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The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-12-07
LIGHTNING BUGS.
Taken For the Enemy's Fire, They Led to
a Pitched Battle.

Taken For the Enemy's Fire, They Led to
a Pitched Battle.
G.. H. Bell. prominent merchant of
Liberty, Neb., told an interesting story
of how swarm of lightning bugs caus-
ed shot and shell engagement between
two armies during the late war.
II was a member of the Twenty fifth
Ohio regiment, said Mr. Bell, "and
Mr.. G. w. Harris, whom / met on my
visit here, was with the Fifty fifth Ten
nessee. / just discovered that we fought
each other one night in May, 1864, at
New Hope Church, Ga. Lightning bugs
in Georgia are more plentiful than wa
termelons in August by several millions
to the square mile, and on more than
one occasion they gave us trouble.
about O'Clock in the morning as
the two armies lay in their respective
works, 400 yards apart, nest of bugs
hove in sight, as we afterward learned.
The armies were too close for pickets.
Suddenly there was flash of light.
Each side thought the other had opened
fire in some mysterious way, and we be-
gan to shoot. We blazed away at one
another for an hour or more and Bed
lam reigned with shot and shell. The
timber between the lines was all killed
as if belted with an ak. Fortunately no
lives were lost.
"It was only the other day that l
learned the extent of the damage caused
by that swarm of lightning bugs. I
asked Harris how long his side was fir
ing. and he said until their ammunition
gave out. We were in the same fix, and
if it hadn't been for our poverty in this
respect that engagement would have
been terribly fatal. st Louis Repub-
liz
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Only lately have Philadelphians be-
gun to realize and reflect upon the dis
appearance Of the Qualxers as we knew
them; only lately has it been brought
home to us that a gradual obliteration
Of the old unoompromising orthodoxy
has set In which means the ultimate
absorption Of the sect. Even now, rare
as is the old garb on the streets where
it was such a common sight not so
many years ago, the assertion that the
society is diminishing would meet with
doubt and hesitation. We are so falnil-
lar with the Quaker, he is 80 necessary
and potent type in Philadelphia, that
we would not accept the warrant even
Of statistics, yet, now that the visible
limit has been reached, what can we do
but awake to the changer We see few
broad brimmed hats and drab bonnets
where we once saw many. OF those
who wear them, the most are old and
trembling.
If there are young Quakers, how are
we to recognize them9 Not by their
dress, at any rate, except in SO far as
plainness Of cut and sobriety of color
still rule the taste of Friends, whether
wealthy or in moderate circumstances.
The distinctive costume is being laid
aside, with many Of the distinctive Gus
toms. And why? Because the society is
losing its control over its younger men,
bers? Because its rigid rules no longer
suffice to hold in check the human spir-
it, with its unconquerable love of free
dom? This is the common explanation,
and the one desired by those who love
romance. Thomas Wharton In Lippin-
colts
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-12-07

A Roman deacon was sent for to bap-
tie baby. In the cabin he could find
no water, but there was a pot of tea.
"Tea," he reasoned, contains water,
the rest is but accident, " and proceeded
to pour out a cup But it was strong,
even to blackness, so he went in search
of water, and, having found some, wa
tered the tea down to more reasonable
color, christened the baby with it, and
reported the circumstance, as case of
conscience, to his superior 1t had not
occurred to him, having found the wa
ter, to use it by itself.
Here is a tutor letter of coincidence to
bereaved parent. This was unkindly
attributed to Oxford. The tutor wrote,
81 am sincerely grieved to hear the sad
news Of your sons death, but | must
inform you he would have had to go
down in any case, as he had failed to
satisfy the examiners in classical mod
erations.
One other story, may add here, as
it serves to illustrate a certain disparity
often noticeable between Saxon and
Celtic word values, and also the way in
which Irish orators discount their own
rhetoric. A home ruler was haranguing
on English terrorism, and after draw
ing a horrid picture of babies speared
ON the points of bayonets, ETC., he con-
cluded: IF that's your civilization,
you may keep it. call it most improp-
er. "-Cornhill Magazine.
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The man was a wealthy and still
young northern squire, selfish and self
indulgent, childless, which was fortu-
nate, for he was unfit to play a father s
part, and suddenly widowed. It was to
the funeral of the wife that my friend
was professionally invited. 1t had not
been happy marriage. The man was
gloomy, not because of the bereavement,
but because of the solemnity and seri-
BUSINESS it entailed
He would have gone away if he had
dared and left her relatives to bury her.
He did not like them and swore he
would not be shut up in carriage with
any one of them-he would ride alone.
"No," said my friend, who had great
influence over him Gas indeed he had
over most people with whom he was
brought into contact). "You must not
do that. There were good reasons why
he should not have gone alone. If you
will not 60 with your relatives, you
must go with the clergyman. 1.-THE
clergyman Well, if 1 must, l must,
but it will quite spoil my day. james
Payn in Nineteenth Century.
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Reward of Literature.

