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o H Ian. 1. and every fifth day thereafter. change at Seattle to this companys stesneTs M 2 fnr Alaska and G. N. Ky. at Tacoma to N F. Ry.. at Vancouver to c: P; Ky. ~ For Eureka Humboldt Bay2 ?; m;: Ss;A ReC, SsS S. 10. IS, 20. 25. 70. Jan- f. and every hftn gay 'nFte For Santa cruz Monterey San 6s7,Sos sinsos. Gayiota santa Barbara, Ventura; ns1 Huenene1 me San Pedro. East San Pedro GL9s Ts ARgsh g sa h ai. Han and every fourth day thereafter
 For San Diego, stopping only r,hapa ss poT. pore i;os Angeles and Redondo Qos Angeles). G m. Dec. 1. 5, g. 13 r, 21. 25, zs. Jan |" Ah" For Ensensaa, Magdalena Bay. San Ioss oqt. qe. Cabo Mazatlan. Altata, La Pax santa ,T T0sH- Yen and Guaymas CMex), 10 a. m.' Dee' H. -N f. ,.,d.-
 For further information obtain toloer. The company reserves the right 1o enanss s.ss without previous notice steamers. sailing oA''S RICKET OFFI0E4 New Montgomery street tPalace Hotel). ...
 10 Market st.. San Francisco
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OCEAN TRAVEL.
Pacific Coast Steamship Co.

Steamers leave BroadwGy wharf, San Francisco:
 For Alaskan ports, 1O a- m.. Dec. 2, [. IF, 17. p. q. Jan L change at Seattle.
 For Victoria, Vancouver (B. C.), Port Townsend. Seattle. Tacoma, Everett. AnacorteS and New Whatcom (Wash: ],
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PoRTLAND's BUSINESS.
NORTHERN WHEAT MARKET.

PORTLAND. Or. Dec. 1s.-Exchanges ssss, 1e7; balances seO. I55
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WORLD.
SUMMARY OF THE MARKETS.

Silver lower. Wheat futures advanced. Barley easier Oats. Corn and Rye unchanged. Hay and Feedstuffs the same. Beans and Seeds dull. Potatoes and Onions firm. Vegetables doing better. Three cars of Eastern Poultry arrived. Game weaker Another advance in Eggs No change in Butter and Cheese. Citrus fruits still abundant. Provisions unchanged. Slight advance in Hogs.
 IMPORTS OF SUGAR. Imports Of Sugar into this country in the last fiscal year were as follows:
 Pounds. free o ass Dutlable -< ISVouS' -o0 Iotal oSS gS9 Tn le9o-sf '
 e-o
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Imports of Sugar into this country in the last fiscal year were as follows:
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Under No Is, Dutch 5sI, s Above No. 16, Dutch standard..... 1909

The sources Of the Sugar under No. l6 Dutch standard. imported in the last fiscal year, are as follows:
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WEATHER CONDITIONS AND GENERAL
 FORECAST:

San Francisco data-MaXimum tenperatur' b6; minimum, 45; mean, 50.
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IMPORTS OF SUGAR.
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HOTEL ARRIVALS.

PALACE HOTEL. ] Hull, U A M Colm. N s B Hayden. N Y N Gardiner, NY s Hutchinson Omaha Mrs Hayes. N C F TiInd G " ChicpOlJ Payton
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1898-07-26

To put on a mustard plaster is not at
all difficult but to do it in the best way
requires some care and skill In the
first place, remember never to give a
cold mustard plaster to patient To a
weak or sensitive person the shock is
often great. Either mix with very hot
water, or, better still, have plate put
where it can get warm while you are
mixing. Having everything ready at
hand, mustard, -four and spoonful of
molasses, with a bit of old muslin or
linen-an old handkerchief is the best
thing for the purpose. Stir the mustard
and flour together first, making the
plaster stronger or weaker with mus
tard as you have been directed Add
the molasses and then the water until
the smooth mass is about as thick as
porridge or poultice Spread your cloth
on the warm plate. using the middle
portion Of the linen and leaving a mar
gin ON all sides, which is to be folded
back at the edges. Put second cloth
over the whole, so that the mustard is
entirely hid between the two covers and
keep on the plate until it is necessary
to apply the plaster. Philadelphia
Ledger
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1898-07-26
DinicuIt to Inflict Pain.

