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The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1901-04-02
New England Youngsters.

One of Detroits lawyers, who has
had such professional success as en-
ables him to spend a portion of each
summer in a quaint New England sec
ton, brings back some very interesting
facts.
81 take my outing in one of those
parts" he says, where the farms are
so run down that you can't hope for a
good crop of anything unless it be
beans or goats. One of the conse-
quences is that the young men have to
find some other part of the country IN
which to make living, and I'll wager
that there is not another community in
the Union where the average age is
higher.
knowing me to be lawyer, some
of the residents called me into con
ference about the township treasurer
who had been guilty of advancing a
teacher So on her salary without the
consent of the trustees. There was not
a man there except myself who was
not past 50, and two were over 80.
"While | was making a talk in favor
of the treasurer and trying to minimize
his transgressions without offending
the selectmen, as they called them, a
man of at least 65 slouched through the
door and took seat.
"tJust minute, said one Of the old
est veterans as he interrupted and
glowered at the intruder. How often
have l quoted that there quotation to
you bout old men for council and
young men for war? This is a council.
Now you just run out till we get
through, Willie. If there's any Arrest
to be made, We'll call on you And
Willie went without turning word"
Detroit Free Press.
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RIGHT UP TO DATE.
(Benson's Plaster Is Pains MASTERY

These are days of records and of the beat
ing of records. Benson's Porous Plaster, for
quickness of action and thoroughness of
cure, has no records to beat except its own.
Benson's Plaster, always the best, always
the leader, is to-day better than eUer. 1t
sticks to the skin but never sticks in its
tracks. 1t marches on.
The people not only want to be cured
but cured qutckly-and Benson's Plaster
does it. Coughs, colds, lumbago, asthma,
bronchitis, liver and kidney complaints,
and other ills approachable by an external
remedy, yield to Benson's as ice does to heat.
Neither Belladonna, Strengthening or
Capsicum plasters are to be compared with
Benson's. People who have once tested
the merits of Benson's Plaster have no use
for any other external remedy.
More than 5000 physicians and drug
gists land thousand times as many nom
professional persons) have called Benson's
Plasters one of the few q home remedies
that can be trusted.
Fifty-fve highest awards have been made
to it in competition with the best known
plasters of Europe and America. Better
proof of its merits is inconceivable. Be
sure to get the genuine.
For sale by all druggists, or we will pre-
pay postage on any number ordered in the
United States, on receipt of 25c. each.
Seabury & Johnson, Mfg. Chemists, NY.
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Marvellous Chicken Legs,

The mechanism of the leg and foot of
a chicken or other bird that roosts on a
limb is a marvel of design. 1t often
seems strange that bird will sit on a
roost and sleep all night without fall
ing off, but the explanation is perfectly
simple. The tendon of the leg of bird
that roosts is SO arranged that when
the leg is bent at the knee the claws
are bound to contract and thus hold
with sort of death grip the limb
around which they are placed. Put a
chickens feet on your wrist and then
make the bird sit down. and you will
have practical illustration on your
skin that you will remember for some
time. By this singular arrangement,
seen only in such birds as roost. they
will rest comfortably and never think
of holding on, for it is impossible for
them to let go till they stand up.-Pres
byteriau,
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Woman's Suffering and

