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The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1898-10-18
ESTABLISHED 1879.

written: "My darling boy, John, died
July 8, 1868, aged z years and
months, the day his father was killed
at Gettysburg. Z"
When Nosey looked again he realized
that the kid whom he thought to be
asleep, so peaceful was the smile ON his
parted lips, was dead Aunt John was
on her knees alongside of the cot, with
her withered hand resting inert ON the
floor and her living arm thrown over
the corpse, while the faded picture was
pressed to her lips. She got up after
awhile and made Nosey understand that
she wanted an undertaken. So he went
out to get one and incidentally to relate
his experiences to his fellows, who i'm
mediately made up purse of $1.45,
which four of them took to Aunt John,
telling her in their rough way that it
was to buy ''wreat of flowers fur the
kid" She took the money and, greatly
to the surprise of the donors, patted
each one of them on the head
On the Sunday following-this was
on Friday-there was funeral from
the top floor of the tenement, and when
the undertaker's assistant carried out
the slender coffin he saw daguerreo-
type tied on the lid with bit of Irvine,
and the old woman told him she want
ed it buried with the body. Her old
heart was broken, and the remainder of
other and happier days must be laid
away with the memory. And the I'M
dertaker did as she wished, and heaped
the clods on the coffin and the picture
Aunt John was never seen at the
bridge again. She disappeared as sud
denly and as mysteriously as she came,
and the boys to this day are Of the odd
and homely opinion that she dried up
and bowed away, because grief turned
her blood to dust.-Vincent G. Cook in
New York Mail.
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He hadn't been in ball game for 90
years. He was one of the veterans who
talk about the old Knoxville Reds and
about the merits of John Houk or Mar
tin Condor as pitchers and of Will Hunt
as a catcher.
They didn't need any of them bird
cages and chest protectors in the old
days, / tell you The ketcher stood
right up to the bat with nothin on but
an undershirt, and if he got hit in the
face he went right ON with the game,
and what's them hams they carry round
on their hands?'' said the old fellow.
"Oh, all the catchers and fielders
now wear mittsl It's easier to catch
flies, you know.
well, that beats my timeP' said the
old veteran. "Mitts? l reckon that's to
keep their hands from gittin hurt. Why,
doggone my cats, the fielders in the
sixties didn t wear nothini They'd have
been ashamed. They didn't think moth
in of havin two or three broken fingers
and goin right along with the game. Say,
the wimmen could play this game, l
reckon. It's putty nigh as soft as long
tennis or lrokay.
''Say, why didn't that chump ketch
that foul on the bound? Have to ketch
EN- on the fly, does he? Why, by links,
in my day Teller had to know just
how it was goin to bounce, and you bet
it took good judgment to tell which
way the thing was a-goin
''And they lowed them jist as many
balls as they wanted and plenty of strikes
too. This newfangled concern aim t no
good Mighty good thing that they
erected a monument to the mem 'ry of
Harry Wright, but I'll bet you he re-
membered what a good game they use
ter have in the old days when they only
had one pitcher and one ketcher -
And the old man rambled on and
thought this thing of making two or
three runs to a game was bad piece Of
playing. Knoxville Tribune
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BURNE-JoNES.

ROssettrs Influence In Causing the
Artist to Hyphenate His Name.
1t may or may not be true that it was
Rossetti who urged Burne- Jones, when
at the outset Of his career, to connect
with hyphen "Burne" and Jones, "
says William Sharp in The Atlantic
Jones' is nobody" Rossetti would
declare, 'tonly particle Of vast null
tiplel But Burne- Jones-that is unmis-
takableP'
Ii was an amusing trait in Rossetti
that he was wont to designate the good
work of this or that friend as the work
of--and he would mention the most
distinctive name or part name of the
person concerned Thus he would say.
eyes, that is Burne-Jones, but this.
this here, you know, is only Jones, or
"That now is the real Holman Hunt,
but this here is only Hunt, or, "You
can hear Tennyson in that, but Alfred
wrote the other lines.
recall two amusing instances where
Burne- Jones more or less unconsciously
adopted the same method He was asked
once if he thought William Bell Scott
more eminent as poet or as an artist
II never thought very highly of Bell, "
he replied. Then, seeing look of sur
prise, added, with humorous twinkle,
81 liked old Bell Scott-old Scotus, as
we always called unanimously and
! think William Bell Scott wrote some
very fine verse, but always thought it
was pity that Bell took to paintingr"
The other instance occurred when
some one remarked to him that Par
nell was only an agitator. y Charles
Stewart Parnell, " he replied with en-
phasis, twas one of the greatest public
men of our day and far and away the
ablest Irish leader. but Parnell, "
ETC., resumed the objector, to be again
corrected by the other disputant,
"Charles Stewart Parnell, ETC.
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PoLITENEss NOT WANTED.
In the Case of the Elevator Man 1t
Should Be Discouraged.

