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ACROSS THE BORDER.

RtAtCO OllN htCblus h OiitCh States military band will probably come to Mexico. This band will he the Ninth United States Infan- try band. now stationed at Fort Sam Houston, San Antonio, Texas It viii be brought to Mexico by the International Club, which will make tour of the republic next month.
 Chihuahua Enterprise: Among the labor unions money Is being subscribed to defend some. at least, of the prisoners in jail here who are accused of the recent robbery of the Banco Minero. About $1 ,O00 have been subscribed thus far. Inocente Reyes, the stone mason who Is one of the accused, is a member of the labor union of that trade.
 Mexican Herald: The depart ment of finance has introduced a bill in the chamber of deputies for the amendment of the import tariff. The changes to be introduce ed in the tariff are not very i'm portant as they do not deal with the chief kinds of merchandise inn ported to Mexico The bill was submitted to the committee on fin ancial affairs.
 Chihuahua Enterprise: Rubber growers in Mexico have taken con- siderable interest in the approach ing international rubber exhibition which Is to be held in the Royal Horticultural Hall in London. The owners of Mexican rubber lands were among the first to provide for an exhibit which, no doubt, will interest Europeans in rubber cul- ture in Mexico.
 Mexican Herald: An immense plague of locustS has ta ken posses sion of the district of Champot0n Campeche, and in various sections of the state of Yucatan In view of the fact that the corn is now in blossom, the farmers fear great losses. The fear of the conse- quences of this plague throughout thestate are great, for the complete loss of the corn in those sections would be most disastrous.
 Jalisco Times: Hugh P. Berney, an American, twenty-five years ot age, employed as chauffeur by Manuel Cuesta Gallard1, com mitted suicide last Tuesday night by drinking nearly four ounces of carbolic acid. He swallowed the acid in his room at No. 28O Macs tranza street. Five minutes after taking it he became unconscious, ana within thirty minutes he was dead. 4 love affair, apparently, was responsible for the suicide.
 Chihuahua Enterprise: It was stated here on good authority this week that J. c. Carnahan, of Can ton, Ohio, the big tin plate manu- facturer, and his associates will carry out their plan of organizing a mining company with capital ization of 100000 gold. It is said that this corporation IS to be organized at once It is presumed that su.h concerns as Carnahau'4 Mary Mining Co.,, which now owns mines at Arichuyvo in the extreme western part of Chihuahua will be
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COFFEE

You can buy something called coffee" at l0c ID with 5000 miles of R R freight from the roaster don't.
 Your grocer returns your money II you don't like Schillings Best: we pay him
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1908-06-30
AN EASTERN MAGICIAN.
The Feat a CeyIon Fakir Is Said to
Have ParFornaad

This curious picture of an eastern
magician is from Caroline Corners
"Ceylon. the Paradise of ADAM THE
fakir forthwith commenced to unpack
the burden on his back, the principal
item being a bamboo. framework or
scaffolding. This he held with his right
hand, while he mounted step by step
of bamboos At the summit, height
perhaps of eleven feet he paused, with
arms extended, to effect a balance.
For some reason or other the frame
work remained perfectly steady and
perpendicular, while the fakir stretch
ed himself out like spider on its web.
At intervals on the bamboos were
heavy nails, rusty, but sharp at the
point. These nails distinctly penetrat-
ed the mans mahogany colored flesh
when he Stretched himself out on the
framework.
"Thus he remained, hideous wound
made by each nail, from which the
purple blood flowed, lying there for the
space of ten minutes or so. except for
the blood lifeless figure of clay.
Then, muttering some strange gibber-
ish. animation returned, and, making
movements so that the nails were ex-
treated from the wounds. the fakir
with his toes kicked away the scaffold-
ing and remained himself alone unsnp-
ported in midair
eyes, there this weird creature re-
manned, his lean, chocolate colored
limbs apparently stiff and cataleptic.
his eyes fixed upward and glazed. It's
a fact said Cynthia in low tones of
wonder AT home they would say we
were hypnotized.'
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1908-06-30
KOREAN ETIQUETTE.
A Natives New Years Call Upon an
American Lady.

