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The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1902-10-21
The Farmers wife

Is very careful about her churn. She
scalds it thoroughly after using, and gives
it sun bath to sweeten it. She knows
that if her churn is sour it will faint the
butter that is made in it. The, stomach is
a churn. In the stomach and digestive
aid nutritive tracts are performed pro-
cesses which are exactly akin to the
churning of butter Is it not apparent
then that if this stomach churn is ''sour"
it sours all which is put into it? The evil
the mouth and the foul breath caused by
it. but the corruption of the pure current
of the blood and the dissemination of dis
ease throughout the body DR.. Pierce's
Golden Medical Discovery makes the sour
stomach sweet 1t does for the stomach
what the washing and sun bath do for the
churn- absolutely removes every tainting
or corrupting element Golden Medical
Discovery" contains no alcohol, whisky OF
other intoxicant and no narcotic.
Recovered Speech and Hearing.
/ Messrs. ELY Bros: II commenced us
ing your Cream Balm about two years
ago for catarrh. Ny voice was somewhat
thick and my hearing was dull. My hear
ing has been fully restored and my speecl
has become quite clear. l am a teacher
In our town.
L G. Brown, Granger. 0.
! The Balm does not irritate or caus,
sneezing. Sold by druggists at so cts o.
mailed by Ely Brothers, Sc Warren st
(; New York.
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HIS .ParticuInr Want.

In certain Sunday school the sub
ject of the lesson was the condition of
man in Eden On a large leaf sus-
pended in the room We're named GER
tain gifts with which God had blessed
man. Among these was mentioned the
giving of a wife The pastor in some
remarks to the children tried to show
that man needed company.
If" said he, you had a dog at
home or playful kitten or beautiful
song bird. would that be all You would
want?"
They agreed that it would not.
"What more would you wantY he
asked, expecting that they would an
swer father. mother, brothers or sis
tiers. After pause little fellow
about three years old, with a thin. soft
voice, spoke up:
"a wife"
The school broke into laughter. the
pastor maintained his gravity with
difficulty, and the superintendent dis
appeared to vent his feelings where he
would not be observed.-Ne York
Times.
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MAN-O'-WAR HAWKS.
Tenthcred HfETAwaymen That L
Tl,atr Egf.hRrU In 4t,a Al

Tenthered HiEIawaymen That Do
Their Fishing In the Air.
The man-o' war hawk is a somewhat
large bird and an expert fisher, but he
does most CT hfs fishing in the air.
When the bocby bird comes home from
abroad, he finds the man war hawk
"layin' for him." and, however persist
emily he may seek to escape by dashing
fight, with much screeching and
screaming, he finds that before he can
safely set foot ON the land he must dis
gorge fish or two, which the swift
pursuer adroitly catches in the air. 1t
seems, however, to be generally I'm
derstood as modus vivendi between
the fisher and the pirate birds that
their contentious were only on the
wing and that once ON land they
should dwell peacefully in their sepa-
rate camping grounds.
The Boobies are awkward and I'M
wieldy on land and may be easily cap
tured. They rarely seek to escape when
a man approaches; but, accustomed to
meet the demands of their familiar en-
envy, the man-o war hawk, by disgOrg-
ing fish in the air, they frequently re-
sort to the same process and lay at the
feet of the intruding stranger what
stock Of fish they have available. The
man-o' war hawks turned this practice
to their own advantage by following
after any man who might appear
among the nesting birds, circling in the
air just overhead, ready to pick up the
fish which the frightened boobies
might give up as peace offering. The
man-o'war hawks were generally ca
ger for anything and would hover
closely, ready to take from the hand Of
man whatever he might toss in the
air On one occasion one of these birds
swiftly snatched a notebook which lay
for moment on the ground and sailed
away, dropping it, however, on finding
it to be neither fish nor rat-Century
Magazine.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1902-10-21
THE SOUND OF A PIANO.
Seeming Defects That May Be Ofte
nue IN Exterior Causas

