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The times., 1898-07-20
A Fatal Lightning stroll.

Elma, Iowa, July ia severe electric
storm accompanied by high wind pass
ed over this section last evening causing
loss of life and doing great damage to
farm property. lightning instantly killed
Mrs. John Beaver, and fourteen-year-
old daughter, and so seriously injured a
younger child that her recovery is con-
sidered doubtful.
The times., 1898-07-20
THE DELAWARE TROOPS.
They Are Weary of Camp Routine
and Want Active Service.

Wilmington. Del, July 19.-Seriou5
trouble is threatened in the First Della
ware Regiment at Camp Tunnel. near
Middletown. The regiment is fully equip
ped and desires to be put into active serv-
ice 1t is said on good authority that un-
less the troops are soon sent out OF the
State many of the officers Will resign
The Delaware soldiers want to be sent
to Porto Rico under the command of Gen.
James H. Wilson.
Over $50 men have lately jumped the
guard line because of temptation to go
to their homes.
The times., 1898-07-20
A Senate Page Badly Injured.

Laurel Md. July 19.-Grover Hobbs, the
fourteen-year-old son of Mr.. James L.
Hobbs, manager for Senator German on
his farm near Laurel had one arm brok-
en- in two places and received Internal in
juries by being thrown from a colt on
Sunday afternoon. His condition is Sc
rious. He was-a page in the Senate, for
which he had, been selected by Senator
German
The times., 1898-07-20
Two Children FeIoniousIr Assaulted

Portsmouth, Ohio, July l9--Two cases
OF criminal assault Were reported almost
simultaneously from the west side of this
county yesterday. Charles Craig, of Rar-
den. is in jail charged with assaulting
fourteen-year-Oid Anna Adams, and a
posse is searching for Elisha Crabtree
who is accused Of assaulting twelve-year-
old Laura Crabtree, distant relative
The latter viii probably be lynched If
caught.
The times., 1898-07-20
TO GIVE cERvERA A HOME.
Movement Started at Port Tampa I,
RECOGNIZE His Bravery

Port Tampa. Fla. July ia movement
was started here yesterday to present to
Admiral Cervera a home on Tampa Bay
in recognition of his humane and chival-
-rous treatment Of lHobson and his crew.
The movement was also prompted by a
desire to save the Spanish admiral from
insult and possible. death should he re-
turn to Spain.
The times., 1898-07-20
FATAL ACCIDENT IN s1LEsIA.
Falling Cage in Coal Mine KILLS
TNenry-Six

Berlin, July ia cage at a coal mine
in Beuthen. Silesia, fell $50 meters yes
terday. killing twenty-four of its occu-
pants.
Two others were so badly injured that
they viii die
The times., 1898-07-20
Fire Rains an. Old. Baptist Church.

Salisbury, Md, July 19.-Fdre partially
destroyed the Missionary Baptist Church,
on Division Street, In Salisbury, Sunday
night. BY the prompt arrival of the fire
department the main pare or the building
was saved Plans have been prepared
by the congregation of this church for
the erection of new building on the site
of the old church, which VIII be torn
down, and withits destruction one of the
old landmarks will Fbe removed from Sal
isbury.
The times., 1898-07-20
SPECIAL NOTICES.

SPECIAL NOTICE--We VIII sell you life
insurance and guarantee the premiums
to be less every year. The policies will
contain guarantees for their sale for
cash. or their pledge for loans. after
TWO CD years. We viii negotiate a lin
tied amount OF insurance. up to $1,000
on the lives OF persons who have made
application TO other companies and been
declined. HADDAWAY & DOUGLAS. 5Ig
Fourteenth Street northwest ap17-tf
The times., 1898-07-20
Morocco VIII Observe Neutrality.

