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Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1901-05-28

Every precious stone is now success
fully initiated, and sold from ten cents
to as much as twenty-five dollars each,
according to size and quality" said an
Akron jeweler Monday.
Artificial diamonds have been made
for more than 100 years, the process
being first discovered by German
named Strass, and the peculiar kind
of glass that bears his name exactly
resembles the diamond when cut.
Strass is nothing more than rock crys-
tai to which borax, arsenic, potash and
other chemicals have been added. The
ingredients when thoroughly pulver-
lied and sifted are placed In crucible
and subjected to enormous heat in a
furnace. The melting occupies from
20 to 80 hours, and skill Is needed to
see that the proper temperature ia
maintained or the strass comes out
cloudy and utterly useless.
"At the expiration Of that time the
cruclble is removed and placed in a
chamber, where the heated atmosphere
is permitted to gradually cool and
solidify the strass, which is then ready
to be cut as required Exactly the
same process is followed in making
emeralds, except that large proper
tons of fine white sand and green
oxide of chrome are melted into the
strass. Opals are by far the most
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1901-05-28
PASTE DIAMONDS.
limitations of Precious Stones That Will Bear the
Closest Scrutiny---The Process of Manufacture.

difficult stones to initiate; indeed, It
is only within the last decade that
they have been successfully copied
with the aid Of electricity and solu-
tion of silicates.
Every one is aware that when real
diamonds are cut a quantity of fine
dust Is given off which is apparently
valueless. But lapidaries collect the
sweepings from the tables and sell
them to the makers of artificial gems
at $50 per pound, who purify them
with an acid that destroys everything
but the pure diamond dust. This is
mixed with another acid and placed
under enormous pressure, which re-
suits in sheets of diamond dust as
thin as paper being given off. The
facets of the sham stone are then
covered with transparent cement and
layer of diamond paper laid upon
them. When dry the false jewels,
veneered with the real dust, are so
similar to the genuine stones that they
are often set in pure gold, for no one
but an expert can detect the differ
renee, and then only with the aid of
powerful magnifying glass. This is,
of course, the most expensive artifi-
cal gem made, inasmuch as one that
has been properly veneered cannot he
purchased for less than $3.50 for the
unset stone"
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1901-05-28
Price of Fruit Jars
Doubled, and There Will
be the Deuce to Paw.

Now If the manufacturers of glass
fruit Jars are wise, they will fee
from the wrath to come. Trusts may
trihe with men and double the prices
Of everything from chewing tobacco
to armor plate, but when they invade
the realm of women and fool around
with the prices of things she cannot
do without, it is time to set the alarm
clock for war.
II am going to put on coat Of
mail before the season of selling
fruit jars start; I shall need be pre-
pared to be mobbed, horse-whipped or
lynched," said dealer in these goods
Tuesday. "The price has been dou-
bled up as compared with last season
and the women will not hear of 1t
without fight. The trust has done it,"
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1901-05-28
Boys.

Save Cordoya Coffee wrappers and get
a handsome knife free with your name
and address on. --'-~- 49,
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1901-05-28

So there will be trouble. Some wo-
men will be content to wash up the
old cans, utilize olive bottles and one
thing and another, and thus save
themselves the necessity of buying
new jars; but there are those who, If
their rage should be united, will
make crockery dealers and manufac-
turers wish they were with Charlie
Ross.
There are few independent manu-
facturers of jars, but so far as known
they, also, have advanced prices.
There will be less fruit put up this
season, therefore, and the price of
canned goods which took u leap to.
ward Mars last fall, can be depended
upon to so on up. This is the private
opinion of conservative dealers.
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1901-05-28
Fought For His Life.

