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The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1899-04-18
Too Much For Him.

It is evidently one thing to work
without knowing how much we do and
another thing to have our labors mapped
out before us in detail. For several
months a business house in this city has
enjoyed the ministrations of. an I'M
usually faithful colored j%anitor. Always
prompt and faithful, unerring in the
discharge of his various duties, Tom
was a great favorite with the firm, and
the prospect was that he would abide
with them many years.
One day it occurred to the senior
partner that a little more system in
Toms routine would be advisable and
perhaps render his work a trife easier,
SO he wrote out in plain characters an
outline of the chores Tom had been do
ing every week, arranged perhaps with
more convenience to the firm and to
Tom. Unfortunately Tom could not
read, so the list was given to another
man employed on rougher work, with
instructions to read it to Tom and ex-
plain to him each days prescribed du-
ties.
When the schedule was read to Tom,
however, the effect was astonishing and
disastrous. He listened quietly, but his
eyes grew bigger and his black wool
seemed to bristle on his head. At the
end he reached for his cap and said to
the porter Good graciousl lain goin
to do all that work" Then he walked
out and hasn't been seen since. In
dianapolis journal.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1899-04-18
He Was Too Familiar.

w. G. Wills, the dramatist an6
| painter, once attracted so much atten-
ton by his pastels-according to a story
in the published memoirs-that he was
requested by the secretary to attend al
Osborne to do portraits of her majesty
grandchildren. Mr.. Wills was a thor
ough Bohemian, and the invitation
filed him with dismay. In ignorance
of the etiquette which CONSTITUTES a royal
invitation in a command he thought tc
get out of it by writing a polite note,
stating that a prior engagement would
prevent his attending. The next day 6
telegram came from Osborne to the fol.
lowing effect; 1.-THE queen commands
Mr.. Wills to attend at Osborne imme.
diately."
The artist was far too loyal a subject
to dispute her majesty's direct com
mands. So he ruefully packed up his
belongings and started for the royal
palace. As might we'll be supposed, his
life at Osborne was uncongenial. When
he was doing a portrait of a royal baby
on all tours and good humoredly said.
"Look up, little oneI'' the lady in
waiting reproved his familiarity and
told him he must address the infant as
princess or your royal highness.
The pastel portraits which he made
still hang at Osborne, and as royal pat
ronage gave a great stimulus to sitters
his reputation was made.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1899-04-18

jaw was swollen, and one eye was use
less. He made a final effort and slung
out a terrific blow at David. Partly
parried, it caught him on the shoulder.
telling him to the earth. Now, surely,
the victory was with the Philistine.
But, no. The young man recoiled to his
feet like a young sapling, and the next
that Goliath knew was, ten minutes
later, when he opened his available eye
and found that his enemy was bending
over him, wiping the stains from his
face with a fine linen handkerchief.
Feel better 2" said the curate.
"Well, I'm"-
Flush, man; it's not worth swear
ing about" interposed his nurse
"Now, get up"
He held out his hand and assisted the
wreck to its feet.
YOU'D better call at the chemists
and get patched up. Here's money
The vanquished one took the silver
and gazed stupidity at the giver, who
was making his toilet.
please go away and don't thrash
your boy any more" said st. John per-
suasively.
Goliath made a few steps, then re-
traced them, holding out a grimy paw.
"Mister Parson, I'm-I'm''-
Don't say another word. Goodby. ="
And the curate shook hands with him.
The big man turned away. Presently
he halted once more. I'm beatl'' he
said. 1t had to come. Then he shambled
homeward.
st. John adjusted his collar, gave his
shoulder a rub and donned his coat and
hat. AS he started toward the village a
girl came swiftly to meet him.
"Oh. John, John, you are Splendid
she gasped as she reached him. 81
watched you from the hedge yonder."
II am exceedingly sorry, Miss Ed
mission, said the curate coldly, raising
his hat and making to pass on.
Nancy started as though he had
struck her. Her flush of enthusiasm
paled out. In her excitement she had
forgotten that event of a week ago., but
the cutting tone of his voice reminded
her. She bowed her head. and he went
on his way. He had gone about 80
yards when she called his name. Her
voice just reached him, but something
in it told him that he had not suffered
alone.
He turned about and fastened to her.
Exchange.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1899-04-18
Easy way to He Generous.

