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The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1898-09-27
PANBEsA's LETTER.
An Account of an Egyptian City Thirty
Centuries Ago,

An Account of an Egyptian City Thirty
Centuries Ago.
Probably the oldest letter in the
world is the letter of Panbesa, written
10 centuries before Christ to his friend
Amenemapt, scribe.
The manuscript Is of perishable papy-
rus. and it is amazing that 1t should
have survived for more than 30 CEN
turtles and still be legible.
1t Is preserved in the collection of the
British museum. 1t has been several
times translated during the present cen
tury. 1t presents an interesting picture
Of life in Egypt in the time of Rameses
II. It is more in the nature of literary
production, poem composed in cele-
bration Of the visit Of Pharaoh to the
city of Pa Rameses, than an ordinary
letter Of today.
Panbesa "greets his lord, the scribe
Amenemapt. to whom be life, health
aud strength, . and then goes on to de.
scribe the verdant fields, the thrashing
floors, the vineyards, the groves Of
olives, the orchards of figs, the great
daily markets, with their fish and wa
terfowl and swarms of purchasers.
The citizens had their sweet wine
of Khemi, pomegranate wine and wine
from the vineyards, y and to these they
added "beer of Kati. -
There was music in plenty furnished
by the singers of the school of Memphis
On the whole, Pa ameses seems tt
have been a pleasant place to live in
1.-The lesser folk are there equal with
the great folk and Panbesa writes
that its maidens were SIN holiday at
tire every day" with locks "redolent
of perfumed oil. - Washington Star
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ToUCHY OLD COMMODORE.
Insisted ON Running His Own Man-of-wa
Even on Sundays.

Insisted ON Running His Own Man-of-war
Even on Sundays.
A story is told of an old commodore
at the Boston yard whose method of
measuring religious affairs was with
the same memorable rule used for tenn
poral things. One Sunday morning be
was aroused from his nap by something
out of the usual routine being announc-
ed from the pulpit, and he sternly adj
dressed the chaplain with: whats
that? What's that2" The chaplain de-
murely repeated the notice that "by or
der of the bishop of the diocese divine
service will be performed in this chapel
on Thursday evening next" etc.
''By whose order?''
"By order of the bishop of the do
cese, SIR
"Well, +" Numbered the commodore,
trll let you know that am bishop of
this diocese, and when want service
In this chapel I'll let you know. Pipe
down. and he cleared the chapel
On one occasion he heard different
voice in the pulpit from usual, and,
looking up, he asked: "Who is that up
there9 Is that you, Billy McMasters?'
"Yes, sir. -
BILLY was religious foreman in the
yard who sometimes helped the chap
lain along.)
"Oome down out of that, " Numbered
the commodore. "When want relief
for the chaplain, I'll appoint one. Don't
you ever let me catch you up there
again." and he cleared the chapel
again.-"On a Man-of- War
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1898-09-27

The grand specific for 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 slim
ulates the digestive organs, regulates the
Liver and restores the system to vigorous
health and energies. Sample free. Large
packages SOC and 95c. Sold only by Wells
& Son, Columbus; E. D. Prickitt, Mount
Holly; W. @. Jones, New Egypt; Edw W.
Rossell, Pemberton, and H. H. Leeds,
Rancocas.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1898-09-27

Brummel went to prison for debt,
but came out again to resume his fop-
peries. His friends made him a small
allowance of e120 per annum-equal at
Caen to e3O0-but he could not be ex-
peoted to live on such pittanoe. When
he had not 4 francs in the world, he
would order boot polish at francs a
bottle from Paris and call the trades
man who supplied it ''a scoundrel" for
venturing to ask for his money. In the
end his intellect gave way. He lost his
memory and much of his little mind.
He grew slovenly and careless, yet to
the last chung to his eau de cologne and
some other luxuries Finally, his mind
all gone, he was removed to a charity
hospital, being now reduced to the ut
most impoverishment and content to
change his linen once a month, instead
of three times day, as Of old. Here he
died, under the care of sisters of chart
ty, on March 30, 1910. Thus ended the
striking career Of perhaps the most
worthless fop whom history records, his
death being fitting termination to his
useless life. -Lippincott's.
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A Method In His Manner.

