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The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1898-01-21
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like an these environments, de-
structiye in their tendencies, and let
them be handed down from genera
ton to generation, gathering momen-
tum,as they 60 marrying and inter,
marrying sexaggerating tendencies as
they sweep and what do you have !?
q monstrosity
A traveller in Africa says eve
saw children Of l. years of age who
appeared but 6 or 8, SO puny and
1ndeyeloped were they. z What will
the traveller of the next century say
as be travels through our southland !?
To those who so enthusiastically
laud the ssNew South and speak
boastiogly Of her manufacturing in.
dustries, we would ask to consider
what will become of our cities, our
courts. our conventions, our con-
gresses unless replenished by the
fresh yeomanrJ of our country? But
how shall these be replenished from
this clsss when they are at q cotton,
mill IS the cottou nj e,xo 1l3h1(
! from which che IS to draw fresh stores
6fsstrength? It is yet to be proven
that the cotton mill business is not
the greatest curse that has ever harp
pened to South Carolina.
Talk about her wealth! Yes, but
when she is drawing un the blood.
the brain, the heart, and the souls of
generations yet unborn, she is pay
ing price too dear. Better do like
Marion's men-live on acorns and
potatoes.
War destroyed many of her in
habitants, but it did not develop a
pernicious heredity. Her heroes and
her past greatness may live within the
pages of history; they cannot be re-
produced from debased hered!ty.
Let the State ward Off threatening
evils by prompt legislation. Give at
least childhood for mental and pLysi-
cal development. Give manhood
time for reading and recreation, at
least for his offspring's sake.
Let the State realize that the
physical is the, foundation of the in
-teliectual, hence the foundation of a
nation.
Let her encourage recreation and
physical development; let her en-
courage schools and libraries; and let
her use the limit of her power in
forcing companies to provide for the
welfare and best interests of their
toiling operatives and their families.
Let the State establish some sys-
tenn for putting to work those british
characters who have prostitutGd
fatherhood by making slaves of their
children, while they loiter around
factory towns and spend the earnings
of their offspring in gratifying their
heathenish propensities. Let the
State release the child and put to
work the tritling parent.
Unless the State takes active steps.
she has leavcn within her that will
permeate her every social institution,
and will vitally affect her morals and
her social life.
Let the State realize that no insti-
tuition can stand whose foundation
has within it the germs of death.
If Improvement in environment
means the publication of heritage"
let the State wrench victory out of
defeat by legislating along these
lines. JOHN G. ROPER,
Pastor Of Union Mill Church, S.
c. Conference.
Union, S. c., Jan. II, 1898.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1898-03-01
WHISTLE DEAFNESS.
The Strange Disease Which Attacks Loco
Vnnffva Er~fDaa-a

The Strange Disease Which Attacks Loco
motive Engineers.
Railway surgeons are learning many
new facts in regard to the physical re-
quirements of railway employees, :" said
J. K. Matson of Chicago at the Southern.
Recently the railway surgeons of
the United States held a national con-
vention in Chicago, and one night l
heard an interesting chat in the lobby
of hotel by some of them. The uni
versal opinion among them was that it
is just as important that the ears of
railroad employees, and particularly
the ears Of locomotive engineers, should
be scientifically tested for natural or &C.
quired defects as that their eyes should
be tested for possible color blindness.
Whistle deafness is now a common
disease among railroad employees.
Many railroad accident could be traced
to this peculiar whistle deafness if
the truth were known. This disease
makes the ear of locomotive engineer
sensitive to the sounds by which he is
Immediately surrounded, but entirely
deaf to sounds OF all other kinds
1.-THE same condition is often OBJ
served among boiler makers. who can
hear slight noises when the air is laden
with the chatter of hammers upon iron
plates, while they are insensible to the
same sounds in quiet surroundings. Lo-
com otive engineers sometimes have de-
fective ears that can detect slight sounds
indicating imperfect working Of the ma
ohinery, even while the bell is ringing
or the whistle blowing or both are in
use. A locomotive engineer thus aff1ict-
ed should be relieved of duty for awhile
until the ear has recovered its normal
condition. enabling it to discriminate
between sounds according to their exact
relative volume, pitch and intensity. !"
st. Louis Globe Democrat.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1898-03-01
EARLY ARITHMETlcs.
Struggles Of the Pilgrim Children With
One of the sR's."

