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The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1899-05-16
Rrides and wet weather

A Breton bride rather likes to have a
wet wedding; it is held to signify that
all her tears are now shed and that she
will therefore have a happy married
life. l know of no similar belief in the
British isles.
The Era of Simbirsk call the day
before the wedding the weeping day,
and the bride and her girl friends weep
all they can, with the idea. it would
seem, of getting the mourning of life
over so that only joy may remain.
The Badagas of the N~eilgherries at
tain the same end by sousing the bride
! with water. Some Greek tribes have a
similar belief in the virtue of a drench-
ing bringing good fortune.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1899-05-16

Siamese magicians profess to be able
TO destroy your enemy for you. They
first bewitch part of a buffalo till it be-
comes as small as a pea. When your
enemy has been induced to swallow it.
they make it return to its original size,
and after suffering great agonies he
suffocates. Pigs flesh and fish are also
used. When these people die. the rea-
son can be detected, because at their
cremation some part of their body re-
fuses to burn, and when it is cut open
it contains fish or meat of some animal
A small boy died recently and was Gre
mated. A certain part of the child's
chest refused to burn, and they got it
examined and found it to be a piece of
salt porkl
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1899-05-16

The Chilean coal mines, opened in
1866, seem to be nice places to work in.
The seam of coal runs from the shore
under the waters of the Pacific ocean.
and the tunnels are SO clean that you
could walk through them in a dress
suit without making yourself dirty.
They are lighted by electricity, and you
can have a ride for a mile under the
ocean on an electric car at a speed of %
miles an hour. The mines form quite
a catacomb of well lighted passages
under the water The output of coal ii
now 1000 tons a day. and 100 miners
are employed in them.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1899-05-16
II BALkY HORSE.
A Simple scheme of tbs Motorman
That Made Him Go.

Vnat MADE Him Go.
People neal the New York entrance
Of the bridge saw a balky horse frus-
trated with delightful ease the other
day by a man who openly confessed
that he had no practical or theoretical
knowledge of horsemanship. He was
the motorman of a Fourth avenue car
bound toward the terminal at the
bridge. The horse was one of those an
gular, cockeyed, ~ungainly beasts that
no amount of currying and feeding
could make respectable.
1t had stopped square in the middle
If the track and had spread it's feet
apart as though its mind was made up
to hold the street against the world. In
a few minutes four trolley cars were
backed up behind the cart and more
were in sight down Center street. Mo
tormen, conductors, truck drivers, as
sorted citizens and a policeman stood
around and gave the usual advice. The
driver kicked the horse and two or
three men called to the policeman to
stop him. Then they in turn made hui
a suggestions about starting a fire
under the beasts stomach. A woman
said that it would be easy enough for
any one to coax him along with a lump
of sugar.
The motorman of the fifth trolley
car, which had by this time reached the
end of the blocked line, walked up and
surveyed the situation.
"Whose car is this 2" he asked, point
ing to the first car that had come up
behind the wagon to which the balky
horse was attached.
cts mine, said another motorman,
who was lingering a brass motor handle
as though he would like to brain the
horse with it.
The motorman from the rear hoisted
the cars front fender and strapped it
in place, folded against the dashboard.
"Now," he said to the motorman
who had claimed the car, s'go ahead,
very easy" Then, turning to the dis
consolately profane driver of the horse,
he said, "Get up and take hold of the
reins."
The car ran forward until the fender
reached the tailboard of the wagon.
Now" said the self appointed master
of ceremonies to his fellow motorman,
''start UP as fast as you durn please,
and don't stop until you get to the
bridge"
The car started. The wagon started.
The horse in the shafts simply had to
start. He slid and showed back for a
few inches and then broke into a help
less gallop. The al came banging along
behind, giving the horse no chance to
change his mind and balk again. The
spectators cheered. The ingenious mo-
torman looked the assembly over with
a sneer.
"sayi" he said. "sayl Some people
are dead slow, ell ?"-New York Sun.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1899-05-16
Thomas Gray.

