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The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1892-02-16
DEFINITIONS TO FIJI The BABY.
What Number of People Think of That
Household Institution.

What Number of People Think OF That
Household Institution.
A two-guinea prize for 1.-THE Best
Definition of a Baby has just been
awarded. The prize was won by MISS
Nellie Braidwood, of Girvan. England,
who sent In this answer:
"A tiny feather from the wing Of
love dropped into the sacred lap of
motherhood.
The following is selection from
some of the best definitions submitted:
The bachelors horror, the mothers
treasure and the despotic tyrant Of the
most republican household.
A human flower untouched by the
finger of care.
The morning caller, MONDAY crawler,
midnight brawler
The magic spell by which the Gods
transforms house into home.
A stranger with unspeakab1e cheek
that enters house without stitch to
his back and is received with open arms
by everyone. !.
A bursting bud on the tree of life.
The only precious possession that
never excites envy.
The latest edition of humanity of
which every couple think they possess
the finest copy.
A native Of all countries who speaks
the language of none
The unconscious mediator between
father and mother and the focus of
their hearts.
About twenty-five inches OF coo and
wriggle, writhe and scream, filed with
suction and testing apparatus for milk,
and automatic alarm to regulate supply.
A quaint little craft called Innocence,
laden with simplicity and love.
A curious bud of uncertain blossom.
A thing we are expected to kiss, and
look as if we enjoyed it.
The smartest little craft afoat in
homes delightful bay.
A mite of humanity that will cry no
harder If a pin is stuck into him than
he will If the cat won't let him pull her
tail
little stranger, with free pass to
the hearts best affections.
The most extensive employer of fe-
male labor.
The pulp from which the leaves Of
life's book are made.
A paddock on the chain of love.
A soft bundle of love and trouble
which we can not do without.
It's sweet and tiny treasure,
A torment and tease;
It's an artoorat, an anarchist,
Two awful things to please.
It's rest and peace ddsturber,
With little laughing ways;
It's waiiing Human night alarm,
And terror Of your days.
A necessity--in order to keep up the
supply Of readers of the future.
The sweetest thing God ever made
and forgot to give wings to.
A pleasure to two, a nuisance to
every other body and necessity of the
world.
An inhabitant Of Lapland.
That which makes home happier,
love stronger, patience greater, hands
buster, nights longer, days shorter,
purses Lighter clothes shabbier, the
past forgotten, the future brighter
London Tid-Bits.
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RAILROAD TIME TABLE.

Trans leave from Mount Holly as folio'es:
rorPhiladcIphia, $50, SEQ, 6.52, 7.s0, sol
s.57, 9.l5, ll.20 A. NJ, 1881, 2Si, 42t 50o, 6l9
On sundays. s.ss a. NJ. 1905. $50. $50 P. NJ,
For Pcmberton. 7.33. s.s6 A. NJ, 1924. 2.0S. ~
ii. Cos, 7.oS, 1883 Pm. Sundays, 1923 An, 6Oo
FOR Browns Mills.in-the-P Pines, 1853. s2s A. M,
1924, 1882. &.5l and 7.0S P. NJ Sundays, 1923
For vincentown, s.2c. ll.2s A. Nj. 1852, SO P. NJ.
For Burlington Bordentown, Trenton ana New
York, SIS, 800, 1880 A. NJ, 250 4.Ss, $3.50 p NJ
For Lewistown, Columbus, kinkora, ETC., 2OS,
S.s2P.M OnSundays, eos p
For Lumberton, Medford, Marion, Haddon-
deld and Philadelphia, 6.S2, 9.4S A. NJ, LIS,
5.10P. NJ. On Sundays, 7.l5 A. n.
For Toms River, Island Heights, Long Branch,
For Trenton and New York, via PemDerton
and kinkora, 20S T. NJ. sundays. 6Oo P. NJ
For Hightstown, 1888 AIN. 2.03. 45l Pm. On
Sundays sos Y. NJ
TrG4nsleape for Mount Holly as fouows:
From philadelphia. $50, 74o $50. 1000. ll20
A. NJ, Loo, 230, AGO, 4SO. $40, 6.l0, $50, 500
From New YORK IA Trenton and Burlington
500, 800 A. NJ, LOO. 400, 800 P NJ,
rrom Trenton, 74l, 9.25, ll.0S A. NJ, 253, o.3S,
FROM burlington. s29 1906 IL IS, M. s.ss. 545
from Browns Mills-in-the- Pines. $50 a. NJ.
l2l5, l.55. 5.45 sos P. N. sundays, 800, P. NJ
from Peinbertoi, tnorth) $50, 7.40, s-3z, A. NJ,
L. l9. s407, SIT +. NJ. On sundays, 800 A. NJ,
(south). $3.50 An. l2so. All, 400, 800, sl9 p M
0a sundays. BIS, p N.
From vincentown, OBS 1o.55 AM, l5o, 400,
from iIightstown. via burlington, ll.o2A. NJ.
FROM Medford, s.ss, H. 55 A. NJ. 4.lG. d.S5 p. n.
On Sundays, 6.32 P. NJ.
From Long Branch, 235 p. M.
From Toms River. ~ 4 NJ IL, +; N,
From Hightstown. ia, 1000 A. NJ. 7.os p N. On
Sunday 6.45 A. =.
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USEFUL POINTERS.
The Best Materials to Use in Doing Gene