In the Case of the Elevator Man 1t
Should Be Discouraged.
In view of the fact that the various
petty employees of large corporations
are usually not overburdened with po-
likeness or consideration for the public,
the complaint recently made against a
passenger elevator man seems remark
able 1t was alleged that the man was
''too polite for safety The man who
was the subject of the complaint did
what hundreds of elevator men do.
When the elevator gets to the ground
floor, the conductor usually steps out of
the car to get Whit of fresh air, to
say word to the Mailman or possibly
make inquiry about the ball game.
The mailman or starter shouts 60
ing upP' to the people coming into the
hall, and the elevator man stands in
front Of the cage and politely asks his
passengers to step in, while he re-
mains on the outside until the starter
shouts "L right Then he cuts his
sentence short, steps into the cage,
starts the elevator and slams the door
after the ascent has begun
Most persons "step in when asked
to do SO, but occasionally man with
an eye to self preservation refuses to do
so, and one of that class made the COM
plant. The man who insists on the ele-
vator man being in the car before he
will go in is usually looked upon by the
man Of many ups and downs as foolish
ly careful, but owners of buildings who
are held responsible for the safety of
their tenants while riding in the eleva-
tors are pleased to see them firm on
that point. 1t may look well for uni
formed man to step aside and ask the
passengers to precede him into the ele-
vator cage, but many persons will agree
with the man who made the complaint
that it is case of politeness which
should be discouraged in the interest of
safety. New York Tribune.
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Rarristers, Fees.

Barristers' fees in England are a
variable quantity. AS viewed in a So
licitor's bill of costs they look some
what mysterious A barrister's guinea
($5. 25) is always 81 3s- 3D. ($5.87); 3
guineas $50. SOY are invariably e2 I'd.
($11.75), and so OH. This is explained
by the fact that he charges a supple
mentary fee for his clerk at the rate of
2s. Sd. (62 cents) for every guinea he
earns. No fee is less than a guinea. An
unwritten law, dating from the time
when the guinea was a coin of the
realm, DEGREES that barristers must not
accept silver. One transgression of this
rule is recorded. A somewhat impecuni-
Gus member of the profession accepted
few shillings as payment from poor
client. He was promptly called before
the benchers of the inn to explain. His
plea was that if he did not take gold he
at least took all the man had got,
whereupon he was at once honorably
acquitted. 1t was impossible to cavil at
such worthy upholding Of all the ira
ditions of the profession. Like physi-
OAduGy Du11l6bOlb ICCONOI luC4I
dues at law. The fee is supposed to be
an "honorarium" which was not ex-
pected. There is quaint survival of
the alleged sensitiveness of barristers
about fees. In their gowns may still be
noticed sort of long, narrow pocket
arrangement, hanging down at the
back of the left shoulder Its occupa-
ton is gone now, but in the old time it
was the recognized receptacle for the
guineas which were supposed to be
dropped in surreptitiously by the client.
Very different is the brazen effrontery
of these days, when eminent pleaders
will calmly demand their 80 guineas
retainer" to induce them even to look
at the proffered brief New York Mail
and Express
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MAKING WOOD ALCOHOL.
Fhe Deadly Substnn nee That ThirGtS
Topers Sometimes Drink.

