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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-10-27
Breaking the News Gently.

Detroit Free Press.
1T was settled some time ago that he
was 10 marry my daughter, said the
father of a girl OF the period. but it yet
remained for the young man To get my con-
sent. IL was merely a fOrmality, however
as / had cut no figure whatever during the
campaign. my girl arranging matters to
suit herself without consulting me or my
wishes.
Now. 1 remembered with what trepida-
ton 4 had approached my wife's father
when | asked him for her hand. and ] made
Up my mind that when that young man
showed UP 10 ask me for my daughters
hand l would have revenge, not only for
what | had 10 pass through when | urged
my suit but for being showed the back
ground during the present proceedings.
We'll. he called at my Office yesterday
and / told my office boy 20 admit him and
leave us alone and see that were not
disturbed.
just dropped in said he easily. declln-
ing 10 take a seat. to tell YOU that 1 am
going 10 marry your daughter the middle
OF next month. IL Will be an informal af-
fair. you may consider yourself invited
without further notice. Good day
Before / could catch my breath he was
gone. and when l complained 90 my daugh-
fort got was that / could consider myself
fortunate In getting an invitation, as IL was
TO be a very exclusive affair"
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1901-01-22

Golden Medical Discovery has cured me
of pain in my right lung that the best
doctors could not help. My appetite
and digestion have improved so that
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III am glad to testify to the benefits
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Summerton, of San Diego, Duval Co.,
Texas vI was troubled with very fire.
quent headaches, often accompanied by
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almost nothing, and sometimes abso-
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and contracted to do So"
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The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1901-01-22

ago the newspapers were calling atten-
ton to one of the richest men of the age
working in his garden like a common
laberer for his health's sake and for the
same cause living abstemious1y on diet
which laborer would despise. There's
a conspicuous example of the class of
people whose success seems almost fail
IRE. But how many people are struck
down fatally in the hours of success,
no man can absolutely say. Stomach
ufai1ure" means heart failure, the failure
of kidneys, liver, lungs and any other
organ, inasfnuch as each and every organ
of the body is dependent on the stomach
for its nutrition and therefore for its
vitality. For this reason no vital statis-
tics can ever give the number of those
who fall victims to disease of the stom-
ach and the other organs of digestion
and nutrition, because the cause of their
decease is charged to other organs dis
eased through the stomach.
WHAT'S THE MATTER WITH your
Is it WEAK lungs, vweak" heart,
kidney trouble liver vtrouble" or dis
ease of any other organ? You will find
that in general, if you trace the disease
back it originates in diseased condition
of the stomach and its allied organs of
digestion and nutrition. The best proof
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cured by DR.. Pierce's Golden Medical
Discovery which is primarily and chiefly
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and all its organs are sustained. by food,
nronerlv dipested and assirnilated, which
when converted into blood forms the
nutrition by which physical life is re
newed day by day, and meal by meal.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1901-01-22
Instant relief and permanent cure by

Instant relief and permanent cure by
the great remedy Ottos Cure for Lung
and Throat diseases. Why will you irri-
tate your throat and lungs with that hack
ing cough when Wells & Son, Columbus;
E. D. Prickitt, Mount Holly; W. G. Jones,
New Egypt; Edw. W. Rossell, Pemberton,
and II. II. Leeds, Raucocas, sole agents,
will furnish you free sample bottle OF
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Sample free. Large bottles SOC and 25c.
People are like clocks: they are not suf-
ficently cleaned by simply having their
hands and face washed.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1901-01-22
HID Legal Talent.

Chief Justice Mcfarland of the su-
preme court tackled youngster one day
who, in spite of his appearance, will
probably be an ornament to the bench
one of these days. The boy had just
taken the law examinations and had fail
ed. Said Justice Mcfarland by way Of
consultations:
Its really too bad that you could not
have been admitted to the bar after your
first trial, but then, you know, the bright
est men often fail the first examination
"Thank you, SIR" replied the would be
lawyer. 81 failed this time, but | feel
cocksure that l can make it on my sec
ond try"
"Your confidence is commendable," re
piled the justice, ''but it is not well to be
overconfdent. What makes you SO
sure?"
"Well, / know that have tried once
and failed. Now, if the supreme court
had decided once that l am not bright
enough to practice law, it's pretty sure
sign that the second trial will pass me,
for who ever heard of the supreme court
having rendered the same decision
twice ?'-San Francisco News Letter.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1901-01-22
HAD FUN WITH THE CONDUCTOR.
After Awhile the Conductor Had
Fun With the Girls.

