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Tickets.

The fact that a ticket bought for a
theater and not used on the date stamp
ed on it is always good for an admit
tance is not generally known and prob
ably theater managers would take very
little trouble to spread knowledge of
the fact, but it is nevertheless true.
ga man who buys a reserved seat for
a theater, said a theater treasurer who
handles more tickets every season than
any other in New York, ''may not use
it ON the evening for which he bought
it. Good for this date only may be
stamped on the pasteboard. That would
seem to mean that the ticket could be
used at no other time. Probably most
of the public accept that as proving the
impossitility of making use of the tick
ct, and therefore few make any attempt
to get the worth of their money when
they are prevented by any cause from
using the ticket on the date marked ON
it. But it could be presented at any
time and would be good for an admis-
sion.
"Any theater manager would have
to recognize the holders right to enter
the theater, although that would, of
course, carry with it no right to the
seat. 1t is that right which is limited
by the printed date. For all other pur-
poses the ticket is quite as good as if
used on the date it bears. New York
Sun.
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Reckless Extravagance.

Senator Hoar is not a stingy man,
but he looks out for the pennies. He
was riding on a street car one day, re-
lates a Washington correspondent, and
had just completed a transaction with
the conductor involving the payment of
a quarter Of a dollar for six car tickets
a 1-6 cents a ticket-when an &C
q%uaintance got on board and took the
seat next to him. The acquaintance
handed the conductor a nickel and
turned to open up a conversation with
the Massachusetts senator. The senator
fdgeted in his seat a minute and then
broke in with the remark, 81 am glad
to see that you are prosperous"
"Prosperousl" exclaimed the other
man. "Why, I am poor as a church
mousel"
Excuse me; I thought you must be
rich. l am comfortably well off myself,
but l have never felt that | could afford
to pay 5 cents for a ride in a street cal
when | could get six rides for a quar-
for
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1899-04-11

Extremes of heat and cold can be
produced artificially to such intense ex-
tents nowadays that it is a physical i'm
possibility to measure them with abso-
lutte accuracy. "We cannot measure the
infinitesimal," says Charles Whiting
Baker, editor of Engineering News.
''The best we can do is to make care
full estimates. The greatest heat pro-
duced %artiicially is that of an cleo
trio arc furnace, the kind that is used
in the production of artificial diamonds,
calcium carbide, etc. 1t is so intense
that nothing exists with which to re-
cord it. 1t is estimated, however, to be
of about 4, 900 degrees F,
"The coolest known temperature is
that of liquid air, which freezes alcohol
and mercury and distances all means of
measuring. 1t is claimed for it that
with it a temperature of 400 degrees
below zero Fahrenheit is reached. The
present limits of heat and cold are
therefore represented by the arc fur
mace and the liquid air"
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1899-04-11