IF women suffering from uterine or ovarian
disturbance; from painful, irregular, distress
ing periods, knew of the great comfort and
prompt relief that may be had by the use of
would be more tolerable. The serious perma-
nent dangers that may come from these trou-
bleS if not corrected is hardly fully realized by
most women. This remedy was originally de-
signed not exactly for Dyspepsia, but for a
most miserable stomach condition which no
ieve,-an acrid, irritable, distressing, condition
caused likely by bad Liver. After many trials
and experiments the combination known as
Wells Stomach Elixir was happily hit upon.
Words cannot express the degree of relief, ease
and comfort, this remedy has given the sub
scriber. The inestimable value of this REM
edy in such troubles is beyond computation.
From the hour of the compromising of the first
bottle of Wells Stomach Elixir it has been a
valued and indispensable family medicine, and
hold to be a most effective and comforting
remedy at painful, distressing periods.
For Stomach, Bowel and Abdominal distress
and misery, Wells Stomach Elixir gives
prompt and salutary relief; comforting, sooth-
ing, and gently invigorant to a weak, feeble,
infamed, feverish, irritated stomach gives most
benign and happy relief. Relieves pain, dis
tress and iatulence after eating. Corrects and
aids Digestion regulates bilious irritability and
bilious diarrhoea. At painful periods in female
life, and during change of life, 1t will be found
most grateful relief and support. In Soc. and
$1.00 bottles at retail or wholesale druggists or
the large size prepaid by express on receipt of
price, $780, AS an ablution, a pinch of Wells
Miracle of Healing Powder (being antiseptic,
of warm water and used as vaginal injection,
daily, will be found corrective, cleansing, heal
ing, curative. 25c bottles at druggists or by
mail. = E. S. WELLS, Chemist, Jersey City,
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Snr6 .snoons..

All the world is familiar with snuff
boxes, but snuff spoons are pretty little
refinements of which this generation
has hardly heard. Very probably they
came into use about two years after
Sir George Rockies expedition to yigo
bay in 1902 when he captured half a
ton of tobacco and snuff from the
Spanish galleons, and snuff thus be-
came a common article in England.
One of the characters in comedy
published at Oxford in 1904, entitled
IAN Act at Oxford" by Thomas Baker,
says, "But carry sweet snuff for the
ladies'" to which Arabella replies: "a
spoon too. That's very gallant, for to
see some people run their fat fingers
into a box is as nauseous as eating
without fork"
In the forties and ffties snuff spoons
were still in use on the Scottish border.
They were of bone and of a size to go
into the snuffbox. People fed their
noses, it was said, as naturally as they
carried soup to their mouths. AS late
as 1877 farmer at Norham-on-Tweed
was seen using one.-Gentleman's Mag
azine.
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her, she didn't realize her own weari-
ness. But once at home, exhaustion over
came her If woman were thoroughly
robust, without ache or pain, she could
not keep this work up without under
mining her health What shall be said
then of those women, who are not strong,
who suffer from headache, backache,
bearing-down pains, and other conse-
quences of a diseased condition of the
womanly organism? And these women
are in the great majority. There are
few women who are free from diseases
peculiar to their sex.
BURNING THE CANDLE AT BOTH ENDS.
That expressive saying not only sug-
gests the most rapid form of waste but
also the most foolish. When woman
overtaxes her strength in any cause,
whether in the enjoyment of social
pleasures, or in the service of church or
charity, she is rapidly Fastening to the
end of her public activity.
The proof of this is found right at
home. Young matrons who are not
dancing any more, church workers who
are no more active these have not step
ped aside because of loss of interest but
because of lack of strength.
There is not weak woman who would
not like to be made strong again. There
is not a sick woman who would not like
to be made we'll. And there is not the
least reason, in ninety-eight cases out of
every hundred, why women should con-
tinue to be weak and sick. The first
step to the establishment of the gen
eral health is to establish the local
womanlv health.
81 feel that it is only my duty to send
you statement of my case" writes Mrs.
Mary E. Wilcox, of Emo Rainy River),
Algoma Co., Ont o 81 suffered untold
misery for many years with uterine
trouble, until commenced taking DR..
Pierce's good medicine and used the
local treatment as advised. took two
bottles of Favorite Prescription and
two of Golden Medical Discovery
also sent for one box of your Antiseptic
and Healing Suppositories. I have only
used two and that was two months ago.
Have not had to use any since, but I
shall keep them in the house. I would
advise every woman who suffers from
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with female weakness for about four years
before l asked for your advice" writes
MIR. ]. w. McGregor, of Cad Street and
Princeton Ave, Chicago, Ills. vYou
advised her to take DIR. Pierces Favorite
Prescription which she did faithfully for
nine months, and now we must acknow1-
edge to you that she is a neil aO0mGS.
We cannot thank you enough"
YOU CAN BE CURED
by UFavorite Prescription" if your dis
ease is durable by medicine; and the
facts show that only two women in every
hundred who have given Favorite Pre-
scription fair and faithful trial have
failed of complete cure. Women who
have suffered for years and have had the
advantages of the most skil1fu1 medical
treatment, have at last tried vFavorite
Prescription and been cured. Women
who had been pronounced incurable, and
given up to lifelong suffering, have been
perfectly and permantly cured by the
use of DR.. Pierce's Favorite Prescription.
Sick and ailing women are invited to
consult DIR. Pierce, by letter, free. Ali
correspondence is held in sacred secrecy
and the written condolences of women
are guarded by the same strict profess
sional privacy observed by DR.. Pierce in
verbal consultation with sick women at
the Invalids' Hotel and Surgical Insti-
tute, Buffalo, N Y. Address DR.. R. v.
Pierce, Buffalo, N. Y.
Accept no substitute for vFavorite
Prescription" though the dealer says that
it is Ujust as good" If he told the whole
truth he'd say the substitute was better
not better for you but better for him,
because of the little more profit paid by
the sale of less meritorious medicines.
ARE YOU II?
Then at the expense of one-cent for
each year of your life you can pay the
expense of mailing free copy of DR..
Pierce's Common Sense Medical Adviser,
in paper covers. This great medical
work contains more than a thousand
large pages and over 100 illustrations,
and is sent absolutely free on receipt Of
stamps to pay expense of mailing only.
Send I'll one-cent stamps for the book in
paper covers, or thirty-one stamps for
the cloth-bound volume. Address DR..
r. v. Pierce, Buffalo, N Y.
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THE CARE OF PEARLS.
Even Drop of Lemonade Is Sufficient to
Ruin Their Appearance.

