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Mexico Missouri message., 1900-09-27
ADVICE TO "
" SLAVES

Julian Hawthorne is telling in
the Hearst papers, says Appeal
to Reason, how miners live on
80 cents day and other writer's
are telling the working people
how they may live on less. |
think it would be much better if
their addresses were directed to
telling the SINNERS of labor
how they could and should live
on less than the millions they
spend annually in ignorant os-
tcntation and extravaganza.
Men can live on Il very small
amount, can do without nearly
all the good things of life, but
if all did this the factories would
close for want of patrons, the
progress of the world would be
stopped. OF what use is pro-
gresS if it does not benefit the
race? | know what it is to live
on few pennies n day. | have
Il diary that | kept when Il boy
and it shows that my mother
and | lived a month on s. 10
not only food but all other
things.
1t is not good, and those who
advocate such II condition, who
tell the people they should try
to so live that masters could
have so much more to waste and
buy titled snobs for their daugh-
tiers, are not friends of the race.
Let them try it for years out of
necessity. 1t is all very well as
a fad for a few months, espe-
cially when they do not have to
so live, but let them put them
selves i'll the places of these
miners and sweat-shop victims
of poverty, and try it under
those conditions.
1t makes me tired to read
these adviccs to the working
classes by those who live in fine
houses, who do no manual la
Dor that requires much food
fuel to keep the body alive.
They are enemies of the race,
ignorant of it tho they may be.
We should all see how well
we can live-nOt. how mean.
That is what machinery is for.
If machinery will not benefit all
then machinery is a failure and
no good. The less the working
classes will learn to live on the
more of their products will go
to the useless rich leeches of So
ciety. Life is not existent for
the purpose of seeing how much
we can make off our fellows.
Poor indeed would be the plan
of creation if such were the case.
If such were true it were better
that the race cease to exist. a.
way with your five and ten
cents Il day living for the work
crS who make all the wealth,
while the drones live in n style
that costs millions II year and
produce not the value of one
meal. That men are told they
have Il full dinner pail and for
that reason they should vote to
uphold the industrial robbery
/ that puts millions of full dinner
pals in the possession of Il sin
gle family! Let the rich take
the advice they hire writer's to
give to the poor and see what it
is like.
Mexico Missouri message., 1900-09-27

and industry and everything is
clean and beautiful. Plenty of
money, plenty to eat, plenty to
wear, everybody wcll-drcsscd and
more children than we ever saw in
Il place of the same size, all well
clad and in Sunday school, and as
bright and intelligent looking as
you might find anywhere. Our
hearts were made glad to meet with
so many bright faces on last Sun
day in Sunday school, but we dis
covered the same feature existing
here as at home in Missouri; the
parents were absent largely, not
enough to teach the little minds
that were eager to learn.
Many time our minds have been
caused to revert back to our boy
hood days when we met in Sunday
school in the old country church
by the roadside, parent and child
side by side, eager to learn about
Jesus. Those days the parent
said "come;" today they say "go."
BE not deceived; God is not mock
ed; whatsoever man sows that
shall he also reap. The message
will surely come; depart, ye
workers of iniquity, | never knew
you, because You spurned me. "
Those who taught us in an early
day of the beautiful world aud led
exemplary lives, live and shine in
our hearts today as they live and
shine in eternity.
There is quite a feature in this
country which | consider quite
Il redecming one and very crafty
ing, and that is a large Mckinley
element, which was unexpected, as
it is II mining country. But it is
possible in campaign times to be
wrongly impressed thru the Press.
The political feeling here seems to
speak in favor of their present con
/ ditiOn and the present administra-
ton. We cannot look upon Il
change with the least degree of al
lowancc. Too many soldiers who
made targets of themselves to Sus-
tain this Government had their
pensions stopped, and too many
tramps during the Cleveland adj
miniStration. \ man can get work
in this country with good pay by
asking for it.
Well, Mr.. Editor, this letter is
considerably mixed up, but if it
should find the waste basket we
won't "kick" at all.
We learn, since writing the a.
bove, that some of the mill boys
went out Saturday night and camp
ed on the mountain known us void
Balda," and Sunday morning IL
bout 6 o'clock shot a female bear
weighing $50 lbs, which is the
second best shot since our arrival.
Last night our rest was some
what disturbed by the screams of
a mountain lion which was cours-
ing its way along the side of the
mountain, followed by a huge
trailing hound, passing near our
row of dwellings.
ID. M. PRICE.
Mexico Missouri message., 1900-09-27
Audrail Circuit Court Docket

