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The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1898-03-15
A RUsE BOTH WAYS.
How an Actress and Doctor Were FoolinI
Each Other.

How an Actress and Doctor Were Pooling
Each Other.
In French theaters the doctor of the
theater has seat given him for every
performance He must be there every
evening. Naturally, after he has seen
the same piece score of times he longs
to be elsewhere and prefers to give his
seat to some of his friends. M. Ernest
Blum says that when he was a young
man friend, the doctor of the Theatre
Porte St Martin, gave him his seat
Just as he was becoming interested in
the first act the stage manager rushed
up-the heroine had nervous attack
and required medical aid Blum had
nothing else to do but to follow him.
In the lady's dressing room he found
the manager with anguish depicted on
every feature and the lady wringing
her hands and shrieking.
''Now, doctor, quick What's to be
done?''
Blum grew as red as lobster, and
as he could not say anything he just
calculated: Him Let us seel Let us
see. :"
He took the lady's hand in wild at
tempt to feel her pulse. She shrieked
more than ever and writhed like a
snake
Have you poured any water on her
head?" he asked.
eyes, 4"
"And no effect?'
'None. -
''Then don't pour any more"
After this display of medical knowl-
edge he continued:
"Give her sniff of eau de cologne. -
Haven't any, was the answer
"Then go fetch some.
Off rushed the manager and the stage
manager, and Blum was left with his
patient.
Suddenly she opened her eyes and
smiled.
doctor, +" she said. "you are good
fellow, aren't your"
Eyes, ma 'mselle -
"You must be, doctor. Now listen
There is nothing the matter with me.
You would have found that out soon. l
want couple of days off. Can't you
manage it?'
'Delightedl'' he replied joyfully
"Now, ma 'mselle, you're a good fell
low too. l am not doctor. came in
on the DOCTORS ticket, SO you must not
give him away. "
By this time the manager and stage
manager came back, each with bottle
of eau de cologne He told them that it
was unnecessary now The lady was
quite composed and could appear with
out any danger. But she must have
few days rest. They made wry faces,
but granted the holiday Philadelphia
Times
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1898-03-15
SMUT INGRAM.

Hot Water Treatment Approved For Seed
Wheat-Increases the Dat Yield.
From the Kentucky station comes the
caution that bIuestone, when used in
very strong solutions, destroys the vital
ity of portion Of seeds soaked in 1t.
At this station careful comparative tests
of bluestone solutions and of hot water
as preventives of smut show that hot
water is quite as effective In checking
the disease and has the advantage of
not injuring the sound seeds. When
treating seeds with hot water, it is we'll
to be provided with the following: A
good Fahrenheit thermometer, large
kettle in which water can be heated,
three barrels The water in the kettle
is kept near the boiling point, and the
supply in 1t must be replenished as fast
as it is used. In the first barrel keep or
binary water, and the other two should
be about two-thirds full of water kept
at temperature Of 181 degrees F.
First put bag of wheat in the barrel
of cool water and leave it until all the
seeds are moist. 1t may be left for half
an hour or longer, but ordinarily two
or three minutes is sufficient. Drain out
the surplus cold water, then immense
for minute or two in the second bar
rel, containing warm water. The object
of this is to warm the wheat SO that it
will not cool the water in the third bar
rel.
When warm, plunge quickly in the
third barrel and leave it 10 minutes. If
the temperature shows disposition to
fall below 1871 degrees, add little hot
water from the kettle till it reaches the
131 mark again. 1t should never be al
lowed to fall below 1870 degrees nor go
above 1874 degrees f. With good sup
ply of hot water at hand it is very easy
to regulate the temperature in the bar
rel, much easier than would be supposed
by one who has not tried it. At the end
of 10 minutes the wheat is removed
from the water and spread out to dry.
But it must never be spread out ON
floor upon which smutted wheat has
lain.
Other authorities claim that the hot
water treatment not only kills the smut
in oats but hastens the termination and
increases the Weld.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1898-03-15
Yours truly,

