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The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1898-05-24
Stopped the Fight.

Well, +" said Bliggs while sitting up
in bed talking with the family lawyer,
"I'll tell you all about it, but not a
word to any one else, mind you. I'm q
sight and SCARED up like the hero of
German university, but l suppose it's
something to be alive
lyon know the governor has been
urging me to strike out and see what
could do for myself. He'd advance the
money, to be charged against my share
of the estate of course. kept my eye
open and saw chance that was worth
fortune in one plunge. A couple Of
fellows in our set had a falling out,
with which think jealousy had some
thing to do, and agreed to put on the
gloves as a safe and honorable way Of
settling their differences They had
private hall, and it didn' require two
thoughts on my part to convince me
that reproduction of their mill would
make hit and fortune. To make sure
l provided myself with both a vitascope
and veriscope. l had a big pile of
films on hand for the occasion, and you
know that these films are of celluloid.
The janitor was my fellow conspirator.
about the third round, and while
we were getting along swimmingly,
there was an explosion like the blowing
up Of a dynamite factory, the select au-
dienoe stampeded, the principals hustled
down the back stairs and the police
found me unconscious under wreck.
Something had set that celluloid of,
and I'll never know what did it. No
one else has theory. Just tell the gov
ernor that made bad investment -
Detroit Free Press.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1898-05-24
The ALPINE Good Nlght.

Among the lofty mountains and ele-
waited valleys of Switzerland the Alpine
horn has another use besides that Of
sounding the farfamed RAM DIES
Vaches, or COW song, and this is of a
very solemn and impressive nature.
When the sun has set in the valley
and the snowy SUBMITS of the noun
tains CLEAN with golden light, the herds
man who dwells upon the highest hab-
liable spot takes his horn and pro-
nounces clearly and loudly through it,
as through speaking trumpet, Praise
the Lord God" AS soon as the sound is
heard by the neighboring herdsmen
they issue from their huts, take their
Alpine horns and repeat the same words.
This frequently lasts quarter of an
hour, and the call resounds from all the
mountains and rocky cliffs around.
When silence again reigns, the herds
men kneel and pray with uncovered
heads. Meantime it has become quite
dark. GOOD night'' at last calls the
highest herdsman through his horn.
The words resound from all the noun
tains, the horns of the herdsmen and
the cliffs, and the mountaineers then re-
tire to their dwellings. -Pittsburg Dis
Match
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1898-05-24

Not many years ago the possibility
of shipping eggs from Australia with
any Likelihood of their reaching Eng
land except in decomposed condition
would have been ridiculed as utterly
unworthy of consideration. Today the
thing is not only being accomplished,
but the eggs arrive in such first class
condition that they pass as new laid.
This has been rendered possible by the
universal employment of refrigerating
apparatus on shipboard. The eggs, while
still perfectly fresh, are forwarded by
the Australian poultry keepers to the
cold store and are shipped to England
at the time when eggs are scarce and
consequently at their dearest. Many
thousands of dozens, packed in boxes
with cardboard divisions, filled up with
dry pea husks, are now forwarded to
this country from November to JAM
uary. In recent consignment the local
price of the eggs at the time of shipping
was sgd. per dozen, the freight and
packing cost about Sd. per dozen, and
they realized Is. Cd. per dozen retail on
arrival at this side of the world
Chambers Journal.
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ANCIENT TIMEPIECEs.
Various Methods of Measuring Time Prior
to the Invention of Clocks,

Various Methods of Measuring Time Prior
to the Invention of Clocks.
We need do no more than allude to
the habit after the reformation, and
especially in Scotland, of preachers
measuring their discourses by the hour
glass in the pulpit These marked an
hour exactly. Those first made in
Charlemagne's day ran for IL hours
Alfred the Great hit upon a method of
was no Saxon one, though very proba-
bly, some of the monasteries (then the
only homes Of knowledge) were &C.
quainted with water clocks and hour
glasses, if not by practical knowledge
at any rate by hearsay.
However, the kingdom in general fol
lowed Alfred's plan, which, though in
genious necessarily lacked anything
like the accuracy Of the other inven-
tons Yet the kings idea was hailed as
a wonderful effort of genius, which, for
such an era by comparison with the
general ignorance, it was. AS every
schoolboy lin this case literally knows
Alfred marked time by flashlights. A
long existence, by the way, has the rush
light enjoyed, seeing that middle aged
people still remember it's use in the nurs-
cry at night and the reflection of the
circular holes in the tall metal shades
on the ceiling.
Alfred, says an ancient authority,
that he might properly know how
the hours passed, made use of burning
tapers which were marked with lines
and fixed in lanthorns, an expedient in
vented by himself. So, by the way,
were in 500 the lanterns of scraped
horn which still some old fashioned
rustics prefer to glass. But tapers,
however, were then very expensive.
The king might himself use these, but
probably the rushlight was used by peo-
pie in general. London Standard.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1898-05-24
Lincoln,s Gift to a Fire brigade.

