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The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1901-01-29
AuTocRAT OF THE PAPER.
The Composing Room FOrems
When the Edition Is Going to Pres

The Composing Room Foreman
When the Edition Is Going to Press.
If the newspaper Office were surround
ed by an invading army or fercely bonn
barded, the autocrat of the composing
room would insist on the locking up OF
the forms and the stereotyping of the
pages as usual. There is no limit to his
devotion to duty. One night, for in
stance, in a provincial newspaper office,
the composing room was suddenly en-
veloped in smoke, and there was the cry
of "Firer'
''Fire or no fire we must get to press, y
snarled the overseer, giving out late
telegram to the compositor out of copy
at the desk side.
The type was brought, galley after
galley, pushed upon the imposing stones,
arranged in pages and screwed into the
forms ready for transit to the foundry.
Meantime evidence was abundant that
the adjacent building was in flames. The
smoke became denser. Outside the Office
there was the shout of people, the clatter
of horses feet, the rattle of fire engines;
inside the heavy tread of fremen on the
stairs, the bursting open of the compos-
ing room door and the hurried entrance
of two members of the fire brigade drag
ging hose pipe.
The overseer, glazing at the intruders,
sprang from his seat bubbling with in
dignation and shouted: Here, you fell
lowsi What the mischief are you do
ingY'
"We are-taking the hose through-to
play on the burning building" jerked out
one Of the firemen, astounded at the over
seer's belligerent attitude.
'HThen go and play somewhere else!'
hoarsely exclaimed the overseer, trying
to shoulder them out of the room.
"But the place is on irew exclaimed
the men in amazement.
81 don't care if the whole city's on
fire-we must get to press!" roared the
overseer. And he did, though the first
edition had narrow squeak of publica-
ton, for the office windows blurred and
cracked with heat, and the composing
room was deluged with water.-Good
VVordc
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mother is a barrier of reserve. Just
a word of ADVICE or counsel might
mean so much a girl at time so crit
ical, but she shrinks from asking the
question, and the mother refrains from
opening the subject, though in the pal
lid cheeks and dark trimmed eyes she
reads the signs of woman's suffering.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1901-01-29
TOLD OF MARCUS DAILY.
Am Anecdste Which Illustrates VIII
He Was So Popular.

