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The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1907-02-12

In letter to Charles Dickens, Wilkie
Collins intimated the fact that the
great work upon which he had devoted
SO much time was finished, but that
the finding Of suitable title had occa-
stoned him much trouble. Eventually,
feeling somewhat run down In health
he left London for Broadstairs, re-
sort which was a favorite with both
Dickens and Collins While lying on
the cliff in a meditative mood one
bright morning his eyes suddenly riv-
eted themselves on the white light
house which stood boldly out in the
foreground under the dazzling rays of
the midday sun. AS he gazed Collins
In a semiconscious manner addressed
himself in a whisper to the light
house. You are as stiff and as state
ly as my white woman" said he
White woman! White wo-the wom-
an in white. EurekaI l have got Itr
And so the book was given this curl
ously inspired title.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1907-02-12

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The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1907-02-12
THE STRANGLING FIG.
A Curious Tropical Tree That Lives
Upon other Trees

Curious Tropical Tree That Lives
Upon other Trees.
Visitors to Mexico and other tropical
countries often have their attention
called to 'the strangling igH-a tree
that commences its growth as an cpl
phyte-that Is, one form of plant life
that grows perched on another-far up
on the trunk or among the branches of
another tree, usually on palmetto or
some Of the kinds of palms. The roots
of the strangling tree extend down
ward around the host tree to the
ground, gradually Joining together,
making a tubelike mass Of roots some
times as much as six feet or more in
diameter
When the attacked tree is a palm
death to it is caused not so much by the
binding around the trunk as by shad-
Ing out It's branches by the attacking
tree.
When the attacked tree is an eXogen
that is, one with wood and bark-the
attacking roots bind so tightly as to
cause a stoppage of the flow of the sap.
AS the sap of a tree is really its food
Changed by the leaves so that it can
be used and the flow of the food is
thus stopped, the attacked tree is real
ly starved to death. So death to the
attacked tree is caused either by
smothering or by starvation or by both.
The peculiar manner In which the
hattened roots extend down and around
the tree give them the appearance of
some thick, slow flowing material run
ming down TIE tree: 81. Nicholas.
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THE MOUNT HOLLY NEWS
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY IL, 1907.
Of Interest To women.

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The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1907-02-12
NAMES OF DAYS.
The Latin and Saxon Terms FrOr
which They Are Derived.

The Latin and Saxon Terms From
which They Are Derived.
Our names for each day are derived
from the Saxons, who probably bor-
rowed the week from some eastern
people, substituting names of their
own divinities for those of the cias-
steal gods, as is easily seen when the
names are tabulated:
Latin. Saxon. English.
Dies Soils ...... Suns day Sunday.
Dies Lunae.. -. Moons day. :. Monday.
Dies Martis. -. Tiw's day.. Tuesday.
Dies Mercurii.. Woden's day. Wednesday.
Dies Jovis..... Thor's day.. Thursday.
Dies veneris.. Friga's day. Friday.
Dies Saturni.. .Seterne's day. Saturday.
Among the ancients the belief in the
influence of the planets upon the life
Of men was so strong that many in Sc
lecting their daily ornaments would
wear only the gem associated with the
planet of the day Thus on Sunday
only yellow gems and gold should
adorn the fingers. Pearls and white
stones, excepting diamonds, belonged
to the Moon day. Tuesday, day of Mars,
claimed rubies and all stones of fiery
luster Thursday, Thor's day, demand
ed amethysts and deep colored stones
of sanguine tint while Friday, dom
mated by Venus, reigned over the en-
erald, color of jealousy, which is loves
shadow. Saturday, dedicated to Sat
urn, oldest of the gods, had for its
distinctive talisman the most splendid
of all gems, the diamond.-Chicago
Record Herald.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1907-02-12
THE QUESTION OF LIFE.
Mans Progress and the Books of the
Eighteenth Century