The Sons and Daughters of Illinois
held meeting in Boston at which Vice
President Henry Haynie told this story
Of Lincoln:
1.-THE fire hose company Of Spring
field was very proud of its well equip
ped fire apparatus, and, desiring to pro-
cure some extra supplies, subscription
papers were sent around. The small
boys, myself among the number, were
given share in the work. Invent up to
some dusty rooms over grocery and
entered the law Office of Lincoln. He
asked me numberless questions, and
had to tell him all knew of this fire
brigade and its members. Then he said:
Well, I'll tell you what I'll do. I'll go
home to supper-Mrs. Lincoln is gener-
ally good natured after supper-and
then I'll tell her I've been thinking of
giving $50 to the brigade, and she'll
say, ABE. will you never have any
sense? Twenty dollars is quite enough. "
So tomorrow my boy, you come around
and get your $40. Chicago Times
Herald
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Vice For Sale.

Several good religious people, says
the Louisville Commercial, "who are
accustomed to drive out the Browns
boro road, were considerably shocked
the other morning when on passing q
blacksmith shop at the edge of the town
they were brought face to face with a
large sign, Vice For Sale Here One old
lady, who has for years been identified
with philanthropic and charitable work,
was especially indignant. Purely in the
interests Of society she undertook to
discover just what particular style Of
evil was for sale. Entering the shop
with her nose high in the air, she ap-
preached the proprietor. Man, she
said, Il understand you have vice for
sale here. The brawny blacksmith fell
back before the incarnation of naughty,
offended virtue. Yes, ma'am, he re-
piled weakly. H. went on the woman
austerely, am a member Of the Society
For the Suppression of Vice, and I wish
to see what form of the deadly sin you
have The man turned and led the way
to the back of the shop, where steel
wise was screwed to a workbench.
There it is, ma am, and the very best
steel too. It's dead cheap at So. 90. She
has not vet recovered -
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Cleanliness.

One of the most important factors in
maintaining health in good order is
cleanliness. 1t comprised in measures
that tend to keep the organs clean and
in proper order to perform all their
functions. The cleanliness of the skin
and the air (purity of the air. that we
breathe in are essential for the proper
keeping of ones health. Any impurities
that are taken in breathing find their
way to the blood, and thus serve SO
many centers Of disease and are the
cause of many infectious diseases.
Again, if the skin is not kept clean the
impurities that are to be secreted are
unduly accumulated in the blood and
tend to give rise to severe and often
dangerous disorders, such as skin dis
eases and blood poisoning. New York
Ledger.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1898-05-24
Thrifty Georre Cnruon.

The Hon. George Curzon, who mar
ried beautiful Miss Letter, is decidedly
canny. He recently rented country
mansion furnished, but without the
family plate, and SO was compelled to
provide candlesticks for the house. He
tried to exact from the landlords agent
a pledge that at the expiration of the
lease be would take these candlesticks
off his hands at two-thirds of what they
cost. The agent demurred at first, but
when he discovered that they were 10
in number, of japanned tin and cost 40
cents each, he solemnly agreed to pay
81 for the lot when Curzon leaves.
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The bearded min let tile sword which