"My father and sister both died of
Consumption" writes !. T. Weather
wax, of Wyandotte. Mich, "and was
saved from the same frightful fate only
by DR.. Kings New Discovery. An at
tack Of Pneumonia left an obstinate
cough and very severe lung trouble,
which an excellent doctor could not
help, but a few months use of this
wonderful medicine made me as well
as ever and I gained much in weight"
Infallible for Coughs, Colds and all
Throat and Lung trouble. Trial bottles
free. Guaranteed bottles SOC and 81. 90
at all druggists.
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1901-05-28

James Smith pleaded guilty of in
toxication and paid 81 and costs, Pat
rick Ryan, tailor, ditto.
Otto Jackson charged with assault
and battery by Joseph Moxenberger
who in return he had charged with de.
stroying property, pleaded not guilty
The case was continued.
The trial of the case of 7. q. Thomas
charged with blocking the Mill st.
crossing was set for Saturday. The
crossing was held eight minutes. il
is alleged, and it is also claimed that
Thomas defied Officer Edwards to ar.
rest him.
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1901-05-28
GENTLEMENS AGREEMENT.
Where the Expression Had It's Orisin---It's a
Back Number In These Days of Combination.

'They found that the 'gentlemen's
agreement would not work." said an
Akron man recently in discussing q
certain combination that 10 now on
the tapis.
"What do you mean by the express
sion 'gentlemen's agreementT" was
asked.
"That comes from the combinations
that were made o few years ago. A
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1901-05-28

number of the manufacturers would
get together and agree not to out
prices. The only guarantee that any
one had that the agreement would
be kept was the word of the officials
who represented the different compan-
les. This worked all right for short
time when it was found that some
thing more than mans word was
necessary to hold tho companies to an
agreement"
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1901-05-28
Smith & Teeple

A handsome trimmed
chIdren's unmmed
most REASONABLE PRICES.
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1901-05-28

"City of Akron against VIM. Ste
Steffer- -Sterber-why don't you write
so man can read it?' the Court
growled.
'"The name is Stebcr," said Clerk
Will Irwin.
How do you spell it?" asked Prose,
cutor c. G. Benner of the prisoner.
"S-t-r-e-b-y," said that individual.
"You are charged with carrying con-
cealed weapons" said His Honor.
Eyes sir, guilty"
"E'ive and COSTS"
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1901-05-28
]. B. STORER. D. A. HIBBARD
]. B. SIORER ! GO.
JEWELLERS
Leather Belts
With Sterling Buckles
For Men,.

For the men who are correct dress
ers we have such belts.
They come in plain and patent leath-
er, black and colors.
They are provided with sterling sill
yer interchangeable buckles by which
one may have different colored belt
for each suit.
In width and finish they are stand
ards of what Is newest and most ap-
proved in this line.
These belts are also to be had In
lengths suitable for women.
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1901-05-28
TEARS
Could Not Save
Eddie Megosda.
He inherited the Orig
inaI Sin.

"Edie seems to be walking proof Of
the doctrine of the Presbyterian church
that man inherits the original sin"
said His Honor, with quiet smile, as
he looked upon the weeping, dirty
faced boy before him in Police Court
Tuesday.
Eddie Is 12 years old, but no larger
little brother confessed having broken
into several stores Sunday. The lat
ter was released. Eddie pleaded gull
ty of petit larceny with a show of
| penitence which might have melted an
old time English beadle.
Prisonkeeper John Il. Washer added
to the weight of the boys woe by say
ing that for six years he had been a
student of burglary and was becoming,
through much practice, so adept that
ii kept the officers busy keeping tab on
him.
Eddie was forthwith bound over to
Probate Court with the recommends,
tion that he be sent to Lancaster.
Two other little shavers-Eddie
and John Hall, who live with their
grandfather on North Summit ST. We're
also before the Court. They had been
IN before but the case was continued.
Now they owned up to throwing
stones.
"There has been much complaint
about you boys" said His Honor.
"There may be some excuse for you in
that you have been neglected more
or less by your father, but I want you
to grow up to be useful men. Be good,
boys, and people will love you.'
Thereupon a fine of the costs was
imposed and grandfather paid it when
the boys had scampered away to
school. IN
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1901-02-12
Mora, EJECT Of Pistol Totinr.

