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The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1898-05-10
VULCANlZED RUBBER.
How Charles Goodyear Made the Original
Discovery.

How Charles Goodyear Made the Original
Discovery.
1t is a bitterly cold night about the
year 1910. Around the cracked, unpol-
ished kitchen stove of one of Boston S
humblest homes are huddled man, his
wife and family. The surroundings are
of the plainest possible. OF furniture
there is scarcely a piece that would
bring anything at pawnshop, but of
evidence of squalor and want there is
abundance. Part of the two remaining
chairs has just been broken up to keep
the fire from dying out, and as the
flames crackle with renewed life the
man picks from the floor dark looking
substance and gazes at il with longing
that is pathetic. He holds it up and
studies it with many a sigh that cuts
the heart of his faithful wife and his
loyal children. In changing this sub
stance from one hand to the other it
drops upon the hot stove. There is a
sudden filling of the room with pun
gent, offensive odor before the man,
with startled cry, can snatch the now
half scorched substance from the stove.
But there is a marked change on the
mans face as he examines the burned
spots He feels the substance with a
new and intense interest. Is he near the
end of years of labor, suffering and dis
appointment? Thanks to the cold out
side, it will not take long to decide.
The burned substance is hung outside
the door. In an hour the cold has not
affected it. In two hours it still retains
the properties most desired. In the
morning no change has taken place. A
great discovery is complete. Charles
Goodyear has found the process of max
ing vulcanized rubber.
Here, then, was Goodyear, after years
of varying hopes and unvarying i'll for
tune, in possession of a secret that was
destined to place his name in the high
est niche of fame. But this knowledge
did not bring him immediate fortune
in fact, this he never secured. He hao
lost the confidence of all who had help
ed him, and for two years his sufferings
surpassed even those of the years of ex-
perimenting. At this time he moved tc
New York, and it was said of him, II
you meet man who has on an india
rubber coat, cap, stock, vest and shoes
with an india rubber purse, without 6
cent in it, that is Goodyear. He had
to pawn all his furniture for food, ant
he pledged an umbrella with Vanderbilt
to secure few ferry tickets to the city
At last enough money was secured t.
put his invention on the market, ant
| Goodyear's process very soon made thu
manufacture Of rubber goods one OF thu
principal industries of the world. Blu
although others made immense fortunes
out of vulcanized rubber the invento
got little share of it. He went to Eng
land and France exhibiting his products
He was awarded the great council
medal at the exhibition of all nation
at London in 1851, the grand medal O
honor to the world exhibition at Pari
in 1885, and was presented with tn
cross of the Legion of Honor by Napo
leon Ill. Yet with all these honors h.
died comparatively poor man at tn
Fifth Avenue hotel in New York Jul.
1. 1860.-Chicago Post.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1898-05-10
LESSON IN BOILING.
Satisfactory Cooking Depends Largely {
This Trivial Process.

Satisfactory Cooking Depends Largely on
This Trivial Process.
Sallie Joy White lays down these
valuable rules for boiling in Cookery
For Girls in The Woman's Home
Companion:
"For all green vegetables use soft
water, sailed and freshly boiling. Cook
rapidly until soft. The time will depend
upon the age or the freshness of the veg
etable.
"With green peas, sbelled beans,
green corn, asparagus, celery and spin
ach use as little water as possible, and
let it boil away, leaving just enough to
moisten, and thus save all the desirable
soluble matter that may have been
drawn out. Cook cabbage and cauli-
flower uncovered, in large kettle Of
rapidly boiling water, salted and with
saltspoonful of soda in it; onions,
scald and change the water twice. All
others cook in water enough to cover,
and drain it off after cooking. Green
summer squash. cabbage and other wa
terry vegetables should be pressed in q
cloth or strainer and we'll drained.
MANY people who attempt to cook
are apt to forget that there is a wide
distinction between boiled water and
boiling water. and that the freshness
is lost by long boiling, SO that the SOON
er water is used after it has reached
the boiling point the more satisfactory
the cooking will be. If water stands
after boiling, it loses it's vitality and
cannot be used with good results. That
is why tea and coffee are so frequently
fiat and lifeless. without sparkle OF
flavor; not because the leaves and ber-
ries are not good, but because they are
i'm properly made with boiled water
instead of freshly boiling water. :"
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1898-05-10
ARTISTIC DINNER GIVING.
The Ideal Dinner Has Simple Menu and
Perfect Service.

