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Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1898-03-24

Adrien gaped at her like chidden
charity school culprit She was alto
Rcthcr new order Of womankind. If
Eben Martins daughter had been 40
years old and himself 10, the absurdity
Of his present position would have been
less apparent She had reduced him to
condition of absolute wordlessness
Retreat was the only thing left to him.
Even that was attended with disaster.
He had flung his coat aside in order
to give his arms freer play with the rod
of discipline, and the contents Of one
pocket lay scattered among the bushes.
He recovered the coat with jerk, flung
himself into 1t, and, seizing his gun, he
doffed his cap surlily to Liza and turned
his face homeward A bitter sense Of
defeat was his only company. sarah
Jane still crouched ut tho feet Of her
deiiverer
Liza sat down on the brick steps to
await Seth s coming Her sketching
mood was broken up, the serenity Of
her day shattered. Signs Of the recent
conflict lay about her in the downtrod-
den grass and the broken ramrod. There,
too we're bits Of paper that perhaps she
had herself carelessly dropped from her
portfolio.
She reached over to possess herself of
the papery litter, asking herself when
she had destroyed a letter and cast its
fragments to the winds To assist her
memory she smoothed the crumplcd
fragment across her knee Two unbro-
ken lines revealed themselves startling
ly at glance:
"Adrien, you would not be ashamed
of your wife if you could see her with
That was all. Liza crumpled the pa
per up once more and flung it from her
as II it had been some loathsome rep.
tile
With scorn bright eyes she looked
across tho broad fiat fields to where
Adrien, his gun resting across his shoul-
der blades, was just disappearing be-
hind a knot Of pecan trees
80 that is the sort Of coward he Isl"
The glittering clasp Of Russian
leather wallet caught her eye. twas ly-
ing on the ground beside the brick steps
She stopped to pick it up Its contents
were scattered loosely about. flung out
by the violence with which he had
jerked his shooting jacket from tho tree.
These Liza gathered up promiscuously
and showed into the wallet.
Once only did she pause in her task.
It was when her fingers came in contact
with the stiff leather case Of a small
ambrotype
II was impossible not to look. Impos-
sible not to wonder.
A small, plain face. with sad. large
eyes and sensitive mouth. That was
all
Scarcely the sort Of face to make
man forget to be gentleman, said
Liza, clasping the wallet over tho pic
tured face and consigning it to her own
deep dress pocket
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1898-03-24
JEAnHGTTE HoWlAbN70EhH
copYaioaT. 1897 sY the AUrHoA.

And she's not one OF your nirlv,n
girls, self reliant and courageous. A
grasshopper among her petticoats will
make her scrcam; feminine to- the core,
sir. Your true woman is always bit
of q coward, bless her heart. l love her
for it too. ~ This from the governor.
II imagine men always love the wo-
men best who oftenest give them an op-
portunity to show their own superiority,
don't they, grandpa?'
"Off with you, sir. You are an i'm
pudent rogue. RIw 30 years younger,
l would court Amy myself and outwalk
you for shot at the partridges too."
And ROW the distant peaGeld lay
trampled and despoiled before him, its
gray, green and ruesct rcpose all i'll a
mellow tangle. Dolbear had told him
to penetrate the bra,nbly footpath as far
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1898-03-24
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The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1898-06-21
Social Mistakes.

Perhaps the greatest of all social mis-
takes is to be continually talking about
oneself There is no word in all the
vocabulary of conversation SO tedious to
others as that personal pronoun II. :"
Though one of the smallest words in
use, there is none that takes up more
room in the everyday world. ''I'' is a
bore. 1t is better not to mention his
name oftener than can be avoided. An
other social folly is ''gush." There is
an insincere ring about it. True, there
are people who gush from sheer good
nature in wishing to give pleasure, yet
they should remember that even amiable
exaggeration is like q coarse sugar plum,
agreeable at first, but leaving doubt
full taste in the mouth afterward.
On the other hand, there is a certain
class of people in society who are equal
ly foolish in going to the other extreme.
They feign Indifference about everybody
and everything, seldom expressing either
interest or admiration. They think it
'bad form" to show any pleasure in
life, and sign of superiority to be in
capable of enthusiasm. A social folly
is to imagine that people are always
looking at or thinking of you. Such
ideas are often the offsprings of conceit
AS a matter of fact, the people very
often look at you without seeing or
thinking of you. They have other things
to think of. If we could only convince
ourselves that we are not always the
pivot of our friends and aequaintances'
thoughts, there would be fewer hurt
feelings and imaginary grievances.
Spokane Spokesman Review.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1898-06-21
THE CLERKS MISTAKE.