Struggles of the Pilgrim Children With
One of the ''R's."
Next to penmanship the colonial
school and schoolmaster took firm stand
on "ciphering. 1.-THE Bible and fig
gers is what want my boys to know, !"
said the old farmer | have examined
with care Wingate's Arithmetic which
was used for over century in the Wins
low family in Massachusetts,. The first
edition was printed in 1920. 1t is GER
tainly bewildering to modern reader.
"Pythagoras-His Table is, of course,
our multiplication table. Then comes
"The Rule of Three, "The Double
Golden Rule, - 1.-THE Rule of Fellow
ship, " "The Rule Of False" etc., end
ing with "a collection of pleasant and
polite questions to exercise all the parts
of vulgar arithmetick. I"
Wingates Arithmetic and Holder s
Arithmetic were succeeded by Pixies
Arithmetic. This had 1868 rules to
be committed to memory, and not an
explanation was given Of one of them.
1t is the most barren schoolbook |
have ever read These printed arith-
metics were not in common use. Near
ly all teachers had manuscript "sum
books, :" from which the scholars copied
page after page of sums, " too often
without any explanation of the process,
though there were also many and long
rules, which helped the penmanship if
they did not the mathematics. -Chau-
tauQuan.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1898-03-01
PHoToeRAPHY.'
L Critic Who Says That 1t Has Lowered
the Standard of Art.

4 Critic Who Says That 1t Has Lowered
the Standard of Art.
Has photography accomplished any
thing5 Yes; it has cheapened art great
ly. 1t has lowered the standard with
public that instinctively prefers the
sham and the machine made and the
microscopic. 1t has reduced the artist
to a demoralizing struggle with the
amateur simply to get his bread and
butter. In the beginning of the century
was celebrated for its beauti-
fully illustrated books, in which the
greatest artists, engravers and printers
oollaborated to produce perfect
whole. Today the place of these books
has been taken by The Strand Magazine
and The Sketch, thanks to the services
Of photography. In the making OF books,
however, the tendency has always been
toward the survival of the cheapest, and
the cheapest-usually the newest-has
always interested artists for awhile,
though for other reasons than it's cheap
ness.
Steel engravings suooumbed before
wood engraving and TYPOGRAPHY, and
they, in turn. have sucoumbed to the
oheapness of the process man. In many
ways until lately process was great
advance upon any other form Of repro
duction. Now process block makers are
mostly photographers, who are killing
each othes in the race for cheapness. I
do not want any one to think l would
imply that photography is not useful to
the artist. On the contrary, it Is, and
especially in illustration, since 1t pre-
serves the illustrators original design
for him. 1t enables the architect to get,
at small expense and without the trou-
BILE Of going to see and draw them, bits
of detail in foreign lands, though this is
a questionable advantage. The worlds
greatest architects managed very well
without it. One critic has said that if
photographers would turn their atten
ton to the recording of historic events,
like the jubilee, or of vanishing build
ings they could do an immense service
to art. In one way this is true, in an
other it is not.
Surely this critic would be the last to
suggest that the cinematographic 'pic-
tures''-the whole 90, 200 of them,
shown at the Empire, think-are equal
to one picture of procession by Oarpao-
clio, painted centuries before we had any
photographs. No doubt %, 900 artists
would be required to secure as many
views of the jubilee procession as were
obtained by the cinematograph, and
their employment might have been too
much of good thing. But if, say, half
q dozen accomplished artists had been
commissioned and allowed to do what
they wanted, might we not have had
record of some artistic Importance? As
to the photographing of old buildings,
which would the architect rather have
an etching by Piranesi or photo
graph by one Of the most revolutionary
Of the Salon photographers : Joseph
Pennell in Contemporary Review.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1898-03-01
SIR JOHN MOORE.
The Brave Soldier Died as He Had Always
Hoped He Would.