Among the women writers of the cap
ital there is one young matron whose
name isvery we'll known. A few months
ago she sent short story to a magazine
which presented itself as an untried field.
By and by she received notification that
the story had been accepted and that in
payment thereof her name had been put
on the subscription list for one year.
The author Immediately returned an
swer that the compensation was not ad-
equate.
Dear madam" the editor wrote
back, yours of such a date received.
We have put your name on the subscrip-
ton list for two copies each month. "
And for fear that further correspond
ence would burden her with three cop
les of the magazine she was forced to be
content with that. Washington Post
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rapping with MS cane, ana perhaps ten
minutes had passed when we heard q
noise as of slippered feet crossing the
floor, followed by gurgling and sobbing.
The sounds were so real and at the same
time SO uncanny that the four of us
made for the stairs at once. When we
had got safely down, Cummings said
the noises had been produced by the
wind and wanted to go back, but no
one would go with him. 1t was agreed
to keep the affair secret and inspect
the house next morning, and after break
fast our number was increased to six.
The two others were merchants of the
town, and they had hearty laugh at
the way we had been driven out.
At half past o'clock in the morning
we gathered in that room. Most Of the
plaster was off, the floor was sinking
and cobwebs hung from the corners.
Queerly enough, access was had to the
garnet above through this, the best room
in the house. There was the seuttle in
the ceiling, with the trapdoor shut
down, and wondered that had never
taken notice of 1t before. Cummings
had just remarked that he would like to
take look up there in the garrett when
there came wailing, gurgling, sobbing
sound which lasted for at least Is sec
onds. Every one of us had the same idea
about it. It sounded as if hand had
clutched woman's throat and choked
the life out of her.
There was move for the stairs, and
every ones face was as pale as death,
but Cummings made a gesture which
checked the retreat, and there was o
long minute of silence Then there was
heard what might have been called a
death rattle-a queer sound to make the
flesh creep After it had died away
Cummings said:
Gentlemen, murder has been done
in this house. Let no one go away. We
will get ladder and take look into
the garrett.
The constable fetched ladder, and
Cummings was first through the scuttle.
The garnet was 40 feet long by 30 wide,
with the end windows broken out and
daylight and sunshine streaming in.
There were loose boards over the joists,
and the garnet was the roosting place of
scores of pigeons For two or three
minutes nothing was to be seen. Then
Cummings, who had made his way to
the west end Of the garrett, beckoned to
us and pointed to an object lying on the
laths between the two end joists. It
was bundle Of black mold and bones
the skeleton Of the missing woman.
She had been murdered in the room be-
low and carried up there, and one
might have looked into the garnet a
hundred times without discovering the
body. 1t had been there SO long that
there was only dust and bones to be
gathered up and taken down for identi-
fication and burial The murderer had
stripped the body of all clothing, but
ON one finger had been left ring, which
the brother had given her as bridal
present. There was not the shadow of q
doubt as to who the victim was, and so
great was the popular excitement over
the CHASTITY noises and the dreadful find
that 100 men turned to and pulled the
ruins apart and made a big bonfire of
the last board. Steps were at once taken
to apprehend the murderer, and his
trail was followed for many months,
but to this day his crime is unpublished.
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had befaIlen her. Her once beautiful
features were so cut and SCARED that
after one Mortified look into hand mir
ror the poor girl turned away, sent for
her father and announced her intention
of entering a convent as soon as she was
we'll enough to do so.
The almost distracted lover had rid
den over from his mountain home day
after day to inquire after her condition.
His parents had made repeated calls,
and kind hearted strangers hitherto ex-
cluded from the counts domain by the
cold, exclusive disposition of its owner
now came and offered sympathy and as
sistance daily. AS soon as the attending
physician decided that Ninette had
sufficiently recovered to be alberto bear
an interview with her lover without Sc
rious results the almost frantic young
man presented himself, only to be tear
fully informed by the old count that his
daughter desired him to convey her I'M
dying love with every assurance that it
would remain unchanged until death,
but that as the fearful accident that she
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she was confident she could not survive
Henri's expression of horror when he
looked upon her poor mutilated features
she would beg him to remember her as
he saw her last, and that she would ever
cherish his memory in the convent re-
treat that she desired to be conveyed to
as soon as her health would permit.
Sadly and silently the young man
took his departure, to return two days
later, when he came instead of on horse
back, as was his wont, in the clumsy
old family carriage, from which he was
assisted to alight by favorite servant,
when he said to the astonished count:
Take me to your daughter. Tell her
that the changes in her features can
never know. She will always be as
sweet and beautiful to me as when |
saw her last l shall never see her
again, but cannot live without her So
ciety. Take me to her. She will see no
looks of horror, for am blind. +"
Henri, after leaving the counts door,
had ridden to his own home, taken a
last look at the scene that he had loved
SAASO pOJAOOdS duU bucn buIlIuOuoO
Hindoo fakir, and after long oonsulta-
tion submitted to a painful operation
that deprived him of his sight forever
The devotion that could not exist out
side the atmosphere of mystery and su-
perstition that hangs heavily over the
little island was rewarded, and the de-
scendants of Henri and Ninette now
live in the beautiful little valley back
of the capital and tell of the yelled wo-
man who conducted the blind planter
over his estate, and who was his guide
and companion until both were laid to
rest near the scene of their first meet
ing, where marble tablet set in the
side of the cliff marks the spot and
makes it almost sacred to the residents
of the island.
l returned to the city, and it was sew
eral days before was able to complete
ly shake off the understandable impress
sion caused by what the old innkeeper
stoutly asserted was true story of the
love of Henri and Ninette. Fran
cisco Chronicle.
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ESTABLISHED 1879.

