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The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1902-02-25
Gum Catherine.

In Yucatan the gathering Of the ia
nous chicle chewing gum is an occupa-
ton apparently full Of romance, not
unattended with considerable danger.
Bands Of men, known as "chicleros,''
go into the deep forests, under ex-
perienced leaders, armed with heavy
knives Of special make, pals and ladies'
for the sap, and each provided with
q strong rope more than eighty feet
long to be used in climbing the lofty
sapota trees from which the gum Is
procured. The sap flows from gashes
cut in the bark. A camp of chicleros
where the sap is boiled resembles in
some respects an American maple
sugar camp. After months OF work
the chicleros return from the forests
laden with bricklike blocks of aromatic
gum. The finest gum. known as
"sicte," is collected from the fruit of
the sapota, mostly by the native wom-
en-, and is seldom exported because It
is too well liked at home.
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It is said that one of the early Hen
rvs was so enamored of the sport of
fox hunting as to ordain 1t to be a
royal sport, and the red coat was worn
In consequence. This, however, has
been pointed at as absurd, as In those
days scarlet was not royal livery at
all. One thing there can be no doubt
about, and that is the scarlet coat Is
very popular for those who hunt reg
ularly, and it must be confessed that
it adds picturesqueness to the scene.
The question Of color seems to be
very much matter of taste. 1t is
looked upon as an indication of social
position. In the abstract any one can
don the pink If SO desired, but it is con-
sidered out Of taste to adopt that color
II one does not literally subscribe to
the hunt fund. The black coat Is con-
sidered out of taste to adopt that color
and the ordinary mutt garment for
those whose subscription Is very small
indeed.-London Standard.
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1--WE made bad breaks before, but 1
certainly eclipsed all previous efforts
out in Cleveland the other day." said a
well known business man. "a business
friend met me at the station and said
we would drive around bit before go
ing to his new home. He slowed up a
bit as we drove around curious look
ing mansion in which several styles of
architecture had been mixed with ter
ribie results. 1 was forced to exclaim:
"'What fool was unkind enough to
put up that monstrosity
my host then took me to his club for
dinner He said in explanation:
ave will dine here, because l have
headache. and the fresh paint odor of
my new house might make It worse
1.-THE next day another friend showed
me my first friends new house. 1t was
(he monstrosity OF the day before
New York Tribune
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Stephen A. Douglas, although not
recognized as such by the craft, was a
one time printer. The story of how he
and Long John" Wentworth came to-
gether on printing proposition is still
afioat, but in such close quarters that
1t is not often heard. Mr.. Wentworth
was printing The Democrat in Chicago
In 1888 and struggling to remove an
Indebtedness Of about $4,000. Douglas
called on him one day and said that he
had some handbills that must be print
cd at once.
"All right" answered Mr.. Went
worth. ''but the facilities of this Office
are limited. Do you want ten or hum
dred Of these billsY'
The Little Giant" said he believed
200 or perhaps more would be needed.
Every WELL" was the response. you
will have to turn printer yourself if
you expect to get them today"
The bill was set up and placed on the
hand press. Then Douglas was given
special instructions how to handle the
ink roller. A big apron was put on
him. and he performed the mental
work Of roller boy, mixing the types,
while Mr.. Wentworth worked the
DreHH
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lansuid of movement, and he realizes
that these were but few years ago as
bright and happy as their younger fell
ow-werkers. It il natural to ask the
cause Of such physical change, which
Is not to be explained by the stress and
strain of daily labor, because there are
not few who, in spite Of years of steady
work, retain the girlish attractiveness of
face and figure. Perhaps the most inn
portant cause of this change 10 to be
found in the prevalence of ailments
peculiarly femme, which drain the vi
tality and sap the strength. If the truth
were known it would be found that these
worn out women had been working
under physical conditions, which, if a
man suffered them would be enough to
send him to bed. With throbing. head
and aching back the wage Garner plods
on, feeling that abe cannot afford either
to rest or pay a physicians fees, and
every day sees her grow more weary and
more weak.
