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The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1898-08-30
The English Smart Set.

To what condition has ''smart So
riety" fallenl Any one may become a
leading light in it, provided that ne or
she is ready to pay the footing. He or
she can at any moment find person to
bid guests to their feasts and any num-
Der Of guests, guaranteed to be smart
people" will accept the invitations.
A year or two ago an American lady
intent ON fashion took large house,
and an introducer sent out her invita-
tions. At her first party there were
many of her own friends present. The
introducer explained to her that the
right set of people would not come if
they were exposed to this promiscuity
with those who were not in it. Finally
it was agreed that the hostess might
invite ten friends to each party, but
not more.
What l have never understood is
where the pleasure comes in of going
to several parties the same evening.
Yet there are many apparently sane
persons who do this every evening dur
ing the season. At each party they
probably have to wait at least half an
hour before getting out of their carriage
and getting back into it when they
want to go away. They struggle up
stairs, show themselves, stay perhaps
half an hour and then hurry off to the
next party. Why they should like this
mode of spending their evenings no on
except themselves can imagine. There
is no costermonger' donkey SO over
worked as woman bent on society. =
London Truth.
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ooueHNuTs AND cRuLLERs.
Bakeries That Produce Nothing Else an
Sell to Wholesalers Only.

Bakeries That Produce Nothing Else and
Sell to Wholesalers Only.
Doughnuts, as every housewife knows,
are raised with yeast, and crullcrs are not.
For doughnuts a sponge is made in a
doughnut and cruller bakery at a. III.
The time required for the sponge to rise
depends somewhat on the season and the
temperature 1t is made to rise at a uni
form time by keeping it where it is warm
in winter and by the use of cold water
and cold milk in summer. More flour and
the spices and other ingredients are mixed
in at O'Clock, and the dough is then LETT
to stand until p. m, when it is rolled
out and cut up into pieces that will be
doughnuts when cooked Thus cut out
they are laid along in boxes or trays and
raised again for an hour or an hour and a
half, and then they are cooked
The doughnuts are laid on wire holders,
which are submerged in boiling fat or oil.
When done, they are lifted out and drained
and are then ready for sale. Doughnuts
are made of different shapes, and there are
some variations made on doughnut stock.
There are, for instance doughnuts made
with an opening in them which is filled
with jelly, and there are variations on the
cruller-as, for example, one made with
an icing or frosting-these several varia
tions having each a name of its own
When the various ingredients of which
crullers are made have been made into
dough, the dough is rolled out, and the
crullers are cut from the sheets. They are
picked up separately and the crossbars
deity twisted in and out, facilitating the
perfect cooking and giving the oruller its
old time familiar form and appearance.
Crullers are cooked in the same way as
doughnuts.
Doughnuts and crullers are made in
many bakeries that make bread and cake
and other things for their own retail trade.
There are at least four bakeries in the
city that make nothing but doughnuts
and crullers, selling TO bakeries and res
taurants at wholesale only.-New York
Sun.
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THE GREAT DESERT.
POWER Of the Winds on That Barren Waste
of Sands.

Power Of the Winds on That Barren Waste
of Sands.
With feeling that my words will
carry little weight with those who
think otherwise, venture to suggest
that the Sahara is not exactly what it
Is commonly assumed to be, and yet in
many ways it is not very different. It's
first sands, when approached from the
side of El-Kantara, are giant rocks,
Of the southern sun, standing out in
wild pinnacles from the gently undu-
lating surface. This is not the desert
that is ordinarily pictured by the mind
that fat, endless expanse which fades
off unmoved and unbroken to the limits
Of vision-but 1t is the desert, neverthe-
less, Just as much as the mountain
SHOWS Of the far north are a part of the
great arctic "sea of ice. Beyond, how
ever. is the great plain itself, its swell
ing undulations hardly relieving to the
eye the appearance Of absolute fatness
which the picture offers
The truth is, the Sahara presents
itself in a double aspect, that of the fiat
and sandy plain and that of the rocky
ridge or mountain, the Hammada. 1t is
the Hammada that is more particularly
dreaded by the caravans, for among
their wind swept crags there are few
GASES, and only the blowing sands and
a relentless sun are the companions of
the footsore pilgrim. In many parts Of
the fat desert travelling is moderately
easy, for over long distances the surface
has become coated into hard, Shiny
crust-a solid basement rock. one may
call it. Along our route of travel there
were no sand dunes of any magnitude,
the highest perhaps scarcely exceed
ing Is or 90 feet but was informed by
the distinguished French explorer, NJ
Foureaud, who was then stopping at
Biskra, that. beyond Tuggurt they rise
to the prodigious height of from 1000
to /, 400 feet This speaks even more
eloquently for the power of the winds
than do the high tossed sands of coral
islands Popular Science Monthly
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CHINESE CHARACTERISTICS.