rhe Deadly Substn nee That Thirsty
TOpers Sometimes Drink.
1t is necessary first to convert wood
into liquid. The strongest hydraulic
pressure would not squeeze one-half of
per cent of the moisture from dry
wood, but by putting the same material
into an iron retort and converting it
into charcoal by means of heat the gases
and smoke, to the extent of fully IS per
cent of the weight of the wood, may be
condensed into pyroligneous acid, from
which are obtained wood alcohol, acetate
of lime and wood tars. A cord of wood
weighing 4, 900 pounds produces about
1850 pounds of pyroligneous acid and
200 pounds of charcoal. The pyroligne-
Gus acid from one cord of wood pro-
duces gallons Of SO per cent crude
wood alcohol, 900 pounds Of acetate of
lime and about % gallons of tar. besides
50 bushels of charcoal After the pyro-
ligneous acid is neutralized with lime
the wood alcohol is distilled off, the
lime holding the acetic acid in solution.
After the separation of the wood spirit
the remaining liquid is boiled down in
pans to sugar, which is dried. and be-
comes the acetate Of lime Of commerce.
Acetate of lime is used for making acetio
acid.
Fully three-ffths of all the wood al
oohol and acetate of lime produced in
the world are made in the United States
Over $4,000 acres of forest per year are
cleared in the United States Wood al
cohol affords perfect substitute for
grain alcohol for manufacturing and
mechanical purposes, and at less than
one third the cost. 1t is used principally
as a solvent in the making Of shellac
varnish and in making celluloid and
Photographic paper. 1t makes beautiful
dye tints, is antiseptic and is used for
liniments and for skin rubbing in bath
houses. Wine and Spirit Gazette.
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required to drown a rat in a hole.

required to drown rat IN hole.
Meanwhile the boys, greatly fright
ened by the sudden storm and with no
thought for the safety of the flock, were
in the shack. The hail pounded and the
wind shook it. Water covered the floor
Pray, Billy said the one on the
barrel
No; you do it, he answered from
the table top.
The shack had DO window, and with
the door closed it was pretty dark in
there. When Whalen reached home two
hours later, the floor was still wet and
the boys were yet roosting on table and
barrel, but outside, in the bright sun
light, the ground appeared already al
most dry. A solitary goat stood upon
the shed roof He had been among the
sheep in the pen.
You can't keep good man down
any more than you can a goat, was
Brick S comment on the catastrophe.
While Whalen was working the boys
double time at pulling the wool from
the dead sheep he had the happy
thought of stocking his ranch with
bees. Having money enough from the
proceeds of his wool sale to buy 100
stands, he promptly carried the thought
into effect
Again he sat down in the door of his
shack to double his money"
''This is better than Sheep said he.
''for they herds themselves. And they
are like mules in one thing-you are
liable to get hurt if You fool with 'em. :"
This wave of prosperity broke up as
soon as former ones had done, for he
had imported bad case of foul brood,
and within a year the hundred swarms
had petered out. When we went down
there last summer in the interest of a
new company which has taken up the
work of completing the canal, Whalen
gathered the bones out of the old shed
in the cut and hauled them to the rail
road, where he sold them for fertilizer,
realizing enough to buy two more mules.
With his four mule team he is at work
in the ditch for days wages. Somewhat
grizzled now, and not so brick red Of
hair and whisker as formerly, he is
happy as ever and sanguine that he will
double his money.
Here's hoping" that he may.-G.
B. Durham in San Francisco Argonaut.
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Making full sized models of horses
is quite a distinct and well paid bust
ness, the models for the whole world
almost being made in London, - said
the manager of great firm of carriage
builders i'll Long Acre.
There is scarcely considerable car
riage builder or dealer anywhere who
has not in his shop or warehouse one
or more full sized models of horses 1--WE
and some other firms have respectively
several such models always, which are
not only used as mere attraction, but
are also, being movable, put into differ
ent sets of shafts, SO as to show custom
ers how complete turnout will look
Then, again, extra good models are
made for exhibitions, shows and the
like, and many Of the best harness max
ers in all countries keep them in their
shops for trying ON purposes
II have given as much as so and 70
guineas for good model, but of course
the general run of these things costs far
less, except for exhibition purposes
have seen models made Of the skin of
real horse, but the imitation variety
is the rule The men who make the
models-quite artists in their way,
some of them-are also the Sellers as a
rule. y. Pearson s Weekly.
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DO you BELIEVE TT

That we should deem that luclz's the thin,
That will to us our blessing bring
And give us honey without sting?
don't believe It'll
But that endeavor well applied,
A will that will not be be denied,
Do much life's problem to decide
l do believe it'll
That our great world as some folks say,
Has still grown worse from day to day,
While men and morals but decay2
don't believe It'll
But that, as history will show,
The "good old times" of long ago
Have better grown, will better grow
l do believe It'll
That we are here to sorrow born,
Are given life to live forlorn,
Have more of nighttime than of mornY
l don't believe It'll
But that healthy, cheerful mind
And thankful heart cen here may find
That God means only to be kind
I do believe It'll
George Birdseye in Boston Journal.
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WHERE NEITHER MOTH NOR RUST
CORRUPT