The Grave Soldier Died as He Had Always
Hoped He Would.
Moore was dying. Baird was severely
wounded. The early winter night was
creeping over the field Of battle, and
Hope, gallant soldier though he was,
judged it prudent to stay his hand.
6oult had been roughly driven back.
The transports were crowding into the
harbor. 1t was enough to have ended a
long retreat with the halo of victory
and to have secured an undisturbed en-
barkation.
Meanwhile Moore had been carried
into his quarters at Coruna. A much
attached servant stood with tears run
ming down his face as the dying man
was carried into the house. my
friend" said Moore, sit is nothingl"
Then, turning to a member of his staff,
Colonel Anderson, he said Anderson,
you know have always wished to die
in this way. hope my country will do
me justice. Only once his lips culver
ed and his voice shook as he said, "Say
to my mother" and then stopped, while
he struggled to regain composure.
"Stanhope, he said as his eyes fell on
his aid-de-oamp's face, remember me
to your sister''-the famous Hester
Stanhope, Pitts niece, to whom Moore
was engaged Life was fast and visibly
sinking, but he said, II feel myself so
strong I fear shall be long dying"
But he was not. Death came swiftly
and almost painlessly. Wrapped In a
soldiers cloak, he was carried by the
light of torches to a grave hastily dug
in the citadel at Coruna, and far off
to the south, as the sorrowing officers
stood round the grave of their dead
chief, could be heard from time to time
the sound of Soult's guns, yet in sullen
retreat. That scene Is made immortal
in Wolfe's noble lines:
Few and short were the prayers we said,
And we spoke not word of sorrow,
But we steadfastly gazed on the face that was
dead,
And we bitterly thought of the morrow.
We thought as we followed his narrow bed
And smoothed down his lonely pillow
That the foe and the stranger would tread Ger
his head,
And we far away on the billow.
-Cornhill Magazine.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1898-03-01
SOMETHING JUST AS GOOD.
How Bilious Man Gave Up His Two Cups
OF breakfast Coffee.

HOW - oAuOuA Ma G8VC up E1tb Two OuR4
OF Breakfast Coffee.
An east end man was advised some
time ago not to drink coffee His doctor
told him it helped to make his liver tor
pid and his liver was doing it's best to
render life miserable for himself and all
the rest of the family.
But, no, he couldn't give up his two
cups at breakfast time. He couldn't
make the sacrifice. Nothing could take
the place of the delicious Java and
Mocha mixed that he had learned to
love.
One day his wife suggested in mild
way that he might be just as we'll sat-
isfied with one of the brands of imita-
ton coffee. He almost frothed at the
mouth.
''That internal stufp' he cried.
'Not much. Fhe very first gulp would
settle me. I'd like to see any body try to
fool me with counterfeit Of that sort. ="
He didn't notice that his wife quietly
smiled. But, strange to say, from that
time on he grew better His bilious
tendency was greatly lessened. He felt
like new man.
One day he met the doctor.
Hello, docl'' he cried. "I'm getting
better in spite of you. -
"Given up coffee, have your" queried
the smiling doctor.
"Given up coffee? Not much. Coffee's
all right"
A few weeks later he met the man
from whom he orders his groceries.
"Hellop quoth the grocer. How
we'll you are lookingP'
yes said the oonvalescent, I'm
feeling great deal better.
'By the way" said the grocer, ''you
seem to like that substitute I've been
sending you. -
"What substitute?''
"Why, that substitute for coffee. /"
And he named one of the numerous i'm
itatioas of the fragrant berry.
Never had cup of it in the house."
said the bilious man emphatically.
"That's funny" said the grocer. 81
haven't sold your folks pound of gen.
uine coffee in the last three months.
The bilious man didn't say anything
further, but his thoughts were busy.
The next morning he looked at his cup
a little suspiciously, but he drank it
without tremor. Perhaps he fancied
he detected the difference; perhaps not
Anyway, his wife still fondly imagines
he doesn't know of the deception. -
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1898-03-01
An American Child.

