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The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1898-06-14

What Sir Daniel Lysons believes to
have been the first case of settlement
Of an "affair of honor" on the Duke Of
Wellington s plan is described by him
in his Early "Reminiscences. 1t occur
red in Halifax about the middle Of the
present century:
One day Captain Evans came to me
boiling over with wrath and indigna-
ton. He said he had been grossly in
suited by Captain Harvey, the govern
or's son, and begged me to act as his
friend l agreed, provided he promised
to do exactly as told him. He CON
sented.
called on Captain Harvey's friend,
Captain Bourke, and we agreed to abide
by the Duke of Wellington order about
dueling, which had just then been
promulgated at Halifax.
We carried out our intention as fol-
lows: We made each of our principals
write out his own version of what had
occurred. We then chose an umpire
We selected Colonel Horn of the TWEEN
tieth regiment, clear headed and much
respected officer With his approval we
sent him the two statements, and he
directed us to come to his house the fol-
lowing morning with our principals
At the appointed time we arrived and
were shown into the dining room. We
bowed formally to each other across the
table and awaited the appearance of our
referee. Colonel Horn soon entered, and,
addressing our principals, said:
Gentlemen, in the first place, must
thank you for having made my duty SO
light. Nothing could be more open,
generous or gentlemanlike than your
statements. The best advice can give
you is that you shake hands and forget
that the occurrence has ever happened. "
They at once walked up to each other
and shook hands cordially. They were
the best Of friends ever after.
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He Civilian Harvey was not tall,
but of the lowest stature, round faced,
oliyaster complexion; little eie, round,
very black, full of spirit; his haire was
black as raven, but quite white 30
yeares before he dyed. have heard him
say, that after his booke of the Circula-
ton of the Blood came-out, that he fell
nightly in his practice, and that twas
believed by the vulgar that he was
crack Drained; and all the physicians
were against his opinion, and anvyed
him; many wrote against him. With
much adoe at last, in about 20 or 80
yeares time, it was received in all the
Universities in the world; and, as Mr..
Hobbies sayes in his book DE Corpora,
he is the only man, perhaps, that ever
lived to see his owne doctrine establish
ed in his lifetime
"He was much and often troubled
with the gowte, and his way of cure
was thus; he would then slit with his
legges bare, If it were frost, on the leads
of Cockaine house, putt them into a
payle of water, till he was almost dead
with cold, and betake himselfe to his
stove, and so twas gonne. He was hott-
headed, and his thoughts working
would many times keepe him from
sleepinge he told me that then his way
was to rise out of his bed and wake
about his chamber in his shirt till he
was pretty coole, i. O., till he began to
have horror, and then returne to bed,
and sleepe very comfortably. "-Au-
brey's 'Lives. Z"
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MendeIssohn and Liszt.