The Ideal Dinner Has a Simple Menu and
a Perfect Service.
The ideal dinner company is never
large. Six has been said to be the mag
ic number, but eight and even ten are
perfectly manageable, both in the mat
ter of smooth service and in the higher
harmonies. Do not confine your choice
to intimate friends, but add to their
pleasure and your own the fresh expert
ence of meeting new spirits, whose con-
geniality you have OWNED.
A really artistic dinner, it is the
writer's conviction, should never ex-
coed four courses, including the coffee.
The scheme of the dinner is that each
dish shall be perfect, worthy of the pal :
ate and of the appetite, enjoyed to the
full for its merits, and not trihed with
and instantly forgotten. The second
point in Importance is that dish shall
be as attractive in appearance as it is
perfect in flavor, that it should be
placed upon the table as an added en-
joyment and Hospitality served by host
or hostess. The third point, also of i'm
portanoe, is that dinner should be sea-
sonable-not an anticipation of seasons
for every chosen article should be at
its very best A lean, half shriveled
january tomato, which has i'll borne its
travels, is but forlorn apology for the
plump and luscious summer product
certainly not fitted for an artistic"
appearance Morris Kretschmar
in Woman's Home Companion.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1898-05-10
AN ANIMATED PICTURE.
At Least the Other Women Said She
Wanted to BE Stared At.

At Least the Other Women Said She
Wanted to BE Stared At.
This girl had the nickel between her
pretty lips before she stepped aboard the
car at the corner of Eleventh and +
streets. The nickel was probably part
of her shopping change Her hands and
arms were filled with bundles and pack
ages, and she had no doubt converted
her inviting mouth into Car fare re-
ceptable before leaving the last en-
porium she visited. Even after she
found a seat she made no move to re.
move the nickel from it's enviable lodg.
ment. She was too busy counting he1
packages and bundles, to see if she had
lost any, probably.
The conductor as the girl got aboard
had scowled when he observed the nickel
resting between her pearly teeth, fol
conductors are prosaio. With the COIL
still showing its shiny rim between hen
lips-a delightful effect of silver ano
coral in com bination-the girl looked
up winsomely in the eyes Of the con
ductor when he approached her for hel
fare. The conductor held out his hand
with a pretty short, Fare, miss"
The girl very carefully set each ant
every one of her bundles and packages
in the space beside her, smiling vaguely
the while When both of her hands
were free, she drew tiny, spotless lact
handkerchief from the lizard skin bag
hanging from her girdle Then she
took the cent piece from between hel
lips, wiped and polished it carefully
with the handkerchief and, with the
prettiest grimace in the world, dropped
it into the now apologetic paw of the
conductor. The conductor smiled, ant
SO did all of the man passengers on thu
car.
The woman passengers murmured tt
each other that the pretty girl had only
done the thing ''for effect. - Washing
| ton Post.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1898-05-10
The Bomb In Jen Davis. Desk.

When the United States troops occu-
pied Richmond, April 8, 1865, General
Edward H. Ripley of Vermont, who
was appointed military governor of the
city, found in the desk of Jefferson Da-
Wis, i'll the house occupied by the Con
federate president, cast iron bomb in
the shape of lump of coal. 1t was evil
IDENTIFY cast from a good sized piece OF
coal, was coated with coal tar and coal
dust and could hardly be- distinguished,
when handled, from lump of coal II
was hollow and would hold powder
enough to make heavy explosion.
Army authorities have never doubted
that the otherwise unexplained blowing
up of a steam vessel loaded with am
IL unition at City Point was the work of
a bomb of this kind, which had been
dropped into pile of coal and shoveled
into the furnace Of the steamer, and sim
liar bombs probably occasioned similar
catastrophes during the war. Burling-
ton Free Press.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1898-05-10

