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The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-11-16

A characteristic story is told Of Herr
mann. The incident took place at a
we'll known London club, where ecarte
was one of the favorite games INDUCED
in for stakes by no means insignificant
1t was observed that on these occasions
q certain member almost invariably rose
a considerable winner. At length so
marked became the good fortune Of this
member that another determined to
probe the matter to the bottom. One
evening, accordingly, at his own rooms,
he introduced Hermann under false
name to select party of the members,
among whom figured the suspected one
At the close of the nights amusement,
when the guests had departed, the host
turned to the conjurer and demanded
his opinion. Not doubt of it, =" re-
piled Hermann, ''our friend cheats
but exactly how l can't say yet Give
me another chance" A second meeting
was subsequently arranged, and play
began. Suddenly Hermann, looking
straight at the supposed culprit, ex-
claimed, "Where did you get that
king?" "Wher 3?' replied the other
"Out of the pack, of course. "Impos-
sible, my dear sir, )" retorted Hermann,
"for happen to have all the four kings
here" and thereupon he calmly drew
them from his sleeve and laid them ON
the table.-St. James Gazette.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-11-16
A WOMAN'S WIT.

She Braved Her Husbands Anger and
Boosted Him to Success.
"Know him?'' asked one of the two
men talking at the corner as he nodded
toward a handsome old gentleman just
passing by. "No? Well, sir, that's DIR.
Blank, the noted surgeon. I've known
him ever since we used to frequent the
same swimming hole Just how long
that was before the war I'm not going
to say. He beat me in the race for the
girl that he married, and if he hadn t
the chances are that the doctor would
still be driving, night and day, over a
little back county, attending to prac-
tice that couldn't pay if it wanted to.
'When they were back there in the
woods and he was performing opera
tions that no other member of the pro-
fession had thought of undertaking, she
gathered from the talk of friendly doc
tors in the same section that he was
original, daring and successful She
begged him to advertise his abilities,
but he sternly rebuked her for asking
him to transgress the ethics of the pro-
| fession.
"But you know how it is when bright
woman sets her head The doctors Of
fee was shabby little den without
carpet, window shades, pictures or any
thing else but the p1ainest furniture.
He resisted all her efforts to change
this. One evening he came home from
SO hours stay with a patient to find
that Office SO transformed in velvet car
pet, tapestries and pictures that he fat
| ly declined to enter it. His wife was
away on visit. Men had been there,
done the work and disappeared. There
were no bills, the home merchants knew
nothing, and the doctor was SO mad that
he advertised everything for sale. The
thing was told in the local papers as a
huge joke, and incidentally there were
related some of the stories of how he
took people apart and put them togeth-
er again. City papers copied and city
doctors ridiculed. This riled Blank He
proved that he had worked greater won
ders than were credited to him, and he
was famous. The means and the end
were the work of the little woman who
had figured them out before giving Sc
cret commission to furnish that Office. u
Detroit Free Press.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-11-16
Uncle Mates Break.

One of our neighbors, Uncle Nate, as
we call him, was greatly bothered by a
whipporwill that came nearly every
night and sat ON rock in his back yard
and sang his love song, or whatever it
is, until Uncle Nate was nearly wild
One night he lay awake, and, as he
said, stood it just as long as he could,
when he got up, and, taking down the
old gun that was loaded with fox
charge, he went to the back door, and,
drawing a bead on the rock, which he
could dimly see in the faint starlight,
blazed away. Then, in the pleasing
consciousness of good deed well done,
he again sought his couch.
In the morning his first care was to
reload the old gun, as there was no tell
ing when it would be needed. After
this task was finished he started for the
back yard to gloat over the mangled re-
mains of his tormentor, but what were
his horror and disgust to find that in
stead of holding ON the rock he had
completely riddled his wife's best wash
tub, which was turned bottom up about
four feet from the rock.
The disappointment was bad enough,
but when Aunt Hannah came out and
saw the ruin, Uncle Nate afterward de-
clared, it was worse than the whippoor-
will, and he made break for the barn,
his usual haven of refuge in such cases.
Forest and Stream.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-11-16
IN THE LONG AGO.
When the st. Louis Spaniards Marched
Against the Michigan English.

