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The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1901-04-30

the slow shutting tread of age, and sub
ordinate duties and pleasures to the
capricious whims of second childhood.
The difference in these two old men IS
simply difference of health. The one
old man is hale and hearty, enjoys his
food, sleeps soundly, and keeps his grip
on public affairs The other old man is
weak and feeble, his appetite and diges-
ton are poor, his sleep is unsound, he
has no interest In life or affairs save as
his personal comfort may be affected.
Healthy old age, whether in man or
woman, is largely a question of sound
stomach and pure, rich blood. To pre-
serve this condition nature generally
needs some assistance, in order to get
rid of the accumulations of waste, effete
and poisonous substances which, tend
to clog the body and impede the circu-
lation. 1t is also needfu1 to keep the
stomach and digestive and nutritive
tracts in a healthy condition, in order to
properly nourish the body.
HEALTH IN OLD AGE
can, therefore, best be enjoyed by the
use of DIR. Pierce's Golden Medical Dis
covery. This medicine cures diseases of
the stomach and other organs of diges-
ton and nutrition. It enables the per-
feet digestion and assimilation of the
food upon which physical strength de-
ponds. 1t cleanses the blood of clog
ging and poisonous matter, and by in
creasing the activity of the blood-making
glands, increases the supply of pure,
rich blood, which is the final form of
nutrition and the life of the whole phys
ical man.
81 suffered for six years with constipa-
ton and indigestion, during which time
1 employed several physicians, but they
could not reach my case" writes Mr.. G.
Popplewell, of Eureka Springs, Carroll
Co. Ark. III felt that there was no help
for me; could not retain food on my
stomach; had vertigo and would fall
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1901-04-30
HOIST WITH HIS OWN pErARD.
How a Reporter Evened Up Matters
With a Captioua Editor.

I'm one of our western cities some
years ago." said a Kansas City man, "a
friend of mine was employed as a report
er on one of the local papers. The next
man above him was constantly taking
him to task for alleged derelictions in
duty and especially for mistakes in gram
mar punctuation and similar things. The
editor who was forever quarreling with
my friend, while man of force and able
to write in virile manner, was never
theless deficient in education, and his
grammar was occasionally as bad as
some of that of Charles Dickens. One
day he had been particularly vicious in
his criticisms of my friend. The follow
ing morning there appeared an editorial
from his pen, in which the following SEN
tence occurred:
"'To be a true American one should
visit the Rocky mountains and contem-
plate its beauty and grandeur
Here was the chance my friend had
been waiting for, and so he cut the quota
ton out and sent it to the owner of the
paper, to whom both men were response
bic, with the following comments:
The first thought suggested by this
strange statement is that its author
should visit a school of grammar and
contemplate its beauty and grandeur.
This originality in the use of a singular
pronoun standing for plural antecedent
might be used TO advantage in a reversion
of the style, like the following, for exam
pie:
"'To be a true American one should
visit the editor Of The Blank and con-
template their beauty and grandeur
Aside from the offense to English in this
admonition to the American people, will
the sentiment itself stand analysis? If
the dictum be true that to be a true
American one should visit the Rocky
mountains and contemplate its beauty and
grandeur. what is to become of the fol-
lowing:
9" The man who cannot afford to in
dulge in this visit and contemplation?
""Tbe busy man who cannot find time
to go on mountain gazing tour?
""The many good citizens who are
blind?
"The attention of the owner was ar
rested. and he made inquiries which re-
suited in his Strengthening out matters
between the two men. While this drastic
criticism perhaps did not improve the ed
itor's grammar, it certainly did improve
my friends position while on the paper"
New York Tribune.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1901-04-30

When a Fourth avenue car bound
down town approached Eighteenth
street the other morning a determined
looking woman asked the conductor to
stop the car at the corner. He nodded
and evidently forgot all about it. The
car rolled past Eighteenth street with
out stopping. The woman arose and
with an angry glance at the conductor
began ringing up fares. She evidently
had tried that method of stopping
car before. for when the conductor
gave the motorman a sharp signal to
stop and the car did stop abruptly she
said triumphantly:
81 thought that would remind you"
But you have rung up five fareR"
said the conductor.
''Then why didn't you stop at Eight
eenth streetY' asked the woman. ut
serves you just right" and off she
fiounced. The other passengers smiled
appreciatively. and the conductor made
a careful count of the money in his
pockets.-New York Sun.
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Gutenberg,s Achievement.