There is 6-year-old youth in Tiogs
who is firmly convinced that "he will
be a man before his mother, says the
Philadelphia Record. He was spending
the afternoon at neighbours house the
other day and became utterly oblivious
of the flight of time After awhile the
mother of his little playmate remarked
that she thought it would be a good
idea for the youthful visitor to run
home He paid no attention to the re-
mark, and about half an hour later she
said to the youngster, Milton, don't
you think your mother will be worried
about your Looking up from the toys
with which he was playing. Milton
promptly replied: ''Oh, don't knowi
The old lady gets ratified once in
awhile.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1898-03-01

self 80 feet above the bottom OF the
gorge and at the entrance Of cave. AS
the yells of the Indians proved that they
were in pursuit, entered the cave sim
ply with the idea of securing shelter. If
the Indians knew of it, one of their
number did very foolish Thong. He
came bounding along in my tracks with
tomahawk in his hand, and fired and
rolled him into the gorge just as he had
got a glimpse of the mouth Of the cave.
That settled direct pursuit, but the In
dams had me penned up and knew it.
AT least two of them came up the gorge,
and, climbing up behind the rocks on
the left hand bank, they fired upon me
with arrows until l was driven into the
cave for shelter. 1t was then that set
fire to heap Of leaves and dead branch
es, which l kicked together, ana saw
the sights which had met the eyes of the
Mexican who had been hung. There was
a heap of bones and there was the ton of
gold.
In my amazement and exultation I
forgot the Indians outside for a long
quarter of an hour. In that heap of gold
were nuggets hardly bigger than bean,
and there were others larger than my
fist. 1t had taken two or three men
months or years to gather that heap
from the creek, and they had not taken
away a single nugget. Death had come
to them, how / cannot say, with riches
within arms length.
took from the heap an almost solid
mass of gold weighing 70 ounces, and
after brief look around on reaching
the mouth of the cave l started down
the ledge or shelf on run. The finding
of that great heap of wealth had made
me reckless, and my sole aim was to
reach camp and break the news. was
fired upon as I ran, but not pursued. l
think that three or four of the Indians
had worked up the mountain above the
mouth of the cave, with intent to pre-
cipitate landslide and immune me, but
they could not have had time to accom-
plish anything when from other causes
a slide occurred. 1t began away up the
mountain side and took in a space about
200 feet wide. Trees, bushes, powders
and dirt went sliding down with roar
ing and crashing, and mayhap the In
dams were caught with it. At any rate,
when | reported at camp and returned
with four of our party we heard nothing
from redskins. had run up narrow
gorge. There was no gorge now. Tens
of thousands of tons Of debris had come
down to fill up the gorge to level, and
to get at the mouth of that cave one
would have had to get through 100 feet
of the fill. Man had gathered the treas
ure from nature and back to nature it
went for safe keeping. Some day men
may go there with machinery and find
a way to remove the obstruction, but
the ton Of gold is safe from the miner
with his pick and shovel. We did not
make bad thing of our enterprise by
any means, but we just missed making
such good thing of it that none of the
party could ever feel quite consoled.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1898-03-01
Winner Either Way.

Young man, said the multimillion-
aire angrily, chow dare you get en-
gagged without my knowledge and to an
aotress?'
''Such matter, sir, is one in which
1 do not think that even father should
be absolute. -
''But you never earned penny in
your life. Surprising publicly renounce
your"
"All right, sir. The more you pub
licly renounce me the more you adver-
tise my wife. STRAND Magazine.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1898-03-01

II have no place to lay my head, :"
she sobbed.
Her good fairy at once appeared.
''Be careful, then, urged the latter,
waving her wand, "that you don't lose
it.
Gliding to the front of the stage, the
enchantress let it be understood that
there would be a calorif1c period in the
ancient municipality that evening. -
Detroit Journal.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1898-03-01
The SECRET Of New YORK. Greatness.

The Secret of New York's Greatness.
Ernest Ingersou writes an article for
st. Nicholas on the Greater New York,
his paper being entitled Reasoning Out
Metropolis Mr.. Ingersoll says:
The secret of New York proud great
ness-why she is and always will be
the imperial city of North America in
wealth and influence and commercial
power, even though some other town
may some time in the future count a
few more inhabitants-is found in the
word transportation. "
New York stands in the best place for
the distribution of people and things
the raw material for manufactures, the
products of mills and furnaces and
shops, the yield of farms and mines and
forests and the goods going and coming
across the seas. Valleys that form easy
and natural roads open out south, west,
north and northeast, like the folds of a
fan, and the resources of a great coun-
try flow naturally along them toward
her Golfers In front of her is the ocean
gateway, open to the fleets of the world.
New York is New York because she
stands where the wealth of the new
world and the treasures Of the old world
most easily and naturally meet, and she
will be grander and even more splendid
as time rolls on.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1898-03-01
SHE'S VERY DEAR.

