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The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1905-07-04
LONDON IN A FOG.
A Weird Day of Dense Gloom In thu
English. TIetroDoIfs

Weird Day of Dense Gloom In the
English metropolis.
He knew his London we'll We went
forth into fog that was of the pea
soup variety. 1t seemed useless to
wait any longer for it to clear off. The
days We're all alike and were darker
than twilight ever dared to be- | chung
to Prentice Mulford's coat sleeve, for
knew if he were once to get beyond
my reach | could never hope to find
him again. We CROPPED blindly among
the streets, where the atmosphere was
only less palpable than the houses that
walled us in. At intervals we inquired
where we were, for otherwise we could
never have known at ALL We had to
feel our way carefully and take sound
ings at intervals. Here" said Prem
tice as we paused in space; there is
Temple Bar" I thought I saw some
thing that might have been the ghost
Of an arch hewn out of the solid fog.
The top of it. though it was not lofty,
was lost to view. Temple Bar, now
gone forever from the place where its
gates once swung in the wall of the
old city-it was here her gracious
majesty Queen Victoria of England
was wont to receive the keys Of the
city from the hands of the lord mayors
when she drove in state to ST. PauPs
cathedral. We threaded Fleet street,
but could not see to the farther shore.
Here is her majesty's tower" said
Prentice, but nothing of 1t was visible,
not one stone upon another. We cross
ed London bridge almost without
knowing it. The waters of the Thames,
which are but condensed fog, were in
visible from the parapet, and the steam
ferries were picking their way eau
tiously and looking very like marine
monsters in a muddy aquarium. We
crawled through the tunnel for foot
traffic under the Thames, which was
like a hole in the fog, and for hours
carried the sky about on our shoulders.
1t was a woolly. greasy and i'll smelling
sky. Our nostrils were clogged with
cinders, like chimney fues, and there
were smudges all over our faces.
Sometimes for a moment or two we
saw spot overhead that was like a
pale red wafer, and we knew it for
the sun, now lost to us. The lamps
that burned all day were like glow
worms for dlmness, and so we explor-
ed the wonders of the town and saw
as much of it as a blind man sees, but
no more.-Charles Warren Stoddard in
National Magazine.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1905-07-04
GERMANY's BLACK LETTER.
Comparison of Texts Used In Print
ing In the Fatherland.

Comparison of Texts Used In Print
ing In the Fatherland.
ut is remarkable that so practical a
people as the Germans should continue
to use their blind black letter." says
Jerome Hart. 1.-The German text is
ugly, and when printed from small
type on dingy paper with high speed
presses, as Is the case with most daily
newspapers, it Is difficult to decipher.
Ever since the days of Cadmus alpha
bets have been designed to convey ideas,
and those alphabets which transfer
thought with tire most quickness, clear
ness and precision are the best. Con-
Sidered from these standpoints the Ger
man alphabet Is one of the worst. That
It Is a failure Is shown unconsciously
In many ways. Advertisers, for exam
pie, have no sentiment about them
They want to reach the reader and
reach him quickly. Therefore nearly
all the display advertisements In Ger
man newspapers are printed In Latin
characters
$50, too, with the commercial and
financial pages. Stockholders and mer
chants have no time to waste in de
ciphering badly printed German text
Therefore the commercial page In the
German dailies Is now nearly always
set up in Roman type. Circus adver
tisements, theater placards and adver
Using posters generally, the names o.
streets on the corner signs, the letter
ing on cars and omnibuses, even TEN
porary signs, such as No Thorough
fare or Street Closed you nearly al
ways see in Latin characters.
Another proof of the inferiority O
the German text is the fact that nearl.
an German scientific works are printed
In Roman This has been the case TO
years, but it has had little effect OF
the printing of books Of general ma
ture. Bismarck did much to retard thi
needed improvement, for he chung stub
| bornly to the German text and FIRE
quently sent back books which wer
printed in Roman, refusing to rea
them."-New Orleans Times Democrat
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1905-07-04
Throwing the handkerchief.

Statement copied from an old manu-
script: I'm the Founding Hospital the
Boys are bound apprentices. the Wo-
men when manageable are conducted
In procession thro' We streets, and any
Young Man who sees one He wd wish
for Wife Is at liberty to mark Her by
throwing his handkerchief" The fur
Their formalities required previous to
matrmony are not stated Perhaps
this peculiar custom is the origin Of
the expression throwing the handker-
chief. Nineteenth Century.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1905-07-04
THE SUN AND MOON.
Quaint Folklore Stories Concerning
These Luminaries.

