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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-03-06
ll1chEElQ.

Mr. and Mrs. Thurston Gilman Of Au-
gusta passed Sunday with Mr. Gilman's
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. F. D. Gilman.
Bird;na Gilman Of Monmouth also passed
Sunday at home.
Miss Effie Colby. who has beer sick at
Mrs. J. T. Giiman's. and her rlcther. who
has been caring for her, went home SUM-
day.
Mrs. r. A. Cram has returned from a
visit to Waterviue and Hallowell.
Ned Blake has gone to New York on a
business trip. His wife accompanied him
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-03-06
sAGADAHoc.
soWDoIN.

Charles Paris returned home Nom
day from Hartford. CT. where he WI
been employed in the Insane hospital.
Warren Railey is at home from To.
gus for few days.
The arrle packers were packing for
A. Higgins Wednesday.
Miss Maude Pratt visited her aunt.
Miss Ella Pratt, Monday.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-03-06

tladr1ar Poulsen, the Danish inventor
who Is only thirty-eight years old. j. the
SON Of a Judge in the High Criminal
Court or Copenhagen. He las Succeeded
~ making wireless telephone connection
between Iingby ana Weisensen, dis
ta3ce of go miles ~
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-03-06

Orino Laxative Fruit Syrup is a new
remedy. an Improvement on the laxative
OF former years, as it does not gripe or
nauseate and is pleasant TO take. 1t is
guaranteed.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1908-01-28
WASTED PRECAUTIONS.
A Spell of Worry and Anxiety That
Went For Nauqht.

A Spell of Worry and Anxiety That
Went For Naueht.
Ferguson was vending his uncertain
way homeward. sorely troubled In his
mind over the curtain lecture he knew
was in store for him and casting about
for some means of evading 1t. Sudden
ly a bright idea was evolved from his
befuddled brain. He would slip into
the house and get quietly into bed
without awakening his wife.
Accordingly he stole gently upstairs,
carefully undressed outside the door
and crept into bed, with his face to
ward the outside.
He mentally congratulated himself
upon his success thus far and went to
sleep.
When he awoke In the morning he
dared not look at his wife, and after
lying still for few minutes and not
hearing any noise from her he Goa
Guided she was still asleep.
He then determined to arise very
quietly. carry his clothes outside the
door, dress there and go downtown to
business without waiting for break
fast. He was successful in this, and,
meeting the servant girl downstairs, he
said:
ELIZA. you can tell your mistress
expect to be very busy today and
therefore didn't stay to have break
fast with her this morning"
away yesterday morning to her moth
ers and said she wouldn't be back TIL
this evening Telegraph.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1908-01-28
MOUNT FUJIYAMA.
Japanese Pilgrimage to It's Tempest
Swept Summit.

Japanese pilgrimage 10 us tempest
Swept Summit.
To the people of Japan the mount
Fuiiyama is sacred. The meaning Of
the word is honorable mountain !"
During that brief six weeks Of summer
when Fujiyama's wind swept sides are
climbable, writes A. n. Edwards In
~Kakemono," the pilgrims come in
thousands, in ten thousands. They
dress themselves in white from head
to foot. They carry long slaves Of
pure white wood In their hands, each
stamped with the temple crest, and In
bands and companies they climb the
mountain.
Always the leader at their head, his
staff crowned with a tinkling mass Of
bells, like tiny cymbals, chants the
hymn of Fujiyama. For six short
summer weeks they come. Then the
winds rush down, the snow falls, the
tempests rage, and Lord Fujiyama lives
alone
No human being has yet stayed q
winter on his summit, ana even III inc
summer weeks the winds will blow the
lava blocks from the walls Of the rest
houses and sometimes the pilgrim from
the path.
Fujiyama stands alone, not one peak
among a range, but utterly alone. Ris-
ing straight out of the sea on one side
and from the great Tokyo plain on the
other, his 1885 feet in two long curv-
ing lines of exquisite grace rise up and
up into the blue. and not an inch Of
one foot is hidden or lost. 1t is all
there, visible as a tower built on tree
less plain. 1t dominates the landscape.
1t can be seen from thirteen provinces,
and from a hundred miles at sea the
pale white peak Of Fujiyama floats
above the blue.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1908-01-28
ENGLISH JUSTICE.
Hard on Petty Thieves and Light on
Wife Beaters.

