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The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1899-02-21
A PunctuaI Man.

A certain Mr.. Scott of Exeter whose
business required him to travel con-
stantly was one of the most famous
characters for punctuality in the king
dom. By his methodical habits, com
bined with unwearied industry, he ac-
cumulated large fortune. For a great
many years the landlord Of every inn
in Cornwall or Devon that he visited
knew the exact day and hour he would
arrive A short time before he died, at
the advanced age of 80, gentleman
who was making a journey through
Cornwall put up at small inn at Port
Isaac for his dinner. He looked over
the bill of fare and found nothing to
his liking. He had, however, seen a fine
duck roasting on the fire. "I'll have
that, said he.
''You cannot sir, . replied the land
lord at is for Mr.. Scott of Exeter. =
81 know Mr.. Scott very well, re-
piled the traveller ''He is not in your
house.
VERY sorry" said the landlord,
"but six months ago, when he was last
here, he ordered the duck to be ready
for him this day exactly at 2 O. clock. "
And to the amazement of the travel
er, who CHANGED to look from the win
dow, the old gentleman was at that
moment entering the inn yard about
five minutes before the appointed time.
-Harper's Round Table
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The Porto Ricans, who are all, from
their highest to the lowest, great dan
dies in their way, make soap out of CO.
coanut oil and homemade I've. And a
fine soap it is, smooth and fragrant.
This cocoanut oil soap is used for shaw
ing. When man wishes to have q
shave in the morning, he starts out
with his cocoanut shell cup and his
donkey tail brush and bottle. 1t is
never any trouble to find an empty bot
tie in Porto Rico, Cuba, Jamaica or al
most any Of the larger West India is
lands, even in remote spots in the
mountains. At least 30 generations of
thirsty people have lived there and
thrown away the bottles.
The man carries no mirror. He is too
poor to own such luxury Not one
house in 90 in Porto Rico has even the
very cheapest looking glass. But gen
orally rich nature provides the mirror
as well as the soap. The man goes to
some convenient pool in the mountain
stream where the water is quite still.
There is his mirror. He breaks his bot
tie on stone and deftly picks out a
sharp piece of suitable size Then he
fathers his face profusely and begins to
scrape away with his piece of glass,
which in his hands works as well as the
best steel razor. A cut, or even slight
scratch, is extremely rare as result of
this al fresco form of shaving. -Chica-
90 Times-Herald
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1899-02-21
Dress Goods Named For Towns.

The origin of the names of textile
fabrics in common use are little known,
although many of them with slight per-
version in spelling and pronunciation
have existed for centuries In 1880 in
an English town near Norwich the first
twisted double thread of wool was
made, although the invention or process
is credited to an earlier period AS the
village Of its manufacture was called
Worsted SO was the product. The
modern girl crochets or knits Afghans,
slippers, ETC., from like yarns, which
she prefers to designate collectively as
f'wcols -
Guingamp, town in Brittany, gave
to the world the ever useful and dura-
BILE gingham; Mussoul, Turkish town,
muslin; Calicut, in India famous for
cotton goods), calico; the city Of Da-
mascus the figured fabrics known as
damask, and Cambray, town in Elan
ders, cambria, We have Scriptural rec
ord of that city in Palestine called
GAIA, meaning treasure, from
which Samson, the strong, carried away
the gates. Fair women, lovely and
fowerlike in gowns of gauze, know not
that in that faraway city of the Holy
Land originated the filmy silken fabric
and its name-then GAIA, not gauze, as
now.-Table Talk
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An Accountable Clock.

A well known professor sometimes
became so much interested in his lecture
that when the noon bell rang he kept
the class five or ten minutes over the
hour Certain restless spirits among the
students thought they would give him
a gentle hint, so they bought an alarm
clock, set it to go off precisely at noon
and placed it on the professor desk
when they came in to the next lecture.
They knew that he was a little absent
minded and expected that he would not
notice it.
AS the noon hour struck the alarm
went off with crash, and those of the
class not in the secret started and took
in the joke at once. There was a round
of applause. The professor waited until
the alarm and the applause were over
and then said. young gentlemen,
thank you for this little gift. Ihad for
gotten it was my birthday An alarm
clock is something my wife has needed
for our servant for some time. 1t is a
very kind remembrance on your part. .
The professor then went on to finish a
demonstration interrupted by the
alarm. London Tit-Bits.
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The Mental Eye,