A Natives New Years Call Upon an
American Lady.
The native Koreans, who have be-
come familiar with foreigners and
their ways, take very readily to the
custom of calling-and eating-on New
Years day, and one American lady
had a very peculiar experience with
native official in Seoul on New Years
day She was keeping open house
and had made preparations for re-
ceiving her guests in the proper man
ner.
Among other things she had made a
very excellent and rather large cake,
which she expected to distribute in
small slices to her callers. A party of
native gentlemen arrived, and, having
given one OF them a cup of tea, she
placed this fine cake before him, with
an invitation to help himself.
She then went with the others to an
other room and was gone some time.
When she returned she saw, to her
horror, that her cake had all but dis
appeared The native, according to
his ideas of etiquette, had done his best
not to leave any of the eatables set
before him.
The lady's vexation was banished
by a feeling of pity for the poor fell
low, who was quite sick from over
feeding. 1t is said that this call was
his first and last that day. He de-
clared to his friends that foreigners
must be "all stomach" if they could
go from house to house and ''eat that
much every time. London Mail.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1908-06-30
THE MAD DUCHESS.
Lady Catherine Hyde and Her Eccen-
tricities of Dress

Lady Catherine Hyde and Her Eccen-
tricities of Dress.
Lady Catherine Hyde was the third
daughter of Henry, second earl of
Rochester and fourth earl of Claren-
don, and eat-granddaughter of Ed
ward, the first and famous earl of Clar-
endon. One of the strongest
of her caprices was to be unlike other
people, and she succeeded admirably
in the attempt. Bolingbroke hickman
ed her la Singularite;;' Horace Wal
pole, more bluntly, the Mad Duchess. y
This oddly was specially displayed in
her dress. In 1747, after a good deal of
intriguing she had obtained permits
sion to appear again at court and in
1853 Horace Walpole tells Lord Hert-
ford that she presented herself there
in a gown and petticoat of red flannel.
Making all allowance for male igno-
rance on such subject and Walpole's
tendency to embroider a story, 1t is
beyond doubt that she deliberately
courted the peculiar in her costume
She was fond of wearing an apron and
oPPCoAC0 III OAlC at NOO1I dlICl ILLS gar
ment had been forbidden at the royal
drawing rooms. Her entrance being
opposed by one of the lords In wait
ing, she tore it off, threw it in his face
and walked on. Beau Nash on a SINH
lar occasion took the law into his own
hands, for when she attempted to en-
ter the ballroom at Bath wearing an
apron he promptly stripped it off and
threw it among the ladies' maids, OBJ
serving that none but Abigails APP
peared in white aprons 1T was her
fancy as she grew older to disregard
the changes Of fashion and to adhere
obstinately to the dress of her younger
days. Her attire at times was SO weird
that Lord Cornbury wrote, '.She has
been called sir upon the road above
twenty times. "-Nineteenth Century.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1908-06-30
Ants and the Weather.

'When you go out on cloudy morn
ing and find the ants busily engaged
In clearing out their nests and dragging
the sand and bits of earth to the sur
face, you may be sure that, no matter
how cloudy it is, there will be no rain
that day, and the probabilities are fol
several days of good weather." says
gardener
"On the other hand, if you see the
ants about the middle of spring or
summer afternoon hurrying back tc
the nest and sentinel out trotting
round in every direction looking up
stragglers and urging them to go home
as soon as they can get there you may
figure on a rain that afternoon OF
night When the last of the wander
ers is found the picket hurries in, and
the nest is securely sealed from the
inside to keep out the water. 1t Is
very seldom that ants are taken by
surprise by the approach of shower.
but once In awhile when belated or toe
far away to get home In time they
mount a shrub and ensconce them
SELVES uuuei the LhASkcoe, OAoouSoe ASoA
they can find, and there they stay and
hold on until the rain is over. When
an ants nest is washed out and the
ants drown an examination will always
show that the disaster was due not so
much to lack Of preparation as to acct
dent, a stream from an unexpected di-
rection flowing down between two
bricks or a downpour that caused
fall or the washing away of the bank
In which the nest was placed"
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1908-06-30
THE MARINERS COMPASS.
Influences That Draw 1t From It's Allie
glance 20 the Pole.