Hard on Petty Thieves and Light on
Wife Beaters.
1t is only about a century since the
death penalty was inflicted in England
for theft not exceeding the value of a
sheep. Now some of the London jour
nails are making a merciless exposure
Of magistrates throughout the kingdom
who keep up the tradition by sentenc-
ing petty thieves to jail while infiict-
ing only trifiing fines upon wife beat
ers and even more brutal offenders.
In one police court one defendant
was fined los. Cd. for knocking his
wife down in the street because she
refused to give him money for drink.
and another was sentenced to sixty
days Imprisonment for damaging
growing potatoes and stealing two
footballs.
For cruelty to a horse, beating his
wife, who was i'll, with fist and ham,
mer and leaving her with nothing to
eat one man was fined 10 shillings,
while another, charged with stealing a
pair of socks valued at sixpence, got
fourteen days hard labor. 1t would
not be difficult to make up a list of
similar cases from American police
courts. yet the tendency In America is
rather toward higher estimate of the
value of human life.-Van Norden Mag
azine.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1908-01-28
A BURGLARS STORY.
Told by an English Thief IN the Lam
ouaue of Thieves.

Told by an English Thief IN the Lam
guaee of Thieves.
Some time ago there appeared a
somewhat curious book, The Auto
biography of a Thief In Thieves Lam
guage." A glossary is provided for
the benefit of those whose unfortunate
ignorance of the predatory classes may
render such aid necessary.
From one of the anecdotes related It
appears that honor among thieves ID
not always to be found.
zone day." says the writer, II went
to Croydon and touched for a red toy
gold watch) and red tackle gold
chain) with a large locket. So l took
the RATHER home at once. When / got
into Shoreditch met one or two Of
the mob, who said: 'HelloI Been out
today? Did you touch?
$50 I said Usher yes). So took
them in, and we all got canon. When
/ went to the fence he bested Cheated
me because was drunk and only gave
IS los. for the lot. So the next day
went to him, and l asked him II he
was not a-going to grease my duke
(put money into my hand.
$50 he said No. Then he said, !
will give you another half quid,' and
said, DO anybody, but mind they don't
do you
$50 1 thought to myself, All right,
my lad, you will find me as good as
my master and left him. Some time
after that affair with the fence one Of
the mob said to me:
"T have got place cut and dried
Will you come and do itY
$50 l said: Yes. What tools viii
you wantY
"And he said. we shall want some
twirls and the stick ((crowbar). and
bring a Neddie Qife preserver) with
you And he said, Now don't stick
me up (disappoinD; meet me at 8 to-
night
eat l was at the meet (trysting
place., and while waiting for my pal
| had my daisies cleaned and l piped
the fence that bested me go along with
his old woman (wife) and his two kids
(children), so l thought Of his own
WOIuS, Oo any DouJ, Jul A1AnU my
don't do you
"He was going to the Lyceum thea
ter, so when my pal came up l told
him all about it. So we went and
screwed (broke into) his place and got
thirty-two quid and a toy and tackle
which he had bought on the crook
(dishonestly). A day or two after this
l met the fence who I'd done, SO he
said to me, We have met at last
$50 l said. Well, what of thatY
$50 he said, What do you want to
do me forT
$50 I said. You must remember you
done me, and when l spoke to you
about it you said. do anybody, but
mind they don't do you."' That shut
him up"-London Tit-Bits.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1908-01-28
AERIAL NAVIGATION.
The First Gas Bag and the First Dir
iaihia Balloon.


isibie Balloon.
On the 1st OF December, 1888. when
the first gas balloon rose from the
Tuileries, carried up by Charles and
Robert, the Marquis de Villeroy, an
octogenarian and skeptic, declared II
was tempting God himself. He was
rolled In his armchair to a window OF
bis chateau to witness the impossible
ty of such an ascension. But the mo
ment the aeronaut gayly saluting the
spectators, rose in the air, the old man
passing suddenly from the most com
plete incredulity to unlimited faith In
the power Of genius, fell upon his
knees and exclaimed: 20 men, ye VIII
find the secret of never dyingi And II
will be when am deadr'
The public, easily confounding the
atmospheric with the astronomic heav-
ems, already hailed the day when the
aeronaut would continue his aerial
course to the moon. to Venus, to Mars
or Jupiter.
Pierre Giffard, then Dupuy de LONE
tried the first dirigible balloons. Later
Captains Renard and Krebs In their
aeropIane. La France, went from Meu-
don to Paris and back at the same
time that CASTOR Tissandier was car
rying out his fine experiments. But all
progress was soon stopped by the
weakness of the motors compared to
their weight.
Nothing further could be done until
the arrival Of the explosive motor. In
fact, it was the improvement In auto
mobiles which won us the conquest OF
the air.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1908-01-28
FESTIVAL or THE DEAD.
EsIeimos Provide Food and Clothes For
Returning Ghosts.