Seeming Defects That May Be Often
Due to Exterior Causes.
"a piano." said dealer, twill some
times develop or seem to develop a
flaw in some one note, which comes to
have rattle or Jingle or unpleasant
burr to it. but this Earring sound which
seems to come from the piano may in
reality come from some source quite
outside of 1t.
Amy given note when struck pro-
duces a certain number of vibrations to
the second. There may be in the room
some object that is in tone sympathy
with some particular note, and that
will be set in motion by it when that
note is sounded
"The owner Of a fine piano sent to us
one day to say that there was some
| thing wrong about certain note of
the instrument, so that that note had
an unpleasant sound when struck.
When heard the note sounded, l knew
at once that the disagreeable rough
ness or buzz about it was due not to
any defect in the piano, but to some
thing somewhere about in the room,
and, asking the lady to strike that note
occasionally, | walked around the room
to see If could locate it.
Passing across the middle of the
room as that note was struck, the
cause of the Earring accompaniment of
1t was discovered to come from the vi
| bration of one of the glass globes on
the chandelier overhead.
THE owner Of the piano was almost
incredulous as to this, the sound had
seemed so plainly to come from the
piano itself. But when at my request
she stood under the chandelier and |
struck the note she was readily con-
WINGED.
81 made that globe immovable and
| then struck the note on the piano. The
| answer was clear and sweet and true.
$50, you see. the sound of the piano
may for one thing depend much upon
its surroundings, and what may seem
atty attributable to something quite
apart from the piano itself.
"And thus it might easily be that
some noble instrument that had seem
ed to be declining or to be developing
faults owed its apparent change to a
change of environment or to some spe-
citic outside cause and was in reality
as good as ever as would happily be
/, discovered whenever the instrument
! was again brought under favorable
conditions. Chicago Inter Ocean
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Clever things that children say are
not usually worth repeating if they are
of the sort that an adult could invent.
But real child's point of view is in
imitable and often delightful. as in this
story which Dean Hole repeats in his
book of "reminiscences, ''Then and
Now"
When we restored the western front
of our cathedral in Roches er at cost
of many thousand pounds, we had a
great celebration and a splendid con
gress of distinguished people.
The archbishop and bishops, the lord
lieutenant, the high sheriff. our mem
Der of parliament, the mayor, the ad-
miral of the dockyard, the general of
the district, all marched in state.
A little boy who watched from a
neighboring window was asked what
he thought of the spectacle. He frank
ly replied that he did not like it very
much.
He remarked that there was not a
single elephant, and he thought they
might have had a Kangaroo
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POPULAR SCIENCE.

The microbe of the tuberculosis may
live ON a book 1O3 days, as has been
shown by experiment
OF 1000 parts of the moon SIC are
visible to us on the earth; 424 parts re.
main hidden absolutely to mans eyes.
Without its atmosphere, which serves
as a coverlet to protect it against the
fearful cold of space. the surface of the
earth would be frozen like that of the
airless moon.
A certain duration of luminous i'm
preston is necessary to produce an eff
feet on the retina. Hence it is that we
do not see a very rapidly moving OBJ
ject, such as bullet fired from a gun.
If this globe were cooled down to 20(
degrees below zero of centigrade. i
would be covered with a sea of iique
fed gas thirty-five feet deep. of which
about seven feet would be liquid oxy
gen.
Blood travels from the heart through
the arteries ordinarily at the rate Of
about twelve inches per second. 1t;
speed through the capillaries is at The
rate of three one-hundredths of an incl
per second
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An Embarrasxing Moment.

The author of COLLECTIONS and Rec
elections relates a personal expert
ence of having said thing one would
rather have left unsaid." Even after
the lapse of twenty years, he adds the
recollection of the sensations of the
moment turns him hot with chagrin
A remarkably pompous clergyman, a
diocesan Inspector of schools, once
showed me theme on a Scriptural
subject written by a girl who was
trying to pass from the rank of a pupil
teacher to the rank of schoolmistress.
The theme was full of absurd mis-
takes, over which the inspector laugh
ed uproariously.
"Well, what do you think of thatY'
he inquired when | handed back the
paper.
"Oh," said l in perfectly good faith,
''the mistakes are bad enough. but the
writing is far worse. 1t really is a dis
grace"
'The writing? What. my writingY'
said the inspector. Il copied the theme
out myself"
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1902-10-21
ON SHAKING HANDS.
The Defensive Reason Why the
Right WINS First Used

