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The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-09-21
A PLACE FOR FIFTY.
A Statesman Who Found Use For the
Earnings of His PEN.

A Statesman Who Found Use For the
Earnings of His PEN.
~ recall a pleasant incident in the
life of the late Representative Harter of
Ohio" said an Ohio man the other day.
II as at his apartments one evening
at the hotel where he lived during his
first term in congress and was in the re-
ception room with several friends while
he was working in his Office at the far
end Of the suit of rooms Presently he
came out among us laughing and hold
ing in his hand check.
'Oh, he said to us, i am literary,
as well as you are, and here's a check
for $50 / have just got from maya
zine for an article that I wasn't expect
ing to get anything for.
81 told him was not that literary,
for I couldn't sell one article for $50,
and we laughed and chatted awhile
about 1t, Mr.. Harter insisting that he
wasn't writer for money, but for the
sake Of presenting his views to the
world
i don't know what to do with the
check, he said and turned to his wife
Do you need it?' he asked her.
"She told him she did not, though
most women would have had use for it
quick enough, and he stood irresolute
for moment with the check in his
hand, then he smiled radiantly.
81 know somebody who does want
it, he said, nodding at his wife as if
she never would see it again. I received
a letter from the pastor of little Lu-
theran church-Mr H. was a jealous
Lutheran-away out in Missouri, who
is having very hard time to get along
and keep body and soul together, ask
ing me if couldn't do something. /
can send him this check And he danced
away with it as joyously as schoolboy
with plaything, and in a minute or
two the check, duly Endorsed and ac-
companied by letter, was waiting for
the postman to start it on it's mission of
charity, and l have often wondered
what the business manager of that mag
azine thought when he found that check
to the order of NJ D. Harter coming
back to New York from little country
bank in Missouri. ~ Washington Star
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A New Hampshire farmer who has
demonstrated to his own satisfaction
that shredded ensilage possesses marked
advantages over that prepared by cut
tiers writes to Country Gentleman that
he has found by actual weight that corn
fodder cut green, three-fourths inch in
length, required about 30 per cent more
room than when shredded. He says:
"After shredding our ensilage for sew
eral years. we filled the silo one year
with cut ensilage and found it necessary
at once to brace all sides to keep it from
bullying out-thus proving that ensilage
shredded exerts much less lateral pres
sure than that which is cut. This fea-
ture would probably not be considered
of so much Importance by those whose
silos are already constructed with refer
enoe to the use of cut ensilage, but in
case new silo is to be put up it can
undoubtedly be built for much less
money if it is to be filed with ensilage
prepared by the shredder Shredded en-
silage certainly packs snugger than cut,
and it is handled in the most convenient
manner with manure fork. After an
experience of ID years we are firmly per-
Buaded that economy and convenience
are both promoted by the use of the
shredder in the preparation of ensilage. !"
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HAD NO FAITH IN PHYslc.
Queen Elizabeth Might Have Lived Longer
Had She Taken Medicine


Had She Taken Medicine.
OF the efficacy of physic Queen Eliza
beth had always been skeptical Now,
10 or 12 physicians came to the palace,
each promising, with all manner of
asseveration, ''her perfect and easy
recovery" if she would follow a simple
course of treatment But they spoke in
vain. Nor could the protests of council
ors, diyines and waiting women induce
her to accept medical assistance. Her
melancholy was settled and irremov-
able" and she had no wish to prolong
it by lengthening out her life. She only
broke silence to murmur, II am not
sick, feel no pain and yet / pine
away She was asked whether she had
any secret cause of grief She replied
that she knew of nothing in the world
worthy Of troubling her. At length by
force cit is said) she was lifted from the
cushions and put to bed. Her condition
underwent no change. Gradually those
about her realized that ''she might live
if she would use MEANS" but that she
would not be persuaded, and princes, as
they tearfully acknowledged, cannot be
coerced. Nevertheless, until the third
week they looked forward to renewal
of her old vivacity and the dispersal of
her lethargy. But during the week it
was perceived that the ground she had
lost could only be recovered by miracle
On Wednesday, March 90, her coun-
cilors entered her bedchamber to receive
hoV. loo ,o%f ha hod fSR
give. The archbishop and bishops offered
up prayer at her bedside and she derived
some comfort from their ministrations.
In the evening she sank into quiet
sleep, such as she had sought without
avail for nearly a month. She never
woke again. "About O'Clock in the
morning of March "a she departed this
life, mildly like lamb, easily like a
ripe apple from the tree. " When she
was examined after death, her ply
sicians reported that she had body
of firm and perfect constitution, likely
to have lived many years. " Death was,
in fact, prepared to the last to bargain
with her for a few more years of life,
but his terms implied an enfee Element
of those faculties on whose unrestricted
exercise her queenly fame seemed to her
to depend. By refusing to be party to
the truce she invited her overthrow.
but she never acknowledged herself
vanquished. She made no will, she be-
slowed no gift on any of the faithful at
tendants who wept beside her deathbed,
and she declined to guide her council in
the choice of a successor. -Cornhill
Magazine.
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A well known professor is noted fol-
his observation-disclosures He and friend,
another old professor, used to take q
daily walk together and discuss matters
quite beyond the comprehension of ordi-
nary mortals.
One day when the walking was very
bad professor No. was on his way to
the corner at which he and his friend
always met when he encountered q
young student whose face he recognized
dimly, having seen it every day for
some weeks in his morning class He
accordingly hailed his pupil, who was
wading through the mud to get across
the street.
Have you seen my friend?" he asked.
eyes, sir, replied the student, paus-
iIG respectfully in the midst Of mud
puddle to remove his cap. He is at
the corner waiting for you. /"
Good, = replied the professor, looking
over his spectacles. Il thank you. You
may be seated. Strand Magazine.
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KNOW THEIR POWERS.