When the st. Louis Spaniards Marched
Against the Michigan English.
A Spanish army came to Chicago in
the long ago. The minor details of it
and the finer statecraft reasons of it are
hidden in the catacombs of the Escu-
rial along with tons of other docu-
ments that will never see the light
again. But we know that those men of
war marched over the Illinois prairies,
and that they were sent to increase the
dominions of their sovereigns
By the treaty Of Paris, signed in 1868,
France ceded to Spain all of that vast
territory known as Louisiana, which
stretched from the mouth of the Missis-
sippi to the Canadian line. In 1881
Great Britain was at war with the
United States, Spain, Holland and
France. ST. Louis was Spanish town,
and English officers attacked it at the
head Of 1900 Indians. They were de-
feated with little trouble and retreated
In revenge the Spanish commander
at st. Louis, which his people called
''San Luis de Illinois," planned raid
against the British post Of st. Joseph.
It was fort or outpost, located at a
point two miles from the present city of
Benton Harbor, Mich, and so miles
northwest of Chicago, across the lake
The force began it's long, difficult and
dangerous journey on Jan. Q, 1881
They estimated the distance at 800
leagues or $50 miles, and subsequent
surveys have proved that they were re-
markably good guessers. 1t was officer
ed by Captain Eugenio Pure, command
ing, and Lieutenant Carlos Tayon. The
interpreter was Luis Chevalier. Chiefs
Electurno and Nequigen led the go In
dams of the Fox and Pottawatomie
tribes There were 65 Spanish volun-
teers, in all 1870 men, selected with
special reference to their ability to with
stand the arduous journey.
They marched up the Mississippi riv-
or to the mouth of the Illinois and
thence along the track of the French
explorers and voyagers. The route took
them up the Illinois river past Fort
Creve Cmur (Peoria) to old Fort ST.
Louis (Starved Rock. Here they plant
ed the blood stained banner of Aragon
and CASTLE. A century before from that
rocky eminence La Sale had unfurled
the heur-de-lis of France. Subsequently
the British flag had waved over it.
Now Old Glory waves there in peace
and beauty.
Purre's force toiled in snow and ice
to the junction of the Kankakee and
Desplaines rivers. They followed the
Desplaines to a point west of what is
now South Chicago and came to the
lake at it's southern edge. They found
it desolate region of swamps and sand
dunes Thence they marched to their
destination.
The small garrison of St. Joseph fed
to Detroit at the news of their approach,
and all of the stores fell into the hands
of the invaders. They proclaimed the
sovereignty Of Spain over this section
and divided the stores. After resting
some days they began their return march
over the former route. They reached st.
Louis in safety after a midwinter march |
of nearly !, 400 miles through hostile
country. They had few casualties and
gathered much plumber. = Chicago
Chronicle,
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-11-16

Professor Crookes, in his recent re-
markable lecture on diamonds, men
toned some interesting facts concerning
that always popular subject. When in
examining diamonds under polarized
light the black cross of the polarizer re-
wolves around particular spot in the in
side of the crystal and the point is exam
ined with high power, slight flaw and
more rarely minute cavity are some
times seen. This cavity is filed with gas
at an enormous pressure, and the strain
which is set up in the stone by the eff
fort of the gas to escape is not infre-
quently removed only by the explosion
Of the gem. 1t is not at all uncommon
for diamond to explode soon after it
reaches the surface, and some have been
known to burst in the pockets of the
miners or when held in the warm hand
Large crystals are more liable to burst
than smaller pieces. Valuable stones
have been destroyed in this way, and it
is whispered that cunning dealers have
often done handsome stroke of bust
ness by allowing responsible clients to
AeAANAO "a O0A1J IL uAC44 WaIAn pOCh6bo
large crystals fresh from the mine. By
way of safeguard against explosion some
dealers embed large diamonds in raw
potatoes to insure safe transit on the
ocean voyage.
Professor Crookes showed that dia-
mond could actually be too hard. From
a rich yield of beautifully white dia-
monds i'll New South Wales great things
were expected. When parcel of many
hundred carats came to England, it was
found they were SO hard as to be prac-
tically unavoidable as gems, and they
were ultimately sold for rock boring
purposes. The intense hardness of the
diamond was illustrated by an expert
ment. The diamond was placed ON the
fiattened apex of a conical block of steel,
and on it was brought down a second
cone of steel. AS these cones were forced
together by hydraulic power the image
of the diamond and the steel faces of
the cones were projected on the screen
with an electric lantern The stone was
seen to be squeezed right into the steel
blocks without being injured in the
slightest degree.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-11-16
The Decline of Man.

