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The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1898-11-29
ESTABLISHED 1879.

the New York club In its early days,
when it had delightful quarters in the
old Haight house, at Fifth avenue and
Fifteenth street He was also promi-
nent member of the Union club and of
the Society of the Cincinnati, of which
he was also treasurer. The Ward family
owes its membership in this society to
Colonel Samuel Ward, an officer of the
Revolutionary army, who was Henry
Hall Wards grandfather The portrait
of another ancestor, Governor Richard
Ward of Rhode Island, is now the prop
erty of Mr.. Cornelius Vanderbilt.
Henry Hall Wards father was a
brother Of Samuel Ward, whose son,
Samuel, was the Sam Ward. famous as
a wit scholar and bon vivant. Other
cousins of Henry Hall Ward were Mrs
Julia Ward Howe and Mrs. Crawford.
the wife of the sculptor and the mother
of F Marion Crawford. 1t seems won
der that the novelist should not have
woven this romance, which he found
ready to hand in his own family, into a
novel
Henry Hall Wards social position
may be judged from the fact that among
the pallbearers at his funeral in Grace
church were John Jacob Astor, Walter
l.. Cutting Johnston Livingston and
James Francis Ruggles
Eliza Ann Partridge's relationship to
Henry Hall Ward arose from the fact
that their mothers were sisters. They
were members of the Hall family of
Pomfret, Conn. j. Prescott Hall, her
uncle, was William NJ Evarts first law
partner Those who knew Miss Par
fridge as girl, SO many years ago, de-
scribe her as charming She was of
medium height, had brown eyes and an
abundance of strikingly dark hair. She
is said, even now. at the age of "a, to
preserve much Of her youthful beauty
When Henry Hall Ward died, one of
his friends penned these lines in his
memory:
Honored and loved. he passed away
AS sinks summers day to rest;
The brightest when the radiant clouds
OF silent evening gem the west
Does the woman who still treasures
his memory think of these lines as she
gazes into the sunset?-New York Her
aid
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NJ. - said of young fellow who
did not see that lady was in love
with him: "You are very young. You
can only read large print"
A preacher said: "When Pere Bour-
daloue preached at Rouen, he caused a
great deal Of disorder. The workmen
left their shops, the doctors their pa
tients, etc. preached there the follow
ing year and set everything right.
A lady 80 years of age said to M. de
Fontenelle, who was 95, death has
forgotten us. "Hushp' replied Fon-
tenelle, putting his finger on his lips.
A oonceited dolt interrupted a CONVEX
sation by, II have an idea" A wit re-
marked, "AstonishingP
A courier said, "After the death of
his majesty there's nothing one cam
believe"
M. de Fontenelle, then in his ninety
seventh year, having just paid Nine.
Helvetius a thousand pretty compli-
ments, passed her on his way to the
table, without seeming to notice her.
"See," said Nine. Helvetius, "what ac-
count should take of your gallantry.
You went by without looking at me. "
Madame" said the old gentleman,
"if 1 had looked at you should not
have passed by you. "-Gentleman's
Magazine.
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to Mrs. Hapgood's amazement and ap-
parent objection, though she said moth
ing, and much to the further disorder
of Wilson's mind Lucy evidently prac-
ticed long and we'll, for she improved
remarkably, and she continued to be
docile until toward the last, when Will
son observed that she was uncomfort-
ably reticent and almost freakish. One
day she jumped up suddenly, her face
scarlet, and bounded out of the room,
declaring that she was done with it all,
and that she would never touch piano
again as long as she lived.
Wilson'S heart was in tumult. He
had learned days before this what was
the matter and the prospect of losing
those sweet hours at the piano was in
tolerable. He followed her, found her
struggling against tears in the dining
room, and, going straight to her, he
told his story. Lucy listened with an
expression of unutterable anguish, tried
to say "Yes," and "No." at the same
time and at length broke away from
his tentative embrace and fed back to
the parlor.
For one painful moment Wilson re-
manned where he was. Then upon his
astonished ears came the sounds of that
most beautifully melancholy nocturne
of Chopin's, the one in B major, and
played, it seemed, with more perfection
of technique and feeling than ne ever
heard it. He tiptoed his way into the
parlor and listened there, while he
watched Lucy wiring from the instru-
ment the expression of her wealth Of
woe. Presently she stopped in the mid
die of u passage, put her face in her
hands and moaned, "Oh, | am SO
ashamedW
"But, Lucy" said Wilson, tenderly,
as he caressed her hair, 81 love you,
dearp
Then she stood up, reached out her
arms helplessly, and their lips met.
81 couldn't help it, Arthur" she
said, little later, when l saw that
you mistook Molly's ignorant pounding
for mine, meant to have a little fun
with you, that was all. Mamma scolded,
but wouldn't stop. l am afraid you
think haven't any principle at all "
"On the contrary, dearest, answered
Wilson, 81 knew that you were impelled
and guided by the principle of love. 1t
reminds me of the professor in college
in whose hands an experiment went all
to smash. Gentlemen, said he to the
laughing students, the experiment has
failed, but the principle remains the
same. Chicago News.
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The OLD, OLD STORY.