The Eternal Womanly In the Rough Girls
of New York.
In the girls of the rougher tenement
house districts the eternal womanly
wears such a disguise of the eternal
gamin that 1t cannot always be recog-
nized. Their pertness and sauciness are
only sharpened by their precocity and
their tomboy habits of street Arabia.
A reporter recently had occasion to visit
lower Washington street to ascertain
the facts regarding the murder of boy
down there. He was obtaining his in
formation from the boys of the neigh.
borhood, who might have been play
mates Of the dead youth. A circle Of
them, together with three or four girls
of 10 or 16 years, was gathered around
him.
A big, hulking youth about 30 years
old arrogated to himself the place of
spokesman. He was evidently the ty-
rant, the bully of the street, a young
"Bill the Brute" who had not yet ac-
quired a wife to beat and was conse-
quently an object of great interest to
these misses, whose skirts had not yet
grown down to their ankles. With his
big, harsh voice he silenced every inter-
ruption of his tale, saying:
"Shut up there I'm tellin this yarn I"
OF course this adjuration, which
forms part of the ordinary courtesy OF
the neighborhood, did not quiet the
girls. They chaffed him and the report
er and giggled until at last the speaker
said to the reporter:
Don't mied them. They're no
count. They're nothin but girls"
"Of course he'll mind us, smarty,i
instant ly retorted one of the girls.
yves the makin's of ladies'
1t was the eternal womanly of street
Arabia. New York Tribune.
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MOS" IN PAST CABINETS
Mckinley the First "Mc" In the Presiden-
tial Chair.

Mckinley the First INC" In the Presiden-
tial Chair.
Major Mckinley was the first INC" tc
be president, but Mos" in the cabinet
are no novelty. Washington had one in
his second cabinet, he being James Nc
Henry of Maryland, who was appointed
secretary Of war Jan. ~, 1895. McHenry
was also secretary of war under Presi-
dent John Adams.
The next Mo- to be chosen to cabi-
net position was John Mclean of Ohio,
who was appointed postmaster general
by President Monroe June 26, 1898.
President John Quincy Adams contin.
ued Mclean as postmaster general dur
ing his administration.
Andrew jackson, remembering his
ancestry, made Mo" secretary of the
treasury. This was Louis McLane Of
Delaware. His appointment was made
Aug. IS, 1881. Two years later MAY
80, 1881 jackson made McLane score
tary of state, he succeeding Edward
Livingston of Louisiana.
In 1841 President John TyleE<went &c
Ohio for mo for secretary of war,
choosing John Mclean, who had been
postmaster general in Monroe's cabinet.
President Willard Fillmore had a
INC" for secretary of the interior. This
was Robert McClelland of Michigan,
who was appointed March Z, 1853.
March 7, 1865, President Lincoln ap-
pointed Hugh McCulloch of Indiana sec
rotary of the treasury, which position
he filled while Andrew johnson was
president.
The secretary of war under President
Hayes was Nc This was George
W. McCrary of Iowa, who was appointed
March 10, 1877, and was succeeded by
Alexander Ramsey of Minnesota Dec.
10, 1879.
The next ''Mc" to sit in the cabinet
was Wayne MacVeagh of Pennsylvania,
who was attorney general under Presi-
dent Garfield.
There have been four secretaries OF
war whose names begin with Nc, =" two
secretaries of the treasury, two post
masters general, one secretary of the
interior and one attorney general
Of the letters following the "Mc''
three have been OPS (three distinct per-
sons, three different positions), two have
been HIS (the same person, same posi-
tion), four LIS 1.-TWO persons, five posi-
tions), one V.-Salt Lake Herald.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-09-21

