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The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1898-11-22
MoAdarns was quite certain that he was

McAdaIns was quite certain that he was
ing toward the tree to find out what the
bundle contained when your daddy came
crashing through the bushes on Sui
tan's back. Sultan was snorting and
rearing in way which proved that he
was badly frightened. Your daddy was
the best horseman in the regiment then,
as he Is now"
I 1.-THE best one in the world, mom,"
interrupted Ruf1es excitedly.
Yes, of course, and he rode Sultan
right up to the tree, and leaning over
in the saddle picked up the bundle he
had placed in the hollow. And what
do you think 1t was?'
SIT was me'' shouted Ruff1es.
Indeed it wasp laughed Ruffles'
mother, giving him good, tight hug.
"Your daddy was just galloping off
with you when Captain McAdams called
to him. 'NedP he shouted. Ned, old
mani Where did you find Rufies?'
Upon my word, said your daddy,
L don't know whether or not I'm just
right in my head. A big baboon drop
ped the poor little beggar right in my
path.
" rs he-is he hurt?' asked Captain
McAdams.
"'Not bitl' said your daddy. He's
right as a golden guinea.
" Ned said Captain McAdams,
we've been searching the jungle for
that blessed baby since O'Clock, ex-
! peoting to find him torn to pieces The
balloons stole him right out of his per
ambulator.'
"Your daddy took off his hat just as
he does when the oolors march past,
and then he kissed you.
| =" But in the name of common sense,
Ned said Captain McAdams, what
did You mean by putting the baby up
tree?'
" The balloons that dropped Ruffles
gave Sultan such start, said your
dady, that couldn't mount him with
Ruff1es in my arms. So picketed Sui
tan, put Ruf1es in the hollow tree and
then rode up and lifted him out. -
There was pause, and Rufffes said,
MON, did they reduce Sergeant Brown
/ to the ranks?''
'No," said Ruffies' mother. Wasn't
it as much Nurse O'Brien's fault as
hisP''
Eyes" said Rufles judioially, 81
guess it was, and it wouldn't be fair to
punish one without furnishing the other
and it wouldn't be military to punish a
woman.
And Ruffles' mother only laughed
and said, 'Bless my little man IS hearth"
Cincinnati Enquirer.
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DMarfs and Poinon.

Henry M. Stanley, in describing his
Journey though the forests Of Africa
says that the most formidable foes he
encountered, those that caused the
greatest loss of life to his caravan and
came nearest to defeating his expedi-
tion, were the Wambutti dwarfs
These diminutive men had only bows
and arrows for weapons, SO small that
they looked like children playthings
but upon the tip of each tiny arrow was
a drop of poison which would kill an
elephant or a man as surely and quickly
as rifle. Their defense was by means
of poison and traps.
They would steal through the dense
forest, and waiting in ambush let fly
their arrows before they could be dis
covered. They dug bitches and carefully
covered them over with sticks and
leaves They fixed spikes in the ground
and tipped them with poison. Into these
bitches and on these spikes man and
beast would fall or step to their death
One Of the strangest things about it was
that their poison was mixed with honey
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duced a penny from her little purse.
"You will not be so cruel and unjust
as to refuse me this2''
'It is not right.
81 say it is
''Then we disagree. -
Therefore judge is needed-the
impartial coinl p She laughed feverish-
ly. / could not bear to hear her.
Every we'll, said wildly. "But
let me be honest with you, Violet At
the bottom of my heart despise myself
for giving way, and know it is because
want you and not because it is right.
You will abide by the result?''
Yes, yesl And you will? PROMISED
81 promise"
Freely and unreservedly?''
Freely and unreservedly.
"You must toss for it,, she cried ex-
oitedly, putting the coin in my hand.
"Quick, quiokp spun it up, and she
cried swiftly. "Headr' 1t fell on the
floor and rolled over and over until at
last it rested just underneath the stands,
but still in view-head uppermost
VAoAOO Ou1eU 1ubO pthss1OH VI J6arS, anu
l clasped her frantically in my arms
and kissed her again and again.
"You will never, never speak Of
leaving me any more?' she sobbed.
And / held her closer and whispered
that now never would, if l could, break
my promise.
81 would never have kept mine to
let you go, ;" she said defiantly.
"Hullo, you two! Whatever have
you been doing all this timer said her
brother, coming in later.
"Oh, playing pitch and toss'' 1 said
lightly.
wi is dangerous person to gamble
with, let me warn you," he observed
laughingly. "She has wonderful coin,
which picked up at bar, with two
heads!''
you're not cross with me?' she
pleaded, holding tightly to my arm as
we walked in behind him.
Cross with heri-St. Paul's.
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when not in meditation or reused
to anger by stupidity or impertinence,
Wagner may we'll be said to have been
boisterously gay" writes Houston
Stewart Chamberlain of 1.-THE Personal
Side of Richard Wagner" in The La
dies Home Journal. "This was, so to
say, his normal state when in society,
which accounts for his being so much
beloved by children and by animals
hence also he never could endure the
society of pedants and seekers for no.
toriety. The men he preferred were those
full of fun and repartee. The ready wit
of peasant entertained him more than
the learned sayings of a savant He
walked very fast, scrambled up noun
tains like a chamois, and was particu-
larly fond Of long excursions on foot.
Being very small in stature and wiry,
he preserved his extraordinary agility up
to the very end.
GAS a youth he was renowned for
gymnastic feats, and at so years of age
he used still to climb tall poplar trees
and to brighten his family by all sorts of
daring antics. Even within a year of
his death he would occasionally, when
in high glee, astound his sedate Ger
man friends by suddenly standing on
his head or by playing leapfrog oyer
the armchairs of his drawing room. Z"
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1898-11-22
A SILLY TRAGEDY.
The Duel Between Tom Porter and
Sir Henry Bellasis.