Tangier. July 19.-The Sutton of Moroe-
co is concentrating considerable forces in
the vicinity of Ceuta and Melile, in order
TO guard the frontier and preserve neu-
trality.
The times., 1898-07-20
AGENCY IN SANTIAGO.
Express Company Employees Started
for Cuba on Sunday

Tampa Fla. July 19--'Tne Southern Ex-
press Company dispatched by steamer
from Tampa on Sunday a corps OF its en-
ployes to establish an agency at Santiago
de Cuba This party carried WITH them
nearly 1000 jackages of freight shipped
by families and friends to the soldiers in
that vicinity. Due notice will be given
when the express company will be in
readiness for maintaining regular service
between the United States and the isT-
and.
The times., 1898-07-20

Daily Office Hours-10 a. m. 10 5 p. II. Moa-
day. Wednesday. Thursday. and Saturday, to
p. m Sunday, 10 to 70
CONSULTATION STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL.
The times., 1898-07-20
CLOUOE

Has many men and women who. by neglect
ing the early symptoms OF breakdown, have be
come incurable. They trust to nature or luck
to cure them until tco late. When ordinary work
becomes daily more difficult. when there Is grow
ing absent -mindedness, when good nature gives
way to irritability and everything goes wrong
when vital powers become weak with partial or
complete failure, pleasure diminished or lack
ing. it is the beginning of the end. Don't wait
any longer, it may mean disaster.
CHARGES MODERATE, MEDICINE INCLUDED.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1898-04-19
The Basis of Credit.

A mans past record, with but few
exceptions, should determine the ques-
tion of his eligibility for credit in the
future. If he has been slow pay in the
past, he will probably be slow pay in
his next purchases. If he has been
prompt and satisfactory, he will likely
be the same again. AS an instance l
came under my notice. A trader who
had gradually got to be slow and unsat-
isfactory was compelled to assign. His
failure was not due to any misfortune,
such as fire or flood, but seemed the
natural consequence of his incompetence
and lack of management. A wholesale
house which had been supplying him
lost heavily, but compromised, and as
he continued they still sold him, but on
30 days time. For awhile he promptly
attended to his payments, but after a
time he got slower and slower, and as
he was liberal buyer and his purchases
were allowed to accumulate he soon
owed bill far larger than his means
would warrant. AS this dragged along
for some years compromise was grant
ed upon this indebtedness also. Still be
chung to his old creditor and again or
dered goods, promising to send the
money within 80 days. But his past
record was too much even for so lenient
a creditor. He was told plainly that he
would get no more goods on credit and
that If he ordered anything cash must
accompany the order in every case.
Now, man of this stamp is positive
detriment to man who pays his bills.
After thus being refused credit by the
old house he will try and get it else
where and no doubt will succeed. But
if his record is known it should be a
final answer to the question of granting
him credit.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1898-04-19

Healthy, happy children make better
men and women of US all. A little care
and little planning before birth is often
more important than anything that can
be done after. On the mothers health
and strength depend the life and the fu-
ture of the children. A weak and sickly
woman cannot bear strong and healthy
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and proper medicine will cure almost any
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The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1898-04-19
organ music ana Organ Playing.

Organ music reached it's climax with
Bach. It may perhaps be said that all
music did. At any rate, one thing is
certain-viz, if there has been any prog
ress in music since the day of Bach, it
has been due to him. Bach's music is
polyphonio, and polyphony is true
music. To its foundation upon this
school is due the fact that there has
been no decadence in music in Ger
many. There has been no advance in
polyphony since the days of Bach. Such
advance as has been made has been in
originality and boldness of modulation.
For pure organ music Bach still is
and probably will always remain the
greatest of all composers. Even with
all the modern mechanical appliances
that have been attached to the organ,
his works are still very difficult-per-
haps the most difficult of organ compo-
sitions. He must have been as great an
organist as he was composer. That he
should have been able to play upon the
organ of his day works so exacting in
technique as his own is simply marvel
Gus.
1t is one Of the phenomena of musical
history that, while orchestral, operatic
and other branches of music were in
their infancy in Bach's day and have
developed since then, Bach brought or
gan music to its climax. He was not the
small source whence flowed rivulet
which in time was to expand into a
broad stream; he was the broad stream
itself. The word "Bach" in German
means brook, which led famous Ger
man composer to say punningly that
this great master was not Bach, but
an ocean. -Forum.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1898-04-19