he was 80 FOpuA8Es
81 knew the late Marcus DAILY fairly
WELL said a western man, "and l can
bear testimony to the blunt kindness
that made him so wonderfully popular
among the rough miners of northern
Montana He was a merciless bargain
driver and seemed to take a sportsman
like pleasure in the pursuit of money;
but, once secured, he would give it away
as prodigally as a prince. recall lit
tie incident that illustrates both phases
of his character.
"In 1889, or thereabout, very decent
sort of fellow who was running grocery
store in Butte City got in hard lines
financially through no fault of his own
and found it would be necessary to raise
about $1,000 to tide him over the crisis.
He asked bank in which Mr.. DAILY was
a director to discount his note for that
amount and offered mining stock as col
lateral. The application was considered
by the officials and favorably passed up
on, when DAILY happened in and prompt
ly turned it down. He declared the
chances were decidedly against the note
being paid and that the stock was GER
tain to depreciate before the paper ma
tured.
"The story Of his interference was re-
lated to the grocer by a friend on the
board of directors, and naturally he was
deeply imbittered. He declared that Da-
ly had gone out Of his way to ruin him
and cursed him high and low as heart
less old rascal.
"a few days later DAILY himself drop
ped in at the store. I hear you're hard
up, my boy said he. What's the situa-
ton, in few words? The grocer told
him, rather sullenly, about how he stood.
That's all right said DAILY. I had to
throw out your note the other day, be-
cause make it rule not to let the bank
take risky paper, but I'll tell you what
I'll do. I'll give you my personal check
for the amount and put your note in my
safe. If you can't take it up when it falls
due you can make out another one The
grocer was so surprised he could hardly
express his thanks, and incidentally he
mentioned the collateral. oh, hang the
collateraly said DAILY. I amt doing this
as a business proposition. I just don't
want to see a good, hardworking fellow
like you go under
Gas he predicted the stock went to
zero, but the grocer pulled through after
twice renewing his note. DAILY did lots of
things of that kind. They account for the
hold he had on the people. "-Exchange.
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"In many of New York city's blocks, y
says statistician, there are as many
as $500 persons gathered together, and
in one space of four blocks 500 by 1,50O
feet there herd together 10000 persons,
a city in itself In the borough of Man
haitian the number of persons to dwell
ing is 1872, in Philadelphia Sc and in
Chicago $50.
''In the one block between Sixty-frst
and Sixty-second streets, Tenth and
Eleventh avenues, are lodged $3.50
persons in 2,639 rooms, only LBS Of
which have access to the outer air. The
west side block is 200 by 800 feet, has a
surface area of 100000 square feet, or
3.67 acres, so its $3.50 of population rep
resents density of 974.6 per acre.
''In the block on the east side bounded
bmy Stanton, Houston, Attorney and
Ridge streets, size 200 by 300. the popu-
lation per acre is LIZA. In this Sixty
first street block and the two adjoining
blocks there reside 2,641 colored persons,
Is more than IL per cent of the whole
colored population of the city,"
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eases peculiarly feminine. 1t establishe:
regularity, dries the drains which weaken
women, heals Inflammation and liberation
and cures female weakness. For young
women it has advantages over any SINH
lar preparation, by reason of its promo
ton of a perfect condition of feminine
health, and also because it is free from
alcohol, and contains no opium, cocaine,
nor any other narcotic, Backache, head
ache, and the many ailments resulting
from womanly diseases are entirely cured
by the use of UFavorite Prescription"
III will drop you few lines to-day to
let you know that am feeling well now"
writes Miss Annie Stephens, of Belleville,
Wood Co., w. Va. 81 feel like new
woman. took several bottles of Fa-
vorite Prescription and Golden Med
ical Discovery have no headache
now, no backache, and no more pain in
my side No bearing down pain any
more. 1 think that there is no medicine
like DR.. Pierce medicine l thank you
very much for what you have done for
me - your medicine has done me %
much good"
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1901-01-29
WEARY wILLIEs' PARADISE.
why the hobo That Drifts to Central
America Never Drifts Back.


"a good many typical American hoboes
drift down to Central America said al
official of a local banana company, land
one good thing about it is that they never
get back again. The country seems tt
suit them up to the hilt. l have beer
watching the tramp travel for severa
years, and it has afforded me considera
BILE amusement. Some of them scrapt
up enough money to pay for a deck pas
sage, but most of them stow away or &c
down as roustabouts. When they land
they generally drift little distance into
the interior, and that settles it.
"In Nicaragua and Costa Rica especial
~ life is very easy for an ablebodieC
man who has an aversion to working anC
is not very particular about his surround
ings. All he has to do is to marry ma
tive woman and settle down in some lit
tie banana or cocoanut grove for thu
balance of his days. To my certain
knowledge that is exactly what has beer
done by large number of Weary Viii
lies from the United States. call tt
mind one case on the south end of the
Mosquito reservation.
ga thoroughbred American tramp, whC
IOOk6u dS IL u6 udu JuSI SlcppCu Odl VI
the pages of some comic weekly, driftec
down there about three years ago and i:
now enjoying life as landed gentleman
He managed to annex half breed wife
and with her seraggy little banana
grove. 1t is not much to look at, bu
abundant to supply the simple needs o!
the household. They live in filthy ma
tive hut. The woman does all the work
and the ex-tramp dreams the happy
hours away in a homemade cocoanu
fiber hammock. He is very solid with al
the neighboring Indians, who have an in
discriminate respect for a white skin
and I suppose they contribute to his sup
port. Anyhow, he confded to me las
time saw him that he hadn't done licl
Of work since he struck the country. Tht
natives make a kind of rum out of wilC
cane, and he gets boiling drunk whenever
he feels so inclined.
Altogether it is an idyllic life for
fellow who has ridden brake beams anC
lodged constables throughout the inhos
pitable states. BY advertising the attrac
tons of the country and supplying trans
portation we might get rid of the traml
incubus altogether" New Orleans Times
Democrat.
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Bed Bugs and Cock reaches