The doctor smoked slowly on his
cigar 1t was plain that he had some
thing to say.
81 was thinking of my early college
days" he said, land of peculiar in
cident that happened very soon after I
began my studies. The professor was
instructing the class one day on the
corpuscles of the blood. In order to get
some fresh blood for microscopical ex-
animation each student was ordered to
tie rag around his forefnger and strike
the top of the finger suddenly with q
needle with sufficient force to draw
blood. Seems easy, doesn't it? Do you
know there wasn't man in the class
that did it at the first attempt. 1t was
surgeons poise the needle with deter
mined air and launch it to within q
hair space of the flesh and there stop
dead. Others tried to force the needle
in slowly, but paused very shortly;
with an expression of pain common
surate to that of an amputation. I my
self gave it up as a bad job and hacked
a cavity in my thumb with a penknife,
and found it easier.
1.-THE fact that we were very young
and inexperienced is no explanation for
this popularity, as have since found
by personal test. Almost everybody ex-
hibited the same repugnance to infict-
ing pain in that manner. Try it your
self.
The other man tried and succeeded on
the fourth trial New York Sun.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1898-07-26
.wyoh" Hazel, Not .wi.oh" Hazel

The correct name for Hamamelis vir.
ginica is not witch hazel, but wych ha.
eel. Our plant has no connection with
the magic of the water hunter. The
blackthorn of England, Prunus spinosa,
was the wood used in these divinations,
or whatever these superstitious practices
may be termed. Hazel had very wide
meaning in the olden times, and the
elm, as well as the nut now known as
such, was hazel One of these elms, now
known as Ulmus montana was the ia
vorite wood for making wyches, or pro-
vision chests, and was therefore known
as the wych hazel. In the present day
it is the wych elm. Our hamamelis re-
ceived from the early settlers the name
of wych hazel from the resemblance of
the leaves to those of the wych hazel OF
elm of the old world Language reform
ers imagining that wych should be
spelled witch are responsible for the
confusion Wych hazel is the correct
term for our plant. -Meehan s Monthly.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1898-07-26
Enemies of the Squash.

The striped yellow beetles come first,
and the farmer must be ON the lookout
for them, since often during an hour or
two of bright sunny day these pests
will ruin every plant in hill. Land
plaster, with the addition of little kero-
sene oil. is the remedy for these insects
Add couple of tablespoonfuls of kero-
sene to two quart measure of the
plaster, thoroughly mixing. Next comes
the black or brown bug which smells
so Extensively. Place some bits Of wood,
as shingles, around each hill, and these
bugs will collect beneath them to pass
the night and may therefore be caught
and killed each morning. The third
great enemy the squash has is the cut
worm. This is an insect difficult to find
until the mischief has been done The
best preventive measure is the use of
wood ashes and lime in the squash hills
and about the vines. 1t is well to change
the land upon which squashes are
grown about every year to in some
measure escape the many insect pests,
says The New England Homestead.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1898-07-26
GRAVE OF PATRICK HENRY.
Not In Richmond, but In Charlotte,
Where He Lived.

Where He Lived.
Every now and then we see in some
newspaper the query, Where is Pat
rick Henry buried?" and tourists in
Richmond constantly ask to be shown
his grave, with the mistaken idea that
it is in that city, where much of his
public career was passed. Few people
comparatively know that the man who
acquired the title of "The Tongue of
the Revolution" lies III a quiet grave
on the estate in Charlotte county where
he formerly lived. Over it is o marble
slab inscribed with one line His fame
his best epitaph. -
The estate lies on Staunton river, 36
miles from the town of Lynchburg, near
the border line which separates Char
lotte and Campbell counties 1t derived
its name of Red Hill from the peculiar
color of the soil i'll that vicinity. When
Patrick Henry bought the place, it COM
prised about 3, 500 acres. The land is
rich-there was a saying in the neigh
borhood that poor land and Henry could
never be mentioned together-corn
grows there as high as man on horse
back; there is general air of smiling
fields and abundant prosperity. Its sit
uation in early times was very remote.
Neighbors were few, one of the nearest
being the celebrated John Randolph of
Roanoke, who lived in his chosen soil
tude 10 miles away
Red Hill is now owned by Henry S
grandson, William Writ Henry, a
clever, cultivated gentleman of the
"old school He has in his possession
some most interesting relics of his cele-
brated grandfather, including the desk
he always used, which still contains his
letters from Lafayette, Washington,
Madison and other great men of early
days; the large round backed chair in
which Patrick Henry died and portrait
of him by the elder Sully, under which
hangs yellowed slip Of paper, signed
by Chief Justice John Marshall and
several others of his friends, testifying
to the faithfulness of the likeness. =
Philadelphia Press.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1898-07-26