glance 20 the Pole.
Nothing in the navigational equip
ment of ship has been the subject of
more anxious research or receives
more jealous care than the mariners
compass.
The popular notion Of the compass
needle always pointing north and
south is well, more inaccurate than
even popular notions usually are Even
under the most favorable conditions
there are only certain places upon the
surface of the earth where the compass
needle does point north and south, and
1t is quite safe to say that such condi-
lions are never found on board of any
ship.
But we must go further and say that
no more unfavorable position could be
found for compass than on board of
modern steamship, which is a com
plicated mass of steel, all tending to
draw the compass needle from its allie
glance to the magnetic pole of the
earth, warning influences which must
needs be counteracted by all sorts of
devices which hedge round the instru-
ment by an invisible wall of conflicting
currents of magnetism.
And as If this were not enough there
are now huge dynamos to be reckoned
with. producing electric currents for
all sorts of purposes on board. In the
midst of these mystic currents the poor
little compass needle, upon which the
the trackless deep, hangs suspended
like one shrinking saint surrounded by
legions Of deyiIs.-Windsor Magazine.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1908-06-30
Nasal Catarrh, an Inflammation of the

Nasal Catarrh, an Inflammation of the
delicate membrane lining the air. passages,
is not cured by any mixtures taken into
Take Ely's Cream Balm through the nos
trils, SO that the fevered, swollen tissues
are reached at once. Never mind how
long you have suffered nor how often you
have been disappointed, we know Ely's
Cream Balm is the remedy you should
use All druggists, SOC. Mailed by Ely
Bros, Sc Warren Street, New York.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1908-06-30
BIRDS TONGUES.
Why the Parrot Is Able to Initiate HUI
man Speech.


One of the government naturalists
at Washington has recently gathered
some fresh information concerning the
tongues of birds
Many people suppose that woodpeck-
ers use their sharp pointed tongues as
darts with which to transfix their
prey 1t is true that the woodpecker,
like the humming bird, can dart out its
tongue with astonishing rapidity and
that its mouth is furnished with an
elaborate mechanism for this purpose,
yet, according to the authority men
toned, investigation shows that the
object Of this swift motion is only to
catch the prey, not to pierce 1t. For
the purpose of holding the captured
victim the woodpecker's tongue is fur
nished with a sticky secretion.
Considering its powers Of initiating
speech, it is not surprising to learn
that the parrots tongue resembles that
of man more closely than any other
birds. 1t is not because the parrot Is
more intelligent than the other birds.
but because its tongue is better suited
for articulation than theirs, that 1t Is
able to amuse us with its mimicry.
The humming birds tongue Is In
some respects the most remarkable OF
all. 1t is double nearly from end to
end. SO that the little bird is able to
grasp its insect prey with its tongue
much as if its mouth was furnished
with nafr of finQers-ChicaQO Rec
ord Herald.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1908-06-30
THE ANT EATER.
A Harmless Animal That Will Fight
Hard When at Bay.


A peculiar looking animal is tie
ant eater. which is closely allied to
the sloth family. Its head is drawn
out into long, tubular muzzle, at the
end of which is a tiny mouth just big
enough to permit the exit of its long,
wormlike tongue, which is covered
with a sticky saliva.
This tongue is thrust among the
hosts of ants with great rapidity, COM
ing back laden with the tiny insects.
To obtain il prey the ant eater breaks
open the ant hills, when all the active
inhabitants swarm to the breach and
are instantaneously swept away by the
remorseless tongue.
The jaws of the ant eater are entire
ly without teeth, and the eyes and
ears are very small.
There are several species of ant eat
er, the largest kind being about four
feet long and having tail covered
with very long hair. forming a huge
brush. The claw on the third toe of
each fore limb Is of great size and is
used for breaking open ants and other
insects nests.
Generally speaking, the ant eater Is
a harmless animal, but at times when
at bay it will fight with great cour.
age, sitting up on it's hind legs and
hugging its zoe with its powerful arms.
London EXPRESS
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It distrust?
She became naughty.