For destruction and complete radiance
of Cock Reaches, Beetles, Wood and
Water Bugs, Bed Bugs, Ants, Rats, Mice,
etc., Rough on Rats" though poison
Gus, if used with care is most effective
In fact it is the only thing that will per-
manently annihilate Bed Bugs and Cock
Reaches. AS an exterminator of Rats
and Mice, Rough on Rats" is the old
reliable that never fails or disappoints.
They don't die in the house, Is sold
all around the world Is used by all
civilized nations of the earth. Is the
most extensively advertised, the best
known and has the largest sale of any
article of its kind on the face of the
globe. 1t gives satisfaction every time,
Beware of limitations. l employ no ped
oilers Have suspicion of any dealer
Offering substitutes said to be as good.
ISc and 25c.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1901-01-29

Artificial eyes are supplied to all the
world from Thuringia. Germany. Near
ly all the grown inhabitants of some of
the villages are engaged in their manu-
facture. Four men usually sit at ia
BILE, each with gas jet in front of him,
and the eyes are blown from gas plates
and nodded into shape by hand. The
colors are then traced in with small
needles, no set rule being observed in
the coloring, and as every man uses his
own fancy no two artificial eyes there
fore are exactly alike.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1901-01-29

One need not travel to Monte Carlo OF
other gambling resorts to be relieved of
any superfuous cash, for there are dozens
of places in Switzerland known by the
name of kursaals where a customer
will be accommodated. Although the
play is limited by the law, higher stakes
are winked at, and ones losses-for one
invariably loses with an to 1 chance
against at the race horse game-may east
ly run into four figures during the even
ing. Some sensational facts have come
to light concerning the kursaal in Ge-
neva, which is one of the best of it's kind
in Switzerland. The proprietor lately
informed correspondent that he could
not possibly afford to run his theater and
side shows and engage well known ar
tistes at a huge salary unless he could
recoup himself from the takings of the
gaming tables.-London Mail
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ties VI uOQGSL WOulcu
Write without fear as without fee, to DR..
R. V. Pierce, Buffalo, N. Y.
DR.. Pierce's offer of free consultation
by letter is not to be c1assed with the
spurious offers of free medical advice
made by men or women who are not
physicians and cannot legally practise
medicine Such advice is not only worth
less, but may be dangerous.
In little over thirty years, DR.. R. ".
Pierce, chief consulting physician to the
Invalids' Hotel and Surgical Institute,
Buffalo, N Y, assisted BY his staff Of
nearly score of physicians, has treated
and cured hundreds of thousands of weak
and sick women.
The offer of DR.. Pierce puts at the free
service of women, not merely medical
advice, but the advice of a successful
socialist in the treatment and cure Of
diseases peculiar to women.
Sometimes a dealer tempted by the
little more profit paid by less meritorious
preparations, will offer a substitute fol
"Favorite Prescription claiming it to be
vjust as good" 1t is not wise or safe tc
trifle with unknown medicines. Insisi
on vFavorite Prescription the medicine
which has won the confidence of women
by its almost countless cures.
GIVEN TO YOUNG WOMEN.
DIR. Pierce's Common Sense Medical
Adviser, an invaluable guide to health,
is sent free on receipt of stamps to pay
expense of mailing only
IL think that your Adviser is fine
book" writes Miss Flora l. Greer, of Io7
Howe ST., Akron, Ohio, wand book that
every one should own. If more girls
would read it instead of trashy novels
there would be healthier women and
children than there are to-day"
Send 81 one-cent stamps for the c1oth-
bound volume or only II stamps for the
book In paper-covers. Address DR.. z.
v. Pierce, Buffalo, N. Y.
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Opposite Patent once. Washington. 1
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1901-01-29
70 Art.

what are thine ends? To idle at the door
Ths while the wharfs call and the ships 60 By;
Set sail and drift under April sky,
curious mariner from shore to shore7
To strip from woodland pool the pipe of yore,
Bursting with many high, sweet ancient air
And shrilling down the country highways fare,
Son Of the gods, and hast thou nothing more9
Storm through the tides, unheeding wreck Of
night,
Lord Of the chart. the track lord Of thy fears;
Fling to the gusts the reed Of weathers slight,
Blood of our blood and kin to all our tears,
Cry through the dark and drive the world Il
light;
Strike at the heart Of time and rouse the years
-Iizette Woodwork Reese in Scribners.
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TRIALS OF A BOOK DEALER.
All Sorts of Devices of Customers t
Get Something For Nothing

