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The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1895-08-06
A MANS LAUGH NEVER CHANGES.
How the Fact Was Illustrated by an In
cident In Chicago.

How the Fact Was illustrated by an In
cident In Chicago.
If the Bertillion system of identified
ton had a photographic record of the
laughs of criminals it would probably
be as near perfect as an Identification
system can be. The fact that man comes
into the world wailing has been regard
cd as sort of prophecy of the truth
that as a rule the sorrows of life out
number the joys when all the returns
are in, but an optimist might see an
opposite significance in the fact that q
mans laugh remains the same through
all the changing years. When the cares
Of manhood succeed to the happy go
lucky days of boyhood, this laugh of his
may be called into use, as it were, very
little, but when it is put into operation
it is the same old laugh, and every boy
hood friend would know it instantly.
An old soldier who fought through
the war with Fred Hartwick, who drives
mail collectors wagon ON the North
Side, happened to be in Chicago for a
week not long since He heard that Mr..
Hartwick was on its postmaster's staff
and went to the federal building to find
him. He took his station at point past
which all the carriers filed to report for
duty, and as Hartwick came along some
one pointed him out.
Without disclosing his own identity
the veteran approached and began ask
ing Hartwick if he remembered various
incidents in the history of their regi-
ment during the war. OF course he did
and very soon fell into conversation, or
ganizing kind of campfire meeting
between themselves. One member Of
the regiment was in business in New
Orleans, another was in bank down
in the state, several were farming, one
was the local manager for one Of the
big commercial agencies in one Of the
large cities, and SO ON.
Several times Hartwick asked his old
companion at arms his name, but the
latter only smiled and went on with the
conversation. Finally, when it became
necessary for them to separate, as Hart
wick was obliged to go out ON his run,
the man laughed outright as he said:
well, Fred, I never thought you'd
forget me after what we went through
together. "
"The minute he laughed, said Mr..
Hartwick, in relating the incident, II
knew just who he was and all about
him, but hadn't seen him for 80 years,
and he had changed so couldn't have
told him from Adam. His laugh had
grown older, too, of course. but it was
the same old laugh. Chicago Trib-
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The Tyranny of Etiquette.

1t is impossible to read even the least
dogmatic books on etiquette without be-
ing oppressed with the conviction that
heavy and binding addition has been
made to the code of morals in the by
laws which have to do with visiting
cards, invitations, conventional phrases
and other minor but vigorous formulas.
1t has been reiterated by writers on these
subjects that not single rule Of ETH
quette is arbitrary, but that all prove
their reason in the very nature of things,
and that those who disregard them sim
ply show their own lack of insight and
incapacity to appreciate genuine refine
ment.
While this is all very well for society
people pure and simple or those who
have other definite and absorbing work
in life compliance with all the thousand
and one trifling points Of etiquette is an
utter impossibility. The question then
becomes, Shall such persons be excluded
from society or be allowed to enter it on
their own terms? Society might be SO
conducted as to make of it a charming
and delightful recreation instead of a
tyrannical business, and those who see
this clearly can do much toward making
it So -PhiladelDhia Press
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INCAPABLE OF IMPERSoNALIrY.
An Alleged Failing That Has Deferred
Woman,s Emanoination.

An Alleged Failing That Has Deferred
Woman's Emancipation.
The bond Of fellowship which exists
between man and man simply by virtue
Of common sex is entirely absent be-
tween woman and woman. 1t is, in
fact, replaced by fundamental antago-
nism, vague enmity which renders
the general attitude Of feminine crea-
ture toward her kind essentially differ
ent from that of the male creature in
identical relations In individual cases
this feeling is counteracted by affection
on by sympathy, but apart from person
al sentiment it remains, severing every
living woman from the rest of her sex.
To great extent this arises from wom-
an s incapacity for impersonal feeling or
abstract emotion. In life's fray she
fights either for her own hand or, more
often, for some one man or woman
whom she loves, but rarely for the well
fare of her sex at large.
Were it not for this strange lack of hu-
manity in her nature, the emancipation
Of woman would not have been SO griev-
ously retarded If the few women who
suffered aforetime under the restrictions
which hedged in their liberty had been
able to count on the sympathy and CO.
operation Of all women, the time Of
their subjugation would have been enor-
mously abbreviated. AS it was, the first
seekers after freedom met with more
opposition from their own sex than they
did from the other nor, indeed, do they
fare better today. Enormous changes
in their social status were effected by
an inconsiderable minority of women
brave enough and logical enough to i'm
press the male powers that be with the
justice Of their demands. But for their
courage they received no sympathy and
for their success not one word Of thanks
nothing, in fact, but execration from
the huge inert feminine mass in whose
service their strength was spent. Sat
urday Review.
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gun?'' repeated one Of his listeners in
credulously.
"Yep; that's what done. =
Your gun must have had three bar
rels then !"
Mop; only two. "
How did you do it?''
well, killed the one that went to
the right with the right barrel then,
quick as flash, killed the one that
went to the left with the other barrel
then took after the one that went
straight ahead and knocked the stuffin
out of it with the ramrod.
II wouldn't believe that If l told II
myself, !" declared one of the assem-
blage.
"Huhl That afasst nothin. ! killed
six quail with one barrel once, and they
wuz all fiyin in different directions"
'.Run EN- all down?'
mop; never moved out o. my tracks.
When they all started ont o. the same
bunch of grass, I held the gun away ovel
to the right, and as it went off sweep
it aroun to the left. The result was that
l slung shot in every direction, same al
you can sling water outen pan, and 9
little of the shot ketched ev'ry one. p
San Francisco Post.
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DON'T STOP TOBACCO.
How to Cure Yourself While Using 1t.