List appeared in his Hungarian cos
tune, wild and magnificent He told
Mendelssohn that he had written some
thing special for him. He sat down,
and swaying right and left on his mu-
sic stool played first Hungarian mel
ody, and then three or four variations,
one more incredible than the other. We
stood amazed, and after everybody had
paid his compliments to the hero of the
day some of Mendelssohn S friends gath
cred round him and said: "Ah, Felix,
now we can pack up. No one can do
that. 1t is over with us. -
Mendelssohn smiled, and when press.
ed to play something in return he
laughed and said that he never played
now, and this to certain extent was
true. He did not give much time to
practicing then, but worked chiefly at
composing and directing his concerts.
However, List would take no refusal,
and so at last little Mendelssohn, with
his own charming playfulness, said,
well, I'll play, but you must promise
me not to be angry And what did he
play?
He sat down and played first of all
LISTS Hungarian melody, and then
one variation after another, SO that no
one but Liszt himself could have told
the difference We all trembled lest
List should be offended, for Mendels-
sohn could not keep himself from slight
ly initiating LISTS movements and
raptures. However, Mendelssohn man
aged never to offend man, woman or
child. List laughed and applauded and
admitted that no one, not he himself,
could have performed such bravura.
-" Max Muller's Recollections. .
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dressed for her Journey, she looked
around for Dell. He was not there. His
place at the breakfast table was cleared
The mother hustled in.
dell had to go to Groveland this
morning." she said. Little Peter Fer
guson will drive you to the depot. "
''But he didn't say goodby to us,
said the girl. Il call it unfair of Dell
to go away without saying goodby."
swell, he had to go early, and you
wasn't up, said the mother, land he
said I WASH to disturb you.
Dell, driving down through the shady
roads of the way to Groveland, with
his white SLOUGH hat over his eyes and
his shoulders stopped forward as one
sits when thinking, heard the whistle
Of the train at the crossing and stopped
his horses until the last rumble of the
wheels had ceased. Then he touched his
horses with the whip and went on. For
the first time the birds sang unnoticed
over his head. He didn't see the car
pet Of dandelions by the roadside, nor
did he hear the tinkle of the brook as
1t dropped over the slate lodges into the
ravine. He heard nothing but sound
of young, joyous voice that had made
music for him for week and saw moth
ing but CLINT of yellow hair that was
really nothing but the sunshine playing
about him.
And that night the girl went into
Miss Hamilton's room, and sitting
down on an ottoman laid her head in
the other woman S lap and cried:
"What is it, Bernardine? Aren't you
happy"
Yes, " she said, 81 am happy, but 1
want to go back, want to go back.
Dc you suppose will some timer"
II think it very likely" said Miss
Hamilton. -Katharine Hartman.
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A monitor is a peculiar battleship,
having low freeboard, light draft and
flush deck and guns mounted in heav-
lily armored revolving turrets placed on
the deck. A monitor is floating bat
terry more than ship and derives its
name from the first Of the class ever
constructed, which battled with the
Confederate ironclad Merrimac in
Hampton Roads The original Monitor
was described as resembling a great
cheesebox on a plank, but it did valu-
able service and revolutionized naval
warfare.
Torpedo boats are the racers among
the war vessels. They are swift, small
craft, designed to launch torpedoes near
large vessels. In order to do its work
properly the torpedo boat must go close
to the object Of its destructive designs,
and having placed the instrument of
destruction in position its next object
is to get away and out Of the reach Of
the enemy. A torpedo boat must be
small, and the men who form its small
crew must be absolutely fearless.
A torpedo boat catcher is designed
expressly to catch or to destroy torpedo
boats. In order to be fitted for the work
the boats are larger than the torpedo
boats. They can make better time and
carry heavier armament New York
Tribune.
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The Florida Hill Country.

The majority of our tourists carry
from this state an impression of tropical
vegetation Illustrating in level expanse
of sand arched by heaven intensely and
brilliantly blue. But that is because
they have not seen all we have to show.
Florida has chill country also, and
there the scenery is SO different that it
seems to belong rather to Georgia than
to the land of oranges and winter. vege-
tables
The soil of that section is entirely
distinct from that of the east and south.
There we have the red clay of Georgia,
and the pine gives place to the oak,
hickory and maple as the orange does to
the pear and the garden to the cotton
field
1t is the conservatism Of middle Flor
ida that has kept it unknown in great
measure to the outside world, not its
lack of attractions. There are still
found much of the old plantation life,
the antebellum southern hospitality and
much of the thought Of the olden time.
To the tourist it will give new sensa-
ton, to the sportsman a new field. To
the settler who feels that the subtropic-
al productions of southern Florida are
too strange and new it offers a field for
the crops of the west, it shows fine
stock and the diversified scenery for
lack Of which he grows homesick with
us.
In all the south there is no section
more beautiful and none which offers
richer returns for intelligent industry
than the Florida hill country. -
Florida Times Union.
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Vicious BIuehsh.