When a man carries a pistol con-
stantly, slipping 1t into his pocket eV-
cry morning and taking it out at night,
feeling itsFconstant pressure against
his person, these things tend to famil-
iarize his mind with the idea of killing
and lowers his conception of the sa-
credness Of human life. What does
man carry pistol for? To shoot some
other man with. The miserable thing
is made expressly to kill human be
ings. 1t has no other earthly purpose.
What hardening effect it must have,
then, upon the conscience and heart OF
man who carries it constantly in his
pocket and lives in daily contact with
it and with the idea it constantly sug-
gests to his mind! Let US warn young
men and old ones not to carry pistols,
and then you will avoid doing a rash
act.-Marietta (Ga.) Journal.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1901-02-12

pericnced change of fortuneT Relying
on the thoroughly democratic air peryad-
ing all summer resorts, l nonchalantly
asked the clerk for an Introduction to
Mr.. Bradley. 1t was granted, and was
received with an INABILITY that was a
strange contrast to the suspicious | had
entertained of him. Later in the even
ing recalled the date and telegram to
explain the apparent mystery.
"'Why, certainly, my boy, he replied
good naturally, i will do so with pleas
ure. While returning from the west
CHANGED to meet on board the overland
express a gentleman who had formerly
been interested in stock raising with my
father. This old Kentuckian had kept
In close touch with sporting events and
stated that, barring accidents, he had fig
ured to certainty the winner in a prom
inent eastern race. This information was
so straight and conclusive and the mo-
tives which prompted him to impart it so
far above suspicion that l determined to
take advantage of it. Recalling an old
cipher, | wrote out the telegram which
was sent from your Office. Translated it
meant to place heavy bet on DR.. Rice
in the Brooklyn Handicap. Thanks to
your kindness in forwarding it so prompt
ly, father was able to catch the morning
betting at 10 to l, and as consequence
we won $4,000 on the race
"As this was not enough to crush me,
he added after moments enjoyment of
my discontinue:
but come with me and meet another
principal in the tragedy you have been
enjoying for some weeks.
LAS stood in the parlor Of The Lodge
few moments later and looked into the
clear depths of Alice Bradley's dark
eyes the thought came like benediction
that new chapter was opening in my
life, chapter that has grown better and
brighter with each passing year. Nick
III
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1901-02-12

Professionalism, or Parsi-ism, is
monotheistic form of religion, not a poly
theistic one, as some people would have
It. There is but one God under different
names, Mazda, Adura and Abura Mazda.
He manifested himself to Bactrian or
Median philosopher or reformer. Zoroas-
ter, who is considered to have constituted
a religious doctrine, set forth in the sa-
cred books of Avesta. According to He
rodotus, the Persians had no images OF
the gods, no temples, no affairs, and they
considered the use of them sign Of fol
". The modern Parsis are of the same
opinion as their forefathers and repudi-
ate any representation of the deity.
Zoroaster's speculative philosophy
teaches US that the world is the work Of
two hostile principles, Spenta-Maynu,
the good principle. and Angra- Maynu,
the evil principle, both serving under
one God, the first being the author OF
whatever is bright and shining. good and
useful; the second of what is dark and
noxious. The conflict will end in the tri-
umph Of the good principle. = North
American Review.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1901-02-12
FRANCE THE TEuToNlc.
Parts of the Republic Are as Mucl
German aa the Fatherland

Parts of the Republic Are as Much
German as the Fatherland.
The northern third Of France and
half of Belgium are today more leu
tonic than the south Of Germany. This
should not occasion surprise when we
remember the incessant downpOur of
Teutonic tribes during the whole his
toric period. 1t was constant pro-
cession of Goths from all points of the
compass = Franks, Burgundians and
others.
France was entirely overrun by the
Franks, with the exception of Brittany.
by the middle of the sixth century. All
through the middle ages this part of
France was German in language and
customs as well. The very name of
the country is Teutonic. 1t has the
same origin as Franconia, in southern
Germany. In 812 the council of Tours,
away down south, ordained that every
bishop should preach both in the Ro-
manic and the Teutonic languages.
The Franks reserved their German
speech 400 years after the conquest.
Charlemagne was German. His
courtiers were all Germans. He lived
and governed from outside the limits
of modern France The Able Sieyes
uttered an chronological truism when,
In the course of the French revolution,
he cried out against the French aris-
tocracy, LET us send them back to
their German marshes whence they
camer'-London Express.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1901-02-12
VIC Servant Problem In Mexico.