Papa, said the little girl, "who do
you love best in the world?"
OF course she thought she knew what
he would reply, and he knew that she
thought she knew it, says the Chicago
Post. Consequently he decided to tease
her.
Daisy" he replied.
Daisy was her sister.
She thought it all over, and then she
climbed up in his lap.
Papa, she said. II wish you would
ask me if love you or mamma best. T"
every we'll, he returned. "Do you
love mamma or me best?"
Revenge is sweet but even SO ten
der hearted bit of humanity does not
like to be too harsh.
"You won't feel very, very bad if !
tell you. will yous' she whispered.
He promised that he wouldn't.
"Well, she said, ''then l guess I
love mamma best. "
Yes, revenge is sweet,
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1898-05-10
THE RETIRED BURGLAR.

An impeachment Placed In q Pursuer's
Way That Helped Instead of Hindering.
"When | saw the gate at the top Of
the stairs" said the retired burglar,
''of course knew there was young chill
dren in the house. 1t was put there to
keep 'em from falling down stairs. 1t
was low, guess about two feet and a
half high, and it swung when closed
from the post at the top of the stairs
across to strip nailed to the wall op-
posite.
81 noticed this gate when l went up,
particular, because man in my bust
ness notices everything, and because l
thought that this would be a handy
thing to shut in case anybody should
get after me in the house; that shutting
that gate in front of 'em might stop 'em
long enough to let me get away comfort
able 1t WASH t more'n year before /
had a chance to try it.
"There was long hall on the second
floor of this house, with this stairway
pretty near at the front end of it. l
went into room way back at the 9TH
er end, and while was looking around
there l upset something on the bureau
and woke up a man in the bed.
Well, he says, whats the matter
now?' And l didn't wait to hear any
more l didn't even turn the light on
him. | didn need to. You could tell
all you wanted to know about him by
his voice. He was a resolute, ablebodied
citizen that could hear getting out of
bed.
81 made break for the door and
sprinted along the hall, throwing my
light and catching sight of that gate
again and smiling to myself as l saw
it. swung it around shut after me as /
passed and went on down the stairs,
leaving the man up stairs coming along
the hall overhead with rush.
But it's all right, l says to my
self; the gate'll stop him long enough
for me to get out easy But, by snakes,
it didn't stop him at all. On the con-
trary, it helped him. Just as 1 was
stepping down from the last step on to
the floor of the hall below the man fell
on my back. He'd been coming along
the hall above so fast that he couldn't
stop himself, and he fell over the gate,
turned summerset in the air ON the
staircase and came down heap EASTERN
l did and landed ON me. Instead of
breaking his own back he pretty near
broke mine.
"We rolled over and over on the floor
in the hall, the man laughing fit to kill.
That's the sort of man he was. 1t was
the funniest thing he'd run up against
in a long time.
HE never once thought of stopping
me, not once, but he says, when he was
letting me ont. If you should come
again. don't shut the gate.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1898-05-10

Some time ago John E. Burton of
Lake Geneva, Wis, leased the right to
prospect for crystals i'll the old Green
Mountain mine, near Mokelumne hill,
in Calaveras county, Cal. He found a
number of fine speoimens, and one Of
them is claimed to be the largest group
or mass of crystals ever found. AS taken
out from the drift where it was uncov-
cred it was II feet inches i'll circum-
ference. 1t was feet inches long, 8
feet inches wide and feet inches
high. 1t weighed 2,200 pounds. The
mass included one large central crystal
and a surrounding group of smaller
ones From the central one it was esti-
mated that a perfect sphere IA inches
in diameter could be cut, while several
others from three to eight inches in
diameter could be obtained from the
mass Mr.. Burton has found in all
about IL tons Of crystals Engineering
and Mining Journal
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1898-05-10