chose him out from all the rest
My Tonne had three lovely brothers,
But-well, he seemed to like me best
OF all the girls. Oh, there were others
That wanted him, but somehow he,
Right from the first, kept after me.
He was so splendid! Big and kind
And calm and full of mischief very.
A romp seemed always to his mind,
While I was rather prim than merry,
Yet when he was my own I felt
How fond a lover near me dwelt.
Alas, there came a time of change!
He cared no more for home nor quiet;
His moods were reckless, wild and
strange;
Night after night he spent in riot
Returning when the dawnlight came,
Quite needless of reproach or blame.
And SO it went till months were past.
was too proud to bang or beat him
Or pull his whiskers, yet at last
He left me. Now 1 sometimes meet
him;
He has grown ugly old and fat
My handsome Maltese Thomas cat!
Madeline S. Bridges in Ladies Home
journal
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GEN. SKATERS LESSON.

II Was on This Occasion That He
Learned to Decide For Himself.
Here is a story that the Cleveland
Leader proffers about General Shafter.
It centers about his salient trait of be-
ing pugnacious, just as all current and
we'll invented anecdotes of Fighting
Bob Evans revolve around some in
candescent bit Of profanity. But the
story runs thus, as the general is made
to tell it:
"Once. when l was boy at SCHOOL,
wasn't more than 10 or II years old at
the time-our teacher called up the
class in mental arithmetic and began
putting questions, beginning with the
pupil at the head of the row and going
down toward the foot, until some one
could give the correct answer. l stood
somewhere near the middle, and next
below me was a boy who was three
years older and considerably ahead of
me in the various studies that we had.
"'How much are Is and 8 and 8?
the teacher asked.
"While one after another of the boys
and girls ahead of me guessed and
failed to get it right figured out what
| thought the answer ought to be. The
question had almost got to me when /
heard the big boy just below me whis-
pering, apparently to himself, but loud
enough for me to hear, '29. 80, go
Finally the pupil above me failed
to answer correctly, and then it was my
turn.
" Well, Willie, said the teacher,
let s see if you know the answer Come,
now, be prompt.
81 cooked my head up proudly on one
side, cast triumphant look at those
who had fallen down ON the problem
and said, SO that everybody in the
schoolroom could hear me:
Twenty -ninep
" Next How many are ID and 8
and 8?
Avn said the big boy below me,
with look of supreme contempt at the
rest of us, '30F
''That was what | had figured it tC
| be myself, and when the teacher said
correct l wanted to fight.
~ didn't assault him, but l made uI
my mind right there and then to depend
on my own Judgment in the future, and
ever since then when l have had any
thing to do and had figured out what
considered the best way to do it l have
gone ahead, remembering, when people
criticised or tried to throw me off the
track, how that big boy made fool Of
me in the mental arithmetic class.
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When Mr.. Spurgeon first began his
ministry, an anonymous critic used to
write to him constantly about his mis-
takes in grammar and pronunciation.
Mr.. Spurgeon at first resented these
criticisms. but he soon learned to profit
by them. after awhile" he said in
telling the story, 81 looked for his week
ly memoranda with much interest If
repeated a sentence which l had used
two or three Sundays before, he would
write, See the same expression in such
and such a sermon.
Mr.. Sturgeon, like everybody else,
had his pet quotation, and he used this
line, Nothing in my hand to bring, y
rather frequently. So his commentator
wrote him, "Wa are sufficiently in
formed of the vacuity of your hand. "
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The extending use of electricity is
we'll illustrated by its use for lighting
mines. The candle or oil lamp of for
mer days was not only dangerous i'll
coal mines, where there is likelihood of
an explosion, but it furnished very
imperfect light and compelled the miner
to work in semidarkness. Small electric
lamps, to be carried by the miners, were
introduced in France, but they were OBJ
jectionable on account of their weight
nearly five pounds-and also because
they would burn only few hours with
out being recharged. The lamps are
now attached to the roofs of the gal
leries, currents being established by
means of wires. By this means an album
dance of continuous light is obtained, but
care must be exercised in insulating the
wires to prevent friction or sparks
which might provoke an explosion or
ignite surrounding woodwork.
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Vienna.