Ruin Their Appearance.
American girls are fond of pearls and
have no superstitious fears that they
mean tears - 1t may not be known to
the possessors of these gems that pearls
are regarded as "well" or CLIP from a
jewelers. point of view. Like human
beings, they require fresh air to be kept
alive. In other words, they must be
worn and not remain too long in clos
ed case. Judges of pearls can tell by
looking at them whether the gem is
"lucido' (clear and healthy, or wheth-
er it is beginning to be an invalid Ex-
perts talk of pearls dying, they some
times becoming discolored and turning
black.
A black pearl may be handsome
stone, but it has not the evanescent
rainbow suggestions to be seen in a
milky or rosy pearl. Italian women,
who know great deal about pearls,
wear their necklaces and "ropos" con-
stantly. This gives them the light and
air required by the mysterious forma-
tions, and yet they are not exposed to
the chances of discoloration by being
touched with acid.
1t is easier to keep pearls in fair con-
dition when they are set in lacepin
or in necklaces 1t is hard to care for
them in finger ring. One must be care
full to remove them not only i'll washing
the hands, but they should never be
worn when there is likelihood of being
touched by food or drink.
About a month ago the owner of
beautiful pink pearl worn in finger
ring was alarmed to find the stone was
darkening and becoming covered with
an Opaque dark crust. She took it to her
jeweler, who pronounced it a case of
"scale. He told her the delicate sub
stance bad been in contact with some
acid, and as she insisted this had not
happened he reminded her that drop
of lemonade would be sufficient to do
the mischief. She then remembered
drinking lemonade while the ring was
on her ungloved hand.
The only remedy for scale is remov-
al of whole layer of the pearl. This is
an excessively delicate business, which
should be done by an expert workman,
and never undertaken by apprentice
hands. 1t is costly business and re-
duces the size and value OF the pearl
that must undergo the peration.-Phil-
adelphia Record.
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"Shiftless as ever, Thomas?" said the
wealthy uncle. "Still making failure
of life, as you always have done?''
IL don't know that IN such terri
BILE failure, sulkily answered the poor
relation.
"Why, you have nobody but yourself
to support, and you can't make both
ends meet. y
"Well, the rainbow has only itself to
support, and it doesn't make both ends
meet either Chicago Tribune.
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Church Lights and
Social Leaders.