No up to date cook prepares the stock
from which her dinner soup is made
the day the soup is needed. Stock for at
least weeks supply should be made
at once; then the preparation of the
daily dinner soup will not occupy more
than 10 or 30 minutes. When oonsomme
is served several times in the week, the
entire amount used is made at once, and
the different garnishes are added the
day it is served. 1t is the same with
sauces, and by a little calculation a
good manager can easily discover about
what proportion of each sauce is neces-
sary for months supply. This once
prepared, the table is revolutionized SO
that the sameness that characterizes the
plain roast and broiled meats is no Ion
ger known. A new sauce each day gives
an entirely different flavor to the meats
and vegetables. New York Tribune.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1898-05-10

Pray, whittier leads the road, fair hearth
Say whittier leads the road7
Across rill, around hill,
Beside dell where rivers start,
Where bending nut trees shed their load
Oh, thither leads the road, dear heart,
Oh, thither leads the roadl
What matter where the road may lead,
So thou and together go.
Companionship is all our need,
Division all our woe.
The pine tree tall on yonder hill
For years has watched the passerby.
When he is dust, we shall be still
Together, thou and /.
How hushed the afternooni dare
Not whisper love, but send the thought
In speechless message All the air
In silence thrall is caught.
Oh, these are God reared treesl How soft
The wind dreams round their tall head
creepl
The drowsy leaves that doze aloft
Stir like child in sleep.
Young autumn's fire begins to burn
The brands to hurl at winters brow.
The sun wooed leaves sigh low and turn
To crimson on the bough.
Pray, whittier leads the road, fair hearty
Say, whittier leads the road9
Across rill around hill,
Beside dell where rivers start,
Where bending nut trees shed their load.
Oh, thither leads the road, my heart,
Oh, thither leads the road
John Albert Macy in Chap Book.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1898-05-10
Bicycle Shoe clerk Loses Customer

blCycle ShOe Sierh Loses a customer
A Denver shoe store recently employ.
ed a young man for clerk who had been
in the bicycle business so long that he
was an enthusiast. A young lady called
at the store for pair of shoes.
Il want pair Of shoes, she remark
ed demurely.
"What gear?" he inquired bowling.
"Sir!''
81 meant what size"
"About az"
"What model-er, what last?''
"a @ last, think
DO you like the high sad-the high
heels?"
Just medium "
He got the shoe she seemed to want,
and after fitting it carefully remarked
absentmindedly
"You can wear loose boomers with
that frame, and it will never puncture.
Keep it well creased, and"-
The lady called for another clerk.
Denver Times.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1898-05-10

Ninety mine women in hundred
making sandwiches for company ex-
pected in the evening, and wanting
them crustless, will cut the crust off
after slicing the bread. Take a whole
loaf OF bread, cut the sides and top crust
off, leaving the bottom crust on. Then,
having squared off one end, spread on
your deviled ham, sardine paste OF
whatever aud cut thin slice back to
the bottom crust Release the slice by
running your knife down just inside
the bottom crust Then neither the
bread nor your temper is crumpled.-
New York Tribune
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1898-05-10
The Glamour of Art.

Do you think that Greek art ever tells
US what the Greek people were like!
Do you believe that the Athenian WON
en- were like the stately, dignified fig
ures of the Parthenon frieze or like
those marvellous goddesses who sat in
the triangular pediments of the same
building? If you judge from the art,
they certainly were SO. But read an au.
thority like Aristophanes, for instance.
You will find that the Athenian ladies
laced tightly, wore high heeled shoes,
dyed their hair yellow, painted and
rouged their faces and were exactly like
any silly, fashionable or fallen creature
of our own day. The fact is that we
look back on the ages entirely through
the medium of art, and art very fortu
nately, has never once told us the truth
Boston journal.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1898-05-10


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The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1898-05-10
The Effect of a Cold.

