverock for the warld tae hear
Nae Unite tender, nae mavis clear.
l can JUST gle cheep, but when days are
drear,
There's Joy in wee bit sang.
For, singin, my tears forget tae ia,
An the deid an the changed an the far AVA
Come back, an the roads mo- hard at a.
Sic help is a wee bit sang.
When poortith comes an the Cupboard bare,
Whaur there used tae be a. thing an tae spare,
l TAX my crust, an it's dainty fare
When munched tae a wee bit sang.
When the fowks in Draws frae the nearby toun,
Scorn my holden gray an my muckle shoon,
care nae MAR than the man i the moon.
JUST sing a wee bit sang
Aye, sing when I'm happy, sing when I'm
sad.
1 may my ain cheer when there's name tae be
had.
Life can never be Altogether bad
While it leaves me wee bit sang.
-Torquil Macleod in Boston Transcript.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-07-20
A Queens Visit.

To be old and poor and bedridden is
generally to be debarred from the great
er privileges of life, but there was one
old man in Scotland who found his dis
advantages had procured him a privi-
lege that the strong and more active
members of his family were seeking in
vain.
1t was ON an occasion when Queen
Victoria was at Balmoral, and, as she
often did, she went one day unaccom-
panied to visit the cottages. In one of
these she found an old man, bedridden
and quite alone, and she sat down to
talk to him.
"And how is it you are alone?'' she
asked. Have you no one to keep you
company"
NO." replied the old man innocent
ly. My folks be all away seeing the
queen. They thought they might get a
glimpse of her.
His visitor made no reply, but she sat
with the old man, pleasantly filling the
gap made by the absence Of This
folks" and then found time to read to
him from the Bible she herself treas
ured. On leaving she gave further
proof of her sympathy in the shape of a
Go note, accompanying it with the
words, when your people come back,
tell them that while they have been to
see the queen the queen has been to see
you. "-Youth's Companion.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-07-20
THE TONE OF THE BELL
Not Improved by the Use of Gold OF Silver
In the Bell Metal.

Not Improved by the Use of Gold OF Silver
In the Bell Metal.
There is general belief that the in
PRODUCTION Of silver or gold in the cast
ing of a bell assures for it superior
tone, but an expert in founding bells
says that such belief is erroneous. He
gays that the best tone effect in bell
metal Is confined within very narrow
limits, for any so called bell metal hav-
ing more than so parts copper to 30
parts tin is too soft to produce the best
quality of tone, while that having more
tin than 23 parts in the 100 is much
too brittle. There are bells in Europe
whose clear tones were for many years
credited to gold and silver that were
supposed to have been added to the bell
metal. An analysis was made not long
ago of the metal in one of these bells,
and it failed to show any trace Of gold
or silver. The old German bell found
ers used to make their bells of 80 parts
copper to 90 parts tin. In the opinion
IF this expert the strongest and best
toned bell is obtained from 10 parts
copper and 81 parts tin.
"After the bell is drawn, says the
expert, 1.-TWO sweeps are made and adj
justed to an upright spindle in the CEN
ter of an iron case or flask, the flask
having perforations all over it. Over
the surface of the flask is coated, wet,
a layer of loan of equal and suitable
thickness and baked. Then another lay
er is coated ON and baked, and so ON,
layer after layer, until the proper shape,
etc. are secured. There are two such iron
molding cases, one fitting over the 9th
or. The under one has the loan coating
ON its outer side, which has the inner
shape Of the proposed bell. The upper
iron molding case or flask has the loan
on its inner surface, forming the out
side shape Of the bell. This is let down
over the under mold and carefully ad-
justed equally all around, leaving
space inside between the two molds
The under flask is called the core The
upper or outer one is called the case. The
space is filed up by the molten bell
metal, which. when cooled, is the bell
''When the bell is taken out of the
molds it is polished, and then the
hangings, tongue Cor clapper), etc.,
fitted to the bell, and it receives a Sc
we're ringing test, partly to ascertain its
tone and resonant quality and to observe
its mechanical excellence and adjust
ment. Then, if it appears to be good in
all points, it is shipped to the purchaser.
The making and shipping of bell usu-
ally require from 10 to % days in the
smaller sizes. The larger sizes-i. e.,
from l, 800 pounds and heavier-require
more time. A peal Of three or more
bells requires from 40 to 90 days time.
while chime of nine or more bells re-
quires from three to six months.
ANY foundry can, of course, readily
make and select nine or ten bells in
tune for chime, but tune is one thing,
tone is another. Church Economist.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-07-20
Rn;ldino a S,lo.