She's very dearl So fair, SO sweet, so truel
Lips red as wine eyes of the deep, deep blue
And full of love and dreams
Her rich hair golden CLEANS.
She like an angel seems. She's very deari
She's very dearI She's childlike, yet mature.
Hers is affection that will e'er endure
Tender, full of the grace
Born of gentle race;
An honest, trustful face. She's very deari
She's very dearl Her smiles the little ray
OF sunlight that eliminates my day.
1t is all true, but hear:
She spends or very near,
Ten thousand every year, She's very dearl
james Courtney Challiss in New York Sun.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1898-03-01
Wonderful to See
An important Change the Cause
of Much Gratitude

A New Jersey Mother Writes Some
thing About Her Daughters.
"My little girl was troubled with i'm
pure blood. Every little pimple or
scratch would make great sore which
would not heal but kept getting worse.
My husband got bottle of Hoods Sar-
saparilla, and as / had heard of its Won
derful cures, the little girl began taking
it. When she had finished taking one
bottle she did not have core or blotch
on her, but gave her another bottle to
make sure of permanent cure. Since
then 1 have given Hoods Sarsaparilla to
both of my little girls for loss OF appe-
tite and it is wonderful to see the change
in them. They have gained in flesh and
weight and their cheeks are rosy. When
ever / want blood purifier / shall get
Hoods Sarsaparilla." MRS. EDWARD
GARRETT, care Warren Foundry, Phillips
burg, New Jersey. Remember
Hoods SarsapariIla
Is the best-in fact the One True Blood Purifier.
Hoods Pills are the 1s only pills to take
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1898-03-01

Mrs lakeside am going to study
law.
Mrs. Esplanade-How NIGEL Then
you can get your own divorces New
Orleans Times Democrat.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1898-03-01
UPWARD.

Draw the lines little tighter,
Spirit minel
Make the life little brighter.
Spirit minel
For the truths sake be fighter,
Show the world life may be whittier,
Purer, stronger, dearer, lighter,
More divine!
If one wills, life may be higher,
Spirit mine!
If one loves, God will be higher,
Spirit mine!
His affection does not tire.
Let US then his truth desire,
Seeking it past water, fire,
Gold and winel
John o. Colt in Great Thoughts"
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1898-03-01
Union transportation Company.

Tuckerton Railroad.
Leave Mount Holly tor Tuckerton 9.26 A. n
All P. n, daily except Sunday.
Leave Tuckerton tor Mount Holly, 100 A. n,
200 m, daily except Sunday.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1898-03-01

"Oh, Ben, Pm so glad'' said Mrs.
Sigsby, sitting up in bed and putting
her arms around Mr.. Sigsby's neck as
he came in at II p. m. and stopped to
kiss her.
There was thrill in her voice that
told how glad she was.
1t WASH t very long board meeting,
was it?''
"No. got away as soon as l could
l wanted to get home before you went
to sleep"
Darling Mrs. Sigsby's voice
broke, and she laid her little blond head
or the broad breast of her husband and
sobbed.
She said it was because-she was SO
glad-that he came home-early. Chi
cago Record.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1898-03-01

play, old man, chuckled S1gsby.
"Takes brains to do thing like that,
doesn't it?' returned Gibson.
81 tell you you got to be smarter n
chain lightning to fool woman" said
Sigsby
Eyes, that was about the most bril-
liant thing ever had hand in. Two
big, husky liars like us fooling one lit
tie, innocent, inexperienced woman was
certainly a great achievement. Pm
proud of it. "
They smoked and walked in silence a
few yards when Sigsby burst out:
''Hang you, Glib. you needn t make a
man feel smaller'n two spoil My
wife's good as gold, but she's slower
than He seemed to have difficulty
in finding word that expressed the de-
gree Of slowness, SO he said, st. Louis. )"
"You know your own business, old
man, but don't ever ask me to take a
hand at that game again. If had a
thing like that"-Gibson jerked his
thumb over his shoulder" smuggling
up under my vest, you wouldn't catch
me chasing any butterhies-not on your
ifel'
They had reached the corner, ami
Sigsby signaled passing car
Better come along" he said, with
his hand on the rail-
"No, thanks. Good night"
GOOD night, old manP