The bearded MIN let tile sword which
he carried fall back into its sheath.
"Oh, you've ooWe back for the babyi
Come back through the shells and bul
Il ts, Ell? Ny girl, you're a regular Joan
of Arc
ono, sir, I'm a Confederate. And
please, won't you help me to find baby?"
The big soldier caught Nell up in his
arms.
"Why, your poor little foot S cut. -
he cried, land your shoulders bleeding
too. This is awful. I"
Don't mind my shoulder, Mr.. Yam
kee. Let me find baby"
The Federal officer put his spare hand
to his mouth by way of speaking
trumpet and shouted in stentorian tones,
-man-found-a baby?"
From the right came an answering
hail, and a soldier came running out of
the darkness.
"We found colored girl and baby
over there, sir, " he said. "The girl had
been knocked down by some burning
timbers from the barn.
Two minutes later Baby Hal was
cooling, just as if nothing had happened,
upon Nell's lacerated shoulder Poor
Phoebe, badly though not dangerously
hurt, told how in flying blindly from
the Federals she had been struck and
disabled by falling beam.
AS the story spread among the Fed
eral soldiers they gathered around Nell,
cheering her SO loudly that Aunt Dru-
silla, sitting disconsolately upon her
stump in the woods, heard the uproar
and wondered what it meant.
Not long had the honest old negress
to wonder, for presently there marched
through the woods a guard of honor
surrounding the Federal officer who car.
ried both Nell and the baby in his
strong arms.
"Oh, chile, chilel' cried Aunt Dru-
silla as she gave Nell her very heartiest
hug. "Yo' done give me pow full scare.
But it's all right now, Dress de Lawd,
an dem dar Yankees amt SO bad after
all. Chicago Inter Ocean.
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DRAWN BATTLE.

The heavy, heavy nights are ON him like the
ground,
And all the bitter days are over like the sea,
And even thus, o GODS whom think ye to have
bound,
Nothing other now to do, nowhere else for
aye to be?
Never stagnant nor asleep Enceladus is found
In the shell of doom alive and invincible and
free,
By the knowledge and the will and the pleas
ure wrapped around
OF the thing that he would do, in the place
where he would be.
Whence the profit, whose the odds,
Feeble gods2
One before you disavowed,
Woven ruin for his shroud,
Is more crafty, is more proud, is more calm
than are ye.
We that search and would torment
His intent.
Meet yourselves as in well,
But can track not, neither TELL
If this man indeed rebel so to do and so to be.
Louise Imogen Quincy in Chap Book.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1898-05-24
THE STAGE DRIVERS BLUFF.
Hairbreadtb Stories of Accidents Which
Failea Co Awe One Passenger.

hAhEDEeAuOo 6UOr1eb OF Acc1oenC8 WnlGn
Fai1eo TO Awe One Passenger.
AS we left Sandy Gulch for Rising
Sun there were six male passengers to
go by the stage, and the route was over
the mountains and full of chances Of
disaster. The driver came out from
breakfast as soon as the stage was ready,
and looking about on the passengers he
selected small, pale faced man and
invited him to climb up beside him.
While the pale faced man was climbing
the driver whispered to the rest Of us:
Il picked him out in order to scare
him to death. You fellows will see a
heap of fun before we've gone ten
miles"
Two minutes west of the gulch the
road made sudden turn, with sheer
fall of 100 feet down to Wild Cat creek,
and the driver put his horses at the gal
lop and said to the man:
"We may get around all right, or we
may fetch up down below. Hold your
breath and say your prayers.
The passenger made no move and did
not change countenance, and after max
ing the course all right the driver rather
Indignantly demanded:
Didn't you see that the off wheel
run within foot of the edge Of the
preoipice?''
'It ran within six inches, sir, was
the reply.
Beyond the curve was down grade
of mile, and with a yell and a flour
ish of his whip the driver urged his
horses to dead run. The five of us in
side had to hang on for dear life, and
every half minute the stage seemed
bound to go over.
"Did you know that if we'd struck a
rock we'd all been dead men in no
timer
"Of course. -
"And you wasn't prayin?'
"Not at all. a"
Three or four miles farther on the
driver tried his man with another curve.
In his determination to make a close
call Of it one wheel ran off the edge of
the precipice, and only sudden effort
of the horses saved the coach. We were
flung in heap and frightened half to
death, but the man beside the driver
never lost puff of his cigar When
things were safe, the driver turned On
him with:
"That surely was the brink of the
grave.
"Guess it was, was the quiet reply.
''The closest shave you will ever hev
till the last one comes"
Eyes"
"See here, now, but what sort of a
critter are your" was the query. Don't
you know huff to git skeart?''
Nothing has happened yet to scare
me-
But mebbe you want me to drive
plumb over precipice /, 600 feet high?''
eff you conveniently can. The fact
is, came off up here intending to COM
nit suicide, and if you can dump the
whole of us over some cliff you'll oblige
me. Atlanta Constitution.
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REFUSED to Express the Babv.