How to Cure Yourself While Using 1t.
The tobacco habit grows on a man unit
his nervous system is seriously affected
impsiring health, comfort and happiness.
10 quit suddenly is too severe shock to
the system, as tobacco to an inveterate
user becomes stimulant that his system
continually Graves. Baco-Curo is a scIen.
tific cure for the tobacco habit, in all its
forms, carefully compounded after the
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You can use all the tobacco you want,
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when to stop. We give written guaran-
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Try Electric Bitters as remedy for your
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Lumberton.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1895-08-06
SCOTCH HuMoR.
It Crops Out Occasionally Among Elder
of the Kirk.

It Crops Out Occasionally Among Elders
of the Kirk.
The elder of the kirk like most of us,
can blunder occasionally. The pastor of
a small village on the borders had gone
for a few days to visit some relatives,
when an old lady was suddenly stricken
down land not expected to live more
than few hours. The elder was hastily
summoned to attend; but, having been
lately elected to the post, which he had
accepted in order to satisfy the vanity
of his wife, he did not feel able to face
the trying ordeal His wife entreated
him to do his duty, and whispering a
few lines of Scripture into his ears sent
him off on his Grand
An hour later his wife beheld him
stepping homeward as brisk as a March
hare She inquired how he had come on.
"Oh, fine, woman, inel" was the re-
ply. "She was deid when got therel'
A short time ago, when disestablish.
ment was in everybody's mouth, an old
lady created quite a sensation in
church not far from Amman. Having
been from home a considerable time,
she was unaware that the election of
elders had taken place. She attended
services the following Sunday, when the
minister, commenting ON the result, re-
marked that in David Richardson the
church had new pillar of strength, to
which she retorted: "Whatl David
Richardson pillar Nae wonder the
auld kinks gaun to ia r. David, who
had the misfortune to have a wooden
leg and hump back, quietly rose up
and answered: Vince hit, We gowk.
Criffel's Ia mountain in the neighbor-
hood) not straight
On one occasion the minister met
Donald coming from Dumfries Rood fair
in rather muddled state. David
David Do see your double?'
"Eh, guidsakes, minister r. exclaimed
the elder. Guidsakes, are ye fou taef"
A minister, feeling indisposed on one
occasion, did not put in an appearance,
and the elder, apologizing for his alb
sence, gave it out that shis reverence
was unco bad in the roomattic' (for SO
he pronounced the word rheumatism)
land couldn't get out. y
On hearing this startling intelligence
an old lady who happened to be pres
ent shrieked out:
''Eh, that auld hiZzy o. his Has she
locked puir man in the attic because he
was enjoying himself at Farmer Bells
kirn?''-Scottish American.
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Trees That Die When Men Live Near Them.
The deaths of nearly all the pine
trees in Asbury Park give rise to an in
teresting question as to whether or not
it is true that this tree is so wild by ma
ture that it will not endure domestica-
ton. 1t is the breed of pine that grows
in the sand close to the seashore Of
which this seems to be true. Asbury
Park is built upon a former sea beach
extending three miles inland to the edge
of the great forest that reaches from Ea-
tontown, back Of Long Branch, to Cape
May. This forest is called 1.-The Pines, y
because of the preponderance of pine
trees in it, the other trees that are plen-
tiful there being mainly oaks of four
varieties, with few magnolias, tulips,
sassafras and hickory trees and hollies
and laurels.
The pines still flourish in the woods
behind Asbury Park, but i'll the town a
large fraction of the few that remain
are sickly and dying Thousands have
died and been cut down since the tree
empowered town was built in the woods
a quarter of century ago. The vii
layers say they die because it kills them
to have human beings walk beside them.
They say that even in the forest the
pines that stand beside the footpaths are
the first to die. Others credit their de-
struction in the village to the shaking
of the earth by the heavy trolley cars
and steam railway trains, and still 9TH
ers declare that manuring, watering
and topsoiling the sandy ground is what
has done the damage. The truth is yet
to be determined, but certain it is that
they are dying fast, and that already
Asbury Park has lost most of its noblest
ornaments. New York Sun
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Mrs Elizabeth E. Hutter, who recent
ly died in Philadelphia, was widely
known as the pioneer in many philan-
thropic movements in Pennsylvania
She was the widow Of the Rev. DIR. E.
W. Hutter, once editor of the Lancaster
Intelligencer and afterward private Sec
rotary Of President Buchanan and as
sistant secretary of state. During the
war Mrs. Hutter frequently went to the
front, rendering valuable service to the
wounded and suffering. She took con-
spicuous part in the great sanitary fair
held In Philadelphia In 1861, acting as
president Of the committee of labor, in
come and revenue. She is credited with
having raised $3.50, 900 for the fair. She
was the first woman to cross the line
after the desperate three days battle of
Gettysburg. She went in a car provided
by President Scott of the Pennsylvania
railroad and by special permission Of
President Lincoln. New York Tribune.
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When person is losing fl esh and vast
ing away there Is cause for alarm Moth
ing so worries physician. Consump-
tives would never die if they c5uld regain
their usual weight. La fact there would
be no consumption if there we're no vast
ing of the system. The cause Of this loss
of flesh is failure to properly digest the
food eaten. Nine-tenths of all our dis
eases date back to some arrangement OF
the stomach.
The Shaker Digestive Cordial will stop
this wasting of the body. 1t acts by caus-
ing the food we eat to be digested so as to
do good, for undigested food does more
harm than good. The Cordial contains
food already digested and a digester OF
foods as we'll
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1895-08-06
Tides In the Atmosphere.

