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The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1901-03-12
JAcksoNs FAMOUS COTTON BALES.
Even Though They Never Existed
Their Memory L. Cherished.

Even Though They Never Existed
Their Memory Is Cherished.
81 was very much surprised to learn
the other day." said visitor from Bur-
lington, VT, at one of the hotels, that
jackson had no cotton in his forti6ca-
tions during the battle of New Orleans.
Whether the younger generation is bet
ter advised l am unable to say, but the
cotton bale legend is believed religious
ly by middle aged people all through
the New England states. They are proud
of it as a master example of what might
be called Yankee cunning, and before
you could shatter their f. it'll in the story
you could persuade them that Wash
ington didn't cross the Delaware and
that Benedict Arnold was a high minded
American patriot.
81 attended public school when was a
boy at Greenfield, Mass" continued the
speaker, "and / remember distinctly the
account of the battle of New Orleans that
was given in our intermediate History
of the United States 1t described the
cotton bale Notifications as a happy in
spiration which came to Jackson at the
last moment as a possible means of Off
setting the immense preponderance of the
British forces. According to the narra-
tive the cotton was piled up in gigantic
wall, and when the enemy's artillery
opened fire the projectiles bounded back
from it's surface like rubber balls thrown
against the side of house. l remember
that the incident tickled us boys i'm
mensely. We thought it was such good
joke on the Englishmen, and years after
ward whenever anything would remind
me of the battle of New Orleans l would
instantly have mental vision of crowd
of astonished artillerymen lodging their
own cannon balls The small American
loss was attributed solely to this remark
able piece of strategy, and the chapter
was embellished with full page wood
cut, which is as clear to my minds eye
as If / had seen it yesterday. 1t repre-
scented what was evidently intended to be
one of the fortifcations-a solid, square
sided, rectangular wall of bales, with reg
ular apertures for cannon. On one side
was a line of men dressed like the tradi-
tional dime novel trapper, each with
coonskin cap on his head and a rifle
about nine feet long, and on the other
side was a dense mass of British grena-
diers, wearing what looked like bishops
miters. A number of cannon balls were
seen lying on the ground outside, where
they had bounded from the elastic ram
parts, and the grenadiers were plainly
getting the worst of it.
''That picture stands today as the &C
cepted New England version of the bat
tie, and the man who attempted to pluck
out those venerated cotton bales and sub
stitute ordinary Mississippi river mud
would have disagreeable job on his
hands | wouldn't like to undertake it -
New Orleans Times-Democrat.
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Over the bridge-nose glasses.

What does it profit woman if she gain
the whole world of knowledge and lose
her own health? Young women students,
and school teachers, eager, ambitious, and
full of energy, very often neglect their
health in the struggle to gain education.
They eat insufficient food, and at irregu-
lar hours, they allow irregularity of the
womanly functions to be established, and
the result is that they become chronic in
valids with all their education practically
worthless. There is plain road back to
health for such as these, marked by the
feet of thousands. 1t is the use of DR.
Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery for
diseases of the stomach and digestive and
nutritive organs, and DR.. Pierce's Favorite
Prescription for diseases of the delicate
organs of womanhood. A cure so certain
ly follows the use of these remedies that
out of hundreds of thousands who have
tried the treatment, ninety eight i'll every
hundred have been perfectly cured. Con-
stipation, with It's calamitous consequences
which is common ailment of students,
can be entirely cured by the use of Dr.
Pierce's Pleasant pellets.
Few fellows have gig but most girls
have giggle.
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We KICK THE CHAP THAT'S Dowr

adj easily keep every thing clean.
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.AlLNll,t lln.


suffering may be gathered from Mrs.
Nelson experience told in the letter
given below. She says, ~ u,aS so ne1Ts-
Gus that the least thing woNld star7le me
almost into commissioner Such con-
dition of nervousness generally indicates
woman1y diseases. 1t is useless to at
tempt to cure nervousness by the use OF
narcotics.
NARCOTICS ARE DEADLY
for the nervous woman whose need Is
not to make the nerves sleep but to
make them strong, not to numb them
but to nourish them. The best medi-
cine for nervous women is DR.. Pierce's
Favorite Prescription. 1t cures nervous
ness because it cures the causes which
are behind nervousness. 1t establishes
regularity, dries the drains which under
mine the health and strength, heals
Inflammation and liberation and cures
female weakness. It makes weak women
strong and sick women well.
uDr. Pierce's medicines are the best
have ever used, )" writes Mrs. c. Nelson,
of Chemawa, Marion Co., Oregon. "My
health was badly run down when con-
suited him by letter. My limbs were
cold and my head hurt me continually.
/ was SO nervous that the least thing
would startle me almost into convui-
sions. 1 had palpitation of the heart so
bad that I could scarcely walk some
times. / felt utterly discouraged, but
two bottles of DIR. Pierce's Favorite Pre-
scription and one of Golden Medical
Discovery made a new woman out of
me. We are never without DR.. Pierce's
Pellets in the house"
Nothing is claimed for Dr.. Pierce's
Favorite Prescription but is claimed for
1t by the women who have been cured
by its use. Behind every claim is a
cure-yes, a thousand cures. In fact,
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ae wouldn,t quite Do.