Gray kept the elegy by him for
nine years before he gave it to the
world. He polished away at it all those
years as a lapidary polishes a gem. and
the result was he made it gem. In his
whole life he wrote comparatively lit
tie, and when asked why he had written
SO little he replied: Because of the
exertion it costs in the labor of compo-
gition."
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1899-05-16
HIGH LIFE IN Il
A Searching Criticism of the wall
dorf-Astoria and Its Habitues.

dorf-AstOria and Its HabItues.
The Waldorf-Astoria hotel is a great
temple of Mammon. You go there at
any time and the only things you hear
about are millions. You see million
aires Of all sorts, fat and lean, young
and old. You hear them, at the bar or
gathered around tables, talking t'mar-
gins" and Of trusts and of millions.
Everybody seems, around the Waldorf
at least, to be money mad. The beIlhoys
won't look at a tip less than 81. In the
cafe an egg costs as much as a square
meal. Cigars at 81 apiece are quite the
ordinary thing. You can spend a
months salary on. a dinner for four,
and wine at $15 per bottle is not at all
exorbitant.
The place is crowded all the time by
the wealthiest visitors to Manhattan
from all over the world. You are told
in awe inspiring whispers that there
are suits of rooms costing $3.50 per day.
You are shown the safe which al this
very minute holds 81, 900, 600 worth of
valuables belonging to guests. And
you'll see ~millienaires eating with their
knives, and you'll hear dowagers tell
ing their friends 81 done it, and II
seen her" Money, money, money! The
continual elevation of it is ~nauseating.
There is something sordid in all the
WaldoIf-Astoria splendor.
The atmosphere of the Waldorf-As-
toria is reeking with vulgarity and all
unhealthiness. All these m~illionaires
are nothing, after all, but a horde of
gamblers. And the women, SO far as
one sees them, seem to be oppressed by
their wealth. If there is anything more
horrible than the high Gotham life in
which every man and woman every day
is sentenced to evening dress after 8
o'clock, where is it2
A distinguished man of letters said
to me, after a view of the Waldorf-As-
toria cafe in the evening, where you
have to reserve your table in the early
afternoon, "The trouble with these
people is that they have no souls. " And
most of them haven't. They live solely
for the senses. They are to be pitied
rather than enyied.-Exchanpe
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1899-05-16
Proper Length of the Foot.

A perfectly formed foot should, &C
cording to anatomists, be as long as
that bone in the forearm which extends
from the elbow to the joint of the wrist.
This seems to be abnormally long in a
tall person. but is the measurement
taken by artists. OF course, arms are
sometimes out of proportion, being far
too short for the general height. but il
is rare that an arm is too long for the
stature of the person.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1899-05-16
THE DYING SUN.
when It's Heat Becomes Extinct, the
Earth VIII Freeze Solid.

Earth VIII Freeze Solid.
Our sun is now a yellow star similar
to Capella, and hence it will eventually
become blush white like Sirius and
Vega, says Professor T. J. j. See in
The Atlantic. The secular shrinkage of
the sun 8 radius will cause a steady rise
in Its temperature, and when the body
has reached the stage of Sirius, where
the temperature is perhaps doubled, the
light emitted will become intensely
blue. The temperature may be expected
to go IN rising till a small radius Is at
tanned, and finally, when the dense
mass, intensely hot, becomes incapable
Of further shrinkage, on account Of in
crease in the molecular forces resisting
condensation, a cooling will gradually
ensue, after which the body will liquefy
and then rapidly decline in splendor.
The sun will thenceforth be wrapped in
everlasting darkness, and the chill of
death will overtake the planetary sys-
TEN. A condition of darkness thus fol-
lows close upon a period Of intense bril-
liancy, and hence the obscurity of such
bodies as the companions Of Sirius,
Procyon and Algol. The most obscure
satellites are thus associated with some
of the brightest and most intensely lu-
minous stars in our sky, and here the
smaller of the two masses, as in the case
Of the planets of the solar system, have
developed most rapidly.
In view Of this approaching extinc-
ton Of the suns activity it becomes
q matter of interest to inquire how long
It's heat will sustain life upon the earth.
Though it is difficult to submit the sub
ject to accurate computation, it is easy
to see that the exhaustion of the suns
light and heat certainly will not occur
for several hundred thousand, and per-
haps not for several million years. Thus
the ultimate doom Of our system need
occasion no anxiety among those now
living, but the result is philosophically
interesting to those who look several
million years into the future.
As experiment has shown that the
SUMS vertical rays falling continuously
upon terrestrial ice would melt a layer
three centimeters in thickness per day,
1t follows that a similar shell Of ice
would form over the earth in case the
SUMS light and heat were cut off. Thus
in a month the whole earth wonld be
frozen like the polar regions, and only
the deeper bodies of water, containing
a great amount of heat, would remain
in a liquid state. The oceans themselves
would freeze over within a few years
at the latest. and the winds and even
the tides would cease to agitate the ter
restrial globe, which would henceforth
spin in its orbit as a rigid, lifeless mass.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1899-05-16
The supreme Test.