A correspondent writes: Away in the
southwest of Scotland somewhere there
lives, moves and has her being little
girl named Mona MacBean. On the first
day of March Mona was late in arriv-
ing at school and detailed off to write
her name so times. When the task was
completed and presented to the teacher,
the latter was Mortified to find the name
written, page after page, "Boda Bak-
babe. y "You naughty girl, that's not
the way to spell your name. Spell 1t
properly" The reply was an astounder.
please, bah, I've dot cold, add cad
odly say Boda Bakbade." That girl
will live to be Pitmanite. Glasgow
News.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1898-05-10

According to an account i'll The Jour
nal d'Hygiene, rats have become SC
abundant in Brazil that domestic
snake, the giboya, which has about the
circumference of the arm, is sold in the
market place in Rio Janeiro, to be kept
in the house as protection against ro
dents. 1t would seem that the serpent
pursues its prey more for the pleasure
that there is in it than from a sense OF
hunger, since it is said it rarely eats
the rats caught Similar in its habits
and attachments to the domestic cat OF
our more northern ATTITUDES, the giboya
will, it is said, find its way back to the
house of its master even if transported
to considerable distance.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1898-05-10

The siege of Troy was mostly myth.
According to Homer's own figures, if
there ever was such man as Homer,
Helen must have been at least go years
of age when she first met Paris, and
even in the heroic period of the world
women of that age we're trifie passe.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1898-05-10
A MODEL WIFE.
She Dons Black In Memory OF Her Un-
mourned Predecessor.


mourned Predecessor.
He had asked her to be "his'n," and
she had made up her mind that she had
"worked out" long enough anyway. Sc
she accepted him, She was perfectly
satisfied with her place, but she wanted
to have house of her own. So they
were married.
1t wasn't long afterward that she
came back to see her former mistress
about something, and the latter noticed
that she was wearing mourning. OF
course she was sorry for her and was
rather surprised that she made no men,
ton of her bereavement 1t is, indeed,
grievous thing when a honeymoon is
cut short.
Finally the former mistress brought
up the subject herself
"You are in mourning, Maggie" she
suggested.
YES replied Maggie complaoent-
ly, and with no show of feeling at all
81 fought it was the least could do
fer i'm +"
g 1t is showing no more than proper
respect of course. | am very sorry. 1t
must have been a great shock. "
Great shock!" exclaimed Maggie in
surprise. Then as she grasped the idea
she went on, "Oh, he amt Dead" with
the accent ON che
"You haven't lost your husband?"
Maggie shook her head.
''Then why are you in such deep
mourning?"
Just to please the poor lad, " an
swered Maggie. "You see, it's this
way she went on when she had de-
cided to tell the story. after we was
married he comes to me an he says,
Maggie, he says the poor woman niv-
er had anybody to put on mournin fer
her, an dunno that she's been treated
right, he says 'Who?' saysI. Me first
wife, says he. She was all alone in
the world, exceptin fer me, he says.
She had no wimmen folks to wear
mournin fer her. And so says to him,
I'll do it fer the poor woman, says.
An here / am.
And the best of it is that the story is
absolutely true Chicago Post.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1898-05-10
WHIT He would Be.

81 regret to say, she said reproving-
ly, "that you do not always use words
with a due regard for their exact mean
ing"
He bowed with becoming humility.
Nov, if Fido had bitten you," she
went on, caressing the dog, ''you would
doubtless be angry, and he might be
mad
He shook his head.
"No, be replied with much feeling,
for he had no great love for the dog, he
would not be mad; he would be dead.
Chicago Post
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1898-05-10

Second Ito duelist, who, on confront
ing his adversary, has suddenly grown
pale and is only just prevented from
falling)-Take courage, man. / know
your opponent is going to fire in the air.
Duelist-That' just what makes me
afraid He's such a VIGOROUSLY bad
shot. London Tit.Bits.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1898-05-10
Cl,illx.

"Poor papa p said Ethel. He has
dreadful cold"
Must have caught it while sitting
by himself, said Chollie, who knew
how frigid the old gentleman could be
when he tried. London Tit Bits.