AQuIdln GlICull GUuIlDUCKHl.
TENTH DAY, THURSDAY, SEPT. ~.
Bank Morgan Go vs. a 5 Smith.
f w Nelson VS. Bryson & Tan
dy.
Lcathc Evans ct al vs. Mary Cline
ct al.
Thomas Crawford ct al VS. Mary
Bolts ct al.
G b Nardeman application for
license to practice law.
VIM Armstrong VS. Mary NJ
Crooks.
Laura Atkinson vs. j NJ Akin
son ct al.
ELEVENTH DAY, FRIDAY, SEPT. 2S.
Geo Robertson VS. G V Mans.
field.
James NJ Beagles VS. Mary Bea.
giles.
Reid Murdoch & Co VS. f Mer-
curio ct al, Thuringia ms Co.,
Garnishee.
National Biscuit Co VS. f Mer-
curio ct al Thuringia ms Co Gar
nishee.
Cudahy Packing Co VS. f Mer.
curio ct al Thuringia ms Co Gar
nishee.
Southern Bank VS. + Mercurio ct
al Thuringia ms Co., Garnishee.
Alexander Mudd VS. Mary 4
Sturgeon ct al.
TWELFTH DAY, SATURDAY, SEPT. %.
II NJ billiard ct al VS. Susie Muil
ct al.
+ l. Gregory Respondent vs. j
NJ Beagles ct al Appellants.
State cx rel Mcrcurio VS. II }
Muir ct al.
Lafayette Yeates vs. Anna r M
Yeatcs.
THIRTEENTH DAY, MONDAY, OCT. !
Harry Atchison VS. Chicago &
Alton r Il Co.
J w Edwards vs. Chicago & Al.
ton r II Co.
Ira Spratt vs. Estate A ID Spratt
J b Armstrong vs. Gather Bcr-
ry.
FOURTEENTH DAY, TUESDAY, OCT. >
John Cheney vs. the La and Nc
River II Il Co.
+ ID Alexander vs. VIM Clanton
j l. White vs. VIM Newkirk.
Giles Palmer VS. Chicago 4 Al.
ton II Il Co.
w Y Mcdonald VS. Thomas Cox
FIFTEENTH DAY, WE'D, OCT. J.
II Sims VS. Wabash X II Co.
w J Long VS. II f German ct al
City of Mexico VS. Julia Cook.
j T lnman 4 Co vs. Pitcher
Jewelry Co.
RETURN DOCKET.
Daisy Armstrong vs. A q Arm.
strong.
Michael Dugan VS. James Finn
Mexico Missouri message., 1900-09-27
THURSDAY, SEPT. 81, 1900
THE FALSE GOD y
" PATRIOTISM.