NJ VI, ah.o,u;u,,
Ane.e are siA we" AoiA scnooie iiie
VINO rue On Tue SIKH ayenue cars ese.s
uay "nose special inis 81 II iile SENS ~
oe 10 nave iuh Win Tue 'roney eonuue'
ors;
Inc otner Gay "nen tne conuuclor
came Ior tne lare Que u 'nen openeu nsl
purse ana began Slowly ana laporiously
10 count OUT oo pennies WINCH sue ulop,
PEG one py one INTO MS outstretcneu
nand, WINE ner companions giggieo gree
fuiiy at the look OF surprise tnat graou-
ally spread over ms race. but ne was
equai TO the emergency ana saio polteiy'
ananK you, MISS as ne went away;
Iney wanted transfers TOT rlIty,nlntn
street. ana wnen tney got tnem eacn one
put hers IN ner mouth ana began TO enc"
II up. Inen eacn transfer was rolleo INTO
small pan, ana snarp teeth went u
work to make IL nard pan at tnat.
by TINS ume the passengers were an IN
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1901-01-22
Stretch'S
BaISan,
summers Lack of Humor.

Charles Sumner in most matters was
quick enough of apprehension. yet even
he lacked the sense of humor. 1t is said
that one day after tidings had arrived
from Washington of the suicide of Prov
ost Paradol, the brilliant French embas-
sador, Sumner was giving his theories as
to the cause of the act when Lowell ask
ell, did you see the ambassador often
before his death?''
YES" was the reply; Il saw him ev-
cry day."
ibid you converse with him in English
Or in French?"
''Oh, talked nothing but French
Gentlemen" said Lowell, 1--WE do not
need to seek any further reason for his
death. This fully explains the suicide"
The explosion which followed, we are
told, Sumner was never able to under
stand.
To friend who had expressed his SYM
pathy for Sumner when taken ill he re-
piled, Il am not AFRAID to die, for | have
read through Calvin's Institutes in the
original Latin. Saturday Evening Post.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1901-01-22
rbe Child ANA His Father.

There is clear lesson in story told
by the captain of police precinct IN
New York. One evening man came to
the station house asking If any lost chill
dren were there. Three were asleep in
a back room, and the man went in to see
IL his own was among the number. He
Weakened boy between 2 and 3 years
old and asked of him if he were Johnny
Go-and-so. The little fellow being very
sleepy and frightened could not be made
to answer, and the man turned away
saying he would have to send his wife
over.
"What! Do you not know your own
child 2" the police official asked.
ITO tell the truth, l don't, F" the man re-
piled. 81 work on the - line OF street
cars: the children amt up when l GO
away In the morning, and they're in bed
when get back at night. never see
them"
Later his wife appeared and identified
one of the children. 1t was not the one
the father had picked out.-Harper
Razar
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1901-01-22
BILL WAS TOO SMART.
Farmers Son Who Thought He'd
Have Fun With an .EIenhanf

Farmers Son Who Thought He'd
Have Fun With an Elephant.
my son Bill" said the old farmer,
was just too smart fur anything l had
a big red bull who used to git loose once
in awhile and lick everything in the state,
and Bill was ready to bet his last cent
on that critter. One day when a circus
procession was comm up the road Bill
come runnin from the barnyard and says:
Dad, I'm goin to let that bull out
"'Fur why?' says l.
Fur to see him hev fun with the ele-
plant
Don't you do nuthin of the kind. The
elephant would break his back in a holy
mint
"'Never, dad-never! Our bull will
roar one roar, dive one dive, and he'll
tumble that behemoth into the ditch and
then upset the band wagon. Dad, it's
the chance of our life to see heap of
fun
"Waal, now" drawled the old man,
"Bill said so much that l told him to go
ahead. Mebbe that bull smelt them three
elephants a mile away, fur when he was
let out he was ready fur row. He paw
ed and bellered and worked his mad up
and when the elephants. finally come
along he selected the biggest of the three
and made fur him. One of the circus
men called out fur us to take our critter
away, but we was lettin him take keer
of hisself jest then. With a heller and
a rush he was upon the elephant, but
things didn't happen as Bill had planned
'em. Say. now, but that big beast met
our bull head on and knocked him fat,
and then he got his trunk under him and
flung him into a swamp and never even
looked back at him. We went down to
see our bull. and he had tears in his
eyes. broken leg and one horn gone
looks at Bill, and Bill looks at me. and
bimeby says:
!" Bill, this critter cost me $40 in cash.
"'Don't say word. dad he says as he
sits down, with big sigh. i thought
was the smartest Teller in this county
but | was foolin myself. I'll work three
months fur SIS month and pay fur the
BULL and if I'm ever fool huff to buck up
ag'in another elephant may somebody
kill me with crowbarP Chicago
News
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1901-01-22