In The Century Augustine Birrell
thus characterizes Gutenberg's epoch
making invention:
The invention of movable types was
the greatest distributive invention that
ever was or probably ever can be made.
1t circulated knowledge among the
children Of men and plays much the
same part in human life as does the
transmission of force in the world of
physics. 1t was marvellous how quick
ly thought was circulated even In the
age of manuscripts. A book like st.
Augustine's "City of God" was soon
copied thousands of times and trav-
eled all through Europe after quicker
fashion than most printed books can
today reasonably hope to do, but St.
Augustine occupied a unique position,
and hand copying, though great
trade, employing thousands Of scribes,
could never have fed the new learning
or kept alive the reformation. The
age Of Gutenberg was an age of ideas
and demanded books, just as our day is
a day of mechanics and demands cheap
motion, telegraphy and telephones. Gu
tenberg's first printing Office is marked
by tablet. Go and gaze upon it and
think of the New York Herald, the
London Times and the Bible for two
Dence
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Higgins Is troubled with an over
weening curiosity about other peoples
affairs Occasionally he gets taken
down, however.
He met Smithers in a car; he does not
know Smithers very well, but he "me
boys" him as If he were lifelong
friend.
Busy, eh?' he inquired at once.
eyes," said Smithers deliberately;
'been looking after horse for my
wife"
"Have, Ell? Well. let me look over
him for you"
"Oh, I've bought him."
mot without trying him? Was he
soundT
"He appeared to be-"
doesn't shyT
mo. certainly not"
"Good MOUTH"
eyes, l think so."
"Good mannersT
But here Smithers arrived at his
street. When the reached the door, he
called back to Higgins:
II neglected to mention the kind of
horse my wife wanted. 1t was a
clotheshorse."
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1901-04-30

There are some women who seem to be
perennially youthful. The grown daugh-
tiers are companions as well as children.
and the color in the mothers cheeks, the
brightness in her eyes, the roundness of
her form all speak of Astounding health.
What is her secret5 She is at the middle
age of life when so many women are worn,
wasted and faded, and yet time has only
ripened her charms The secret of this
matronly health and beauty may be told
in the brief phrase, DR.. Pierces Favorite
Prescription. The general health of wo-
man is SO intimately related to the local
health of the delicate womanly organs,
that where these are diseased, the whole
body must suffer 'Favorite Prescrip-
ton" dries the facilitating drains, heals
liberation and Inflammation, cures female
weakness and imparts to the delicate fe-
male organs natural vigor and vitality.
Women who haYe lost their health and
their beauty have been made robust and
rosy checked" by the use of this marvel
Gus medicine
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Don't take a light out of the house
before one has been brought in" is the
solemn injunction ON New Years night
of the peasantry of Lincolnshire, Eng
land. Death is certain to result if this
advice is not followed
To permit woman to enter the house
first on New Years day is said to be a
sure forerunner of evil The same re-
suits are said to follow the throwing out
of dirty water, ashes or any kind of ref
use.
In sweeping the house the dust must
be swept from the door to the hearth or
death will be the CONSEQUENCE. A custom
largely observed at present is after max
ing the fire in the morning to spread the
ashes over the threshold. IL in the
morning there is an impression of foot
leading from the house, death In that
family is so firmly believed in that prep
arations are made for it, but if the foot
mark leads toward the house birth
during the year is sure, and prepara-
tons are made accordingly.
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practical power
81 i'll wanted read
bic suddenly without the night
whole
but
in hands
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THE RIGHT THING TO PUT ON.
(Bsnson's Plaster Is Pains Master.)

