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New-York tribune., 1899-07-28
LEHlCH VALLEY.

etaons foot Of West and Desbrosses Streets
fPennA K X Ferries)
Time West I'D Other cortAndt or besbro.e:
sunday sunday only Other trains
daily I sundsy leaves IS sunday leaves B Sundsy
tsG 5J 700 A. NJ. Local for EAsTON.
sz1l eS.OS A. For BIFfAlO. NIAGARA FALLS and
pnelPs local pons farior and Dining Cara Con
t.ii.55 100 Noon. BLACK DIAMOND tx
pRe So fiandsones the word Llmlted % .eang
sADarlV Due Buffalo connecting with through sleepx1
10 Derois Chicago. Dining Car serycs u carte o
sIg,JJ, l.OOP.NN For WILkES-BAhRE. sCRAN IOS'
f'3.5y, l.qSP Coal Branches and in,sTmsfae poin"
sJ.iJ 5.I5PM Local for MAUCH CHUNK.
t.5.IO, 5.2NP. " Local for MAUCH CHUNK.
t'6.iO, d. 2Or.M Local Express for E.AsT0S x.s
.5,5J K6. For Buffalo and points West through
Sleeping Cars 30 Chicago and Toronto. , ronoxro
'1.55. S.O0P Express for BUFFALO and lOnONA"-
None buf Sleeping Car pa.sengers carried ,rrr.ro
'iO.25,I0.3OP.N For ITHACA, ROCHESTER, pNF a>o
and Nest. Sleeping Cars % Chicago. IN, ....,
so pLAlNFfELp and Bot M BROOK local. aa
sund.yi 80 a. 1854 q - So "a 10 AZ 50 ana - y IA
Tickets Pullman seeommodatons q it ~ ~ ~. X a Y
Broadway cnion square Hesf, 2s Columbus
So Fulton Court S. Bdwy and Annex saien Bfo0x @ =,
Y Transfer Co will call for and cheek baggage iso Hoe W
resdenee through 10 Destination
New-York tribune., 1899-07-28

HIo--l7N'es market weak, No RIO 6SG10 exchange
receipts 2 0O0 bass cleared FOR the United States
og BAGS cleared for europe, 20GO bags stock 2s 600
bass
lhe statistical position o. Brazil coffee is as follows:
New-York tribune., 1899-07-28
Railroads.
Den NNSYLVANIA
RAILROAD.

! RAILROAD.
STATIONS foot Of WEST TWENTY THIRD STREET
OTh- ieavins ,i@e from De.Sro..es sss
n%s .,ss s'rss; n Is ~, a'e ssr s,rsss
s'a,,:n; saseps %sers t o.Ssr~s.. noted: s..'..,
Cars New YORK TO pit,sbqrs Sleeping Car h'ours 70
ss X FAST aedsf IiNHP,sSars rg and Cleveland
s.s5 A: NJ PENNsYLv1SiH LIMITED IPullm:. =
ton Cars For cs5ssO. cisvslsnd Toledo. cncinasr-
1ss ?: " cHicAec AND 1GSr. sT' LOUIS ExPREa:'
eor Nashville tvia cineinnstD Indianapolis. Sn'cAs''
o.2s p ". WESTERN ExrREss.-rOr Chicago Fer
7Ss r. ". sorTH%Esr EXPRESS For ri.s:-i
81 surg SieNeIand Cincinnati Louisville inaAnA'~
TSs NJ PACIFIC EMPRESS rI,,.SsrS S.,,.S ..S
aSas fonns.s: tor Cleveland except sssrsay m,
NAIL soa SGn1sS' hss sspns g;
non,. W. W. 70 Altoona East Lioe..5 Iun Iman"'s' ~
W4sn,SEro5;S'' AND sS6''r Tnn sSsiTn, n,,..,.,.,
& so: s,r.., ls': o 9nss sSsss. s
p'nns m Gsrs s 10 t:S CD.ns Carr IS pnUsm m CAB 5,nns
f soi and psiss ss-., 6;s1: as rs Ds nj
SoT,TIHERSii RAiLwAT-Esprsss 2sS AS m. iaio'
NORFOLK AND WESTERN RAILwAY-For Memphis
ATLANTic COAST LiSE@TEspTes. e aS,s Is a. m s.sS
fSE ol5 SSFx Sg2 gSS5s4 NJ ss
AT1 Mstc41ys S41y end e,+J IS daily ,..Dro...,
sfs. ao n.y. Cortland, Street m fSroSss
Nesthucr Train Buffet P,:lor Cars. Passenger Coach
! aud isSL med Coach
! tAPE SAt.--i255 p. welk-days
VEST ' wn T NF yoT sr Saa as kaoa sape s %
iO 'Se,T5dsys enly 20 2SS S' 40 ,,,r SlU r.s
e. srs. 500 800 m % aso & p 10 70 ssa saturday,
/ onlyl. $50, $40. $40 % $40. 200 p m SUNDAYS.
siA e4S a. Sis N. from Cortlandt street,. 30.
zoo nl IL 90 23 Saturdays only. 230. 3Os. 33s
423. 5i5 100 .. m. sundays SIS. s6 a. M oiS
FOR PHILADELPHIA.
sc cps:sroe.ss snt Cortlandt streets SOD 80
Street 10 10 Cortiantt street loi5 Dining Carr ioS
DINING Carr. iib5 II 81. ~ Desbrosses street
10 cor,Iand street 2lS); ?5S $s5 q 42s DINING
p M y 10 night, SUNDAYS. $40. SIS sSS p. ess
! ddmitedl, o55. iO55 Dining Csr a m. l28 lS
Dining Carr , So. 3j5. IS Dining carr, t5s Dnins
Carr. 90 Dining Carl T.55. s55 .. m, ~ 10 night
Ticket offices Nos 46i a44 1895. 1854 Ill, and 261
! broadway 1 Ast,r House West Twenty-third street
Station, and stations foot OF Desbrosses and Corandt
Streets Court street ssO Fulton Street. 8s Broadway
ana Pennsylvania Annex Station, Brooklyn. Station,
Jersey City. The York Transfer Company viii cali
for and check baggage from hotels and residences
through 10 destination.
Telephone
Railroad Cab Service.
| J. B. HUTCHINSON J. r. WOOD.
General Manager General Pass'r Agent.
New-York tribune., 1899-07-28
THE STATE OF TRADE.