Eighteenth Century.
In what mankind called progress"
the world was led by illusion, advanc-
ed by lies. Everybody hated work,
which was the only health. Even the
preacher spoke dolefully of ''the curse
of Adam" Everybody wanted to be
rich, which meant unhappiness; every
body wanted to be idle, which meant
death. Change was regarded as prog
ress, and to find one different from
oneself was to find one worse than
oneself. And with all these / sympa-
thized, knowing them to be wrong.
| had listened to moralists and be-
fore all was done discerned that a
question of morals was a question of
ATTITUDES, and vice related to the equa-
tor Cruelty was a creature of the
thermometer; the tropics tortured
what the arctics nursed. Happiness
was born of contrast when it wasn't
born of temperament, and Third ave-
nue. laughed oftener than Fifth. One
man committed suicide, another gave a
feast Each was worth $4,000. The
suicide had been a millionaire, the
feast giver pauper. l considered
merchants and gamblers. There was
but one difference-when the mer-
chants resources ended his credit end
ed; when the gamblers resources end
ed his credit began. When the gam
bier was down his fellow gamblers
helped him; when the merchant was
down his Aellow merchants fell upon
him and tore him like wolves.
Progress? A wise man proved it by
pointing to railroad and asking me
to remember stagecoaches. / asked
why 1t was better to travel 900 miles
In a day than to travel ninety. He
said one could reach Chicago in day
and night. l replied that one couldn't
reach Calcutta in day and night. He
said that medicine and surgery had
advanced; that we now saved lives we
used to lose. asked why 1t was i'm
portant to save lives that must one day
die; also l pointed out that we saved
weaklings to wed weakllngs and pro
duce weaklings, which was progressing
backward. He grew angry and asked
If favored death. l grew angry and
asked II he favored birth; also l want
ed to hear whether or no he believed
in killing weeds.
Progress! | know nothing of medi-
cine and railways and stagecoaches
and saving lives, but do know about
books. And | see by my bookcases
that the nineteenth century did not
write so well nor in things beautiful
think SO we'll as did the eighteenth,
with the promise all about me that the
present century will write worse and
think more heavily than either. We
have better guns, clocks, plows, sewing
machines, but they wrote better Eng
fish and thought nobler thoughts.-Al-
fred Henry Lewis in Cosmopolitan.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1907-02-12
Omen OF the Wedding Ring.

At the close of a recent divorce case
a woman spectator remarked:
Il knew they wouldn't pull together
very long. The crease made by her
wedding ring proved that When she
had been married six months | saw
her take her ring off one day. The
mark 1t had left was so faint you could
hardly see it. You can always gauge
the length of a marriage by the impress.
sion made by the wedding ring. In
some cases the ring, even though en-
tirely too large, sinks away into the
finger. Such mark as that indicates
a marriage as lasting as eternity. 9th
er women may wear ring as tight
as the skin, yet 1t will leave scarcely a
streak on the flesh. In that case look
out for an early termination Of the COP
tract"
The other women present said moth
ing, but all improved the first oppor.
tunity to slip their rings around and
inspect the telltale mark. The faces
of some wore an expression of salts.
faction, others of disappointment, but
nobody knew the reason therefor
New York Press.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1907-02-12

THE BEAT OF THE PULSE.
1t Varies Greatly In Different Per-
sons and Conditions.


1t Varies Greatly In Different Per-
sons and Conditions.
The pulse of women generally beats
at slightly faster rate than that of
men. 1t may be said that when a per-
son Is at rest his pulse, that of any
adult, may be from seventy-fve to
eighty times a minute. Great variation
exists in different individuals in re-
spect of the number of beats. After
exercise the pulse quickens because Of
the stimulation of the heart, and the
same result applies to the effects Of
taking food. A dose of alcohol Will also
stimulate the pulse somewhat just as
the use of tobacco, especially in excess,
will tend to have an opposite effect
namely, that of lowering the rate of
the pulse, because of the depression of
the heart which results. In fevers and
intiammatory diseases the pulse rate
tends to be very much increased and
also in respect of its character. Instead
of beating quietly the blood vessel in
such cases exhibits a very full and
bounding movement On the other
hand, where depression exists and the
temperature of the body falls, the
pulse may be unnaturally slow and its
character weak. Physicians are accus-
toned to distinguish other characteris-
tics in the pulse, such as become valu-
able hints in the discovery and deter
mination of disease. The practical les
son we learn here is that where the
pulse continues for any length of time
to have its beats quickened to an I'M
natural degree and where especially a
rise Of the temperature or heat of the
body accompanies these symptoms we
ought to suspect some kind of feverish
condition OF other to be represented.
The pulse alone forms a valuable
enough guide to this state of the body,
but its value is very much increased II
to the information given us by the
pulse we add that which the use of the
thermometer supplies.-Cardiff Times.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1907-02-12