l pass into Arlington street, where
Sheridan, sickened with his losses at
play, kicked man over who protested
that he was only tying his shoe. "D-n
you'll" said Sheridan. "You are always
tying your shoer" Horace Walpole calls
it the Ministerial street, where Pull
teney and Lady Mary Montagu lived
and ON both sides of which Sir Robert
Walpole had house, where in my
youth the Duke of Hamilton, with a
beauty like a gods, was often to be
seen.
Turning into Piccadilly there is the
chariot of Lady Peel, who never missed
her daily drive with her daughter in
the park, and the yellow chariot of the
Duchess of Cleveland, with her two tall
footmen in breeches and silk stockings
and their long canes. She was lady
with a philosophic turn of mind, for
when her husband died she asked re-
lative down to the funeral and told him
to bring his gun, adding, "We are old,
we must die, but the pheasants must be
shot Sir Algernon Nest in Nine
tenth Century.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1898-04-19
Cramp In the Leg.

Many persons of both sexes are great
ly troubled with cramp in one or both of
their legs. 1t comes on suddenly and is
very severe. Most people jump out of
bed Git nearly always comes on either
just after going to bed or while undress-
ing) and ask some one to rub the leg
There is nothing easier than to make
the spasm let go its hold, and it can be
accomplished without sending for doc
tor, who may be tired and in need of a
good nights rest. When have pa
tient who is subject to cramp, always
advise him to provide himself with a
good strong cord. A long garter will do
if nothing else is handy. When the
cramp comes on, take the cord, wind it
around the leg over the place that is
cramped and take an end in each hand
and give it sharp pull-one that will
hurt little Instantly the cramp will
depart, and the sufferer can go to bed
assured it will not come on again that
night. I have saved myself many good
nights rest simply by posting my pa
tients subject to spasms Of the legs how
to use the cord as above. 1 have never
known it to fail, and have tried it aft
er they had worked half the night and
the patient was in the most intense
agony. New York Ledger.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1898-04-19
CAKE WALK is FRENCH.
When 1t Originated, 1t Also Stood For
Marriage Ceremony.

When 1t Originated. 1t Also Stood For a
Marriage Ceremony.
The cake walk properly had its origin
among the French negroes of Louisiana
more than century ago. There is lit
tie doubt that it is an offshoot of some
of the old French country dances. 1t re-
sembles several of them in form. From
New Orleans it spread over the entire
south and thence north. 1t was found Of
convenience to the plantation negroes
They were not welded by license, and
it was seldom that the services of a
preacher were called in.
At cake walk man might legiti-
mately show his preference for a wom-
an and thus publicly claim her for a
wife. In effect the cake walk was not
different from the old Scotch marriage
which required only public acknowledge
ment from the contracting parties. So
this festival became in some sense a
wooing, an acceptance or rejection and
a ceremony This explains its popular
ity with the blacks, outside Of it's beau
ties, with the accompaniment of mu-
sic, which is competent at all times to
command negro support.
Cake walking has improved, as do
most things that are constantly practic-
ed. 1t has lost its old significance in the
south. Negroes now get married, when
they marry at all, in the white folks
fashion. It has, however, become pam
tomime dance. Properly performed, it
is beautiful one The cake is not much
Of prize, though the negro has sweet
tooth.-New Orleans Times Democrat
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1898-04-19
A SCENE IN SALONlCA.
The Jews and Jewesses That Inhabit the
Heart of the Town.