~, "-A -"e"e - ,,--',..
an"
Inc splrlt OF economy IN tne Chlnese
race transcehds all that can De imagined.
Inc sInallest partlcie OF matter Is utlllzed-
me ola cast on account DOCK OF the mer-
chant is cut INTO pieces ana olled TO serve
instead OF glass IN WINDOWS or lanterns.
A cody VINO mas a SIX hours march with
heaVy purueh Will return TO MS polht OF
departure Wltnoug having broken MS iase
IN oroer TO save the 2 Genus MS preaKlas5
would nave cost away rom nome Moth
ing is more curious than TO see them eat,
although with their famous chopstleks
they 90 not perform an the WONDERFUL
Ieats generally supposed everything Is
served them IN bowls or saucers, ana with
the chopstlcks they raise the pieces OF meat
or fish to the mouth with suthclent grace.
Each one has powl OF rice, which ne
holds near his lips, ana With the ald OF the
chopsticks he pushes the contents into his
mouth. 1t is curious to see them PICK up
with their chopsticks the grains OF rice
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Sir Charles Gordon's "Recollectiona
Of Thirty Years In the Army"
contains this anecdote: SIN $780, at
Tien -tsin, the two Gordons when seek
ing for hospital sites, came across a
Buddhist nunnery. Despite the warn
ings of one of the inmates, who appear
ed in boys clothes, they entered the
building and found that the inmates all
wore male clothing The Buddhist
women were greatly shocked at the in
trusion.
"'Our regret, says Sir Charles, was
real Explanations were exchanged. We
were informed that the community
within adopted male costume as an in
dieation that they not only renowned
the world, but with it the emblems of
their sex We were received by the
lady superior, tea and cakes offered to
and partaken of by u.s. We were then
permitted to visit the private chapel,
and finally we parted from the re-
ligieuses on the best of terms.
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THE eeLLIcose KENTucklAN.


Credited With Having Reversed the Des-
TIMES of the New World.
The utility of possessing New Orleans
was evident were 1t only to acquire the
incontestable right to navigate the Mis-
sissippi, Spain having expressly interdict-
ed this navigation to the Americans. But
with New Orleans we sold them Louisiana
that is to say, an immense extent of ter
ritory which had no northwest boundary
because that part of the continent was
still unknown. This vast extent Of gray
horizon produced the Kentuckian, who
became the father of the second phase of
the American spirit, as the Puritan was
father of the first. The Kentuckian had
in him a touch of Virginian civilization
grated upon the temperament of the trap
per and adventurer. Do not neglect sin
gle opportunity of studying that strange
type of the Kentuckian.
1t is he who has reversed the destinies
of the new world. What he was is still to
be found in the man of Chicago, but at
tenuated and deformed. The Kentuckian
loved whisky, dueling and cards He was
crazy over eloquence. The sense of gran
deur was developed in him in a surprising
fashion. He wished to magnify every
thing His patriotism was pure, but OK
allied. Napoleon was his god and the eagle
his emblem. He was bellicose. He urged
on the war against England in 1919 He
wanted to conquer Canada. He obtained
finally the annexation Of Texas, the inva
sion of California, the war against Mexico.
The treaty of Guadaloupe- Hidalgo crown
ed his prayers. The United States stretch
ed now from one ocean to the other Its
area was quintupled in 40 years. 1t
took rank among the great countries of
the world. The Kentuokian, obscure
workman of this immense task, had for
standard bearer in the federal senate the
celebrated Henry Clay after whom Web
ster and Calhoun patterned themselves,
all three enamoured of the same dream of
national greatness. Bleue
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NOT UP TO HIS PART.
A Drummer Who Was Travelling on .
CIergyman's Railway Ticket.