ern spot. 75hc: No hard spring. 755sa!6se Winter
wheat quiet: No red 72c old. I3c No red, roc
No 2 white zoe track. Corn-Demand light; No vel
low. 38c; No do 3S &c: No do. sc; No 3s
3sAc. No corn. 3SI3s &c Oats-Some 1rmness for
good; No white 2sq29c. No do. 27h a2Sc, No .
mixed 26isc: No 3 do. 26c, Rye-Nothing doing Canal
freghs steadv wheat 2Sc; oats lisc; barley. &c TO
New-Yori.
Chicago July 27.-The leading futures ranged as fol
New-York tribune., 1899-07-28

mixed 26lec. No 3 DO. 2Sc Rye-NOthing doing. Canal
!jeynS New s's'a'' "9'' ' oats '''' ''''7' . "
chicago July 27-Ths leading futures ranged as fol-
wheat, No. 2: Opening. Highest Lowest. Closing.
bs9smS:s fS'S%SssF 'o"'9955 95 7sae55 Esssgg& 3is is,
Corn. No .:
" s:s:.ss.. g g. .. .$ ~ sf$ 81
Rs2 RscemOer sgsqs ss. sl sGA @As3' saSS.
4: 4: i: s.:i: 4: 4: s::l* ,*::
s:':::s s:S':%ssf e.: s?'. ::: '' 81" g#s g 81 g.
s:s:;%e:: Ss'sss. r. .:..',,. s.s s@ss ss2. sas
Short ribs. per 100 rb
Ssoss94 s:P5sg?se@ a.. sFs sls s%Si, sHlss4 sls4
cash quotations were follows: Flour steady; No 2
spring wheat 7og7lc; No spring wheat; eeasee: No ?
s oa,. ;i& g d24c 10 Wh,s &C. No white PA e28c
10 rye 5s No barley $2gios &C. No ~ naH,ee s.. sDS 1os
per 81 S aT Per 100 NJ s. SSgf5 S22 xs9, 1.S1
s S7sas5 So short clear sides o6oTe 25as5 9o whi
key ss; G sss4 $3.50 P 5 Fa Se P. & ESchHss
aZ the Ouisr % market was rs s5sa9y Weak fsn
chess 57S saTs sm:: creams, $500 ASS' "''"
Cincinnati. July 27.-Flour quiet. Wheat steady No
S6 reg S @1e coz iis3dy NJ Re as eas &
ter steady. Sugar steady Eggs dull &c. Cheese active
Milwaukee July 27whsat lower; No .o, NoThsFD gtSso
72ic. No Northern Tic. Rye quiet No ]. o2'2a3-74c
Barley dull. No 2. 4Oisc. sample, SoaiOc.
Nnoeanolis Tulv 2T-Bran-In bulk lower So 7jg
$40 FlOur-Frst patents s. 60H$3 10: second patents
So 4Od$3 30. hrst clear 81 JOdS2 60
Phuadephia. July 27-Wheat n lower. contract
grade July T1iaQ7lAc. Corn. nc lower. No mixed
July 3Gs. g3Gs7c Oats unchanged. No white clipped
3iGgli,c. No do 29iaq3Oc. No mixed. 2"'2FVo
Butter nrm fair demand fancy Western creamery le2
loc do prints 2ic Eggs steady and demand far iresh
nearbv l5hc: do Western, l3iaglic do southwestern
i2nGl3c. Southern, l0d lie. Cheese hrm, falr de
mand Recelp's-F.Our 1900 bbis. 10000 sacks. wheat
~ 900 bush: corn. bush. oats 1000 bush snip
ments-wheat 5CO0 bush; corn, 1900 oush' oats 4SoOo
bush
ST. Louis. July 27-Wheat-No red cash 10Hc July y
