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The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1899-02-21
Agricultural Brevities.

The secretary of agriculture in his
last report enlarges upon the need of
nature teaching in the common schools.
He says that more knowledge by the
farmer of what he deals with every day
would enable him to control conditions,
produce more from an acre, and con-
tribute more to the general welfare.
Many states are interested in the
heredity, favoring and fermentation of
tobacco, and the department of agricul-
ture has these features under research.
The division of soils is getting facts in
regard to irrigation for the benefit Of
farmers in the mountain states who are
making their lands sterile by using too
much water.
In growing lettuce under glass the
rot caused by fungus that attacks the
plant near the roots often results in loss
from crop which would otherwise
prove profitable. At the Massachusetts
station the only remedy found effective
is to spread earth that has been steril-
lied by heat around the plants and over
the surface of the beds.
In emergency sugar may be used as a
substitute, but bees wintered entirely
on sugar will not accomplish as much
the next season as those wintered on
good honey, says German apiarian.
Honey, and good honey at that, is and
always will be the most natural and
the best food for bees.
Although the potato is classed as a
potash plant" because of its large per-
centage of potash, very liberal applioa-
tions of that element have repeatedly
been shown to be injurious rather than
beneficial, according to Rhode Island
station authorities, while many in
stances could be cited Of the marked
beneficial effect of applications of solu-
BILE phosphoric acid.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1899-02-21
Dangers of Laughter.

1t is surprising to learn from the
highest medical authority in England
that laughter may be injurious.
Laughter in itself, says the British
Medical Journal, cannot very we'll kill,
but it may do harm Hysterical girls
and boys with kindred nervous affeo-
tions are often given to immoderate
laughter, which tends to increase nerv-
Gus exhaustion.
DR.. Feilchenfeld relates an instruo-
tive case in which little girl suffered
from very definite cardiac symptoms
after immoderate laughter. The patient
was IS years old and had previously
been free from any sign of heart dis
ease. After laughing on and off for
nearly an hour with some companions
she suddenly felt stabbing pains in the
chest and was seized with fits of cough
ing, followed by cardiac dyspnea, very
we'll marked. Feilchenfeld believes that
the cardiac disease directly resulted
from immoderate laughing.
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A GREAT silence fell on MS. She unused

A great silence fell on us. She mused
looking at me with strange intentness.
"Mr Wroughtnight, she said, II
have a mind to be honest with you. |
have a strong prejudice in favor of hon.
est dealing. My honesty may cost me
your good opinion, but I don't mind
that. I mean that have enough faith
in your good sense to believe that you
won't think me unwomanly and i'm
modest in saying what 1 propose to
say"
rose in great agitation.
''Miss Marsh" said, "pause, re-
fectl Don't speak yet You may save
us both much pain. p"
NONSENSE she said sharply.
was surprised and little affronted.
81 beg your pardon" said I. go
on
She futtered her fan nervously.
81 am afraid she said, 1--WE don't
quite understand one another. At least,
/ think I understand, but you don't"
I moistened my dry lips. $50 on"
said again breathlessly.
MRS. Cheedle has told you something
about met"
"No."
"Mr. CheedIe, then? Somebody"
"Yes," said l.
"What have they told you?"
I'll cannot repeat it. Miss Marsh,
let me implore you to say no more. Let
us go back"
"No, she replied. 81 will tell you
what they said. They told you that L
am-am in love with your"
"They were mistaken" 1 cried, still
willing to spare her.
eyes. they were, she responded
calmly.
gasped and leaned back in my chair
"They told me, said she. "that you
were in love with me.
A bitterness of humiliation flooded
my soul.
81 have no doubt they meant we'll,
said she.
"Oh, there is no doubt of that" I
agreed sourly.
Perhaps they thought they might
make a match between us that way
Young married couples are always the
busiest matchmakers. And really, do
you know, l think they showed some
knowledge Of poor human nature in this
instance at any rate"
She smiled. felt too sick to smile.
81 am sorry" she said, "if you feel
at all hurt by this revelation of truth. 7"
Then l saw the absurdity of my posi-
ton and summoned my sense of humor
to the rescue. 1t was not possible to re-
main insensible of Miss Marsh s mag
nificent command of her own dignity
81 was a fool, said l.
II, too" said she. "But it does not
matter now it is all over, does it? And,
anyway, nobody will know. We shall
both keep the secret inviolate, dare say,
for our honor's sake"
81 am afraid you must think me
rather conceited ass, Miss Marsh.
Don't be silly" said she. "You
thought as did"
''But with less reason, said /. bow
ing.
She looked reproachfully at me.
81 have been sincere with you, Mr.
Wroughtnight :"
"That is why Ipay you compliments.
want to restore the balance of things
We seem to understand one another
now. l think we might be friends"
said she.
She gave me her hand, and I olasped
it warmly. But whenever I recall that
absurd interview my very body bushes.
Edwin Pugh in New York World.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1899-02-21
BIRDS OF PASSAGE.

