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The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-11-23
ALMOST SECOND NATURE.
Cyclists Internationally Follow the Rules OF
the Road When Walking.

Cyclists UncOnsciOusIy Follow the Rules OF
the Road When Walking.
You can tell bicycle rider by his
walk. Not because Of a popularity of
gait, but for the reason that he uncon-
sciously follows the rules of the road
that he has learned while riding a BIZ
cycle.
On the sidewalks of the crowded
streets of New York and Brooklyn
gentleman whose acquaintance among
bicycle riders is quite extensive has, as
a matter of curiosity, watched his cy-
cling friends walking to and from bust
ness. Almost without exception they
pass to the right when meeting other
pedestrians and to the left when pass
ing them from behind. When turning
a corner, the pedestrian who has learned
to cycle hugs the wall closely if going
to the right and is almost sure to make
a long turn if bound to the left.
If all pedestrians would observe the
rules of the road ON the sidewalks as
well as the experienced cyclists observe
them on the highways, there would be
fewer toes trampled upon and fewer
persons nudged in the ribs by protrud-
ing and sharp elbows.
There is nothing more annoying to
the participants and nothing more
laughable to the spectator than to see
two persons dancing up and down and
taking a series of side steps because
both started to pass each other in the
wrong direction.
The bicycle is unconsciously teach
ing people how best to keep out of each
others way. Any one who does not
think the result is sure to be beneficial
ought to attempt to stem crowd com
ing from theater or crossing the bridge
at rush hours There viii be no polish
left on the rash individual s shoes, there
win be mud stains on his garments,
and feeling of deep, bitter resentment
against all mankind in his bosom. -
New York Journal
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-11-23
DIPLOMACY.
The Astute Mayor Knew How to Help
Along His Own Town.

The Astute Mayor Knew How to Help
Along His Own Town.
A number of indignant citizens had
filed into the office of the mayor of
small but progressive town.
We called, said the spokesman Of
the party, ito see about your announce
ment that you would fight to the bitter
end the proposal of those two railroad
companies to lay tracks so as to con-
meet "
well, was the reply, "what of it?'
"You don't deny saying it, them"
Certainly not. "
"And yet you call yourself wide
awake man, competent to look after the
interests Of an ambitious community
like this?''
~ am doing my best to deserve APP
prevail .
Don't you realize that the junction
of those two roads is one of the best
things that could happen to this city?'
Certainly "
And yet you are doing your best to
stop it?''
Inc mayor reflected for few min
utes and then said:
Gentlemen, will you keep a secret?'
"f it's nothing detrimental to the
city's interests. =
well, / am just as anxious to have
that work done as you are, but you
know how they usually go about such
things If we let them alone, they'll
begin work about the last of November,
leave things torn up all winter and not
finish before next summer is half over.
Now. if they have really determined to
make this improvement, my saying
disapprove of it won t change them, but
it will have one effect-it'l put them
on their mettle They'll get together a
gang of men some night and put them
to work with lanterns and rush the job
through so fast that there won t be any
interruption of traffic whatever. -
Washington Star.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-11-23

With hoarse cry he fell backward. At
the same moment his horse, swerving,
caught me violent blow, which sent
me head over heels. On rising l rushed
to his side He was still alive. The
sight of those familiar features excited
afresh my superstitious fears 1t is my
only excuse for what followed. l was
mad with terror. Selling my bayonet
with both hands, plunged it with all
my force not once, but thrice, into his
quivering body.
In due time the campaign came to an
end The day before the signing of the
armistice-that fatal day for poor France
Il was doing outpost duty when bugle
suddenly rang out, followed by the APP
pearance of German trumpeter, ac-
companied by an officer bearing a flag
of truce. AS the latter advanced toward
me the same feelings of deadly fear
oyerpowered me as had seized me on a
former occasion.
1t was he-my ghostly enemy-who
eight days ago had writhed in agony
under the repeated blows Of my bayonet
AS he came within speaking distance
my feeling of terror changed to one of
passive despair.
Beyond all doubt our enemies bore
charmed lives. Parbleul What chance
had French bullets against such an in
vincible power?
On our exchanging salutes he cour-
teously begged in strong German ac-
cent that his presence might be made
kown to the senior officer in command
"a request l at once forwarded by an
orderly
His attitude as he stood warming
himself by the campfire enabled me, un-
perceived, to have another good look at
my ghostly visitant. Ghostly he must
be, said to myself tremblingly, for /
had made no mistake 1t was the same
manly figure which on three different
occasions l had seen extended in death.
Suddenly he looked up and our eyes
met
We may congratulate ourselves,
monsieur" he said slowly, THAT the
campaign has come to an end. Your
splendid resistance has cost my country
many lives. Out there''-and he point
ed to the distant plain-'four brothers
took part in the struggle. OF those -four
/ am the sole survivor Mrs. Brooke
Murray i'll New York Journal
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-11-23
CAUGHT A WALKING FISH.
It Had No ellis, but Had Four Legs and
Knew How to Use Them