Thought She Was Hayseed Because She
Ordered Kerosene Lamp.
Just after the night clerk had come
on at the hotel and curled his mustache
to his liking his attention was called to
business.
kerosene lamp for 1884," requested
beIlboy
kerosene lamp?" echoed the clerk
as he whirled the register about. "Let
me see. Blondly and wife of Plunker-
vile in 237. 1 thought so. Never been
in first class hotel before. Go back and
show them how to use the electric light.
Wonder they didn't send for tallow
CANDLE" and the clerk took several of
the corridor loungers into his confidence.
Lady says if this hotel can't afford
a lamp to send up gas stove and send
it quick, said the bellboy, who had
made the round trip in phenomenal
time. She acts pretty hot.
Pretty cold, should think. Go back
there and open the register, show the
lady how to use the water faucets and
how to turn off the electricity. Thank
the Lord, she can't blow it out y
The next word from 237 came with a
rush. 1t was brought by vision Of
loneliness, dressed in bewitching style,
her face flushed and her blue eyes throw
ing off sparks. make out our bill and
receipt it at once, = she said as her dain-
ty foot beat time on the marble thing.
''But, Mrs. Blondly"-
ATTEND to my order, sir. Include in
your bill carriage and an express wag-
on to transfer us and our things and
tell Mr.. Blondly when he comes in that
he will find us at the other house, where
we will spend the rest of the season.
Understand, we must go at once.
want to go to a hotel where it will be
possible to warm some milk for baby
before the little angel starves to death. :"
Then the loungers had fun with the
clerk, and the best he could muster was
a sickly grin. News
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1898-06-21

How many young men and young wo-
men are cut off just as the future seems
brightest and fullest of promised They
are taken away by the disease which
causes over one-sixth of all the deaths in
the world-the disease which doctors call
consumption. There is absolutely no rea-
son in the world why consumption should
be fatal-why it should be even serious.
1t is disease of the blood, and can be
cured absolutely and always by purifying
and enriching the blood The only ex-
ception to this is the case where the dis
ease has been neglected and improperly
treated until it is stronger than the body
until the body has become so weak as to
have lost the ability to recuperate DR..
Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery will
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and throat affections
Send 81 cents in one-cent stamps to
Worlds Dispensary Medical Association,
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The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1898-06-21
sHEATHlNG A SHIP.


Composition Metal Now Largely Used.
Work Quickly and Handsomely Done.
Yachts built of wood are sheathed
with copper, and so are many tugboats.
Merchant ships are sometimes sheathed
with copper, but nowadays the material
most commonly used is composition
metal which in appearance resembles
brass. 1t does not wear so long as cop
per, but it costs less. The composition
metal comes in sheets about 3 feet by
foot inches. They are fastened on the
ship with nails of the same material
Sometimes the sheathing is nailed di-
rectly on to the hull of the ship. Some
times it is nailed over another sheathing
of felt, which helps to preserve the
calking in the seams
When tho ship has been placed in o
drydock or raised out of water on a
floating dock, the old metal is stripped
off, and if she is to have felt sheath
ing the bottom of the ship is first paint
ed with coat Of pitch, and the sheets
of felt are laid upon that, and then the
sheets of metal are nailed on over them.
The work is done very rapidly and at
the same time with great nicely. Every
nail head is sunk so that it is flush
with the plate. If the hand were passed
over the sheathing anywhere, it would
be found smooth. If the nail heads were
permitted to project, they would of
course interfere with the speed of the
vessel
Seventy-five men can sheathe an l, 800
ton ship in two days, The cost of
sheathing such ship with composition
metal over felt, including material,
dock charges, labor and everything,
would be about 81, 900, or little less,
and such sheathing would last about
two long voyages. New York Sun.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1898-06-21

1t is reported that NJ. lola has agreed
to come to the United States and deliver
about 10 lectures, relating probably to
ti-Semitism i'll France and to the trials
of Dreyfus and himself The arrange
ment is asserted to have been made with
Mr.. Edmund Gerson of New York and
to have followed Immediately upon the
decision of the French government to
grant M. lola an appeal from the SEN
tence of imprisonment lately pronounc-
ed upon him. An interesting detail of
this report is that sum approaching
$50, 900 is promised to NJ lola for his
visit. One could wish perhaps that that
detail had been omitted. NJ lola would
undou btedly excite great interest here
and would draw full houses, but he
most interests Americans at present in
his character, lately assumed, of patriot
and protestant against prejudice and in
Justice, and interest based on grounds
81 that sort is hardly suitable for con.
version into cash. 1t is possible, how
ever, that his recent experiences have
been costly, and that he has more than
ordinary need of money.-Harper'
Weekly.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1898-06-21