A new method of lining up the walls
of a silo is suggested which promises
to be an improvement over the common
way of matched boards and sheathing
paper. This consists of using only ordi-
nary cheap boards for the purpose, leav-
ing an inch space in place of the paper
between the two Innings, and filling it
with portland cement. This cement fill
ing hardens to the firmness of stone and
is in no respect affected by the presence
or absence of moisture. This prevents,
it is claimed, the shrinking and swell
ing of the lining, which tears the paper
and opens air spaces through the sheath
ing. AT the same time it is less expen-
sive than the extra cost of the better
lumber required in the cases of the
matched boards. Some silos have been
constructed after this manner, says
Maine Farmer.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-07-20

Who does not know women and young
girls who are constantly in tears Who
always see the dark side? Who have fire.
quent fits of melancholy without any APP
parent cause The intelligent physician
will know that 1t is some arrangement of
the complicated and delicate feminine or
gans. The young girl suffers, bodily and
mentally, in silence. There is undue
WEAKNESS and unexpected pain, unreason-
able tears and fits of temper. DR.. Pierces
Favorite Prescription exerts a wonderful
power over woman's delicate organism.
1t is an invigorating tonic and Is specific
for the peculiar weaknesses, Irregularities
and painful arrangements of women.
Careless easy-going doctors frequently
treat their women patients for biliousness,
nervousness, dyspepsia, liver or kidney
troubles, when the real sickness is in the
organs distinctly feminine, and no help
can come till they are made perfectly
strong by the use of Dr. Pierce's Favorite
Prescription.
Send Fl cents in one-cent stamps to
Worlds Dispensary Medical Association,
Buffalo, N. Y, and receive DR.. Pierce'e
zoos page Common Sense Medical Adviser
illustrated.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-07-20
One of Linooln,s D,spatches.

In his Campaigning With Grant, ;"
in The Century, General Horace Porter
tells of General Halleek's fear of trou-
BILE from the enforcing Of the draft and
his desire that Grant should send troops
to the northern cities General Porter
says: On the evening of Aug. II General
Grant was sitting in front of his quar-
tiers with several staff officers about
him when the telegraph operator came
over from his tent and handed him
dispatch. He opened it, and as he pro-
ceeded with the reading his face became
suffused with smiles. After be had fin
ished it he broke into a hearty laugh.
We were curious to know what could
produce SO much merriment in the gen.
eral in the midst of the trying circum-
stances which surrounded him. He cast
his eyes over the dispatch again and
then remarked: "'The president has
more nerve than any of his advisers.
This is what he says after reading my
reply to Halleck's dispatch He then
read aloud to us the following:
81 have seen your dispatch expressing your
unwillingness to break your hold where you
are Neither 1 willing. Hold on with
bulldog grip and chew and choke as much as
possible. "a. LINCOLN"
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-07-20
TRACKING A CHILD.
Showing That a bloodhound Is Not AL
ways a Fierce Beast.

Showing That a Bloodhound Is Not Al
ways Fierce Beast.
So many terrible stories of the feroc-
ity of bloodhounds have been told that
it is refreshing to read true story of
chase by a bloodhound in which the
hunter and the hunted were equally
satisfied. 1t is vouohed for by writer
in Good Words, who had it from an
eyewitness.
The bloodhound was enjoying a stroll
with his master on the sands of Weston
super Mare, quietly following the horse
his owner rode. Neither was thinking
of chase. In fact nothing seemed fur
Their from the character of the dog than
a desire to interfere with any human
being The group of pleasure seekers
scattered over the sands saw nothing
unusual in him, nor did the poor dis
traeted woman who ran from one group
to another frantically asking for tidings
Of a lost child. Nobody knew anything
of the missing boy, and when in her
desperation she approached the gentle
man ON the horse he also shook his head.
But though he knew nothing of her
boy, he was not so sure that he could
not help her find him. He alighted from
his horse, and thrusting his ann through
the bride bent over the hound, putting
both hands carelessly round his head.
Then he took from the woman some-
thing that looked like a child's hat and
held it toward the dog, talking to him
the while. The hound shifted and whined
mournfully, as if unwilling to leave his
master. Soon, however, he lifted his
head i'll the air, uttered a short, sharp
bark or bay and began shifting about the
sands.
For a minute or two be followed tho
scent in a zigzag fashion, and then,
with a long, loud bay, turned off at an
amazing pace, ran in a straight limo
across the sands, crossed the parade,
and. baying as he went, turned down q
side street.
That was an exciting ehase-the field
the streets of populous watering place
and the game a lost child The loud
voice of the dog could be heard in tho
distance, guiding those who followed
The mother's feet were swift, but she
could not keep up with the dog. On he
went till be had run his prey to ground.
Then he stopped and fawned upon the
little lad, who was overjoyed to find so
friendly a playmate When the mother
came up, hunter and hunted were the
best of friends, so much so that neither
was willing to part with the other.
The gentleman had more than once to
summon his dog before he would CON
sent to leave the child. AS for the boy,
ne could not be led away while the dog
remained, and after the hound had dis
appeared he was still heard to muImur,
II would like that dear doggie for my
own.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-07-20