In the Baptist church of a New Eng
land village was an old man who had
all the Christian graces a v one, and
that n was the grace of liberality
He would do anything in the world for
the cause of religion but give up his
money. At the close of the financial
year 1859 the church found itself $500
in debt. A church meeting was called,
and it was voted to circulate a subscrip-
ton paper Oh the spot and endeavor to
thus raise the sum needed. This was
done, and the old gentleman did not
put his name on the paper. The result
was rather disheartening, 5000 only
having been pledged. Silence reigned
for a moment, when one of the most
generous men in the church moved that
"we double our subscriptions. In
stantly the old gentleman was on his
feet, and with extraordinary fervor
cried, 81 second the motion"
He evidently felt that he was thus
doing his part in fastening a most de-
sirable result. -Harper's Round Table.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1899-04-18
SHE SANG FOR DEATH.
The PathOs and Tragedy of Emm
AbbOtt's Passing Away.

The PathOs and Tragedy of Emma
Passing Away.
One night in the city of Denver,
located at the foot and in plain view Of
the Rocky mountains. Emma Abbott
was billed to appear in Faust. In the
same city a most attractive and beauti-
full ~18-year~old girl, belonging to one of
the wealthiest families. lay in the last
stages of that fell enemy of the human
race-consumption. Some weeks before
the arrival of the company she said to
those around her ''Oh, | hope the sun
will shine and the weather will be warm
and genial. SO | can hear Miss Abbott
sing once more. | think | could then
pass away peacefully and without one
single regret" But there came with the
queen of the lyric stage a northern hur-
ricane-with the very air charged with
~icicles. which penetrated the lungs
Some one told Miss Abbott of the griev-
u disappointment of the dying girl
She went to the opera house and never
sang more sweetly. and as soon as it
was owe and the audience dismissed
Od11CQ AOA Cd111dBO duu ollSClCQ IL W
drive to the home of the young lady.
The scene which followed was worthy
of the finest brush ever welded by the
grand old masters. There lay the dying
earth angel, with pallid lips, hectic
cheeks and lustrous eyes and the light
of immortal beauty shining upon her
face. Standing beside her, in one of her
richest robes (the one she had worn that
night, sparkling with pearls, rubies
and diamonds, stood the almost divine
mistress of earthly melody.
The first piece rendered was 1.-THE
Old Folks at Home, and then followed
81 Know My Redeemer Liveth. The
finale of this weird scene was Rock of
Ages Cleft For Me. Let Me Hide Myself
In Thee. And then Miss Abbott bent
over the frail form and kissed her an
eternal farewell. Soon after the spirit
passed into the wild winds which rang
through the wild mountains zeal by
set sail for that haven from which the
first homeward bound bark is yet to
be seen-the stainless soul waited to
the stainless heavens by the sweetest
music ever heard on earth-into the
melodies of paradise birds.
Miss Abbott returned to her room at
the hotel and retired. Some time dur
ing the night she awoke with a pain in
the left lung. 1t rapidly grew worse. A
physician was summoned. Then anoth-
er, and another, who applied every
remedy they could command. All to nc
purpose. 1t was typhoid pneumonia in
its worst form. The black camel was
kneeling at her door. Angels of the
heavenly choir had that night listened
to her voice in the sickroom and sent
for her to come home to them.
In three days that voice which had SO
often raised the souls of men and WON
en- to the noblest, the grandest heights
in holy ecstasy, vas forever stilled in
death-gone forth into-the night
So faces the summer cloud away,
So links the gale when storms are DER
So gently shuts the eye of day,
So dies the wave along the shore.
H. G. Stevenson in Atlanta Consti-
tuition.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1899-04-18
Lakes That Change Color

1t is well known that the water of
many lakes exhibits characteristic col
ors. The lake of Geneva, at the western
end of Switzerland. is blue, while the
lake of Constance. at the eastern end Of
Switzerland, is green. Blueness implies
purity. since the natural color of water
is blue. A green lake has it's water
slightly clouded with impurities, which
may be exceedingly fine particles, sep
arately invisible, Professor Spring of the
University of Liege says that green
lakes sometimes become absolutely col
orless for a time, and he has found that
this sudden change of hue is due to the
washing into the lakes of mud colored
red by oxide of iron Red is compile
mentary to green, and the result of the
mixture is that the green color of the
water becomes for the time neutralized
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1899-04-18
rricked the viciou. Camel.

A valuable camel working in an oil
mill in Africa was beaten by it's driver,
Seeing that the camel had treasured uI
the injury and was only waiting a IA
vorable chance for revenge, the driver
kept a strict watch upon the animal
Time passed away. The camel, know
ing hat it was watched, was quiet and
obedient, and the driver began to think
that the beating was forgotten, when
one night, after several months had
gone by. the man was sleeping on a
raised platform in the mill, while, as is
customary. the camel was stabbed in q
corner.
Happening to awake, the driver saw
by the bright moonlight that when all
was quiet the animal looked cautiously
around, rose softly and. stealing toward
a spot where a bundle of clothes and a
burnoose thrown carelessly on the
ground resembled a sleeping figure,
cast itself with violence upon them,
rolling with all its weight and tearing
them most viciously with its teeth.
Satisfied that its revenge was complete,
the camel was returning to its corner
when the driver sat up and spoke. Al
the sound of his voice and realizing the
mistake it had made, the animal was
SO mortified at the failure and discov.
cry of its scheme that it dashed its head
against the wall and died on the spot.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1899-04-18
YOUTH N LOVE.