A Drummer Who Was Travelling on q
CIergyman's Railway Ticket.
",Just came from St. Louis. +" remarked
a well known commercial traveller as he
aliehted from the train. land had one of
the funniest experiences of my life on the
way I'D.
fRelate it. and be quick, >, replied his
fellow drummer. who was about to catch
train.
sWell. Won know Mandlebaum, the tick
ct scalper,' replied the other. Just as
I was about to board the train he came to
me and offered to sell a first class ticket
for SO low a figure that l was obliged to
take it for strictly business reasons. My
time was limited, and | neglected to look
at the name of the original purchaser, so l
boarded the train and took possession of a
seat in the smoker First came a cigar,
and then, being thirsty, took out that old
flask of mine from the satchel and proceed
ed to quench my thirst in good old fash
toned STYLE
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Queer Reckoning.

Indian street peddlers throughout
Mexico sell bananas for II cents a
dozen, but when offered "a cents on
payment for two dozen bananas the
peddlers refused it and demanded 20
cents The course of reasoning is that
real is II cents; reals, 20 cents
reals make a dollar. So the trav-
eler must pay real for one dozen BAN
anas, but 20 cents for two dozen, and
no amount of argument will convince
the peddler that this is not right.
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Usually the Case.

There was once poor boy who
while walking along saw pin on the
pavement before him. Quickly the lit
tie lad staid his steps and picking up
the pin stuck it carefully and securely
in his coat.
A rich man CHANGING to pass at that
time saw the action, and was much i'm
pressed by it, so much so that he took
the boy into his bank and finally adopt
ed him.
Thirty years have passed and the
erstwhile poor boy is a South African
millionaire The other day he drew a
check for e2, 900 and gave it to for
mer schoolmate who had not prospered
in the race of life.
"All that am now | owe to you.
John, said the millionaire.
fBut don't understand, stammer-
ed the beneficiary.
"Simple enough. If hadn't hated
you so at school, | should never have
picked up that pin to put on your seat. :"
Pearson s Weekly.
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How DoILook P"

How frequently
a woman asks this question: How much
thought and study she devotes to it! 1t Is
natural. A woman hates to think that sh
is growing day by day less charming and
attractive and youthful to her husbands
eyes than in the days of courtship.
A woman may always retain her charms
and the vivacity and freshness of youth if
she will take the proper care of her health.
A tremendous percentage of ill-health IN
women is due to weakness and disease of
the distinctly feminine organism. DR..
Pierce's Favorite Prescription is an unfail-
ing remedy for all disorders of this nature.
1t allays Inflammation, heals liberation,
stops facilitating drains and Soothes and
tones the nerves. 1t preserves in woman
all the charm of healthy youth. Thou
sands of women have testified to its mar
velous merits
"Favotite Prescription " is sold by all re-
spectacle dealers in medicines. Deal only
where you are honestly treated. Any store
keeper who tries to give you a substitute
for what you demand is not treating you
honestly and you should take your trade
elsewhere.
For nine years have suffered with falling
of internal organs writes Mrs Mary Williams,
of Raleigh, Wake Co, N. c. (Box 1867. " was
troubled with bearing down pains. had indi-
gestion and female weakness and nervousness.
1 could not sleep at night. constipated
that no medicine would reach my disease. DIR.
Pierce's Favorite Prescription, Golden Medi-
cal Discovery and Pleasant Pellets have
cured me-"
An every day necessity In the home. A
good home medical work. Send 81 one
cent stamps, to cover mailing only, to the
Worlds Dispensary Medical Association,
Buffalo, N. Y, for paper-covered copy of
DR. Pierce's Common Sense Medical Ad-
wiser. Cloth binding 81 stamps.
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She made call at her usual drapery
establishment to purchase some stockings
Taking a seat, she was shown by the
obliging young man some very pretty
striped articles, but she did not care for
them, as she thought they were out of
fashion.
The assistant began to wonder how he
could convince the lady that this was not
SO. A bright idea entered his head.
Madam, said he, 81 will soon prove
to you that most ladies are wearing them
at the present moment You see, madam,
there are about ten ladies in the shop
Don't be alarmed when l shout, but keep
your eyes on the other ladies' feet
He gave knowing smile, and, bound
ing over tho counter, shouted in a loud
voice:
"a mouse A mousei"
Each lady instantly drew up her dress,
with the result that-well, she ordered six
pairs of those striped stockings. Pear
sons Weekly.
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Easily Managed.

