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The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1898-04-19

General Horace Porter, in his Cam
paigning With Grant" tells story of
the meeting at City Point between Alex
ander H Stephens, vice president of the
Confederate states, and other southern
commissioners and President Lincoln
and Secretary Seward to discuss pre-
liminaries Of peace. Many officers, in
Guiding General Grant and General Por-
ter, were in attendance on this meeting.
Vice President Stephens was a sal
low, understood man, whose skin seem
ed shriveled on his bones. One of the
officers said Of him, at the end of an in
terview, 'The Lord seems to have rob-
bed that mans body of all its flesh and
blood to make brains of them. ="
On his arrival, Mr.. Stephens. says
General Porter, was wrapped from his
eyes to his heels in coarse gray over
coat about three sizes too large for him,
with collar SO high that it threatened
to lift his hat off every time he leaned
his head back.
The coat, together with his complex
ion, which was as yellow as a ripe ear
VI OOAhg 6dNO AAoO w a OudAuCb6I AIabAOu
by Mr.. Lincoln which was very anus
ing. The next time Mr.. Lincoln saw
General Grant at City Point, after the
conference, he said to him:
Grant, did you notice Stephens
coat?''
"Oh, yes, +" answered the general.
well, +" continued Mr.. Lincoln,
"soon after we assembled ON the steam
er at Hampton Roads the cabin began
to get pretty warm, and Stephens stood
up and pulled off his big coat. He
pulled it off just about as you would
husk an ear of corn. couldn't help
thinking, as looked first at the coat
and then at the man:
"'Well, if that isn't the biggest
shuck and the littlest nubbin ever did
Saap -
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A SONG OF THE evgRYpAYs.

Come, sing me song in the tongue know.
am tired Of the stilted strain,
The worn old rut where the fancies strut
In meaningless, tangled chain.
I am weary Of flights with the faroff gods,
That only the wise may praise.
want the mirth and the tears Of earth,
A song Of the everydays.
A song to tighten the lives of those
Whom labor has called its own,
A note to beat as an echo sweet
OF the world that each has known,
A breeze from the mountains craggy peak,
A Whit from the woodland ways,
A 1eck of foam from the beach at home,
A song Of the everydays.
A blossom plucked from the hawthorn hedge,
A leaf from the bough above,
A ribbon rare or a tress of hair,
A kiss from the lips of love.
A mother step on a chamber floor,
The catch of a childish phrase,
A grass grown sod and a prayer to God,
A song Of the everydays.
Oh, sing me song of the fields and hills,
A song of the sea and land
That shall ring again in the hearts of men
And the least shall understand.
No hint of the scholars classic lore
Or the cynic's bitter lays,
But a song to rest in peasants breast
A song of the everydays.
Joe Lincoln in L. A. W. Bulletin.
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a WORD WITH HUSBANDS.
Give Your Wife a Little Praise Once In
Awhile and See How 1t Works.

Give Your Wife Little Praise Once In
Awhile and See How 1t Works.
"If husbands only knew, or, if know
ing, only cared how very much their
words and manners affect the tempera-
ture of the home world, they would
never by word or deed leave it en-
shrouded in gloom" argues Mrs. A.
M. Marriott in an article entitled
Praise Your Wife" in Woman's Home
band is the sun around which every
thought revolves There is scarcely an
instant in which his presence is not felt
as she goes about her work or even when
at rest. If she is preparing the meals.
the way John likes this or that or some
remark he has made about some article
of food is recalled to mind. If she looks
about her, she sees his hats and coats
hanging on the hooks, and the hats in
variably wear the same expression
John rs face wore when he left in the
morning. jolly, good humored look if
he went away pleasant; if angry, a
gruff, defiant attend to your own bust
ness air takes the place of the SO lately
gentle pliable shapes in felt and fairly
bristle with wrath over some trifle, but
still enough to obscure the sun in the
little world for many weary day, per-
chance, ere it is seemingly forgotten.
'"There is no true woman but will re-
pay her husband over and over again
for kind, thoughtful treatment. He is
ready to call her childish, and she may
seem so to him; but one thing is sure
a woman never forgets.
"All little deeds of love or thought
fulness sown by his hand yield a certain
and abundant harvest She may love
her home better than any other spot on
earth, yet she sometimes gets so weary
Of the daily routine of never ending
duties that fall to her lot that she can
not help an occasional feeling Of envy
for those who have more time for reore-
alton, for going abroad, for all the little
things dear to the heart of every woman,
but which the stern hand Of duty most
debars her from enjoying.
Still, for all that, she would not for the
whole world exchange places, even if
cho COuAuS WIN nIy ObhoI WO14laA5 40dN-
ing home and John-dear old John-as
the price of her freedom from care.
"If your wife has been faithful and
true wife to you, tell her SO. Do not
think it lowers your msnliness any to
let her know that she still has place
in your affections She has toiled early
and late for you and your children,
through sickness and health, and self
denial has grown to be her motto. 1t
takes but little from her loved ones to
make her happy, so do not begrudge her
. word of praise now and then as her
just reward, and Of far more value to
her starving heart than gold. There are
some things which money can never
buy, and wounds which it cannot heal,
but love levels all obstacles, overcomes
al difficulties and immeasurably sweet
ens life"
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ESTABLISHED 1879.