Thousands upon thousands of persons
handle our silver dollar, but few hap
pen to observe the lions head which
lies concealed in the representation of
the familiar head of Liberty. Frequent
ly even careful examination fails to
detect this hidden emblem of British
rule; but, as before, when once found,
it is quite obvious For similar reasons
it is great aid in looking for an object
to know what to look for; to be readily
found, the object, though lost to sight,
should be to memory clear.
Searching is a mental process similar
to the matching of piece of fabric in
texture or color when one has forgot
ten the sample and must rely upon the
remembrance of its appearance. If the
recollection is clear and distinct, recog-
milton takes place when the Judgment
decides that what the physical eye sees
corresponds to the image in the mind s
eye; with an indistinct mental image
the recognition becomes doubtful or
faulty.
For correct and accurate vision it is
necessary to acquire an alert mental eye
that observes all that is effectively Wis
ible, but does not permit the subjective
to add to or modify what is really pres
ent. Professor Joseph Jastrow in Pop
ular Science Monthly.
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Rnlsing Fl1H E.nre.

A certain board school teacher is re-
sponsible for the following little story.
which is not without it's pathetic side
He was endeavoring to explain the
term hooking" as applied to our rail
way system.
NOW" he was saying, "can any of
you tell me the name Of the Office at
which railway tickets are sold?"
1.-THE booking office, replied one of
the lads.
Fright, " responded the teacher
At this moment his eye fell on a
small boy at the end of the class who
was evidently paying very little atten
ton to what was said.
did you hear that. Dowser?" be
demanded.
"Wot. STRIP asked that youth inno-
Gently.
"As ! thought, you were not listen
ing. We will suppose that your father
decided to have a days holiday and
visit the seaside What would he have
to do before he could take his seat in
the tramp
Without a moments thought the
youngster electrified his teacher by re-
plying, pawn his tools. London
Standard.
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waste It, There again was the woman
practical through the numbness of an
appalling calamity, the loss of every
thing she valued. So the Kandahar
sailed at the end of the week. and the
name of Mrs. Percy Charrington figured
in the passengers list.
Fate sometimes repents and makes
what amends it can. 1t made honorable
amend to her. The third man in her
life crossed her path and linked his lines
with hers on board the Kandahar on the
voyage out. He fell in love with her at
once-love that came so soon as to run
neck and neck race with pity.
His name was Edgar Goring, and he
was man of action, not speech, and
told her that he loved her and meant to
marry her.
She laughed for several minutes more
than was decorous or suitable when he
told her this, but he understood Then
she grew quieter and gave him the his
tory of the last three years simply and
truthfully.
81 am quite without hope, and 1
don't see there is anything left to me,
Mr.. Goring, she said. "You are more
than good, but am an old woman
have got through the best of my life. I
cannot marry you feeling as l do. -
''Oh, yes, you can, said Edgar Cor
ing.
Every WELL" she said, giving in
from sheer inability to resist. "You
must take the risk, and you have got
very, very bad bargain. -
She gave him limp, nerveless hand
and looked into his resolute eyes with
watery little smile.
He kissed the hand, and then he kiss
ed her.
81 take the risk" he said. 81 mean
to marry you and make you forget. 1
mean to make you love me. ("
He did all three things
And this is true story, SO will not
apologize for its glaring improbabilities
Her husband is younger and nicer
looking and richer than Percy Charming
ton, more charming and more, success
full than Jack Collingwood, and she
loves him far better and knows it.
A woman is anointed with the oil of
gladness above her fellows when fate
bestows upon her full love and full
er knowledge of what that love can be
to her, bringing her, as it brought
Mary Goring, through fire and water
into the ultimate haven of wealthy
place. Sketch.
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A QUILL PEN.
From a sea gull's wing.