When the naples fame with crimson
And the nights are still with frost,
Ere the summers Turing beauty
Is in autumn glory lost,
Through the marshes and the forests
An imperious summons flies,
And from all the dreaming northland
The wild birds flock and rise.
From streams no oar hath rippled
And lakes that watt no sail,
From reaches vast and lonely
That know no hunters trail,
The clamor of their calling
And the whistling of their flight
Fill all the day with marvel
And with mystery the night.
AS ebb along the ocean
The great obedient tides,
So wave on wave they journey
Where an ancient wisdom guides.
Although the haze of autumn
They vanish down the wind,
With the summer world before them
And the crowding storms behind.
p. Macarthur in Youths Companion.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1899-02-21

A contributor has been amusing him
self by trying to answer the question or
series of questions, What man in the
history of the world whose name began
with A-and after that every other let
ter of the alphabet in order-exerted the
greatest influence upon the thought and
conduct of mankind?
Of course there are some letters which
are not very prolific in the names of
great men, but we think most of our
readers will be surprised to see how
many of the most illustrious names in
history are included and how few are
excluded
In some cases the compiler seems to
have selected names quite as much with
view to compromising in the list
men of many countries, as because the
name given was that of the greatest
man of his time. The list follows:
Aristotle, Baco, Confuoius, Darwin,
Ezra, Franklin, Goethe, Homer, Isaiah,
Justinian, Kant. Luther, Mohammed,
Newton, Ossian, Plato, Quintillian,
Rousseau, Shakespeare, Tasso, INLAND,
Virgil, Washington, Xavier. Young,
Zoroaster. London Globe
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1899-02-21
The LibeIous "They say

The one term ''they say is respon-
sible for nine-tenths of the lies which
repetition and familiarity finally con-
vert into seemingly bona fde evidence.
One usually hears an exciting bit of
gossip launched forth with these words,
while at the same time the speaker
adroitly shields herself by declaring that
personally she does not know it to be
true. The man or woman who thus
screens himself or herself is nothing
short of coward. Josephine Hill in
Woman's Home Companion.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1899-02-21

The counsel for the opposition had
been bullying the witness for an hour
or more, when he finally asked:
SIS it true that there are traces Of
insanity in your family p
lit would be folly to deny it, :" re-
piled the witness. my great-grandfa-
ther, who was studying for the minis
try, gave it up to become lawyer -
Ernhanna
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1899-02-21
In Extremis.

Late one night clergyman was
called out to minister to an old mana
worker upon the adjacent railway-whc
was supposed to be dying. The sum
mons was brought by another old man,
the elder brother of the stricken one.
While he was bustling about, making
preparations for departure, the clergy
man forgot momentarily the social
status of his visitor and asked, SIS he
in extremis p
The old man was not going to be
beaten. "Aye, he's right in, your rev.
erence. After a pause he added as a
clincher: "Clean in, poor chap Right
up to the neck, sir. '-Cornhin Maya
vino
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1899-02-21
The Leopard and the Pan.