The Duel Between Tom Porter and
Sir Henry BelInsis.
Some of the Royalists who were
forced to endure the English common
wealth seemed to console themselves
for the dullness of life under Puritan
government by fighting as many duels
as they could compass, SO that ignoble
squabbles and foolish plots make up the
history of their days.
Tom Porter was of family which
had zealously served the king. Under
the new government his occupation was
gone, and he descended to a triviality
of life which finally involved him in a
most pathetic event. This was duel
which he fought with his friend, Sir
Henry Bellasis, and which, says Pepys
in his DIARY" is worth remembering
for "the Stiffness Of the quarrel q
kind of emblem of the general complex
ion of the whole kingdom.
But silly as the quarrel undoubtedly
was it carried in it an element of heart.
break
The two young men involved were
intimate friends and companions, but
one day, "being merry in company,
Tom Porter said he should like to sec
the man in England who would dare
give him blow With that Sir Henry
Bellasis struck him box on the ear.
The inevitable duel followed, wherein
each was wounded. Sir Henry proved tC
be seriously hurt, SO he called Porter,
kissed him and babe him fly
"For," said he, "Tom, thou hast
hurt me- But will make shift to stand
upon my legs till thou mayst withdraw,
for | would not have thee troubled fol
what thou hast done. :"
Porter profited by his friends gener.
osity and escaped to France. Sir Henry
died few days later, and Pepys CON
cludes, "It is pretty to see how the
world do talk of them as a couple Of
fools that killed one another out Of
love
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When Lord Charles Beresford was q
midshipman, he performed gallant act
for which he subsequently received 6
medal. His vessel lay in the Mersey
and numerous visitors came on board
in order to look over the ship. AS q
boat containing man weighing 25C
pounds was getting alongside it was
suddenly swamped, when Lord Charles
jumped overheard and seized the occu-
pant just as he was sinking. The gal
liant rescuer kept the man afoat until
help arrived, and both rescuer and res
cued were taken on board the man-of-
war
The man whose life had been saved
maintaining glum countenance and
showing no great enthusiasm for his
preserver, some one remarked to him,
"You don't appear very pleased at hav
ing been rescued from drowning.
"UghP' he exclaimed in tone Of
disgust, glancing first at his own portly
proportions and then at his rescuer
"He was such little un''
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Indifferent a. to the KIND.

