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The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-09-28
TIMES cREAsEs.


The Origin and Progress of the Wrinkles
on the Face,
We all become interested sooner or
later in the subject of wrinkles. They
are the irreparable outrage" of Ra-
cine, but although they are so univer-
sal few have endeavored to explain their
origin and progress. Wrinkles are pro-
duced in the first instance by the fire.
quent repetition of some muscular con-
traction or by sickness. They are not
merely superficial, but appear when the
epidermis is removed, and are found
not only in the face, but all over the
body. They do not run in any regular
direction, and no law has been found
including all their directions. 1t has
been said that the life history of man
can be written from his wrinkles, but
physiology hardly agrees in this in
stance, for it has still to be proved that
a generals wrinkles differ from those
of physicians or laborer's from
lawyers. A man does not always or
even generally carry about faithful
autobiography in his face. Although no
part of the body is free from them they
visit chiefly the face, particularly round
the eyes and lips. They run in all di-
rections = horizontal, vertical and
oblique, straight, curved and crossed.
Going in the sun with the face INSULT
GENTLY covered brings them on prema-
turely, but they are in every case nor
NAL at 40 or even earlier
b batxuoo,7 fba orao
come quickly to men who study or wor-
ry themselves. This can readily be i'm
agined. The eyebrows contract natural
ly when in deep thought. Grief or wor-
ry produces the same action, which,
when repeated frequently, produces a
fold in the skin, marking emotion IN
dergone many times. Between these and
the straight lines on the forehead, al
ready mentioned come the arched wrin-
kles of the forehead, found above the
root of the nose. These often tell Of
long and painful mental torture. They
arise from cruel physical suffering or
of still more great development of the
vertical wrinkles and the resistance of
the skin above.
The crow feet mark the passing Of
the fortieth year and are characterized
by burrows which diverge from the ex-
ternal angles of the eyes in all direc-
tions, like the claws of bird, from
which they are named. The wrinkles
of the nose, which descend from the
nostrils down each side Of the mouth,
are, perhaps, the first to appear These
burrows are created in laughing and
mastication A simple smile is sufi-
cient to produce them, so it is not sur
prising that the repetition of the COM
monest acts should soon be craven on
the face They are also hereditary The
wrinkles of the cheeks and chin follow
the oval of the face and are caused by
a diminution Of the fatty substance I'M
der the skin, which then falls into
| folds. The small wrinkles which form
network in the lower parts Of the
cheeks near the ears have the same
origin and only appear in old age.
Those found i'll the upper eyelids and
sometimes in the lower, which give the
eyes an air of fatigue, are the results OF
hard living, grief or worry. New York
! Ledger
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THE RETIRED BURGLAR.

A Meeting With q Gentle Hearted Woman
Backed by a FerociOus Dog.
eat the foot of the stairs in the front
hall of farmhouse one night, said
the retired burglar, II stumbled over
something soft that turned out to be a
feather bed. If / had had a grain of
sense at all, l should have suspioioned
something from that, but didn't 1t
looked as though it had been just tum-
bled down stairs and left there to be
carried off in the morning, and let it
go at that and stepped into it and over
it to the first step of the stairs and on
up.
Stepping up on the fourth step,
kicked against string stretched across
the stairs and broke it, That made me
suspicious, but 1 never connected the
feather bed at the foot Of the stairs
with it. / looked up. | expected it to be
connected with something there. And
it was and it was coming down the
stairs at me and filling up the whole
stairway. 1t was a big feather bed.
Even then / didn't see that the one
coming down had anything to do with
the one down ON the floor, and at the
same time l couldn't understand why
anybody should roll anything like a
feather bed down on anybody-bulky,
to be sure, but so light that it was an
easy thing to stop.
81 put up my hands to stop this one,
but might just as well have tried to
stop mountain. It was soft and
squashy ON the outside, but it weighed
ton. 1t just bowled me right over
backward, and fell on the other feath-
er bed at the foot of the stairs Then
l began to understand what that one
was for. 1t was to save the bones of the
man that was tumbled over by the ava
lanche bed.
81 lay there nearly sh6thered by the
bed ON top and working out from under
it gradually.
"'I hope you are not hurt?' / heard
somebody say from over the railing
along the hall up stairs, and 1 said,
mo, ma am, because it was a female
voice, and am always polite to the
ladies. but would you mind telling me
what's inside the one that came down.?
"tOh, she said, it's the summer
range, with the flatirons inside. Can
you lift it of, or shall I let the dog
come down and help your
'And with that heard dog scratch
ing up stairs. / supposed it started him
| up to hear himself spoken of, and l
| judged from the sound of his claws ON
/ the Garnet that he must have been about
the size of a tiger and of about the same
kind of disposition.
No. says, / can get clear Of it.
And did and stood up in the hall.
"'You won't carry off the other one,
will your she said.
"And hearing the dog still scratch
ing up stairs, / said, No, won't.
And didn't. The lady appeared to be
gentle hearted enough, but knew you
couldn't trust the dog New York
Sun.
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WAGES IN CHINA.