From the natural impulse to ''put some
thing ON painful spot all applications
for the relief of pain have arisen.
The most successful have ever been poul-
tees or plasters, and the best of these is
Benson's Porous Plaster.
No other has anything like the same
power as a curative agent; it is highly and
scientifically medicated, and its standard
is advanced year by year.
Use Benson's Plaster for coughs, colds,
chest diseases, rheumatism, grip, neuralgia,
kidney trouble, lame back, and other all
ments that make Winter season of suffer-
ing and danger. 1t relieves and cures
quicker than any other remedy.
Do not accept Capsicum, Strengthening
or Belladonna plasters in place of Benson's,
as they possess none of its curative power.
Insist on having the genuine.
The people of every civilized land have
testified for years to the superlative merit
of Benson's Plasters; and 5000 physicians
and druggists of this country have declared
them worthy of public confidence.
In official comparisons with others, Ben
sons Plasters have been honored with
ffty,f0e highest awards.
For sale by all druggists, or we will pre-
pay postage on any number ordered in the
United States on the receipt of Csc. each.
Accept no imitation or substitute.
Seabury & Johnson, Mfg. Chemists. NY.
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Pellets, In May, 1897, and by December
l could begin to get about very well.
Have been doing my work ever since,
except washing Feel better than l
have for several years. l would recon-
mend DR.. Pierce's medicines to all who
are troubled as was. am now sixty
one years old, and l thank you most
kindly for the happy relief and cure"
GOOD ADVICE.
If you feel weak and run down; If
your stomach is disordered or dis
eased If there is heart vtrouble," liver
vtrouble," or. kidney ctrouble" if your
blood is cthin and sluggish, begin the
use of DIR. Pierce's Golden Medical Dis
covery and you will begin to renew your
youth and strength,
Sick people are invited to consult DR..
Pierce, by letter, free. All correspond
ence is held as strictly private and
sacredly confidential. Address DIR. R. v.
Pierce, Buffalo, N. Y.
Some dealers, tempted by the little
more profit paid by less meritorious med
icines, will attempt to sell a substitute
for UGolden Medical Discovery" claim
ing it to be vjust as good" The very
claim makes substitution suspicious. A
medicine as good as the cDiscovery"
would sell on its own merits and be
asked for by the customer, not pushed
off on him.
DO YOU KNOW THIs5
One of the best medical books ever pub
lished, the most modern and compre-
hensive, is given away to those who
write for it. DR.. Pierce's Common Sense
Medical Adviser, containing more than
thousand large pages and over 100 illus
trations, in sent free on receipt of stamps
to pay expense of mailing only Send
81 one-cent stamps for the cloth-bound
volume, or only II stamps for the book
in paper covers. Address DR.. r. v.
Pierce, Buffalo, N. Y.
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JUDGING CUSTOMERS.
The China Salesman Tells Why He
Makes No More Mistakes.

The China Salesman Tells why He
Makes No More Mistakes.
81 don't make any more mistakes in
judging customers" said the china sales
man, because I've given up judging
them I've had my lesson.
IAN old gentleman came into the store
one day and asked to look at dinner sets.
He was one of the plain, old fashioned,
frock coat, white shirt, black bow tie
kind, and l sized him up as about a $50
man. / wasn't sure that he'd stand even
that much, but thought I'd risk it, and
SO 1 showed him one of the $50 sets.
"He looked it over politely for minute
or two and then said, Yes, that is pleas
ing, but it isn't-er-just what l had in
mind
81 took him over to the $40 table then,
and he examined the things in the same
quiet, polite way, but ! could see that
they were not what he wanted. This is
an attractive design he said, and rath-
er like the color of that, but-er-my
thought was something a little different
from either
''Well, that brought us to the $50 and
$50 goods, and it was the same with
them. They were all very pretty and very
nice, and he was sorry to make me SO
much trouble, but would mind showing
him something a little better?
81 had made up my mind by this time
that he was bluGing, that he wasn't going
to buy anything anyway, SO 1 thought I'd
bluff too. took him down the store to
set marked $3.50. He looked it over more
carefully and didn't turn a hair when l
%1lI %hn hr1+ uoi1 in a hocifof-
ing way, as If he was afraid Of hurting
my feelings: Perhaps you have some
special sets? Something-er-a little bet
ter even than thisf
There is one better one,' said, but
1t is something quite out of the ordinary
and rather expensive. If you care to look
at it,
eyes, he thought he would look at it, if
l would be so kind, and I took him up
stairs and showed it to him. He took up
one or two of the pieces and examined
them. Then he said: Yes, that is good.
That pleases me. What is the priceT
"'Four hundred and fifty dollars /
told him.
"fYou may send it to my house, he
said quietly and gave me his card.
knew the name at once. He was mil
Ionaire several times over. He took out
his pocketbook and counted out $3.50 in
cash, thanked me for showing him the
goods and went out.
II think he knew how had sized him
up, but he didn't get mad when l showed
him the cheap goods. He just led me
along in his own way till he got what he
wanted, and then he let me down as easy
as he could. No, sir, don't judge Gus
toners by their looks or their clothes any
ore."-Youth's Companion.
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WhiteWashed.