He was fragile youth and didn't
dance all the dances.
Lets sit it out, he said to his pretty
partner.
"Where?' she asked.
''On the stairs.
So they went up little way and sat
down.
Wh-why, what's the matter, Mr..
Stackpole?' cried the fair young girl,
for the young man had hastily risen
and was gasping for breath He could
not reply. His face was lived. His eyes
were rolled up, and with one shaking
hand he clawed feebly at the skirts of
his Tuxedo.
''What kind of an attack is it?'' she
gasped.
At this question his voice came back
to him.
"What difference does that maker
he harshly growled Then, without
word of apology, he dashed up the
stairs and flung himself into the men s
courtroom.
And how was she to know that it was
an ordinary carpet tack that the man
who oanvased the stairs had carelessly
left standing on its head?-Cleveland
Plain Dealer
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1898-11-22
The Climate of MANILA,

Manila is the only place where relia-
BILE temperature records have been kept,
and while no one place can be taken as
representative of the whole archipelago
the results obtained at the capital are
not without interest. The average tenn
perature for January is N degrees, for
February 78 degrees, for March 81 de-
grees, for April SO degrees, for May "a
degrees, for June 80 degrees, for July
81 degrees, for August 81 degrees, for
September 81 degrees, for October 80
degrees, for November 79 degrees and
for December " degrees.
The average daily temperature for
the year at Manila is 80 degrees. 1t
will be noted that the lowest average
temperature occurs in December and
January, and is ~ degrees. The "de-
ightful season in the autumn, when
the atmosphere is clear and dry and the
temperature ranges from about 81 de-
grees to rs degrees F., " has not as yet
been discovered by the scientists at the
Jesuit observatory.
The lowest temperature during the
year is go degrees, and the highest 100
degrees. There is no month in which
the thermometer does not rise as high
as 81 degrees. When it is remembered
that the air is charged with moisture
much Of the time, it will be realized
that the climate of Manila leaves some
things to be desired. Professor Dean
O. Worcester in Century.
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Using New Files.

An expert in files has given some di-
rections as to the best ways to use these
necessary implements. He says that a
new file of very high temper should
first be used on brass or cast iron. After
the first sharpness is gone from it it
answers quite as we'll for wrought iron
and steel Sometimes new files will tear
the surface of wrought iron and steel to
such an extent as to become very an
noying and cause additional work, Very
few mechanics thoroughly understand
the use of files and the methods by
which they are utilized to the greatest
advantage. Files bite rolled metal much
more quickly and easily than cast, there
fore it requires a sharper file for brass
and cast iron than for the wrought ar
ticles or for steel. If files are gradually
adapted to their best uses, they will
give much longer service than when
they are indiscriminately employed.
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Mhnt Renntntion wan nn-

The owner of an intelligent dog had
been in the habit of allowing him to
take coin and go to the market to buy
his own meat. The dog would fetch the
meat home, deposit it in the shed and
then, when hungry, go and get 1t.
The household cat found the meat
there and on several occasions stole it.
The dog discovered what was going on,
and would lie in wait for her near the
meat, and when she approached would
chase her away.
At length he tired of Watching his
dinner, and fell into the habit of carry
ing his purchases to the cellar and bury
ing them in the sand. One day the
dogs owner removed the meat from the
cellar to see what he would do when he
found it gone.
After time the dog went to the Gel
lar and began to dig in the sand where
he had left his meat 1t was not there.
He lay down minute, as if to think
the matter over, and then suddenly
rushed up the stairs, and, spying the
cat, event for her, as the boy of the
family said, and chased her all over the
yard. christian Leader
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SHOPPING IN ITALY.
Outlandish Methods That Make 1t
Most TiresOme Task.