There seems to be some uncertainty as
to the size of our great mother. The
French orientalist, Henrion, member Of
the academy, however, fixed it with a
precision satisfactory at least to him.
self He gives the following table Of
the relative heights of several eminent
historical personages:
Adam was precisely 1913 feet 0 inches
high.
Eve was precisely 11s feet 9. 70 inches
high.
Noah was precisely 10S feet high.
Abraham was precisely 81 feet high
Moses was precisely ID feet high.
Hercules was precisely 6 feet high.
Alexander was precisely 6 feet high.
Julius Caesar was precisely feet
high.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-11-16
is OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES?
Observations on the Decline of Street Car
Manners In the South.

Observations on the Decline of Street Car
Manners In the South.
1t cannot be concealed that there is a
growing tendency, even in the south,
where masculine gallantry has held out
longest, on the part of men to let wom-
en- in the street cars shift for themselves
It has not come to that point yet, but
the movement is growing in that direc-
ton
1t is fact that men are rapidly fail
ing in the courtesy which was once uni
formly shown to women, and the rea-
son, to a large extent, is that men are
meeting women as competitors in all
fields of labor, and this fact vastly
changes the social relations between the
sexes Women are claiming all sorts of
equality with men, moral, political
and physical, and are declaring more
and more their independence The effect
on the next generation will be very
marked and peculiar The men and wo-
men of the present are affected to an
overpowering extent by the influence Of
old ideas and training, and that is the
reason they talk about street car man.
ners and social ethics in their relations
to the sexes, but in the year 1880, or
the period of one generation from the
present time, people will no longer con-
Germ themselves about such matters
The greater the number of women at
work in proportion to the men the more
stringent the competition, and it can
easily be seen that, according to the fig
ures shown, the day might come when
there would be no street car manners
but every individual would look out
for himself or herself, as the case may
be. But even should chivalry he extin-
guished from human manners there
will always remain the Christian grace
of charity, so in the time to come able
bodied young men and women who
have seats in the cars will rise to give
their places to old men and women and
to others who may be sick or disabled.
New Orleans Picayune
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-11-16

The name of Eureka gas is given to a
new illuminant expected to rival aoety-
lene. This gas, as described in Inven-
ton and originated by NJ Hector de
Favi of Montefascone, Italy, is obtained
as follows: Lime as pure as possible is
employed as base, colophony and cal
cium carbide being added, 900 parts
of the mixture ready for use consisting
of 900 of quicklime, 80 of colophony
and so of calcium carbide-and there is
said to be no liability Of explosion by
mixing with air. No heating of water
and no special burner is needed One
thousand parts of the mixture give go
iters Of gas at a pressure of 80 MILL
meters of water, and the photometric
intensity of the fame is stated to be
GA candle hours. while the same
amount of calcium carbide employed
singly would give only Is candle hours.
Thus, it is asserted, the new gas is 80
per cent cheaper than acetylene, or that
at equal cost it will give half as much
more light.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-11-16
DOES SHE LOVE Me-

Does she love me? That is Creek
Far too deep for me to know.
Do the sweet lips always speak
From the hearts deep overfowf
Can tell each gentle sigh
Is the breath of answering lover
Are the glances of her eye
Forged by Cupid or by Jovep
Only this to me is known
That love her, her alone.
Only this l clearly see
She is more than earth can be
And full half of heaven to me.
Does she love met Do know
Christ has risen from the tombf
Or where roses, when they blow,
Get their color and perfumeS
Faith would have no mission here.
Hope would still in heaven be,
If l did not trust the dear
Pledges of her love for me.
Though cannot prove it mine
By an algebraic sign,
Yet, as love divinely grows,
1t believes and feels and knows.
Thus through soul and every sense
Her true love gives evidence,
And clear and clearer see
She is more than earth can be
And full half of heaven to me.
Charles M. Dickinson,
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-11-16
Bicycles are being pawned.

A mans health is the rope by which he
climbs TO success. If he can keep his
health, he will go on to success. Yet his
health is the very thing be neglects more
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Send 81 one-cent stamps to cover cost of
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The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-11-16

The latest invention in the dress re-
form for babies, which is rapidly be-
coming more popular, is that all the
garments can be put on at once The
first garment is princess slip of fine
flannel or crepeline, made with high
neck and long sleeves. The next is a
sleeveless garment of nearly the same
shape and material, and last comes the
nainsook dress. All three fasten to-
gether at the back with three buttons.
The abdominal band is sheer and not
tight, and the feet are left bare.
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is the simplest thing in the world to gain
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The great majority of diseases have theii
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The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-11-16
Tine 'BIsnop's Dlscomntur.