The Best Materials to Use in Doing Generai
Mending.
Never put new. stiff muslin with old,
as from sheer perverseness the old will
tear around the edge of the new. Buy
several yards of lightweight muslin.
wash aud boil it soft. and iron out
Keep this for all patches and new
pieces to be put in underwear using
40-thread to sew with. | do not APP
prove of coarse thread or needles In
sewing if the material will take finer,
as the former tears old goods when
pulling the thread through. In patch
ing n piece of muslin cut the new piece
much larger than the old, and do not
fell down the seams of the patch. This
will raise storm, as raw edges are
not usually considered a neat finish,
but they are at least comfortable, and
a thick seam is not if on a thick
fabric. Overcast the edges, run the
sides around, turn in the edge of the
torn part, hem them down, and You
will have a fiat patch, be it on muslin
or flannel underwear, boys trousers.
etc. Always press patch on the
wrong side when it is finished. Use
linen thread for mending mems or
boys clothing, or sewing their buttons
on. Lace is mended by basting it on
piece of embroidery leather and work
ing the hole over with lace thread,
coming in tiny balls, to initiate the pat
tern as closely as possible. Lace cur
tains are quickly and easily mended by
FASTING with starch piece of net over
the tear, md pressing it on with a
warm iron When button tears out
leaving great hole, cover the space
with piece of the material trebly
doubled, sewing it down on all sides,
and then sew the button on again
Ladies' Home Journal.
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FOR AGED PEOPLE.
a Pleasant and Profitable Occupation In
Which They May Engage.

a Pleasant and Profitable Occupation In
Which They May Engage.
Physicians can report many cases
wherein are manifested all the symp-
TOMS of age at the very beginning Of
manhood. and SO also they can point
out examples of physical and intellect
ual youth even at period exceeding
the psalmist's limit of life. They
would not allow themselves to be
counted out of the world Of thought
and accomplishment They remained
in the competition to the last. Life
was not mere animal existence for
them after they had passed the limit
where conventional age begins. Lon
gevity did not bring rest, for they kept
the intellectual machine bright with
the friction of continued use. 1t sim
ply gave them time to learn more and
to do more with the advantage of a
training and an experience so much
prolonged.
We have received letter which en-
forces in a very striking way the truth
of what we have said. 1t also furnishes
an example profitable for the considera-
ton of every man who imagines that
the mere weight of years brushes out
his capacity for intellectual improve
ment and prevents his taking IN a new
employment the eager interest which
is necessary to its successful pursuit
The letter is from Mr.. Robert Christie,
of Baltimore. If we measure age in
the ordinary way he is undoubtedly
old. for he has reached eighty-one
yeals, but if we apply the test of the
desire and capacity for intellectual
growth, he is young, as young as col
lege lad, and much younger than some
of the fortunate youth with whom he
completes.
Mr.. Christie tells US that he began the
Chautauqua course of ding ten years
ago when ne was at tf1e age of seventy
one, already an old man according to
the usual computation of age.
Among his studies he took up the
learning of Greek without an in
structor," writes Mr.. Christie, land by
snatching up the Greek Ollendorf at
leisure moments or odd times, have ac-
quired little smattering of that won
derful language"
The experience of Mr. Christie there
fore offers a lesson for every man
and every woman to whom cid age
has come. It suggests an occypa-
ton which cheats time and brings
back the zeal and enthusiasm of
youth. In such acquisition there is
joy no wise else attainable 1t brings
the old in years back into the current
of human activity, prevents their retro
gression, and sends them forward as
<,S,,,,,.oflar .,f x1a rro,,v,r rrbaxr o,-a e+;II
boys and girls at school, with their in
terests as vital and their ambition for
progress as fresh and eager Happily
for them Chautauqua offers to every
body the opportunity and the incentive
which it furnished for Mr.. Christie, so
happy in the consciousness that he is
still growing and advancing at eighty
one years --Chautauquan.
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HE WAS WARM ENOUGH.