1t Had No GiIls, but Had Four Legs and
Knew How to Use Them.
Frank Davey, the photographer, is
the possessor of very strange fish,
which after having exhibited to num-
Der of friends while still alive he put
into alcohol to keep. The fish is known
to some people here, but is quite rare.
Its home is in the deep water, and if the
story told by the Chinaman who pro-
cured it-namely, that the catch was
made in comparatively shallow water
just outside of the harbor-is to be de-
pended ON the occurrence is indeed I'M
usual.
1t is about three inches in length and
when alive was of bright yellow hue,
with spots of black here and there It's
mouth is quite large, and the part of
the body nearest is correspondingly
large. 1t then tapers off to a small tail,
but the peculiar part is that there are
no gills, or what are popularity known
as such Where these should be the skin
is just as it is all over the body At a
distance of about half an inch and pro-
truding from the belly near the central
part are what might be called arms or
legs. They are jointed and have some
ten very fine claws. These, together
with another pair farther anterior, the
fish, when alive, used to walk about
with on the bottom of the jar in which
it was contained.
1t would show fight instantly when
approached and gave every sign of be-
ing endowed with the spirit of the evil
one, bristling up its fins, swapping it's
sharp teeth, elevating a sharp, knifelike
appendage ON the top of its nose and
sending two currents of water from
holes or false gills just back of the
large, armlike appendages mentioned
above
When the fish was killed and placed
in alcohol, the bright yellow disappear
ed entirely and left in its place whitish
colcr. Pacific Commercial Advertiser
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nv wARo.
A winsome creature is my ward
You scarce can think how fair her face


winsome creature is my ward
You scarce can think how fair her face
IS
woman all of sweet accord,
Yet we'll possessed of girlish graces
Lest she Dan Cupid's work might read
On love, with other dangerous knowledge,
And his instructions blindly heed.
And wed, | sent her off TO college.
OF Latin, French, she learned a store
And delved in science and the logies.
She played at football, pulled an oar
And wrote an essay on the doges
She graduated, pretty Prue,
Three prizes from the school she carried
Four thousand dollars saw her through
And now she's going to be married
The dregs of disappointment's lees,
You, hooking, say. Saekeloth and ashes
Are meet for her, and, if please,
Who cheats my aims deserves some lashes.
All, mol Ny arm is round her waist
Congratulations, sir, are tardy-
For now, you see, she has the taste
To wed the nan she calls her ''guardie
e. l.. s in Chicago Inter Ocean.
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wouldn't stand 1t.

The uniformed guard at the entrance
of the Field Columbian museum stopped
the man in the brown suit who was
about to go in through the turnstile
81 can't let you take that cane in
side, he said
why not?'' demanded the other.
Its against the rules You'll have
to check it at that window. .
What will that cost?'
1t will cost you cents .
The man in the brown suit hesitated
This is the Field museum, ism it?''
he asked.
eyes.
Marshall Fields"
Eyes. He's the man it named for :"
well, III be everlastingly gumdast-
ed if I'll stand it'll don t care for the
nickel, but l bought this cane of Mar
shall Field, by jocks, and I'm not go
ing to pay him for keeping it half an
hour while | look at his old show''
And he went away, uttering dreadful
things Chicago Tribune
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-11-23
THE RETIRED BURGLAR.
His Curious Experience In a House With
Cracking Stairs.