All Sorts of Devices of Customers to
Get Something For Nothing.
ssYou would be surprised to know how
much petty rascality we encounter in
this line of business" said local book
and news dealer the other day. did you
notice that old fellow who went out
few moments ago with a bundle of news
papers under his arm? He caused my
sales accounts to get pretty badly mud
died before l finally dropped to his little
game. He used to linger over the period
ical counter for an hour or two at
stretch. and whenever he got good
opportunity he would lay down one of
his old papers or magazines and pick up
a new one. When he had secured what
he wanted, he would calmly stroll out.
We noticed the roll under his arm, but 1t
seemed to be the same one he carried In,
so it excited no comment. When my
suspicious were finally aroused, | watch
ed him one day and made careful mem
orandum of everything he took. AS he
was leaving / presented him with the
bill. which he paid without a murmurr
and naturally / supposed that would be
the last of him. But he still drops IN
occasionally, and l have to waste con-
siderable valuable time watching him.
This is an extreme case," continued the
dealer, "but a great many people prac-
tice the substitution game on a small
scale, and, if caught, they claim they
have made a mistake. There is no way
of proving they haven't. so we have to
let it go at that.
''The other day young woman came
in and after lingering about the shelves
few moments approached the clerk on
duty and held out a new book. l got
this novel here yesterday she said, and
would like to exchange it for - nam
ing another at the same price. She was
accommodated, and it developed later on
that the story of the first purchase was a
pure fabrication. She had simply picked
up one book and snapped it for another.
There are other keptomaniacs, and plen-
ty of them, who take no pains to invent
subterfuge,-bu boldly lay hands on any
volume they want and walk off with it
The very audacity of the performance
generally carries it through. and even II
a clerk suspects he is too fearful OF max
| ing a blunder to ask any questions. All
| the dealers suffer losses of that kind. and
| there doesn't seem to be any way OF
guarding against them. man would
| have 10 have as many eyes as fly to
| watch every stranger who comes H.
| New Orleans Times Democrat.
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HEROIC TREATMENT.
It Maddened the Sufferer, but II Eff
fected q Cure.

It Maddened the Sufferer, but It Eff
fected a Cure,
A Binghamton man began to hiccough
last Saturday. He hiccoughed all day
and all night and was hard at it Sunday
morning. Every remedy that his alarm
ed friends gave him seemed to accelerate
the hics. People sent in from all over
town and recommended sure cures, and
he steadily grew worse.
Then a wise neighbor had bright idea.
He thought it all out by himself. He
went over to the hiccougher's home and
was ushered into the room where the at
hicted one was fast hiccoughing his life
away.
"HelIo," said the neighbor in light
and cheerful tone. Flows the old soak
this morningF'
The sufferer rolled his eyes at the
neighbor in panied surprise.
Don't give me any of your crocodile
glances," snorted the friend. ''If you'd
wouldn't be in this shameful condition"
s'Wh-hic-at's th-hic-atY" gasped the
sick man.
''Oh, don't come any of your innocent
business on me-" cried the neighbor. II
KNOW you, you OlQ sponge.
The hiccougher's face turned red.
'.What-hic-did- you-hic-c all-me?''
he suffered.
"Called you a sponge, you lobsterp'
beloved the neighbor. you're pretty
object lesson for your unfortunate chill.
dren, amt you, you gulping old hypo-
crite ?"
"Get out of my-hic-house" roared
the sick man.
$50 to blazesw yelled the neighbor
I'm going to stay right here and see the
last of you. The people on the street
sent me over. Wait until the old VOLTS
gone,' they said, and then wave a flag
out Of the window They're going to
have a jollifcation supper and fireworks
tonight, and don't you dare to disappoini
'em!'
This was too much for the hiccougher
He said several very bad words as he
made dash at the neighbor, and they
| raced around the room a half dozer
times, the hiccougher getting madden al
every jump. and then the neighbor dart
ed through the door and escaped.
! The sick man flung fowerpot at hin
as he raced down the yard, and then he
suddenly realized that his hiccoughs had
gone.
For that was a part of the neighbor'i
| theory, you see. He believed that if he
could get the dying man real excited and
angry the affection would leave him, anc
he proved he was right-Cleveland Plair
| Dealer
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MOTHERS HOUR.
a Time for Confidence and
Counsel.