THERE'S NO NERD 70 STOP WORK
or pay expensive fees In order to be
cured of womaniy diseases. Hundreds
of thousands Of weak and sick women
have been made well and strong by the
use of DIR. Pierce's Favorite Prescription.
1t establishes regularity, dries the drains
which weaken women, heals inhamma-
ton and liberation and cures female
weakness. 1t makes weak women strong
and sick women well.
"a few years ago suffered severely
with female weakness and had at times
dreadful palms, writes Mrs. v. Brown,
of Creswell, Hartford Co., Maryland. III
went to my doctor, and he gave me
medicine which did me good for while,
but would get worse again. had
sick headache nearly all the time; was
50 weak around my waist could hardly
bear anything to touch me. My feet
would keep cold and could hardly do
my work would work while and
then lie down while; was completely
run down. Suffered from disagreeable
drain and also severe pains at times.
After using FIVE bottles Of DR.. Pierce's
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WITH Ak AND BLOCK.
criminal Executions In Prussia Stil
Performed by the Headsman.

criminal Executions In Prussia still
Performed by the Headsman.
Seventeenth century methods still
prevail in Prussia in the matter of the
execution of criminals. The man SEN
fenced there to suffer capital punish
ment is led to the fatal block, and his
head is chopped off with identically the
same sort of ak as that which was
used to put a period to the career of
Charles l. in the Tower of London on
that fateful Both of January 252 years
ago. Practically the only difference
between the twentieth century execu-
ton and that of the time Of Cromwell
is that the condemned is not put to
death publicly.
In many parts of the German empire
the guillotine has taken the place of
the gallows and the block, but in Prus-
STA old fashioned justice clings tena-
ciously to the old fashions, and not
the rope nor the automatic knife nor
the power Of electricity has been able to
displace the broadax as the laws Off
cial implement of death. The only
concession made to modern sentiment
is in the garb of the executioner.
This functionary does not as in the
earlier times, dress in doublet and hose
and hide his .ensanguined identity be-
hind a frightsome mask. Instead, he
appears at the execution CARRIED in a
frock coat of somber hue and correct
cut and he wears upon his bead. even
when delivering the death stroke, tall
silk hat His three assistants are sim
ilarly attired.
] Why this garb was chosen no one
can say authoritativeIy. 1t is one of
those things the origin of which APP
pears to have been forgotten with the
originators. But it is the lawful cos
tune, prescribed In the regulations,
which apply also to the twelve civil
Ian witnesses who must attend an ex-
ecution, with the result that q stranger
witness is unable to say until the az
has fallen which of the other fifteen
silk hated, frock coated individuals
grouped about him is the man who
lives by death.-New York Press.
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FLOWER AND TREE.

Keep begonias where the air is not
too dry, and they will not drop their
leaves.
In watering house plants sufficient
should be given to soak the soil thor
oughly.
A tree is nearly dormant in winter,
especially one that has been lately
transplanted.
Plants in a dormant state require
very little water during the winter,
and an excess will cause decay.
Drenching rosebushes with strong
Quassia tea is good curative of bugs
aud other destructive insects and pests.
To root cuttings quickly fill saucer
fun of sand, into which the slips may
be set. Keep the sand the consistency
Of mud
Never give up decaying rosebush
until you have tried watering it two or
three times a week with SCOT tea for a
short time
Reporting of plants becomes neces-
sary for two reasons-the plant uses
up the available fertility in the soil
and fills the pots with roots.
To prevent crotched trees from split
ting after they come into bearing twist
and fasten two small limbs together,
and as the stem grows it will prevent
splitting.
Cuttings Of quick growing herbace-
Gus plants, like heliotrope, verbena,
phlox. geraniums, root quickly, chrys-
anthemums quickest of all. Choose
cuttings when the plants are most Wig
aennA
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Germnp student. ana beer.

To speak Of the pleasures of the Ger
man student and make no mention of
beer would be like the play of Ham
LETT with the part of the melancholy
Dane left out. AS the student strolls
about the country or the city, in the
music halls and theaters, at his social
gatherings of all kinds, at dinner or at
supper, he steadily drinks his beer.