The greatest crimes that have
cursed the world have been com
mitted in the name of three So
called sacred things-family hon
or, religion and patriotism. Think
of all the family feuds, all the tribe
wars, all the hatred of man for
man-nOt because of any reason
for the hatred, but because some
stream or mountain or some jine
drawn on the earth separated their
dwelling places, which made them
of different nations. There is no
such thing as christian patriot
ISM" Patriotism is always devil
ish. National selfishness" is ad-
mitted to be the best definition of
patriotism ever given. No one
can love the people of his own ma
ton simply because they are of
his own nation better than those
of another nation and he II Chris
tian. 1t may be duty to resist
oppression, not because we love
the people of our own country bet
ter than those of another, but be-
cause we love the right better than
the wrong.
A person cannot be born over a
larger extent of territory now than
in former times, yet he is supposed
to bring with him or develop after
he gets here, enough "love of ma
tive land' to spread over at least
one hundred times the territory
that he was required to so cover n
few hundred years ago. The
whole thing is u farce and II curse
to the race.
Nearly all the ideas and princi-
pies which govern our lives, and
our principles of right and wrong,
also, to large extent, were pro-
mulgated to secure some advantage
for one class over some other.
Natural affection was invented to
make each man faithful to the
head of his tribe; patriotism was
invented so men would blindly fol-
low king to Cypress their fellow
men.
Ever since the dawn of nations
it has been invoked to induce men
to fight other men who had never
wronged them. Today the worship
of this false god is leading on
thousands of Englishmcn to shoot
other thousands in Africa, against
whom they have not the slightest
ill-will; and some 10000 Ameri-
cans are hunting to the death Il
few poor half-civlized Filipinos
who never thought of injuring
them.
A remarkable illustration of the
expansive qualities of patriotism
and the very large extent of the
earth's surface over which a man
can be born so as to include it in
his "native country" is afforded
by the enthusiasm with which
troops from Canada and Australia
hocked to the English standard in
Africa.
There is one consolation for hui
mainly in all this wrong. The
present trend of events is cOntinu-
ally charging the extent of terri
tory over which each child can cX-
tend, or spread its birth and pat
riotism, and is lessening those an
tagonisms which are not SO much
in mans nature itself rs in those
false teachings which make them
out to be both natural and IL sacred
duty.
SO often are the worst traits of
man character the outgrowth of
wicked teaching rather than of
wicked nature. There is some
truth in the anarchist doctrine that
1.-THE laws to secure right are so
often based on wrong that they be-
come the producers of wrong"
II. :.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1900-05-29
A QUEER OCCUPATION.
Gathering the Down of Cattails In
the Jersey Meadows.

Gathering the Down of Cattatls In
the Jersey Meadows.
One of the queerest industries has
grown I'D on the Hackensack meadows,
an otherwise apparently useless bog
upon which it is unsafe for man or
beast to venture. In the summer GER
tain parts of the meadows are covered
with dense growth of cattails. They
grow particularly rank and large.
Sometimes the tail, or furry part, Is
foot or more long and thick in proper
ton. The light, furry down is long
and soft, bearing close resemblance
to down when first taken from the
stalk.
Certain people always more or less
quick to see the advantages of a waste
product have begun gathering the seed
down from cattails and are making 1t
a considerable business. Just before
the ice is gone in the spring is the
time selected. Provided with large
sack in which to store the feathery
products, the gatherer goes about
among the tall flags, pulls off the down,
deposits 1t in his sack and takes it
home. 1t Is not particularly pleasant
piece of work, because the little bits OF
down fly all over one, getting In the
eyes, the nose, the mouth and ears, and
completely cover ones clothing. But
it furnishes work, and men and women
do it
1t is taken from the sack, carefully
spread where 1t will dry thoroughly,
and it is then ready to be used in pill
lows or wherever else genuine animal
down is advisable. 1t doesn't last long,
because it's fibers lack elasticity, but
for a time the pillow will be as soft as
any.
Those who gather it make reasona-
bly, fair pay at it, though hardly enough
when the danger and the disagreeable
character of the work are considered
New York Commercial Advertiser.
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THE HOSPITAL DOCTOR.
why He Did Not Visit the Patient
Who Was Dying.

VINO was Dying.
Hospital doctors were under discus
sion. Every man in the party had had
hospital experience at some time or
another, and each had good word for
his particular doctor when the dis
cordant man came in. 81 tell you what
it is" said he; "there are some mighty
cold blooded men among them. l was
in one of the big hospitals not long
ago, visiting a doctor friend of mine.
1t was night and there was not much
going on. There were four or five doc
tors besides my friend around, and
some one suggested game of poker.
eve hadn't been playing long when
nurse knocked at the door and said,
Doctor, I think the patient in No. 8 Is
dying; won't you come DOWN. Yes,
right away said the doctor. I'll draw
three cards. He filled his hand and
played it, and he kept right on playing
for about Is minutes, when there came
another knock at the door and the
nurse said: Really, doctor, that mans
condition is very serious. know he's
dying; won't you conner The doctor
said: Yes, yes; oh, l forgot. In De
there in just minute-Pl raise you
quarter, doc
"Well, he played that hand out and
the next one, and then he said he
guessed he'd go see the patient. The
nurse met him. half way down the
stairs and told him the man was dead.
Now, what do you think of that?'
"Well, they get hardened, they see SO
much suffering" said one of the party
alphabetically.
eff he'd gone when he was first call
ed, he probably couldn't have done
anything to save the mans life" said
the second.
eyes," said the discordant man, "but
Just as a matter of form he might have
quit after he filled that first hand"
HE might" assented all the party.
'sBut the man was going to die any
Way."-New York Sun.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1900-05-29
The Soldier and His Heart.