One day worthy Kulu housewife
came out from her cooking and, stand
ing on the ledge of rock at her door,
emptied pan of boiling water into the
rank heritage growing below. 1t fell,
splash, on the back of sleeping leo
pard, who jumped perpendioularly into
the air as high as the roof of the hut
What might have happened next? Who
can say? But the astonished woman
dropped the pan with clang upon the
rock, and the leopard took one leap
down hill. The pan followed, and the
leopard's downward leaps became ion
ger and swifter as the pan bounded aft
er it from rock to rock
When last seen the leopard had just
achieved leap Of about $50 feet to the
very bottom of the ravine, thousands of
feet below, and the pan had whirled
about 500 feet over it on to the opposite
side. The leopard would have eaten the
old woman with pleasure, but a pan
which first scalded half the hide off
him and then bounded changing in his
wake from the top of the Himalayas to
the plains below was something which
he could not face. Good Words.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1899-02-21
Defending Ills prnfeasinn.

Nov" said the attorney for the de-
Tense, 'let us take up the bill present
ed by the plaintiff in this case for al
legged services rendered to my client.
say alleged services, gentlemen of the
jury, because these figures show every
indication of having been doctored.
Would it not be better to say law
yered?' asked an indignant physician
who was serving as one of the jurors. =
Chicago Tribune.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1899-02-21

The Successful X ,me dy For Nasal Catarrh
must be Irritating, easy of applica-
ton, and one that will by its own action
reach the infamed and diseased surfaces.
ELY'S CREAM BALM combines the
important REQUESTS of quick action and
specific curative powers with perfect safe
ty to the patient. This agreeable remedy
has mastered catarrh as nothing else has,
and both physicians and patients freely
concede this fact. All druggists cheer
fully acknowledge that in it the acme of
Pharmaceutical skill has been reached.
The most distressing symptoms quickly
yield to it. In acute cases the balm i'm
parts almost instant relief.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1899-02-21
A conGderate Lover.

Parent-Of course, as my daughter
is of age, she can suit herself as to mar
rying you, but the day she does 1 will
cut her off without penny.
Suitor (after pause)-Well, under
those circumstances, sir, we will break
our engagement. l could not think OF
depriving young lady of her inherit
ance. Harlem Life.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1899-02-21
scot1and,s STRANGE RIrdn.

From the small island of st. Kilda,
off Scotland, 10000 young gannets and
an immense number of eggs are annual
ly collected, and although this bird lays
only one egg per annum and is four
years in obtaining its maturity its num-
bers do not diminish Obviously such
birds must reach a great age, or they
would long ago have been exterminated
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1899-02-21
A Useless wish.

"Oh. sighed the poetic lady, chad
I the wings of birdl'
''Don'tp' protested her husband
''Don wish for the wings of bird. If
you had them, some other woman
would probably be wearing them on her
hat before the season is over. Wash
ington Star.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1899-02-21
The sickle of the sphinx.

The Oldest piece of wrought iron in
existence is believed to be a roughly
fashioned sickle blade found by Belzoni
in Karmas, near Thebes. It was i'm
bedded in mortar under the base of the
sphinx, and on that account is known
as 1.-THE sickle of the sphinx. 1t is
now in the British museum and is be-
lieved to be nearly 1000 years old
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1899-02-21
Killing Corn.

After careful experiment, we believe
that killing is injurious to corn. We
have proved to our entire satisfaction
that which is hilled will blow down
more readily than that which has level
culture. This can be accounted for by
the fact that corn roots run very near
the surface and when hills are made
they are largely confined to the small
space covered by the hill; while in
level culture the roots run from one
row to the other, thus enabling the corn
to stand strong, as nature intended, and
in no way liable to be blown down ex-
cept by winds of unusual Violence
Ohio Farmer.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1899-02-21
Current Literature,

"You are preparing a new edition of
your popular novel. said the caller.
81 am, replied the novelist.
"Well, l have proposition by which
we may both make money. Where you
say, She glued her lips to his, why
not add, using Stycker's celebrated
gluer Philadelphia North Ameri-
can.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1899-02-21