"You foreigners" says a Mexican
woman quoted by a correspondent Of
the Boston Transcript, "are so silly
with servants. You come here and ex-
claim, How awfully the Mexicans
treat their servantsp and then you give
them iron beds and mattresses stuffed
with wool. where with us they have
to lie down to sleep on their straw
mats, as is best for them. You think
it nice to give them ribbons for their
hair and neck, and some of you put
the women in corsets and make them
wear caps and apronsl This turns the
heads of the young women, and they
think they are real senoras Qadies)
and grow impudent. That is how you
spoil our servants, who, when they get
angry with us, talk up loudly and say
they will go and live in foreign
family All, you foreigners are so
shortsighted. Soon you will see how
there are no more good, loyal, old fash
toned servantsl You pet race which
needs firmness and discipline, real
kindness, not pamperfng."
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1901-02-12
When She Laughed.

In his volume ON Ellen Terry Glenn
ent Scott tells of somewhat self sat
isfied, vainglorious and grumpy actor
who complained that the noted Eng
lish actress continually laughed in one
of his most important scenes. He had
not the courage to tell her his objec-
lions, so he wrote her letter of heart
broken complaint, in which he said:
81 am extremely sorry to tell you that
it is impossible for me to make any eff
feet in such and such a scene if you
persist in laughing at me on the stage
and so spelling the situation. May
ask you to change your attitude, as
the scene is most trying oneY
Miss Terry's answer was very direct
and to the point, for she wrote; You
are quite mistaken. ! never laugh at
you on the stage. wait till get
home"
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1901-02-12
Germs ON PLAYING Cards.

A French physician of an observing ma
ture noticed that most persons who
play cards are in the habit of mois-
tening one or two of their fingers on their
lips for the purpose of dealing the cards
more easily, and it at once occurred to
him that germs of certain diseases might
be thus transmitted from one player to
another.
He investigated the matter thoroughly.
and as a result of his experiments. which
lasted for some months, he announced
that diseases are frequently transmitted
in this way and that the disease which is
transmitted the most frequently and
against which consequently the greatest
precautions should be taken is consump-
ton. Why the germ Of consumption
should attain to such special prominence
at card tables is not explained. but the
doctor claims to have ample proof that it
can be transmitted from one player to
another more easily than any other germ.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1901-02-12
Aaron Burr's Trial For Treason.

"No court in this country had ever pre-
scented a more impressive spectacle than
on the day when the third vice president
of the United States was arraigned as a
traitor" writes William Perrine in The
Ladies' Home journal. "On the bench
sat the most renowned of all the long list
of jurists of the supreme court. John
Marshall, and the courtroom and the
streets about the famous capitol lRich-
mondl, which still exists among the most
yenerated of the historic buildings of Vir-
ginia, were crowded with witnesses. law
yers and public men from all parts of the
country. Burr was not proved to be
guilty under the indictment and the evil
dence submitted.
His beautiful. brilliant daughter, The
odosia, radiant with joy, appeared in the
streets of the town for long walk with
her father amid the admiration of his
partisans. She had won the hearts of
even his enemies with her beauty and
still more with her filial devotion The
further proceedings which had been med
itated by the federal government were
dropped, for Burr's most uncharitable
foes must have been satisfied with the
new outbursts of popular feeling which
his acquittal raised against him. He
could not appear in public without TAX
ing the risk of personal insult or Of being
mobbed "
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1901-02-12