Cleanliness is next to Goodness" Dirt
and depravity go hand in hand This is
just as true of the inside of the body as the
outside. Constipation clogs the body and
clouds the mind. Contipation means that
corruption is breeding in the body, poison
ing the blood with its foul emanations, be-
Jogging the brain with its tainted exhala-
lions. Constipation is the beginning of
more diseases than, perhaps, any other
single disorder. The consequences of con-
stipation are legion. Headache, pain in
the side, shortness of breath, undue full
ness after eating, GOODNESS of the extremi-
ties, nervousness, indecision, lassitude, dir
illness, sallowness, fatulence and score
of other ailments are directly caused by
constipation. Cure constipation and you
cure its consequences. The quickest cure
of this evil is obtained by the use of DIR.
Pierce's Pleasant Pellets. They are small
in size but wonderful in result. They cure
permanently. They contain no injurious
ingredients. The use of them does not be-
get the ''pill habit" Ask your druggist
for them.
Send 81 ne-cent stamps, the expense of
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mon Sense Medical Adviser, in paper
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and 700 illustrations For 81 stamps it
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Address DR.. R. V. Pierce, Buffalo, N. Y.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1901-01-22
He obeved Orders,

They tell good story about veteran
engineer who was always assigned to act
as guide when a green engineer was to
be sent out to learn the road. He was al
ways as cool as cucumber and never got
excited. On one occasion he was show
ing a new man the line and sitting be-
hind him in the cab. They were rounding
q sharp curve when they perceived a
fagman coming toward them, waving his
red flag frantically. shut her off, call
for brakes, reverse and drop sand" came
the orders from the guide.
The new man obeyed promptly, and
then turned to ask what to do next and
heard the guide say, Jump as far as you
can and run" and he set the example
himself, for when the new engineer got
up out Of blackberry patch at the bot
tom of 80 foot embankment, he looked
over the fence and saw the guide seated
on stump watching the engine blowing
into a cabin car and two box cars.-St.
Louis Republic.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1901-01-22
AGRI Al
win ~
Grit w

viii vgon until she drops, and think
she's doing rather fine thing. Very
often the future shows her that she was
laying the foundation for years of
unhappiness. When the back aches,
when there is irregularity or any other
womanly i'll, then the first duty woman
owes to herself is to find a cure for her
ailments.
The use of DR.. Pierce's Favorite Pre-
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will insure prompt restoration to sound
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Sick women are invited to consult DIR.
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confidential. In his thirty years and
over of medical practice DR.. Pierce, as
sisted by his staff of nearly score OF
physicians, has treated and cured more
than half million women. Address
DR.. R. v. Pierce, Buffalo, N. Y.
Twill drop you few lines to-day to let you
know that am feeling well now, writes Miss
Annie stephens, of Be1leville, Wood Co., West
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Golden Medical Discovery have no head
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Is no medicine like Dr.. Pierce's medicine"
DR.. Pierce's Common Sense Medical
Adviser, in paper covers, is sent free on
receipt of al one-cent stamps to pay ex-
pense of mailing only. Address DR.. r. V.
Pierce, Buffalo, N. Y.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1901-01-22
Tit For Tat.

A wearied Clevelander stepped from a
train at Pittsburg one morning at an
early hour and rushed into the depot
lunchroom to get breakfast. He was
extremely tired from a long ride and
consequently not in the best of moods,
"What do you want?" snarled one of
the waiter girls. She had get up too
soon expression on her face and spoke
savagely.
"A little courteous treatment" re-
sponded the traveller.
eve don't keep it here" rejoined the
girl.
81 thought so," was the laconic reply
of the Clevelander. "Give me some reg
ular eggs
1--WE only keep fresh eggs" replied the
girl.
Everything fresh around hereP que
ried the Clevelander.
"Yes," she Kissed through her teeth.
81 thought So" the traveller replied
As the traveller ate his breakfast in
silence he wondered who had the best
of the skirmish From the look on the
girls face she, too, was bordering over
the same question.-Cleveland Leader.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1901-01-22
The other Mans.

"You had horse standing ont hereT'
said the boy as he entered the corner gro
Gerry and was asked what he wanted.
"Well?" queried the grocer.
s'He was hitched to a wagonY'
eyes"
ST came along with later In my
hand"
''Not doubt of it."
"And, to see if the horse was alive, l
hauled off and plunked him."
81 see. And he was alive"
HE was, sir. He reared up and then
went running off as hard as he could go,
and he's mile away, and the wagon is
all kicked to pieces by this time"
"And like a truthful. honest lad you
came in to tell me of it and get your re-
ward y queried the grocer.
"That's it, sir. You've got some big
apples there, and il you think
"There, there, bub; run along. The
horse and wagon belong to the hardware
man next door, and if you go in and show
your integrity he'll probably reward you
with a paper Of carpet tacks." = Ex-
QhanOa
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1901-01-22
THE MIDNIGHT SKY.
10 Ia tAe oldest Picture Book In Our
Possession.