Very few soldiers who have seen
much service escape what is called
battle heart.
The ordinary state of the heart in
healthy people is one of irritability,
but in the soldier of five or six years
service the irritability is so great that
it constantly affects his temper.
The soldier wears such tight clothing
that his heart has not room to beat
freely, and the perpetual struggle to
do it's work under difficulties Injuries
it. The soldiers trousers are tight at
the waist His coat Is buttoned as
tightly as possible and very often he
squeezes himself with belt.
Then when on the march his chest
is compressed by the weight Of his
knapsack, canteen, great coat and
heavy cartridge belt.
If you watch a company of soldiers
when they are doing a long march,
you will observe that most of them
have flushed faces, red ears, red noses,
swollen necks-showing that the heart
Is greatly overtaxed. Some, on the
other hand, are pale, which proves that
their hearts are not equal to the work
thrown on them.
When, after a very long march, the
men have to deploy into fighting order,
and perhaps rush hill, a very large
number break down altogether. Their
oyerstrained hearts never become
really strong and healthy again
Answers.
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The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1900-05-29

The dog catcher is not the only per
son in the city who is sincerely hated
by both man and animal. There is a
cat catcher as well, and he comes In
for his full share of antipathy. He
makes a living at the business, and a
very good one, it is said. Few are
aware of the fact that pussy's fur is a
very desirable article of commerce.
There are any number of dealers in
this city who are glad to pay all the
way from so cents to 81 for a cats
skin, according to size and quality.
The method of catching the unsuspect-
ing cat is particularly mean one. 1t
Is a well established fact that cats
are very fond of catnip and will troop
after man who carries bundle of it.
This greed leads to the undoing of
pussy, who will come to a stand If a
bit of the herb is thrown on the ground
and Is thus made an easy prey. A bag
and a chloroformed sponge do the rest,
and many a household pet, the disap-
pearance of which caused sorrow, can
be accounted for in this way.-Phila-
delphia Press.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1900-05-29
To Mothers in this Town.

Every town and city makes it's mari
that is, its postmark.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1900-05-29

The Southern Railway announces that
the total eclipse of the sun, May 28th,
1900, will be visible at various points along
its line in Alabama, Georgia, the Carolinas
and Virginia. For this occasion rate OF
four cents per mile, one way for the round
trip will be made, for parties of ten or
more, travelling together on one ticket,
short line distance to govern in computing
rates.
Specific advice of movements will have
to be given in advance in order to get au-
thority for the dates of sale. the limit of
tickets and the poin is to which it is desired
that they be sold
For further information apply to Chas.
L. Hopkins, district Passenger Agent.
Southern Railway, 828 Chestnut ST., Phil
adelphia
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1900-05-29
Cut Their Sentences short.

Many people In every walk of life
and particularly travelling men, seem
to have a craze for abbreviation. On
almost every page of the hotel register
may be found some unique freak of
abbreviation.
Two authorizations that have been
noticed are ok O." and ~. o." Any
where but In the residence column of a
hotel register they would be very puz-
zling. OF course it is easy to under
stand that the co." means Ohio, and as
there is but one town in that state that
begins with a." GAINESVILLE, and but
one the name of which begins with
OK" Xenia, 1t Is easy to understand
the authorizations, and they save lot
of time and ink.
''11worth" is not so easy to under
stand perhaps, but when kansas" is
written after it is easier. Another
puzzling. abbreviation is 49," but
when it is Chattanooga, TO-" it is not
hard to read. Columbus is usually
written "Cols." and Chicago "Cgo."
The final "h" in the old fashioned way
of spelling Pittsburg, which has been
almost entirely dropped elsewhere, is
usually used in the abbreviation which
most Pittsburgers write ("Pgh.' y nowo-
days.-Chicago Chronicle.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1900-05-29
A WHITE PATH.
HIS PROPOSAL.