One Of the places in our neighborhood
which is Stunned alike by saint and
sinner is the old spring near our town,
in Logan county, known as the Blue
hole. Though legendary, the story I
shall relate of this spring is true, for it
has been corroborated by the former
generation, by the older men of the
present century. According to this
story, when the Shaker village at South
Union was first established by few
venturesome though hardy pioneers, a
member of the sect was dispatched on
horseback to put the money in a safe in
the county capital.
When the treasure bearer reached the
spring, he rode his horse in to give it
water, but rider and animal were swal-
lowed up, never to rise again. 1t is said
that the Shakers friends used as much
as 500 feet of rope in an attempt to re-
cover the body and coin, but never
struck bottom. myself have heard old
men say they have tried to find the bot
tom of the spring by using hundreds of
feet of cord and lead sinker, but with
out success. Auburn (Ky.) News.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1898-06-21
Gratitude In women.

Are feelings of gratitude absent in
women? That clever gentleman who
does the Private Diary III The Corn
hill Magazine is not quite satisfied upon
the subject. This is his way of putting
it: 9 AS gratitude depends upon imagi-
nation, it may well be that women, hav-
ing less imagination than men, are less
grateful. The doctor tod me 'intermit-
tent heart is a not uncommon female
ailment. To sugar the pill, however,
the diarist says: In defense of the ma
ligned sex | should like to record a case
of gratitude in woman that left me q
little mournful. had sent Charlotte a
book for her birthday last autumn, and
at breakfast today she said. 'Oh, thank
you for that delightful book you sent
mel ooh, said, what was it?' Dear
me, said Charlotte, L have quite for
gotten. !"
Very happy is Curran's reply to his
pompous antagonist in debate who had
loftiIy asserted that he was the guardian
of his own honor, Il wish the honorable
and learned gentleman joy Of his sine
,ure.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1898-06-21
Wooden Clogs In Janan.

''The Little Japanese at Home is
the title of an article by Miss Ida Tigner
Hodnett in st. Nicholas. Miss Hodnett
says:
Tabi (tah-bee), socks of blue or white
cotton cloth, are worn on the little feet.
They are made like mittens, with a
place for the great toe separate from
the others, so as to allow the strap
which fastens on the clogs to pass be-
tween The clogs are made of wood and
have two little wooden pegs under the
soles, high or low, according to the
taste of the wearer, but in either case
capable of making great chatter on
wood, stone or pebbles Fortunately it
is not the custom to wear any footgear
besides the socks in the house. The sin
gle strap divides into two parts, which
pass on each side of the foot and fasten
to the clog. These straps, or thongs, on
little girls clogs are sometimes gayly
colored. With but one fastening, it is
an easy matter to take off the clogs
when entering house and leave them
on the veranda, and the custom is GER
tainly conducive to tidiness. It Is a
necessary custom, for the clogs would be
ruinous to the fine soft mats covering
the floor.
Complexion is another important and
interesting point to the Japanese girl as
we'll as to her American and European
sisters
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1898-06-21


The trouble lies in the fact that too few
women enjoy perfect health and strength
of the special womanly organism. A wo1n-
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DR. R. V. Pierce, for thirty years chief con-
sulting physician to the Invalids' Hotel and
Surgical Institute, at Buffalo, N. Y. No
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81 have been troubled with female weakness
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writes Miss Team Conner, of Catfish, Clarion Co.,
Pa. II doctored for it and did not get better.
At last commenced taking DR.. Pierce's Favoritd
had taken four bottles was cured. recon-
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Constipation Is a little illness that if
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The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1898-06-21
ME AN jim.

Where me an Jim played marbles-Jim Clarke.
his name in full
There's still village only there, an passin
days are dull.
But them old times the locust shades re'ched
clean acrost the street,
since SO sweet.
An Jim could remember well, plump out the
middle man
AS easy's some wild cowboy now with his
good rifle can.
An seems hear, "My go this time" as plain
as then it rung
When me an jim played marbles an Jim an
me wus young.
The boys, guess, have wandered off, an may
be some are dead.
The locust trees have rotted down where once
their shadders spread.
Tha oldlike villagers, no doubt, are seen no
more where they
Sot on the fence an watched the game that
they when young would play.
But still l yearn to wunder back, an under
that old sky
Look my last look on boyhood's scenes when
shall come to die
An rest forever nigh where trees their lovin
shadders flung
Where me an Jim played marbles when Jim
an me wus young.
Will T. Hale in Cincinnati Enquirer.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1898-06-21