and set the ball a-whirling. 1t stopped
in the II.
Seventeen wins, said he, and on
the II Changed seven silver duros.
Do you leave it therer said he.
~ nodded.
"Again the ivory ball spun round and
again it stopped at II.
Seventeen wins, said the banker.
"Again left the glittering pile upon
the II and again it won. Seven several
times did the goddess Fortune smile
upon me. And when stopped it was
not because 1 feared to venture further,
but because had broken the bank. The
poverty stricken wretch who few mo-
ments before had contemplated suicide
was now wealthy
"And the peseta, said /. "You have
that still, of course?''
"No," he replied, with a strange
smile.
"Why," exclaimed 1, with surprise,
chad I been you would have kept it
all my life. y
'No, ;" he replied, with the same Pc
ouliar smile, you would not have kept
it."
''And why not?"
"When stopped to pick up the coin,
found-nothing.
''Nothingl" 1 echoed. "Why-what
-where''-
"That which had taken for peseta
was not coin. The round, silvery OBJ
ject on which the light had fallen and
deceived me was
WHAT"
"a drop of water Adapted For
Argonaut From the Spanish.
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IN EFFECT DECEMBER II, 1897.

Trains leave Mount Holly as JoIIoss:
For Philadelphia, $50, 800, 6.62, no. 749, s57,
s.I5. ll.2O A. M, 1874, 2Ss, (35O SATURDAYS
only. -, 59s. SIC, s25, 1ooeF P:
For Pemberton, 7So, 9.26 A. M, l.45. 1892. All,
% On Sundays. 1929, Ah.. 6OoPH:
749. 9ls, llO5 A. NJ, $780, 2.55, 40, 4.47, 5.53.
Pm.
On Sundays, 1000 A. M, EOS, 6O5P.M
For East Burlington, $50, TBS, 7.49. s22, $3.50,
9ls. 1918. ll05 A. M, 1890, 255, 4lO 447, 5.l5,
65S, 6.9s, 1925. s.45, 1000 N.
sl5, a.A, 40, 500, 5.35. sos, 6.45, 7l5 $40
800. P. N.
For Lewistown, Columbus, Kinkora, etc.,
735 A. M, LAC, 4.47P.M.
On Sundays, 600 P. N.
For Lumperton, Medford, Marion and Had
dOnfeld. 9.35 A. N.
For yincentown, 1925, sos P. M.
For Toms River, 9.26A M, 4.47,P.M
For Tuckerton, Beach Haven and Barnegat
City, 9.26 A. M, AT PA
For AsDury Park and Long Branch, 9.26 A. M.
Trains leave for Mount Holly as JolLoa0s:
From PHILADELPHIA, $50, 7.50, $780, 1000. l1.2O.
1910, A, M, Q.3O Saturdays only, $50. 400,
t 80 O;io. 60 SO. 500, 1929. ll Il
From New York. via Trenton and Burlington,
$780, $50, IL. 90 A. NJ LOO. 21O. 400, 500, $780,
On Sundays. 1000 A. M, zOOPM
From Trenton. GAS, TAO. 9.25, ILL A. M, 1858,
Ala, $40. 100. 9.55 P. M.
From East Burlington, 100, 1853 S.26, S4S, 942.
1905. l045 II AS M, LOS, 1856, 4.52, $40. 5.58,
$50, 200. 7.oO, $780, 1890 P. M.
On Sundays, 500, 900, 1870, A. M, 1890, 2.35,
300 345. 4sO, 455 $50. 800, $50 7.2O. 745, s45.
10.00P. M.
From Toms River, 7.4s A. M, 4O2 P. M.
From AsDury Park, 2.13P M.
From Medford, ll.55 A. N.
From Long Branch, 155 P. M.
From Pemberton, (north) 6.35, 7.2s. s.3S A. M,
1881, 4.07, 6.10P.
On Sundays, 500 A. M, 5OOp. M.
From Pemberton (south), 8.36 A. M, 4.A P. NJ.
From Vincentown, $50 A. M, lap. M.
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reason Tor all this trouble, tn1nKIng Iess
now Of obliging friend than of disoov-
ering this name SO carefully concealed.
''On the third day an inspiration came
to me, SO simple that it had occurred to
me only after all the other attempts had
failed. wrote to Baden Baden for
list Of the Frenohmen staying at the
hotel Of the unfortunate soribbler. l
would need only to write to all whom l
knew in the place. This Gained me.
And, in truth, l needed it, for l had
conceived an inexplioable rage against
all this, as if something mysterious and
fatal pursued me.
II retired early on the evening of the
third day and soon fell asleep.
81 ought to tell you that / then had
still have, in fact-the habit of using
night lamp. Icannot bear to feel my
self in total darkness for an instant.
"That night-it is truly singular
thing, and have never been able to
think of it without strange sensation
that night I was awakened by sharp
cracking sound in the great silence. I
have never known what that noise was
doubtless the night lamp going out,
for it was perfectly dark. At first feel
ing of awful anguish oppressed me, a
feeling always have when in the dark,
and before had time to fully awaken