Thou vast not born amid earth stain and soil,
And dreary din and noise of tangled mirth.
Thou hast lived far from all our tears and toll.
Oh, bring us back the blessing of thy birthi
Speak but little of that other life
Which knew thee once, wild as the wind and
brine.
Set free our spirits. straitened in their strife,
To sweep those old unwearying ways of
thine.
Bring back the glorious freedom of thy fight,
Swimming the crest of purple waves afar
In that illimitable flood of light
Which knows no stain of toll, no lettering
bar.
Give us to know the glory and the wonder
Born Of the fiySng rack, the cleaning foam,
Where mighty pillows rear their heads and
thunder
Against the wild black rocks which were thy
home.
Our hands are tired, our eyes are dim of seeing,
Our ears are dull with noise of mirth and
moan.
Oh, give us back the beauty of that being
Unwearied and unsoiled, which was thine
ownl
Mabel Earle in Youths Companion
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weTcdsted the bitter anguish of seeing
our little darling, whom we had learned
to love so, fade and wither before our
eyes like tender flower, and we could
not help her.
81 was constantly tormented by the
fear that lack of ready money was de-
priving my child Of some relief or lux
ury that might bring her back to health,
So when about this time received an
offer of another position, l was on the
point of accepting it. But my wife for
babe me. She insisted upon my finish
ing the play which she felt certain
would bring me fame and fortune. I'm
hesitatingly she sacrificed her baby upon
the altar of my ambition, and II &C
cepted that awful sacrifice.
Critics say that my play bristles
with wit and epigram that its humor
is irresistible and it's situations simply
CONFUSING. Yet / often wonder as 1
watch the people laughing at and APP
plauding the performance how it would
affect them if they knew that those
lines were written by the bedside of my
dying baby, in the still, solemn hours
of the night, while my dear, devoted
little wife slept the sleep of the utterly
exhausted. Would they laugh if they
knew that between those laughable lines
often paused to soothe my baby's fe-
vered brow and wet her parched lipsP
Some of those side splitting scenes were
written with my little one in my arms
and heavier weight than her frail lit
tie form on my heart. 1t would have
been a tragedy had / written as l felt.
''Then in the midst of rehearsals the
hurry, worry and manifold vexations
incident to staging new play, the pic
ture Of that pallid little face on the pill
low, with the tired, fearful one of my
wife bending over it, would come be-
tween me and the stage, and those
laugh provoking speeches sounded like
ribald mockeries to my ears. How will
ingly would have forfeited even the
certainty of success to bring the glow
of health and happiness back to those
two loved faces.
ION the night of the first perform
ance there was no one to respond to the
calls for the author. I was sitting by
the bed of my baby, watching her little
life flicker and go out even at the hour
when my fame and fortune were born.
And were they to increase thousand
fold they could never blot out the bitter
memory of that night. 1t was part of
the price of success, and it can never be
all paid on this earth y
Holden passed, and there were tears
in his eyes.
Pardon me for paining you, old fell
low" he resumed, ''but l must talk to
some one. The little wife never refers
to our lost darling before me if she can
help it, for she fears to pain me the
more, and for the same reason / refrain
from speaking of it to her. But can
see in her thin, pale face and tear drain
ed eyes the same thought that is con-
stantly torturing me-if fortune had
but come little sooner, might it not
have saved our baby's life, for if that
was in truth the price of success it was
all too dea- Willard Holcomb in
Washin crtoT POST
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ESTABLISHED 1879.

sJa1ding the tears running tnickIy
down her pale cheeks, without making
any attempt to wipe them away.
The Poet felt even angrier than be-
fore. Women of that age had no right
to cry so openly, he thought. 1t went
against all his theories. He was angry.
too, that he had imagined her to be
young.
"Whst an abominable row. he said
savagely. "And what are you crying
aboutf But it is enough to make any
one cryH He was not far from tears
himself with vexation.
She looked up at him wistfully-she
was but little thing without
any apparent surprise at his presence
or abrupt entrance. "AhI should not
have played again, she sobbed, latter
after had given it up"
'"Then had guessed arighti" cried
the Poet. Yesterday it was renuncia-
ton and today resignation. But what
had you given upH What have you re
nouncedP To what are you resigned"
II don't understand you, she said
uncomprehendingly. She laid her violin
on the table, hanging over it as moth
er does over her child
''When you played yesterday
'But didn't play yesterday" she
cried. 81 wanted to-oh, so badly. The
storm cried to me, the wind cried and
the sea cried, and heard them all /
took my violin in my hand, but could
tell nothing of what heard Oh, how
unhappy was Then I drew the bow
backward and forward across the
strings, but without touching them,
and imagined it all. caught the sob
bling of the sea god on the end of my
bow. I sent out the cry of the gulls -
"And the spray Of the seap' cried the
Poet.
"And the eddy and gathering of the
foam
''And the mutter of the waves. -
''And thought Of how might have
played had not something
been wanting. Oh, l cried to God to
give me the power to play as-as my
soul could play but for this thing-this
me that cannot
''The cry for the unattainable the
Poet whispered to himself, but she did
not hear or heed him.
81 made resolution She dried her
tears briefly at the recollection of it.
GOD would not give me my desire, so
| gave up my semblance of it, for 1
wanted to keep my ideal Then, when I
had quite made up my mind. how I
could have played then But it would
not come.
''The triumph said the Poet. He
smiled imperceptibly to himself
But today it was all so dreary. 1t
was all over, and there was nothing
left. And after had thought how it
was all over and my last note played
thought would again say goodby to
my fiddle And l fetched it out and
played goodby, but without making a
sound. And l felt not bit sorry, but
only strange feeling here She put
her hand on her heart. 80 1 played
real little bit to see if it would take it
away"
He did not speak. His dream had
come back to him, and his thoughts,
like white clouds, foated far, far away.
Black and White
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THREE QUESTIONS.