The code of health drinking and the
etiquette of the drinking bout are COM
plicated and most punctually observed.
All university functions include a
great drinking bout = jubilees of re-
nowned professors, club anniversaries.
ceremonies In honor Of a retiring pro-
fessor. Any and every ceremony is in
complete without the formal kneipe
with toasts. He has attempted to throw
q poetical glamour around beer, to in
vest it with the charm of tradition and
to hallow it with old associations of
college days.
In Europe the American prefers to
drink water, and this is a great mys-
terry to the Germans, who cannot pos
sibly understand how they can prefer
this to beer.-Detroit Free Press.
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LIVING IN LONDON.
n Il Not = Good Place For Man of
Small Income.


An American who in the classical
language of his country is at present
"located" in London wants to know
whether any city in the world is quite
SO niggardly as our town. He has
been going the round of the London
restaurants and has encountered In the
management of them a spirit which
distresses him. ''There is, to begin
with he says, "a charge Of from two
pence to sixpence for guarding your
hat and coat in the cloakroom, and
tip In addition is expected. You want
to wash your hands-another twopence
or another sixpence and another tip.
You take up the menu. and, behold.
there Is an intimation that a charge of
threepence each person will be made
under the guise of table money The
charge varies according to the nature
Of the place. Threepence is the lowest
and sixpence perhaps the average. At
a great many restaurants it is 1 shil-
ling and in at least two that l have Wis
tied Is. Cd. The only difference is
that in the lower priced restaurants it
is called table money and in the high
er priced ones placed under the capti-
waiting heading of convert To my
mind, an entrance fee frankly demand
ed at the door would be much less Of
fensive than to find yourself asked at
the end Of dinner to pay for the trou-
BILE and expense of cleaning up the cut
lery you have used.'
His conclusion of the whole matter is
that London lives by imposing a fixed
tariff on the accessories that in every
other city l have ever been to are
thrown in gratis" and he thinks that
being a gentleman is one of the most
expensive professions an Englishman
can have. He declares it to be an ut
ter delusion that London is a cheap
place to live in. "For the poor man"
he says, ''the man whose income is less
than f800 year, there is no city where
less can be had in the way of comforts
and even the necessities of life. In
New York it is only the Injuries that
cost. The expenses of everyday living
may be as great or as small as one
cares to make them New York, in
fact, is laid out for the poor man.
From the transportation system to the
price of such fundamental charges on
the household treasury as coal, ice,
fuel, meat, bread, milk and fruit, al
most everything conspires to bring him
In a good return for very small out
lay. All these things are cheaper in
New York than in London." -London
Chronicle.
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Rev. Mr.. Hagamore. to whose mem
orr IL slab in the church at Catshoge,
Leicestershire, England, was "a little
queer" 1t seems that the reverend
gentleman died In January, 1886, leav-
ing all Of his property, valued at $3.-
800, to a railroad porter.
,rhis queer old preacher kept one
servant of each sex, whom he locked
uIl every night. His last employment
Of an evening was to so the rounds Of
his premises, let loose the dogs and
hre of his gun. He lost his life in a
curious manner. Starting out to let out
his servants, the dogs fawned upon
him and threw him into pond Of wa
ter. The servants heard his cries, but
being locked up could not render as
siBtance, 30 the old man was drowned.
When the inventory Of his property
was taken, he was found to be the
owner Of 80 gowns, 100 pairs Of trou-
Esrss, 100 pairs of boots, 400 pairs of
shoes, 80 wigs although he had plenty
OF natural hair). 90 dogs. SO wagons
and carts, 80 wheelbarrows, 249 razors,
80 pIows, 80 saddles and 200 pickaxes
and shovels- He surely was "a little
queer"
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Good manners are the key to ad.
vancement in life. The tactful person
makes a study Of the character Of 9th.
ers and wards of unpleasant words
avoids argument which is sure to lead
beyond the fields of pleasantness and
Is polite and considerably courteous
manners aim to facilitate life." writes
Emerson. They aid our dealing and
our conversation. These forms very
soon become fixed. and fine sense OF
propriety is cultivated with the more
heed that it becomes badge of social
and civil distinction" He also writes
that beautiful behavior is the finest
of the fine arts" Society demands an
element (which 1t significantly terms
good nature. expressing all degrees Of
generosity. from the lowest willingness
and faculty to oblige up to the heights
Of magnanimity and love-"
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REED DIDN'T WANT 1T.