An amusing joke was once played on 6
post commandant in Cuba who, like all
other post commandments, was not popu-
lar He had two fads. He believed in
whitewash and plenty of it, asserting it
to be the most effective preventive of
tropical diseases ever discovered, and he
was equally attached to pet famingo
who resented being kept in captivity and
showed his resentment by nipping at ey-
cry soldier who passed his way. On the
part of the soldier there was nothing to
do but swear under his breath and wait
for revenge.
On certain Monday morning an order
was issued from headquarters that all
articles pertaining to camp which were
not sheltered from the weather should
be whitewashed. The post commandments
wrath can be imagined when he next
gazed on his pet fiamingo, who had sud
denly become as white as the driven
snow. To the sorrow of the soldiers the
bird survived the operation.
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ON WHOM WAS THE LAUGH,
An Artists Attempt to Have Fun
with "a Picture Dealer.

with q Picture DeaAers
The following good joke on a party of
artists Cor was it on the picture dealer p
was told by George Bogert, who was one
of the party, as an actual occurrence:
Zone day." said Mr.. Bogert, Fred
erick Kost, Carleton Virgins and my.
self were down town and for a lark
stopped in one of those cheap picture
shops where they sell oil paintings for
about $1.22. After looking about bit
Kost selected one, supposed to represent
a deer Said he to the dealer:
BEG pardon, sir, but | am green at
this business. Will you mind explaining
this picture? The deer appears to have
a melancholy, hungry look on his face
Am rightY
"'Qute correct, replied the dealer
Step over here. This is better
"'You see. it's this way continued
Kost confdentially: My wife and | are
in the city for few days to buy some
paintings for our new house in Indiana.
l have to get a few hundred dollars
worth, and | reckon | had as well get
them all right here
1.-The dealer nearly dropped in his
tracks, but was equal to the emergency.
come to the best place in town, but be-
fore we begin business, gentlemen, come
over to the Astor House and have lunch
with me-
" Thanks replied Kost without the
ghost of smile, we had late break
fast at the Waldorf-Astoria and really
don't care for anything just yet By the
way, have you any pictures by man
named Carleton WigginsY
=" No; we had one by Virgins, but
couldn't sell it We don't handle his pic
lures
Anything by fellow named BogertY
emo. Never expect to either. His
are not worth having
"'Aheml Have you any works Of the
celebrated artist Frederick Kostp
"'KostY said the dealer, scratching
his head meditatively. 'Kost? don't
think ever heard of him.
1--WE were nearly choking with laugh
ter before, but this last was too much,
and the laugh we gave Kost put the deal
er on, as the saying is Without word
he put on his hat and, leaving his assist
ant in charge, marched out of the store,
wearing a very panied expression on his
face."-New York Mail and Express.
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q m1staR6, together With hundreds of
other incidents. 1t was public inves-
tigation, with everybody free to ask
questions, and it lasted four days.
There were still some who carped after
It was closed, but there was complete
change Of popular opinion, and Jared
Burton was comp1imented on all sides.
The mother and sister fully accepted
him, and he settled down into his place
unauestioned. Three months had gone
BIZ, and the talk and wonder had all
died out when blind man came along
one day. He was known IN various vii
lagos as "Old Hanson" He sang
'eengs, told fortunes and performed
tricks and was well liked. Standing on
the public square with crowd around
him, he sang songs and then asked If
Jared Burton was among the specta-
tors. Jared stepped forward, and the
old man took him by the hand. 1t was
his boast that, having once heard a
mans voice and shaken hands with
him, he could forever after identify
him by the feel Of his palm.
''This is not Jared Burtonv he ex-
claimed as he let the hand fall.
@'But it u.s." chorused dozen voices.
<'But l say it is not. 1t is not his
hand. never met this hand before"
'You will believe it is Jared Burton
when I tell you so, won't your" asked
Jared.
mo. You cannot deceive me on the
palm. You are stranger to me-"
There had been an investigation and
an acquittal, but yet the blind mans
words set people to thinking, especially
as Jared himself seemed to be greatly
put out The whole question would
have been reopened again but that he
started off for Chicago next day on
what he claimed was matter of bust
ness. He had close shave Of 1t. He
hadn't been gone two hours when
sheriff from distant county came to
arrest him as one of gang of land
stealers and counterfeiters. He was
followed, but not overhauled. His real
name was Charles Wright. AS to what
became of the true Jared Burton no one
can say, but he doubtless met his death
in some way through falling into the
hands of the gang. He had papers
with him, but how they got him to talk
and give the incidents of his life can
not be understood. 1t was curious
thing that another man should so close
" resemble him and should bear the
same scars, but it was a fact not to be
got over. The blind man and the sher-
if declared the man to be cheeky i'm
poster, and the latter furnished plenty
of proofs, but the question has not been
settled yet and perhaps never will be.
1 passed a day in the village not long
ago, and found the people about even
ly divided as to whether the true Jared
had not actually returned and been
driven off again.
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scAFFoLD POLES TO HIRE.
One of Various Interesting Features
of the Pole Yard Business.