7Ohc: September 7ikc. December 737sc No hard 6sH
7o. C'o-n-No cash 3c. July 3lAc September. 3o5sc;
December. 2s4c. Oats-No cash 2ln22e July 221sc
september. 1850; MAY. 215sc. No white. 27a21ltc'
Toledo July 27.-Wheat active. lower, No cash and
July. 7lLc. September 73c corn dul; over, 10 =
mixed Ssisc dull. lover No mixed cash and july
24c Hye dull. lower. No ? cash, 02c CoVerseed lower
steady prime cash. 81 % asked october - ia
New-York tribune., 1899-07-28
or particulars see time table
ROYAL BLUE LINE.
CATSKILL MOUNTAINS

New Catskjlt and N. H.
N CONNECTION WITH 49,
Cat-lkilI Mountain Railway ous ny;
The shortest and picturesque rvu'e T" al pom"
on the Summit of the Catskills o.,,,,
al Offices OF Hudson River Day Llne tatsklh
Evening Line York Central and West Snore itoaos
For Mountain House Hotel Kaaterskil, Laurel House
Antlers Haines Corners. and all the mountain parks
and Cairo
Reduced Excursion rates good for the season
THE 4 O'CLOCK LIMITED TRAIN. Detroit speca.
the York Central and Hudson River Railroad
has Dining and parlOr Cars Daily. stopping al Caskhl
Railroad connections make time. Less than mourn
from New York % SUMMIT Of the Cafskils.
"On time always"
New-York tribune., 1899-07-28
SANDY HOOK ROUTE

LEAVE PIER s. y. r..
FOOT OF RECTOR STREET.
For Atlantic Highlands. seahrisht Monmouth Beach
and Long Branch week days 40 600 1000 li.0o
A NJ 100 200 345 40 and $40 p. NJ Sundays
1000 A. NJ. loo. T. NJ. For Elberon. Ashury Park
Oceln Grove Point Pleasant week DAYS AZ 90. 1000
100 NJ 900 Saturdays only) 200 3i5. 40 and 80
y. VI. Sundays az 100 y. VI
New-York tribune., 1899-07-28

TOR BLOCK ISLAND, ORIENT, GREEN
PORT. SHELTER ISLAND sOUTHoLD AND SAG
HARBOR-
Steamer leaves Pier IL. r r. foot Wall ST.. daily ex
cept sundays 40 p NJ. Saturdays 100 p NJ Mon
DAYS Wednesdays and Fridays Southold
and Orient Point Mondays by steamer shinnecock ex-
curson Greenpor and Harbor leaving Pier u.s. at
A. NJ Excursion tickets. s200 good 10 return day
New-York tribune., 1899-07-28

coffee rnarkats-Sant7s- C-ffee market Quiet
g,d average santos 5000 receipts $1,000 bags; stock
54tDu oaEs. Hamburs-Cohee market opened "A pig
higher. a. 230 IT, net unchanged u = pfg advance
tass I2oOO bags Havre-Cofee market opened steady
unchanged az Il n. unchanged. at 9 steady at
! advance closed = franc ne, lower. total sales
- "a. hays
New-York tribune., 1899-07-28
HUDSON RIVER Steamer MARY POWELL,