SILAS ID. DRAKE
Nothing demoralizes the health sooner
or more completely than even the occas-
ional loss of sleep. To start new day
with the brain unrefreshed is like trying
to keep WORKOUT horse up to its work
with the whip instead of by feeding. The
incessant brain act witty is as if the sku |
were laid bare and the surface of the brain
were struck lightly every few seconds and
without a sign of ''let up"
Thus sleeplessness imperceptibly, but
no less surely, destroys the brain cells
that are the sources of mental power and
the health of every organ of the body.
Paine's celery compound gets the ner-
vous system out of this dangerous rut of
sleeplessness. 1t supplies punishment
to the nervous tissues faster than they are
worn out, and does not let the nutrition
of these delicate parts get low enough to
bring on insomnia.
One of the earliest evidences of the f.
nal success of Paine's celery compound in
curing debility, nervousness, sleepless-
ness and arrangements of liver and kid
neys is the increased appetite, the clearer
skin, and that Undesirable precursor of
health, a feeling of "well being" that
takes the place of the tired, languid, mel
ancholy condition.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1898-03-15
He LOVED The SEA.
Toanyson Used to Study 1t From thu
Downs of the Isle of Wight.

Teanyson Used to Study 1t From the
Downs of the Isle of Wight.
Tennyson said, Somehow water is
the element I love best of all four, " but
in the recent memoir he is also credited
with saying that he 'never cared great
ly for the sea on the south coast. 1t is
not grand sea, only an angry, curt sea. i"
Probably that was view expressed
before he became familiar with the To-
cality, for though the Atlantic does not
plunge against the isle of Wight as
against Cornwall and the west of Ire
land he himself has proved how much
power and enchantment the sea reveals
from the downs. Let the weather be
fair or foul, nature is never dull from
the vantage ground of those oonvexities
which seem like the rind Of the earth
and give an illusion Of vastness and
openness beyond their actual area. Men
striding on ridges and etched against
the sky indeed seem "as trees walking. "
The wind rustling i'll the ear, the sheep
bleating, the sea churning among the
powders, the occasional believing of a
steamer for pilot, the swallows crying
in their low flights and the gulls scream
ing give the only sounds. When the
mist closes over the scene, a strange
sense of being disembodied possesses us,
we are lost in the impenetrable vapor,
and the gulls pass over our heads, Wis
ible but for an instant as they float from
obscurity into obscurity. In times of
storm one seems to be at the seat of the
elements and witness to all their
processes. The clouds roll and break
against the cliffs like another sea, and
sunbursts flashing from them leave a
silver swath over the vexed and SOM
Der pillows On sultry days a water
common sight, and he who makes the
downs his observatory becomes wise IN
all the phenomena of sea and air. Climb
ing them at night gives one the feeling
of scaling the walls of heaven itself.
They slope like the sides of pyramid,
and the apex of the pyramid impales
the stars. On sunny days the sea below
is purple, and every shade of blue and
green that can be thought of, even (tc
use one of Tennyson S own descriptions,
"like peacock neck.
Rarely was there visitor at Earring,
ford that he was not brought up to the
beacon and shown all these wonders and
beauties. Except in his closing years
the poet was found upon them in ali
weathers and at all seasons, and from
them and the surrounding scenery he
drew many Of the landscapes of his
poems. NORTH American Review.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1898-03-15
INSTRUCTED THE JUDGE.

Who Was So Well Pleased That He Gave
Him Seven Months.
Nathaniel Patrick Henry Schofield
Berry, called the police court clerk in
stentorian tones, and hearty laugh was
heard from the lawyers, bailiffs and
general hangers ON around the room.
A very black negro of about 40 step
ped to the bar with the remark, Eyes,
sab, OATS my cognomen TITLE.
"Well, Nat, what have you got to say
about this charge of-of-what's the
name Of that thing anyhow, Mr..
Bailiff?''
"Shootin craps, your honor"
"Shootin craps, !" repeated the judge.
Nov look here have sent enough Of
you fellows down on this charge, but 1
confess know nothing about the game,
if such it might be called I've listened
to the pigeon English of Cinnamon in
telling of their fantan arrangement,
and now you, Nat, there, tell me what
this game of craps is like?'
Well, judge, it's just like dis:
You see you take de bones''-
Liz WudJ!
Ivy. de bones, yo' honah. Them s
de things you throw"
1.-The dice, !" suggested the police off
Ger making the complaint
"Oh, l see, answered his honor.
tits played with dice, eh?''
'fYou take de bones," continued Ma
thaniel Berry, looking with supreme
contempt on the surrounding crowd
anxious to learn the ms and outs of a
famous but badly misunderstood game.
de first man he t'rows de bones out
like dis and pops his fingers. Come
ven-eleven, got you faded. cut his
throat eleven, railroad, 'nat'r crap,
gimme de bones, 'baby's got to hav'
dem moo shoes, take my gal to Balti-
more, Big Dicks my point, all de
way from Boston, come on, Joe, you
must be mine -
Hold on therer' shouted the judge
before the enthusiastic Nathaniel could
be headed in his enthusiastic disserta-
ton. Pm still in the dark about that
game, but from what have heard you
get seven months. -
"Thankee. judge" said Nat, as he
was led grinning from the bar of JUS
tice. Washington Post.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1898-03-15