It distrust?
She became naughty.
MY host will meet me at the depot.
Until then-well, here are my rings or
my watch
The darkies had gathered at the ia
Bile opposite Henry Dalton with heads
together, lips parted in ironical smiles.
He summoned his waiter sharply.
Anything happened to the ladyT"
Seems like she amt got the price of
her lunch"
Just at the instant Henry Dalton
rose precipitately Beatrice came down
the aisle, her head high, but her face
CHASTITY. 1t was not the attitude of the
conductor nor the grinning darkies, but
a sudden faintness, a realization that
for once her business ability, her SUI
preme tact, her resourcefulness, had
failed her. She did not read this as
physical exhaustion. Her one grim
thought was that she had lost her grip
on herself.
And then came Henry Dalton with
a hand outstretched and the love of her
shining In his eyes.
Beatrice, 1 am the most fortunate
of men,"
"Oh, Henry" she said, with a queer
break In her clear voice, will you
please
Henry Dalton carried her back to the
stateroom in the parlor car. Henry
Dalton took firm possession Of her
luggage and firm control of the situa-
ton. Henry Dalton all but lifted her
into the De Haven Smith wagonette
when they left the train. And Henry
Dalton read the telegram, for which he
paid, though it was sent G. o. D. to
Beatrice Craig.
Forgot to put money back in purse.
What shall / do with it2"
BUY flowers for yourself-every-
body" wired Henry Dalton to the first
amazed and then understanding mother
of Beatrice. II am taking care of
Beatrice and always SHALL"
And that was why the smartest lay
cite shop in all New York passed to a
new owner and love came into its own.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1908-06-30
DANGEROUS Ground.

"Bless me, Marthy!" exclaimed IN
Gle Cyrus, looking up from his maya
zine, says the Youths Companion.
Were getting navy that don't need
to take a back seat for any of them
European nations" Aunt Martha con-
tinued placidly measuring out the in
gradients of "mountain" cake and
manifestly was not unduly excited over
naval affairs.
"Just listen to this. Some fellow has
been making estimates. Any half doz.
en- of our big cruisers have engine
strength equal to the pulling power OF
all the horses in the Russian cavalry
The engines of one Of our big battle
ships are strong enough-if they could
be fastened somewhere-to pull the
hull United States cavalry into the
ga and
Mercy sakes," cried Aunt Martha,
with arrested spoon, for the first time
impressed with these interesting sta
tistics, 81 hope to goodness our cav.
airy II keep away from the shorei''
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1908-06-30
JENNY Lind,s Piety.

Jenny Lind, who gave her first e.
900 to the poor. continued throughout
her life series Of charities and pie
ties. In regard to the latter we have
the assurance of a friend that this
greatest of singers deliberately cut
short her own public career while her
voice was still in perfection. 1t was
Lady Taylor, wife of the author of
Philip Van Artevelde," who found
Jenny Lind sitting toward evening on
a south coast beach just after her
withdrawal, with book in her lap.
She spoke of her resolve. Il found
that this"-the setting sun-"was be-
coming less to me and that this'-the
book In her lap was Bible-"was be-
coming nothing to me, and knew then
that l must check myself and change
my London Standard
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THAT was great speech Mundy
made" said the associate editor Of the
old line partisan paper. Il suppose
we ought to have an editorial showing
that he was mistaken throughout, but
really can't see how we shall be
able to do It His logic is unassailable,
He has simply knocked the platform
from under our candidate.
81 know it." replied the editor, but
we can't let it CO. Let's see-oh, just
refer to it as fiapdoodle. That al
ways satisfies the man who votes the
straight. ticket and gives our oppo-
nents no chance to come back at us"
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1908-06-30
Great CITY For PRAYER.

