The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1898-07-05
TUESDAY, JULY 5, 1898.
NOTES AND OPINIONS.


has introduced bill which deserves more
han passing attention, for if it becomes a
aw it will do away with the question of
pensions in the present war
Mr.. Gardeners idea is to issue life and
accident insurance policies to the army
and naval forces, the amount to be paid
in each case to stand in lieu of all claims
against the government
This would mean an additional burden
now, but it would do away in the future
with all the official machinery and fraud
which has surrounded the Pension Bureau
for the civil war, and would undoubtedly
save the government many millions of
dollars, besides being more satisfactory
to those who suffer from the misfortunes
and casualties of the present war
This bill should receive the closest Con
gressional scrutiny, should be amended
where necessary and should be passed. -
Jersey city Journal
The experiment in rural free mail deliv-
cry, made from $40 postoffices throughout
the country, is to be continued, owing to
the increase by Congress of the appro-
priation available for this purpose. If
rural free mail delivery becomes an es-
tablished institution it will remove one
more of the drawbacks to rural life in the
United States Perhaps the time is not
far distant when the American woman s
dislike of country life will be succeeded
by an appreciation of it as hearty as that
felt by her English cousin
Rural free mail delivery ought to be as
successful in the United States as it Is In
England, if for no other reason than that
he country in the older sections of the
United States is more thickly populated
than it is in England. One of the greatest
obstacles to rural free delivery in this
country has been the absence of good
roads. Some of the experimental routes
now under trial are in the vicinity of
Moorestown, New Jersey, from which
place radiate many miles of improved
roads built under the State Road law. In
that vicinity mail is now being distributed
at the farmers homes by carriers upon
bicycles, so that the roads, which make
the use of bicycle, equipped with mud
guards and gear case, possible in all kinds
of weather, except when the ground Is
covered with snow, have conferred upon
the inhabitants the additional benefits of a
free mail delivery
Tho moot Ya,,orfo of +bo C+o,o Dad
Commissioner of New Jersey have con
tanned communications showing a much
greater activity in the real estate market
in the neighborhood of improved roads.
Every additional convenience added to
rural life must make that life seem more
desirable to the American women, who
are chiefly responsible for the flocking of
the American people to villages and
towns. Good roads, bicycles, free mail
delivery-all tend to counteract rapidly
that dislike of an isolated life which has
been handed down from mother to daugh-
ter from the time that America was a
wilderness inhabited by wild animals and
savage men. The conveniences spoken of
help to make rural life not only possible,
but enjoyable, and they afford opportun
ity for development of that interest in
country affairs which must be the basis of
perfect content with rural life.-PAila
Inquirer.
The Democratic party seemed suffici-
emily unwise in 1896, when it gaily threw
away everything of Democracy but the
name, and moved in new stock of furni-
ture with a silver service as the chief orn-
ament
Having opposed manifest common sense
in 1896 with such striking results, the
Democrats, not without many indications
of mutiny in their ranks, appear now to
be pre- paring to oppose manifest destiny
So they go from bad to worse They
ache for bitterer basting. They are not
satisfied with whips. They itch for scor
pions
The United States are going to expand.
The Democratic party seems anxious to
contract y Sun
The leading parties of the country show
disposition to divide on the annexation
question. The war has brought new is
sues forward and the result will be the
broadening of the people by virtue of the
study of new and exacting situation. =
Dallas Neaos.
Reduced Rates to Nashville via Pennsyl-
wanna Railroad, account Christian En-
deavor Convention.
On account of the Christian Endeavor
International Convention, to be held at
Nashville, Tenn, July to 12, the Penn
sylvania Railroad Company will sell ex-
cursion tickets of the continuous passage,
ironclad signature form, from stations on
its line to Nashville, at rate of single fare
for the round trip. Tickets will be sold,
and good going, July 2 to 5; returning,
tickets viii be good to leave Nashville to
July Is, inclusive, except that by deposit
ing ticket with agent of terminal line at
Nashville on or before July IS, return
init may be extended to leave Nashville
o August 1, 1898, inclusive.
Many School Children are Siclkly.
Mother Gray's Sweet Powders tor Children,
used nv Mother GraV. In Children g