Distinct tides in the atmosphere, cor
responding to those of the sea and pro-
duced twice daily by lunar attraction,
have been traced by M. Bouquet de la
Grye in the barometric records of sta
tions removed from powerful local dis
turbances The recorded observations of
Brest, st. Helena, Cape Horn, Batavia
and Singapore give positive evidence Of
a regular ebb and flow according to the
moons position The effect is slight,
but measurable, the greatest atmos-
pheric tide at Brest being shown by a
movement of one-quarter of an inch in
water barometer, which is equivalent
to about one-fftieth of an inch in the
mercury barometer. The tide seems to
bear about the same ratio to the weight
of the atmosphere that the. sea tide bears
to the depth Of is6cean
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.--sSz Uesougnr min co speak 10 nor.
Where am I?' he asked feebly as
he tried to raise himself 'Are the dia-
monds safe?''
Never mind the diamonds, - said his
wife "Are you mortally wounded any
where?"
IT don't know" answered Leander
feebly, and, to her credit be it recorded,
Mrs. Leander assisted her husband to a
couch and sent off, or rather called for,
assistance before she even thought of
her diamonds.
Then the open door of the clock told
the whole story The diamonds were
gone, root and branch And they were
the only things stolen.
If Leander had been surprised at the
manner Of his wife on receiving the
| jewels, he was astonished at the calm
Indifference with which she parted from
them. She allowed the usual course to
be taken to recover the thief or thieves
to Justice, but when no results followed
she said she was glad of it; that the
gems had been like an evil eye to them,
and for her part she never wanted to
hear Of them again.
| IT wonder, she said, THAT I did
not see it in that light before. will
never keep anything in my house again
to tempt the cupidity of the wicked or
unfortunate. To that extent am my
brothers. keeper.
But the effect upon her husband was
entirely different Either he caught cold
ON that night Of the burglary or his
nervous system received shock, for he
was almost i'll from the effects of his
tussle with the burglar And he could
not endure to have the subject men
toned before him. Not even the success
of the Little Catawba, in which a
friend had invested for him, gave him
the peace and rest he craved.
A little incident that happened at
that time did, however, help to restore
him to his normal condition. His wife
received small package, accompanied
by a soiled and dilapidated note, which,
upon being opened, read:
HoNeRD MADEM-i gets no sleap sence stoal
| yure dimons; no yure lady an am reich If
| Civ them up pra fur me.
And in the package Mabel found her
diamonds, exactly as she had last seen
| them.
She was pleased-where is the woman
who would not have been?-and she at
once showed her confidence in her hus-
band by placing the gems in his hands
| for safe keeping in the bank
IT wish had taken your advice ear
Her." she said gracefully. 1T would
have saved us SO much trouble.
Leander murmured something about
all being we'll that ends we'll and at
noon brought her certificate of deposit.
There we leave them on the way to
fortune and happiness if-if Leander s
conscience does not upset the whole
scheme He would give great deal to
know, what no clairvoyant could tell
him, how much or how little Mabel has
discovered. My own opinion is that she
saw through it from the first and holds
herself equally guilty as accessory after
the crime, and with that sweet tickle
ness which even an upright woman en-
| ploys she will make herself loving &C.
complete, for it is foregone conclusion
that Leander Clarke was his own bur-
glar.-Detroit Free Press.
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A leading literary light in one of the
best known woman's colleges says that
there are just three books that everybody
should know by heart-4'T The Arabian
Nights, " "Alice In Wonderland" and
Mother Goose. "a thorough knowl-
edge of those masterpieces, !" she says,
will do more toward cultivating the
imagination than any other process that
! know of. And regard Imagination as
the most important Of all mental facul-
ties. = This is in direct and significant
opposition to the ideas held by many
parents and teachers that fairy tales are
injurious reading for the young. New
York Sun
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CONSERVATIVE.
The First Use Of the Word as an English
Political Term.

