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J. Fl. MACDONALD CHOSEN.
Elected President of American Road
 Makers Association.

Port Huron, Mich, Aug. 31.-The an- nual convention of the Association of American Road Makers adjourned to- day after electing the following officers: President, James H. Macdonald, Con- necticut; secretary, w. s. Dickinson, Massachusetts; treasurer, Joseph W. Hunter, Pennsylvania.
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ROOT ON WAY HOME.
Went to Fnrthest Point in Labrador
 Reached by Steamer.

Reached by Steamer.
 St, Johns. N. F., Aug. 3l.-Elihu Root, the American secretary of state, re- turned from Labrador to-day by the mail boat and left tonight for New York. MT. Root expressed great satis- faction that peace should have been achieved at Portsmouth, believing that the best interests of the entire world were promoted thereby. MT Root said he had had a most enjoyable trip to Labrador, going to Main, the farthest point north reached by steamer. He was favored by splendid weather throughout, and conditions yesterday were favorable for 8 view of the solar eclipse, but the boat left Cartwright before the phenomenon occurred.
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BOY'S SHOCKING DEATH.
Slips and Is ImpaIed on the Prongs of a
 Harrow.

Stamford, Aug. 31.-John Moran, the ten year old son of William Moran of North Stamford, while playing in the lift of his fathers barn this afternoon slipped and fell from the loft on to a harrow, the teenth of which were point ing upwards. Some of the sharp prongs went almost through the body of the boy and he died instantly.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-09-01

The standing and totals of some of the competitors follows:
 Eleventh Rhode Island, 3,79S; Eigh- teenth Connecticut, 3,642: Twentieth Vermont, 3.105.
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NOT URGING EXPLOITATION.
Treaty to stand-- d--Arrangements for at Arlnistice.

St. Petersburg, Aug. 31.-The Assoei- ated Press is in a position to state that the report emanating from Portsmouth to the effect that the war party is urgs ing the emperor to repudiate the treaty of peace is untrue and absurd
 All the necessary measures for put ting an arrnistiee into effect have been taken here, but 1t is impossible to pun them into actual operation in the ab- sence of an understanding with tho Japanese. < E
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OFFICIAL RUSSIAN VERsIoN
statemen of the Course of the Peac4
 Negotiations.

St. Petersburg, Aug. 81. The govern ment has issued the following commu- nication explaining the course of the peace negotiations:
 "In the month of June the emperor consented to accept the proposition Of President Roosevelt for a conference of Russian and Japanese plenipo potentiaries in order to ascertain how far it was
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DEWEK's BRoTHEB DEAD.
Charles Dewey Expires in Montpelier,
 Vt, Aged 70 Years. 4 @ <. *..

Burlington, Vt. Aug. S1.-Charles Dewey. the only surviving brother of Admiral Dewey, died at his home in Montpelier this evening. He was sev-. ,enty-nine years old, and had been con fined to his bed for six weeks with gen. eral breaking down of the system. He was president of the National Life h.. suranee company from 1877 to 1900, re- tiring from business at that time.
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CHINESE BOYCOTT WANING.
State Department Believes It Has Prac-
 tically Exhausted Itself.

Washington, Aug. s1.-Consul Gen. eral Rogers, at Shanghai, cab1ed the state department to-day that the posi- tion there as to the anti American boy colt was improving. The officials of the state department have come to the conclusion that the boycott has prac- tically exhausted itself, the Chinese merchants finding that they them selves were the principal losers.
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Eighteen Liners for Japanese Company
 Glasgow, Aug. 31.-The Nippon Yusen Kaisha (Japanese Steamship Col, through the Japanese consul is placing contracts for eighteen liners with Clyde Shipbuilding firms.
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Dr. Strong, gr. g, Gallery, Pitts
 Durg) l Tom Axworthy, TO. g., (F. G. Jones,
 Chicago) ................... 4 Aerolite, b. rn, (Devereaux, Cleve-
 land) ................. Prince of Orange, br. g., co. K. c.
 Billings) .................,. 8
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The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1905-08-22
STAMM ERING.
The Cure That One Sufferer Invented
May Help Others.