In Spite of Their LOwness the Celestiali
Wax Fat.
How Chinese workman manages tC
support his family and remain sleek and
fat on the wages he receives is an ever
lasting mystery to the European and
American. The Chinese are a people Of
marvellous economy. They will support
family, furnishing food, clothes, shell
ter, from small garden which they
call farm, but which in America
would not more than furnish an Amer.
lean family with early vegetables
In cities the laboring men receive the
merest pittance. In Canton, where la
borers are better paid than in other parts
of China, skilled workmen live on these
wages: Shoemaker, 81 per month;
blacksmith, So per month; fine ivory
carver, $12 per month; tailor, So per
month; fine embroiderer, 81 per month;
designer, So per month; silversmith, S.
per month.
The Chinese are superstitious, and
the workmen support, in addition to
their temples and pagodas and priests,
which receive more in proportion than
the churches of Europe and America,
idol makers, geomancers, fortune tell
ers, physiognomists, soothsayers, astrol-
ogers and interpreters of dreams, who
exist by thousands and coin all the mon-
ey they want. Another thing which
makes money for certain class is the
Chinese custom of burning great guam
titles of Esprit money!" imitation
coins, which are supposed to be legal
tender for dead relatives. One city
alone employs 100, 900 people in making
this cash for ghosts.
Peculiar superstitions embarrass the
workman. For instance, carpenters and
builders have to exercise great care in
selecting a ridgepole for a house. 1t
must have neither cracks nor knots, and
in it a small hole must be made and
filled with gold leaf and the whole
beam painted red. This insures good
luck for the owner of the house.
The tea trade employs thousands of
persons. The laborers receive from So
to $40 per month, according to their
grade of work. Chicago News
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the spare bedroomr No, they had come,
after all. Mrs. Green was right. 1t was

! the spare bedroomr No, they had come,
after all. Mrs. Green was right. 1t was
burglars.
Maurice withdrew his hand, which
rested on the hillock by his side, with
the Though. I'll not waken her, poor
/ soul. She Us scared to death. I'll
know the worst first" So thinking,
and with sort OF infatuation-which
was perhaps bravery-to get glimpse
of the marauder, he stole out Of bed,
buttoned up his dressing jacket, took
the little bedside chair by the back, and
thus armed, his heart beating like a
mufiled drum, stealthily turned the cor
ner between the two rooms.
A faint light came through the land
ing skylight. Heavensl The villain
was at the other end Of the room, right
opposite the door. What he was doing
he could not make out, for he looked
like man seen through mist The
wretohl Just then the draft along
the landing took Maurice shrewdly on
the bare legs. The influenza asserted it.
self He fought against it desperately
for a moment. 1t but augmented the
force of the explosion. Like a thunder
bolt he sneezed.
There was muffled exclamation in
the room. Maurice rushed forward with
uplifted chair. The burglar, too, had
seized chair and was making at him
with equal fury Crash The house
seemed to have fallen. There was a
fearful CHATTER of falling glass, pierre
ing shrek. the sound of a body falling
on the floor, and allwas still but for the
wall of the frightened babe in the room
he had left.
W. ...,. ne done? He kneeled down,
careless of broken glass, and his hand
rested on bare foot. Sick with appre-
hension, he CROPPED elsewhere and en-
countered plated head and few curl
ing pins. A match, match, my king
dom for mateh!'' he would doubtless
have said had he not been SO terribly
upset. fSt
just then rectangle of light APP
peared and increased until, pale and
trembling, stood the little maid in the
doorway, a farthing dip in her hand,
amazed to see the following tableau
vivant: A wardrobe door swinging
upon its hinges, with it's long mirror
smashed to fragments; chair, with a
broken leg, lying close by; Mortified
man in anightshirt and dressing jacket,
kneeling at the feet of PROSTATE wom-
an in dead faint, dressing gown and
plaits, who was none other than the
Mortified man. wife.
Maurice Green never turns the gas off
at the meter now except when he takes
his wife and family away for the sum
mer holiday. Mrs. Green still looks I'M
der the bed for possible burglars before
retiring for the night, but Maurice has
never dared to chaff her since he mis-
took his own faint reflection in the
wardrobe mirror for desperate burglar.
London Tit-Bits.
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FishY.