moeed nee and my grave is over there,
but not fiat under the myrtle. Don't you
remember 1 asked you not to pat it
down? And it has never fallen. Lift the
myrtle and you will see. l go to my
grave. The earth is calm and soft and
kindly. Nature has made it so. Tell my
daughter that went to my grave :"
In the gray Of morning Babe came TO
herself in the old porch. She looked for
her father. He was not there, neither
was the wide rocker. Had they really
been there? Babe lay and thought.
When she got up, she was a changed
woman.
She bathed Vico's face and hands.
He could not rise. She brought break
fast for him and served it with the only
pure womanly tenderness that had ever
been spontaneous with her. Vico ate
and afterward slept. She mothered him
all day. He did not understand Babes
new within. Late in the afternoon he
rose and dressed, wondering what her
evening mood would be-
She would not let him go till he had
eaten food brought with her new grace.
They ate together, and when he felt
new again and wholly we'll fed and
comfortable he put his arms around
Babe and kissed her. She put her arms
around him and kissed him, too as a
good woman might have doue
II am going to be good, Vico," she
said. Vico had felt her strength when
she was bad to him, and he was not i'll
pleased. Lets both be good, Vico,"
she went on Lets go to the priest
and be married.
Vico was so much astounded that he
took her arms from around him. He
looked at her. Yes, she meant it. Vico
was as much an inheritance as any one
of his traits. He was the product of an
ancestry of inconstant men.
Woo laughed.
That the accustomed anger did not
blaze from her eyes made him laugh
consumedly, and when a tear stole
down her cheek the situation became
amusing beyond all things.
Vico laughed.
The echoes of his evil mirth came
back to the grieving woman as he went
down the street to tell his boon compan-
ions Of Babes latest madness.
How Vico laughedl-A. KAlfus Spe-
70 In Argonaut.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-12-07
A BACHELORS QUARTERS.
Nothing HOmelike About Them, Accord
ing to the Married Mans Story.