Story of a Revolver and a stornay
scene In Congrens

Story of a Revolver and a Stornay
Scene In Congress.
when Mr.. Reed was making the
parliamentary fight which resulted in
the adoption of the Reed rules fol
counting a quorum in the Fifty-first
congress-" said veteran represents
tive, 'the violence of debate was great
er than at any time since reconstruc
ton days. Toward the close Of the
struggle General Joe Wheeler of Ala
bama had mounted his desk and was
making remarks which members OF
both sides thought might end in VIC
lence.
Several Of his colleagues were
standing near by, angry, flushed, under
their breath declaring that it was time
to pull the speaker out Of the chair.
Mr.. Reeds partisans were just as hot
and crowded to the well to be ready il
any muscle were needed. Confusion
reigned in the entire body.
Right In the thick of 1t Represents
tive Martin of Texas made his way tc
the steps leading to the speakers seal
and, lifting his coattails, showed to Mr.
Reed the butt end of a revolver pro
truding from hip pocket.
ado you want it? asked Martin.
"Just then the little orator from Ala
bama, with clinched fist, shouted al
Mr.. Reed: Your ruling is the most
damnable ever made in your chair. II
is nothing short Of revolution. 1t ought
to bury you SO deep that GabriePs
trumpet won't waken you
'Mr. Reed leaned over then and re
piled to Martin, with his usual drawl
No. not yet The gentleman has sim
ply risen to a question of order and IL
now stating it,"
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Bills In Congress.

The words has introduced bill i'll
congress-" applied to senator or rep
resentatiye, usually sound much larger
than their ordinary meaning warrants.
In order properly to estimate the value
of the Introduction of bill one must
remember that of 1900 or $4,000 meas
ures introduced a few hundred only
are passed. AS for proposed amend
ments to the constitution, the infant
mortality among them is appalling.
Each new congress sees a score or
more of proposals for a sixteenth
amendment to the constitution" We
shall doubtless some time have such a
thing. yet three amendments, all of
which were consequences of great
civil war, represent the only changes
made in the constitution since the pres
idency of Thomas Jefferson.-Youth's
Companion.
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An autograph collector of Philadel-
phia has in his possession the following
letter written by James Fenimore
Cooper to his publishers in 1881:
Il hope you will be wrong in antici-
pating bad reception for The Bravo
l cannot tell you much of it's reception
In Europe, though Gosselin says it is
very decidedly successful in France.
America is, of all countries, one of the
least favorable to works of the imag-
nation. In Europe or, rather, in Eng
land, where there has existed a neces-
sity Of accounting for some success in
the very teeth of their prejudices and
wishes, it has been the fashion to say
that no writer ever enjoyed so favora.
BILE an opportunity as because / am
an American and sailor. AS to the
sailor part of the business, 1t is gross
~ absurd, for what advantage has an
American sailor over any other? They
know the falsehood of what they say
In this respect, for l can get $4,000 for
q nautical tale that shall celebrate Eng
Hsh skill tomorrow. For myself. l can
write two European stories easier than
I can write one American. Why, Eu-
rope itself Is a romance, while all
America is matter of fact, humdrum,
common sense region from Quaddy to
Cape Florida"
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OPERA SCENERY.
ITS Production Requires Lots OF
Work and Lots of Cash as Well.

Its Production Requires Lots Of
Work and Lots of Cash as Well.
The public little realizes that behind
the scenes of the Metropolitan Opera
House is a large and most important
factory running in full blast. There ID
manufactured all the scenery, cos
tunes, properties and mechanical eff.
fects used in the elaborate productions
Everything has to be most skillfully
planned When a revival of THE Magic
Flute" was under consideration and
the expense of doing it on an appropr
ate scale was figured out, it was found
that the curtain would rise on an ex-
penditure of something like $4,000.