The Cure That One Sufferer Invented
May Help Others.
Among the minor arts Of great i'm
portance is the self cure Of stammer-
ing, which comes upon so many in
early youth. In the memoir of the
author of John Inglesant," which his
widow prepared, we read rather
touching confession. Il contracted the
habit of stammering," wrote Mr. Short
house to Lady WeIby, .as a delicate
little boy Of three at large day school.
1t was not such misfortune as might
be supposed. For without this thorn
in the flesh John Inglesant' would
never have been written or conceived,
and much which is very dear to me in
philosophy would have been I'M
known" Few stammerers can bring
forth a classic from their affiiction,
and some would even refuse the au-
thor's fame at the price of the speak
er's embarrassments.
In many cases the self cure of STAN
mering is easy. The present writer
was a sufferer when a boy at day
school. He set himself to invent the
cure. 1t was absolutely necessary, he
found. that the opening syllable Of a
sentence should be said several times
before the sentence was under way
Gust as the billiard player waggles his
cue before the correct stroke). 1t oc-
Cured that the stammering might be
done silently. SO that little boy STAN
mered firmly to himself with tightly
closed lips, imagining himself to be
speaking. 1t was easy enough. when
the requisite number Of ''tut-tut-tuts"
or "gug- guys" had been achieved
In silence to start the sentence. Since
then he has never stammered-aloud,-
London Chronicle.
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GREEK ARCHITECTURE.
A Certain Fixed Proposition Wa
Adopted For Each Edifce.

A Certain Fixed Proposition Was
Adopted For Each Edihce.
In constructing their stone edifices
the Greeks, who were reasoners and
logicians, followed certain rules and
adopted for each edifice certain fixed
proportion. What does this mean? 1t
means that the proportions of the diff
ferent parts Of the edifice are simple
proportions which can be reduced to
common measure. Take as an example
the temple of Paestum. The module
Is the mean radius of the column. This
module measures three feet. The col
umn Is ten times the module, or, say,
thirty feet The distance between the
axes of the columns is FIVE times the
module, say, fifteen feet. The total
height of the entablature is also fifteen
feet, the width Of the abacus is three
modules, equal to nine feet. 1t Is thus
seen that all these numbers are multi
pies of three, which is the module. In
this manner the proportions of the diff
ferent members of an edifice have a
constant relation to each other.
1t goes without saying that the
module varies for each ediflce; there Is
no single and absolute rule. For In
stance, in the Doric order the length Of
the column varies from ten to twelve
modules, in the Ionic order from six
teen to twenty-one. The entablature
of the Doric order measures five mo-
dulles and that of the Ionic only four
Architectural Record.
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UP THE HUDSON.
n II N . II 'NFINs
On Thursday Annnst d

On Thursday, August "A,
the Pennsylvania Railroad Company will
run its usual midsummer excursions to
the Upper Hudson, under personal es-
cort. Special train will leave Broad
Street Station at 7.34 A. NJ. stopping at
principal points between Philadelphia and
Trenton.
A stop will be made at West Point, Civ
ing those who disembark an hour and a
half at that point and enabling them to
view the United States Military Academy.
In order to insure an early return, no
stop will be made at Newburgh, although
the steamer will run to point off that
city and there turn.
Tickets will be sold at the following
round-trip rates: from Philadelphia, Bris.
toll and intermediate stations, &. so; Tren-
ton, So 90; Tulpehocken, Westmoreland
and intermediate stations, 50 so; Upsal
Carpenter, and Aliens Lane, $780, Wis
sahickon Heights, Highland. and Chest
nut Hill, $270.
AL North Philadelphia connection will
be made with regular trains from Chest
nut Hill Branch.
Tickets good only on special train an(
connections at above points.
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OUR OLDEST HOTEL.