A good story is told of Lord Hawke,
the cricketer. When playing at Sheffield
one day, he invited well known and
highly respected professional" to take
lunch with him in the gentlemen 81
pavilion. One of Lord Hawkes. col
leagues thought it necessary to object to
the presence of professional player at
the table. Then, sir" said his lord
ship, turning to his friend, "sinoe |
cannot entertain you here perhaps /
may have the pleasure of lunohing with
you. And with these words Lord
Hawke proceeded to the players meal
IN their pavilion. Pearson Weekly.
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The PURPOSE IN LIFE.

Do the tears that arise in the heat of the strife
Seem to hide from your vision the purpose of
life?
Do the myriad cares of laborious days
Leave the doubt in your heart whether living
them paysS
Danish doubt and plod on. Life was given to
As a part of creations mysterious plan.
Each must carry what burdens the years may
bestow
Until burdens and bearer alike are laid low.
And the end of the road is couch with pail,
And it may be the couch is the end of it all,
Or 1t may be the spirit, released from the clod,
Shares the freedom of time with the infinite
God.
IT'S but folly to dig into moss covered creeds.
Let your life be a record of generous deeds
Not the wisest may fathom futurity's plan,
But the weakest may live as becometh a man.
Chicago Tmes-Herald.
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An AnalYGia.

what did that young man call this
poem?' asked the editor.
ga satire. -
"And that implies that he is show
ing the uselessness and absurdity Of
something. !"
II believe so. .
well, there's only one guess that 1
can make concerning this, and that is
that it is satire ON poetry. Wash
ington Star.
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Sin Brooklyn the other day." said a
resident of Manhattan borough, II saw
In the window of furnishing goods
store this sign: Shirt Constructor.
There is furnishing goods store in
New York that displays, among other
signs, one marked 'Shirter. There used
to be another furnishing goods store in
this city with a sign reading, as I re-
member it, Shirt Builder, but Shirt
Constructor is new as far as know. -
New York Sun
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The most curious as we'll as one Of
the rarest books known to collectors IL
the edition of the Vulgate issued by
Pope Sixtus V, some time between
1885 and 1890. The book, as Disraeli
describes it, fairly swarmed with err
rata. So numerous were they that q
number of printed paper slips contain
ing the proper words were pasted over
the plumbers, and this device proving
Intellectual on account of the immense
number of mistakes. as many of the
copies as could be found were called in
and destroyed Only few remain, and
the book with its paper patches COM
mands an extremely high price
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1T must have cost You a great deal
to provide all these comforts for your
employees, said the friend who had
been looking through the reading rooms
and gymnasium attached to the factory.
1t does cost a little, I" admitted the
manager, ''but, you see, we pay 'em
such low wages that the factory is real
ly better place than home. That makes
'em contented to stay. Exchange.
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TWO Definitions of poatrr.

An Alabama editor, being asked to
give definition of poetry. +" replied:
Poetry is nothing more than words
thrown together with jingle at the
end of each line like the music of tin
can at the end of dogs tail. F"
Not to be outdone by the above, a
Georgia editor adds this opinion:
Poetry is the foolishest thing in the
world, but it has return stamps on one
end that help an editor to get his mail
off. Atlanta Constitution.
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Sometimes the most careful women are

Sometimes the most careful women are
the most careless. Many a woman bun
dies herself up, to keep out sickness
when she is neglecting the very worst
sickness that can come to woman. She
allows slight disorder to become worse,
to slowly sap her vitality. The little pain
and the other slight indications of trouble
seem to her unimportont. She goes on
with increasing suffering, until life itself
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spells, digestive disturbances, and fifty
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Du Maurier Heroines

When Mrs. Frances Hodgson Burnett
was first presented to Du Maurier, who
was, in point of fact, rather an under
sized man, she exclaimed:
"Oh, am so glad that you are not
six feet tallp'
But why?" asked Du Maurier.
Because for these many months, !"
replied Mrs. Burnett, who is consider
ably below medium height, ''you have
simply denied us the right to live. You
have made us feel that woman who is
not six feet tall has not the right to
exist.
"Oh, that is only trick of minep'
laughed Du Maurier II have started
again and again to make my heroine a
little woman, but before | know it she
has somehow grown way beyond my
own recognition. "-American Queen.
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DIVIDING INTO LONG Fields.