His Curious Experience In House With
Cracking Stairs.
"You knew how the stairs puff up"
said the retired burglar, "after you stop
using 'em nights? You crowd EN- down
close together, solid, treading on 'em
all day long, and then when you let up
on 'em the fibers of the wood lift up
again, and the stairs seem to swell.
You know how they creak sometimes
and snap little when you go down 'em
first in the morning and some of the
steps yield a little under the tread?
That's them settling down into place
again.
81 love to hear 'em in the morning.
It seems kind of like the stairs waking
up and speaking to you as you go along
down. But don't like to hear 'em at
night. And at the time / go about
they've had a chance to do considerable
putting, and no matter how velvet footed
man may be he can't lessen his
weight very well, and SO learned ear
ly to tread near the wall or near the
banisters going up stairs, and not on
the bow in the middle The creak, or
the little soft swapping, that sounds so
pleasant in the morning and that no.
body wouldn't notice then, sounds
mighty loud at night, when everything
is still. If anybody was awake, you know
you could hear it from one end of the
house to the other. To be sure, it might
not alarm anybody, because there's 9TH
er sounds in house at night-sounds
that just make themselves, due, l sup
pose, to Changes in temperature. Boards
swell and shrink and shift little, and
you might hear little snap somewhere
in the house any time of night But l
always hated to hear the stairs creak
when | was going up 'em, all the same,
because | always thought that as likely
as not it would wake up somebody, and
that should find somebody sitting up
in bed looking for me when looked
into the door Of room, and as a mat
ter of fact, that did sometimes happen.
81 looked one night, after a wretched
pair of stairs, into half lighted room
where l saw man, sitting up in bed,
over on the other side of the room, and
looking plumb at the door that l was
standing in. AS I told you, was al
ways on the lookout for just this thing,
but this man surprised me, for all that
He sat there in bed all keyed up and
looking square at me- l could see him
perfectly plain, and l knew he could
see me just as plain, and expected ev-
cry minute he'd find his voice and be-
gin to holler.
"But instead of that he threw the
clothes back off his legs and swung his
legs around out of bed and stood up. He
put his right hand out to locate chair
that stood by the head of the bed, and
then he started for the door, hands out
a little on each side of him, and feeling
out little ON both sides and sort of
ahead of him as he came along
"Humphl Blind. He'd heard the
noise and was going to look for it. l
might have stood there and slugged him
easy as he went by, but l didn't want
no rastle with blind man just went
out and left him there looking. New
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-11-23
SONNET.

Change--change is death The forms we treas
ure here
Slip, wraithlike, weeping, into pallid night,
To bless, ah, never, never more, our sight,
And leave each heart to hold an empty bier.
Listen. A babe was born. With its first tear
The mother slept, lifes sweet, warm lettered
light
Dead in her eyes The child grew, fair and
A. white,
To make rare music for my youths love year.
She, too, has gone. loved her. Had she staid
She might have known son, who, closing
down
The wearied lids, had cried with sobbing
breath,
Kissing the brow where age its lines had laid
0 mother soul, your babel o youth o soni
Can she be yours 1 tell you, change is DEATH
Post Wheeler in New York Press
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-11-23
Not In the Same Class.

Don't you speak to Mrs. Brown any
more?"
mo. indeed I've found her out at
last"
Whats the matter?'
"Her talk about sprockets and handle
bars was all put on. She has no wheel "
Chicago Post.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-11-23
A SONG OF THE ROAD.

Rain and sun, rain and sun,
Cloud and wind in the sky,
White roads that westward run,
Banks where man may lie,
Sleep and dream that his tramping's done
And the long, long idleness begun.
Crickets chirp by the fire,
Grasshoppers wild are we,
The white roads our desire
Where foot and tongue wag free,
And kisses grow upon every brier,
And dreams are hanging from every tree
Cloud and wind, cloud and wind,
These be our friends instead.
Every bush keeps kind
Shade for a vagrant head.
Sweet, let the dull world lag behind.
The reckoning road runs on ahead.
Black and White.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-11-23
PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD.
THE STANDARD RAILROAD OF AMERICA.
PROTECTED THROUGHOUT BY
Block SIGNALS and IntGrlOCking Switches
IN EFFECT OCTOBER s. 1897.