Every community, however small, has
its group of energetic women, who lead
and light the way in every local enter
prise. If 1t is charity, bazaar, church
fair, or any other benevolent undertake
ing, they work day and night to make it
a success. They are not the women who
neglect their homes to serve the public.
They simply do double service. Many
a husband knows what it Is to bring his
wife home from a fair or bazaar near the
hour of midnight and see her drop, in
sheer exhaustion, into the first chair she
comes to- While the lights were bright
and the talk and laughter were all about
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A Canadian minister had just mar
ried a couple. The registers were
signed, and nothing remained but the
giving and taking of the fee. The
bridegroom, strapping young fellow,
asked:
"How much is itT
The parson glanced at the smiling
bride and slyly answered:
whatever you think it is worth"
Now, it should have been worth a
great deal, for the girl was young and
pretty.
81 reckon it's worth about shil
lings," said the swain, holding out two
half crowns.
The clergyman looked blankly at the
coins, then turned to the fair one.
"I'll leave it to you, madam" he said.
"What do you think it's worth?'
What did this young and blushing
bride do? She reached out, took the
coins. handed one half crown to the
minister and put the other into her
pocket
"a thrifty wife," said the minister,
with sigh, sis her husbands crown"
Perhaps he ought to have said half
crown.-London Tit-Bits.
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From the cathedral tower at Antwerp
80 bells have for over 200 years rung
out the grandest, music for the benefit
of the people living on the green fields
which border the Scheldt. Once year,
in the month of February, the authori-
ties select the music, and the organ
plays every hour from the old masters
of Christian song.
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Fires in all parts of New York city
are most common between s and 8 p. m.
and are least common between the
hours of 6 and p. m. Between and
6 in the morning there are very few
fires; between 6 and Z there are the
fewest, but after Z o'clock the number
steadily increases until 9 O'Clock at
night, when a rapid diminution begins,
the increase being again resumed at z
o'clock.-New York Sun.
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Lopped 1t on.

Towne-Has he sent you check for
your services?
Browne-Yes, but it isn't for the
amount expected, although sent him
bill.
Towne-Your writings bad. Maybe
he didn't decipher the amount.
Browne-Im afraid he did de-cipher
it. l wrote 500 very plainly, and he
sent $10.-Philadelphi Press.
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The ROYAL REIGN of Velvet.

Velvet in all colors is immensely
popular this winter and is used in every
conceivable way and in all sorts of gar
ments. Young and old wear it with
equal propriety, and the evening gown
of velvet, which has heretofore been rel
egated to the wardrobe of the matronly
woman, finds special favor with young
women. Black velvet gowns are made
elegant with jet passementerie, and old
point lace is brought out ON the waist
Some of the skirts are perfectly plain,
while others are profusely trimmed
with jets, black silk embroidery or
chiffon ruches. But i'll every instance at
least an attempt at a train must be
seen.-Woman Home Companion.
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The equinoctial storms are no longer
believed in by scientific persons. The
equinoxes are the dates of the year
when the sun crosses the equator at
one of the equinoctial points. They &C.
cur about March d and Sept, 81, and,
though storms have been known to oc-
cur about those times, they are no
longer considered as due to the per
fectly natural occurrence of the cross
ing
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liberation Of the uterus and piles to ne
DR.. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery.
It is the best medicine in the world.
Also write to Dr. Pierce for his advice.
1 have felt better in the past seven
menths than 1 have for years. Every
month used to have to go to bed and
have hot poultices and take laudanum to
ease the pain. l don't go to bed now,
nor do l take laudanum. Every spring
l used to be troubled with piles, but /
did not have any trouble of that kind
this spring. keep DR.. Pierce's COM
pound Extract of Smart Weed in the
house. 1t 10 wonderful medicine"
THE WAY OF ESCAPE
from the diseases which afiict women,
is marked by the footsteps of hundreds
of thousands of women who have been
raised to strength from weakness and
from sickness to health, by the use of DR..
Pierce's Favorite Prescription. 1t estab-
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A Great Find,

Lady of the House Ito servant girl
applying for situation)-You we're in
the service Of my friend, Baroness z.
Why were you sent away?
Servant-Please, ma am, for listen
ing at the doors.
Lady-Ah then l will take you, only
you must promise to tell me all you
heard. London Fun.
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WeHs' Hair Tone.
Hone FIR fhe Raid.