Leaving Desbrosses ST. 3.l5 P. VI. Saturdays 45).
West 22I ST. 40 P n 6Sa,nrdays P ~ for GRAN, S,
HAMBCRGH MILTON PO'KEEPsIE HYDE Park.
RONDOCT AND KINGSTON. MUSIC
New-York tribune., 1899-07-28

Receipts al the ports and interior points to-day, com
pared with the same day last week and last year:
New-York tribune., 1899-07-28
NEW YORK CENTRAL,

Trains arrive and depart from Grand Central statioi
&2d Street, New York. follows:
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1899-03-21
News and Notes.

The increase of exports of cotton from
the United States to all countries except
Russia and the Netherlands has been
very large, in most of them the amount
being more than double what it was ten
years ago, but owing to the extremely
low prices in 1897-S the value of the
total exports was 81, 1873, 055 less than
in 1889.
The growth of sentiment in favor of
progressive laws in New York, Penn
~sylvania and other states and by the ap-
pointment Of a highway commission in
Maryland, and also by the reports of in
creased sales of roadmaking machinery.
The department of agriculture has
four scientific explorers abroad getting
seeds and plants, one in Russia, one in
the countries around the Mediterranean,
enc in the China seas and one in South
America.
The demand upon the bureau of ami
NAL industry for blackleg vaccine has
Increased very much during the year.
The results received from its use indi-
cate that the percentage of loss in herds
has been reduced from 10 to 90 per cent
to less than l per cent.
According to a report of the division
of accounts for the fiscal year ended
June 80, the total paid out by the de-
partment of agriculture was So. 411,-
900. So, which includes supplementary
g.. TOnn -..l fOnH
Ginseng occurs over much of the east
ern United States, from Canada to Ala
bama, and is gathered over the whole of
this territory, the bulk of it eventually
going abroad from New York city. The
exports for 1897 have been stated at
179, 573 pounds. at an average value of
"a. IS per pound.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1899-03-21

Chicago, ILL.,, Dec. 10, 1898.
Gentlemen:-It gives me pleasure to
certify to the good effects from Paine's
celery compound for my patients in gen
eral debility and liver complaints.
Andrew L. Ludgren, M. d.
Why do the ablest physicians in Amer
lea openly prescribe, use and recommend
Paine's celery compound
First, because Paine's celery compound
is not a patent medicine. 1t is not the
discovery of some quack doctor of whom
his profession never heard; it is not a con-
coction put up by some man who first in
vented a name, and then adopted a prep
aration to fit it; and it is not a secret rem
edy.
But it is, first, the result of the lifelong
study of the greatest physician America
has produced, a man whose reputation
was world wide years before he had ever
arrived at this formula; a man who has
received the highest degrees from the best
colleges, who was at the time of his great
discovery a professor at Dartmouth and a
lecturer in other universities, a scholar
and a member of a family which has made
its mark in every department of public
life in America, Prof. Edward E. Phelps,
M. D., LII. D.
Why do progressive and intelligent ply
%sicians of every school prescribe Paine's
celery compound in preference to any
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1899-03-21
DENS OF HORROR.
The Prisons of Morocco Are HOtbeda
of Deadly Disease.

The Prisons of Morocco Are HOtbeda
of Deadly Disease.
The prison system and treatment of
prisoners are worse in Morocco than in
any other country in the world.
Men are arrested-often merely to
spite some one whom they have been so
unfortunate as to offend and who pos
sesses some power-and flung into pris-
on, where they would be left to starve did
not their relatives or friends bring them
food, for no arrangements whatever are
made by the authorities for the feeding
of prisoners. All that is provided is a
prison, generally crowded with prison
ers dying in the most loathsome and in
fictitious diseases, dark and unventilated,
and custodians who are quite as brutal
and savage as the prison system itself.
Prisoners are cast into these hotbeds
of disease, generally without the most
f~arcical ~pretense of a trial, to die and
rot if their crimes are light or their
enemies impotent. Otherwise they are
probably tortured in some way or an
other. Starving merely is too good for
them in the opinion of the authorities.
Not long ago a merchant who had
dared to claim payment for goods sup
piled to a friend Of one of the court off
Gals was cast into prison without trial,
and after suffering torments in the
midst of a mass of diseased humanity
for months was taken out, showed into
a barrel fitted with long spikes and
rolled down a high steep Hill. The bar
rel eventually plunged into the sea with
its torn and mangled cargo. Imprison-
ment, torture and death for daring to
present his billl-Cincinnati Enquirer
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1899-03-21

A RUNAWAY ICE YACHT.
An Exciting Chase and a Narrow e.
cane From Death.