/ heard-yes, my friend, actually
heard-the effect of nervousness, you
say?-it matters mott heard voice,
which whispered very low, Jacques
Lerminier.
"a cold shiver ran through my whole
body, though saw no reason for it. In
a second 1 had risen, lighted a candle
and reread the letter from Baden Baden
Why had l not deciphered it before? 1t
was perfectly plain.
"Lerminier was refined boy, oblig
ing, but little wild, whom had loved
much when we were young together,
soon lost from sight, then found again
in those momentary encounters where
rapid clasp of the hand and an earnest
DO you remember is all, and then
separation, perhaps for years.
"Poor Jaoques That is what we al
ways called him at the school of St.
Cyr.
HE should certainly have had his
1000 francs
II looked at the clock. 1t was past
midnight. Nothing could be done until
morning. Immediately wrote a letter
to Baden Baden, excusing myself, ex-
planning all. l placed the money in it
and sealed it. And while l did this I
remembered that the whisper which /
had heard erewhile was exactly like the
voice of jacques when deeply moved.
How strange is the work Of memory
in our brains, / said to myself, and how
was it possible for me to recall at the
same time and while yet asleep the
name and the voice of poor jacques
"Then Invent back to bed again, salts
fed and calm. did not dream any
more Of the whispering voice in the
blackness of my silent chamber. No,
indeed. thought no more of it until
two days later. when received a dis
patch from Baden Baden. My registered
letter had been remailed to me.
"'Poor jacques had killed himself
at midnight two days before, at the mo-
ment when my sleep was interrupted by
a sharp crack-that sharp crack like
the report of pistol
Brignac coughed slightly to clear his
throat.
II positively insist that my child
shall write legible hand" he said,
with sad smile. From the French
For Short Stories.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1898-04-19
NATURE OF LIFE.


A Talk on the Interaction of the Constit-
uents of Protoplasm.
Herbert Spenoer's definition of the
nature of life implies, as is we'll known,
continuous adjustment of internal to
external relations, says the London
Lancet. In other words, vitality is pre-
served by interaotions going on between
the constituents Of the protoplasm. On
the face of it this view must be very
materially modified in the light of some
exceedingly interesting experiments re-
Gently brought to the notice Of the
Royal society by Horace Brown, whose
classic researches on that interesting
class Of ferments the engines are we'll
known. He has found that by submit
ting seeds to the very low temperature
Of evaporating liquid air. e., from
--188 degrees @. to 1919 degrees C.-for
ITO consecutive hours their power of
terminating is not in any way impair
ed. Since the above temperature is con-
siderably below that at which ordinary
chemical reactions take place, the re-
suit is very remarkable and would ap-
pear to show that although state of
complete chemical inertness in proto-
plasm may be established it does not
necessarily lead to a destruction of its
potential activity.
Is this protoplasm thus brought to
resting condition to burst into activi-
ty on restoring favorable conditions? If
SO, what becomes Of life during this
"rest?" These observations are also Of
interest in connection with the sugges-
ton of Lord Kelvin that the origin of
life as we know it may have been extra
terrestrial and due to the "moss grown
fragments from the ruins of another
world" which reached the earth as
meteorites. That such fragments might
circulate in the intense cold space for a
perfectly indefinite period without pref
udice to their freight Of seeds or spores
is, Horace Brown remarks, almost GER
tain from the facts we know about the
maintenance of life by resting pro-
toplasm. The difficulties in the way of
accepting such a hypothesis certainly
do not lie in this direction. Here is an
interesting problem for biologists, and
the development of the question will be
followed with the keenest interest.
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STOLE A $4,000 OPINION.