A short time since the daughter of a
millionaire drove up to the door Of a
jewelers. shop. went in and selected a
turquoise and diamond ring valued at
$3.50. She made out her check for that
sum and passed it to the proprietor,
who glanced at it and then looked in
quiringly up at the young lady and
said, "There is some mistake here, l
think.
The young lady flushed and asked if
the check was not for the right amount.
She was told it was, but
"But what ?" she exclaimed frigidly.
s'Do you mean hat my check is not &C
ceptablef"
The jeweler acknowledged that he
knew quite well who the young lady
was, but explained that the check was
not made out just as it should be, and
he handed it back. The girl ran her eye
over it and then turned a deep crimson.
"Ohl'' she exclaimed, 81 seel" And
then she proceeded to make out another
check. She had signed the first one.
"Your own sweetheart. Jessie"
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They had been chums for so long thai
when the n gave a chatting dish party
to some of his more intimate feminine
acquaintance the other made a point
of returning early from the theater in
order to be present. Chum No. Q had
hardly made his appearance before chum
No. /, in his anxiety to chatter non
sense with the prettiest girl in the
room, managed to upset a basin OF
beaten egg yolks down the front of his
new Tuxedo. Chum No. l was much
distressed apparently, and chum No. 2
FASTENED to his assistance.
$50 into my room and take mine, .
he adjured his friend generously. GIVE
a brand new one; just came home to-
day"
Chum No. 1 smiled queerly. 81 know
it, old boy" was what he said, grin
ming in a rather forced fashion. ''Fact
is-well-my own looked a little shabby
this evening and I've got yours on
Chicago Inter Ocean.
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There was once a patertamlllas who
was eloquently indignant about the
way his daughters imposed upon the
laundress in the matter of white petit
coats in winter. at was a shame at all
seasons, " he said, "but in cold weather,
with no excuse for wash skirts, it was
cruel to ask that poor, hardworking
girl to slave and toll over their wash
ing as she was obliged to do"
One day the paterfamilias, happening
to pass through the laundry, tore up
stairs, white with rage, to where his
daughters were. "Well, girls" he
cried, ''this is too much. White petit
coats in winter are bad enough. but
when it comes to such white petticoats
as / saw Della breaking her back over
Just now down stairs-rufies from top
to hem and tucks and lace and am
broidery-why, it's a days work to
look at n Of them. If you must have
such extravagant fripperies, for heavens
sake have them plain"
The daughters investigated. Since
the last paternal outburst they had
given up white petticoats, either ruf1ed
or plain, and in either spring, summer,
autumn or winter. 1t was as they fear
ed; the ''extravagant fripperies, ruff
fled from top to hem, over which poor
Della was breaking her back, were the
property of poor Della herself.
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city. They were happy; and there
seemed to be no ghosts at their Preside.
"Father and mother think more of their
carrots than they do of u.s." they would
say merrily when they spoke of Amana
at all.
In May their baby was born. He was
a beautiful child, and Hermann and
Annie never tired of watching him.
Hermann could scarcely tear himself
away from baby to attend his patients.
Contagious diseases he refused to treat.
Baby might catch them. Annie's face
grew softer as she looked at the child.
For hours they would amuse themselves
watching him clasp a lead pencil in his
chubby fingers. They cut off a lock of
his baby hair and saved it in the Bible.
"Whom does the baby look like,
Annie o. asked Hermann carelessly one
day.
"Lile you did when you were a
baby, I suppose" answered Annie gay
ly. Suddenly a startled look came into
her eyes. The thought anne to Her
mann at the same moment. He dropped
on his knees before the child. Ibid
they think of me as we think of our
baby ?" he whispered. Annie was sob
bling. "God may yet forgive u.s." she
cried. 1.-THE year is not ended. We
may still return"
The good God had not ended Mother
Schweppe's life. Herr Tappan, too, was
still trudging among his vegetables
when Hermann and Annie came back.
at would have been a year tomor-
row already, Herr Tappan said stolid-
ly, but his withered lips went trem-
bling, and he embraced Hermann and
Annie and blessed them.
And Mother Schweppe padded back
to her cellar with a sly smile, return
ing full handed. 81 have all this time
since last autumn kept six bottles Of
wine for thee, Hermann, she said
Julia Crawford Underwood in st. Loui:
Globe Democrat.
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The "change of Air, Cure.