1t Is In Arizona and Dates From the
Seventeenth Century.
st. Augustine is the oldest town IN
the United States, but the oldest hotel
In the country, contrary to what one
would expect, is not In the east at all,
but as far west as Arizona, being sit
uated In Phenix of that state.
1t was built in the seventeenth cen
fury by the Spaniards, just after the
erection Of a wonderful governors
palace, which also is to be seen to this
day-the famous "PaIacio del Gober-
nador." The hotel is a long, low, one
story affair, built Of adobe, with a fat
roof, low doorways and many paned
windows The structure Is now rath-
er dingy In appearance, although 1t
was, no doubt, considered really spa
cious and elegant when first erected.
When in 1851 the Indians threw of
the Spanish yoke the hotel became a
temporary fort Many successful In
dian raid was planned in this very
building, and councils of war were
held frequently in the "taproom." as
1t was called.
This old tavern has sheltered such
men as Custer, John C. Fremont, Gen
eral Phil Sheridan, Zebulon Pike, Buff
falo Bill and other famous scouts and
plainsmen, besides many lesser heroes
who, In true dime novel fashion, event
west to fight Injuns'
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AN ANCIENT CUSTOM.

Wassailing of Apple Trees still OBJ
served In Parts of England.
What is the wassailing of apple
trees?
This Is an old custom, fast dying out,
but still observed IN parts Of Somerset
and Devon. At Wooton- Basset, near
Minehead, the ceremony takes place
on old Twelfth eve. All assemble at
the farmhouse, and, after a hearty
meal, form a procession to the nearest
orchard, the master in front with
light, and men with old guns, blunder-
busses and anything that makes a
noise, in the rear. Plenty of cider is
taken and some pieces of toast
When the orchard is reached a ring
is formed, and the master, in the cen
ter, seizes branch and sings a verse
beginning, "Oh, apple tree, | wassail
thee, in hopes that thou wilt blow"
Then all shout in chorus:
Hatfuls. capfuls, three bushel bagfuls,
Barn oorfuls, tullet holefuls,
And a little heap under the stairs.
Then follow cheers, drinking of
healths, shouts of Now, Tom Pod, we
wassail theer' and the placing of the
pieces of toast. soaked In cider, among
the branches for the robins.-London
Answers.
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BITS FROM THE WRITERS.

There is nothing in life worth max
ing a secret of-except ones income
Seton Merriman.
Civilization means universal civility,
and to be civil to everybody argues a
great power of telling lies.-Eden Phil
potts.
How exquisite in life is the art of not
seeing many things and of forgetting
many that have been seen! ID James
Lane Allen.
Truisms, whether they lie in the
depths of thought or on the surface,
are at any rate the pearls Of expert
ence.-George Meredith.
Have you never observed that If you
conscientiously neglect to do your work
it somehow manages to get done with
out Henry Harland.
Relations, as somebody said, are dis
agreeable acquaintance. inflicted upor
us by Providence. But 1t is no use
losing ones temper about what they
say. 1t only pleases them.-Richar(
Bagot
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THE YELLOWSTONE PARK. LEWIS
AND CLARK EXPOSITION, AND TRE
ROCKY MOUNTAINS.
An Attractive Fall Tour via Pennsylvania
Railroad


Railroad.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Company
has arranged a special personally conduct-
ed tour to visit the Pacific Coast, includ-
ing the Yellowstone Park, Portland (for
the Lewis and Clark Exposition, and the
beautiful resorts among the Colorado
Rockies. This tour will leave New York,
Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington, and
other cities on the Pennsylvania Railroad
Saturday September 2, by special train
Of high grade Pullman equipment. The
itinerary will cover a period of three
weeks, the party reaching the East on the
homewar6 journey September % The
special train will be used by the party
over the entire route, except during the
five and one-half days in the Yellowstone
I Park, when the fine hotels now in service
in the Great Preserve will be utilized
The train will be side-tracked in Portland
for occupancy there, and all meals en-
route, except in the Yellowstone Park and
in Denver, will be served in the special
dining car.
Round trip tickets covering al necessary
expenses for twenty-one days, 5000 from
all points on the Pennsylvania Railroad
except Pittsburgh, from which the rate
will be 1895
TOT lurlncT lJlueTdFleS anu lurlneF lnIOr-
nation apply to ticket agents; G. Studs,
Eastern Passenger Agent, 1858 Fifth
Avenue, New York; Hugh Hasson, Jr.,
Passenger Agent Baltimore District, Bal
tmore, Md B. NJ. New bold, Passenger
Agent Southeastern District, Washington,
d c.; Thos E. Watt, Passenger Agent
Western District Pittsburg, Pa; or ad
dress Geo. W. B ,yd, General Passenger
Agent, Philadelphia
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An Interesting Experiment.