The Student Thought Mountain was
Weighing Him Down.
Generally speaking. practical jokes
are to be avoided, as they are common
ly more productive of harm than of
amusement. But occasionally there is
one so spontaneous and appropriate as
to be quite pardonable. Two young
men were room-mates at Harvard.
They were not only room-mates, but
fast friends, and shared their joys and
sorrows as well as their apartments;
but neither was averse to wholesome
laugh, either at his own or at the others
expense. They had two rooms-a COM
modious study, and small bedroom,
large enough, however, for each to have
his own separate bed.
1t happened one particularly cold
night last winter that both the young
men had passed the evening out. About
eleven o'clock the first one reached his
room; he had ridden out from Boston in
slow car, and was very cold. The fire
in the CRATE was low; and the bedroom,
which had been left with door closed
and window open. was exceedingly
cold; but the student was resolved to
make the best of the situation.
First spreading his ulster over his
bed, he went to the closet and helped
himself to all the coats he found there;
and putting these over the ulster, he
crawled under the pile, and was soon
as snug and comfortable as a cat under
q stove.
He had just got we'll asleep when in
came his chum, half-frozen.
WELL" he said, Jacks got his
whole wardrobe over him. It's good
idea; I'll do it myself" But on going
to the closet he found that all his
clothes had already been appropriated.
He stopped moment to think the situ-
alton over, and then exclaimed: We'll,
Jack, old man, If you're as cold as that,
I'll see what can do to make the night
comfortable for you"
This he proceeded to do. First he
spread several newspapers on the pile
of.clothes that covered the onntantad
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1892-02-16
CHINESE MAFlAs.
An Organization of Assassins That IL
Law La Powerless to Suppress.

An Organization of Assassins That the
Law La Powerless to Suppress.
There is quite striking analogy be-
tween the Italian Malta, as it is COM
monty understood, and the Chinese
Tong, or organization of cutthroats,
murderers and highbinders in this city,
says the San Francisco Chronicle. The
chief point of difference is that the sub
divisions of the Malta are not at con-
slant war with each other. while the
Tongs have deadly feuds continually on
foot, and generally select their victims
from among their rivals.
The question of these organizations
of assassins in the heart of a civilized
community like ours has grown to be
serious one. We know, in a general
way that each Tong is bound together
by oaths which its members dare not
break; that its purpose is crime of the
deepest dye; that it shelters it's mem
bers by every artifce which Chinese
cunning can devise, and that it sets at
defiance the laws of the land; but here
our knowledge on the subject ends. We
do not know the motives which under
lie the frequent murders, nor do we
seem to know how to break up these
longs or put an end to their career of
crime.
The suggestion has been made, and it
is worth considering, that an Indictment
for criminal conspiracy would lie
against an entire Tong or society whose
members were known or believed to be
guilty of murder. So far as we can
know anything about the secret work.
ings Of these organizations there is
ample reason to believe that the muir
ders are committed after full discussion
and the murderer selected by his So
ciety and instructed as to how and
when he shall do his deadly work. II
this be true there is certainly Grim
inal conspiracy preceding every one Of
these Highlander murders, and the
whole society is liable to Indictment.
Such q wholesale attack upon these
secret societies would do much to break
them up. AS it is now they care very
little if one of their number happens to
fall into the clutches of the law. They
have plenty of assassins left, and one
more or less makes no difference to the
Tong. If, however, the whole Tong
were indicted the Chinese would be-
heve that the officers of the law were
in earnest and it would work a change
in their system of getting rid of those
who were inimical to them.
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uspands pursuits, or who cares not to
understand his perplexities, fails in her
opportunities. The wife who shuts out
social pleasures and relaxations because
they bore her or because she is too
eHEsA~She either forces her hus-
md to seek pleasure without her, and
drives the first wedge Of divergence be-
tween them. or else shuts him into her
own narrow atmosphere. And so,
through all the experience of home life,
the wife fails if she looks at everything
wholly from a material standpoint.
1t is not strange when children hear
nothing but pretty talk and see moth
ing but dull repeated work that thew
grow up without a capacity for high
thoughts, and lacking the power to re-
sist moral temptations Natures grow
on what they feed on, and purity of
motive and elevated purpose must have
their roots planted and watered when
the heart is young.
A woman who thinks that her house
work, which wellnigh overwhelms her.
is all she can do, may be sure that there
IS no better use for a portion of her
time than to daily lift herself out of the
narrow confines of her labors, and to
rest and refresh herself in new inter
ests and broader sympathies ANY
woman can do this, though all do not
climb the same pathway or reach the
same height The opportunities may
be few and the advantages slight, but
faithfully used they will develop, and
step by step the way will lead ever on
ward and upward And the first step
IN the pathway is to see what piece Of
work can go undone. and the time be
saved, rather than how much more
mint. anise and cummin the busy
housewife can crowd into her already
too hurried days.
Having thus breathed the broader
air, if only briefly, let her persevere,
assured that in this way is to be builded
the rounded, balanced character of the
good wife-a higher and nobler crea-
lture than all the companies of s.man-
ayers" beneath the canopy of heaven
Harper's Bazaar
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uNeRATEFuLLY RECEIVED.