The Frenchman of the middle class
sacrifices everything In order to obtain
Tor his children some official position
or other, a mean one, perhaps, but a
sure one, leading after thirty years of
penury to a pension verging on desti-
tuition. This is one aspect Of the decay
of the French race. 1t is easy to I'M
derstand that two races are not evenly
armed for the struggle for life If one
be made up Of aspirants to official po-
sition and the other of individuals pos
sessing Initiative, daring and energy.
For this reason do Latin races decline.
while Anglo-Saxon races grow and
Steele.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1907-02-12

In the south seas and In various
groups of islands in the Indian ocean
the aborigines shoot fish with the bow
and arrow. The art is extremely diff
cult, as in taking aim at an object I'M
der water the archer has to allow for
refraction. If he were to aim directly
at the fish as he sees 1t, he would, of
course, miss Long practice has, how
ever. made the natives expert to
wonderful degree in this sport.-Lon-
daa Saturday Rsylew.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1907-02-12
A Confederate Actress.

A doctor saw Julia Marlowe as Ju-
liet one night in Pittsburg and was ire
mendously impressed. Only in the pow
erful death scene there was a technical
error. Miss Marlowe," the doctor said
at reception the next day, II admired
your Juliet profoundly. The imperso-
nation was a work Of art. But, pardon
me, don't you know that corpse
doesn't stiffen for at least six hours
after deathY Miss Marlowe answered
in the drawl that she reserves for such
speeches, "Now, doctor, do you think
Pm going to keep my audiences wait
ing six hours for me to stiffen?"
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1907-02-12

Nell-Isn't she peculiar girl? She
wouldn't look at him when he was
rich, but now, after he's lost all his
money, she accepts him. Believed,
you know how crazy every woman Is
to get anything that's reducedi
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1907-02-12

The late John Stetson, famous in his
day as theatrical manager, was hav-
Ing yacht built, and friend, meeting
him on the street, asked him what
he was going to name the boat. 81
haven't decided yet" replied John, ''but
it will be some name commencing with
s, probably either Psyche or Cinch."
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1907-02-12
Presence of Mind.

1t is a mistake to think that II IA
only the Englishman who keeps his
head in crisis When a passenger
steamboat suddenly struck a rock off
Hongkong the other day. a number Of
chinese on board promptly started
footing the passengers trunks.-Punch.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1907-02-12

Magistrate Ito witness)-I understand
that you overheard the quarrel between
the defendant and his wife? Witness
Yes. sir. Magistrate-Tel the court il
you can, what he seemed to be doing.
Witness-He seemed to be dom the
listenin'.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1907-02-12

"Pineules" mon alcoholic) made from
resin from our Pine Forests, used for hun.
dreds of years for bladder and Kidney
diseases Medicine for thirty days, $1.OO.
Guaranteed. Sold at H. B. Aliens drug
store.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1907-02-12
Optimistic View.

Tom (proudly)-Miss Pinkleigh has
promised to be my wife. Jack (consol
ingly)-Oh. don't let that worry you
Women frequently break their prom.
ises.-Chicago News.
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The Pictures Framed
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ELECTRICITY