Did you ever stop to think about the
custom of shaking hands and wonaer
why it is that we always shake the
right hand? Probably you have never
thought about it at all or if you have
you think that the only reason for
using your right hand is that you were
taught not to use your left one, says
the Buffalo Courier In reality this
custom, now so common, is very an
Gent one, and it originated in this way:
In the days when people were not SO
peaceable as they now are and when
each man settled his quarrels in his
own way every man carried sword
or dagger to defend himself. This
sword was worn on the left side, where
the right hand could quickly grasp 1t
for use in time of peril.
Therefore when a man wished to
show that he was friendly he extended
his right hand, which would be clasped
,, by the others right hand If he, too.
meant peace. Thus each could be sure
that the other would not draw his
sword
With the dawn of more peaceful
times the custom lost its one time pur-
pose, but it still retains its original
meaning-to show friendship.
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HOT FROM THE FRONT.
A War Correspondent and His StOr!
of n Grenf Event

| n " ut correspondent anu MS StOEy
of n Great Event.
Newsgathering, not fighting, is the
| trade of the war correspondent. But
it is news at any personal cost, and a
| fine unprecedented heroism often goes
with the gathering of it.
One morning after the siege of Paris.
| when the city was believed in London
to be still in the hands of the COM
mune, Sir John Robinson, manager of
the Daily News of London, reached
his office to find the late Archibald
| Forbes lying on the floor asleep, his
head on postoflice directory, while
! the printers were hard at work on his
Flames" most vivid description of
the last days of the commune
Forbes had telegraphed from Dover
announcing his coming" said Sir John
Robinson, 1.-THE printers had been wait
ing, and thus the country heard of
those terrible days for the first time
London was ablaze with excite
ment Bouverie street was impossible
through the newsboys shrieking for
copies, and In parliament MIR. Glad
stone was questioned that afternoon
and could only say he hoped the story
was exaggerated.
"When Forbes Weakened from his
/ slumber amid all this turmoil, what a
! spectacle he vast His face was black
with powder, his eyes red and in
/ famed, his clothes matted with clay
! and dust; he was a dreadful picture,
He had been compelled to assist the
communists In defending a triangular
! space upon which three detachments
( of the Versailles troops were firing,
and had actually taught the citizens
i how to build barricade"
BY aid of dummy dispatches adj
dressed to Lord Granville and the
queen, Forbes escaped from this
threatening triangle and wrote all the
way to England, being the solitary
passenger ON the mailboat
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Atmosphere of Ceylon.

When visitors enter Horticultural
hall, in Philadelphia, they pant. The
heavy air, stagnant and warm and
moist, Expresses their lungs. But the
tropical plants in the hall would die
without this kind of air, and man
said of it the other day: 1T is very
much like the air of Ceylon. Ceylon
has just such heat and just such a
crushing, prostrating humidity as this.
Do you know that every European
house out there has among its serv-
ants clothes airer u man whose
sole duty it is to air and beat the
clothes, which otherwise would be-
come covered with thick white coat
of mildew in a few hours? | took a
hundred and fifty dollar camera with
me to Ceylon. The dealer had war
ranted the wood to be perfectly sea-
soned, but | had not been in the island
a week before my camera had warped
and fallen apart. The Ceylonese, in
their horrible climate. are healthy be-
cause they eat no meat and drink only
water. "-Philadelphia Record.
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II
HER BOND
OF LOVE
BY EDWARD DECHERT