1t was raining cats and dogs outside,
and the Columbus avenue car was
crowded. A young woman stood looking
from one seated man to another, but the
men would not badge. She looked tim
idly, then appealingly. then dagges,
but they did not care.
Finally the worst dressed and rough
est looking man In the car got up
Here is seat for you, mum, - he
said suavely.
ooh, thank you ever so much,' said
the young lady, shooting chances at the
other men which said, "You are gentle
men, but this uneducated laborer could
give you lesson in manners
Presently she was shifting about on
her seat, shielding now her face, now
her white stand up collar and looking,
with a troubled face, at a point In the
ceiling from which the water came
down at irregular intervals in splashes
as big as cent.
The well dressed men buried their
smiles in their newspapers The labor
or, now ensconced in corner near the
driver, gave his vis-a-vis wink. New
York Commercial Advertiser.
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Melba,s First Appearance.

Nine. Melba recently gave an inter-
esting account of her first public ap-
pearanoe. 81 was quite young girl in
Australia, she said, "when, notwith-
standing the persistent Encouragement
of my father, who was averse to the
idea of singers career for me, en-
gagged hall and sent round notice to
all my friends. Unfortunately somebody
mentioned the little scheme to my IA
Their, and he. furious at my olandestine
enterprise, begged every one of his &C.
quaintances to uphold his parental au-
thority by ignoring the performance.
But wasn't disheartened, and at the
hour announced for the commencement
of my concert stepped on to the plat
form-to find myself face to face with
an audience of two. And nobody else
came.
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TlLTING THE EARTH.
A Matter of Scientific Interest, If Not of
Practical Value,

Practical Value.
NJ. Fouche, the vice president Of the
French Astronomical society, has in
vented way of altering the present in
clination of the earth's axis to the
elliptic. What he wants to do it for is
not very clear. Perhaps, however, he
doesn't want to do it and merely puts
forward his method as one possessing a
purely academic interest. AT all events,
it is worthy of the attention of COM
pany promoters.
All that has to be done, as desert bed
by Invention, is to dig an enormous cir
cular ditch, say, in Africa or South
America tits center must be on the
equator) and to fill it with sea water
Fresh water will do if you can get
enough Of it, but as the radius of the
ditch is to be few hundred miles that
is hardly likely. Having got your ditch
full of sea water, nothing remains but
to make it race round and round in the
trench, whereupon the earth's axis will
begin to point toward different quarters
of the heavens from those it indicates
at present The amount of deviation
will depend on the radius of the ditch,
the amount of water it holds, the speed
at which the latter moves and the time
during which the motion is kept up.
We may suggest to M. Fouche that
when sufficient sphere of French in
1uence has been secured in Africa he
might have trench dug and then by
its use get all the ice melted round each
of the present poles. French explorers
could then discover them, whereupon
the action of the trench would be stop
ped and the present climatic conditions
restored. France could then remain as
long as she wished the only nation to
have reached the celebrated points on
the earth's surface. AS the digging of
the ditch will be very expensive we
make no charge for this suggestion.
Invention.
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Because carpenter hates cats, he
doesn't despise his kit
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THE RICH RUSSIAN.
He Has q Weakness For an Army Of Fam