The Sociable Man Snubbed While EnlIght-
ening the Forbidding Stranger.
When the sociable man entered the
car he beamed benignly on all the oc-
cupants He took seat beside man
with a sandy mustache, and after glanc-
ing frst at the straight, standing collar
of the stranger and then at his cuffs as
they protruded from the end of his coat
sleeves, he observed CHEEKY:
THE celluloid trade of this country
has grown to enormous proportions"
ssSir!''
IT said the amount of celluloid turned
ont in the United States has got to be
very large"
II don't care if it hasi'
You surprise me, sir. Why, do you
know that last years production of raw
celluloid was valued at one million five
hundred thousand dollars?n
By this time the passengers had be-
come interested in the discussion, and
they waited for his answer. It came in
staccato voice:
81 don't care to know anything about
it."
''That's odd. A million and half
dollars is big pile of money
81 am not searching for statistics,
sir" the forbidding stranger added.
coldly.
Perhaps not, but it is always well to
store the mind with useful facts when
you can. Now if had not remembered
the figures Of the celluloid output when
/ saw it in the newspaper wouldn't
1.oo, ,1> IL - ~
suppose you didn't notice it in the pa
per2'
'sNo, and don't care to hear Of it
now" sss
ssThe process of the manufacture of
celluloid Is very interesting one, |
think"
The strangers cuffs had been drawn
into his coat-sleeves.
'sCellu1o.d is really species of solidi-
fed collodion, if you know what that is. .
II don't know what it is. snapped
the forbidding stranger, land I'll thank
you to address your remarks to some
else"
30, the rest can all hear. AS / was
saying. celluloid is produced by dissolv-
ing gun cotton in camphor with the as
sASCstuSS Va hcdb Siut pressure.
"Will-you-shut-up?"
Presently; but 1 want to tell you
something of the process. The gun
cotton is ground in water to fine pulp,
which is then subjected to a powerful
pressure. The camphor is"
Conductor the forbidding man
yelled, stop this CARR
He jumped off before the car stopped,
however. and the sociable man re-
marked: Some people never seem to
want to learn, even when they have
good chance IN. Y. Sun.
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WERE AFTER HIM.
The Rustic Thought He WAS the vloti

The Rustic Thought He WAS the Victim
of a Dynamite Plot.
A boy about ten years of age got
aboard of a Fourth avenue car at Forty
second street with a parcel under his
left arm. The car had scarcely entered
the tunnel when he began to unwrap
the parcel, and it was soon discovered
that he had bottle of ginger ale. He
carefully looked it over. gave it vigor-
GUS shaking up, and then his curiosity
led him to examine the cork. Among
the passengers who took notice of him
was man with satchel, who had
just come in on tEa traiss assd he sssally
said:
''Bub, you don't want to be foolin
with that cork
Who's a-foolin'?" queried the lad, in
reply.
''You seem to be- You probably
won't be satisfied till she pops out and
almost kills somebody"
81 guess I've seen ginger. ale bottles
before to-day. was only Iool1in' to
see how they
Popl went the cork, followed by a
gush of the liquid. The man with the
satchel got the cork in his eye and the
ginger ale over his legs, and during the
confusion the boy escaped. The con-
ductor rushed in to see what had hap
pened, and when the excitement had
quoted down the traveller picked up
his satchel and started for the plat
form, saying;
Seems mighty burned funny that
never strike this town without some
body attempts to assassinate me right
off Stop your old car and femme git
out where l kin swing my jack-knife
and hev show to purtect mvselfP-
N. " World.
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FRANCES FORTS.
Defenses of the Republic Against
Hor Enenies.
The Line of Great Fortrssseo and In
trenched Camps, On tho Eastern
Frontier Enormous Arm