The jews and Jewesses That Inhabit the
Heart of the Town.
In the true ghetto, in the noisome
heart of the town, where the cobbled
streets run Shiny and the people chatter
with the butchers for the refuse of the
slaughter house and chicken block, you
see the unchanged Jew of the middle
ages Be he bearded grandsire or tiny
boy, he wears long loose gabardine to
his heels and the fez of his masters. If
he is well to do, the garment may be
fur bordered or it may be of silk, but it
could not more surely be soiled and
greasy if the law required it SO. With
marriage this survivor Of the dark ages
grows beard full and thick and griz-
zled in the cid men, why and black and
very sparse in the younger heads of fam
lilies. This is as it is i'll East Broad
way and Chicago and Berlin, but when
you look upon the wives and daughters
in Salonica's ghetto you see medieval
characters who have staid in the east,
but sent no representatives abroad.
These Jewesses love display and court
admiration. They are much fairer than
the men, milky skinned, with pale
pink flush, as if they were dollhouse
bred. Their clothes are gay, red, green
and blue being their favorite colors,
and the married women all wear decol-
lete bodices fashioned very low in front
and showing a fancy shirt of embroidery
and lace, which either reveals the mold
of their forms or makes startling ex-
posures of the forms themselves. Their
chests are always quite bare. This in a
land where the other women expose
nothing but their eyes is all the more
astonishing. On their crowns the Jew
ish matrons wear very snowy, often
beautiful, headdresses, composed of a
cap of red, green and yellow silk or
cloth, that is carried down the back of
the head in bag that envelops their
tresses. Often these bags are finished
at the bottom with heavy gold braid. -
Sin the Wake of a War, by Julian
Ralph, in Harper's Magazine.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1898-04-19
A Great POIYpIOf.

Solomon Caesar Malan habitually
conversed with his children in Latin,
but on his deathbed, when Solomon,
his son, began to recite psalm in the
familiar Vulgate of his youth, the dy-
ing man, scholar to the last, muttered,
mon tia, non tia Hebraice;" SO the
son repeated it in Hebrew.
He could. for that matter, just as
we'll have said it in Coptic or Chinese,
for to him all tongues came naturally.
At IS he could write in Is languages,
oriental and European, and among his
published works we find translations
from the Arabic, Persian, Syriac, Eth
opic, Hebrew, Coptic, Armenian, Geor-
gian, Mongol, Chinese, Korean, Japa-
nese, Greek, Russian, Welsh and Goth
ic. He is said to have learned to speak
Armenian huently in fortnight, and
he preached in Georgian to a Georgian
congregation in the cathedral of Kutais
Saturday Review.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1898-04-19
Forest Protection In Idaho.

The miners as well as the mine own
ers operating in northern Idaho are Pc
culiarly interested in rational and eff
feotive methods of forest protection to
what remains Of the public timber lands,
and as producers of national wealth
have right to demand it. They have
the result of years of wanton forest de-
struction before their eyes and can see
themselves confronted with timber
shortage before many years that threat
ems their commercial and industrial life.
That such condition is fast approach
ing needs no prophetic vision to foresee.
The extent of burned forest land the
past 16 years as developed in these re-
gions is an evidence that requires no
supporting argument to make effective.
That many thousands of acres of forest
still exist in the Ceur d'Alene basins
does not weaken the fact of an impend-
ing timber shortage. Under the present
conditions two or three dry seasons
would suffice to wipe out the larger
portion by far of what remains of the
forests in this part of the state. There
is not yet adequate protection or super
vision, and public sentiment upon these
points is not yet sufficiently aroused
Forester.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1898-04-19
Quantity of Lime to Apply.

Professor Watson of Pennsylvania ex-
pertinent station says: The quantity Of
lime that it is safe to drill with the
cereal crops cannot be definitely stated.
This quantity, of course, would vary
quite largely, as the character of the
soil, amount of moisture present, etc, ,
varied. Air Stacked lime may be drilled
with the grain as fertilizers are drilled
with safety if applied in moderate
amounts. In the middle and New Eng
land states, where land plaster can be
obtained cheaply, many farmers have
practiced drilling land plaster and lime
in about equal amounts with fairly sat
isfactory results. In applying lime it
should not be forgotten that the sole OBJ
ject is to help the plant obtain food
from the soil that could not be obtained
without the lime. In parts of the coun-
try where comparatively little lime is
used there seems to be a prevailing
opinion that it is plant food, or, in
other words, that lime does furnish
some of the necessary elements that the
plant needs in building up it's structure.
While this may be true in exceptional
cases, yet nearly all the lime applied to
the soil is applied to help the plant rob
the soil of plant food. The continued
application of lime without applying
plant food will surely impoverish the
soil. 1t may be applied with the grain
drill, as stated, but the practice should
not be continued without applying fer
tilizers. National Stockman.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1898-04-19