Quaint Folklore Stories Concerning
These Luminaries.
The most touching of all folklore sto-
ries may be found in Charles F. Lum-
mis- pueblo Folklore" 1t is one of
the many myths of the moon and beau
tifrlly conceived. The sun is the All
father, the moon the Allmother, and
both shine with equal light in the heav-
ems. But the Trues, the superior divin-
tiles, find that man, the animals, the
flowers, weary Of constant day. They
agree to put out the Allfather's, or
suns, eyes The Allmother, the moon,
offers herself as a sacrifice. Blind
me-" she says, "and leave my hus-
bands eyes" The Trues say, at is
good, woman"
They accept the sacrifice and take
away one of the Allmother's eyes;
hence the moon is less brilliant than
the sun. The man finds rest at night,
and the flowers sleep.
In Mrs. Leiber Cohen's translation of
Sacher Masoch's Jewish Tales" there
is a variant of the sun and moon story
derived from the Talmud Briefly told
the sun and moon are equally luml-
nous. 1t is the moon who wants to be
more brilliant than the sun. Deity is
| angered at her demands. Her light Is
Iessened. 1.-The moon grew pale. Then
God pitied her and gave her the stars
for companions
His Good Behavior.
ibid your valet have good refer
ence from his last placer
Eyes. The Judge gave him two months
off for good behavior there. Judge
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1905-07-04

A reader forwards me a pleasant ad-
dition to my collection of printers err
rors, says T. P.'s London Weekly. 1t
was told him by the late G. Farquhar-
son Findlay, for some years editor OF
the Dover Chronicle, as having hap
pened to him personally. He had oc-
casion to write of the blind guides
who strain at gnat and swallow a
camel" which appeared in print as
who strain at quart and swallow a
canal"
Did any Of my readers notice, Won
der, a delightful error of this kind in
one of the reviews, in which Sir Henry
Campbell Bannerman was described as
"brandishing mailed fishr' 1t rather
reminds one Of the famous Spoonerism
about feeling half warmed fish in
your BOSOM"
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1905-07-04
CORN PLANTING.
Time and Method Under Widely Va
rying Conditions.

rying Conditions.
BY C. P. HARTLEY.
Throughout all the corn growing sec
tons of the country it is the general
experience that corn planted early
most often gives the best yield. In
the northern states there is little choice
as to time Of planting. Corn must be
planted as soon as the ground is sufti-
GENTLY warm in order that 1t may ma
ture before early fall frosts. In the
southern states the growing season is
long enough to allow planting at differ
ent dates, thus lessening the likelihood
Of having the entire crop cut short by
drought. Growing conditions are more
favorable In the spring, and corn usual
~ produces better if planted at that
time. Although the southern summers
are long enough to afford plenty of
warm weather, corn planted in the
summer will ripen in less time and
usually produce less than If planted
IN the spring Fields planted early
frequently escape attacks of the bud
worm, while later paintings Of the
same year suffer severely. AS the re-
suit of many years trials at different
state experiment stations, the best
planting season has been found to be
respectively: Middle Georgia, March 10
to 20; Illinois, May II to IS; middle In
diana, May l to IL; Kansas, May q;
South Dakota. May 10 to 20. Corn
should, of course, not be planted in
cold or wet ground simply because the
calendar shows that the usual planting
time has arrived But by good drain
age, fall blowing, etc, every farmer
should strive to have his land in good
condition to plant at the proper time.
The Check Rover.
Perhaps more corn is now planted by
means Of a check rover than by any
other device This implement is adj
Unstable so that the spacing of the rows
and the distance between the plants or
hills In the row can be regulated to suit
the requirements of the soil. BY means
of a wire chain stretched across field
one man and team can plant in straight
rows in both directions across the field
| twelve or fifteen acres per day, thus
admitting of cross cultivation. Corn
planted in this way can be kept free
from weeds and well cultivated with
out costly hoeing or cutting of weeds
A summary Of tests made by various
experiment stations shows that there
is practically no difference in yield OF
/ corn planted in hills Of several stalks
each or drilled so that the stalks stand
separately in the rows, provided there
is the same number of stalks per acre
in each case The former system facili
tates cultivation, and the latter pro
vides for a more equal distribution o.
the roots throughout the soil. Checl
rowers are best adapted to large, com
paratively level fields free from trees
or stumps. Hillsides and slopinl
ground cannot be planted in checl
rows without increasing the liabilit!
to soil washing.
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Iceland Mail,