Is at all times to attend to the comforts of
your family. Should anyone of them
catch slight cold or cough, call at once
on Wells & Son, Columbus; E. D. Prick
lit, Mount Holly; W. C. Jones, New Egypt;
Edw. W. Rossell, Pemberton, and ]. H.
Leeds, Rancocas, sole agents, and get a
trial bottle of Otto Cure, the great Ger
man remedy, free. We give it away to
prove that we have sure cure for coughs
colds, asthma, consumption, and all dis
eases of the throat and lungs. Large sizes
SOC. and 25c.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1899-02-21
Juvenile Diplomacy.

Mother gave each of you boys an
orange. Charlie, you said you wouldn t
eat yours until after dinner. And you,
Jack, said the same. Have you deceived
mel
Charlie-No, mother; we didn't eat
our own oranges. 1 ate Jacks and he
ate mine.-Sydney Town and Country
.Tournal
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1899-02-21

Mandy, said Farmer Corntossel,
who had been reading the back pages
of a magazine, "ef cannon ball goin
at the rate of go miles an hour was
shot from the back of train goin go
miles an hour, where would the cannon
ball light3''
81 dunno exactly where 'twould
light, - she answered, "but kin proph-
esq that it I'D do lot O. damage II
couldn't hit nowheres without hurtin
lot O people that was standin around
without anything better to do than
speckle-ate on jes' sech doin's. Wash
ington Star.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1899-02-21


Catarrhal sufferers should remember
that Ely's Cream Balm is the only ca
tarrh remedy which is quickly and thor
oughly absorbed by the diseased mem
brane. 1t does not dry up the secretions,
but changes them to limpid and odor-
less condition, and finally to natural and
healthy character.
The Balm can be found at any drug
store, or by sending so cents to Ely Broth
ers 56 Warren St., New York, it will be
mailed.
Full directions with each package
Cream Balm opens and cleanses the
nasal passages, allays Inflammation, there
by stopping pain in the head heals and
protects the membrane and restores the
senses of taste and smell. The Balm is
applied directly into the nostrils.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1899-02-21

Nowadays when women are trying to
do everything it is not strange that many
things are over-done. 1t is not strange
that there are all kinds of physical and
mental disturbances If the woman who
is doctor, or lawyer or a journalist, or
in business would not try to be society
woman too it might be different; but the
woman who knows when she has done a
days work has yet to be born. Usually a
woman's way is to keep doing until she
drops. Working in this way has mani
fold evils. The most common trouble re-
sulting from over-exertion, either mental
ly or physically, is constipation of the
bowels, with all its attendant horrors.
DR.. Pierces Pleasant Pellets are the
most effectual remedy in the market
They work upon the system easily, nat
urally. There is no unpleasant nausea af-
ter taking them No gripping pain
no discomfort. They are composed of
materials that go through the system
gradually, collecting all impurities and,
like the good little servants that they are,
disposing of them effectually.
Coma oao,,1o ro4 ON q I'D H.,
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1899-02-21
To Be Avoided.

Mrs De Souri, want you to keep
your dog out of my house It's full Of
feas.
Mrs. De Smart-Mercy on mel Fido,
come here, sirl Don't you go into that
house again It's full of feas. Jewish
Comment
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1899-02-21
You Should Know

What Hoods Sarsaparilla has power to
do for those who have impure and i'm
poverished blood, 1t makes the blood
rich and pure, and cures scrofula salt
rheum, dyspepsia, catarrh, rheumatism
nervousness If you are troubled with
any ailment caused or promoted by i'm
pure blood, take Hoods Sarsaparilla at
once
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1899-02-21
Remarkable vane.