Artichokes do best in rich, loose soil,
where there is an abundance of humus
and decayed vegetable matter.
Tomatoes raised from seed vary from
season to season. They grow readily
from cuttings, and Rural New Yorker
therefore suggests that when we find
one plant that is in every way more sat
isfactory than others the only way to
perpetuate it with certainty is by cut
tings.
AS the two are commonly used a cul-
tivator is a better machine for irrigat-
ing than sprinkling cart. The Guilt
vator, if rightly used, saves moisture,
while the sprinkling cart is more likely
to be the means of wasting it, says Pro
fessor Green of the Ohio station.
Raising Angora goats and Belgian
hares are the latest fads in farm indus
tries
For crops like clover, millet or grass,
the early poisoning period seems to
give the best grade of silage. In the
case of corn it is we'll to allow it to
stand until the kernels are fairly we'll
glazed, remarks correspondent of Or
ange 5udd Farmer.
To kill worms ON cabbage pure, fresh
pyrethrum, commonly called Persian
insect powder or buhach, should be
busted over the plant when the dew is
on, repeating the application when neo-
essary
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1898-07-26
How to work Out a june Grass Sod,

In answer to a correspondent who
plowed June grass sod this spring and
tried, with unsatisfactory results, to get
1t into shape to plant to corn or pota-
toes, The American Cultivator says
There was not time for 1t to rot down
sufficiently. June grass is really first
cousin to quack grass and very nearly as
hard to manage The best way to work
1t out is to fall pillow and let the frost
pulverize the burrows, sitting out fine
soil, and breaking and destroying many
of the roots. If you will then begin with
the first warm days of spring to Guilt
vate the burrows with a spring tooth
drag, the old sod will be made into a
mellow seed bed. You can get some
thing from it this year by cultivating
until near July and sowing buckwheat
That will keep down most of the June
grass until fall, and next year the sod
will be in excellent condition to be
plowed up for corn. There is a preju-
dice among farmers against following
buckwheat with corn. The sole reason,
we think, is that the buckwheat is usual
ly grown on land that does not dry out
soon enough to allow corn to grow. But
June grass sod that has been rotted
down by smothering it with thick
growth Of buckwheat is, we think, in
excellent condition for growing corn or
any other crop the following year.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1898-07-26
vaIne of Toe. In wa1L,n.

The idea that the lesser toes are neces-
sary in walking is generally entertain
ed, and it has been surprise to Euro
pean physicians to learn that amputa-
ton of all the lesser toes of both feet
has been followed by complete recovery
and the restoration to usefulness of both
the feet operated upon. The feet healed
slowly after the operation, but very
steadily and without unpleasant COM
plications. The operation was perform
ed, and in little more than a year and
half the patient danced all night and
experienced no inconvenience whatever
on account of having only one toe on
each foot. She rides wheel, plays ten
mis- and enjoys every sport that girls of
her age are fond of The cause of the
trouble was originally chilblains, which
was neglected until it produced con-
traction of the muscles with the most
intense pain, which was at times so
severe that she could not enjoy the
necessary amount of sleep. Surgeons are
of the opinion that great deal of need
less suffering is endured which might
be relieved by extremely simple opera
tions ON the feet New York Ledger
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1898-07-26
HOW to prevept Cram Smut.