of the Pole Yard Business.
'Scaffold Poles to Hire"
So read a sign painted on the end of a
building standing in pole yard, and a
man whose eye CHANGED to fall upon it
wondered just what it meant. He had
heard of renting steam boilers and pianos
and horses and railroad cars and so on,
and be knew that there is scarcely any
thing, perhaps nothing, that cannot be
rented, but he had never heard before of
renting scaffold poles, and it seemed an
odd thing to do.
As a matter of fact there are lots of
scaffold poles rented. 1t is an old and
to those who have occasion to know
about it familiar branch of the pole yard
business.
Scaffold poles are rented, of course, most
largely to builders, and there are more
builders who hire scaffold poles than
there are who own them. This for the
simple reason that it is for most build
ers cheaper to hire. The very largest
builders who must have a yard anyway
in which to keep material and plant Of
one sort and another own their own
scaffold poles and keep them when not
in use in their own yard where they have
room for them.
The smaller builder, having very likely
no material yard, has no convenient place
to store poles when not in use, and he
hires poles, as for that matter some of
the larger builders do also.
Scaffold poles are let at so much for
a job, whether it is few days or weeks,
but while builder keeps the poles for
one price on one job as long as he may
need them he cannot If he gets through
with job early haul the poles off to set
up on another job without paying more
rent.
The life of scaffold pole is about six
years. A pole yard man said that they
could be made to last ten years by care.
People always drive nails into scaffold
poles. These nails rust, and the wood
around them rots, and the pole gradually
goes to decay. If the poles were all
carefully overhauled and looked after
when they came back to the yard from
job and the nails all pulled out, they
would last four years longer, but this is
not done for the simple reason that it
wouldn't pay. The cost of the work
would be greater than the gain by it, and
so they use the poles as long as they are
fit to use and then chop them up.
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THE SIZES.

Once, lying on bed of juniper,
/ watched the passing of a northern light
That stole, pale and shadowy eremite,
From the dark mystery of pine and fir
And, leaping upward from the mountains spur,
With tenuous fingers waged celestial fight
To snatch the star gold blossoms from theiI
height,
Then, failing, waned into the things that were.
So we, with FASHIONED strife or anguished wait,
Reach eager hands toward those unseen bars,
Like children at some noble pleasaunce gate,
Seeking the untold glory of the stars
Ever inscrutable inyiolate
That view our deadly wounds, our cruel scars.
Marguerite Merington in Scribner's.