Nothing HOmelike About Them, Accord
ing to the Married Mans Story.
They hadn't met since the old college
days, ten years before, and of course the
benedict insisted that the bachelor
should come home to dinner with him.
Married the year after l left col
lege," he said, land have the incest
little home and the finest lot of young
sters that you ever saw. want you to
come out and see how nicely I'm fixed.
l tell you man doesn't know what
life is until he's married. +"
"No?''
''Well, 1 should say not"
And SO it happened that the bachelor
went with the benedict and met the
latter's wife and played with his chill
dren and made himself generally useful
and popular until they were all seated
at the dinner table.
Il was over the coffee and cigars, aft
er the benedict's wife had left the table,
that the benedict finally suggested:
Pretty comfortably fixed, ain't I, old
man3 Children, why don't you go into
the other room?'
Every nicely, indeed, . answered the
bachelor, replying to the first question
and ignoring the second
"Oh, there's nothing like home life, :"
went on the benedict. Willie, stop
trying to climb ON Mr.. Brown knee.
He wants to smoke Do you know, old
man, laugh when think of my fool
ish idea that I knew in those old days
what happiness was. Why, a man
doesn't begin to live until Maggie,
put that nutpick back on the table.
You'll jab it in your eye the first thing
you know. Yes, sir l actually have
to laugh when think of it. Our idea Of
contentment in those days was 10 get a
pipe and book and bottle Of Scotch
and lock the door and lie down and
Would you mind moving your coffee
cup a little farther back on the table,
old man? Tommie's trying to reach it,
and my wife would raise my scalp if l
should let him break one Of her very
best cups. That's it. Thank you. As /
was saying, we didn't know what ease
ehA0 OOAoO0 w 40 III O1OoO 0oJ D. ANO
single man does. A man has to have a
big armchair and his slippers all ready
for him and everything sort Of restful
and quiet before Now, don't cry, Ma
bel. If you didn't want to get hurt,
why did you grab the end of my cigar?
Tommie, take her in to her mother.
There, Willie told you you'd stick
that nutpick into your hand if you
didn't look out. Run into the other
room and ask your mother to put a
bandage on it. Let's see, where was /,
old man? Oh, yes, remember now. 1
was about to say that there's nothing
homelike about bachelors quarters -
'No, interrupted the bachelor, with
considerable emphasis, there ism t."
The benedict couldn't quite see the
reason for such an emphatic assertion,
but he wisely changed the subject, just
the same Chicago Post.
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Cement pipes are made cheaply by
an ingenious process devised by French
inventor. A trench is dug and the bot
tom filled with cement mortar. On this
is placed a rubber tube covered with
canvas and inflated. The trench is then
filled up with cement. AS soon as this
is set the air is let out of the rubber
tube, which is then removed and used
again in another section. By this method
q inch pipes have been made at a cost of
90 cents a yard.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-12-07

When the Prince and Princess Of
Wales were visiting an exhibition in
London recently, ON reaching the dairy
department. the princess remarked to
the manager: 81 have always heard
that the best butter in England comes
from Denmark Is it true?' The man
ager hesitated moment and then said,
No, your highness; Denmark sends us
the best princesses, but Devonshire the
best butter. y
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-12-07
A FAvoRITE POEM.


wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high DER wales and hills,
When all at once l saw a crowd,
host of golden daffodils,
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.
Continuous as the stars that shine
And twinkle on the milky way
They stretched in never ending line
Along the margin of bay.
Ten thousand saw at a glance,
Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.
The waves beside them danced, but they
Outdid the sparkling waves in glee.
A poet could not but be gay
In such iocund company.
l gazed and gazed, but little thought
What wealth that show to me had brought.
For often when on my couch lie
In vacant or in pensive mood
They fash upon that inward eye
Which is the bliss of solitude,
And then my heart with pleasure fills
And dances with the daffodils.
Wordsworth.
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The Sudan expedition. while engaged
in laying the new Nile railway, saw
some remarkable mirages From dis
lance the men appeared to be working
III a beautiful lake, and ON all sides
were to be seen lakes, beautifully wood
ed hills. ships and cascades. When
looked az through fieldglasses the illu-
sion was heightened rather than dinin-
ished.
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MARY AND JEAN.