He Has q Weakness For an Army of Fam
lily Servants.
We were a family Of 8, occasionally
of 10 or IL says Prince Kropotkin in
The Atlantic, but 80 servants at Mos
COW, and half as many more in the
country, were considered not one toe
many. Four coachmen to attend dozen
horses, three cooks for the masters and
two more for the servants, dozen men
to wait upon us at dinner time-one
man, plate in hand, standing behind
each person seated at the table-and
girls innumerable in the maidservants'
room, but how could any one do with
less than this?
Besides, the ambition Of every landed
proprietor was that everything required
for his household should be made at
home by his town" men.
"How nicely your plano is always
tuned. suppose Herr Schimmel must
be your tuner?' one Of the visitors
would remark.
To be able to answer, 81 have my
own piano tuner" was in those times
the correct thing.
"What beautiful pastryr' the guests
would exclaim when a work of art,
composed Of ices and pastry, appeared
toward the end of the dinner. Confess,
prince, that it comes from Tremble''
(the fashionable pastry cook.
sit is my own confeotioner, pupil
of Tremble, whom have allowed tt
show what he can do" was the reply
which ELECTED general admiration.
To have embroideries, harnesses, fur
niture-in fact everything-made by
ones Gown" men was the ideal of ths
rich and respected landed proprietor.
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STREET eAMIN in REAL LIFE.
Net So Noble In Character as the Story
Writers Picture Him.

Not So Noble In Character as the Story
Writers Picture Him.
''I have read good many stories, {"
said the city man, "about the honest
newsboy who chases man three blocks
to return the % goldpiece given In
mistake for nickel, the sympathetic
bootblack who protects the widow 8
son, or tA6 heroic street gamin who
gets run over by dray while rescuing
another boy and murmurs, Is Jimmy
all right?' and then dies. have come
to the conclusion that these stories are
written by girls fresh from school or
refined old maids who live In a village,
and they are read by men who thought
fully stick the tongue into the cheek
while reading. Yet there are men who
read and believe.
~ saw one of this class the other day
who went to the rescue Of bootblack
who was trying to fix his broken box.
".My lad, said the good man-they
always call them lads in these stories
you are in trouble. Let me assist
you.
"Then he knelt ON the sidewalk in
his good clothes. used half brick for
a hammer, raked up some Irvine from
his pocket and after 10 minutes hard
work made creditable job. Mean
while about 80 street boys gathered
around One slipped piece Of old iron
into his pocket, the grateful bootblack
with bit of chalk decorated his back
with hideous caricature. his hat was
knocked into the gutter as he arose,
and one of the boys accused him OF
stealing 'dabber.
1.-The man flushed with natural in
dignation, and Immediately there arose
a whoop of derision, and as he STROBE
away he was guyed by the whole crowd
for two blocks. While in this frame Of
mind it would have done him good to
have interviewed some Of the ladies
who write the picturesque tales about
the imaginary street boys. Chicago
Times Herald.
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Pr{olesI and Calhoun.

The Pendletonians were justly proud
of Mr.. Calhoun and sensitive as to the
impression which he made upon stran-
gers. When Judge Prioleau became a
resident, they were anxious to know
his impressions of their Ajax. When
they first met, as soon as Calhoun left
the table, the question was eagerly
asked, "How do you like him?''
mot at all, - was the newcomer
reply. 81 desire never to meet him
again." This was a sad rebuff, and an
explanation was demanded. 81 hate a
man who makes me think so much,
the judge replied. ''For the last three
hours I have been on the stretch trying
to follow him through heaven and
earth. feel wearied with the effort,
and hate man who makes me feel
my own inferiority." Pendleton was
appeased. Exchange.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1898-09-27
HE FIRST PHOTOGRAPHS.
Professor Draper's Sister Sat Thirty Min
utes For Her Portrait.

utes For Her Portrait.
Elizabeth Flint Wade has an illus
trated paper on Photographers Mar
vels'' in ST. Nicholas. The author says:
The first accounts of this great dis
covery are very entertaining reading.
Professor Morse, the inventor of the
telegraph, was in Paris when the news
was published, and at once went to see
Daguerre's wonderful pictures. In de-
seribing them afterward he said that
moving objects made no impression on
the plate, for a picture taken of a
crowded boulevard showed it as if en-
tirely deserted, with the exception of
man having his shoes polished. The
mans feet, he said, were we'll defined,
because they were kept stationary, but
he was without head or body, for these
were in motion.
To America belongs the honor of
making the first Photographic portrait,
the artist being Professor John Draper,
a professor and afterward the president
of the University of New York. His
victim was his sister, Miss Catherine
Draper. He powdered her face, that the
likeness might be more quickly i'm
pressed on the sensitive plate, and for
80 minutes Miss Draper sat-or, at
least, tried to sit-as immovable as a
statue.
The first class in photography was
formed in Boston in the spring of 1910
by Daguerre's agent, Gourad Of Paris.
The Rev. Edward Everett Hale, then a
student in Harvard, became an enthusi-
astic member of the class. In his diary,
under date Of April l, 1910, is this en-
try: ION my way home I stopped at the
shop and got my daguerreotype Their
mometer There seems to be great de.
mand; there were three or four others
there
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Bismarck as DIR. Jekyll.