Heart, proud heart, what will you do In thu
spring of lief
II will Joy In the joy of living, the strength
Of strife
will walk in the pride of youth by the hghi
Of mine eyes,
And my life I'll prize
Heart, dear heart, what will you do II tn.
hand of love
Is cold and still in the land of death, where il
cannot move
To help you moref 81 shall weep. but forget
my pain
When we meet againl"
Heart, poor heart one question more-what
would you do
If the heart you loved to another turned, for
getting your
~ should creep away-if he were happy, fol
his dear sake,
And break St. Pauls.
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why Sic was Sad.

1t was in little out of the way place
in the country, and as the recent arrival
passed some asked who she was.
"She is society woman who has
been wishing for the last ten years that
she could get away from the trials and
anxieties and bores and superioiality Of
society. was the answer.
"But why is she SO sad?'
Because at last she has got away
from them. Chicago Post.
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Two Lockouts.

Editors Wife from second story
window)-You don't get in this house
at any such hour of the morning as this.
Editor (appealingly)-But, my dear,
l was unavoidably detained at the Office.
You see, we had late news of tremen-
dous big lockout, and
Wife-All right; you've got news of
another now (slamming down the win
dow. London Answers.
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Speaking of somersaults, the anecdote
which Lord Eldon relates of the emil
nent English lawyer, John Dunning,
afterward Lord Ashburton, will bear
repeating 81 had" says Lord Eldon,
every early after ] was called to the
bar, brief as junior to Mr.. Dunning.
He began the argument and appeared
to me to be reasoning very powerfully
against our client. Waiting till l was
quite convinced that he had mistaken
for what party he was retained, then
touched his arm, and, upon his turning
his head toward me, l whispered to
him that he must have misunderstood
by whom he was employed, as he was
reasoning against our client.
''He gave me very rough and rude
reprimand for not having sooner set
him right and then proceeded to state
that what he had addressed to the court
was all that could be stated against his
client and that be had put the case as
unfavorably as it were possible in order
that the court might see how very salts
factorily the case against him could be
answered, and, accordingly, very pow
erfully answered what he had before
stated
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Jennie-Herbie it says here another
octogenarian's dead What's an octo-
genarian2
Herbie-Well, l Ion't just know
what they are, but they must be aw-
fally sickly creatures You never h EAR
of EN- but they're dying Brooklyn
Life.
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SENESClMUS.

Temporal labuntur tacitisque senesc1mul
annis.
"Time glides away and we grow old
By process of the silent years"
More fain the busy hands to fold,
More quiet when tale is told
Where death appears.
1t is not that the feet would shrink
From that dark river, tapping, cold,
And hid with mists from brink to brink;
Only one likes to sit and think
As one grows old.
Arthur Cotton in Scribner's.
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The streets of New York.

It was lunchtime and the ''frankfur-
ter and rolf men of Frankfort street
were doing their best to appease the ap-
petites of the 300 or 800 newsboys who
throng Park row. One of the dealers in
giving change to a buyer accidentally
dropped dime, and before he had time
to pick it up his brother dealer quickly
stopped down and grabbed it. Then en-
sued an argument in a way which only
''franhurter men" can argue, each
claiming that he had dropped the dime.
1t is very likely they would be arguing
yet had not young fellow of the Bow
cry type who had CHANGED to witness
the trouble interfered Walking up to
the one who had really dropped the
money he said
"Dat's yer dime dat bloke has, ain t
it2"
eyes"
"Well, say, how much will yer GIN
me if gets it back fer yer?''
ga nickel, was the answer.
Then, addressing the other contestant,
the Bowery boy said:
say, yer GOT uaG IeIIer ulme, cause
saw yer take it. But, say, if dom
take it away from yer how much will
yer gimme2''
'Six CENTS, was the quick reply.
"All right; hand over. !" The bargain
was concluded just as policeman came
rushing up and grabbed the one who
had dropped the dime and took him to
the station house for disorderly conduct.
New York Commercial Advertiser.
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An odd Collection.