The First Use Of the Word as an English
Political Term.
Canning, and not Croker, was the
first to use in English politics the word
conservative in its present sense, and
too long has Thackeray's "Mr. Wen
ham" (Disraeli's "Mr. Rigby') had the
credit which belongs to far more bril-
liant man. The general assumption has
been that the term was earliest employ
ed in The Quarterly Review for January,
1880 mo. 83, page 276), in an article
which has been commonly said, but upon
no specified authority, to have been
written by Croker, but its true first use
was five years and half previously.
On June 8, 1924, dinner was given
to George hilbert, the chairman of the
West India Merchants of London, by the
members of that body, and several of the
leading ministers then serving under
Lord Liverpool, the Tory premier, were
present. In the course Of the proceed
ings, says a contemporary account, IAN
observation which fell from Mr.. Can
ming was that the spirit of the present
AONO1AulO4 do bAetO VI al SONOAA1AOAOc
ought to be, was essentially conserva-
tive
This appeared in John Bull of June
13, 1924 (page 1873, and the apt word was
SO obviously remarked that it was itali-
cized. Years passed, and Canning had
died before the word is again to be met
in English politics, but on March Ia,
1929, Charles Greville noted in his dia-
ry that 'Herries told Hyde Villiers that
their (the Tories') policy was conserva-
tive, that of the Wings subversive, and
that they never could act together. -
''The Greville Memoirs, 2" volume 1, part
1, page 1919.
The word, employed by both Canning
and Herries, was thus in the air. be-
fore it was given in The Quarterly, and
this accords with statement made in
the course Of correspondence on the
"Etymology of the Word Conservative
which appeared in The Standard at the
end of October, 1889. wherein it wai
said to have been first used in 1899
during the closing controversies upoT
Roman Catholic emancipation. Notes
and Queries
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wonderful strength Of the Beetle.

A noted entomologist who has been
writing on the wonderful feats of
strength as exhibited in the beetle fam
lily tells the following: 81 selected q
common black water beetle weighing A. 2
grains and found that he was able to
carry load of shot in small bag, the
whole weighing So ounces, or exactly
S58 times the weight Of the bug. If
man weighing $50 could carry as much
accordingly he could shoulder 40 ton
locomotive and then chain a train Of
oars together and take the whole lot
across the country at five mile an hour
gait "
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whlrTIER,s RoYHoop.
The Quaker Poet Had but scant Instruc-
ton In His Youth.


tion In His Youth.
In his boyhood Whittier had scant in
struction, for the district school was
open only few weeks in winter. He
had but few books; there were scarcely
80 in the house. The one book he read
and read again until he had it by heart
almost was the Bible, and the Bible was
always the book which exerted the
strongest literary influence upon him.
But when he was IA a teacher came
who lent him books of travel and opened
new world to him. 1t was this teach
er who brought to the Whittiers one
evening a volume of Buxns and read
aloud some Of the poems, after explain
ing the Scottish dialect.
Whittier begged to borrow the book,
which was almost the first poetry he
had ever read. 1t was this volume Of
Burns which set Whittier to making
verses himself, serving both as the in
spiration and the model of his earlier
poetic efforts. The Scottish poet, with
his homely pictures of life as bare and
as hardy as that of New England then,
first revealed to the American poet what
poetry really was and how it might be
made out of the actual facts of his own
life.
That book Of Burns poems had an
even stronger influence on Whittier than
the odd volume Of The Spectator which
fell into the hands of Franklin had on
the American author whose boyhood is
most like Whittier's. Franklin also was
born in humble and Woodworking fam
lily, doing early his share of the labor
and having but meager education, al
though always longing for learning. It
is true that Irving and Cooper and Bry-
ant did not graduate from college, but
they could have done so had they perse-
vered, and Emerson and Longfellow
and Hawthorne did get as much of the
higher education as was then possible
in America. But neither Franklin nor
Whittier ever had the chance; it was as
much as they could do to pick up the
merest elements Of an education. Pro-
fessor Brander Matthews in st. Nicho-
loo