CHPC ~
Some years ago there was a runaway
down at Shelter Island in which a
young girl was left in the boat with a
gale blowing. She tried to throw the
sheet loose, but it was frozen and her
fingers were too cold, added to which
the sheet had fouled the tiller, and she
could not bring the boat up into the
wind to stop its way, the sail being so
set that the boat continued running
right along at a terrific rate of speed.
Occupants of the other boats soon
realized the position and made chase,
gaining slowly, one boat finally being
far in the lead of the others by the time
the end of the island was left behind.
Right in front lay the end of the ice,
broken short by the action of the tide
water, and there the breakers rolled in,
throwing up the anchor ice, dashing it
down, and then ~retreating, sucking it
under the foe and packing it up for an
other break.
For some time it was a question as to
whether the chasing boat would catch
up with the girl before she was carried
over the edge to certain death. But at
last the boats came together for one
brief second, the girl was snatched by
strong arms to the pursuer's yacht, the
sheet was eased off in a fash, and, spin
ming round in it's own length, it was
set right before the wind instead Of
reaching into it, just as the runaway
dashed over into the anchor ice.
A short, sharp crack gave notice of
the parting of the ice beneath the very
runners of the now homeward bound
savior, and with a long stagger, which
only her speed enabled her to with
stand, she dashed across the fast open
ing crack, safe, to be brought up into
the wind at a distance, while the late
runaway danced, a wreck, among the
broken ice. 1t was one of the close calls
of ice yachting which, thank goodness,
very seldom occurl-W. P. Pond in
Frank Leslie's Popular Monthly.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1899-03-21
LUCKY DEUCE OF SPADES.
Remarkable Run of Luck, but All
For the other Man.

One by one the old superstitions are
being torn from us. People nowadays
walk ostentatiously under ladders and
suffer no evil consequences. Friday is
quite a popular day for the commence
ment of a long journey, and sitting
down IS at dinner is frequently unat-
tended with untoward results. A deep
ly rooted superstition among card play
ers is a belief in the lucky properties of
the two of spades, The present writer's
faith, however, was severely shaken by
a phenomenal coincidence which occur
red only a few days ago.
Sitting down to a game of whist, he
thoroughly shuffled both packs of cards,
and happened to notice that the two of
spades was the bottom card of one of
the packs.
This ought to bring me luck, he
remarked to his friends.
He then took up the second pack, and
was astonished to find that the two of
spades was also at the bottom of that.
Words failed to express his amazement
when, in drawing fer partners and deal
the cards had been shuffled again-he
once more drew the two of spades.
The odds against this triple event oc-
curing must be enormous, but more
was to follow. The deal fell to the
writer, and the urn up card was the in
evitable two of spadesl
After this the dealer felt justified in
believing he was l n for a good evening.
As a matter of fact. he lost six rubbers
in succession London Mail.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1899-03-21
Mend Your Birds Legs.

Young chickens and other birds fire.
%quently break the bones of their legs,
and if properly attended to these frac-
lures can be easily cured with very lit
tie trouble. AS soon as the injury is
noticed the fracture must be carefully
cleaned and washed with warm water
and then wrapped with a bit of antisep-
tic cotton. Splints are then prepared
for the fractured limb, preferably of
split elder wood, the pith of which is
taken out. These splints are fastened
to the cotton with a drop of glue, and
held tightly in place by being wound
with linen thread. The bandage and
dressing are left u%ndisturbed for from
three to four weeks, then the leg is
soaked in tepid water until the bandage
ome off easily. The fracture will have
completely healed in that time.
Canaries and other pet birds car be
similarly treated in case of a fracture
of a leg, only the elder splints are sub
stituted by pieces of cardboard and the
bandage is left but two weeks IN the
little winged patients.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1899-03-21
The TRUE MANIA.
Interesting Facts About "a Lichen of
the Saharan Desert.