W. T. Swingle of the department. of
agriculture makes the following recon-
mendations in u farmers bulletin:
1t has been found that shrinking smut
of wheat can be prevented by treating
the seed with corrosive sublimate, one
pound to so gallons of water. The seed
is piled ON floor or on canvas and thor
oughly sprinkled, every grain being
wetted over its entire surface. Corrosive
sublimate is poisonous, and great care
should be exercised in using it.
Sinking smut of wheat and covered
barley smut can be prevented by soak
ing the seed ID hours in solution made
by dissolving one pound of commercial
copper sulphate in "a gallons of water
and then immersing the seed for FIVE
minutes In limewater.
The formalin treatment has been
found very effective in preventing stink
ing smuts of wheat and oat smut. 1t
consists in soaking the seed for two
hours in a solution of one pound Of
formalin to so to 60 gallons of water.
The strong formalin is poisonous, and
great care should be exercised in its USE
The sinking smuts of wheat and oat
smut can also be prevented by treating
the seed with hot water at 1879 degrees
for ten minutes
Loose smut of wheat and barley smuts
can be prevented by soaking the seed in
cold water for four hours, allowing it to
stand four hours more in wet sacks, and
then treating for five minutes in water
at 139 degrees
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1898-07-26
A STRANGE SENTENCE.
For Murder That Was More
NrnaI Than Death

Punishment For Murder That Was More
Cruel Than Death.
In 1901 a man died in the Catskills
who had been condemned by one of the
strangest sentences on record. Ralph
Sutherland was born in 1901 and lived
in stone house near Leeds He was a
man of violent temper and morose dis
position, Stunned by his neighbors and
generally disliked. Not being able to
Scotchwoman, and, according to the
usage of the times, virtually held her
in bondage until her passage money
had been refunded.
Unable to endure any longer the rag
ing temper of her master, the girl ran
away. Immediately upon discovering
her absence the man set off i'll an angry
chase upon his horse and soon overlook
her The poor woman never reached the
house alive, and Sutherland was indict-
ed and arrested on the charge of murder
At the trial he tried to prove that his
horse had taken fright, run away,
pitched him out of the saddle and dash
ed the girl to death upon the rocks, but
the jury did not accept the defense, and
Sutherland was sentenced to die upon
the scaffold.
Then came the plea of the INSULT
cheney of circumstantial evidence and
the efforts of influential relations. These
so worked upon the court that the judge
delayed the sentence of death until the
f1,i oouo1. chor,Id ha 90 WOO ~, old
TWAS ordered that the culprit should
be released on his own recognizance,
and that, pending the final execution Of
his sentence, he should keep a hangman'
moose about his neck and show himself
before the judges of Catskill once a year
to prove that he wore his badge of in
fanny and kept his crime in mind. 1t
tence of immediate death would have
been, but it was no doubt in harmony
with the spirit of the times.
Thus Ralph Sutherland lived. He al
ways lived alone. He seldom spoke. His
rough, imperious manner had gone.
Years followed years. At each session
of the court the broken man came be-
AoAO OAO pesl Va JuoGAOO thl S14oub1y
showed the moose that circled his neck.
At last his ninety ninth year came,
the time when the court had ordered
that the utmost penalty of the law
should be executed. For the last time
the man tottered before the judges
bench, but new judges had arisen in
the land, new laws had been made, old
crimes had been forgotten or forgiven,
and there was none who would accuse
him or execute sentence. Indeed the
awful restriction that had bound his
life so intimately to the expiration of
his crime was now legally removed.
But the spirit of self punishment con-
tinued, and when Sutherland, after he
had passed his hundredth year, was dis
covered dead, alone in his house, his
throat was found to be encircled by the
rope which had been placed there nearly
three-quarters of century before
Youth Companion.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1898-07-26

When Dewey was first lieutenant OF
one of the gunboats which Farragut
used as dispatch boat the admiral
used often to come aboard and steam up
near the levee to reconnoiter The
southerners had a way of rushing field
piece to the top of the high bank, firing
point blank at the gunboat and then
backing down again Upon one such &C.
casion Farragut saw Dewey dodge a
shot.
why don't you stand firm, lieuten-
ant?'' said he. Don't you know you
can't jump quick enough?'
A day or SO after the admiral lodged
a shot. The lieutenant smiled and held
his tongue, but the admiral had guilty
conscience. He cleared his throat once
or twice, shifted his attitude and finally
declared:
why, sir, you can t help it, sir. It's
human nature, and there's an end to
IL
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1898-07-26
READING SEALED LETTERS
A German Scientist Shows How This Ma.
Re Accumulated.