When the wind blows from the south
and one of the islanders of south Ice
land wishes to communicate with the
mainland he puts his letters into a well
corked bottle. and to insure their de
livery he incloses at the same time a
plug of twist tobacco or a cigar. The
wind speedily impels the bottle to the
shore of the mother island. where peo-
pie are generally on the lookout.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1905-07-04

Backed up by over third of century
of remarkable and uniform cures, record
such as no other remedy for the diseases
and weaknesses peculiar to women ever
attained, the proprietors of DR.. Pierce's
Favorite Prescription now feel fully war
ranted In offering to pay $500 in legal
money of the United States, for any case
of teucerrhea, Female Weakness, Prolap-
sus, or Falling of Womb which they cam
not cure All they ask is fair and reason
able trial of their means of cure.
AZ used four bottles Of your Favorite Pre-
scription' and one of Golden Medical Discov-
cry writes Mrs Elmer D. Shearer Of Mount
hope, Lancaster Co., Pa, aand can say that am
cured Of that dreaded disease, uterine trouble.
Am in better health than ever before. Every
one who knows me is surprised to see me look
SO we'll In June was SO poor in health that
at times could not walk. To-day am cured.
/ tell everybody that DR.. Pierce's medicines
cured me-"
FREE Dr. Pierce's Common Sense Med
ical Adviser is sent free on receipt of stamps
to pay expense Of mailing only. Send 81
one-oent stamps for the cloth-bound volume.
Address Worlds Dispensary Medical Assoc
citation, Proprietors, Buffalo, N. Y.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1905-07-04
SENTENCE SERMONS.

Killing time is a sure way of spoil.
ing character.
Reverence is the foundation of last.
ing love.
Hatred often comes from only know
ing half of man.
The sense of duty is a sign of the
divine In man.
The only sure thing about lie is that
1t will never die.
1t is hard for the leek to see why
people prefer the lily.
Many mistake their dreams about
heaven for deeds to lots up there.
After robbing Peter to pay Paul q
man usually forgets to settle with
Paul.
There is nothing prouder than igno
rance or more ignorance than pride.
There are some SO called unpublished
gems that are not susceptible Of being
polished.-St Louis Republic.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1905-07-04

AaSCOEuss
England's state records are kept in
a great building known as the record
office in London. Here are 100 strong
rooms, and in these rooms the rolls
and records for over eight centuries
are kept. There is the chancery roll
room, containing over 10000 rolls of
the chancery court, each roll consist
ing of thirty or forty skins of parch-
ment stitched together and rolled up
tight into a cylinder. Another set Of
rooms is set aside for the records Of
the kings bench and common pleas,
the latter extending from the reign of
Richard l. to the present time. Each
roll is formed of number of long
parchment skins fastened together at
the head and inclosed in stout vellum
covers. Each roll weighs from 100 to
200 pounds and contains from 500 to
1000 skins of parchment
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1905-07-04
How She Knew.

Mrs. Jenkins-The moment he kissed
he knew he had been drinking. Mrs
Supple : You mean you smelled his
breath? Mrs. Jenkins-I mean that
Mr. Jenkins never kisses me except
when he has been drinking.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1905-07-04

Here lies Jane White, wife OF Thorn.
as White, stonemason. This monu-
ment was put up out of respect for he's
memory and as specimen of his work
manship.. Tombs In the same style
E50.-London Tit-Bits.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1905-07-04

A very famous American dentist met
the English husband of an American
friend of mine with the genial congrat-
ulation: "My dear sir, wish you Joy!
You have married a first rate set Of
teeth" Fortnightly Review.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1905-07-04
Blue island. m. Ian. "a 19O1

Messrs. Ely Bros. II have used your
Cream Balm in my family for nine years
and it has become my family doctor for
colds in the head use it freely on my
children. 1t is Godsend to children.
Yours respectfully, J. KIMBALL
Messers. Ely Bros.:-I suffered greatly
with catarrh and tried different remedies
without effect After using one bottle Of
your Cream Balm found relief and can,
not praise too highly such remedy.
Miss Cora WILLARD, Albany, N. Y.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1905-07-04

Adversely is sometimes hard upon a
man, but for one man who can stand
prosperity there are a hundred who
will stand adversely Goldsmith.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1905-07-04

Standar-Did that deaf mute orator
make set speech7 Doyle-No. He
spoke offhand. Leader.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1905-07-04
unnIeasnnt Criticism.