0utlandish Methods That Make 1t a
Most TiresOme Task.
A source of trial is what appears &c
us the outlandish method of having
things that apparently belong together
sold in different establishments Silks
are found in one shop, woolens in an
other and ribbons in third. At none
of these can one buy needles and thread.
If woman wishes to hang a pair of
curtains. she purchases the materials at
one shop, the rod and rings at differ
ent place, the iron fixtures at third
and has to go to fourth to find an up
holsterer to put them up She must
visit tobacco shop for salt and cannot
find, as with us, vegetables, fruit OF
bread at grocer's 1t may thus readily
be seen that one must travel a good deal
to do her marketing or shopping.
Add to all this the confusion incident
to the fact that the standards of measure
and weight are different from ours, a
meter exceeding a yard and pound
containing but II ounces, and faint
idea may be formed of the mental COM
plications of the traveller
There is also a certain amount OF
beating down to be done in nearly every
shop, and even after half an hours bar
gaining the purchaser oherishes awful
doubts lest she might not have bought
the thing cheaper. Shopping is really
almost equal to the contemplation Of
faded frescoes for lowering the mental
tone, and it is hard to say which has
the more to answer for in the exhausted
state in which most travellers leave
Italy.-Harper' s Bazaar
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Charles Dickens was lover of cats
He owned a large white one named
Williamina, who selected a corner of
his study for her kittens and brought
them in from the kitchen one by one
Dickens had them taken away again.
but Williamina persisted in bringing
them back The third time of their re-
moval she did not leave them in the
corner, but instead placed them at her
master feet and, taking her stand be-
side them, looked imploringly up at
him. Most Of the family were finally
given away Only one remained The
little creature followed Dickens about
like dog and sat beside him while he
wrote.
One evening the author was reading
at small table upon which was a
lighted candle. AS usual the cat was at
his elbow Suddenly the light went
out Dickens was much interested in
his book and relighted the candle 1t
was only when the light became dim
again that he turned suddenly and found
the kitten deliberately putting the light
out with her paw She was lonely, she
wanted to be petted. and this was her
device for bringing it about.
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Chinene Drugs.

The employees in the Office Of the ap
praiser of customs were busy examin-
ing shipment of Chinese medicines,
and the place smelled like fertilizer
factory.
There were the usual number of dried
snakes, the looks of which would be
certain to kill or cure any intelligent
patient There were also a number of
plump lizards, spitted on rods and ex-
panded with slips Of bamboo till they
resembled tennis raokets; lot of "sea
horses, F" a long, slender fish, with a
head like horse and prehensile tail
bundles of centipeds flattened out and
pasted on sticks; cans full of preserved
polliwogs and angleworms and many
other curious panaceas, each of which
smelled worse than the other There
were pills as large as prunes, hand
somely decorated; roots and "yarbs" of
many kinds, which would paralyze
Quaker doctor, and boxes and bottles of
unknown mixtures which would para
lyze anybody.
The 40 separate and distinct smells
of the town of Cologne are nothing as
compared to the odors arising from
about 800 worth of Chinese medicine,
which made some Of the men handling
the stuff sick. Foul smell seems to be a
requisite in most medicines, and if the
beneficial effects Of medicine are pro-
portionate to its odor the medicines of
the Chinese should be the best in the
world. Portland Oregonian.
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niece. I promptly turned out the gas
and secured my pistol.
"Oh, Mr.. Binel Why can't you un-
derstand?" she finally said
Now l could have said something
cruel there, but refrained. was not
reared on Comanohe reservation, and
have no Apache blood in me. lit the
gas again, disafmed myself, secured the
broom my wife had gesticulated at and
ambushed myself behind the foot of the
bed, to watch for any commotion that
might indicate the whereabouts of the
willy mouse. The curtain, which Of
some f1imsy stuff-crinoline or Isle
thread silk-began to flutter again.
"Deploy," said Constance.
"You don't deplore this half as much
as do, said, perhaps little snap
pishly. The clock was striking /.
That is military phrase" said
Constance haughtily. "Enfilade him, :"
she added aggravatingly. 1t was plain
Constance was trying to enrage me.
But was superior to her efforts-that
is, until she made her next remark In
rush of desperate determination, feel
ing that was sure to get that mouse,
charged on the curtain and hit several
sounding whacks.
Constance said that should haze put
on my slippers before l began to prowl
around after the mouse. At any rate, /
could not contain my Anglo-Saxon feel
ings when that mouse jumped graceful
ly out of the curtain and scampered
across my feet When he touched my
left foot, jerked it up, and when he
touched my right foot almost at the
same moment lifted that, and as re-
suit of this ambipedal movement /
went down on the floor in a heap
suppose it must have been funny-very
funny-for Constance, forgetting her
fright, rejecting all sentiments of graft
tude, fairly SCI canned at me between
bursts of hysterical laughter, "Foiled. :"
1t is just as we'll that 1 do not re-
member what l retorted. Constance says
she will try to forget it. 1t didn't take
me long to get back to bed, and l had
very little to say. 1t is likely I was
little ashamed Of myself. But here is
point would like to have some light
thrown on-was Constance a humorist
or merely woman when she said to
me at breakfast, ''Mr. Bine, we would
have had no trouble at all if one of those
cats had been in the room?"
And when l said, Eyes, it would
have stopped the yowling outside" she
laughed until Alice and Joseph stared
at her in amazement.
wonder if she meant that the cat
would have caught the mouse? Never
theless l am now the proud possessor of
a mousetrap and am merely awaiting
developments. Exchange
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1898-11-22
HUNTING THE FAIRIES.
rye hunted the fairies the whole day long,