No greater contrast could possibly be
imagined than that which existed be-
tween the Bismarck of private life and
the Bismarck of politics. "In the home
CIRCLE writes a correspondent who
knew him we'll, she was perfectly
charming, easy going and good natured
He was passionately fond of children,
and have seen him over and over again
have game with the little ones Of his
gardener, who were very familiar with
him and would not hesitate to climb
upon his knee.
"Onoe when his gardeners little girl
died the great statesman went to con-
dole with him. He was dreadfully up
set and while holding the poor father s
hand burst into tears, for he was very
fond of the child. He kissed the little
corpse and himself placed bunch Of
roses in its hand He was always eager
to assist his poorer neighbors and en-
joyed chatting with them on all sub
jects but politics. These he never men.
toned. London Chronicle.
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MUSIC FROM HEAVEN.
Charming German Method of Summoninl
Church Worshfpers

Charming German Method of Summoning
Church Worshipers.
While religious music will doubtless
live as long as religion itself there is
one branch of tiff music it can be
called-which is luckily becoming OBJ
solete. refer to bells and chimes. 1
shall never forget the look of distress
with which famous organist once said
to me that whenever he heard a set of
chimes he wished he could put his ears
in his pocket.
In these days of 81 nickel watches
bells are no longer needed to inform
people when the service begins. They
are, moreover, decided nuisance, and
often dangerous one, for they have
killed many invalids whose life depend
ed upon few hours sleep, which the
bells murdered. In New York bell ring
ing has been frequently stopped on ao-
count of complaints to the board of
health.
If it seems desirable to have means
of summoning worshipers to church,
why not adopt the delightful old custom
GudG ID S6llA OUS6TNeu LII sOIu0 SOuJu O6I-
man villages and in the city Of Stuff
CART? There four trombone players as
oend church tower three times day
and play solemn chorale.
In all my musical experience have
never heard anything more thrilling
than those majestic harmonies in the
air, which seemed to come straight
from heaven. If our churches would
adopt this custom and these celestial
sounds became associated with religious
experiences, they might arouse the dor
mant devotion of many one who other
wise would pass the church door BY
Forum.
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INSECT HEAVY DRINKERS.
Butterflies Sit For Hours Sucking More
Moisture Than Needed.

Moisture Than Needed.
By means of a large number of OBJ
servations Mr.. J. W. Tut is able to
confirm what has been stated by other
observers that certain butterflies and
moths are very much addicted to drink.
In paper published in the proceed
ings' of the South London Entomolog-
ical and Natural History society Mr..
Tut says there can be no doubt that
butterflies drink more than is required
by their tissues under any possible con-
ditions He has known Polyommatus
damon to sit for more than an hour mo-
tionless except for the slight movement
of sucking up and discharging the
moisture almost continuously.
What this internal bath may really
mean cannot be surmised. Another i'm
portant factor as to this drinking habit
is a strange one, the "thirsty souls, :"
as far as his observation goes, being al
most entirely males. Possibly if exact
observations could be made it might be
found that females in small numbers
also visit puddles, pools and streams
for drinking purposes but as far as Mr..
Tut has been able to discover it is the
males alone who indulge in these copi-
GUS libations, while the females are
away laying eggs. Moths and butter
flies Of both sexes visit sugar, overripe
fruit and similar dainties, but they dc
so for food. The males alone seem to be
attracted by pure water, and Mr.. Tut
suggests that, their extra activity hav-
ing originally given them greater need
in this direction, habit which was at
first necessity has become so pleasur-
able that excessive drinking has literal
~ become vice.
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String music properly comes in chords.
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There is no more ardent evolutionist
in the city and no more persistent adj
vocate of Darwins theory than DR..
d'Ancona. His friend, DR.. de Marville,
on the other hand, is great bird fan
cier and devotes all his spare time to an
enthusiastic study of ornithology.
II have splendid specimen of a
monkey in my Office, !" remarked DR..
d'Ancona proudly. Come in and see
him." he continued, being firm be-
lever in the object method of demon
stration. "You will admit that have
the missing link in cage"
'That's all right, replied De Mar
vile, absorbed in his own pet hobby.
81 have cage at home myself, and
something In it too. You're not in it,
and neither is your monkey. I can show
you something much better than your
missing link. / have got bobolink. 4"
San Francisco News Letter.
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wonderful Pumping Engines.