Mrs. De Style exhibiting picturel-
You know, my daughter paints from
nature. Crit1c-Far from 1t, 1t seems
New York Times
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1905-07-04

Cream Balm is placed into the nostrils, spreads
over the membrane and is absorbed. Relief is i'm
mediate and cure follows. tits not Crying-does
not produce sneezing. Large Size so cents at Drug
gists or by mail; Trial Size, 10 cents.
ELY BROTHERS, Sc Warren Street, New York
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Ivory Congratulations.

A civil guest will no more talk all
than eat all the feast-Herbert.
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TOUR TO THE CANADIAN ROCKIES. LEWIS
AND CLARK EXPOSITION. AND
YELLOWSTONE PARK.
-s245-TRIP.

Via Pennsylvania Railroad. Account Con.
vention american Medical Association.
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STRANGE ADVICE

Or. q. @. Green gives alert personal attention
to his great humanitarian contract.
GIN our Almanac for many years past we
have given unusual advice to those Attic
tad with coughs, colds, throat or lung
troubles or consumption. We have told
them if they did not receive any special
benefit after the use of one 7s-cent size
bottle of German Syrup, to consult their
doctor. Owe did not ask them or urge
them to use large number of bottles, as
Il the case in the advertising of many
other remedies. Our confidence In Ger
man Syrup makes it possible for US to
give such advice. give know by the ex-
perience of over IS years that one 75-cent
bottle of German Syrup will speedily re-
Heve or cure the worst coughs, colds,
bronchial or lung troubies-and that,
even in bad cases of consumption, one
large bottle of German Syrup will work
wonders. qNew trial bottles, age; reg
ular size, Use. At all druggists.
FOR SALE BY
BARRINCTON'S PHARMACY
The L'Anse sentinel., 1905-04-29
PICKED UP HERE AND THERE.

English people eat more butter than
any other nation, a fact which, it is said,
results in the British complexion being
the purest in the world.
Eskimo dogs have covered a distance
of As miles on ice in five hours; while a
picked team of these dogs once Travelled
six miles in % minutes.
In shooting, as in other sports, thor
ough luxuriousness is now regarded by
modern shooters as prime necessity OF
enjoyment. They have their loading
done for them, their birds are driven to
them and in greatly increased numbers,
their luncheon hours are devoted to the
best in many courses of food and wine
and they get home by motor as quickly
as possible after shooting is over.
Now that Kansas has appropriated
money to mark the old Santa Fe trail,
an enterprising citizen of New Mexico
suggests that hotel be built at Las
Vegas to be called the Santa Fe Trail
hotel He would portray on the walls OF
its big dining-room the scenery OF the
trail. In other rooms would be hung
paintings of old-time stage coaches,
cavalry squads, buffaloes. Indians and
scouts. The. sleeping-rooms to be
named after the states in the union.
Wales is by no means disposed to bend
the knee to America. The Welsh 'yells'
are fully up to the transatlantic level.
The University of North Wales has
yell something like this: Bravo,
bravissimo, ray, ray. ra-o-rock! Ray
ray-ra-o rock! Ray-ray-ra-o-rock!''
Cardiff has a somewhat similar "yell," !"
while at Aberystwyth the cry is: Hip
hip hur-aber! Hip-hip-hur-aber! Hip
hip-Aberystwyth! With pip and a
pang, and zip and yang. Yak!
Yak!! Yak!!"
The L'Anse sentinel., 1905-04-29
GRATEFUL TO CUTICURA.
For Instant Relief nEd speedy Cure OF
Raw and Scaly Humour, Itching
Day and Night for Many
Months.