81 would like" she said, marching up
to the counter with a swing that was cal
culated both to attract attention and in
spire awe, ito see the manager of this
department"
The clerk, seeing that she was beauti-
full, smiled at her in his blandest way, felt
that he ought to avail himself Of any
opportunity there might be to explain
things to her and sweetly replied:
81 don't see him anywhere around just
now. Won't do?'
She looked up and down him few
times, permitted an expression that he
didn't quite understand to overspread her
features and then replied:
"No, l don't think you will. I'm his
wife, and
But the clerk had gone to hunt for him.
Chicago Times Herald.
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Bill Anthony,u Goodness.

Bill Anthony was one Of the best ex-
amples that came out of the Spanish war
of the man who can keep his head when
others have lost theirs. His coolly indif-
ferent announcement to Sigsbee that the
Maine was sinking either showed a soul
disciplined to the condition of an au-
tomaton or a spirit which nothing could
dismay. ! once asked Captain Sigsbee
il the popular version of Anthony 8
speech was correct. He said it was,
but that Anthony did not salute him, as
was generally told, nor preface his speech
with, Il beg to report, SIR" I'VE bump
ed into each other in the dark" Sigsbee
said, "and if he had saluted and spoken
with that formality he would have been
thinking of himself and of making an eff
feet and not of his duty. What he real
~ said and did is better without any Of
the additions which came later."-Rich-
ard Harding Davis in Everybody's Maya
zine.
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ailing women are invited to consult DR..
Pierce, by letter, free. All correspond
ence is strictly private and the written
condolences of women are treated with
the same privacy observed by DR.. Pierce
in verbal consultations with women at
the Invalids' Hotel and Surgical Insd-
tute, Buffalo, N. Y. Address DR.. R. v.
Pierce, Buffalo, N. Y.
Because DIR. Pierce's offer is free it 10
not be classed with those offers of vf1Ss
medical advIce" made by men or women
who have neither the legal nor the pro-
fessional right to practice medicine. II
they dared to put out their signs with
the title Doctor upon them, the law would
instantly deal with them. They don't
dare to do this, and yet, though without
medical training, medical knowledge or
medical experience, they cunningly offer
Ufree medical advice" The law can't
touch that claim because anyone can
give free advice on any subject, but
woman knows that the advice of her
laundress is. perfectly worthless as to
the cutting and fitting of her gown.
In consulting with DR.. Pierce, women
not only consult with a real doctor, but
one who is specialist in the treatment
and cure of diseases peculiar to women,
and who, assisted by his staff of nearly q
score of physicians, has in little more
than thirty years treated and cured hum
dreds of thousands of women.
WOMEN NEED IT
Every woman needs copy of Doctor
Pierce's Common Sense Medical Adviser.
containing 1908 large pages, which L.
sent free on request of those who send
stamps to pay expense of mailing only.
Send 81 one-cent stamps if the cloth
bound volume is desired, or only II
stamps for the book in paper covers.
Address DR.. R. v. Pierce, Buffalo. N. Y.
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FRIGHTENED!
The Agony Endured by
Nervous Women.

vMy nerves are all unstrung" Is the
expressive way in which a woman is
apt to describe condition of extreme
nervousness. The 6gurative expression
runstrung" may be unscientifc but it
pathetically suggests the grand harp of
the nervous system, strung and keyed
for harmonies by its Maker, now become
so unstrug that it gives out nothing but
jarring discords. Nervous people rarely
receive the sympathy which is their due.
The dropping of a book which causes
the nervous woman to start, or the slam
ming of door which causes her to
scream, are sounds which do not jar the
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He had 10 Change II.

Eyes," said the author. "some objec
tons were raised to my story in Boston
1t was pointed out that one Of the ex'
pressions was very inelegant, and had
to change it"
"What was the fault"
"Why, in speaking Of cooking in the
olden days | inadvertently used tho word
spit and had to make the phrase
read She was slowly turning the ex-
pectorate' in order to make the book ac-
ceptable in the best circles. washing
ton Post
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Bed sugs and Cook Roaches.