A vessel containing certain white
powder is placed upon the table, when
the operator advances, waving his
wand and uttering some magic words
coined by himself, when, 10, of a sud
den the room is lighted-up with bril-
liant light, so effulgent that 1t dims the
eyes Of the spectators. The secret Is
this: The powder is composed Of equal
weights of loaf sugar and chlorate of
potash, separately reduced to fine pow
der and then we'll mixed together. This
is placed in cup, and when the pow
der is touched with the least drop OF
sulphuric acid it will instantly burs
into a flame. The end of the glass rod
should be dipped in the acid immediate
ly before use.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1905-08-22
OLD TIME DENTISTRY.
Queer Instruments In Harvard Den
taI Schools Collection.

Queer Instruments In Harvard Dem
tai Schools Collection.
Like many other of the new" pro
fessipns, dentistry is very old one.
1t is known that AGO years before the
beginning Of the Christian era Egyp-
tan dentists filed teeth with gold, bat
no trace of their methods of doing their
work has ever been found Aescula-
Plus, the patron of physicians, was the
first famous dentist in Roman history,
and the old Romans used toothpick
very much like the little wooden one
that is made today. The AraDians
ages ago produced a dentifrice, but 1t
soon seemed to be very generally used.
The story of dentistry is told in the
instruments it has employed. AS they
are known today they had their be
ginning in the sixteenth century, but
their evolution has been slow. In the
Harvard Dental school In Boston there
is collection of instruments used by
dentists in the first half of the last cen
fury. One of the formidable tools 1t
includes is what was called key,
doubtless from its peculiar shape,
which was used for extracting teeth,
the process being to slowly and pain
fully twist and pry the offending molar
out Of its place. In order that no mis-
take should be made the dentist began
operations by hammering and prod
ding one tooth after another with a
sort of bludgeon until he had satisfied
himself-not to mention the tortured
patient-that he had found the most
sensitive one and therefore the most
likely candidate for extraction.
The grandfathers Of the delicate stee
| tools that lie in rows ON the modern
| dentists table were small in number
but large in awfuIness. There are II
! the Harvard collection chisels and NAL
lets, rude forceps for removing The
teeth, miniature crowbars used to re
pair cavities for filling, files for sharp
ening the cutting and grinding sur
faces of teeth and one particularly
horrid instrument, known as the pei
lean, with which teeth We're lifted"
How rapidly and recently dentistry
has become one of the impOrtan
sciences appears in the fact that IL
the middle of the last century black
smiths were doing their best-or wors
to relieve the victims of the tooth
ache, while today institutions like tn
Harvard Dental school attract stu
dents from all over the world. Be
sides. while 1t was sure torture to 2
to the dentist in the so called goo
old days" such visit now is CON
paratively comfortable, so-far has tn
profession gone in the direction of pei
forming its operations without caus
Ing pain.
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''Yonder," said the party Of the first
part, lis the house in which l was born.
We lived on the first floor. McBooth
Harrington. the great tragedian, occu-
pied the upper apartments He was
not only a famous actor, but singu-
larly fortunate man."
Then" responded the party Of the
second part, you were born under a
lucky star, eh?''
N. B.-The management begs to state
that it considers this one of the most
deliberately worked out jokes we have
produced this season.-Louisville Cou
rier-Journal
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1905-08-22
Woman's Presence.

What a CONSIDER is woman! No pres
ence but hers can win man from his
sorrow. The soldier becomes a light
some boy at her feet; the anxious
Statesman smiles himself back to the
free hearted youth beside her and the
still ami shaded countenance of care
brightens beneath her influence, as t
closed flower blooms in the sunshine
American Queen.
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National Airs.

The national airs of great countries
are short, while those of little coun-
tries are long. God Save the King
Is fourteen bars, the Russian hymn Is
sixteen bars and Hail, Columbia"
has twenty eight bars. Slams nation
al hymn has seventy-six bars and that
OF Uruguay. seventy, Chile forty six,
and so on. San Marine has the longest
national hymn except that Of China.
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just what He Meant.