I've hunted the fairies the whole day long,
In wood and valley and brook.
I've listened to hear the builder song,
And the erl king pass where the alders shook
But never saw even troll or fay,
Or a naughty elf that had lost his way,
Though 1 hunted the livelong day.
Perhaps it was only the wind that stirred
The rustling leaves and the grass.
Perhaps it was only the song of a bird
That called to me as tried to pass
The tangled path where the branches meet,
But it seemed like the tripping of fairy feet
And elf songs silvery sweet.
And so hurried and came at last
Out on an open space
To the brook that rushes and babbles past,
And there 1 caught the glimpse of a face.
So clambered in haste on rocky shelf
And looked in the waves again for the elf,
But the face was only myself.
think it is funny that boys like me
Can't find where the fairies go,
And really think would like to be
A boy with the boys of the long ago,
When all the wonderful tales came true,
The magic lamp and the little glass shoe
And the awful bugaboo.
But, though they could fly to the moon ant
stars
When the fairies gave them wings,
They hadn't the train or electric cars
Or Christmas and lots Of other things.
And SO guess it is better here,
And think I'll stay at least this year,
Since Fourth of July is near.
-Virna Woods in Woman's Home Companion.
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The RESI- OF IT.

Give every man his share
OF sorrow or of glee,
And he will wonder where
The other part can be.
If pain be half his lot,
He tries to make jest of 1t.
1t serves to warn him not;
He wants to know the rest of IL.
Give woman half a hint
OF how the scandal goes,
And she viii never stint
When telling what she knows.
One tells the story straight,
Another what she guessed of IT;
The others watch and watt
They want to know the rest of it.
Give any growing boy
A watch, and there's no doubt
Twill be his vandal joy
To turn it inside out.
He isn't satisfied
To merely be possessed of 1t.
The watch looks well outside;
He wants to know the rest Of it.
And so the story goes
Through all the alphabet;
No wit or science throws
A light upon 1t yet.
The problems I'm our hand,
We ought to make the best of it.
But still, you understand,
We want to know the rest of it.
Boston Courier.
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REM EN- BRANCE.

One night you touched the harp beside the
stair,
The harp that, long unfngered and unstrung
Had silent dreamed of hours when 1t was
young,
And those who loved it blithe and frail and
fair.
Beneath your careless hand faint, sweet air
Leaped back to life and told with tender tongue
OF loves forgot, and soft the strings among
The dying music fingered like prayer.
How long the harp had waited for your hand
So long my heart lay silent till you came
How strangely sweet the strain you made t.
rise
From eachi And yet you cannot understand
That now can neither ever be the same.
All, love, all, love, how slow the music diesi
Guy Wetmore Carry in Harper's Magazine.
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Our Useless Preiudices.

These miserable prejudices, then, are
to be Topped off, and there is our whole
strength to be applied. For what are
weeping and groaning? Prejudice. What
is misfortune? Prejudice. What are sedi.
ton, discord, complaint, accusation,
impiety, levityF All these are prejudioes,
and nothing more, and preiudices con
corning things uncomfortable by will,
as if they could be good or evil. Let
any one transfer these convictions to
things controllable by will, and l will
engage that he will preserve his con
stancy, whatever be the state of things
about him. -Epictetus.