The greatest enemy to the best spe-
cias of fish is found in the vicious, vo-
racious and dangerous bluefish. In size
ordinarily as long as your arm, with
teeth like barbs, he can snap in halves
fish Of his own size, and nearly all
fish stand in mortal dread of him. Gen
orally travelling in schools-sometimes
as much as five miles in length-they
will in short order decimate school Of
shad, spot, menhaden or such like. In
his stomach can be found numbers Of
smaller fish, according to size
We have opened one which contained
trout of almost his own size, while
another contained shad nearly as
large. Still others are found having
within themselves one or more of their
own species Of smaller size. But their
destructiveness does not end here. We
have seen them behind school of shad,
spot or menhaden, and sometimes schools
of mackerel and cod, swapping and
slashing their prey until the water was
all a-foam. They eat until they can hold
no more, but their viciousness is not
abated With snap shad is sundered
and spit out, and the next shares the
same fate. They never tire, and the fish
destroyed, but unbeaten, cover the sur
face of the water.-Exchange
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The sleepy village of Biddenden, not
far from Tenterden, celebrates yearly
the memory of the two maids of that
ancient hamlet who were the original
precursors Of the Siamese twins. In life
they were joined together by mysteri-
Gus cord of flesh, and they died ON the
same day, leaving their property to be
distributed among the poor of the par
ish and among all who care to apply
for dole of bread and cheese on Easter
day. This benefaction has been in exist
ence for six or seven centuries and at
present its value is about 5000 year.
Formerly the doles consisted of bread
and cheese and ale, but the latter pro-
duced SO much hilarity in the village
that it was abolished, and the charity is
now limited to the two first mentioned
nutritive articles. The bread is made
up in the form Of cakes, bearing a rude
representation of the twin maids of
Biddenden, and are generally preserved
as curiosities by the recipients. They
are baked very hard and are admirably
adapted to give work to dentists by
breaking the molars of those who at
tempt to penetrate their mysteries. The
poor Of the parish as distinguished from
necessitous strangers are supplied with
ordinary Quartern loaves and cheese. -
London Telegraph.
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Nothing has done so much to encour-
age stealing (shoplifting) as the modern
department stores and their methods
The problem presented is difficult one
with which to deal, but while mer-
chants have a right to display their
goods the public also has rights and
duties in the matter. If a banker dumps
his cash on tables outside his desk rail
ings and let's people handle it at will,
he would not get much sympathy when
he complained that it had been stolen,
and if he continued the practice because
these losses were more than offset by
the increased profits which the display
resulted in, as is the case with the de-
partment stores, there would be much
justice in the claim that he had no right
to make profits by any method which
tended to debauch the public. In short,
it may fairly be maintained that it is
prime duty of every citizen to exercise
reasonable diligence in safeguarding his
own property, and that if he neglects
this he becomes in a measure a menace
to society. international Magazine.
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Dodson's scheme.

81 say, old man, . said Dodson, as he
loaned his friend Blobson nickel to
pay his car fare, why don't you try my
scheme?''
"What scheme?" growled Blobson,
as he mentally tried to figure out how
much his wife had realized in her mid
night raid.
why scheme to break your wife Of
going through your pockets when you
are asleep
81 say, old man, cried Blobson ca
gerly, If you have any scheme by which
I can break my wife of going through
me, for heaven sake put me on to it,
and l am your friend for life''
Well, you see, l used to suffer from
this thing until 1 discovered means by
which 1 broke my wife of the habit. I
gathered together all the counterfeit
money that I had accumulated in 30
years of business and filed my pockets
with it. The next morning discovered
that it was gone. That same day my
wife went shopping and was arrested
for passing counterfeit money. 1t look
ed very black for her when they found
the rest Of the stuff that she had, and
she was just ready to faint when / ar
rived on the scene. Of course / played
the indignant husband and threatened
to sue the whole outfit for damages
But the scheme worked. Since then the
only thing my wife will accept is a
check. "-Detroit Free Press.
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Writing of the perils of naval war
fare, Park Benjamin in The Independ-
ent says: AS for the admiral, there is
nowadays no rigging for him to ascend,
and he would be promptly blown out of
it if there were. In fact, after feet
engagement has begun there sno place
for him at all He has no business in
the coming tower, no business at the
guns He cannot very consistently go
below, and he cannot stay on deck. It
has been proposed to build a separate
armored tower for him or to take him
off the flagship and put him on small,
swift vessel, SO that he could choose his
position and conveniently give his or
ders by signals. The difficulty with this
would be that the enemy would concen-
trate his fire on that tower or ship, with
Che certainty of sinking the latter and
rendering the former uninhabitable
The problem, therefore, is still unsolved.
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ESTABLISHED 1879.