Whatever be their origin, it would
seem that these solid bodies (meteorites)
are hurting through space at velocities
which may be anything between 10 and
40 miles a second. If they come near
enough to this earth to be attracted by
it, their course is changed, and present
ly they enter our atmosphere. The re-
suit is sudden check to their speed,
owing to the intense resistance and fric-
ton engendered by contact with the air
particles.
What happens may be hkened to the
sudden application of the wooden brake
block to the rapidly moving wheel of
an express train. Heat is generated in
exchange for motion, and the trail of
sparks from the checked wheel is rep
resented in the checked meteorite by a
luminous trail. We commonly call it q
shooting star, and if its mass be small
it is possibly altogether dissipated in
heat and gas, or it may ultimately
find its way to our earth as dust. Such
"meteoric dust" has been found on the
eternal snow of mountains, where dust
of the ordinary type would be impossi-
BILE. If, on the other hand, the mass of
matter be large, its surface only will
be affected by the sudden heat gener-
ated, and it may fall to the ground en-
tire or possibly explode and be scattered
in fragments over wide area.-Cham-
bers' Journal
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1898-06-21
Sense OF Smell.

1t is said that the sense of smell is better
developed in men than in women. In hui
man beings, however, it is but slightly de-
veloped as compared with the lower ami
mails. The reason for this becomes ap-
parent when the structure of the skull of
dog or cat is examined. Observing the
nasal passages of either of these creatures,
1t is found that the so called turbinated
bones are twisted and folded In compli-
Gated fashion, so as to make great extent
of surface in a small space. The interior
of the labyrinth thus formed is lined with
the mucous membrane that contains the
extremities of the nerves of smell. A sec
ton through the turbinated bones of a
bear, which has particularly keen sense
of smell, resembles a honeycomb- In a
human being the turbinated bones are
poorly developed, SO that the surface of
mucous membrane is comparatively
small The sense of smell is particularly
acute in some fishes, as the sharks. The
olfactory membrane of big shark, if
spread out, would cover dozen square
e.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1898-06-21

The Kennebec Me. Journal says that
when autograph hunters ask Speaker
Reed for his signature he writes it
rather hastily, and it is simply T. B.
Reed. If the pen does not mark plainly,
the speaker does not always take pains
to dip it anew, provided there is a
scrawl and all the letters are visible
Not SO when the oblong forms of
parchment are handed to him from the
committee on enrolled bills, Of which
Representative Hager of Iowa is chair
man. Mr. Kinds, the clerk to the speak
er's desk, hands up the pile of parch-
ment, and the speaker carefully looks
over each. Taking them down one by
one, he writes his name slowly and care
fully. 1t does not appear as 7. B. Reed,
but as Thomas B. Reed.
The ink is dipped from bottle that
sits within a silver tray, which has
come down from the time when Henry
Clay was speaker of the house of repre-
sentatives. Then the signature is care
fully blotted, the precious parchment is
carried to the senate and eventually
finds it's way to the state department.,
where it is stored among the archives.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1898-06-21
ETYMoLoGY OF "HuRRAH."
Mr.. spratley Says That We Get 1t From
Ancient Egypt.

Mr.. spratIey Says That We Get 1t From
Ancient Egypt.
W. ]. Spratley, to use his plain Eng
lish name, has favored us with copy
Of letter he has addressed to The In
stitute and Lecturers Gazette on the
etymology of the word Hurrahi"
which Mr.. Spratley spells "Hoorahl'
We have been vaguely cherishing the
idea that it had Russian origin, but
Mr.. Spratley takes us to ancient Egypt
in his genealogical search He thinks
"there can be no doubt that the Egyptian
soldiers went into battle to the inspirit-
ing cheer of 'HooRa HooRa HooRa 7 I"
and if the average questioning man asks
why, he staggers him with this: BE
cause HooRa lin the tongue of the
Thothmes and Rameses) means The
king, the king, the kingl' Yea, more. AS
'Ra' means not only king, but also God
and man, the concentrated meaning of
the cry would be, For God, king and
countryp What more loyal, what more
patriotic, what more devout?' What,
indeed!
But lest we should haply still doubt
Mr. Spratley clinches the matter by cit
ing, in confederation, the fact that his
name, in Egyptian roots, is Sa-pa-Ra-
ta-y, or Sa-pa-Hoo-Ra-ta-y, which
means "Son of heaven, king of the
two hemispheres, - and if the authority
of gentleman of this descent is not
good enough for the mere doubter, even
Mr.. Sa-pa, etc., may well despair of
convincing him. More than this, if Mr..
Spratley's Egyptian name means any
thing-and this is an open question-it
also signifies king of lower Egypt and
king Of upper Egypt" or Emperor
of the World" But what we chiefly
like it for is that it seems to settle an
other point that may well have baf1ed
the philologist-namely, the genesis OF
the once familiar refrain Tiara RAJ
boom-de-ay. Is it possible that Miss
Lottie Collins and the street urchin
have been singing ancient Egyptian, as
Mr.. Jourdain spoke prose, without
knowing it?-London Chronicle.