The grand specific tor the prevailing
malady of the age, Dyspepsia, Liver Com
plant, Rheumatism, Costiveness, General
Debility, etc, is Bacon's Celery King for
the Nerves. This great herbal tonic
stimulates the digestive organs, regulates
the Liver and restores the system to vigor-
GUS health and energies. Sample free.
Large packages SOC and 25c. Sold only by
Wells & Son, Columbus; E. D. Prickitt,
Mount Holly; W. G. Jones, New Egypt
Edw. W. Rossell, Pemberton, and H. H.
Leeds. Rancocas.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1898-03-15
A Sermon on Money.

A colored exhorter said recently, in
the course of a sermon on "Money, the
Great Evil"
"My brotherin, money cause mo-
trouble in dis worl dan anything ]
knows on. Fac is, de devil is in de dol
lar. When see man wild a pocket full
er money, ! say ter myself, Oars a
man what needs guardeen, an feels
des like takin him home an lockin up
dat money fer him. Eff any er you in de
hearin er my voice is got money on yo'
pusson, bring it right heah, an lay it
on de altar an go yo' ways an femme
pray over it till blessin come ter it.
Doan wait ter count it; des come for
ward an unload ATLANTA Constitu-
tioO
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1898-03-15
In the lap of luxury-a rich woman's


a man may dress as we'll as his own
good judgment and the assistance of an ar
tistic tailor may elect. He may take his
tubs" but if his dsgestlye organs are out
of order he will have an unwholesone ap-
pearance. His complexion and the
white OF his eyes will have a yellowish
cast. His tongue will be coated, appetite
poor, his teeth rusty, his breath abomin-
able. He is one big, unmistakable sign
of constipation. The quickest surest,
easiest way to cure this trouble is to take
DR.. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets. They are
made of refined, concentrated vegetable
extracts. Nothing in the least harmful
enters into their composition. They hunt
down all impurities, and make them
move on" They are the product of many
years study and practice. DIR. Pierce can
not afford to put forth worthless article.
Address with q cents in one-cent
stamps, to cover cost of mailing only,
Worlds Dispensary Medical Association,
Buffalo, N Y and get free copy of the
"Medical Adviser"
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1898-03-15
UNSPOKEN SYMPATHY.
Little Children Who Were Remarkably
Careful Not to Hurt an Uncle's Feelings.