then, TO my amazeinent, he held it to-
ward my mouth Mechanically 1 obeyed
his silent gesture and In my turn I
kissed the little purse. Swiftly placing
it in his bosom then, without a word,
without sound, he sprang into the
woods and disappeared as if by magic
beneath the trees
The next day and for many days fol-
lowing Gruigny and l explored the coun-
try for miles around In vain search
for the mysterious old man, whose pa
thetic, even mystic, admiration had
both touched and thrilled me the night
before, but no one had ever seen or
heard Of such being. No one answer
ing in any way my description had been
observed passing through or wandering
about the many villages and hamlets
skirting the great forest. The supersti-
tious peasants soon began to eye me
askance and crossed themselves as l pass
ed, muttering, Werewolf, and it was
with curious blending of fear, inter
est and baffied curiosity that / returned
to Paris wearied and annoyed at my IN
successful efforts to retrace my singular
adorer. Still it was not long before my
strange adventure and its stranger hero
were forgotten in the mad whirl of court
life, filled as it was to the brim with
adventures and admirers, too, although
of singularly different character.
Seven years later, however, my mid
night escapade was forcibly recalled to
my remembrance by the priest of the
village church which l have already
mentioned in the beginning Of this sto-
ry. He brought me, he said, package
which had been confided to his care by
a young gypsy lad. The boy had explain
ed that the parcel was for the "'lady Of
Kerzigolet'' and had been given him by
dying member Of his tribe
Judge of my surprise when on remov-
ing the covering Of the small package I
recognized the little silken purse which
l had given the old mendicant as a SOU
venir SO long before, while, stranger
still, between its faded meshes the yell
low CLINT of the goldpieces still SHIN
mered brightly. From the French For
Short Stories.
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LAST NIGHT.

Last night sojourned for a season brief
In goodly company. Hamlet and Dane
Was there, and sweet Ophelia once again
Wept while she sang, her being rent with grief.
Othello came with Desdemona ere
lagos poison ranked in his heart.
Orlando, swearing death should never part
His soul from fairest Rosalind's, drew near,
And then, while mirth and revel reigned su-
preme
And all my soul was glad, oped mine eyes
And marveled much that this was all dream,
And my dear vision vanished to the skies.
l walked to see my phantom friends no more,
My Shakespeare lying closed upon the floor.
Robert Loveman in Woman Home Compan-
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In city not many miles from Troy
is an organization which believes in
cures by faith The president is a wom-
an, Jealous of good works. For some
weeks she had observed worthy APP
pearing elderly man daily going by her
home, and noticed that he walked con-
siderably lame. She thought him sub
ject of prayerful consideration and be-
gan daily prayers in his behalf. One
morning soon after she noticed him 60
ing by, apparently free from any lame
ness, and ventured to speak to him of
this fact
Eyes, he responded, It do get along
a good deal better today than for many
days past. My old cork leg had got
somewhat out of good motion, and yes
terday / obtained new one. Troy
Press,
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PENN SYLVANIA RAILROAD.
The Standard Railroad of America Pro
kected Throughout BY Block Signals
and Inteylocking .SwitcAes.
IN EFFECT MAY 20. 1898.