There is an anecdote of a London
bishop who, having read that story OF
John Wesley cutting out every word OF
his discourse that his servantmaid did
not understand, determined to preach
to a country congregation the simplest
sermon he could write He chose an
elementary subject and took as his text,
The fool hath said in his heart there
Is no God. +" On leaving the church he
asked the parish clerk what he thought
OF the sermon. "Oh my lord, said he,
1t was very fine-very fine and grand.
I've been talking it over with Mr..
Beard, and we said how fine it was
But, after all, we can't help thinking
that there is God "-Chambers' Jour-
nal
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-11-16
THE CARIBBEAN.

Captain Mahan on the Strategic Impor-
tance of the Land Grit Sea.
Causes specifically very diverse, but
essentially the same in that they arose
from and still depend upon lack of 10
cal political capacity, have brought the
Mediterranean and the Caribbean, in
our own time, to similar conditions, re-
garded as quantities of interest in the
sphere of international relations. What
ever the intrinsic value of the two bod
les of water, in themselves or in their
surroundings, whatever their present
contributions to the prosperity or to the
culture of mankind, their conspicuous
characteristics now are their political
and military Importance, in the broad
est sense, as concerning not only the
countries that border them, but the
world at large. Both are land grit seas;
both are links in chain of communica-
ton between an east and west. In
both the chain is broken by an isthmus
Both are of contracted extent when
compared with great oceans, and in
consequence of these common features
both present in an intensified form the
advantages and the limitations, politi-
cal and military, which condition the
influence of sea power.
This conclusion is notably true of the
Mediterranean, as is shown by it's his
tory It is even more forcibly true of
the Caribbean, partly because the con-
tour of its shores does not, as in the
Mediterranean peninsulas, thrust the
power of the land SO far and SO sustain
eddy into the sea- partly because, from
historical antecedents already alluded
to, in the character of the first colo
nists and from the shortness of the
time the ground has been in civilized
occupation, there does not exist in the
Caribbean or in the gulf of Mexico
apart from the United States-any land
power at all comparable to those great
continental states of Europe whose
strength lies in their armies far more
than in their navies.
So far as national inclinations, as dis
tinct from the cautious actions of states
man, can be discerned, in the Mediter-
ranean at present the sea powers, Great
Britain, France and Italy, are opposed
to the land powers Germany, Austria
and Russia, and the latter dominate ac-
ton. 1t cannot be SO in any near future
in the Caribbean. The Caribbean is pre-
eminently the domain of sea power.
Captain A. T. Mahan, U. S. N, in
Harper's Magazine.
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HE DID.

~ ll caddy for you, said Jack at the start
As he stole shy glance at the maid Of his
heart.
He picked up the niblick, the brassy and cleek,
She grasped her pet driver, too busy to speak.
Her club, soon she soled it, a hazard within,
And sat on bunker o'ercome with chagrin.
"How are your" cried Muggins. "Four down, "
she replied.
"Never mind, said whisper. "Will you be
my bride?''
Twas Jack who had spoken ''why, yesi" an
swered she.
"Tn marry you, Jack, If you'll caddy for me. I"
Harvey Wickham In New York Sun.
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Directory TOO Common"

mo, we don't permit our names to
go in the directory, don't you know"
And why not?''
so deuced common, don t you know
Why, last yeah my name was sand
WICKED in between a garbage collectah
and an alderman It's fact. pom hon.
all '-Cleyeland Plain Dealer.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-11-16
Limbless Cotton,

An interesting sight at Opelika, Ala,
is patch of "limbless" cotton The
plants are from five to seven feet high
and have no limbs or branches at all.
The hollis form on little twigs two and
three inches long, and when in bloom
the stalk presents the appearance of a
white column. A crop of about four
bales to the acre is what is expected un-
der fair conditions. This Alabama patch
is the property of the Rev. l. N. Fitz.
patrick, presiding elder of the negro
Methodist church, and such is his care
of his unique crop and his confidence in
his neighbors that he watches it at night
with a dog and gun.-Exchange.