to six narrow and long fields with cart
path at the end from II to l. By refer
ring to Fig. it will readily be seen
what saving of time and trampling
would be made by blowing this tract in
long fields instead of the shorter ones.
Rotation often stands in the way Of
making radical changes in the form of
fields, but in most cases greater econ
omy of culture would soon make up for
any loss of this score.
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The shops of the decorators show a
decided return to gay effects in wall
papers and seem to indicate that the
reign of negative backgrounds for rooms
is seriously interfered with if not fin
ished. A yellow figured paper, that is
almost an orange tint. hangs next to one
of deep red. which, in its turn, gives
place to a rich and vivifying green.
These are, any of them, to be used fash
ionably with white woodwork.
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The grand specific tor the prevailing
malady of the age, Dyspepsia, Liver Com
plant, Rheumatism, Costiveness, General
Debility, etc., is Bacon's Celery King for
the Nerves. This great herbal tonic
stimulates the digestive organs, regulates
the Liver and restores the system to vigor-
GUS health and energies. Sample free.
Large packages SOC and 25c. Sold only by
Wells & Son, Columbus; E. D. Prickitt,
Mount Holly; w. G. Jones, New Egypt
Edw. w. Rossell, Pemberton, and Il. II.
Leeds, Rancocas.
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A Toad as a Talisman.

The Western Morning News reports a
remarkable case of superstition. A
young woman i'll Penzanoe had suffered
from fits, and she adopted remedy
which would be to most people almost
as repulsive as the disease itself. She
procured live toad, placed it in bag,
hung it around her neck and carried it
next her body The woman was cured
of her fits, but she was being medically
attended at the Pensance infrmary at
the same time. The woman believes,
however, that this was coincidence
and that her strange talisman was the
instrument of her cure.-South Wales
News
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A Delicate Compliment.

No more elegant compliment was
ever paid to a preacher than that Of
King Louis XIV of France to Jean Ba-
tiste Masillon, bishop of Clermont.
Said he: "I have heard many great
preachers, and the effect they produced
ON me was that felt thoroughly salts
fed with them. Every time | heard
you was dissatisfied with myself"
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Good Manners and Quick wit.

The little viscount is receiving few
friends in his bachelor quarters. Among
them is Boireau.
The latter, having allowed his cigar
to go out, throws it without ceremony
on the carpet. In order to give him a
lesson in good manners the little Wis
count stoops to pick it up, but Boireau,
feigning to misunderstood his intention,
interposes:
"Oh, leave the butt, my dear fellow.
Take fresh cigar. )"
And he hands him the box.-Paris
Figaro.
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Instant relief and permanent cure by
the great remedy Otto's Cure for Lun-
and Throat diseases. Why will you irri
tate your throat and lungs with that hack
ing cough when Wells & Son, Columbus
E. D. Prickitt, Mount Holly w. G. Jones
New Egypt, Edw. W. Rossell, Pemberton,
aud H. Fl. Leeds, Rancocas, sole agents
will furnish you free sample bottle of
this guaranteed remedy? Its success is
wonderful, as your druggist will tell you.
Sample free. Large bottles SOC and 25c.
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All chalk is composed of fossils. If
you take the tiniest bit and place it un-
der a powerful microscope, you will see
an infinite number of extremely dimin-
utive shells, and no spectacle on a large
scale is more beautiful than the varied
forms Of these tiny homes of animal
life, which are disclosed by powerful
glasses.
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Women have had municipal suffrage
in Kansas for the last ten years. Dur
ing that time, in the 1913 little "cities"
of Kansas, about 1900 men and only
10 women have served as mayors. This
does not look as if women were unduly
eager for Office. Christian Register.
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A fancy dress ball is given once a
year by the lady artists, sculptors, sing
ers and actresses of Berlin. No males
are permitted at this ball, and about
one-third of the attendants go in mascu-
line costume
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Was Soon Doing Good.

Il was in run down condition for
some time, and was troubled with dys.
pepsia. began taking Hoods Sarsapar-
lila and soon found that it was doing me
good. l continued its use until l had
taken number of bottles. gained in
strength and appetite" LYDIA A. FoGLE,
Woodsboro, Nd.