Little Children Who Were Remarkably
Careful Not to Hurt an Uncle's Feelings.
He was a big, burly, good natured
conductor on a country railroad, and he
had watched them with much interest
Rs they got on the train. There were
two handsome, round faced, rosy cheek
ed boys and three sunny haired, pretty
little girls of various sizes and ages. A
grave, kind looking gentleman, evident
ly their guardian, got in with them,
and the conductors attention was soon
caught by the fact that the apparently
eager conversation was carried on by
means of deaf and dumb alphabet, the
gentleman joining in SO pleasantly that
the conductor beamed on him with APP
prevail. Naturally kind hearted himself,
it pleased him to see this trait in Others
but his honest eyes were misty as he
thought of his own noisy crowd of
youngsters at home and oontrasted them
with this prim little company who
smiled and gesticulated, but made no
sound.
1t was plain they were off on holt
day jaunt, for they all had satchels and
wore festive ego away" air, and the
conductor, whose fancy played about
them continually, settled it in his mind
that they belonged to some asylum and
were going with their teach for va
cation trip. He couldn It help watching
them and nodding to them as he passed
through the car. They returned his
greeting in kind, being cheerful little
souls, and he began to look forward
with regret to the time of parting.
At length at one of the rural stations
the gentleman kissed the young ones
hurriedly all round and got off the
train. They leaned out of the windows
and waved enthusiastic farewells as the
car moved on. Then the biggest little
girl'' took brown paper bag from her
satchel and distributed crackers in even
shares. The conductor in passing smiled
and nodded as usual as the little girl
held out the paper bag to him.
"Do have some,'' she said.
He started back in sheer amazement.
"WhatP' he exclaimed. "You can
talk, then-all of you?'
"Of p' they cried in chorus.
The conductor sank into the seat
across the aisle. 81 thought you were
deaf and dumbp he gasped.
"Oh, how funnyP' cried one of the
rosy checked boys. "Why, that was
Uncle Jack, poor fellowl He was born
that way. We wouldn't talk while he
was with us; it might hurt his feelings,
you know. Hello, here's our station
Come on, girls' And the five trooped
noisily out and waved their handker-
chiefs from the platform as the train
moved on. Belle Moses in St, Nicholas.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1898-03-15

Ralph Waldo Emerson once told a
good story of friend who always car
ried in his pocket horse chestnut as a
protection against rheumatism, just the
same as other people wear shields and
other specifics. Emerson thus testities
to the results in his friends case: He
has never had the rheumatism since he
began to carry it, and indeed it appears
to have had a retrospective operation
for he never had it before :"
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1898-03-15
''JRCK.'

There's more than instinct in the iocund play
OF "Jack, F" the little Scot, dear as child.
Alas, that arrogance has so misstyled
The intelligence of brutes and said them nav
At this LIES closet Denying them there may
Be no supreme law such as man has filed
Against them. could well be reeonciled
To share with all of them Judgment day
And life eternal Not blasphemous thought
Witness, o Thou, who knowest mel) is mine.
But this dogs life, so innocent, is frauRht
With intimations of such high design
That could wish we never had been taught
To think man only holds the spark divine.
John H. Boner in Century,
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1898-03-15

The staff of medical institution in
this city were nonplused day or two
since when they undertook to perform
an operation for appendicitis. After a
careful and minute search among the
contents of the abdominal cavity no APP
pendix could be found. There was in
fiammation and adhesions and all sorts
of trouble with other organs, but ap
pendix there was none, and SO no ap-
pendicitis. This, however, is not likely
to interfere with the appendicitis bust
ness, for there were lots of other super
fuous things which, in the absence of
an appendix, were removed, and the
desired result was obtained. Portland
Oreponian
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1898-03-15
A CLEVER FIRE HORSE.

The Clear Headed Animal That Chief
Weber of Boston Used to Drive.
The rule in the Boston department is
to reach the fire as soon as it can be
done with safety. When an alarm comes
in, the firemen have that rule in mind.
They are not thinking about posing for
the public, but what they are likely to
find at the end of their ride, and when
accidents occur in nine cases out of ten
they are more likely to be due to the
carelessness or fright of the public than
to the reoklessness of the firemen them
selves. There are approximately 2, 900
alarms year in this city, to each of
which from one to eight pieces respond
Compare the activity and momentum
thus let loose, but skillfully controlled,
with the total resulting casualties of
year, and the showing will justify the
department. as whole every time
The horses themselves share not only
the spirit but the knowledge of the sit
uation, and to their training and intel
llgence is due to no small degree the
comparative exemption from serious
accidents which the department enjoys.
A few years ago Chief Webber drove as
his fire horse an animal which well ex-
emplified these characteristics. He had
head like wedge, and he could run
for deer. His fire gait was run. He
was famous for economizing his oppor-
tunltles Even in thickly crowded
street, if he saw hundred feet clear in
front of him, he made it on the run. If
an obstruction suddenly appeared, he
would brace himself and skate over the
pavement until his momentum was
overcome. Then with the next opening
the feat was repeated, while he writhed
in and out like a snake among inter
oepting teams and usually was among
the first arrivals at the scene of the fire.
On one occasion he took himself and
the buggy to fire some distance from
quarters without driver and arrived
safely and at the right box. The I'M
initiated who saw his movements might
have called them reckless, but during
his five or six years of service he at
tended more fires than any other horse
in the department, and no serious acct
dent to himself or others resulted. -
Boston Transcript.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1898-03-15