The wido of Famous General Who
Needed Money to Dress Well.
Some years ago the widow of IA
nous Union general was intimate with
the wife and daughters of a justice of
the supreme court and was as familiar
with their home as with her own,
which was in the immediate neighbor
hood. She was also intimate with the
family of prominent and popular lob
byist, who was supposed to represent
Jay Gould, O. P. Huntington and other
men Of large interests whenever any
thing concerned them in congress. All
the parties are now dead, except the
lady in the case, whom 4will call Mrs.
Smith. She was handsome, ambitious
and frivolous woman, whose husband
committed suicide by drowning himself
in his bathtub. She lived a gay life
afterward, but managed to keep many
of her old friends. Knowing her love
of money and the fact that her income
did not keep pace with her expenses,
the lobbyist told her that he would give
her $40, 900 if she could get him a copy
of the opinion which the justice was
expected to deliver in the supreme
court on the following Monday, involv-
ing the oonstitutionality of the Thur
man Pacific railroad law. He told her
that he knew the opinion was in manu-
script and believed that the judge had
1t locked up in the desk in his library
Sunday morning, as soon as she saw
the justice and his family start for
church, she went across the street,
around Thomas circle, rang the bell and
told the servant that she wanted to look
at book in the Justices library. AS
she was accustomed to go about the
house almost daily they thought moth
ing of 1t. and she was allowed to re-
main undisturbed in the same room
with the decision for nearly two hours
1t is supposed that she had set of false
keys, for the justice said that the opin-
ion was locked up in his desk and could
not have been reached otherwise. But
at any rate the lobbyist is known to
have obtained the opinion in advance,
and the woman was shortly after able
to pay off some pressing obligations. An
investigation disclosed the facts have
stated, end it seemed to be the only
possible way the opinion could have
been obtained. Of course the incident
terminated relations between the two
families, and when the story got out
about town Mrs. Smith found it more
comfortable to rent her Washington resi-
dence and remove to New York.-Chi-
cago Record.
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In the Wrong Order.

"He was married and went crazy,
she said, referring to statement in
morning paper.
Granting that he had any sense in
the first place, T" he returned, ''you must
have got the statement reversed.
"How do you mean?" she demanded.
He went crazy and married, makes
it seem more plausible, he answered.
Chicago Post.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1898-04-19
OLD LOVERS.

Heart Of my heart when the day was young
Hope sang to life with silver tongue,
Hope beckoned love down fiowery way,
Where twas always morning and always May,
And two true lovers need never part
Do you remember, heart of my heart?
Heart Of my heart, when the noon was high
Work showed the way we must travel by,
Duty spoke cold and stern in our ears,
Bidding us bear all the toll and tears,
Paintings and losses, sorrow and smart
Have you forgotten, heart Of my hearth
Heart of my heart, in the setting sun
We sit at peace, with ourAlay' work done.
In the cool of the evening we two look back
On the winding pathway, the Moons rough
track,
And the morn's green pleasance, where roses
Irvine,
Heart of my heart, with your hand in mine.
Heart of my heart, when the night is here
Love will sing songs of life in our ear.
We shall sleep awhile meath the daisied grass,
Till we put on the glory and rise and pass
To walk where eternal splendors shine,
Heart Of my heart, with your hand in mine.
e. Nesbit in Argosy.
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Tn. serr,an Drum.

The men who play the big drums in
the different regiments of the Servian
army must have an easier lot than the
drummers of other lands, for they do
not have to carry their own drums
In nearly all cases instead of being
slung in front of the man who plays it
the instrument is put on a small two
wheel cart drawn by large dog. Of
course the drummer must play as he
marches, but the dog is so we'll trained
that there is no difficulty in doing this.
The animal keeps his place even
through the longest marches, and the
drummer walks behind the cart, per-
forming on his instrument as it goes
along. Each regiment is provided with
two or three big drums, but very few
regiments have band. Youths Com
panion.
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TRICKS OF MEMORY.
Notable Examples of Forgetfulness Ths
u.