The standard attained by the per-
Torrance of modern pumping engines is
pretty high, as was illustrated by an
incident which occurred not long ago
here in New York, where some large
pumping engines that had recently been
set up and were working at rather high
speed and almost absolutely without
noise were inspected by an expert in
such matters who hailed from an inte-
rior city. He remarked, well, those
engines work very nicely now, but wait
until you get to pumping water at that
speed and then you will hear something
from them probably"
His establishment may perhaps be i'm
agined when it was demonstrated to
him that they were at that moment
pumping water and had been continu-
ously doing SO for 48 hours American
Machinist.
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CONTRASTS IN NAPLES.
Only q Step From Royal MagnifcenOe b
Crowds of Half Naked Workers.


Crowds of Half Naked Workers.
One of the strangest contrasts in Ma
pies is to walk from the royal palace,
with its fine marble staircase, up the
new Corse Re d'Italia and to climb in
to the steep streets around the Church
of San Soverino Sosio.
These streets are the dwelling places
of the dyers, and one steps from regal
magnificence into crowd of seminaked
people, who are busily dipping great
hanks Of cotton or wool into seething
oaldrons As elsewhere, the work is car
ried on in the street, and little streams
of water-red, yellow, brown and black
pour over the rough stones and gath
er in multicolored pools, while on low
benches against the walls women are
washing clothes, standing in the dirty,
soapy water that splashes over from
their tubs
The passersby walk heedlessly through
the dye and soapsuds, while the chill
dren find pleasant occupation in throw
ing mud of every variety of color at
anybody who chances to be wearing
light colored garments. 1t is veritable
feast of color from the merely spectacu-
lar point of view, but a visit to these
streets leaves a bodily as we'll as a
mental impression.
Very often in the depths of these sor-
did alleys one comes across a forgotten
old palace, built when carriages were
unknown, its great court Of honor
crowded with booths, its vast halls fill
ed with heterogeneous collection of
men, women and children, fowls goats,
sheep and occasionally a donkey, all
living together in the happiest proxim-
ity The massive old walls are hidden
beneath centuries of dirt; the wood
work has, for the most part. disappear
ed; the rooms that once knew the revels
of Angevin mobiles now shelter the hap
hazard existence of lazzaroni.
gate
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An Anecdote Of the revolution.

Senator Bate of Tennessee told the
following anecdote of Colonel Tom
Sumter: Sumter was a great big giant
of a fellow, with voice like a fog
horn. 1t is said his "holler'' could be
heard for miles. On one occasion when
he was off on foray the Tories came
and captured his wife, Molly, and
stripped the plantation of everything.
When "Old Tom" came home and found
Molly gone, his rage knew no bounds.
Gathering together such forces as he
could he put after the Tories. He over
took them on the third day and hung
about until midnight. Then he deploy-
ed his forces around the camp and told
them to await his orders to fire. He was
afraid Of Molly being shot in the melee.
So when he got everything ready he
opened his big mouth and let out yell
that fairly made the earth tremble;
Lay down, Mollyi Lay down, MollyP'
and Molly, recognizing those stentorian
tones, fell prone on her face, and after
the last Lay down, Mollyl' came the
command fire and charge. Molly was
recaptured without hurt