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 il 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. Iemploy no ped
dlers Have suspicion of any dealer
offering substitutes said to be as good.
ISc and 2Sc.
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Great things have resulted from a
word Of encouragement. Down in the
bottom Of her heart Nathaniel Haw-
thorne's wife may have felt bit dis
couraged when her husband came home,
all sad and depressed, after having re-
ceived word that he had lost his posi-
ton in the custom house. He did not
then know where to turn for new en-
ployment and said so. But his wife babe
him cheer up and write. When the dis
heartened man told her he could not af-
ford to labor with financial results I'M
certain, she showed him the little store
of gold that she had put by and told him
to sit down and write the book he had
been talking of wanting to write. And
not long after that the world had ''The
Scarlet Letter." which it still prizes
Exchange.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1901-03-12

AS family medicine Bacon's Celery
King for the nerves passes from sire tc
son as legacy. If you have kidney
liver or blood disorder get a free sample
package of this remedy at once. If yor
have indigestion, constipation, headache
rheumatism, etc., this specific will cure
you. Wells 6 Son, Columbus, E. D
Prickitt, Mount Holly; W. G. JONES' New
Egypt; Edw. W. Rossell, Pemberton, and
J. H. Leeds, Rancocas, the leading drug
gists, are sole agents and are distributing
samples free. Large packages SOC. and 25c
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how DO Won pronounced npog q,


How do you pronounce ''dogY The
chances are that, If you are an average
Massachusetts citizen, you pronounce
the "o'' rather broad. like 80" in song
The Century Dictionary, which Is q
very indulgent dictionary indeed, al
lows you to pronounce 1t so If you
wish, but no other dictionary does.
You should really sound the 20" as in
not. Likewise how do you pronounce
''hog?" Even the Century won't let
you say "hawg" This reminds me
that friend has written the following
beautiful but abstruse poem:
MY HOG AND MY DOG.
IA lesson in pronunciation-1
once owned a rowing hog
And likewise little dog,
Whom / chained unto log
To keep him from bog
Which near.
That my faithful little dawg,
Despite the chain and lawg,
Would pursue that rowing hawg
And get drowned in the bawg
Was my fear.
Boston Journal
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The brunette who has her hair bleached
is light headed to begin with.

Chronic Nasal Catarrh poisons every
breath that is drawn into the lungs
There is procurable from any druggist the
remedy for the cure Of this trouble A
small quantity of Ely's Cream Balm placed
into the nostrils spreads over an infamed
and angry surface, relieving Immediately
the painful Inflammation, cleanes, heals
and cures A cold in the head vanishes
Immediately. Sold by druggists or will
be mailed for so cents by Ely Brothers,
Sc Warren Street, New York.
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CRANK LETTER WRITERS.
Individuals Who Make Trouble For
the PostOffce officials.

Individuals Who Make Trouble For
the PostOfice officials.
Eccentric letter writers move the post
Office employees to profanity and their
correspondents to mirth and doubts as to
their sanity. Many people have ma
mia for putting stamps on envelopes in
unusual prices. What especial pleas
ure they find in this it is difficult to say,
but they evidently find it, for they dis
play considerable ingenuity in selecting
strange places on the envelope. The
back Of the envelope, the lower left hand
corner, the middle of the envelope, etc.,
are sought out by this form of crank.
Then there are the people who persist
In affixing the stamp skew cornered"
and those who have mania for putting
it on upside down. All these eccen-
tricities cause great annoyance to the
postal clerks. Probably the criminals
who commit the deeds consider that their
stamp juggling shows individuality"
A person well known to the British
postal authorities always writes the ad-
dress on the postage stamp. An inter-
view with mail clerk on a lonely road
would probably not be pleasant expert
ence for this person, but to the credit Of
the service it may be said that these sin
gularly addressed letters have always
been delivered punctually and correctly.
In st. Louis is man who always
writes his letters in rhyme. Even note
to the butcher is poem" This highly
gifted individual says that he can write
verse better than prose; hence his drop
ping into poetry" A pedantic young
London doctor is accustomed to write
his letters to his intimate friends in
Greek characters. As his circle of ac-
quaintance is fairly well educated, the
result is not so perplexing as it might
be. A cotton manufacturer of Manches-
ter, England, uses different colored inks
when writing letters, making the color
appropriate to the occasion. Thus for
business purposes he uses black ink, for
personal acquaintance red ink, and to
ladies he writes in ink of delicate violet
hue. Some people try to get all the
stamps they can on letter instead of
using one stamp of the required denomi-
nation. A letter recently was received
from French crank which had on it Is
stamps to make up the cents required.
This extraordinary collection consisted
of ten stamps each of 2 centimes value
and five of centime value each.-New
York Press.
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DIR. r. v. Pierce, Buffalo, N. Y.
In little over thirty years, DR.. Pierce,
assisted by his medical staff of nearly a
score of physicians, has treated and
cured thousands of men and women who
had been given up as incurable by local
physicians.
taken.n writes Mrs. Jennie Dingman, of Rapid
City, Kalkaska Co., Mich. Vast spring had
a bad cough got so bad had to be in bed all
the time. Ny husband thought had con-
sumption He wanted me to get doctor. but
thought we would try DIR. Pierce's Golden Med
ical Discovery, and before had taken one bottle
the cough stopped and have since had no sign
of its returning"
doctor Pierce's Pleasant Pellets cure
constipation.
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Married Men Marked.