Il do wish you would publish this let
te, so that others suffering as l have may
see it and be helped. For many months
awful sores covered my face and neck,
scabs forming, which would swell and
itch terribly day and night, and then
break open, running blood and matter.
I had tried many remedies. but was
oura. The first application gave me in
slant relief, and when l had used two
cakes of Cutioura Soap and three boxes
OF Cutcura Ointment, / was completely
cured. (Signed) Miss Nellie Wander
" iele, Lakeside, N. y"
The L'Anse sentinel., 1905-04-29
Cannot Reduce a Rate.

It Is stated in Washington, that under
the Townsend rate bill, If rate is fixed
by the Commission 1t cannot be lowered
by railroad. Should an emergency
arise calling for decreased rate, the
railroads or shippers would have to APP
peal again to the Commission, there be-
ing no latitude allowed, whatever the
circumstances. Hitherto a maximum
rate has been the rule, but no such con-
cession is made under the proposed LED
fa1atf0n
The L'Anse sentinel., 1905-04-29
ANOTHER RECORD IN
LAND-HUNTlNC.
This Springs Exodus to Canada
Greater Than Ever. 4.

1t was thought in 1903, when over
forty-five thousand people went from
the United States to Canada, that the
limit of the yearly emigration to the
wheat zone of the Continent had been
reached. But when in 1904 about as
large a number of American citizens
signified their intention of becoming
settlers on Canadian lands, the gen.
eral public were prepared for the an
nouncement of large numbers in 1905.
No surprise therefore will be caused
when 1t is made known that the pre-
dictions of fully fifty thousand more in
1905 are warranted in the fact that
the Spring movement Canadaward is
greater than 1t has ever been. The
special trains from Omaha, Chicago,
st. Paul, Detroit, and other gateways,
have been crowded. Many have gone
to join friends and relatives who have
prepared homes for them, and others
have gone relying upon their own re-
sources, satisfied that what others
have done can also be done by them.
This year much new territory has
been opened up by the railroads, which
are extending their main lines and
throwing out branches in their march
across the best grain and grazing
lands on the Continent. This new
territory has attractions for those de-
string to homestead on the one hun
dred and sixty acres granted each set
tier by the Canadian Government.
nj toly nd M <xf tbn
portunity to purchase lands at the low
figures at which they are now being
offered.
1t does not require much thought
to convince one that If Iowa, Illinois,
Minnesota and other lands, with a
value Of from fifty to one hundred and
fifty dollars an acre will give O good
living by producing ten to thirteen
bushels of wheat to the acre and
thirty to fifty bushels of corn 10 the
acre, the lands of Western Canada at
seven to ten dollars an acre, produc-
ing from twenty TO thirty bushels Of
q superior wheat to the acre, should
produce a competence to the ordinary
farmer in a very few years. These
are the facts as they confront the
reader. There arc millions Of acres of
such land in Western Canada in addi-
ton to the other millions that are con-
sidered to be portion of the biggest
and best ranges that ever invited the
cattle and horse producer Of the North
American continent. What is particu-
larly evident IN Western Canada Is
the fact that the wheat lands, adjoin-
ing the grazing lands, make farming
particularly agreeable and profitable.
The agents of the Canadian Govern
ment, who are always willing to give
information and advice to Intending
settlers, say that the acreage put un-
der crop this season is greatly in ex-
cess of last season.
The L'Anse sentinel., 1905-04-29

b AC X T O
B e IT III e L
OUR SERMON STORY by the
Highway and Byway" Preacher.
"a Vision Between the Lines Of Gods
Inspired Word)
Copyright, 1905, by J. NJ. Edson. }

Scripture Authority:-"And Abram went
up out Of Egypt, he and his wife and
all that he had. and Lot with him. into the
south. And Abram was very rich In cattle.
In silver and in gold. And he went on his
Journeys from the south even to Bethel,
unto the place where his tent had been at
the beginning. between Bethel and Al, unto
the place OF the altar. which he had made
there at the first; and there Abram called
on the name of the Lord Gen. 13:l-4
The L'Anse sentinel., 1905-04-29

HRISTIAN in his
pilgrimage to the
Celestial city found
that there was no
short cut to { h 9
right road when
once he had gone
into the by-roads
that led away from
truth a n d right.
He was repeatedly
obliged to retrace
his steps to the
p o | n I where he
had made his first