A South Slider called up the American
Express company by telephone and
wanted the agent to make contract to
bring precious package from northern
Michigan. When asked the character of
the package, the man at the telephone
said it was a 6-month-old baby. The
person in whose care the child had been
left, the mother being dead, had wired
that she could no longer take care Of
the little one. General Agent Nosler
told the anxious father that he could do
nothing for him, whereat the latter
seemed greatly disappointed Mr.. Nos
Ter said that 90 years ago the company
accepted charges of that character, but
the carriage Of men, women and chill
dren became risky and undesirable and
finally had been abandoned by all the ex-
press companies. Tribune.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1898-05-24
Cabs In Berlin.

When an American enters a cab in
Berlin for the first time, he is said to
be absorbed for half an hour in studying
the impressive notice hung up there
in for the benefit Of passengers 1t reads
literally translated, thus; mo passage
money has the passage guest to pay, if
to him not on the mounting of the cab
the valid passage tickets, on height of
the for simple passage to be paid pas
sage money, by the coachman down
reached become are. Chicago Inter
Ocean.
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Visitor-Is Miss Rose at home?
Servant-No, sir.
Visitor-Why, she has just come ini
/ saw her.
Seryant-Yes. sir, and she saw you
too, Nuggets.
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Cures Rheumatism

Hoods SarsapariIIa Gives Entire
Relief from the Aches and
Pains Great Blood Purifier and
Tonic for the Whole Family.
"When l first began using Hoods Sar-
saparilla l did not purchase it for any
special disease, but my little ones needed
tonic and blood purifier, and as Hoods
Sarsaparilla was SO highly recommended
/ decided to try it. 1t helped them WON
derfully. 1 have been subject to rheu-
matism for five or six years, and can
conscientiously say Hoods Sarsaparilla
has given me entire relief from this
disease. A month ago / had indications
of a return of rheumatism, and to guard
myself against it 1 fastened to take
Hoods Sarsaparilla, and was soon improv-
ing. always give this medicine to my
children whenever needing tonic and
blood purifier" MRS S. A. SAGAR, Sc
Lincoln St., Passaic, New Jersey.
Hoods Sarsaparilla
Is the best-in fact the One True Blood Purifier.
Sold by all druggists. Price, 81; six for SIS.
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"Fweddy, why don't you let your
mustache grown
"Why don't let it? Good heavens,
deah boy, do, but it won't. "-Chica
20 Record.
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The Old Man Was Cured.

Talk about curing people of bad
habits one of the funniest cases ever
knew occurred on the south side some
years ago." said Detective Thomas Nc
Quaide. "TheTe was an old fellow over
there who would insist on fussing with
his wife, who would invariably give
him the worst of it. Then he would run
up stairs and hang out Of the second
story window, holding to the ledge,
shouting like wildfre that he was going
to drop and kill himself. OF course the
wife would relent and set up a noise
that would bring out the neighbors for
blocks, and the man would be pulled
in the window by friends.
"This got to be coming too frequently,
and some of the boys who lived near,
and who had loosened several joints in
their spines at different times pulling
him in, decided to stop it. One fine day
it came again. The old fellow hung out
Of the window, shouting that he would
surely jump and end it all; the wife
came rushing into the street in Mysteries,
and the neighbors ran as before to pull
HAHI u AA6 uISb uldu VIII BOb bu0I0
hit the man S fingers with stick, max
ing him loosen his hold, and, to the
horror of all, be dropped to the hard
pavement with howl that was pitiful.
He was not badly hurt, but it cured
him of that bad habit. "-Pittsburg Dis
patch.
Variations on an Ancient Theme.
my wife, said the tall, lantern
jawed man, SIS as womanly woman
as you could find, but she can hammer
nails like lightning
Wonderful, !" sang the chorus.
lightning, the tall, lantern jawed
man continued, seldom strikes twice
in the same place. Cincinnati En-.
quirer.
The Austrian government has Hun
garian opal 324 inches long and az
inches thick. 1t weighs II ounces and
is worth $500, 0O0 The fire opal, of a
hyacinth red to a honey yellow, with
firelike reflections of bright light, is
valued at from So to $40 per carat.
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The natives of Siberia prepare a sim
gularly intoxicating beverage from q
common mushroom.
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The Rorrower.s WAY.

If you lend man grass seed, he'll
Iome around later to borrow a laws
Slower. = Christian Work.
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Union transportation Company.