e~S>stttSS EfVptQG OOo ana OlOln66 TOT
Returning Chests.
The natives of the Yukon river region
hold festival of the dead every year
shortly before Christmas and a greater
festival at intervals of several years.
At these seasons food, drink and
clothes are provided for the returning
ghosts in the clubhouse of the village,
which is illuminated for the occasion
with oil lamps. Every man or woman
who wishes to honor dead friend sets
up a lamp on a stand in front Of the
place which the dead one used to &C.
cupy in the clubhouse. These lamps,
filed with seal oil, are kept burning
day and night until the festival is over.
They are believed to light the shades
on their return to their old home and
back again to the land Of the dead II
any one fails to put up lamp in the
clubhouse and to keep it burning, the
shade whom he or she desires to honor
could not find its way to the place and
SO would miss the feast. When per-
son has been much disliked his ghost
is sometimes purposely ignored, and
that is deemed the severest punishment
that could be inflicted upon him. After
the songs of invitation to the dead have
been sung the givers Of the feast take
a small portion Of food from every dish
and cast it down as an offering to the
shades. Then each pours little wa
ter on the floor so that it runs through
the cracks In this way they believed
the spiritual essence of all the food and
water is conveyed to the souls With
songs and dances the feast comes to an
end and the ghosts are dismissed to
their own place. The dancers dance,
not only In the clubhouse, but also at
the graves and on the Ice If the dead
met their deaths by drowning. On the
eve of the festival the nearest male
relative goes to the grave and sum-
mons the ghost by planting there
small model of a seal spear or OF a
wooden dish, according as the dead
was man or woman. The totems of
the dead are marked on these imple-
ments. The dead who have none to
make offerings to them are believed to
suffer great restitution; hence the Es-
kimos fear to die without leaving be-
hind them some one who will sacrifice
to their spirit, and childless people
generally adopt children lest their
shades be forgotten at the festivals
New York Tribune.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1908-01-28
Australian curiosIties.

There are some curious things in cen
trail Australia. Lake Amadeus In the
dry season is merely sheet of salt.
Ayers rock. about five miles round,
rises abruptly from the desert. For
merly vast rivers flowed here, and the
diprotodon, a wombat-like creature
worthy of its name and four times as
large as a kangaroo, dourished on the
plains. Now there are hardly any ami
mails to be seen. The fish live in water
holes of the hills until the floods wash
them down to the valleys. At the end
of the wet season the water frogs fill
themselves with water, roll themselves
In the mud and lie low till the next
rains, which may not come for two
years Meanwhile the provident frog,
like the ''mousie" Of Robert Burns,
may have the misfortune to furnish a
drink to thirsty black. The natives
also get water from the roots of trees.
They are in the totem" stage and
revere certain plants or animals which
protect them Men of one group can
only marry women from another single
group,
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1908-01-28
Animals as They Drink.

Animals as a general thing drink
very moderately, and their favorite
beverage Is water. The amount which
they drink, however. Is largely deter
mined by the character of the food
they eat. Sheep, rabbits and hares, for
instance, require very little water be-
cause the roots and vegetables which
they eat require a large percentage.
Cats and dogs, If the food they get is
solid, require a good drink at least
once a day, but most take much such
large quantities at time that this ex-
plains why they do not need 1t oftener.
Rats can go long time without wa
ter, but frequently when the food they
eat Is very dry they get so thirsty that
they will face any perils to obtain wa
ter. There are cases on record where
farmers have killed droves Of rats
which came one by one to pool of
water In a season Of drought to Quench
their thirst. 1t is said also that when
It is impossible for them to get water
they win XIII each other IN order to
obtain the blood as a beverags.-Phila-
dalphia Press
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1908-01-28
Wanted to Be Ready.