One of the most remarkable collec-
tions of souvenirs ever made is oollec-
tion of male opera hats by one of the
actresses of a London company She
owns no fewer than 2l6 Of these arti-
Giles, for it was her within to make every
young man who was introduced to her
give her his opera hat as a souvenir
She not only keeps them in their pris-
tine condition, but converts them into
all sorts Of other things, such as photo
graph frames, workbaskets, and some
are even used for the purpose of holding
fioWerpots.
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PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD.
The Standard Railroad of Ameyica. Pro-
tected throughout BY Block Signals
and InteyLOcking Sz0itcheS.
IN EFFECT OCTOBER 4. 1898.
Trains seave MounazF6tty as 5ouo.Os.

Trains teaue MounazlottV as Jollo,Os:
For PhiladeIphia. $50. 500, 66s 40 7.49,
s56, 9.l5 l.22 A. M, 1888, 2.33, $40 Saturday
on Sundays, s'3S A. M. Eos. sis, s.5Op.M
FOR Pemberton, 1886. $685. A. M, 1.45. 80. 4.47.
on sundays, 1923 A. NJ, e.t5p.M.
For BordenIown, Trenton and New York, $50
749 9.ls, lO.l5, llO5. A. M, 1890, $780, $40. AL
ON Sundays, 1000 A. M, 2.o5, e.o5p.M.
sig, io,ls, il;o5 I; NJ 1sso Sos, $40. 81. SIC
553, 6.26, 7.26. S.45. 1000 P. NJ.
On Sundays 725, $50. 1910 A. M, 1900, 2.O5, 2.9O
PIP, 3.4l, 4lO, 800, b.35 sos, 6.45, 7.l5, sl5,
800 P. N.
For Lewistown, Columbus, KiDkora. etc.,
Las, 80 P. M.
On sundays, sos P. M
or LumDertOn, Modford Marion and Had
For vincentown, 1925, 6 Oe ?. N.
ror Toms River, 926, 4. M. Az. Pm.
For Tuckerton, Beach Haven and Bamegat
City, 926 A. M, 4.47P.M
For Asbury Park and Long Branch. 9.26, A. M,
Trains Leave for Mount Holly as JoILosOs:
From Philadelphia, $50. $50, $50, 1000. Il2O.
1910, A. M, Il 30, Saturdays only, 230, 400,
4.30, 30, 6.lO. $780, 500 1920. l1.45 Pm.
On sundays, 9.l5 A. M, LOO. 500. 1880 P: M.
500, $50, A. M, LOO. 2.lO, 400, 500, $780, p NJ
On Sundays, 1000 A. M, 700PM.
From Trenton, 6.45, 40 s.25. ll.ls A. M. 2.55.
3.42. LA. 80, 7.0a, $50 P. M.
On sundays, $40. ll.5O, A.. NJ. 4.O5, 9.0S, Pm.
from East Burlington, LOO, 1853, s.26, S.4s, ~.
aooS, l O. Il As a. M co. $780, 80. Slt 55s,
500 s.45. 49, ass. $50. 500, $50, TO, 745, 845.
From Toms River, 74s A. M, 4O2, Pm
From Asoury Park, 2.2OP.M.
From Medford, ll.55 A. M.
From Long Branch, LOO P. M.
From Pemberton, (north) 6.3s, 7.2s, s.3S. s.55.
NJ, 1881, 4.O7. $40 P. M.
Sundays 500 A. M, 5.JOPM.
FL Pemberton (south), 1856 A. M, 4.44 p. M.
FAz n Vincentown, $50 A. M, LAP P. M.
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Flags that No Longer Wave.

OF S5 flags shown in flags of all
nations supplement to London week
ly in 1858 II have disappeared, among
them those of the Eass India company,
Of the Ionian islands. of Tuscany, Ma
pies, the States of the Church, of the
Russian American company and of Sar-
DINA.