Have you ever been in a scenic art
lists studio? He has no easel. Instead
he has a little model, an exact minia-
ture of, the house in which his scenery
Is to be set up. Here on reduced
scale he prepares models of the scenes
which his painters are to project on an
enormously enlarged scale upon the
canvas which hangs by the paint
bridge. When he has modelled his scene,
he calls in the costumer and the stage
manager. Scenic artist and costumer
usually have put their heads together
before getting to work and decided up
on certain color schemes for the vari-
GUS scenes, but just that very morning
the costumer may have seen stunning
bit of red which he wants to introduce
into his scheme, and SO he tries to per
suade the scenic artist to change the
coloring a little Accord li-.-Cosmo-
politan.
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much 10 quiet suspicion. Perhaps no
one besides Major Wright knew just
how deeply the firm was involved.
And now what did this note meanf
Glider, had evidently contracted to de-
liver 800 shares of G. n and 3. when
the furry over this stock was on, and
be had found on arriving at the ex-
change that corner was being form
ed. He had gone from broker to bro
ker. offering any price to save his
credit, and then he had remembered
Wright, who had &C. N. and R. stock
10 burn7-yes, that was the very ex-
precision Glider probably used. But 1t
was not the thought Of this which
caused Major Wright to chuckle de-
nghtedly as be wrote the following
note:
Dear GildsBI am sorry to hear Of your din
Guilty. As sor myself, Pye kept out Of the market
1ox q week. These 6urries are bad for men who
have reached our age Yes, / have some @. N.
and r. stock and I've had good many offers for
Il. yours mot being the first by any means. Still,
- you sre an old family friend, / win gladly
ebliss you am lust going down to the dock to
meet my son and daughter. who are returning
from sbroad. and the stock which you mention IL
not kept here. but In my safe st bona. You say
that you really must have this stock Very we'll.
Than u your wife and daughters VIII call At my
home this afternoon they viii receive from tina
hands Of Mrs Bertram Wright a package done up
In white paper The contents thereof viii be un-
known to my daughter and It Is my wisb that she
should never learn the truth. II you need any
further assistance In tiding the situation, do
not hesitate TO call on yours truly,
wusLow A. WRIGHT.
That afternoon the Glider brougham
drew I'D before Major Wright's home,
and a few moments later Mrs. Ber-
tram Wright. greatly surprised, but
perfectly self possessed, was receiv-
ing from three handsomely gowned
women q well bred welcome on her
return to America The very next
morning the postman left two oblong,
creamy envelopes. One was addressed
to the major. the other to Mr.. and Mrs.
BeItram Wright.
And II the pretty bride ever found
the invitation first received by the ma
for or guessed at the contents Of the
package she delivered to Mrs. Ed
naund A. Glider on the occasion of that
memorable call she was too wise q wo-
man to whisper it even to her doting
father-in-law, for 1t required only the
appearance Of Mrs. Bertram Wright
at the Glider ball to establish her So
cisl standing and to justify Major
Wrights corner In G. N. and Rand
society.
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Ministers have many interesting and
amusing experiences.
A local clergyman was engaged In
conversation with a number of friends
the other day, when each started tell
ing stories of weddings he had per
formed One of the party had this tC
offer:
Some time ago great big fellow
roughly dressed, and a wee mite of 8
young woman came to him. They had
no witnesses, and, in fact, did not care
to have any. Nevertheless, brides
maid and groomsman were selected
from the household, and the ceremony
began. They had promised to love anG
obey and all the rest of the service
when the preacher announced, kiss
the bride"
The bridegroom, on Bonded knee, hes
itated little, tried to say something
and couldn't
kiss the BRIDE" said the pastor.
why, parson, l did, afore | come
here at ALL" replied the bridegroom
whose face had taken the color of 8
June rose.
The witnesses burst forth in laugh
ter, while the minister had all he could
do to retain the serious expression
which he always wore when wedding
people.-Duluth News Tribune.