Here we have proud, imperial city,
rather disdainful of trade, aristocratio
and easy going, conscious of q long
past, its rulers still animated with the
conviction that they are the successors
of Charlemagne and Otto, looking on
Berlin as parvenu, on London as merely
commercial, on Paris as half crazy. Ex-
cepting in the domain of music, Vienna
is not home of art and culture, but it
is center of dignity and grace and a
certain calm air of superiority, which,
however, does not offend. 1t is content
to look on while other places explore
and write and toll and push and strain !;
it stands on its rank it can never forget
it's 16 quarterings and its claims to
high estate.
Vienna is most interesting perhaps as
the meeting place between east and
west, where the fine gentleman rubs
shoulders in the afternoon lounge along
the Graben with the Bosnian peasant.
The guardian Of Europe S ancient order,
the center of a great and most interest
ing empire. the city of leisure and of a
pride SO lofty that it does not know
itself to be pride at all, Vienna is both
a charming city and an important polit-
ical center, as she will continue to be,
no matter what is the fate of the Aus
trian empire. London Spectator.
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Change Doctors-A woman,s Rule.

Change DOctOrs-A Woman's Rule.
The following was overheard III a
street cara woman was talking to
one who had told her troubles:
'Talking about doctors. do you know
think great many deaths might be
prevented by changing doctors? If one
doctor cannot relieve you in three or
four days. or perhaps week, he can
not cure you at all, and the best thing
to do under the circumstances is to dis
miss him and take another doctor. If
he does not help you, change again, and
keep changing until you find doctor
who can cure you.
every doctor has some speciality,
although he does not say so. One might
be splendid throat specialist, while
on severe attack of pneumonia he
would scarcely know what to do
Change is my rule for doctors, and |
never let the same doctor treat me for
more than a week at time. st. Louis
Dispatch.
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THE DEAD GARDENER.

What bloom shall we lay in his fingers cold
Who lieth at length i'll his shroud.
The blossoms that blazon their beauty bold
Or the shy little wilding that hardly can hol
It's head erect in crowd?
The lordly lily and queenly rose
He watered and trellised well,
Yet he loved the tiniest flower that blows,
And only the heel trodden daisy knows
Where the dew of his teardrop fell
Marion NJ Miller in Criterion
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It All Depends,

She (sweetly)-Do you believe that
kissing is unhealthy?
He Cautiously = Well, er-is
your father at home this evening?-Chi-
cago News.
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Not Reasnnring.

That an answer may be cheerful and
yet far from reassuring is once more
proved out of the mouth of young
Irishman.
He was acting as guide to party of
Americans who, in the course of days
excursion during their visit to Ireland,
were wandering over picturesque, de-
serted castle.
at seems very unsafe, said one of
the party, as they CROPPED and stumbled
along dark passage. "These floors are
loose, 1 know"
Eyes, (" said another timid person,
land 1 wish l could see the blue sky
above me. This seems like dungeon,
not a ruinp
lis 1t the blue sky ye'd be seein,
miss?" said the voice of the guide, some
feet in advance. ''Why, may the saints
preserve ye fer an innooenti It's the
roof, an nowt else, that kapes the walls
together, miss p'-Y outh s Companion.
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RncnIne Music.