Servant-I've come to give notice,
ma'am, as l am going to get married.
Mistress Indeed. Mary! How long
have you been engaged? Servant
amt engaged at all. ma'am. Mistress
Well, who is the happy manl Serv-
ant-You know the big shop down the
road. Well, the shopwalker looked at
me the day before yesterday, and yes
terday he smiled, and today he said,
"Good morning." and expect tomor-
row he'll propose, and, you see, ma'am,
want to be ready.-London Answers
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1908-01-28
4 QUEER TREE

The Tunbo Is Monstrosity of the
African Desert.
The mature Jumbo is tree with a
trunk about two feet long, shaped
much like an inverted cone. Almost all
| the trunk is below the surface of the
ground, the visible part rarely exceed
ing a few inches. But the remarkable
feature of the stem is that it is often
fourteen feet in circumference and be-
comes more or less two lobed image.
The stem looks more like great mass
of 1.-THE burned crust of loaf OF
bread" to quote DR.. Welwitsch's letter,
than the trunk Of q tree. The under
ground portion becomes greatly elon-
gated, and its continuation is the top
root of the plant. This goes down sew
eral feet in its effort to get the few
drops of water that the arid conditions
Of the country permit.
There are never more than two
leaves after the seed leaves drop on,
and very curious leaves they are. Start
ing from a groove on opposite sides OF
the depressed mass, they stand straight
out on both sides of the plant They
are often six feet long and two feet
wide and usually split into ribbons
that unduiate over the ground in way
strikingiy suggestive of the tentacles
of an octopus With its great ugly
body and its tentacle-like leaves it is no
wonder that it has been the most re-
markable plant novelty of the last CEN
fury. The flowers are borne in scarlet
cones on a cymose inflorescence COM
ing from the crown of the trunk.
Tumboa bainesil belongs to the joint
FIR family, or gnetaceae, and Is known
only from Portuguese West Africa to
Damaraland This is a region that
seldom gets any rain, and desert condi-
tons prevail almost completely, except
for the sea fogs. The tumbo is thus
desert plant par excellence, and it is
only by close approximation of these
very arid conditions that we can cul-
tivate it.-New York Botanic Garden.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1908-01-28
F;ekle Fortune

The reverses of fortune are well L.
Illustrated among the descendants Of
the old French nobility.
According to NJ. Lescure, grandson
Of that same Marquis dHauteroche
who chivalrously requested the Eng
lish troops at the battle OF Fontenoy to
fire nrst' ended his days as COM
mon policeman.
One of the noble family Of Babou de
Ia Boardaisiere Is now a washerwo-
man.
Representatives of other noble fam
flies equally famous In their time are
or were, according to the same author
fly, occupying the humble places Of
gamekeeper, carpenters apprentice,
house painter. cab driver, miller's as
sistant, innkeeper. conductor of an ON
nibus, box opener at a theater, gas
man, bathing man, maker of mouse
traps, chorus singer at the opera and
woodman, while one who Is great
grand-cousin of the Illustrious Cardi-
nal de Retz unites In his own person
the lowly Offices Of gravedigger and
village fiddler.-London Tft-Bits.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1908-01-28

eff you give her perfumery for her
birthday" said the druggist give with
discretion. Find out first the effect of
perfumes on the system.
"Heliotrope is a bad scent for any
but the boisterous and gay. 1t is de-
pressing. 1t often causes the neuras-
thenic toNweep. Would it suit her?
''Musk y a powerful stimulant, a
good thing Tor those with weak hearts.
How is she that way?
"Stephanotis creates languor. If she
is lazy, then avoid it.
violet is the best perfume. 1t ele-
Yates the mind. ItNspurs to deeds Of
bravery. Of sacrifice. 1t creates beauti-
full thoughts. Get her violet, my boy"
Exchange.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1908-01-28

The position taken by the dancers
gives the name to the "quadrille"-
literal English for "a little square" In
the French tongue. From the French
we get also country dance" which, as
matter Of fact, has no reference to
rural frolics. "Contredanse," which
has reference to the position of the
couples, opposite each other, is readily
corrupted into country dance" The
polka" is Polish dance. the name
being derived from the Bohemian word
''pulka," meaning half, and refers to
the half step which occurs in this
measure. The waltz is German
waltzen, meaning to revolve-the cir
cular motion of the couples easily ex-
planning the connection. The ''ree' Is
suggestively obvious. Zig" is of
course from the French gigue.-Har-
per's Weekly.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1908-01-28
Hands and Feet.