A visitor to Moscow soon discovers
why it is called the Holy City. Every
200 or 300 feet there is a cathedral.
church. chapel or shrine, and which
ever way you look you see people cross
ing themselves. Until one has seen
Moscow the piety of the place is not
easily understood. The outsider can
not imagine Moscow conditions. He
cannot imagine church bells ringing all
the time and people praying in the
night
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1908-06-30
PaDyruS

The papyrus OF ancient times was
made from the papyrus plant The in
terror of the stalk of the plant after
the rind had been removed was cut
into thin slips in the direction of their
length, and, these being laid on fiat
surface in succession. similar slices
were placed over them at right angles.
and, their surfaces being cemented to-
gether by sort of glue and subjected
to the proper degree of pressure and
we'll dried, the papyrus was complete.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1908-06-30
The Oman Windnw.

Children brought up with open win
dows appear indeed to be about fifteen
times more likely to contract adenoids
than those who sleep with the win
dows shut on cold and damp nights,
or at least than those who sleep with
closed windows throughout the great
sr part Of the year.-Dr. Sim Wallace
In Medical Press.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1908-06-30

Nearly 100000 is spent in the City
Of Mexico every week In lottery tick
cts, and in the same period about $780,
900 is paid back in premiums. On the
weeks Immediately preceding the big
drawings the sale, of course, mounts
up to great sums-as, for instance.
when the 100000 drawings are held
there are 10000 tickets at $40 each
sold on the streets, and practically ev-
cry ticket is disposed of. most of them
during the last two weeks before the
drawing. But as a general proposition,
on an average, $4,000 a day Is spent
by the people of the City of Mexico on
the lotteries.-Mexican Herald.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1908-06-30

Mrs. Popley For goodness sake!
What's the matter with Tommy?
Mr.. Popley (from the bathroom
Oh, he wants the earthI
Mrs. Pcnley-Wants the earth?
Mr.. Popley-Yes. At least that por-
ton of it that I'm trying to wash off
his hands and face-Uatholic Stand
ard and Times.
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Dew.

Teacher-How do you account for
the phenomenon Of dew? Boy-Well,
you see, the earth revolves ON its axis
every twenty-four hours, and in conse-
quence Of this tremendous pace it per
spires freely.-London Tit-Bits.
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Experisncs Contribution.

Poetic Friend-Some one says baby
in the house is a wellspring of joy.
Exasperated Young Parent-W Well, dom
you believe it. As an element of en-
joyment a baby in the house is a
screaming farce.-Baltimor American.
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Dear, Innocent Thing!

Hubby while dressing)-That con
founded trial balance was running in
my head all night. Wifey-John. you
must tell the manager. and maybe he
will give you extra pay for working
overtime-Boston Transcript.
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Mean.


Burton-Mean man, isn't he?
Robinson Mean? He's capable of
going into BARRIERS shop for shave
and then getting his hair cut just to
keep other people waiting.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1908-06-30
New Malay Opium Cure
Being Distributed Free by a New
York Society.

DSIEt& UIBtfIUUt6u y FGe uy q NEW
York Society.
Cooperating with missions in Malay
STA, the Windsor Laboratories of New
York have secured supply of the Won
derfu1 combre tum plant, which has done
so much to rev olutionize the treatment
of the opium habit.
Agenerous supply of the new remedy,
together with full instructions for its
use, and United States consular reports
bearing on the subject viii be sent to
any sufferer. To obtain free supply
of this remedy and the consular reports,
1874 East 25th Street. New York City.
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Turn About.

DR.. Sharpe say. Mr.. Dooley, you're
a long time paying me your account
Mr. Dooley-And it's a long tonne ye
took to cure me. be jabers!-Kansas
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