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The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1907-02-12

l have tried all sorts of soaps and so
lutions for killing fleas on dogs, with
the result that the dogs die first. Now,
Heas are as much part Of dog as
ticks are Of a COW. But, of course, there
must not be too many feas on the fam
lily pet-just enough to keep it well
tickled and to prevent it from becom.
ing too phlegmatic. There seems to be
but one cure, and it comes from the
land of tieas-India. The Hindoos use
crude oil emulsion, which consists of
80 per cent of crude petroleum mixed
with 20 per cent of whale oil soap.
This combination forms a Jelly which
mixes freely with water. A 3 per cent
solution is used. At 10 per cent it kills
heas with perfect certainty. Any ami
NAL washed with it will be relieved of
the insects. 1t can be applied to walls.
ceilings and floors by means Of a gar.
den sprayer.-New York T1ess.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1907-02-12

"They say that Bradley goes on like
mad since he inherited his vast
wealth"
What does he do?"
"oh. he acts like one possessed. p
Lippincotfs.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1907-02-12

Il do play in tough luck sometimes. i"
declared the impecunious girl. Last
night, you remember how it rained.
happened to be In the neighborhood
Of some friends Of mine whom / had
not seen since the last hard rain. /
concluded to call. Before they asked
me in they grabbed the umbrella /
carried, hurried across the room with
1t, placed it in closet there and lock-
ed the door on 1t.
" Thank heavenr they cried. AT
lastl Our long lost umbrellav New
York Press.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1907-02-12

Inquire of the young people; they
know everything.
The daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1906-1907, 1907-04-22
Eckhardt'S
Id Gals

In Repertoire of Worlds FarcIs
Plays.
Monday
The Beautiful PASTORAL Dralli'
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Tuesday,
1.-THE GREAT NORTHWEST OK
1.-THE ROAD TO FRISCO
Wednesday,
DORA TAoRNE."
Thursday
"A GAMBLERS Wife,
between Acts-Moving Pictures Illus
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Specialties.
Everything Changed Nightly
No Dull Waits.
Reserved Seats at SlelhiiletHH
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Notice OF Application to Appropriate
The Public Waters of the State
OF Nevada

Notice Of Application to Appropriate
The Public Waters Of the State
Of Nevada.
Notice Is hereby given that on the
1st, day Of December, 1906, in accord
anec with Section %, Chapter XLvI,
of the Statutes of 1905, one Western
Nevada Electric C mpany of Carson
City, County of Ormsby and State Of
Nevada made application to the
State Engineer Of Nevada for permits
sion to appropriate the public waters
Of the State of Nevada Such an
pllcation is to be made from Ash
Canyon Creek at points N. E. Il Of
S. w. u Sec. 10, T. IS N, R. 10 E,
by means of dams and cubic feet
per second is to be conveyed to points
n. f. Il of S. w. Il Sec. II, T. ian
r. 10 f. by means of 1ume and pipe
lines and there used for generating
electric power. The construction Of
said works shall begin before May
/, 1907 and shall be completed on o
before May /, 1908. The water shall
be actually applied to a beneficial
use on or before May /, 1909
Signed: HENRY THURTELL
State Engineer.
4 Date of first utilization, Dec.
The daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1906-1907, 1907-04-22

Davey & Maish for fine candies.
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SHORTHAND IN THIRTY DAYS

Simple method of shorthand within
the reach of everybody. Easy to
learn and results satisfactory. Price
of the course $40.
Apply of Mrs. G. Warren Hull, p.
0. Box 174, Carson City, New.
Sir Conan Doyle is reported serious
ly i'll IN London Of ptomaine poison
ing
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THE PLACE TO GO.

you want elegant furniture or
any OF the accessories of a sleeping
chamber try the Carson Furniture
company, across the street from the
Briggs House. You get the latest
style In furniture and you get It at a
very reasonable price.
The daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1906-1907, 1907-04-22
BATHS

Johnnie Vieira has now the finest
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with his baroer shop. The appoint
menls make bathing at his place lux
urious to a marked degree and to get
shaved there means a relaxation from
lne cares that fret the day and gen.
eral peace Of mind hard to get else
where. 4
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MILK COW FOR SALE

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part Jersey. Apply at Tinchs
O'Connor, prison road. 4
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DICK 6R'eHTs

The resort has been thoroughly A.
ted up for the coming Of the legislar
ture ana aims to maintain the same
high standard that it has always main
tanned whether the legislature is here
Q not.
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