1t is said that Disraeli was proudel
of his small hands than Of all his great
mental accomplishments. This was
presumably because they were badges
of aristocracy In their evidence that
he had not been brought up to labor,
and he worshiped aristocracy And
small feet Of the same character-evi-
dences that the possessor did not go
barefoot when child Generations Of
carefully shod children Of the nobility
developed this characteristic Of those
Of gentle blood" as distinguished from
the commonalty. But such proofs Of
superiority were not meekly endured
In due time brainy commoners discov-
cred that the artistic hand" was not
small. but long and slender. and then
came the athlete multitude, who scorn
small hands and feet as evidences Of
ACKNOWLEDGMENT Star
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1908-01-28

Cocaine which dulls the nerves never
yet cured Nasal Catarrh. The heavYfeel-
ing in the forehead, the stuffed up sensa-
ton and the watery discharge from eyes
and nose, along with the other miseries at
tending the disease. are put to rout by
ElY's Cream Balm. Smell and taste are
restored, breathing is made normal. Until
you try this remedy, you can form noidea
of the good it will do you. Is applied d.
rectly to the sore spot. All druggists, SOC.
Mailed by Ely Bros, So Warren Street.
New York
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1908-01-28
On Yawninc.

have come to the conclusion that If
man yawns and you don't want to
yawn, too, the only way to prevent it
Is to blow your nose. A man Of my
acquaintance boasts that he can set a
whole railway carriage full Of people
yawning by merely taking time over 1t
himself, and believe he can.-Fry's
Magazine.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1908-01-28
The Need Of Common Sense.

/ had a really scientific man to see
me the other day, and in the course of
our investigation of a point we had
in common it was necessary to wash
out a bottle. The bottle was empty.
1t was a round. wabbly vessel, and he
had to hold it under the water long
time so that it might get full enough
of water to hold it down. l asked
him why he did not fill it with water
first, and he laughed and said he did
not think of it. And that bears out
my contention that it is not because a
man is as clever as paint" that he
therefore grasps "the common sense
of common things. &c. n. r. Dabbs
in Fry's Magazine.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1908-01-28
GRAY Haire nj Wall Street.

ut seemed to me down IN New YORK
the other day." remarked a Cleveland
err who had just returned from the me-
tropolis, that one might almost rec
ognize Wall street and the financial
region by the number Of gray haired
young men you see. l had occasion to
be In several offices on Wall street the
other day, and honestly believe more
than half Of the young men saw had
gray hair. l noticed the same thing
along the street 1t may have been
just coincidence, but couldn't help
wondering If they would have been
gray just as soon If they had been at
some other game for the last few
years" -Cleveland Plain Dealer.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1908-01-28
Question Of Nationality.

An Englishman. Frenchman and a
German sitting together in the smok-
ing room of an ocean liner, the CONVEX
sation turned on their nationality, and
one Of them asked what each of the
three would choose to be If he were not
of his own nation. The Frenchman said,
''If l were not Frenchman, would
be an Englishman." The Englishman
said, eff / were not an Englishman,
would wish to be one" The German,
eff were not German would wish
not to be a German.'-Carl Peters in
Deutsche Monatschrift.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1908-01-28

To stop that pain in the back, that stiff
ness of the joints and muscles, take Pine
ules. They are guaranteed. Don't suffer
from rheumatism, backache, kidney trou-
BILE, when you get 80 days. treatment, fol-
s1.O0. A single dose at bed time proves
their merit. Get them to-day. Sold by
Fl. B. Allen, Mount Holly, F. s. Hillardp
Vincentown.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1908-01-28
WHY currants Are Nutritious.

The reason why currants are SO re
markably nutritious is that they con
sist to a very large degree of saccha
rim In its most easily digestible form
that of grape sugar. The piquant fla
vor of the currant. which adds SO much
to its pleasantness as food, is deriv-
ed from the valuable percentage of tar
taric acid which the berry contains
Potash is also present In the form OF
cream of tartar and is undoubtedly OF
dietetic value.-Ladies' Pictorial.