A Glasgow paper thus analyses the
music of the bagpipe; "Big flies on
window, 70 per cent; cats on midnight
tiles, 111s per cent voices of infant
puppies, 6 per cent; grunting hungry
pigs in the morning, az per cent;
steam whistles, per cent; chant of
cricket, Q per cent. "
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Medford, Marion and Philadelphia.

fHTIdu0IPrII"'
Leave Medford fol- Philadelphia at 100, 1901
A. M, 2i3 5.24, P. NJ.
On Sundays, 7.45 A. M, 405 P. M.
Leave Marion for Philadelphia at TIA, 1920
A. NJ, 2.35. 5.35, P. M.
On Sundays, 7.59 A. M, AIS p. NJ.
Leave Philadelphia, Market Street, for Med
ford and Marion at Z 90, 1880, A. M, $40, 53O,
p. N.
On Sundays s.I5 A. M. $50 P.
l. ave Marion for Medtord, 81, ll.3S A. NJ,
8 90 f.20. p
On Sundays, 9.06, A. M, GIL p
For further particulars apply to the ticket
agent ut the station.
j. Is. HUTCHINSON, j. K. WooD
General Manager. Gen. Pass. Agent
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Union transportation company.


Leave Mount Holly Tor Tuckerto 9.5 A.
t40P. M. daily except Sunday. and on Sat
urday at 200.
BOB daily except Sunday.
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He Could Get Them.

When he was Harvard student. the
late Sherman Hoar became famous as
maker of epigrams. One evening he had
been indulging in his usual style Of
conversation in the rooms of Professor
D., man after his own heart, but too
apt to interlard his lectures with ap-
parently original witticisms taken, after
the manner of Moliere, wherever he
found them. When Hoar and fellow
student had left the academic presence,
the latter enthusiastically cried: by
Jove, Sherman, how do you manage
it? wish l could remember all the
bright things you said just now. i"
$50 to D. IS lecture tomorrow and
take notes, said Hoar. you'll get
them then. "-Exchange.
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PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD.
The Standard Railroad of Ameyica. Pro-
tected throughout By Block Signals
and LntertOekfng Switches.
IN EFFECT OCTOBER 4, 1898.

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ON sundays, s.3i A. M. i2.O5. 5.ls, s.50P.M.
mberton. 7-s6. 9.26, a. M, l45 81. AL
1923 A. M. 6t5r.M
4 mi NIX 1enJown, Trenton and New York. $50,
otel 49, lO.l5, lI.O5. NJ. 1920, 800, 34O, Az.
ON Sundays 1000 A. M, 2.o5, sos P. M.
For East Burlington, $50, 7.25, 749. S.22. $50,
9.IS. l0I5 ll.O5 A. M. $780, 300 $40, AL, $40,
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On Sundays 7.25, $50. 1910 A. M, co. 2O5, 230,
3.l5, 3.4l, 4l0 800, 5.35, sos, GAS, 49, S.l5,
For Lewistown, Columbus, Kinkora, ETC..
For Lumperton. Mectord, Marion ana Had
donfeld. 9.35 A. NJ.
For vincentown, 1926, 6 0e P. M.
For Toms River, 1926, A. M, 4.47, Pm.
For TuckerJon, Beach Haven and Barnegat
City, 9.6 A. NJ, 4.H P.
For AsDury kark and Long Branch 926, A. NJ,
Trains LeGve for Mount Holly as JoLtoOs:
From Philadelphia. $50, 750, $50, 1000, ll.2O.
1910, A. M, Il 30. Saturdays only, 2.30. 400,
$50, $40, 6lO. $50. 800, 1890. LAB PM;
from New YORK. via Trenton and burlington,
800, $780, A. M, 100. 2l0. 90, 800 800. M.
On sundays. lo:ooA: M, 7.o0r;M;
From rrouton, Gas, 40. 1926, lib A. M, ESQ,
On sundays, 6. 40 Ii5o, A. M, 400, s.OS, Pm
from East Burlington, 100, 1853. S.26, s4s, A.
1905, l0.45, ll.48 A. M, LOS, $780, 40, SIG 5.5S
$50, 100. $50, $50, 1920 Pm.
300. $40. AGO. 455 $50, 800, $50, TO 745 s.45.
From Toms River, 74s A M. 4O2 Pm.
From AsDury Park, 2.2O P. M
From Medford, II So M.
From Long Branch, l.G0 M.
From Pemberton, (north) 6.3s, 7.2S, S.33, s.55,
A. M. 1881, 407. $40 P. M.
On sundays, so A. M, 5.60P.M M.
FROM Pemberton (south), 8.36 A. M, 444 P. M.
From Vincentown, $50 A. M, 1.42P. M.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-04-25