Scene-Editor' sanctum. Printer
Crushing in excitedly)-Here's a gol
johnson, the murderer. has just been
found innocent, and the government
has telegraphed pardon. We've got
the whole account of the hanging set
up. with illustrations. and the form is
on the press.
Editor (ooolly)-Don't get excited,
man. just put over the account in large
capitals: johnson Pardoned. Full Ac-
count of What He Escaped Pear
sons Weekly.
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The Ostrich, an English paper that
aims TO say nothing disagreeable in
speaking of building that burns down
in which out of 400 persons an perish,
does not mention them, but says, "Not
less than 1913 were saved. +" Very sad
news is printed in the smallest type, so
the experienced reader is warned. No
unpleasant details are given After a
mere statement the paragraph ends
with Continuation on page ID. +"
There is no thirteenth page.
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a REpREsENTArlvE PIRATE.
Captain Kidd Was Utterly without ANY
Sense of Honor.

sense. OF Honor.
1t is said that Kidd showed no re-
pentance when he was tried, but insist
ed that he was the victim of malicious
persons who swore falsely against him,
and yet a more thoroughly dishonest
rascal never sailed under the black flag.
In the guise Of AN accredited officer Of
the government he committed the crimes
he was sent out to suppress. He deceiv-
ed his men. He robbed and misused his
fellow countrymen and his friends, and
he even descended to the meanness of
cheating and despoiling the natives of
the West India islands with whom he
traded. These people were in the habit
of supplying pirates with food and other
necessaries, and they always found their
rough customers entirely honest and
willing to pay for what they received,
for as the pirates made a practice OF
stopping at certain points for supplies
they wished of course to be on good
terms with those who furnished them.
But Kidd had no ideas of honor toward
people of high or low degree, He would
trade with the natives as if he intended
to treat them fairly and pay for all he
got but when the time came for him to
depart and he was ready to weigh an
Choir he would seize all the commodi-
ties he could lay his hands on and
without paying copper to the distress
ed and indignant Indians he would gay
ly sail away, his black flag Haunting
derisively in the wind.
But although in reality Captain Kidd
was no hero, he has been known for a
century and more as the great American
pirate, and his name has been repre-
sentative of piracy ever since. Years
after he had been hung, when people
heard that vessel with black flag
or one which looked black in the dis
tance-fying from its rigging had been
seen, they forgot that the famous pirate
was dead and imagined that Captain
Kidd was visiting their part Of the coast
in order that he might find good place
to bury some treasure which it was no
longer safe for him to carry about. -
Frank R. Stockton in Century.
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The Flow OF rsIooa.

Professor Mosso, the Italian physiolo-
gist, constructed couch so arranged
that it could be accurately balanced in
the middle when the slightest change of
weight should make either end incline.
A man was laid upon it, balanced in a
horizontal position. AS he went to sleep
his head rose and his feet sank. As he
awoke the opposite occurred, proving
that the blood left the head in the one
condition and returned to it in the other
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Wanted-A Patent.

Among the strange applications which
reach the patent Office one, filed some
years ago, was most extraordinary, it
being petition for patent for an ant
guard which consisted in merely draw
ing chalk mark around table or 9th
er place by which it was claimed the
approach of ants was stopped. 1t seems
that chalk makes an ants legs slip as
soaping track prevents a railway en-
CINE from starting. The petition was
novel and caused considerable amuse-
ment. The application, however, was
refused on the ground that there was
nothing new in the invention, that
chalk had been used for such purposes
before and that such ideas were not pat
entable
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Not Much of a Relief.