The oldest picture book in our posses
sion is the midnight sky. We stand out
under the stars on some clear moonless
night, and, looking upward, though no
forms are visible, though it is only here
and there that the natural grouping can
by the utmost legitimate effort of fancy
be made to fit some preconceived shape,
yet we still seem to see the whole vast
dome covered with mysterious frescoes.
There in the north shine the two Bears,
the unsleeping guardians of the pole. Be
tween them winds the Dragon. There
stands Cepheus the king, and by his side,
In midstream of the Milky Way, is seated
Cassiopeia, his queen. The figures over
head and to the south change with the
changing hours and seasons, and the De-
cember midnight brings us the most glo-
rious show of all. There is Orion, follow
ing him are Sirius and Procyon, his dogs;
above are the Bull and Twins, and high
er still Auriga and Perseus join Cassie
peia on the Milky Way. Andromeda,
chained TO her rock, lies beneath her
boastful mother, while her enemy, the
great Sea Monster, is sinking down be-
low the western horizon. The April
nights give the predominance to Arctu
rus, the most brilliant of the constellation
of Bootes the herdsman, who stands with
one hand stretched toward the Crown,
the other toward the Greater Bear. Be-
meath him lies the Virgin, while the Lion
is rushing downward toward the west.
The Scorpion is the lord of the south
during the short summer nights, while
the Tyre, with its bright blue jewel Vega,
claims the zenith, and between the two
giant heroes, Ophiuchus and Hercules,
spread their huge limbs. The September
midnight is the time for Pegasus, and
then the watery and fishlike constella-
lions have their turn-the Dolphin, the
Sea Goat, Aquarius with his stream and
the southern Fish, the twin Fishes and
fair Andromeda's huge marine persecu-
tor.
We seem to see these forms, though no
form or semblance of the form is really
there. For from great antiquity men
have looked upward to the heavens and
have pictured thereon, in their own
thought, certain forms which we have in
herited from them by long tradition
forms which became so real to them that
the stars themselves on which they based
them seem to fade out or to be but as the
nails which kept the pictures in position,
while the forms remained the real objects
which filed the heavens. = Nineteenth
Contury
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1901-01-22
snueIchfng a Bore.

At the Authors club certain distin.
guished author was holding forth by the
hour, as is his custom, all about himself
and his work and boring everybody to
extinction. A well known newspaper
man who was present could no longer
bear the infection and when the popular
author paused for breath broke in with
the remark, Il believe the Holsters are
very fne." The distinguished author.
thrown out of his train of thought, look
ed at him for minute in evident be-
wilderment and said, Yes, believe they
are, but don't see what that has got to
do with what | was talking about"
"Oh-ahp' replied the other. by the
way, what were you talking about"
The distinguished author left the room.
and harmony was restored. Exchange.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1901-01-22
THE WIRE NAIL INDUSTRY.
A German Catholic Priest Founded
1t In America.

1t In America.
1t was in Covington, KY, that the first
wire nails were made in America. In
1875 Father Goebel was pastor in charge
of st. Augustine's Catholic church in
that city.
Before he came to this country from
Germany he had seen Frenchmen and
Germans hammering nails out of wire.
When he had established himself in the
ministry at Covington, he opened a forge
in an old outbuilding standing in brick
yard He started the making of wire
nails, first by hand, and gradually one
improvement after another came to his
mind and was carried out until the nails
made were more useful and could be
made more cheaply. Soon after he began
he improved upon the old nail by cutting
barbs in its sides, and by this they were
made to hold more firmly. Then to ac-
celerate his work he made a die, into
which he slipped the wire, that had bee.
cut to proper lengths and while resting
on these dies the head was pounded on
the nail On an anvil he hammered on
the point, and the barbs were cut in the
sides by hand. 1t was the nail that is
made today, but the production was SO
expensive that it was impracticable for
ordinary use.
1t was about this time that the French
introduced a machine that would do what
Goebel was doing by hand, and as soon
as the latter heard of it he imported one
Of these machines. The introduction of
this machine was the real beginning of
the wire nail industry in this country on
a large scale. 1t was queer machine
when it was received, but the principle
was right, and the great machines that
today turn out hundreds of thousands of
nails day are constructed on identically
the same plan. 1t was operated by hand,
and the speed was 60 nails a minute.
Goebel attached fywheel, geared it to
steam and by other improvements in
creased the machines speed to double
this capacity, which was as many as 20
or 80 men working by hand could pro-
duce. This was the ''single header" ma.
chine, making one nail at each stroke.
and this machine produces with it's pres
ent improvements as high as Ais nails
minute, while the double headers, produc-
ing two nails at stroke, turn out from
$50 to 600 a minute, or total of 10000
an hour-Chicago Record.