"You are all right, said the doctor
after he had gone through with the
regulation humping and listening with
his patient. mot a trace of heart dis
ease Fifteen dollars, p~leaseip
The patient drew a long breath and
remarked: 81 am sure now I have nc
heart disease. If I had, I should have
dropped dead when you mentioned your
fee."-Boston Commercial Bulletin.
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Not auite P-eraunded.

Eve like the idea Of simplified SPELL
ing" says the editor of the Perkins
Junction Palladium. "But we don't
think we could ever become used to
writing it: He wawkt down the lie,
leeving the trax Of his larj and muddee
yet. Chicago Tribune.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1899-05-16

Il find your political terms very puz-
zling. remarked the foreigner who
was trying to gather material for a
book on American institutions. For
example, to rotate means to move In a
circle A ring also means a circle. Now
| am told that when a ring controls
your offices they don't rotate any
more. Chicago Tribune.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1899-05-16

Malta's way Of treating rheumatism
is a trife heroic, but a generation
brought up on mustard plasters and
electricity ought not to object to it.
The patient is stripped and bees are
cordially invited to settle upon hi
body. 1t amuses the bees and cures the
rheumatism, so it seems to be a philan.
thropic system all around. The poison
in the bee stings is said to neutralizs
the acid in the blood which is response
BILE for the rheumatism.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1899-05-16
Rni.,ne duck. with5o9 water.

Ducks don't need water to thrive
There are many duck raising plants in
this country where thousands Of the
fowls are bred each year for market and
where there is not sven a puddle for
them to founder in. One Of these farms
is credited with an output Of 30. 600
ducks q year
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she Was

Afternoon Caller-Is Miss Lippitt
disengagedf
Nanette-I'm afraid SO, ma'am. |
just see her young man hurry down the
front steps with the diamond ring she's
been wearing.-Boston Traveller.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1899-05-16
Union transportation Company.

Tuckerton Railroad.
Leave Mount Holly tor Tuckerton 9.51 A. M
4-A0P. NJ, daily except Sunday, and on Sat
urday at 2.09.
Leave Tuckerton tor Mount Holly, 7.0S A. NJ,
500 P. n daily except Sunday.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1899-05-16
Feminine Features.

"While woman may have her face on
the dollar, said the cornfed philoso-
pher. looking thoughtfully at the coin,
''yet, to tell the truth, she is more apt
to have her eye on the 8S cents. In
~dianapolis Journal.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1899-05-16
aAIIs AnaIvn AND hnApY son p-IsraInurIoN:

Upper Delasare River Transportation
Company.
STEAMERS COLUMBIA AND TWILIGHT
In effect May !, 1899.
Leave Burlington for Philadelphia at 7.45 and
9.25 a. M. Returning, leave Philadelphia tst
wharf above Chestnut STU, zoo ana S.3o p. M
SUNDAYS.
Leave Burlington for Philadelphia at 9.25 and
iO.l5 i. m. and 4.45 p. m Returning, leave
PhiiadeJphia 500 a. m 200, $50 and $50 p. m.
EXCURSION 10 Philadelphia, 40c; single fare, 25c.
FIG. EDWARDS,
General Manager.
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The depth of water affects the speed
Of steamers very considerably, the YES
sells moving more slowly in shallow
than in deep water.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1899-05-16
Wnman,a Wiadom,

sselect the blue cloth, dear. and that
will make you two new dresses In the
evening it will appear green. "-Phila-
delphia Press
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1899-05-16

A European statistician has discover
ed that only So per cent Of the blends
marry, while 70 per cent of their bru-
nette sisters engage in matrimony
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1899-05-16

"What is raised mostly in damp eli
mates r. asked the teacher.
ssUmbrellas, replied Johnny.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1899-05-16

Forty tons of rust have been taken
out of the Menai iron tubular bridge at
one cleaning
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1899-05-16
EXECUTORS NOTICE.

ESTATE OF EDWIN L. PRICKETT.
Notice is hereby given that an order has
been made BY the Surrogate Of the County of
Burlington. bearing date on the 18th day of
February, A. ID. 1899, upon the application of
Cooper H.. Prickett, the subscribers, requlr-
ing the creditors OF Edwin L. Pr1ckett, de-
ceased, 10 bring in their claims against the
estate of said decedent, under oath or afirma-
ton, on or before November 18th, 1899, or they
will be debarred OF any action therefor against
the said executors.
REBEcCA B. PRIoKETT,
SAMUEL A. ATKINSON,
COOPER II. PRIcKETT,
Feb. II, 1899. Executors
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About one German woman in every
s7 works in a factory.
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Pennsylvania RAILROAD.
The Standard Railroad of Ameyica. Pro
Aected throughout BY Block Signals
and Inteyl0cking .Switches.
IN EFFECT OCTOBER 4. 1898.