She knew he loved her By each glance,
Though he'd not spoken;
His hands quick pressure in the dance,
Each flower and token.
She waited for the story old
As she had read it,
But though his eyes the legend told
He never said It'll
He sang to her in verses sweet,
His accents sued her;
He played the banjo at her feet,
In ragtime wooed her;
On smooth yacht decks all golden glow,
Where starlight blended,
Till she began to think him slow
As well as splendid
She led him into quiet hooks,
On stairs, demurely,
Where lights were low and tender looks
Might pass securely,
And when the band throbbed some deep hymn
Or old song story
She steered him gently for the dim
Conservatory
But in a crowded cable car
One rainy morning
They rode with many jolt and jar,
The weather scorning,
Till swerving round curve she leaned
Against his shoulder,
And safely by her big hat screened
Twas then he told her
Kate Masterson in Saturday Evening Post.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1900-05-29
THE MAN WITH A CLAIM.

A Pathetic Figure Who Is Regularly
Snubbed at Town Meetings.
The most pathetic figure at town
meeting is the man with a claim. The
man who has the claim or grievance
goes to the selectmen each spring and
has them put an article in the warrant
bringing this matter up. Some years
he goes into town meeting himself and
urges his claim In other years for
the sake of variety he will hire some of
the local lawyers to present the matter
in the best manner possible. Usually
the man is listened to, though the
whole thing is horribly familiar to ev-
cry voter in the town.
Then, when all the oratory has been
spilled into their ears. some long cared
man from the back districts will rise
and will drawl with grin:
"Move we pass over that article, y
and forthwith the article is passed
over with a whoop. And the man is
around next year as usual. 1t is a curl
GUS thing, but the average town ap-
pears always ready to repudiate these
matters of long standing. 1 have heard
voters admit that certain claims
against their town were perfectly legit-
innate and perhaps ought to be paid,
but they are of the coterie that regu-
larly votes against granting the ap-
peal of the petitioners.
Why?
Oh, well, it's ian old matter" and
the town is irritated by the persistence
of the man who keeps coming to claim
his own. When town gets set in that
direction, there is no reputation so
heartless and so constituencies as that
which marks it's action. You see, the
blame is so equally divided. Refusing
to pay honest debts is treated as a
joke. Even the man who at last with
awakened conscience gets up and urges
his fellow citizens to do the right thing
and pay the bill is smiled away as a
chap that means well, but doesn't
know what he is talking about-Lew-
iston Journal.
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That fellow in the moon is not the only
man who gets under cloud.

Charles Sturgeon once said that there
were three great enemies to man" dirt,
debt and the devil" He might have
added one more and included dyspepsia.
The evil results of this disease could hard
ly be exaggerated. It's effects are felt in
mind and body. and are as far reaching as
the effects of the curse that was laid on
the Jackdaw of Rheims which was cursed
in eating and drinking and sleeping, in
standing and sitting and lying" The
good effects of Dr. Pierce's Golden Med
ical Discovery are most marked in aggra-
waited and chronic cases of dyspepsia. 1t
enables the stomach glands to secrete the
necessary quantity of digestive fluids,
and this at once removes that craving or
gnawing sensation so common to certain
forms of indigestion. 1t tones and reg
ulates the stomach, invigorates the torpid
liver and gives the blood making glands
keen assimilative power. Golden Medical
Discovery cures ninety eight per cent of
those who use it. DR.. Pierce's Pleasant
Pellets are superior to all other laxative
medicines when the bowels are obstructed1
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1900-05-29

at all times to attend to the comforts of
your family. Should anyone of them
catch a 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 J. 81.
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
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Away with em-trunks.


Penny Saved is a Penny Earned.
Economy is the lesson taught by this
saying. 1t is true economy to take Hoods
Sarsaparilla at this season because it pur-
ifies, enriches and vitalizes the blood and
thus prevents sickness and puts the whole
system in state of health for the coming
season. Every bottle of Hoods Sarsapar-
lila contains 100 doses positive proof
that it is economy to take only Hoods.
Constipation is cured by Hoods Pills.
05o
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1900-05-29
Man and His Mother-in-law.

Much has been written about the
mother-in-law, nearly all of 1t in COM
planning jest. In all of the fippant
literature on this subject there is only
one point worthy of consideration
that the writer's, almost invariably
men, have never tried to veil their in
sincerity. This is tribute from man,
even in his most playful moods, to the
substantial worth of his mother-in-law.
New York Sun.