The elite toilet requisite. superb, high
class preparation. A new, delightful, wonder
full and only successful preparation in the pres
ervation and inauguration of shaggy, brittle,
hair coming out in one application. Puts new
life and gives a vigorous, growthy, healthy
look to hair, whiskers and moustache. Frees
head from dandruf. Dries quickly so that
women may use it as well as men; keeps the
hair glossy and clean, and the scalp free from
disease. Cleanly, cooling and refreshing in
on any well equipped toilet stand. 5Oc. and 81
bottles at Druggists, or large size prepaid by
express on receipt of $1.00 E. S. WELLS,
Chemist, Jersey City, N. ].
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Chaps, Chafes, Rough SKIN.

ton by LaHrel2e oil Balm. The effect is in
Simultaneous, no oil, no grease, no muss, no
soiling of anything. Can be used any time.
While you are at work if your hands feel rough,
chapped, apply it, it dries in instantly and your
hands are smooth and soft, need not be covered
up nor washed off and not soil the finest silks
or satins. Absolutely harmless, pure, non-in-
furious and simple. Elegant after shaving and
splendid for chafes of children. 25c., 5Oc. and
81, 90 bottles.
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They were playing at the chess game Of
love. She was rich: he was poor She
suggested the opera for their next gam
bit. He stopped to consider what his
next move should be; then, taking out
his watch. he looked at it thoughtfully
and said, pawn tonight. thew York
Commercial Advertiser.
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Fogg-It isn't such a difficult thing
to read character by the handwriting
l believe can do it myself.
Bass Well, try your skill on that let
ter received a short time ago What
do you say to that?
Fogg-In the first place. the writer is
a very unwomanly woman
Bass-How do you come to that con-
clusion?
Fogg-None of the words are under
scored.-Boston Transcript.
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A remedy recommended tor patients sffiict-
Ell with The grippe, is Kemp's Balsam, which
is especially adapted to the throat and lungs.
Don't wait for the rirst symptoms of the dis
ase geta bottle today and keepft for use the
it is needed. If neglected the grippe
has tendency to bring on pneumonia,
KEMP'S BAi SAM prevents this keeping
he cough loose and the lungs free from in
f1ammatfOn. All druggists sell KEMP'S BAL
A M at 25c and SOC,
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How many children are at this season fever
ish ana constipated, with bad stomach and
headache. Mother Grays Sweet Powders for
Children will always cure Ii worms are pres
emit they will certainly remove them. At all
druggists, % cents. Sample mailed free. Ad-
dress, Allen s. Olmsted, LIE Roy, N Y
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lishes perfect regularity.
dries the drains which
weaken women, heals In
farnmation and liberation
and cures female weakness.
It cures backache, head
ache, and the other painful
consequence of womanly
disease. 1t tranquilizes the
nerves, encourages the ap-
petite, and induces refresh-
ing sleep.
III feel it my duty to
send you this testimony"
writes Mrs. Tillie Linney,
of Gravel Switch, Marion
Co., KY. III had been a
sufferer from uterine trouble
for twelve years, having
doctored with the most
skillful physicians but find
ing only temporary relief
from medicines prescribed
by them. l was advised
by a friend to take Favor
lite Prescription which I
did, and after taking six
bottles I find that it has
effected a complete cure"
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'Tm afraid" she sighed, that I'm
getting DID,"
"WhyT he asked.
"When | go to the grocery now. the
clerks don't nearly break their necks
trying to beat one another in getting
nv orders. "-Chicago Times Herald.
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what shall we have for Dessert ?

This question arises in the family every day.
Let us answer it today. Try Jell-O, delic-
ious dessert. Prepared in two minutes. No
bakingI ado hot water and set to cool. Fla
vors:-Lemon, Orange, Raspberry and Straw
berry. At your grocers. 10 cents.
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When man is out of money, he
doesn't show any, but when he is out
of temper he shows lot of it.-Chica-
20 News.