Youth and Love fell out one day.
Said Youth to Love: 'Iu go my way
And leave you broken hearted.
I'll go through life without your aid
I'll gaze on neither man nor maid"
And foolishly they parted.
Off went naughty Youth alone.
He hummed a tune in merry tone
And never looked behind him,
While Love at homo was sad and sore
And longed for merry Youth once more
Alas, she could not find himi
But Youth had not been walking long
Before he hushed his merry song
His heart was full of sorrow.
He found it hard to stay away
From Love, if only for a day.
He came back on the morrow.
For Love and Youth apart would die
Like flowers without dew or sky.
They'd fade If they would severi
AS long as there are tide and time
In every land, in every cline,
Youth and Love will be together.
Joseph P. Cation in Philadelphia Times.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1899-04-18
studynt ont.

Here is a highly interesting paradox,
which may amuse or bewilder, as the
case may be. 1t is supposed to have
been invented by Socrates: A. says that
all Athenians are liars. A. is an Athenian
and therefore a liar. Therefore his
statement that all Athenians are liars
is not true, and consequently all Athe-
mans tell the truth A. is an Athenian,
and hence tells the truth. Wherefore
his statement that all Athenians are
liars is true. Therefore he is a liar and
his statement false. and SO on.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1899-04-18

'Now," said the physician who wa:
examining an applicant for life insur-
ance, 81 shall have to ascertain your
chest expansion.
my what2" asked the applicant
Your chest expansion.
He means, interposed a friend who
had come in with him, 1.-The difference
between what you measure when youl
chest isn't inflated and what you meas
ure when it is inflated"
"Oh," said the applicant, beginning
dimly to understand. "Ten years age ]
measured around here"-indicating bis
rotund stomach-''only 80 inches. ]
measure As now. | guess what you cal
my chest expansion is 16 inches. -
Youths Companion
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1899-04-18
How coaee Grows.

This is how coffee leaves and berries
look at about the time for the harvest
The coffee tree is an evergreen plant,
growing 10 or IL feet high. It's leaves
are a dark, shiny green on the upper
side and paler underneath. They are
five or six inches long and from two to
three inches wide. Flowers come in
fragrant white clusters and give place
to berries which when ready for gath
ering are a deep red. 1t takes from four
to seven years to bring a plant to bear
inc
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1899-04-18

Miss Sophie Loury employs an e x
ceedingly communicative old colored
man to attend to odd jobs about her
studio now and then, and his sayings
have become proverbial among Miss
Loury's familiars. He came to work
one day not long ago very full of the
goings on of a young man he knew.
who was in love.
"But what is love, unclea" asked
Miss Loury.
Uncle wagged his head wisely.
"Miss Sophie" he said solemnly,
''love is dizziness, unizziness and in
attention to business"
And really l don't know of any defni-
ton more concise, complete and alto
gether adequate than that-Washing-
ton Post.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1899-04-18
The Marker In cauln.

We believe that there is still some
market for cauls among sailors, who re-
tain their belief in the efficacy of the
membranes as a protection against ship
wreck and drowning. Notices of "Cauls
For Sale Within were to be seen recent
~ in windows in the vicinity of the
docks of both London and Liverpool,
but it is some time since we have no
ticed an advertisement of a caul for
sale in the daily press. 1t may be re-
marked that the sale of cauls, SO far
from being a very ancient custom, is a
comparatively modern innovation. The
witcbcraft of the middle ages declared
against the caul retaining any virtue
whatever if parted with by gift or sale
to any but a member of the child's kim
bred london Lancet.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1899-04-18
Force of waves.

In a high gale mile long waves, 900
feet from trough to trough and 40 feet
high, roar along the sea at the rate Of
20 miles an hour, with a weight of co.
900 pounds for every foot of their
length.
Upon these a 600 foot ship, such as the
New York or the Paris, will rise like a
floating leaf, but if the i'll fated ship
drifts upon a lee shore blows of 1O0,-
900 tons, delivered with remorseless
fury, crush it like an eggshell.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1899-04-18
Customer-Your milk isn't rich.
Milkman-No; it's poor, but honest.
The Successful Remedy For Nasal oat.rrn