An!American in London once attend
ed afdinner where Henry Arthur Jones
toldta story about Beerbohm Tree.
'Mr Tree" said the playwright, met
a friend of his one afternoon in Regent
street
1.-THE two stood and conversed little
while, and then Mr. Tree said:
~'Have you been down to see me act
lately, my boyT
''No; too poor said the other.
TOO poor Mr.. Tree exclaimed.
why, you spend enough on wine and
cigars
"But the other. nettled, interrupted.
"I don't mean I'm too poor. l mean
you're too poor be said"
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1905-08-22

A primitive notion existed among the
Romans and other races that q bridge
god. as it saved people from being
drowned while fording or swimming
across and robbed the deity Of certain
number of victims which were his due.
For many centuries In Rome propitia-
tory offerings of human victims were
made every year to the Tiber. Men
and women were drowned by being
bound and flung from the wooden Sub
liclan bridge, which, till nearly the end
Of the republican period, was the one
and only bridge across the Tiber in
Rome
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1905-08-22

Your backbone was not made for a
barrel hoop, so do not curve it around,
but rather straighten it out God made
man upright-not round shouldered,
humpbacked or bending over.
If you bend over too much in your
studies, get lower seat. Saw the
legs off from an old chair, and then
sit down so low that your chin will
come just above the table Make the
hind legs a little shorter than the fore
legs, and then read and write with
your arms on the table, and it will
take out some of the crook from your
back
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1905-08-22

People who are subject to cramp in
the legs should always be provided
with good strong piece Of cord. espe-
cially In their bedrooms. When the
cramp comes on take the cord, wind it
round the leg over the place where 1t
is cramped. take an end in each hand
and give it a sharp pull, one that will
hurt little. and the cramp will cease
instantly. People much subject to
cramp in bed have found great relief
from wearing on each leg garter of
wide tape which has several thin slices
of cork stitched on to it.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1905-08-22

Nobody should write who is not firm
ly possessed Of the idea that he has a
vocation for literature and is not will
ing to endure the penalties of art for
the sake of serving an art. If person
who writes in that spirit makes a liv-
ing he earns It, If he makes a fortune
he deserves it-New York Times
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1905-08-22

A lady invited to very recherche
musical party had met with an acct
dent TO her front teeth which there
was no time to repair She said, Il
VIII come, and, as l dare not open my
mouth. you must tell your friends am
deaf and dumb, but appreciate music"
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1905-08-22

THE trouble is that we eat too fast"
said the man who worries about health.
That's right" answered the man
whe worries about money. "Some Of
us eat so fast that our incomes can't
keep up with our grocery bills. Wash
ington Star
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ss5.Ooo.oo Given Away.

In the past year Dr. r. " Pierce has
given away copies of his great work, The
Peoples Common Sense Medical Adviser,
at an expense to him of $25, 600 90 ex-
elusive of postage. This standard book
on medicine and hygiene. contains 1908
pages and more than 700 illustrations 1t
treats of the greatest and gravest problems
of human life in simple English, from a
common sense point of view 1t answers
those questions of sex which linger un-
spoken upon the lips of youth and maiden.
1t is essentially family book, and its
advice in moment of sudden illness OF
accident may be the means of saving d
valuable life This great work is sent alb
solutely free on receipt of stamps to de.
fray the cost of mailing only. Send 81
one-cent stamps for the book in paper
binding, or 81 stamps for cloth covers
Address Dr. r V. Pierce, Buffalo, N. Y.
II you have pains in the back, Urinary
Bladder, or Kidney trouble, and want Ger
tain, pleasa"t herb remedy for woman's ills
try Mother Gray's AUsTRALIAN-LEAF 1t ii
a safe monthly regulator. At Druggists OIL
by mail, so cts sample package FREE. Ad
DRESS The Mother Gray Co, LIE Roy, N. y.
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"Do you believe the old saying,
There's no place like homer"
THAT depends"
Depends upon what2"
upon whose home you are referring
lo."-Cies Gland Plain Dealer.
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The stray Bullet.

1t is an odd fact that the most expert
marksman cannot equal the unerring
accuracy of the stray bullet in reaching
the Baltimore American.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1905-08-22

Doctor Well. John. how are you to-
day? John-Verra bad. vera bad 1
wish Providence 'ud ave mussy on me
an take me. Wife2Ow can you ex-
pect 1t to If you won't take the doctors
physic Punch.