A feature of Frances preparation for
the next war with Germany that has
not attracted much attention thus far is
the line of forts and intrcnched camps
guarding her eastern frontier, says q
writer in the Illustrated American. If
little has been said about these fortih-
cations, it is only because little is
known. The government has endeav-
ored to preserve secrecy in regard to
them even more strenuously than it
has denied information about melinite
and the .Lebel rifle. In the modern
system of fertilization much stress is
laid upon the Importance of keeping
the enemy in the dark.
No longer frowning parapets an
nounce to him the quarter whence he
may expect resistance. The present
aim is to lure him into trap and then
NOW down his regiments by hail-like
fire from hidden guns. For this purpose
rapid-fire guns will be largely used.
The Maxim gun can deliver about seven
hundred bullets per minute. 1t can be di-
rected by one man, who will show only
his head above his screen and will be
tended by one other man completely
covered. Smokeless powder being
used, regiment would be decimated
and panic-striclken in moment by such
a fire and would be in full rout before
the location of the gun could be discov-
cred. To carry out such defense sue
cessfully it is important, of course, to
preserve the most complete secrecy
about the plans of the Notifications.
Therefore only general facts are known
about the line of forts on the eastern
frontier of France.
The Notifications consist of great in
trenched camps and huge fortresses.
The largess forts = Frouard, Pont st.
Vincent, Lucey, Wiley lie Sec, d'Arches,
Remiremont and Giromaguy - have
added to their otherwise enormous
ornaments armored towers with the
heaviest cannon. Every frontier fort
or intrenched camp is within gun-shot
of the next one, is connected with the
others by telegraph and is linked to the
other members of the chain by
double-track railway. The only break
in the railway connection is between
Fort Giromaguy and Fort de Servance.
Batteries occupy between the forts all
the positions commanding approaches.
The guns of the forts vary in number
for each between twenty and fifty.
Some, however, have as many as
eighty. In several forts there is
room for two thousand head Of cattle,
and in all for enormous quantities of
provisions. The quarters of the men
and officers are airy and ample The
cannons command completely the
slopes, which are, moreover, SO woven
over with wires and SO mined with tor
pedoes that the stand of an enemy
there and the undermining of the walls
are impossible.
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YOUNG SMITHS SECRET.
His Pa was the Bearded Lady in a Dim
Museum.


His Pa was the Bearded Lady in Dime
Museum.
In certain New York public school
there was particularly bad youngster
who, for narrative purposes, may be
known as Smith. A popularity attach
ing to Smith was that he seemed to
have no home, and though the other
boys frequently trailed him IN the most
approved detective fashion, they could
never succeed in locating the Smith
sonian domicile.
The same cloud of mystery which en-
veloped Smiths home enshrouded his
family. He never spoke Of them, and
as far as appearances went was lone
orphan without kith or kin, SO the be-
lief soon became general that there was
a terrible secret hidden away some-
where in Smiths young life
One day during the morning session
the mysterious youth, in q spirit Of un-
wonted sportiveness, caused his desk
mate acute personal discomfort through
the medium of pin bent in the ira
ditional manner. He was taken red
handed and hauled, before the principal
"Smith,n remarked that august person
age, s'you will have to take letter
from me to your father at once, inform
ing him of your bad behavior. Where
can he be found?n
He of the bent pin answered with a
wall of despair.
zone second to tell me, or -" and
the principal poised his nice, new rat
tan.
81 can't tell you out loud, howled
Smith, San won't; don't care if you
do lick me.
''Then you may whisper it"
The principal inclined his ear and
Smith gasped therein this single line:
'.Pa's bearded lady in dime mu-
scum. .
The skeleton had escaped from the
closet. IN. Y Advertiser