Copyright, 1901, bu A. S. Richardson

The BOndlady, every one called her.
except when her name was added to
legal papers. There it was recorded
"Gretchen Mackenzie"
The Bondlady was a money lender,
who demanded tribute for keeping pet
ty offenders out of Jail. She entered
bail for their appearance in court. Her
benevolence was rewarded according
to the amount she could collect. Never
had she been known to take less than
10 per cent interest.
Naturally the worldly goods of the
Bondlady had increased wonderfully,
and yet she wore calico.
Among the dwellers of the squalid
court in which she lived the Bond
/ lady was reputed to be worth million.
AS a matter of fact she owned half
dozen dingy houses and had several
hundred goldpieces slowed away in
stockings.
| Never had one of her customers
Jumped bail" Usually they were po-
litical hangers on, whose masters
| found for them loopholes of escape In
the legal dragnet. But to her one
morning came court officer with
Formidable document that, being inter
preted, ordered her to produce the
bodies" of a dozen men for whom she
had entered bail. Unable to keep
abreast with printed news, the Bond
| lady was naturally startled.
A Crusade" against Illegal voters
| rAfI
were the Bondlady's usual style of
patrons They were vouched for by
ward leaders. Receiving cash interest,
she had gladly gone into the deal. But
now city official. high in authority.
was arrested, accused of wholesale
bribery and perjury. He was released
on bail and fed. The lesser offenders
went too.
1t was great day for the newspa-
per; it was a bad day for the Bond
lady. Naturally there was no one to
give her sympathy. She went into the
courtyard and sat on bench needless
of passersby, who gazed curiously at
her.
As she sat grooming and muttering
she noticed on the next bench a rag
ged, dirty little girl. her head In her
hands. weeping bitterly. 1t was not
the tears, it was not the dirt. it was
not the rags, that drew the Bondlady's
attention She had grown callous to
such things. There was touch of ma
ture that made them kin. The young
sters hair was red = the most fiery
\ shade of red The Bondlady's hair
was of the same shade.
The Bondlady felt 1t had been the
color of her hair that made her what
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1902-10-21

A recent article in the Dairyman ON
whipping cows has justly caused COM
ment A COW kicks from only four
causes namely, pain, fright, nervous
ness and viciOusness. The first three
causes are by proper treatment easily
overcome. There is no room on earth
for habitually vicious COW. and she is
easily disposed Of Beef her at once,
for no matter how good she may be
she is not worth bothering with.
| A COW knows as well as her owner
when a whip is kept in the stable and
she is ever alert for it. A COW that has
been whipped will as a rule start and
shrink at the approach of her master
or the sound of his voice. and as a CON
sequence both the milk flow and fat
content is notably diminished
| Harsh treatment or words affect us
all, according to our temperament, and
dairy COW is no exception. A man
who cannot keep cows without resort
ing to the use of a whip had better re
tire from dairying and exercise his
muscle chopping wood or carrying the
hod A whip may be necessary in
training steers that cannot speak
but | am fully convinced that any
means of punishment in a dairy herd
is a losing game.-J. H. in Hoard's
Dairyman.
A Valuable Circular.
State Dairy Commissioner II. r.
Wright of Iowa has issued a circular
containing valuable hints to dairymen,
and he is very much gratitied at the de
mand which Is being made for it. The
first issue Of 300 copies is exhausted
and there are requests for three times
that many now OH file with the dairy
commissioner The circular has been
carefully prepared and takes up vari
Gus subjects of interest and help tc
dairymen. One of its most popular fea
lures seems to be the table giving com
parative value of feedstuffs for dairy
cows and carefully worked out to very
small percentages
Guernsey Portia of MapIehurst
Mr. G. B. Tallman, Perry N. Y, re
Gently sold this COW to Mr.. A. G. Lor
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1902-10-21
A Cinnahar Mine.

A very curious old mine with many
dio, in the United States of Colombia,
where cinnabar, the ore of mercury,
has been wrought from the time of
the earliest Spanish explorers, almost
200 years ago, at Il spot 10000 feet
above the sea. Its 10 .ity is further
remarkable as being o..e of the wet
test places on the globe. 1t is eXcep-
tional for the rain to cease throughout
the greater part of the year.
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Popularity of silos.