How oft at dusk did Burns along
The banks of Ayr appear,
A melancholy child Of song,
Musing amid a mournful throng
OF recollections dearS
The kindly after years had healed
The wound within his breast.
Fair Jeans devoted love revealed
That happiness which death concealed
When Mary went to rest.
he fondly scanned his BARNS at play
About the cottage door,
Toiled stoutly onward day by day,
Obedient to honor's sway,
Which bound him evermore.
And yet mayhap in some lone place
Where Ayr's clear waters roll
His dreams at eve recalled the grace
OF sainted Highland Mary's face
The mistress of his soul.
He loved, and who that loves today
Shall grudge the pensive hour
When, clad in sorrows mantle gray,
He paused beside Ayr's quiet way
To woo oblivion's powerf
What dreams were his Of pleasures deep
That he might never knowi
Perhaps, though years his secret keep,
Thinking of her who fell asleep,
He deemed twas better so.
Frank Putnam in Chicago Times Herald.
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SAINTS.

o saints, dear saints, so present, yet so far,
l cannot touch you with my hand or trace
grace!
Between US lie the years, the gulf, the bar;
But as one tracks the starlight to the star
And finds no dark nor flame forsaken space
To fret the beauty of its burning face
Because the splendor swallows blot and scar,
So time has framed you with an aureole
More circle rounded than your age foreknew.
No frailty now quench that fire of souli
The things ye willed and did not, those ye
do;
The gifts he strove for, in my sight are true
Your perfect parts have made perfection
whole.
Edward Cancroft LEROY, From His Life and
P0arna
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An English writer asserts that there
never was any Grub street in London,
the name having been invented by
Pope. Hungry authors became identi-
fed with that street because they were
always trying to find it.
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PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD.
THE STANDARD RAILROAD OF AMERICA.
PROTECTED THROUGHOUT BY
Block Signals and IntGrl0Cking Switches


Trains leave Mount Holly as Jollos0s.
For Philadelphia, $50, 800, $50, ITO, 749 s.57,
9.l5. ll.2O A. M, 1884 $50, (s5O Saturdays
oonly y,,n as, Sea 81 Sle s2o do 10
FOR Pemberton, 7So, 9.26 A. NJ, LAG. 1892. 4.47,
sos 7.3l, P. NJ.
For Bordensow nj Trenton m any and New York
74s sls, l.o5. A. NJ, 1880. 400. 40. AT, 6.5s,
On Sundays, 1000 A. ~ EOS, s.osP.m.
For East burlington, $50, 7.25, 7.49. s22. $50.
SIS 1918, l1.o5 A. NJ, 1890, $780, 40, 4.47, 5.l5,
On SUNDAYS ana ~ rs ST. ssd lo 1905
S,l5. 81, 4.lo. 500 5.S5, sos. 6.45. 7l5, SIS
For Lewistown, Columbus, Kipkora. etc.
49, NJ, Lac, 4;47P.M
On Sundays, 800 P. NJ.
For Lumperton, Medford, Marion and Had
For vincentown, 1885, sos PM
F Fo, Toms ION River. g2SA M Al. Pm
City, 9.15 A. NJ, AT p. M.
For Asbury Park and Long Branch. 9. 26 A. N.
zratns seaveJor Mount Holly as Jossosos:
From PHILADELPHIA. $50, 7.5O, $50, 1000. l1.2O.
40, 6.l0, $40, $50. 500, 1890 1I.45P. M.
ON sundays, 9l5 A. M, LOO 500, l03OP.M.
From New York. via Trenton and Burlington,
500, $50, ll0O A. M, LOO 2.10. AGO. 500. 500.
On Sundays. 1000 AM, 7O0PM.
From Trenton, e:45, 7.4O. s.25. I'LL A. M. asa.
On Sun days. $40. 1l.5O, A. NJ. 405, sOs, Pm.
From East Burlington, 100, 1853. s26, s-4S, s.42.
1905, l046. la M, lO5 $3.50, 4.52, $40. 5.5s.
$50. 100. $780, $50, 1870 p. NJ.
on Sundays. 500, 800, 1890. M. 1880. 2.a5.
305. 3.45, 430 455 $50. 500, $780, TO- 745, s4o.
1000 p. N.
From Toms River, 7.4s A. M, 4O2PM
From AsDury Park, Els P. M.
From Medford l.65 A. M.
From Long Branch, LOO, P. M.
From temberton. (north) 6.S5. 7.2s s.SS A. NJ,
1887, 407, $40 P. M.
On Sundays, 500 A. NJ, 500 p. N.
From Pemberton (south), S36 A. NJ, 4.A P. NJ.
From Vincentown, $50 A. NJ, LAP p. M.