Trafms leave Mount Holly as Jotto,os:
For Philadelphia, $780, 500, s52, ITO. TAO, $751;
a.l5. il.e0 A. M, 1884. 2.33. (3.50 Saturdays
only). 4;2s. 500, SIG. s.25, l05oR; NJ.
On Sundays, g. 70 A. M, IL. 05, &. 20, S.50P.M.
For Pemberton. 1886. 926 A. M, Las. 392. AL,
On sundays. sa5, A. M. s.oOP.M.
For Bordentown, Trenton and New York, $50.
749. sls li.o5. A. NJ. 1890, 255. 3.4O. 4.47. 553
on Sundays. 9.s4 A. NJ, 2.O5, 600 NJ
For East Burlington, $50, 725 7.49. s22. $50,
onIyl, 2S5, $40, a.47, $40. sSs 6.as, 725, So.
On Sundays 725, $50, ia A. M, II. 90, 2O5, 23O.
3l5, s.4, 40. 800. 5s5, $40. $50, 7.2O, $50.
go. p. NJ.
For Lewistown, Columbus. Kinkora, ETC.,
7S5 A. NJ, Las, Az Pm.
On Sundays, COOP. M
For LumDerton, Medford, Marion and Had
donf1eld. 935 A. N.
For Nfncentown, 1925, Cos p NJ.
For Toms River, 926A M, 447,P.M
On Sundays 9.35 A.
For Tuckerton, Beach Haven and Barnegat
City, 9.26 A. M, 447PM.
For Asbury Park and Long Branch, 9.26 A. M.
Trains leave for Mount Holly as JoLLo,0s:
From Philadelphia, $40, 7.5O, $50, 1000. II 30,
1910, A. M, Q.30 Saturdays only, 2.3O, 400,
$50, $40, Clio. $50. 500, 1890. ll.45P.M
From New York. via Tren ton and Burlington,
800, $780, ll00 A. NJ, LOO. 2.10. 400, 500. 800.
ON Sundays. 1000 A. M, 7OOrM
From Trenton. Gas. TAO. 1925, ILL A. M, 2.53,
Ala. $40. LOO, 955 p. NJ.
On Sundays. $40. ll.5O. A. M, 405, 9.0s, Pm.
From East Burlington, 100. 7.53, 500, S.4s, 942.
1905. l045. ll.4S A. M, los, eos Saturdays
only. $3.50, 40. GIG 5.5S $50, 100. 7.50, $50,
1890 P. NJ.
ON sundays, 500, 900 1890, A M, 1890, 2S5,
300 345 4.sO, 455. $780, 800, 6.55, 7.25. 745, s45
from Toms River, 74s A. M, 4OOPM
From AsDury Park, 233 P. M.
From Medford, Il.55 A. M.
From Long Branch, 2.15, P. M.
From Pemberton, inorth) 6.s5. 7.2s. 1888. s55
A. M, 1921, 400, S.l0P.M.
On Sundays, 800 A. M.
From Pemberton (south), S.36 A. M, 4.45 P. M
On Sundays, 6.O2 P. M.
From vincenlown. $50 A NJ. LEM.
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casper, if you had the same expert
ence that you have now and had your
life to live over again, would you marry
the same womanl"
Boss. ercordance ter de speunoe dat
l done got at de presen' time, hit
wouldn't be mahtar TO- me ter judi
cate on elder de one way or de udder.
Eff Jermimy wanted me, dat d settle it. /"
A-Boston Courier.
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OF Another Sort.

Flo-Do you love me, sweet?
Will-Dearly.
Flo-Would you die for meP
Will-No, my precious girl. Mine is
m undying love. Philadelphia Call.
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rushed away from him, covering In
one corner of the room.
Don't touch me, +" she cried Don't
touch me; don't look at mel You have
been among the BARRY Pain in
Black and White.
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Medford, Marlton and Philadelphia.

MedfOrd, Marion and PhIadeIph1a.
Leave Medford for Philadelphia at 700. l017
a. M, BIB, 5.24, p.
On Sundays, sol A. M, 4.O5 Pm.
Leave Marion for Philadelphia at TIA, 1925
A. M, 2.35, $3.50, p. M
On Sundays, Sl4 A. M, All T. M.
Leave Philadelphia Market Street, for Med
lord and Marion at 100, 1850, A. M, 300. $50,
Pm.
On Sundays, S.45 A. M. $50 P. M.
Leave Marion Tor Medtord, S.ll, ll.3S A NJ,
3.54, $50, P. NJ.
On Sundays, 9.39, A. M, 6.22 p. N.
For further particulars apply to the ticket
agent at the station.
j. Il. HUTCHINSON, j. X. WOOD,
General Manager. Gen. Pass. Agent
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The Norfolk Virginian sees future
rival of the Greater New York in the
union of seven towns in its neighbor-
hood, with the name of Virginia, Va.
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1t is claimed that there are 90 dogs
IN the United Kingdom to every !, 1000
Inhabitants.
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The story the Cub Reporter Didn't &c

The story the CUB Reporter DIDN'T Get.
One day a cub reporter was sent to
cover meeting of an east side literary
club, which was to debate about arbi-
tration and its effect upon international
peace, but he came back to the Office
within an hour looking disappointed.
Where's your story" asked the city
editor.
There wasn't any story to write, :"
replied the new reporter, picking up a
newspaper. "They couldn't agree upon
the wording of the subject, and they
got to arguing and calling names, and
finally the meeting broke up in free
fight. So 1 came back, sir. T"
The city editor came down from his
desk and gazed pitifully upon the cub.
''They were to have debated on peace, +"
he said sorrowfully land the meeting
broke up in fight, and there was moth
ing to writel You may go. That is a
story they tell along the row. and it
is an old one.-Scribner'