TuckertOn Railroad.
Leave Mount Holly tor Tuckerton 9.26 A. M
4.47 P. M, daily except Sunday.
Leave Tuckerton Tor Mount Holly, 100 A. M,
200 P. M. daily except Sunday.
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Variations on an Ancient Theme

The republic of Uruguay has moro
newspapers in proportion to it's popula-
tion than any country in the world.
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Medford, Marlton and Philadelphia.
Leave Medtord for Philadelphia at 700. 1907
AM, 2.I3, 52l, Pm.
On Sundays, sol A. NJ, $50 P. NJ.
LetYe Marion Tor Philadelphia at TIA, 1920
\. M. 2.35, 535, p.
On Sundays, S.l4 A. M, 4.02 p. M.
Leave FhiIudelphia, Market Street, for Med
lord and Marion at 7O0 1880, A. M, 800, $50,
Pm.
On Sundays, s45 A. M, $50 P. M.
Leave Nutrition tor Medtord, S.ll, ll38 A. M,
3.54, 20, p NJ.
On sundays, o 80, A. NJ, 623P.M.
For further particulars apply to the ticket
agent at the station.
j. b. HUTCHINSON j. X. WOOD,
General Manager. Gen. Pass. Agent.
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VOL. XIX. NO. 20.
PENNSYLVANIA RHILROA D.
The Standard Railroad of Ameyica Pro
tected Throughout by Block Signals
and Interlocking .SaOitcHeS.
IN EFFECT MAY 4, 1898.

Trains teaue Mount Holly as Jouovs:
FOR Philadelphia, $50, $780, 6.52, TO- 74s, s.57,
9l5. ll2O A. M, 1894. 2.33. (3.5O Saturdays
only. 4.2S. 500, GIG. s.25, lO.5OP M
On sundays, SIS A. M. l2.O5. 5.ls, s.5OP.M
FOR 70 re5mDerton, 1885, 926 A. M Las. 1892, AT,
On Sundays, 1923, A. M. 600 I'M
For Bordentown, Trenton and New York, $50,
149, 9lS ll.05 A. NJ, 1870, 255 40, 4.47, 5.53,
p
on Sundays, 1000 A. M, 2.O5. COS Pm
sls, 1918, mo5 4 NJ, 1885, 255 $40, III. SIC
Dob, GIG, 7.2l. S.45. I0.0OP. M.
ON sundays 725 $50, 10 90 A. M, 1900 205, 2.3O.
PIP S4, 40, 500. 5.35, sos, Gas, 7l5. S.l5
$50, P. NJ.
For Lewistown, Columbus, Kinkora, etc.,
735 A. M, Las, LAT Pm
On Sundays, 800 P. M.
For Lumperton, Medford, Marion ana Had
donfeld. 9.35 A. N.
For Nincentown, l2.35, sos P. NJ.
For Toms River, 9.26A M, AL Pm.
For Tuckerton, Beach Haven and Barnegat
City, 9.26 A. M, AT p.
For Asbury Park and Long Branch 9.26 A. NJ
Trains teaUe for Mount Holly as Jotto,os:
1910, A. M, Il 80 Saturdays only), 2.3O. 400,
80, 80, 6.lO, G.50. 500, 1890. II :45P.M.
On sundays, 9.l5 A. M, 90. 800, l0.30PM.
From New York. via Trenton and Burlington,
500. $50, li.OO A. M, LOO. 2lO. 400. 500 500
On Sundays. 1000 A. NJ, 7.OOpM
From Trenton. 6:45, Tao. 1925, ILL A. M. 253,
Ala, $40. ZOO, 9.55 r. N.
On Sundays, GAO. 1l.50, A.. M, 4.05, sos, Pm.
From East Burlington 100, 1853. SIG. s.4s, AZ
1905 lO45, II .4s A. M l.O5. $50, 4l0. 5.l6 5.5s
$50, 100. 100, $50, 1890 p. NJ.
On Sundays, 500, 800 1890, A. M, 1890, 2.35,
200, 345 4SO, 455. $780, $50, $50, 72O, 745, $40.
l0.00P. M.
From Toms River, 74s A. M, 4.02 pm.
From AsDury Park, 2.13P.M.
From Medford, ll.55 A.
From Long Branch, l.55, P. M.
From Pemberton, (north) 6.35, 7.2s. s33 A. M.
1881, 407, Sl0P.
On Sundays, 500 A. M, 5OOP. M.
From Pemberton (south), $3.50 A. NJ, 4.44 P. M.
From Vincentown, $50 A. M, lap. NJ.