A German Scientist Shows How This May
Be Accomplished.
It is not generally known that sealed
letters may in many cases be read with
out opening the envelopes or doing them
the least injury. 1t was discovered by a
German Psychologist by the use of an
embryoscope, or egg glass, that the
shells of eggs were of very unequal
thickness.
1t occurred to him to make expert
ments in order to ascertain how many
leaves of ordinary letter or official pa
per must be laid above and below a
written leaf in order to make it illegible
to highly sensitive eye in the direct
sunlight He found that after he had
rested his eye in dark room for 10 or
10 minutes he cold read piece of writ
ing over the mirror of the embryoscope
that had been covered with eight layers
of paper.
He called in other observers to con-
firm this. The letters, however, that
could thus be deciphered were written
in dark ink on one side of the paper
only. Ii lOuT WrlJG6u SlueS were 1Olu0u
together, and especially if there had
been crossing, it was hard to make out
the drift Of the writing. and there are
some kinds of writing which, when
folded twice or thrice, admit too little
light for the purpose of decipherment.
In this way possibly many of the per-
formances of 'clairvoyants' may be ex-
planned. By means of the egg glass it
is, as a rule, easier to make out the con-
tents of letter or telegram without the
slightest tampering with the envelope
than it is to detect the movements of
the embryo in the egg.
Suppose the writer of billet the
contents of which are known only to
himself, lets it out of his hand and loses
sight of it for five minutes 1t may be
readily carried either into the direct
sunlight or into electric or magnesium
light and be read by the aid of the egg
glass. The placing of piece of car
fridge paper in the envelope or the col
oring of it black is a means of defense
at hand.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1898-07-26

of boastful, cheerful idiot If his head
aches, it isn't worth paying any attention
to : if he feels dull and drowsy during the
day, it isn't worth serious consideration;
if he is troubled with sleeplessness at
night he doses himself with opiates.
When he suffers from nervousness, he
walks into the nearest drug store and or
ders powerful medicines that even phys
ician prescribes with care. He is a very
knowing fellow, but without knowing it,
he is hugging death. There is wonder
full restorative tonic and health builder
that will keep the hardest working man
in good working shape; it Is DR.. Pierce's
Golden Medical Discovery It is made of
pure native roots and barks It contains
no minerals, no narcotics and no opiates.
1t simply aids nature in the natural pro-
cesses of secretion and excretion It tones
up the stomach and facilitates the flow of
digestive juices. 1t makes man hungry
as a horse and then sees to ii that the
are assi1nilated into the blood. 1t invigor-
ates the liver. 1t drives out all impurities
and disease germs from the system. 1t is
1t is the best of all nerve tonics. II cures
bronchial, throat and lung affections as
well.
II had indigestion and torpid liver" writes
Mrs. A. 1. Gibbs, of Russellvi1le Logan County
KY, DR.. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery
cured me-"
If constipation is also present, Dr.
Pierce's Pleasant Pellets should be taken
They never fail; they never grippe. Drug
gists sell both medicines.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1898-07-26
FOREsTALLED HIM.
The Clipper Youth Knew What Usual
Happened In Such Cases

The Clipper Youth Knew What Usual,
Happened In Such Gases.
The fresh young man with no respect
in his soul for gray hairs and dyed
whiskers swung himself ON the car il
the middle of block, and leaning
against the brake handle proceeded tC
roll cigarette with great dizziness. The
fat man who despises the ways of tho
youth on general principles leaned
against the window guards and watched
the development of a cigarette
"Got match, neighbour" inquired
the fresh young man as he put the last
finishing twist to his smoke.
young man began the fat mar
after a brief, elderly pause, calculated
to greatly impress the cigarette smoker
eyes, | know all about inter
rupted the youth, $50 you might as
well choke your lecture on a bornin
know cigarettes will kill me if | stitch
to EN-, but don't care It's an easy
death. know if must smoke [ should
smoke cigars, but don't like the color
of 'em. I've got touch of paresis now,
and I'm due for more know you
think of all the disgusting things il
the world a cigarette is the worst
Il know they undermine the consti
tuition and are wrecking the rising gen.
Grafton. Now if I've forgotten anything
you were going to say help me out
Come to think of it, I've got a match
myself IT | keep on smoking these
things, | won't be able to think at all
before long. know if you had boy
that smoked cigarettes you would lick
him within an inch of his life nearly
forgot you were going TO say that.
Where do you get off anyhow"
Here, +" gasped the fat man as he
dropped off the platform, muttering
something about what this country is
coming to. And the fresh young man
lighted his cigarette with grin.
Washington Times