When the children's hour is thing of
the far away past, because there are no
more little ones to have their evening
frolic or bedtime story, the hour once
devoted to them becomes the mothers
hour. 1t is an hour in which the young
woman takes her old place at her moth
er's knee as she was wont when she
listened to the evening story. But now
she tells the story to the mother; the
story of her day, her fears, her hopes,
her ideals Happy is that daughter who
can come to her mother as her best
friend, as sure of her compassion as Of her
counsel
1t is often so very different. TLs
mother does not invite the shy conf
dence of the growing girl. She comes
to womanhood and between her and her
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Mrs. Where is Mr.. Noel
roy?
Junior Partner-Gone out to get q
new ribbon for the typewriter.
Mrs. McElroy (glaring at the blond
girl at the little side desk)-He has
has he? Well, Mr.. McElroy will just
buy some ribbons and other things fol
his wife and daughters. That person
is all fuffed up with ribbons now
Denver News
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The Number Of Votes He Cot

A local candidate who was defeated
for high Office did not have the SYM
pathy of his wife. She would have shared
the honors of Office with him gracefully
enough, but she was not willing to share
his defeat. A friend of the candidate
was in to talk over the campaign with
him one evening after the election. and
the wife sat near by darning stockings,
apparently uninterested In the converse
ton.
GLOW many votes did you say you
got in Allegheny county?" asked the
caller.
''Why, think it was in the neighbor-
hood
"Well, you needn't think anything
about it," interrupted his wife. Il know
how many you got. You got just enough
votes to make fool of yourself. -
Pittsburg News.
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Not skillful.

Tim Murphy, the comedian, saw an old
colored woman sitting under an awning
tanning herself when he was in Washing
ton one summer.
"It's dreadfully hot, isn't it, nanny ?"
asked Mr.. Murphy.
"'Deed it is, chile" said the old wom-
an-"'deed it is. 'Tain't right for it to be
so hot this-a-way. l tell you. 40 years
ago, when the blessed Lawd made the
weather. we didn't have these stewing
days, honey, no, deed, we didn't; but
now these biggety men up at this here
weather office has the making of the
weather they does send us anything they
please, and they amt skillful, chile, they
amt skillful"
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CATARRH
HAD A PRAcTIcEp EAR.
How O Steamship Engineer Averted
N CafaatrOphe


''The strain put on propeller shaft in
any large vessel" said former sea cap
tain, 'is something frightful, and it has
to have extraordinary strength to with
stand it. The worst part of it is when the
stern lifts out of the water during a
pitch. Then the propeller blades have
nothing to play against except air, and
naturally they begin to race. While they
are whizzing around at top speed they
souse into the water again, and you can
Imagine the shock! 1t makes the whole
ship tremble like scared horse. II there
10 the slightest flaw in the shaft it is apt
to snap off like piece Of glass. | re-
member, before | quit the sea" continued
the ex-captain, 81 was once first officer
on q fine cargo tramp from Liverpool.
Our chief engineer was an old Welshman
named Dawes. He was a rough old fell
low, with mighty little Of what you
might call book education, but if there ev-
er was a natural born genius he was the
man. Engineering seemed to be kind OF
an instinct with him, and when there was
any trouble with the machinery he could
put his finger on the exact spot, where
another man might be pottering around
for day.
"At the time l have In mind we had
cleared from our home port with mixed
cargo for Rio, and on the second day out
old Dawes all of sudden stopped the en-
sines. 1t was my watch, and l went be-
low to fad out what was up. There's
something wrong with that propeller
shaft he said, and he took lantern and
started to go over it, inch by inch. Inside
an hour ne found two holes that had been
bored in 1t about midway down, where
the strain was the greatest, and nicely
filled up with soap and plumbago. 1t
was evidently the work Of an assistant
engineer who had row and quit at Liv-
erpool. Any big shock would have been
certain to break the shaft in two, but, as
Providence willed it, we had smooth
weather up to that time. Dawes riveted
q steel collar around the weak spot, and
we made Rio without accident under
about three fourths speed. l often asked
him afterward how he came to suspect
anything was wrong, and all he could
tell me was that the shaft sounded rot
ten suppose there was some false note
in the vibration; either that or 1t was the
biggest piece of luck on record. Elk
change.