Trains leave Mount Holly as Jouos0s:
For Philadelphia, $50, 800, 6.b2, TO- 749, s.57,
s.I5 Ii.2O A. M, I2.54. 2.3O. (35O Saturdays
only. 42s, 5oi, SIG. SIS, io5oP
ON sundays, S.28 A. M, 1908, B Is, $50 Pm.
For Pemberton, 7.3o, 9.26 A. NJ, LAG, 1872. AL,
SOC, 7.3l, P. NJ.
For Borden5own. Trenton and New York, $50.
749, 9ls llO5 A. M, 1880, 800. 40. 4.47, 5.5S.
On Sundays, 1000 A. M, 2o5, sos M
SIS. 1918. iio5 Z n. 1855, 500, 40 al. SIS.
553, 62s, 7.25 8.45. 10.00P. N.
on Sundays 7.25. $50, 1000 A; M 1900 205, 80
s.l5, o4l, 4.lO. 800 5.S5. sos, 6.45. 7l5, s.15
For Lewistown, Columbus, Kinkora, etc.,
1885, M, LAG, 4.47P.M.
On Sundays, 800 p. M.
For LumDerton, Medford, Marion ana Had
donf1eld. 9-35 A. M.
For Tincentown, l2S5, sos Pm
F Fo. Toms River 80 A M AZ, PM M porn.
City, 926 A. M, 4.47 p. M.
For Asbury Park and Long Branch. 9.26 A. NJ.
Trains leave for Mount Holly as Jottos0s:
From Philadelphia, $50. 7.5O, $780, 1000. ll.2O.
1910, A. M, Il 80 Saturdays only, 230, 400,
4.30, $40 $40. $50 500, 1890 ia P. M.
On sundays, 9l5 A. M, LOO 800, 1880 PM.
From New York. via Trenton and Burlington,
500, $780, ll.OO A. M, lOO 2.lO. 400. 500. $780,
Pm.
On On sundays, loOoA;M N, a,oor;T;; *.
Ala. $40. 100, 9.55 P. M.
ON Sun days. $40. l1.5O, A. M. 400. sOS, Pm
from EasJ burlington, 1UO, LOS $50, o4o, S4Z
1905 lO.46, l.4s A. M. l05 $50, ASP, go $685.
$50, 100 7.50, $50, 1920 P. M.
3.05, 345 49, 4.55. $50, 800, $50, 720 45, S45
1000 M.
From Toms River, 7.4s A. M. 4O2P.M.
From AsDury Park, 2.13 p. M.
From Medfords ll.56 A. M.
From Long Branch, 1.55, p M.
From Pemberton, (north) 6.35, 7.2S. 1913 A. NJ,
1897 407, $40 p. M.
On Sundays, 500 A. NJ, 500 P. M.
From Pemberton (south), S36 A. M, 4.44 P. NJ.
From vincentown, $50 A. M, lap. M.
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WANTED.

w
The Life Assurance Company of Canada
is now ready to organize it, business in the
Stats OF Pennsy lvania and New Jersey.
Good reliable district agents wanted. EX-
peIience not an absolutely necessary qualih-
cation. Apply at once by letter TO
WALTER Il JOHNSTON,
General Managers.
Odd Fellows Temple, Philadelphia, Pa
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Medford, Mariton and PhiIadeIphia.

Medford, Marlton and Philadelphia.
Leave Medford for Philadelphia at 700, 1901
A.. M, 2.I3, 1924, Pm.
On Sundays, sol A. NJ. $50 P. NJ.
Leave Marion tor Philadelphia at TIA lON
A. M, 2.35, 5.35. Pm
On Sundays, 8l4 A. M, 400 p. NJ.
Leave Philadelphia, Market Street, for Med
ford and Marion at 100, 1885, A. M, 300, $50.
Pm.
On Sundays, 6.45 A. NJ, $50 P. NJ.
Leave Marion tor Medtord, Sill, ll.38 A. M,
1854, $40, P. M.
On Sundays, 9.39, A. M, 623 Pm.
For further particulars apply to the ticket
agent at the station.
j. B. HUTCHINSON, j. r. WOOD,
General Manager. Gen. Pass. Agent.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-11-23
Union transportation Company.

Tuckerton Railroad.
Leave Mount Holly tor Tuckerton 926 A.
All M, daily except Sunday.
Leave TuckerIon tor Mount Holly, 100 A. M,
ECO P. M, daily except Sunday.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-11-23
A DEMONSTRATORS NOTICE.
shake Into Your Shoes

Aliens Foot-Ease, powder tor the feet. 1t
cures ps inful, swollen, smarting feet and in
stantly takes the sting out of corns and bun
ions. It's the greatest comfort discovery OF
the age Aliens Foot Ease makes tight-1ittiDg
or new shoes feel easy. 1t is a certain cure
for sweating, calous and hot, tired. aching
feet. Try it to-day. Sold by all druggist and
shoe stores. BY mail for 25c In stamps Trial
package FREE. Address. Allen S. Olmsted,
lie Row, N. Y.
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Branch Store at Lumberton.
SEASON OF 1878.