On the roof of brewery at Maid,
stone. Kent. is to be seen one of the
most remarkable vanes in England It
represents an old brown jug and glass.
The jug, which is made of copper,
stands feet inches in height and is
3 feet in diameter and capable of hold
ing 10S gallons.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1899-02-21

hourished bile-poisoned constitution If
man as soon as he feels that he is not get
ting the forcefu1 strength and energy out
of his food that he ought to, will begin tax
ing Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery,
he will soon put himself in the position
where he can do mans work easily and
cheerfully.
His appetite will be sharpened; his liver
invigorated; his digestion strengthened; an
edge put on his whole nutritive organism.
Those subtle poisons which debilitate the
entire organism and invite consumption
and host of other diseases, will be driven
out of the system; and he will gain plenty
of pure nourishing red blood, muscle
power and nerve-force. In short he will
be man among men.
There are hundreds of delusive temporary
stinlulants, malt extracts" sarsaparillas and
compounds, which are more or less doomed -"
by merely proht-seeking druggists; but an hon
est druggist will give you the Golden Medical
Discovery" when you ask for it. If well-in-
formed, he knows that its sales have steadily
increased for thirty years and that it is the in.
vention of educated, authorized physician
who has devoted a lifetime of active practice
and profound study to chronic diseases.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1899-02-21
The Honeymoon.

An early Anglo-Saxon custom, strict
ly followed by newly married couples,
was that of drinking diluted honey for
80 days after marriage. From this Gus
tom comes the word honeymoon or hon
eymonth.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1899-02-21
Love at First Sight.

do you believe in love at first
sight ?" she asked.
''Of course, " answered the savage
bachelor. "Do you suppose, if a man
had the gift of second sight, he would
fall in lover Cincinnati Enquirer.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1899-02-21

remedy recommended tor patients affiict-
ed with the Grippe is Kemp's Balsam. which
is especially adapted to diseases o the throat
and lungs. Do not wait for the first symptoms
of the disease. but get bottle to-day ana
keep IL on hand tor use the moment it is need
ed. 1t neglected the grippe has tendency to
this by keeping the cough loose. All drug.
gists sell the Balsam.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1899-02-21
Merely Guean.

why do they call it the matrimonial
yoke, wonder7''
Because there is generally calf at
one end of it. guess. Cleveland
Leader
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1899-02-21

Persons who don't know enough co
come in out of the wet are not likely to
be the salt of the earth for any length
If time. Detroit Journal
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Does Coffee Agree with You ?

1T not, drink Gra1n-O = made from pure
grains. lady writes "rhe first time made
Grain-O l did not like it but after using 1t tor
one week nothing would induce me to 90 back
to coffee" II nourishes and feeds the system
The children can drink 1t freely with great
benefit. 1t is the strengthening substance OF
pure grains. Get package to-day from your
grocer. l5c. and 25c.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1899-02-21

81 understand she married him ore
form him. =
THAT was it. And she did the job so
thoroughly that now he doesn't like
the kind of woman he liked when he
married her and is trying to get di-
vorce. Cincinnati Enquirer.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1899-02-21

A well known professor says that
over a large area of central Russia the
magnetic needle does not point north
or south. 1t is in one part DETECTED to
the west, and at another part to the
east, and at one place it points due east
and west.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1899-02-21

Many man. once said Phillips
Brooks, ''can say, L did the things nv
father told me, but the man | am nv
mother made me-
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1899-02-21

DE trouble wifi some men dat knows
heap, said Uncle. Eben, sis dat dew
hab sech positive way O telIin it dat
dey makes folks too mad to listen. -
Washington Star.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1899-02-21

Shake into your shoes Aliens Foot Eas e, Il
powder 1t cures Corns Bunions, ChiIblains
gists and shoe stores, Csc. Sample FREE
Address Allen s. Olmsted, Leroy, N. Y.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1899-02-21
Many School Children are sickly.

Mother Gray's Sweet Powders for Children
used ty Mother Gray, nurse in ChiIdren's
Home, New York, break up colds in 81 hours
cura feverishness. headache, stomach trou bles
teething disorders, and destroy worms Al
all druggists 25c. Sample mailed FREE
Address, Allen S. Olmsted, Leroy, NY.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1899-02-21

In these days, the gods have way OF
going out between the acts to get theil
nectar.