Trafss seaUe Mount Holly as JoIsoys.
For Philadelphia, $50, 500, 1858. ITO. z49.
sb6. sl5s II ~ A. M, 1888. 2.33, Gao Saturday
only. ~. 5 o. 5.ls. S.25. 1850 7. N.
ro On sunday, sss Az M, l2.os. 5.Is, $50 ]. NJ.
sor femberton, 7.36, 9.26, A. M, l.45. 3 80. LAT,
6.U6, I-Zz, p. M.
vo On R%s 9r1s z lo2s 4 NJ so5 81
~, s.ls, l0l5, ll.O5. A. NJ, 1870, 800, $40. 4.47.
For East Burlington, $50. rs. 74s. s.22. $50.
s:ls, 1913. u;o5 M, 80, 800, $40. I.47, $40,
5.5s. 6.26, 7.26. s.45. 1000 T. N.
Sd5. 3.4l, 4.lO, 800, 5.s5. sos, 6.45, 7.l5. SIS,
For Lewistown. columbus. Kinkora. etc..
Las, 1882 P. NJ.
On Sundays, Cos P. M.
For LumDerton, Medford, Marion ana Had.
donneld. 9.35 A. N.
For x~incentown, 1885. sos P. M.
For I1ms5 s1Ter, g;ss, :. a. 4, ~ az, :; n. por,aoa.
For Asbury Park and Long Branch, 9.26, A. NJ,
Trains Leave for Mount Holly as JoHoaos:
From PHILADELPHIA. $50. 7.50, $50, 1000. II.2O,
30. 30. s.iio.a So So sasu1I o.sS, lob Oni !. ASO' 400
On sundays 915 a. NJ 100, 800, 1902: NJ.
From n New York. viaTrenton and Burlington,
On sundays. 1000 4. M, 100 !. M.
From Trenton, 6.45, 7.4O. 9.25, 1l.I3 A. NJ, 2.55,
3.42, i.l4.5.20, 100, 9.55 P. M.
On sundays. $40. l1.5o, A. M, 405, sos, Pm.
From East Burlington, 100, 1853, S.26, S-4s, 942,
lU.Uos iUa0s li.46 A. M, LOS, $50, 4.10, OLD. 5.5S,
$50, TOO. 7.60, $50, 1880 P. M.
On sundays, 500. 900, 1890, A. NJ, 1890, 2.35.
1000 P. M.
From Toms River, 7.4S A. NJ, 4.O2, P.M
From AsDury Park, go F. M.
From MedfOrd, l1.55 An.
From Long Branch, LOO P. NJ.
From Pemberton, (northl 6.3s. 7.28, S.33. s.55,
A. NJ, 1881, 4s07. $40 P. NJ.
On Sundays, 500 A. NJ, $50 P. M.
From PembertOn (south), 1856 A. NJ, 4.44 P. N.
From VtncentOwns $50 A. NJ, LAP P. NJ.
Medford, Marlton and Philadelphia.
Leave Medford for Philadelphia at TOO, 1907
A. M, 2.I3, 5.24, P. M.
On Sundays, z.45 A. NJ, 4.6 F. M.
Leave KarltOn for Philadelphia at TIA, 1920
A. NJ, 2.85, 5.35, P. NJ.
On Sundays, 7.59 A. NJ, 4.1S p. NJ.
Leave Philadelphia, Market Street, for Med
ford and Marion at 700, 1850, A. M $40. $50.
P. NJ.
On Sundays, S.l5A. M, $50 p. N.
Leave Marion tor MedfOrd, 81, ll.38 A. NJ,
3.56, $40, Pm.
On Sundays, 800. A. NJ, Gal P. M.
For further particulars apply to the ticket
agent at the station.
J. 3. HuToHINsos, J. R. wooD,
General Manager. Gen. Pass. Agent.
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BENZ. H. GASKILL & CO.,
BANKERS & BROKERS,
426 Walnut Street.
Phila. Pa.