Personally Conducted Tours via PennsyI-
Vania Railroad.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-08-16

on the night of October 10th some mis-
creant had maitreated with tar the great
statue of the Queen Empress. which
stands at the south end OF the Espla-
made. The effect Of this act may be COM
pared with that of the mutilation OF the
Hermes at Athens. Not only was there
intense Indignation on the part OF the ma
tives of all classes; there was a new ter
ror added TO life in Bombay For the
Queen Empress is a divinity. her statue
is sort OF idol; to desecrate it Is to COM
nit sacrilege. To add to the excitement,
prophecies were circulated to the effect
that the Sirkar Imperial government)
would take signal vengeance on the peo-
pie Of Bombay by means OF a general
massacre Of the inhabitants on the great
feast of Divali, which occurs at the be-
ginning of November. Ii was also be-
lieved that patients sent to the hospitals
were murdered to avenge the Queen; that
dsinfectants We're posons; that the blood
of patients was, drawn TO weld together
the foundations of new government
buildings; and that every officer who in
quired about plague cases was spy.
who sought to compass the death OF
new victim.
DivaH approached they fled in ever In
creasing numbers. In the city itself riots
became frequent. Mobs attacked the
hospital angrily shouting that they
would STAY the doctors as the doctors
would STAY them.
The fear of death now began TO prevail
against religious prejudices The more
enlightened natives, as the death-rate adj
vanced week by week, counselled sub
stitution for official segregation, and ad-
vsed voluntary segregation, race by race
caste by caste, in hospitals erected by
private subscription. But the advice
came too late. Before some of these hos
pitfalls could he built the plague was
nearly ended. Nor was it easy at any
time to get the natives to enter their own
private hospitals. Even voluntary Sc
gregation frightened them.
The Anglo-Indian press Is full OF com
plants against the apathy of the natives
their inability to meet any crisis. their
do-fothing policy as contrasted with
their loquacity. On the other hand the
native press complains still more bitterly
of Anglo-I Indian lack of sympathy ana OF
intelligent comprehension of native CHAR
acter Again. the municipalities are ex-
tremely Jealous of governmental control.
Nothing distressed the Bombayans-even
those who were ashamed of their own
city fathers-so much as to see these
fathers put on the shelf by government.
Finally, the Anglo-IndianS, especially
those who have spent their lives in India,
are continually harping on the mutiny OF
1857. Very few of them really understand
the political background of the mutiny.
They are prone TO believe that the ma
tives are still in a state of subsection
and that the slightest disturbance may
result in a volcanic eruption of native
forces. The history of the plague is an
object lesson In respect of all these
points.-Prof. e. Washburn Hopkins in
the August Forum.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-08-16

J. Clair Minot goes to Belgrade. !"
day, for a few days visit at ms no'".
before going to Vermont, where he w"'
act as paymaster for III. C. Baxter
Bros, corn packers, during the cahl'As
season. For nearly a year pas'
Minot has been connected win ="
Journal, first as legislative repo'A
then compiler of the Augusta ce"s
NAL souvenir. and this summer !"
editorial rooms. In October ne WIZ
turn to Augusta and enter upon
study of law in the office Oh -
Cornish
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-08-16
For Sale.

$1,000 buys furniture. stock fixtures and
right to sell speeialties of one of the best
known manicure, hairdressing and facial
treatment parlors in Boston, has been
successfully carried on for years and is
patronized by the elite of Boston. located
in the immediate vicinity of Temple
Place which is the center of the ladies
trading district, all goods bearing the
name of this well known establishment
Is a guarantee of quality. This ad should
attract artists of the best reputation in
this line of business.
w. f. CARRUTHERS,
IL School St, Boston.
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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-08-16

The family of Mr.. Josiah Evans u
North Nassalboro. are enjoying inei
beautiful two-story cottage, THE TIES
cent" built this season at Pemaqu''
beach. The Crescent" is the heae'
quarters for the North and East Nas
salboro parties sojourning there.amVh'
whom are a number of fine musicians
and We'll known vocalsts. who consis
gate on the broad piazzas every e's'
ming
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-08-16
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For Sale.

$4,000 buys stock and fixtures of first
class grocery and provision store, years
establishes; rent $35 per month. finely To-
Gated on Dudley street. Boston, III that
known as Roxbury district, doing fine
trade mostly cash. one horse, two wag-
ons and democrat. all in good order
This store Is so situated that any one can
reasonably expect to remain as long as
they would care to engage in business,
being a fine residential neighborhood, and
one of the principal thoroughfares from
Cambridge to Dorchester; wanting such
a place you would buy if you should see
it, w. f. CARRUTHERS
II School St, Boston.
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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-08-16

Small advertisements not exceeding
four lines (thirty words) coming under
the head of WANTED, FOR SALE. to
LET, LOST, &c, will be inserted two
times for Is cents, three times for S5
cents and one week for so cents, AID
VANCE PAYMENT. In sending by mail
remittance of postage stamps or postal
note should be made with order, as the
charges are too small to open accounts
for.