The Successful Remedy For Nasal Catarrh
must be non-irritating, easy of applica-
ton, and one that will by its W action
reach the inflamed and diseased surfaces.
ELY'S CREAM BALM combines the
important REQUESTS of quick action and
specific curative powers with perfect safe
ty to the patient. This agreeable remedy
has mastered catarrh as nothing else has,
and both physicians and patients freely
concede this fact. All druggists cheer
fully acknowledge that in it the acme of
Pharmaceutical skill has been reached.
The most distressing symptoms quickly
yield to it, In acute cases the balm i'm
parts almost instant relief.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1899-04-18

A curious custom prevails among the
lowest classes of southern India for OBJ
tanning rain in times of drought. A
gigantic figure of a woman is stretched
to its full length on its back on an open.
very low four wheeled carriage, and the
carriage is dragged round the streets,
the Indian peasantry accompanying il
with the d~eafening noise of their tom
toms, drums and bugles. The custom is
explained by the popular notion that
the figure On the cart represents the
wife of Varuna, the god of rain, and
that when he sees his favorite wife
dragged ruthlessly along the streets he
sends down torrents of rain to wreak
his vengeance.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1899-04-18
GERMAN MILITARY SERVICE
A Curious Method by Which 1t May
BE Avoided.

A Curious Method by Which 1t May
Be Avoided.
Anybody a emigrate from Germany
before he is II years old without run
ming the risk, in case he should return.
Of being forced to join the army, but he
will be allowed to remain only nine
months in Germany. If he stays longer
he becomes again a German citizen and
must do military service. If he leaves
when he has been a little less than nine
months in the country and stays away
for two or three weeks he can return
without running any danger and can
stay another nine months. If he does
this every nine months he can live as
long as he likes in Germany.
AS soon as a man is II years old he
cannot leave Germany without serving
in the army. He can, however, get per
mission to leave the country until he is
20 years old if somebody is willing to
give bond that he will return and serve
his term.
In case a man forfeits his bond he
cannot return to his fatherland before
he is As years old. as he would be
promptly arrested and sentenced to
serve a longer term than the original
one. After a man is 40 years old he can
go back to Germany without being pun
ished and live there as long as he likes.
In case a deserter is caught in Ger
many before he is 40 years old he is sen
fenced to two or three years imprison-
ment in a fortress and all his personal
property is confiscated New York
Herald.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1899-04-18

The doctor hurried in and called the
druggist to one side.
"Ive just been called to attend the
Cresus baby. he said. land I've given
a prescription that calls for nothing but
paregoric. When they send it over here,
you must tell them it will take at least
an hour to put it up and the cost will
be So. 90. That's the only way to make
them think I'm any good. the medi-
cine's any good and you're any good.
and want to keep their business -
Chicago Post.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1899-04-18

By chemically pure water we
usually understand perfectly fresh. dis.
titled water Distilled water is a danger
GUS protoplasmic poison. The same
poisonous effects must occur whenever
distilled water is drunk. The sense OF
taste is the first to protest against the
use of this substance. A mouthful Of
distilled water. taken by inadvertence,
will be spit out regularly The local
poisonous effect of distilled water makes
itself known by all the symptoms of a
catarrh Of the stomach on a small scale.
The harmfulness of the process. so much
resorted to today, of washing out the
stomach with distilled water is &C
knowledged. National Druggist
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1899-04-18

1t has been held that consumption is
hereditary, and the fact that one person
of a family had died with consumption
was considered a sure sign that others of
that family could not escape it. This is
partly true any partly untrue. A man
with weak lungs is likely to transmit that
weakness to his children. But there is no
reason in the world why the weakness
should be allowed to develop. Keep the
lungs full of rich, red, wholesome blood,
and the weakness will disappear. Decay
ing tissues will be thrown off, and new
material will be added until the lungs are
well and perfectly strong again. This is
the thing that DR.. Pierce's Golden Medical
Discovery does. This is what makes it
cure SO per cent. of all cases of consump-
ton where it is taken according to direc-
tions. 1t searches out disease germs
wherever they may be in the body and
forces them out of the system. 1t sup
plies the blood with rich, life-giving prop
critics. 1t makes the appetite good, diges-
ton perfect. Send 81 cents in one-cent
stamps to Worlds Dispensary Medical
Association, Buffalo, N. Y, and receive
DR.. Pierce's 1908 page Common Sense
Medical Adviser" profusely illustrated.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1899-04-18
The Absent Dodge.

FuzzylThey say that Faddist has
become a Christian Scientist and is
successfully giving the absent treat
ment.
Wuzzy-l guess that's c. He bor-
rowed $50 from me a month ago. and
whenever l call to ask for it he's out
New York Tribune.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1899-04-18

Customer-What is the price of this
calico?
Salesman-Sixteen cent a yard.
Customer-Sixteen centsl I'll give
you 10.
Salesman-You misunderstood me.
| said 6 cents, not Is.
Customer-Six cents a yardl H'ml
I'll give you Boston Transcript.