A man who resides ON the east side
relates an incident which may be true,
but it sounds fishy.
His boy caught large sucker a oou-
pie of years ago. and since that time he
has been experimenting with his finp-
pet somewhat The fish has beer Aept
out of the water so much that it gradu-
ally became accustomed to it, and fire.
quently Topped out of the water itself
and followed the boy around. Finally
the boy placed it in pen and gradual
ly reduced its bathing periods until it
became acclimatized, abandoning en-
tirely its native element 1t would fol-
low the boy around like a dog, and one
day he started over to town across the
swinging bridge with the pet fish flop
ping along after him. But alas for boy
ish hopesl The fish made a slight mis-
cue and Topped overheard into the creek
and drowned before the boy could res
sue him. -Punxsutawney Spirit.
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LOVES MESSENGERS.

The rose shall be my messenger,
Tho herald Of devotion.
Each petal sweet shall be the seat
OF tenderest emotion.
And in the heart. of each fair rose,
Deep hidden in the core,
There rests my soul, my inner self,
To love but YOU eseImore.
Each rose will die, each petal fade
And wither fast away.
Each freighted heart that speaks my Low,
Will anguish and decay.
Not so with love-my soul that's hid
Within each roses core.
That love will breathe and speak and live
Forever, evermore.
Twill live for you and speak to you
When roses cease to be-.
Twill breathe the roses fragrance rare
For thee, my sweet, for theel
Then haste, my messengers Of love,
Tell her my each emotion.
Oh, petals sweet, at her dear feet
Bespeak my fond devotion.
William Manley in New York Tribune.
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Children's stories.


In looking over some stories written
and sent by children to the young peo-
pies department of paper some curl
GUS points were noticed. Part of the
stories we're wildly imaginative. The
heroes Of them went through experiences
that out Gullivered Gulliver. But after
all their adventures the manikins al
ways came home safely, laden with
glory and trophies, to relate their valor-
Gus deeds and wonderful experiences to
admiring hearers.
The child story teller loves a satisfac-
tory ending. He has no patience for the
i'll contrived methods which bring the
hero through one experience safely only
to plunge him into another and leave
him there to get out as best he may.
The princes and the knight must marry
and H. happily ever after, enjoy
the happiness attending such glorious
actions before the story ends. Jack must
finish all his giants and get home to
supper before we leave him.
In the more humble tales of everyday
life strong point is the little authors
sincere belief in the absolute working
of righteous law. The good boy inva-
riably comes out triumphant and is re-
warded with kisses and cakes The bad
boy is as surely brought to confusion.
The career of the wicked youth who
defies authority viii not learn his les
sons, quarrels with smaller boys or takes
his fathers gun without leave, is cut
short by an opportune policeman, by the
paternal switch or perhaps by a fall
cut of the boat or, again. by the
measles. Somehow the childish author
shows that, in his opinion, the law
should be satisfied and the wrongdoer
should suffer-
1t is quite possible that these little
writers have behaved badly OF missed
lessons occasionally themselves, but the
artless confessions of their moral tales
convince us that they do not do it with
out pricks of conscience. In the depths
Of their naughty little hearts they are
quite sure that they deserved the fate
which they SO ENORMOUSLY deal out to
the doughty heroes of their stories -
Philadelphia Ledger.
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AN ANCIENT MEXICAN CITY
curious Legend-SOme Relics of Emperor
Macmillan.