Notable Examples of Forgetfulness That
Are Supposed to Be True.
The first man to start school for the
training of memory was Greek, ST.
monides, who read one of his poetic
compositions to a large audience and SO
fascinated them that when he bowed
and withdrew from the building they
sat spellbound. The roof caved in and
killed them all, mangling them SO that
the bodies were unacceptable, but ST.
monides came to the rescue of the de-
spairing relatives and said he could re-
member where each person in the audi
ence sat and who he was. AS there was
no one to dispute his decisions his iden-
LITIGATION was satisfactory, and he profit
ed by the enthusiasm to start memory
school,
A young woman of no education fell
i'll in small German town. She could
neither read nor write, yet she raved in
Latin, Greek and Hebrew, and the sim
pie villagers thought she was possessed
Of the devil. Investigation proved that
at the age Of she had been taken by
Ohd4 4ueAOAC OAh L AObCptfsA4U Hno6O1. ~ W db
his custom for years to walk up and
down passage Of the house into which
the kitchen opened and read to himself
in a loud voice out of his books. These
books we're ransacked by the physician
in charge of the curious case and who
had made inquiries into the sick girls
past life, and in them were found the
identical Greek and Latin passages
which the girl in her delirium had re-
peated.
There is an authentic case of bril-
liant young woman, happily married,
who had a long Illness, the result of
which was that when she recovered she
had lost every recollection Of her life
from the day of her marriage, inclusive
Of the ceremony. The rest of her life up
to that point she remembered clearly.
At first she pushed her husband and her
child from her in alarm, but her par
ents and friends have convinced her she
is married and has a son. She believes
their word of necessity. though she has
never recovered her memory of that one
year which is lost to her.-Exohange.
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worn. Every time the emperor passed
him he would say:
GOOD day, L'Etoile.
And he would continue his way, hap
py to see L'Etoile still dumb, for he re-
membered the words of the little lead
soldier.
''When shall speak, will be at the
point Of death and you about to be van
quished.
After victory, then defeat
The emperor leaves for the island of
Elba. He takes L'Etoile with him.
L'Etoile Is always mute.
The emperor thinks of returning to
France. He returns. He has hardly
landed before he sends for L'Etoile and
speaks to him. L'Etoile remains silent.
And, confident, Napoleon crosses
France and reascends his throne.
But now the allies begin to wage war
against him. He, without being discon-
oerted, raises armies, fights every day /;
always brave, always defeated, but
hopeful for the future, for L'Etoile has
not yet spoken.
But in the midst of his losses Napo-
leon wonders if L'Etoile has not been
false to him.
No; he has not been untrue.
Waterloo! Behold, Waterlool
The battle is fierce. The last square
alone now remains. The emperor, from
an elevation, looks over the plain. With
a fieldglass he looks for L'Etoile. And
now he sees him. The grenadier is
fighting desperately.
Suddenly he falls, struck by bullet.
The emperor, pale as corpse, drops
his glass and comes down.
L'Etoile is about to speak. Will he
speak?
He imagines he will hear the voice of
L Etoile in his ear as he did at Brienne,
and that ne will see perched on pebble
by his side tiny lead soldier.
The emperor neither hears nor sees
anything.
His courage returns
Who knows? Maybe everything is
not yet over? L'Etoile may not be fatal
ly wounded.
And with a confident air the emperor
surveys the horizon.
The litters carried by ambulances
now pass before him. They slowly and
sadly wend their way by tens, twenties,
thirties-
And suddenly in one of them the
oYn porO1 roaoOni1oc T,sEkoiIo
Like mailman he dismounts, leav-
ing his astonished marshals, and quickly
reaches the wounded soldier, whom he
finds pale and rigid as death.
''Poor J. 'Etoile'' said the emperor.
Then, addressing the surgeon;
''Did he speak?''
"No, sire, he is mute. :"
The emperor breathes again. But
now he hears a broken voice coming
from the corpse of L 'Etoile:
1.-THE emperor is very tired tonight, "
says the voice.
And for the first time in his life the
emperor faints.
X
At St. Helena, Napoleon plays, as of
yore, with his little lead soldiers. AS
before, he drills and leads them to i'm
aginary victories.
He sometimes listens, hoping that one
of them will speak, saluting him, as in
the past, by the sweet name of emperor.
But the little lead soldiers are silent.
Never again will they speak.
L'Etoile is dead. The emperor is
fallen. The little lead soldiers will
speak no more. From the French For
Chicago Times Herald.