Crusty Old Uncle-Well, William,
I've decided that you needn't pay back
the $50 you got from me last summer
I'm going to make you present of it.
Reckless Nephew-Thanksl
Crusty Old Uncle-Well, that's not
very enthusiastic way you have of ac-
knowledging my generosity. | thought
you'd be overjoyed at getting this debt
off your mind
Reckless Nephew-Oh, it hasn't been
bothering me had no intention Of
paying you anyway. Cleveland Leader
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While some Swiss militiamen were
resting from their drill one of the men
stepped from the ranks to light his
cigar from that of the officer The lat
ter took this evidence Of the spirit of
freedom" in good part, but said, In
the Prussian army you could not have
done this. John. -
Fright you are. was the prompt re-
ply, ''but in the Prussian army you
could not be an Officer. =
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Man Of SENSITIVE Nerves.

THAT climate of Cuba is hard on our
boys at first, said the passenger with
the skullcap but it won't be so bad
when they become
Acclimated, said the passenger
with the spectacles. Excuse me for in
teri upting, but feared you might pro-
nounce it with the accent ON the first
sy liable. Chicago Tribune.
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why She Looked Pale.

Not long since a sentimental young iv
erpool lady was down on the Cunard
steamship pier, where she saw a young
girl sitting on a trunk in an attitude of
absolute detection and despair
Poor thingN thought the romantic
girl ''She is probably alone and a stran-
ger. Her pale checks and great sad eyes
tell of broken heart and "a yearning for
sympathy She has probably had some I'M
fortunate affair and has left her lover in
America
confidence.
Were you crossed in lover" she asked
sympathetically.
No" replied the girl, with a sigh.
= crossed in the Servia, and n mighty rough
passage too london Tit Bits
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A Useful Mule.

"Tom, that old sway backed mewl O.
yourn ain t no good under saddle. is
he?"
Nope; too slow an clumsy"
"Ner in tn buggy er waggin?"
"Nope; too awkward fer that. -
"Ner at pullin ov the plow?"
Nope; wants ter Craze too much. "
"Whut you keepin him fer, then?"
"Waal, you see, we amt got no
clock at our house, an that ole mewl
brays at dinner time jest ez shore ez the
yearth tourns over. Yassar, I've been
called to dinner by that nevis bray
fer the last five years an I'm allus right
plum on time Atlanta Journal
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A correspondent of a London paper
says:
81 met recently with translation
into English of the name of the village
in Anglesey which boasts the longest
name in the United Kingdom. l send
you copy below, thinking it may in
terest your readers: 'Llanfair- pwll-
gwyn gyIl goger- y-Church Mary a
hollow white hazel near to the
chwyrn drobwll Liam Disilio gogo-
goch rapid whirlpool church
Saints nancy cave red'-that is,
the Church of st. Mary in hollow of
white hazel near to the rapid whirlpool,
and to St. Disilio church near to a red
cave.
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First Stranger ION railway train)-So
you are selling Professor Blanks new
book are you? Strange coincidence l
am Professor Blank
Second Stranger-That so? Then you
wrote the very book am agent for?
Yes. The hardest work ever did was
writing that book. "
well, well That S another strange CO.
incidence The hardest work | ever did
was trying to sell it New York Weekly
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By such name does the $50 p. M.
train from Sydney to the Blue noun
tains go by. The Blue mountains are to
Australia what Switzerland is to Eng
land. the place where the fashion
ables'' go to find ''coolth throughout
the summer months,
1t is also the haunt of the newly
married, and the train hardly leaves
one day week without having several
happy couples on board-hence its name
To railway men 1T is known as 1.-THE
fish train, the drivers name being
Herring, that of the fireman Pike, while
the guard has that of the lowly but
honest Cockle.-London Standard.
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merely From Observation.

''Is Miss Blinkins at homer asked
Mr.. Saunders of the Irish girl who an
swered his ring at the door.
Yes. | b'lave she is, sir. -
''Is she engaged?''
An is it engaged you say? Fax, an
| can't tell you, sir, but she kissed Mr..
Vincent last evenin as if she had new
er seen the like Nv him, an it's engaged
l b'lave they are, sir. Exchanges