Reports from some of the dairy sec
lions say that silos or silo stock is
coming in by the carload and that the
number in use will be largely increased
this year and in future years. says an
exchange This feeling In favor OF
the silo is increased by the fact that
in many cases those who feed ensilage
are getting at the creameries credit
for more butter fat and better price
for their milk than those who feed
hay and do not expend any more for
grain, though they may balance their
rations a little better, and the good
price paid for hay may have some In
fuence, for dairymen would not object
to having few tons of hay to sell
and yet be able to keep as many cows
and sell as much milk or butter as they
do when they feed out all of their hay.
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The wife of an Edinburgh journalist
said to young unmarried friend:
Fannie, take my advice and never
marry a newspaper man."
"But your husband is newspaper
man, and you seem to get along very
WE'LL
But we don't Every evening he
brings home a big bundle of news
papers from all over the country, and
it nearly drives me crazy"
How SOP"
81 read about the bargain sales in
London, Manchester and other places
a hundred miles off, where l can't get
to scottish American.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1902-10-21

The master of Glasgow school was
presiding over the reading lesson when
the child, whose turn it was to read,
came across the word ''hireling."
what is a 'hirelingY" asked the
teacher.
The boy thought for moment or
two and then replied, Il don't know"
The question was next propounded to
the entire class, with a like result.
The master then explained the mean
ing of the word as lueidly as he could
and at the conclusion of his explana-
ton repeated the question.
'Please, sir" replied the boy ad-
dressed, you're hireling; you're paid
to teach Scottish American.
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''She told me she had made study
of palmistry."
"WellT'
well, she offered to read my palm
and | let her"
Naturally"
'And then she told me that was go
ing to suffer a disappointment in love
but would get over it and marry q
poor girl"
What did you sayr
What could l say? She's rich. and
/ intended to propose to her that very
evening"
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Her Pastor-Do you not know than
what God has joined together mar
should not put asunder?
The Divorcee=It was not a man in
our case. 1t was milliner.
"a whatY
"A milliner. You see. my husband
said he'd rather pay alimony than buy
long run."-New York Times.
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what Answer Could She Makef

Mother-Elsie, your sister tells me
you took second helping of pudding
at Mrs Browns today.
Little Elsie-So did, mamma.
do you think that was right, ElsieT'
''Yes. You know you have often told
me not to contradict any one, and Mrs.
Brown said. 4 know Elsie will have
a second helping to pudding and !
couldn't contradict her. could I?"--
Washington Star.
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Fishing Through street Grating.

Fishing Through Street Grattngs.
In Winchester. England, it is quite 6
common thing to see men fishing
through the street gratings Under the
High street there flow several streams
: which ultimately discharge into the
river Itchen. a noted trout stream
These streams receive the storm ant
surface water from the street by mean:
of the ordinary street grating. The line
is dropped through and fastened to the
end Of a stick small enough to &c
through the CRATE. When the fish Is
hooked. the line and stick are dropped
through the grating. and the fisherman
rushes to the point where the stream
energies from under the street and il
there able to recover his line and lane
his fish.
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ucattOn.

What sculpture is to a block of mar
BILE education is to human soul The
philosopher, the saint and the hero. the
wise. the good and the great man very
often lie hid and concealed in Il plebe-
ian. which proper education might
have disinterred and brought to light
Addison.
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"Yes," said the soprano in the choir
loft, religion is absolutely free and
without price,
And yet" grumbled the basso pro
fundo, lit is considered quite the thing
to make a cloak of that cheap mate
rial Baltimore News.
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A Japanese Retraction.

The art of retracting without taking
anything back-if the bull may be al
lowed-seems to be understood in ia
pan. A young orator at a political
meeting called a public official thief.
A policeman on duty gravely rose and
addressed a remark in a low tone to
the speaker, who thereupon said, '"The
chief of police requests me to retract
the word which have just spoken.
Although the word of a sage should
never re-enter, let us make conces-
sion; let us take back the word and
keep the idea" Great applause and
cries of ''Bravor' greeted the orators
escape from his dilemma.-Youth's
Companion.
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why Tennyson Wrote No Letters.

Tennyson once told Sir Henry Tay-
lor that he thanked God Almighty
with his whole heart and soul that he
knew nothing and that the world knew
nothing of Shakespeare but his writ
ings and that he knew nothing of Jane
Austen and that there were no letters
preserved either of Shakespeare or OF
Jane Austen; that they, in fact, had
not been ripped open. like pigs"