Lord Byron, in his reported converse
tions with the Countess of Blessington,
remarked to her that medical men do
not sufficiently attend to idiosyncrasies,
on which so much depends, and often
hurry to the grave one patient by a
treatment that has succeeded in anoth-
er. The moment they ascertain a dis
ease to be the same as one they have
known they conclude the same remedies
that cured the first must remove those
of the second, not making allowances
for the peculiarities Of temperament,
habits and disposition, which last has q
great influence on maladies. These re-
marks are simple exaggerations of feel
ing and fact. Byron was no more enam-
ored of the medical profession than he
was Of professors of divinity. but he
was an acute observer, and it was inter
esting to read his views respecting
idiosyncrasies. He judged rightly, very
rightly. of their Importance in connec-
ton with the practice of medicine. =
New York Ledger.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1898-04-19
WHERE WOMEN RULE.
What Social Student Found In an Eas

What Social Student Found In an East
ern Province.
While studying social conditions In
oriental lands DR.. Alice B. Stockham
was advised by Tolstoi to visit the
Naiars on the Malabar coast of India,
and witness a type of civilization I'M
known elsewhere among the inhabitants
of earth. Here, according to a writer,
the husband is q mere incident in the
social organization. Woman's power is
autocratic and absolute. She wins or
divorces husband at will. She frames
and administers the laws by which he
lives, and through her is the descent of
the property, which he may earn, but
not own. The ricefeld is his active
arena, and if industrious and frugal
proving himself capable of maintaining
a family-some Naiar maid invites him
to become her husband. The successful
man of eligible years is wooed and won
as Is the fortunate and accomplished
maiden of our country.
The improperly of manifesting affec-
ton for woman before it is solicited
A5 buOEOuSHAy Au6tA4lOO AAtO tu0 Di1uu VI
the Naiar man, and, while the strife be-
tween natural tendencies and national
custom may sometimes approach the ma
ture of an irrepressible conflict, to yield
is ruin and humiliation irreparable.
The eligible bachelor must await an
avowal of love and choice and suffer in
silence if it be long withheld. The
n
above the average inhabitants of India
in intelligence and in the administration
of their native government. Better ma
tive schools are found here than else
where in India, and surprising degree
Of domestic contentment.- Springfeld
Rannhlican
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1898-04-19
The Law Business.

Haven't see you lately" said the
first lawyer.
"No," replied the second lawyer.
We've moved"
where are you now?"
"Over in the Utopia building. Our
firm's got suit of seven offices.
"Seven offices? What can you posi-
bly, do with SO many?"
well, they don't cost much. The
Office building business is overdone in
this city. We've got lot of desks, and
Well fill them up with clerks from the
colleges. They dom cost anything at
all. "
"That's so," said the first lawyer,
land they amt worth anything"
"True again." replied the second
lawyer, "but they'll make show and
impress clients.
The law and the office building bust
nesses seem to have fallen upon strange
times, this being true report of an ao-
tual conversation. Buffalo Express.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1898-04-19
Peculiar Trade Customs.

The Armenians, who divide with the
Greeks and Jews the entire mercantile
traffic of west Asia, are accustomed to
sit down and weep bitterly when they
have sold any article of value, declar-
ing that the purchaser has ruined them.
The Jews, on similar occasions, rend
their garments, which are worn pur-
posely for such sacrifice, with still
louder protestations of ruin. In Asiasic
Russia the shopkeepers consider it in
oumbept upon them to at first refuse to
sell their goods to any customer, and
the latter is expected to employ himself
at least an hour in persuading the mer-
chant to deal with him.
But the most remarkable custom is
that which prevails among the mer-
chants of Tibet, a regular hand to hand
fight being required to take place be-
tween the seller and the purchaser on
the disposal of any considerable quanti-
ty of goods, the former obstinately re-
fusing the price to which he had first
agreed, and the latter as resolutely fore
ing it upon him. 1t is not considered
businesslike to settle matters until a
few blows have been exchanged. after
which they peaceably shake hands and
the bargain is concluded. Exchange