Stoc ks and Bonds bought and sold on COM
mission and carried on favorable terms; de-
posts received subject to check at sight, and
interest allowed. Members Philadelphia
stock Exchange. Market letter furnished.
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Best materials always used. Pure colors,
best White Lead and Zinc and Pure Linseed
Oil. All kinds OF painting done; Sign, Orna
mental, Frescoing, Graining, Calcimining.
Glazing, &C.. Work solicited from all around.
None but competent and experienced men
employed, ana all work guaranteed.
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MYSTERIES OF SLEEP
SOME QUEER WORKINGS OF INA
TuRE's SOFT NURSE"

instances of Slumber Under ExtraOr-
binary Conditions = Why We Can
Awaken at a Set Tfme-How sleep
Is Ruled by Habit.
The times., 1899-04-07

Something very like panic in the in-
dustrial shares overlook the stock mar
ket yesterday afternoon after gradual de-
clines all day. There was fever of selling
in the last hour on thousands of stop or
ders caught and other thousands of weak
ly margined accounts that had to be closed.
The beginning and the end of the story
is apparently that the lenders of money re-
fused TO recognize the lndustrials as good
collateral and the street became frightened.
1t is the very line of circumstances that
the market critics have been warning
traders about for several weeks. When the
exciting advances in Federal Steel and
Steel and Wire and Brooklyn Rapid Transit
and Manhattan began with apparently no
break and no top, the careful people, who
were in addition sighted, began to
preach about long margins and the utmost
caution in buying stocks for fear of just
such break as has come. The e@craZe of
floating new industrial corporations during
the past six months has been unprecedent-
ed, and no man with any conservatism In
his makeup could fail TO see that the
whole fabric was weak and likely to have
tremendous shock at any time in Just the
way that this break has come. 1t is, of
course, foolish to talk of the lesson that
this slump will be, because the very large
majority of people who speculate cannot
learn. 1t may be said, however, that the
general market will be benefited certainly
by this tumble in prices. The very class
The times., 1899-04-07
MONEY STRINGEDCY
DOMINATES STOCKS
Nervousness of the (, Market
Makes Leaders Wary.
Standard Issues No Exception in
the Downward Movement.
Manhattan. BROOKLYN Rapid Transit
and the Industriais the Chief
Sufferers of the Day.

New York, April 6.-Specuative news
wholly engrossed today with continued
stringency in the money market 1t should
be said however, that the stringency was
more apparent than real, just as it was
in sense artificial. The pending syndi-
cate operations are involving and will
involve daily shifting about of loans on
call. but the position OF the New York
banks is too strong to regard the prevail
ing closeness in the money market as
altogether reasonable. On the other hand,
however, the situation is aggravated by
the current discrimination against the in
dustrial stocks as collateral, and by the
fact that these securities have become so
widely distributed in the heretofore wild
speculation that they compose consid-
cradle part of the banking resources of
commission houses. The machinery of
business has already become seriously
clogged by the bitches and delays eonse-
quent upon the difficulty that brokers
firms particularly of the smaller class.
experience in obtaining accommodation on
the stocks they are carrying for their Gus
toners on account OF the somewhat arti-
hcial condition of the money market, and
further as illustrating it it may be noted
that money was lent today simultaneously
at 6 per cent and az ~ per cent, according
to the credit and resources of the bor-
rover In short in the present nervous
state Of the market many lenders are quite
as solicitous as to the borrower as they
are to the collateral. With them il is a
question of individual credit as well as
of collateral Out of this state of things
it is certain that more wholesome market
conditions will develop even though the
sitting down process may be painful ore.
In the days stock market there was
slow liquidation throughout the day and
the demand for stocks was small even at
the material declines that appeared in
many cases. The standard stocks naturally
suffered along with the Industrial shares
and the specialties though to much
smaller extent. What Wall Street has re-
garded as the inside interests in certain
stocks did not seem disposed to come to
the rescue of their specialties, The only
rallies that occasionally relieved the mo-
notony of the decline seemed TO be ow-
ing TO the covering of short contracts. The
days dealings attained large total and in
terest was widely distributed throughout
the market.
London was not factor of any weight
in the days market As the whole market
was dominated by the single influence of
the money stringency, 1t is useless 10 par
tieularize in regard to special movements
in prices. The worst sufferers. in the
days dealings were Manhattan. Railway,
Brooklyn Rapid Transit, the industrial
stocks, and the other recent instances of
extreme imitation. Still there were sub
stantial declines in the grangers, the Pa
cifcs, and other standard issues, though
in their cases the weakness Seemed to be
wholly sympathetic with the declines else
where. The close was active and extreme
ly weak