Many years ago the Montana club in
Helena entertained Mark Twain after
lecture. He met many old friends
there and one old enemy. The latter
had come all the way from Virginia
City, New, on purpose to settle an old
score. When the glasses were filed
and Marks health proposed, this man
interrupted the proceedings by saying:
"Hold on minute. Before weSgo fur
Their l want to say to you, Sam Glenn
ems, that you did me dirty trick over
there in Silver City, and I've come
here to have settlement with you"
There was a deathly silence for a
moment, when Mark said In his DELHI
crate drawl: Lets see. That-was-
before I-reformed wasn't-it?"
Senator Sanders suggested that mas
much as the other fellow had never re-
formed Clemens and all the others
present forgive him and drink together,
which all did.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1901-02-12
GODS MAGIC.

Crowned with floating splendor Of fame, the sun
Sinks, and from west to east the MINDLESS air
Flushes with tremr >aus warmth Of rosy gray;
Golden and purple anu blue the low clouds hang
Above the low ebbed sea that glimmering heaves
With long numerous shudder of ripping surge
Beyond the wide moist sands Eastward the night
Climbs slow with hooded brows, and languid day
Kirtles her robe fantastical and leans
To take the embrace OF darkness. Heaven and
earth
Keep silence; strangely sounds as in dream
Thy dear voice low and grave, and hushed and
charmed
We wait the mystic change that brings the stars
And Groom Of shadowy seas. Dear, in this pause,
This magical suspense Of dreaming skies,
Our spirits draw nearer, and more close we feel
The Eternal Presence. Yelling flesh is naught
And naught the hurrying hours; the abysm Of
space
Measureless is span, and rolling suns,
And swaying seas, and seeming solid earth
Are shadows tricked in hues that change and fade,
Are dreams that melt before the Enchanter'S
breath
That moves the faery world and thee and me.
Charles Camp Tareli in Spectator.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1901-02-12
EnxIishmen In America.

Among Englishmen who come to
America British author, Mr.. Vachell,
enumerates ''the parsons son, the for
tune hunter, the moral idiot. the re-
mittance man and the sportsman"
1t is a clever and comprehensive
catalogue, but it omits one Of the types
most interesting to Americans-the ir-
responsible younger son" sent to "the
States to seek fortune he has never
been able to find at home or to avoid
a maturing crop of wild oats.-New
York Herald.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1901-02-12
HIS FIRST RECOGNITION.
The Turning Point In the Career of
Nathaniel Hawthorne.

The Turning Point In the Career of
Nathaniel Hawthorne.
The first reading of 1.-THE Scarlet
Letter. has been told in T. W. Hig-
ginson's book Of essays, Contempt
raries." The reading was given to
the authors dearest critic, his wife.
During the entire winter when he was
at work upon the book he seemed op-
pressed by some secret anxiety.
There was a knot in his forehead
all the time" said Mrs. Hawthorne.
Finally one evening he went to her
and said that he had written something
which he would like to read aloud.
The work amounted to very little, but
still he would like to read 1t. All that
evening he read, but as the romance
was unfinished at bedtime his wife
made no comments, knowing that he
disliked criticism until one had heard
the whole.
The next night he read again, and
now her suspense grew SO uncomfortable
that in the midst of moving scene
she sank from her low stool to the
floor, pressed her hands to her ears
and declared that she could not bear
to hear it.
Hawthorne put down the manuscript
and looked at her in amazement.
do you really feel it so much?" he
asked. "Then there must be something
in it."
The next day the manuscript was de-
livered to the publisher, and on the
following morning Mr.. James T. FIELDS,
the publisher, appeared at the authors
door When he was admitted, he caught
the little boy Of the family in his arms
and asked, You splendid little fellow,
do you know what father you have?'
He had sat up all night to read the
manuscript and had posted out to
Salem in the early morning. After his
interview with the publisher Haw-
thorne came down stairs with firm
step and walked about, his face illu-
mined by new hope and vigor. The
world had found him out. Recognition
was at the door