There are two extremes in tile drain
ing. The beginner is apt to think tile
drains are only needed where water
stands on the surface i'll hollows and
has to be drawn off, but when this is
done it leaves the soil in these hollows
SO much dryer and better fitted for crop
ping that the farmer sees that even the
uplands, that had been supposed dry
enough, need draining also. Usually
the first drains are put in too shallow
That, if continued, means large, use
less expenditure for tile Nowhere
should underdrains be dug less than
8 feet deep. They will then drain
perfectly to az rods ON each side of
the underdrain. The soil will hold so
much more water with deep drain
that it will not require larger size than
will a shallow one. American Guilt
vator.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-07-20
A DREAMER.

He is a dreamer. Let him pass.
He reads the writing in the grass.
His seeing soul in rapture goes
Beyond the beauty Of the rose.
He is a dreamer, and doth know
To sound the farthest depth of woe.
His days are calm, majestic, free.
He is dreamer. Let him be.
He is dreamer. All the day
Blest visions find him on his way
Past the far sunset and the light,
Beyond the darkness and the night.
He is dreamer. Godl To be
Apostle of infinity
And mirror truths translucent CLEAN
He Is a dreamer. Let him dream.
He is a dreamer. For all time
His mind is married unto rhyme.
Light that ne'er was on land or sea
Hath blushed to him in poetry.
He is a dreamer, and hath caught
Close to his heart hope, q thought,
A hope Of immortality.
he is a dreamer. Let him be.
He is a dreamer. Lo, with thee
His soul doth weep in sympathy.
He is a dreamer, and doth long
To glad the world with happy song.
He is a dreamer. In breath
He dreams of love, and life and death.
o man, o woman, lad and lass,
He is dreameri Let him pass.
London Sun.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-07-20
lNoUIsITIvE sPARRoWs.
They May Rave Been Hostile. but They
Didn't Dare Attack the Cookatoo.

They May Have Been Hostile, but They
Didn't Dare Attack the Cockatoo.
There was trouble and to spare one
day last week in back yard on Brook
Ign Heights. The cause of 1t was an in
nooent cookatoo which had flown away
from home and found its way to the
top of tree near State street, between
Henry street and Garden place. Where
the strange bird came from there Is no
body to tell.
1t was first discovered by the large
and noisy colony of English sparrows
which inhabits that vicinity. The first
sparrow to see the foreigner lost no
time in communicating the news Of its
discovery to its mates, and in three
minutes no less than 80 sparrows had
assembled to examine the strange visit
or and exchange views about him. They
took places on all sides of the oockatoo
and began a chattering which soon at
tracted attention from all the neighbor-
ing windows They hoped about from
branch to branch, but never approach
ed nearer than yard to the puzzled
stranger For time the cockatoo view
ed the conolave about him with sereni-
ty, but the strain became too much for
him, and finally found expression in q
series of the most penetrating soreeohes,
accompanied by the elevation of his
light green plume, which had previous
ly been partly concealed in his fluffy,
snow white feathers. This demonstra-
ton added threefold to the wonderment
and fright of the sparrows and in.
creased the volume of their ohattering
i'll like proportion.
But the unwelcome foreigner soon
found that the chattering was harm
less, and that the saucy sparrows lack
ed the courage to make an attack. Find
ing himself surrounded ON all sides by
the little nuisances, he gradually work
ed his way through one side of the cir
Gle and out ON the end Of a branch,
where he perched contentedly and view
ed his tormentors with the calmest in
difference. Having found that the in
truder would neither take nor give Of
Tense, the sparrows one by one flew
away, leaving the cockatoo to take a
nap in peace and quiet.
Meanwhile the cat colony Of the back
yards had been aroused by the unusual
activity of the feathered tribe, and
there had been gradual concentration
of the feline forces near the base of the
tree which formed the oookatoo's perch.
This meant cat fight as sure as preach
ing, and it was not long before the hos
tilities broke out. Then the dogs had
their turn, and the cats disappeared,
but to the last the cockatoo sat unruffied
in his feathers in the tree top. New
York Sun.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-07-20
CAPTURING AN ELEPHANT.