Interesting Facts About IL Lichen of
the Desert.
According to NJ. Chastrey, the true
mamma of the Scripture is the thallo-
phyte, known to botanists as Canona
esculenta and Lichen e~sculentus.
The nomads of the Sahara and south
Algeria call it Ousseh-el-Ard. 1t is also
found in Persia, Arabia and Mesopo-
tamia. 1t is grayish, about the size of
a small pea, and %farinaceous inside.
Some say the spores are brought by
wind and develop with dew. Others
think it leaves a germ or seed behind it
when it perishes. 1t should be collected
in the morning of its appearance, be-
cause it dries in the sun and is lost in
the sand. 1t can be preserved in a closed
vessel. The lichen does not cling to any
foreign body, but lies on the sand in a
layer sometimes nearly an inch thick
and can be collected easily. 1t is rather
sweet in taste,
The Arabs, whose lives it often saves,
boil it in water, and thus get a gelati-
nou paste, which they serve in various
ways. To preserve the mamma they dry
it in the shade or they wrap the paste
in skins. Analysis shows that the lichen
contains Is parts of water, IA of nitrog-
enous matter, 20 of non-nitrogenous
matter, 5 of mineral matter, 80 of sug-
AIRED and amylaceous matter and 4 of
fats. The Arabs of Chaambra and the
Algerian douars never fail to gather it
after dews and rains as a welcome ad-
dition to their diet and a gentle laxa-
tive.-San Francisco Chronicle.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1899-03-21

spring to and shut them off from all the
bright hopes they labored for.
A sick man cannot be happy; he cannot
accomplish the work he has to do in this
world; he loses the very money he is striv-
ing for his ambition defeats itself. Any
man who discovers that his strength and
energy are giving way has an unfailing
means of regaining his physical health and
stamina in the simple yet all-potent restor-
alive power of that wonderful Golden
Medical Discovery " originated by DR.. R. v.
Pierce, of Buffalo. N. Y, the world-famous
specialist in diseases of the nutritive or
ganism.
Among the thousands who have consulted him
by mail the case of Mr.. Newton B. Blake, of
Tiplersville, Tippah Co., Miss, as shown in the
following letter indicates the remarkable efficacy
of his treatment: I'm December 1895 my health
began to fail, I tried many different kinds of
medicines and the more I took the worse the dis
ease grew. Finally in April when l was busy
with the farm work my health got so bad that I
could not hold out to work one hour. My breath
ottentitnes would spit blood. I was unable to
work. l tried one of the doctors in the vicinity
but failed to obtain relief. / seemed to grow
worse. My father received a book from DR..
Pierce in which l read of a case similar to mine,
and decided to write to DR.. Pierce. He recon-
mended me to take his Golden Medical Discov-
cry After taking SIX bottles of this remedy I
can recommend it as one OF the best medicines
to build up the system. 1 am now enjoying
good health
Torpid liver and constipation are surely
and speedily cured by DR.. Pierce's Pleasant
Pellets. They never grippe. They regulate,
tone up and i~nvigorate the liver. stomach
and bowels. No substitute urged by mer-
cenary dealers is as good.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1899-03-21
FORESTS OF STONE.
They Exist In Various Parts of the
World.

They Exist In Various Parts of the
World.
Old forests are apt to get into the
most impossible places and to turn into
the most preposterous shapes. All our
coalfields are ancient forests far under
ground, then crushed and cooked into
a hard mineral substance. The are for
ests of plants which once grew as
mighty trees, for outside Of fairyland
who would ever imagine a majestic
woodland of club moss and reeds and
the little sand weed called the horsetaill
In Greenland, right under the ice
fields, a buried forest has been found in
which the plants were all palms and
tropical creepers, proving that once the
arctic regions were as hot as the Indies.
In the Wash, between the counties
of Lincoln and Norfolk, there is an old
forest under the sea, with stumps Of
fallen oaks and elms still visible in
places when the tide is low. This was
all dry land in the days of the ancient
Britons.
Out in the desert of Arizona there is
a dead forest IN the surface of burning
rock and drifting sand, where no plant
save the cactus can now find any wa
ter. When the place was first discover
ed, a negro cook thought it would be an
excellent place for camping, so he took
an ak and delivered a mighty blow
upon the fallen trunk of a big red pine.
His ak was ruined, the haft smashed
and his fingers go badly hurt that he
sat down and howled, for that tree
was changed to massive rock, which
looked as fresh as though felled but
yesterday. The whole PROSTATE forest
of big timber had been changed into
valuable and beautiful onyx, jasper
and agate.-Chicago Tribune.