power leads the captives free. He shapes
the destiny of nations and prepares the
way to avenge the wrongs of humanity.
lie breaks the chain of tyranny and lifts
high the barrer of freedom.
And now we are on the eve of a great
epoch in the history of the world, the
eyes of all nations are upon us. As a ma
tion we have done all we honorably could
do to avert war President Mckinley has
acted with care and patience. His delib-
erations have been wise. God bless the
president of the United States. We are n
united nation. We do not go i'm conflict
to add another territory to our possess
sons or to uphold a royal crown. We are
in the fight for humanitys sake To lib
crate the captives is our motto, and we
go with the Stars and Stripes, which
means liberty and the divine right of
man. 1t has already proved it's mission
1t has withstood the shot and shell of the
enemy but has never known defeat, and If
Spain does not open her doors to Cuba S
liberty, let heroism and patriotism plant
the Star and Stripes on the highest peak
of Cabanas and Moro castle.
Then, to arms, for God country and
liberty. Unfurl the Stars and Stripes.
God has taken up the fight humanity
calls. TO do anything but to enter the
conflict with hearts brave and eyes heav-
onward is to be n traitor to God and lib
erty. We cannot afford to blockade his
tory. The dawn of Cuba's liberty is at
hand. We shall win for who can with
stand the combnation--God and a just
cause. We fight for the starving ana op-
pressed. We take up the cords and lash
out of the temple of liberty. those who
would make OF the earth, a place of op-
prcssions.
The cause is just and God is overhead.
May the patriotism of Nathan ilale be
ours, for he wished he had many lives
to give for liberty.
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What Rev. Mr.MoHntt SAID.

God Ruleth the World" and" Thrice
Armed is He Who Hath His Quarrel
Just Thus from the Bible and
Shakespeare Rev. j. =. Moffatt, pastor
Of the Washburn street Presbyterian
chruch drew two inspiring thoughts
upon which to preach "a sermon yes
terday morning.
In the first part of his remarks, he
briefly outlined the horrors of war as
recorded by history, and hoped that,
We're it possible, no such calamity
should now hefall this nation. But
should it be necessary to carry out the
ends of human justice and visit the
renalty of her crimes upon her head, he
hoped that all Christians would fer
vently pray for our success and that
the Spaniards should be driven out Of
cuba forever.
The speaker drew upon a store Of
facts, statistics, etc, to indicate the
nobler purpose of the government in
trying to accomplish a cessation of the
terrible events which We're daily oc-
curing so near us. 1t. no doubt, ought
to have been done before, but there
was a great possibility of our motives
being misconstrued at that time. But
now there could be none and if it could
only be accomplished by actual ter
rible war, then he prayed for success
| from Him who rulcth.
He concluded by expressing his opin-
ion that everything that could be done
| was being done towards a complete
settlement of the momentuous ques-
| tiOn.
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BOTH KNEE CAPS BROKEN.
Serious Accident Which BefcII Mrs.
Larry KPtTick, Yesterday.

Mrs. Larry Ketrick, wife of the we'll
known Larry Ketrick, met with a seri-
Gus and peculiar accident at her resi-
dence, corner of Spruce street and
Franklin avenue, yesterday afternoon
which will confine her to the house for
some time, if not permanently disable
the injured lady. She was coming
down stairs and, at turn in the stair
way, she caught the toe of her shoe.
She was precipitated headlong down
the flight of stairs and, though con-
scious, was unable to rise.
She called for help and the servant
girl came to her assistance. Drs.
O'Malley and Gunster We're hastily
summoned. 1t was found upon inves-
tigation that both the knee caps were
broken and she was suffering from the
severe shock of the fall.
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FLOODING The NINE AGAIN.
Fire In the Alden CoIliery Has Not
Been EXtinguished.

Water is being pumped into the burn
ing shaft of the Alden Coal company
at Alden, Luzerne county. When the
mine was flooded the first time it re-
quired about five weeks, but it will
take longer time now, as it will be
flooded to greater height than before.
1t took five weeks to pump the water
out of the mine after the first flooding,
but it will, of course, require more time
to rid the shaft of the water after this
flooding.
1t is not known how the present fire
compares, in extent and violence. with
that which existed before the previous
drowning out of the mine, as it is inn
possible for anybody to get near the
re sion of the fire. Smoke continues ia
issue in dense volumes from the shaft