hands of any but trained and skillfiil ath
lete That is where she is really more pr1l-
dent than many of her sex
Women who would shudder at the riste
of a gymnastic performance take vastly
more dangerous chances by trusting their
life and health to the advice of some incofn.
petent, uneducated person, when they are
suffering from weakness or disease.
Only skilled, experienced physician is
competent to prescribe remedies for the
complicated ailments of the feminine or
glf1isn. No mere nurse is fitted TO deal
with diseases which demand the utmost
resource of medical science
For nearly 80 years DR. r. v. Pierce. chief
consulting physician of the Invalids' Hotel
and Surgical Institute, of Buffalo. N V
has given special, expert attention and study
to the treatment of women's diseases M
physician in the United States has had
more remarkable success in this particular
field of practice.
His " Favorite Prescription has cured
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women.
Mrs Jacob Schaffner of Freemansburp North
anpton Co. Pa, writes: " It is with pleasure tl,at
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ceived from your medicines and the selEtreatuent
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The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1898-03-15

Miss Fuller, newspaper woman, has
lately been appointed harbor mistress of
Tacoma, Wash. 1t is said that thus far
she has done remarkably good work,
keeping ali records pertaining to the
extensive shipping business of the city
in perfect shape. Last month she made
out the harbor masters report for the
year, the first report of the kind ever
made out by an American woman.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1898-03-15
Nothing to Work Oh.

Fellows, tried to get that bloom
ing mind readah, don't you know, to
come up to the club some evening and
give us one of his deuced queeah enter
tainments. By Jove, he said he couldn t
come"
"Did he give any reason, deah boy?"
"Why, he said he couldn't make a
success of his efforts where there wasn't
any material to work ON. :"
81 wonder what the deuce he meant
by that" Plain Dealer.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1898-03-15
Making the most of TIT.


to sufferers from catarrh will not be amiss
if cure can be offered. Ely's Cream
Balm has become fayorite in all sections
OF the United States. Your cold in the
head will be quickly relieved by it, and
the severest attack of catarrh will yield to
and be perfectly cured by a thorough
treatment. Catarrh is not blood disease
but an Inflammation of the passages of
the nose and throat, due to climatic
changes.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1898-03-15
Insect steeds Ridden by Insects.

At recent meeting of the Entomo-
logical society of Washington some
specimens of phrysopa, a species of
golden eyed fly, which had been collect
ed in the White mountains, were exhib-
tied as ouriosities. because each carried
on it's back one or more minute cecido-
myiid flies. The opinion was expressed
that this was a true case of smaller
species of insect using a larger species
for the purposes of Iocomotion from
place to place. Youth Companion.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1898-03-15
Times of piece between meals.

Instant relief and permanent cure by
the great remedy Otto's Cure for Lun-
and Throat diseases. Why will you irri
tate your throat and lungs with that hack
ing cough when Wells & Son, Columbus !;
E. D. Prickitt, Mount Holly; w. c. Jones
New Egypt Edw. w. Rossell, Pemberton,
and H. H. Leeds, Rancocas, sole agents
will furnish you free sample bottle of
this guaranteed remedy? Its success is
wonderful, as your druggist will tell you.
Sample free Large bottles SOC and 25c.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1898-03-15

Well, you have fine shop here,
said the customer as he settled himself
down to be shaved
"Yahl" said the barber.
"But I don't think much of the out
side."
"No; dot is not in it," said the
barber.
That's good one, - said the GUS
toner, laughing.
The barber flushed.
"Vat for you laugh at me?'' he cried
in anger. "You think understand not
English?" -New York Sun.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1898-03-15
When You Are Tired


Without extra exertion, languid, dull and
listless, your blood is failing to supply to
your muscles and other organs the vital
izlng and strengthening properties they
require. Hoods Sarsaparilla cures that
tired feeling by enrichIng and purifying
the blood, 1t will give you energy and
vigor