Z peradventure in the years to be
You come, o child, to narrower needs Of me
As the world widens to you-even although
Life touch you with Indifference as you go
No longer hand in hand and heart to heart,
Should we be borne apart,
Thrust far asunder in the hurrying press,
Even so shall not fare companionless.
mid the last late loiterers wandering slow,
With wearied, equable pace,
The solace of the sunset ON my face
The sunset spacious and low
With tired feet in the dew,
Lifting mine eyes where you
Far in the forefront of the pageant ride,
Mailed in the splendors of your strength and
pride,
You-yet another you,
Yourself as verily-leans his cheek to mine,
Lifts inarticulate eloquence divine
With babbling call and COO.
The small down vestured head,
Golden and faint,
Pale as the aureole of child saint,
Dear as tender thought of one long dead,
The innocent eyes, the sweet
Impetuous little feet
These, though the world went mourning for
your sake,
Not the sheer tomb could take
The sweet eyes plead, the fluttering hands inn
plore,
The frail arms cling as fondly as before
The strange years worked their will.
Child of my heart, though change and time
divide
Me and your later semblance, you abidel
However time may devastate or fulfill,
Safe, incorruptible, shall my treasure hide,
Borne my breast, light pattering at my side,
The fair ghost linger still.
-Rosamund Marriott Watson in Harper Mag
azina
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Method.

No." said Senator Sorghum, with
emphasis, 81 can't talk for publication
today.
But, senator, in all the years Of our
acquaintance this is the first time you
ever declined to let me quote you. -
Il don't want you not to quote me-
| want you to say decline to be inter
viewed This is confidential I've con.
cluded it's time for me to act as if I'd
got to be so important that dash t talk
for fear of giving something big away. ="
washington Star.
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81 suppose, said the young woman
with the inquiring mind that most
people who go in search Of gold get it
by working the creeks and chasms. -
MOSTLY, miss, replied Derringer
Pete; though once in awhile some fell
low gifts lot of it by working bluff. I"
Washington Star
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View ornnmentntions.

Some great man was taking party
of friends over hisnewly built house.
One Of the party would not admire it
and complained that there were too
many anachronisms "Oh, said lady
who was noted for her toadyism and
who had been unstinted in her admira-
ton, "don't you like anachronismsS I
think they are such beautiful orna-
ment Spectator.
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DUTY OF PARENTS.
Wise Guidance Needed For the Youth Who
Is Leaving Childhood Behind.

Wise Guidance Needed For the Youth Who
Is Leaving Childhood Behind.
"There is something pathetic in the
struggle of the child to cast aside its
child nature and put on the nature of
manhood and womanhood, - writes Flor
ence Hull Winterburn in The Woman s
Home Companion He is beset inter
nally by misgivings even while he is
urged on by ambition. He wants he
scarce knows what, but something new
and never before possessed. Perhaps, in
a nutshell, the great desire of his soul
is to be left somewhat to himself, yet
with sympathy within call, and to be
trusted. 1t is great evidence of tact
now for the mother or father to say
with kind smile: DO what you think
best about this matter, my SON. You
are old enough to judge what is right. ;
Happy responsibility Delightful conf
dencel Influence is never stronger than
when it withdraws slightly into the
background, leaving its object apparent
ly free. A good deal is said nowadays
about the extraordinary freedom our
children have. Seemingly it is SO, but
looking here and there an observer
notes little real change among the aver
age people
"a young friend Of mine whose
happy married life has not yet driven
from her memory cramped and i'm
FILTERED youth confded to me that the
one idea that haunted her from to Is
xrac fbaf ~ ,-,7p,,i,,o oxr-av f,rO,,, bo,,,o
If she had been less conscientious, lit
tie more reckless, what gulf of ruin
her innocent feet might have plunged
into to escape the intolerable nagging
and interference she was subject to in
her fathers housed
1--WE little know what effect our
thoughtless and meaningless words of
comment ard Gliding for every small
matter that goes wrong produce upon
the half grown girl and boy They are
apt to be reserved and to become sullen
under restraints they dislike, and when
this sullen attitude once sets in we may
say farewell to all confidential inter
course between parent and child To
avert such an evil we will do well to
apply all our powers of tact and kind
ness. Let us avoid arousing the spirit
of perverseness that stirs in every young
creature at this period of life, and, by
enlarging his opportunities for action
as his ambition extends, soothe any bud
ding revolutionary ideas and inspire in
him the trust and confidence in parental
benevolence that viii be his safeguard
when he needs advice and assistance
for youth never stands in deeper need
of wise guidance than at this time when
there is desire to dispense with it
But the guidance must be so wise so
tactful, so gentle, that even the most
independent young soul will feel that
love, and not force, is the motive power
that draws him toward what is best,
and that he is restrained by nothing ex-
cept his own honor and trained sense
of right :"
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PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD.
The Standard Railroad of Ameyica Pro-
kecfed throughout By Biloxi Signals
and /nteri0cking .SzOitcheS.
IN EFFECT OCTOBER 4. 1898.
Trans teave Mount Holly as loEGoros:

Trans teave Mount Holly as loLGo10s:
For Philadelphia, $50, 600, 6.5s, ITO, 7.49
s.5G. 9.I5. ll.22 a. M. 1888, 233, GAO Saturday
on'y) ~ o., SIS s-25. is;59 p p NJ Sso
For Pemberton, 1856, 9.2G, A. M, l.45 80, 447
e.06, 727, P. NJ.
on sundays, o.2s A. M, sos I'm.
For Bordentown, Trenton and New York. $50,
7.49, 9.ls, Hos, A. M, l2.sO, 800, 34O AL 55s
ON Sundays, 1000 A. M, 2O5, 6O5PM
For East Burlington, $50, 725, 7.49, s.22, $50,
9is 1913 ll.05 A. M, 1870, 800, $40, AT, $40,
5.53. G.26. 7.26, s.45. 1000 P. N.
On Sundays 1875 $50. 1910 A. M, 90, 205, 230,
3.l5, BAL, 4.lo 500 5.55, sos, 6-45, lis, s.l5,
800. p. M.
For Lewistown, Columbus. Kinkora. ETC.,
On Sundays, sos P. N.
For LumDerton, Medford, Marion and Had
dOnfield. 9.35 A. NJ.
For vincentown, 1875. O6 Pm.
For Toms River, 9.a6, A. M, AT, Pm.
For TuckerJon, Beach Haven and Barnegat
City, 9.S A. NJ, AL P. M.
For Asbury Park and Long Branch, 1926 A. NJ,
Trains leave for Mount Holly as Jottoaos:
From Philadelphia. $50, 7.s0 $780, 1000. ll.20.
1910. A. NJ, q 30, Saturdays only, 2.3O. 400,
40, $40, 6.l0. $50. 800, 1890. l1.45 Pm
On Sundays, 9.l5 A. M, 90. 800, l0.30P.M.
From New York. via Trenton and Burlington,
800, $50, 1l.0OA M, LOO. 2lO. AGO. 800. 500,
On Sundays, 1000 A. NJ, 7G0P.M.
From Trenton, 6;45. 74O 9.25, ILL A. M, 2.53.
Ala, $40, 100, $50 P. NJ.
from East Burlington, 100, 1853. S.26, S4s, 9 AZ.
1908, l045, Has A. M, LOS, Cos Saturdays
only. $3.50, 4lO. DIG SIS, $50, 1900 100, $3.50,
1870 P. M.
ON Sundays, 500 $40, 1890, A. M. 1890, 2.s5.
305 3.45, 4.30, 455 $50, 800, $50, 100 745, 845,
10.00P.M.
From Toms River, 74s M, $685. Pm.
From AsDury Park, 2.20P. M.
From Medford, ll.55 A.
From Long Branch, Ito P. M.
From Pemberton, (north) 6.3s. 7.2S, 1913. S.55,
A. NJ, 1871, 4.07. $40 P. M.
On Sundays, 500 A. M, BIOL NJ.
From Pemberton (south), s36 A. NJ, 444 P. M.
From Vincentown, $50 A. M, lap. NJ.
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why did your daughter break her
engagement with that English earl?''
because told her that, with the
present prices for wheat, she would bet
ter try to catch an American farmer. I"
Chicago Record
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"Is that fellow really painless den
tist?''
almost. The only pain L suffered
was when he extracted his fees. In
dianapolis Journal.
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A SECRET.

A SECRET.
Sunk deep in sea,
A sea of the dead,
Lies book that shall be
Never opened or read.
Its sibylline pages
A secret inclose-
The flower of the ages,
A rose, a red rose.
That sea of the dead
Is my soul, and the book
Is my heart, and the red
Rose the love you forsook
Julian Hawthorne in Lippincott's.
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1t has been estimated that it would
take man 3, 900 years to read all the
standard works.
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The British postofice makes $50, 600
year by unclaimed money orders.