Married men in Sweden and Norwa,
are as much labeled as their wives. They
wear wedding rings, thereby proclaimins
themselves to all and sundry as appro
priated blessings. And not only do the,
go shackled after matrimony; directly
they become engaged they proclaim The
fact to the outside public by sporting 6
ring, just as do their fair fiancees. In
deed, the happy pair exchange gold cir
clets then and at the altar.
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CONCENTRATE YOUR FORCES.

Borrow Napoleon's Idea For Use In
Your Business Affairs.
This was Napoleon's brief statement OF
the art of war:
1.-THE art of war consists in having al
ways more forces than the enemy on the
point where the enemy is attacked or
where he attacks"
Napoleon won victories apparently as
easily with an inferior as with a superior
force-that is to say, Napoleon with q
hundred thousand men was perfectly
ready to meet another general with 200
600 men or 500,0 men. He simply took
care that his men should be more numer-
GUS and better placed at the point Of ac-
tual decisive struggle.
Don't think that Napoleon's view Of
success In battle applies only to emper-
ors or generals or military men. Life IL
q battle, and successful strategy in one
kind of fighting means successful strate-
gy in another.
Napoleon, beginning his career as an
ambitious, cautious young soldier, repre-
senting a republican nation intensely
jealous of military glory, knew that he
must not expect too great support from
home-that he must win or perish.
Very often he could not equal his adj
versaries in numbers, but always he man.
aged to surpass them in numbers at the
particular point where the hard fighting
occurred.
ITO march always on the enemy at an
angle and destroy his forces in detail"
Such was his successful plan. On one
occasion three armies marched against
him. They took different routes, sta
toned themselves in what they consider
ed to be superb strategic positions. The
army was almost three times as great as
his own. He attacked one-third of this
foolish force and destroyed it while the
other two-thirds looked helplessly on.
He attacked the second third and won
the day. He could not have beaten the
three-thirds had they combined their
forces at every fighting point as he COM
bined his.
'sWhat has that to do with the agent
trying to sell lot of goods? What has
that to do with the unemployed man look
ing for job?'
If you ask one of these two questions,
we can answer easily. Every man who ap-
proaches another with an object attacks
him on some one point. He need not be
In all ways the equal Of the man whom
he approaches. Let him simply be better
prepared on the point of attack. Ii he
wants work from the other man, let him
be prepared to show that he can do the
work and that the other man needs to
have it done.
II he wants to sell merchandise, let
him be thoroughly prepared to prove that
his goods are the best and that they are
really needed.
If the man who wants to win on GER
tain point will concentrate all his forces
on that point, he can carry the day. Bor-
row Napoleon's idea. Learn TO concen-
trate your Chicago American.
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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
it, Mount Holly;W C. Jones, New Egypt
Edw. W. Rossell, Pemberton, and J. H.
Leeds, Rancocas, sole agents, and get q
trial bottle Of Otto Cure, the great Ger
man remedy, free. We give it away tc
prove that we have sure cure for coughs
colds asthma, consumption, and all dis
eases of the throat and lungs. Large sizes
SOC. and Csc.
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when sermon. were Lonr

Clocks were introduced in 1920 from
Great Britain and soon came into COM
mon use. Before that time hourglasses
were generally employed, and in the
churches an hourglass on the pulpit
was deemed almost as indispensable an
article of furniture as the Bible. The
sermon was measured by glasses, and it
was frequently known that the preacher
''turned the glass" three times In the
course OF his sermon.-Chicago Times
Herald.
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Rough on Bunions.

New and successful treatment, only
complete cure. Gives ease and comfort
at once. Subdues Inflammation. Allays
fever, pain, soreness, tenderness. Re-
duces swelling and enlargement of joints;
cures both hard and soft corns, and to
tired, sore or fevered feet it gives relief
and comfort at once. 35c at druggists,
or sent promptly by mail. E. S. WELLS,
Chemist, Jersey City, N. ].