/ curious Legend-Some Relics of Emperor
Macmillan.
Queretaro was a town before the
Spanish conquest and was made city
in 1865. A legend of Queretaro ia that
an Otomite chief, Fernando de Tapia
by name, undertook to convert the city
to Christianity in a way that seems
novel to us, but was common enough to
his day. He came from lula with a
challenge to the people of Queretaro to
fair stand up fight If he won, the
people surviving were to be baptized.
The challenge was accepted, but while
the fight was in progress a dark cloud
came up and the blessed Santiago was
seen i'll the heavens with a fiery cross.
whereupon the people Of Queretaro gave
up and were baptized. They set up a
stone cross to commemorate the event
on the site of the present church of
Santa Cruz. There is scarcely church
In Mexico which has not a legend of
this kind attached to it. The town is
identified with the history of Mexico.
Here the treaty of peace between the
United States am Mexico was ratified
in l848, and here Macmillan made his
last stand in 1867. was obliged to sur
render and was shot. Everybody is in
terested in Macmillan. mainly on ac-
count of poor Carlotta. Macmillan was
executed on the Cerro de las Oampanas
and with him Generals Miramin and
Media The place is marked by three
little crosses of stone. The two gen
erals were killed at the first volley, but
Macmillan, who had requested that he
be shot through the body that his
mother might look upon his face, was
only wounded, and second firing was
required to kill him.
The emperor had been led to believe
that Carlotta was dead. She became in
sane from grief and was kept in an asy-
lum for many years, but she still lives
and still mourns for her dead husband
and the loss Of her throne. The United
States government protested against the
execution of Macmillan, but in vain,
Juarez refusing to spare him.
There are all kinds of relics of Maxi
milan in Mexico-the Yturbide thea
ter, where he was tried and condemned,
the table on which the death warrant
was signed, the wooden stools on which
the prisoners sat during the trial and
the coffin of Macmillan, whose remains
were subsequently sent to Austria and
buried at Miramar / confess do not
share in any sentiment of pity for Max
imilian, who was an adventurer with
out a shadow of right in Mexico and
took the chances of war; He was, it is
true, victim of Napoleon and of his
own ambition and was very scurvily
treated by those who had induced him
to set up his throne in Mexico, but to
have released him would have been to
establish a claimant for the Mexican
throne. 1t was better that this man
should die than that thousands should
be sacrificed in the wars he would sure
ly have fomented if he had been allowed
to live. -Philadelphia Ledger
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A RECOLLECTION.
n was indeed a perfect day.
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n was indeed perfect day.
scarce recall the weather,
But autumn calm and bloom OF May
Seem mingled there together.
Then melody made sweet the hours,
Each sentence was ballad,
The rocks were jewels, weeds were flowers,
When Mary dressed the salad.
No vernal scene whose blandishment
will weleomely beset us
Can have the fascination lent
By that small sprig Of lettuce,
And vainly must musicians toll
From stage or festal wagon
For tones like those with which the oil
Came lettering from the dagon.
Strange how these merchant chemists mar
Each once alluring savorl
How tasteless is the vinegar
How dull the peppers havorl
Outlines when sterner moods are planned
Those memories come pressing
That salad day, the supshi-" md
The girl who made the dressing.
Washington Star.
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Warwiokshire boasts the possession of
a larger number of ducking stools than
any other English county, and two of
the Oldest have just been brought into
public notice. The Warwick town coun-
Gil have carefully repaired the curious
instrument of punishment which visit
ors to the crypt Of the famous Beau
champ church there are familiar with
Kenilworth also possesses a we'll pre-
served ducking stool which is said to
have been in use as a means of bringing
scolds to a reasonable frame of mind so
long ago as the period when Elizabeth
graced Earl Leicester's castle with her
presence and before the Amy Robsart
legend became in any way associated
with the building. Westminster Ga
Eette.
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Addition to a Wen known proverb.

l remember to have been told by a
late brother officer, who was well read
man, that this proverb was of Portu-
guese origin and that it ran, "Hell is
paved with good intentions and rooted
with lost opportunities Notes and
Queries.
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Canon Knox Little told good story
once at a church congress. He said he
remembered hch gate in front of a
beautiful church, which had been re-
stored and made very nice. There was
painted over the door, "This is the gate
Of heaven, and underneath was the
large notice. go round the other way. :"
Household Words.
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"Honors of war" is the privilege al
lowed to the enemy, on capitulation, of
being permitted to retain their arms.
This is the highest honor a victor can
pay a Yanquished foe.
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GEORGE D. WORRELL,
Cor. Mill and Pine sts., Mount Holly.

LAW OFFICES OF
CHARLES q. COE,
TEMPLE COURT.
New York, March / 1881
Mr. GEORGE d. WoRRELL,
Dear str:-I am informed by my client
the Sunlight Incandescent Lamp Co., that the
attorney for the Welsbach Light Company
has sent you circular letter, asserting that
the Sunlight IncaDdesCent burner is an in.
fringement of the patents.owned by the Wells
bach Light Company.
At the request of the Sunlight Company, !
have made careful examination of the pat
ents own ed by the Welsbach Light Co. and
l can assure GU that the Sunlight lncandes-
cent burner and mantle does not infringe up
on violate in any way or manner the pat
ents or rights OF the Welsbach Light Co., and
am fully confident that you or any of the
customers of the Sunlight Company will not
be held responsible or liable in any way to
the Welsbach Light Company for their sale
or use.
further inform you that am directed and
authorized by the said Sunlight Company in
case suit is brought by the Welsbach Light
Company against you or any person selling
or using the Sunlight burner and mantle to
defend such suit without expense to you OF
to any sellers or users of said Sunlight burn
ers or mantles. Yours truly,
CHARLES G. COE,
Attorney for Sunlight Incan,
descent Gas Lamp Co.
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THE SWEET, SAD YEARS.

The sweet, sad years. the sun, the rain
Alas too quicRl- sd they wanel
For each some 4ag-., some blessing bore.
OF smiles and tears each had its store,
Its checkered lot of bliss and pain.
Although it idle be and
Yet cannot the wish r, =
That had held them evermore-
The sweet, sad yearsl
Like echo Of an old refrain
That long within the mind has lain,
keep repeating Ger and Ger,
Nothing can e'er the past restore,
Nothing bring back yhe years again.
The sweet, sad yearsl
Canon Bell in Leisure Hour.
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The population of the earth at the
lime of the Emperor Augustus is esti-
mated at $4,000, 900. 1t is estimated
low to be about /, 400, 900, 900.
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