Something About This Dangerous and
Sometimes Cruel Sport.
When the two sons of the Prince of
elephant hunt was projected to show
them how the animals were captured.
Here is an extract from Joseph Moore's
description of the hunt:
After long maneuvering the trained
elephants managed to separate large
COW from the herd and so ranged them
selves about her that she was forced to
stand. This was the opportunity wanted,
and in flash an agile native slipped
under one of the friendly brutes, rope
in hand.
Waiting until the restless prisoner
lifted her hind foot, he deftly placed
the moose about her beg and withdrew
Another venture fettered the second
limb, the decoys meanwhile warding off
with their trunks several wrathful
strokes at the man. The ropes were now
firmly secured to a stout tree and the
captive left entirely alone save her calf.
Then began titantic struggle for
liberty that no few words can justly
portray. Finding herself baffled in I'M
tying the many knots or in uprooting
the tree, she writhed, screamed, tore at
the foliage, paved the earth, tossed
clouds Of dust over her back, flung her
trunk about fiercely and planted her
head upon the ground for leverage to
rend asunder the bonds.
At length she fell in exhaustion, an
guish and despair and lay motionless
and resigned. The natives we'll knew
that these symptoms forbode the loss of
their prize. She painted for an hour or
more, sighed deeply and died-of "bro-
ken heart.
A male somewhat above medium
size was next submitted to the exciting
ordeal with minor variations. While he
stood jammed between two of the tame
elephants, away from any tree, the
nooser induced him to raise his hind
foot by touching it gently, drew the
running knot about his leg and retreat
ed. In this case the rope was attached
to the girth of one of the trained ami
mails and the sagacious brute, knowing
exactly what was expected of him, be-
gan to drag the captive toward tree
facing the spectators stands.
The wild one resisted violently, but
without avail, as the tame allies stead
ly pushed, butted and pulled him across
the Enclosure. When the tying was COM
plete, his contortions to free himself
were astonishing, though in the end he
Gained down, hopeless and covered with
soil.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-07-20

Conservative historians among the
Chinese claim for their race an antiq-
uity of at least 100, 1000 years. while
those whose estimates are a little
"wild" assert that the Chinese were the
original inhabitants of the earth and
that Chinese history goes back at least
500, 900, 600 years. The government rec
ords of China place the foundation of
the empire at $500 B. G. and claim that
it was established by Tohi, who, they
assert, is the Noah mentioned in the
book of Genesis, B. G. 2240.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-07-20
Jap Oddities In Eating.

The japanese preserve their potatoes
in sugar, pickle their plums and salt
cherry blossoms to infuse as tea. They
eat candy and other sweets at the same
time with their soups, fish and vegcta-
bles. The more noise they make in the
chewing of food the greater is the COM
pliment to the host.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-07-20

1t is doubtful II any modern commodity ex-
cept money, has been counterfeited more than
Hires RooJbeer. By progressive and covert
advertising this article has attained a trade
mark peculiar to itself and its wide popular
Ity ana immense sale is an irresistible attrac-
ton for the INSCRIPTIONS mitator. Justice
however is beginning TO realize that the pub
lie must be protected from such practices as is
evinced by the decision just rendered by
Judges Finletter and Gordon Ia Philadelphia,
Court OF Common Pleas No. 3, restraining
George A. Hires, a namesaxe of MIR. Charles Il.
Hires from manufacturing and selling prep
aration under the name OF Hires Rootbeer.
This is a move in the right direction. this
superior article should not be substituted by
inferior stuff.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-07-20
EASY. ALI

''Easy, alll' rings out the order,
And the muscles cease to strain,
And the swing of oars in rowlocks
Stops its rhythmical refrain,
And the sinking heart beats freely,
And the spent breath comes again.
easy, alll'' Oh, joyous mandate
To the strugglers on life's food,
Be it but a passing respite
For the brain and strength and blood,
Though far distant be the guerdon-
Fame or wealth or livelihood
When the summer sunshine brightens
Grimy street and sullen wall,
From the strips of azure heaven
Seems to come the kindly call:
crest awhile, ye weary toilersl
Drop your oars and easy, all
Pail Mall Gazette.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-07-20

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. Prickitt,
Mount Holly w. C. Jones, New Egypt
Edw. w. Rossell, Pemberton, and j. II
Leeds, Rancocas, sole agents, and get q
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.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-07-20

Keats fell in love with Fanny Brawne,
a dull and unattractive young woman.
In one Of his letters to her he says, II
feel an awful warmth about the heart,
like load of immortality.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-07-20

II was in run down condition fol-
some time, and was troubled with dys-
pepsia. | began taking Hoods Sarsapa.
rilla and soon found that it was doing me
good. l continued its use until l had
taken a number of bottles. l gained in
strength and appetite" LYDIA A. FoGLE
Woodsboro, Nd.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-07-20

Warwick and the midlands boast a
very innocent beverage. 1t is concoc-
ton of ginger, butteroup seed, cayenne
and beet juice and is calculated to scoroh
the lining from traction engine. TAX
en- raw, it is probably the hottest drink
in the country, but it does no harm,
and, if well watered, is pleasant enough.