"There is no sense" said a New
York physician, who has passed the
days when he must practice even if he
does not wish to, Sin the h~aphazard
way in which a patient is sent away
from home to exhaust his strength and
spend his money in the hope that a
change Of air will do him good. There
is no use in sending a person away to
die.
"Many physicians are not at all con
siderate about this sort of thing. There
are some cases in which the influence
of climate is a potent factor in the
treatment of certain diseases, but not
half SO many of them as is generally
supposed. Quiet and rest at home, plen-
ty of sunshine, good food and pure air
are worth far more than a change of
climate, that is SO often recommended
as a cure all. New York Herald.
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In china Ems methods are simple,
They don't have much trouble to take
a census there. When the time for MAX
ing a count of the families and their
individual members ome around, the
head of each house is compelled by law
to write on a slip of paper the number
of individuals living with him and the
name of each person. The authorities
lay particular stress upon correct spell
ing, and there is a severe penalty at
tached to any Misrepresentation either
as to the number of persons or their
names. This obviates in the beginning
the wrestling with unpronounceable
names, which helps to make life inter
esting for the American census taker,
and reduces the enumeration of the
population of a Chinese city to a very
simple process.
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ing bulk of the dead camel and the limp
figure of the fever stricken camel driv-
er-truly no pleasant place to die in,
more especially if you happen to be
young and strong and the death to
which you stand condemned is death by
hunger and thirst. A few hours would
exhaust the scanty remains of food and
water left in the skin and saddlebag
lying hard by the dead camel, and then
Harding shook off a~nticipations of
coming torture to take stock of his
wretched commissariat and. rummag-
ing in the bag, found a priceless treas
ure, nothing less than an untouched
bottle of quininel Why, with this he
might hope &c revive the Khirgiz, whose
case, but for the supposed exhaustion of
the expeditions medicine chest, had
never been a serious one. Escape was
yet possible.
ESCAPED From a trackless wilderness
in which they could only wander aim
Iessly to and fro, having no single in
strument by which to determine their
position or point the way? Saving his
assistants pack, the professor had car
ried off everything.
No, not everything. Even as this
thought sank like a stone into Harding's
heart his eye fell upon something gilt
tering at his foot. With a shaking hand
he grasped it, lifted it-and broke into
a cry of mingled triumph and thanks
giving which startled the Khirgiz from
his lethargy. Pushing back his long
hair, the man made an effort to sit up.
''The master? Where is the master p
he asked, looking about him in surprise.
Harding laughed grimly. "Heaven
alone knows, since he has left his COM
pass here"
And heaven alone knows to this hour
the course of the wretched Kirkhoffer's
wandering. When Harding and the
Khirgiz, guided by the instrument
which he had dropped in his scufde
with the Englishman, reached, after
manifold tolls and sufferings, the con
fines of human habitation, they could
obtain no tidings of their vanished
chief. And, although Harding insisted
on organizing a new expedition to
search for him, its labors were fruitless.
His fate remains as unknown to the
world as the history of that ancient en-
pire whose records lie buried with him
in the sands of central Asia. Chicago
News.
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There is a barber shop in an up town
avenue in New York where music goes
with every shave. Never a barber is hired
there who cannot twinkle the sweet
mandolin or PUNK the dreamy guitar.
The gentleman who can play on no in
strument but the razor and the shears
has no welcome in this tonsorial parlor,
for the boss barber is musical and loves
to minglc celestial strains with the tor
ture of the barber chair. Whenever ?
chair is vacant, the attendant geniu.
sits him down and performs on his ia
Yorite instrument.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1899-04-11
His Plan Was simple.

Frederick the Great once requested
his generals to submit to him plans of
campaign for a supposititious case. Hans
Joachim Won Ziethen, the famous cav
airy general, produced a queer diagram
in black ink. 1t represented a big blot
in the center, intersected by two black
lines, whose four terminals ended each
in a smaller blot. The king was furi-
GUS and upbraided his old comrade in
arms bitterly for what he considered
disrespect.
In explanation Won Ziethen said
why, your majesty, I am the large
blot in the center-the enemy is any
one of the four smaller blots. He can
march upon me from the right or left,
from the front Or rear. If he does, l
simply advance upon any of the four
lines and lick him where l find him"
Frederick was satisfied.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1899-04-11

Why was st. Barbara chosen to be
the patron ~saintess of all gunners? 1t is
of those things which are to be
known and which one ought to know,
but does moi. Meanwhile there is the
fact that she does intercede for all gun
ners by land Or sea. In the old French
navy the Ste. Barbe was the gum
room, and the name may be found with
that meaning attached to it in all die
tionaries- Moreover. in France she is
the saint not only of gunners, but of all
fire brigades. The sapeurs pompiers,
who, for some mysterious reason, are a
regular chopping block for jokes, hold
their holiday on the day of her feast
Pittsburg DISPATCH.
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Nixed Rarrfe.

A young tailor named Berry, lately
succeeded to his fathers business, once
sent in his account to Charles Matthews
somewhat ahead of time, whereupon
Matthews, with virtuous rage wrote
him the following note
"You must be a goose-Berry to send
me your bill-Berry. before it is due
Berry Your father, the elder-Berry.
would have had o sense You may
look very blackberry, and feel very
blue-Berry, but don't care a straw
Berry for you and your bin-Berry. -
.'CyclopRdia of Anecdotes.
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Great Lovers of water.

The Siamese are more devoted to the
water than any other nation in the
world. They are nearly always bath
ing, generally with their clothes on,
and they lev go anywhere by land if
they can possibly go by water. The
streets of Bangkok are like those of
Venice, and the inhabitants say that
their idea Of paradise would be a town
with canals where there We're currents
in both directions, so that they might
be spared the effort of rowing.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1899-04-11

A Lewiston (Me. merchant has in
his store an old fashioned clock which
is peculiarly sensitive. 1t sometimes
stops, and if any n steps into the
store or goes by it will start again,
and If a horse steps on a certain spot in
the street it will start.
A man who happened to notice it and
who had n like it himself said that
his would not run after he had started
his furnace in the fall. In the spring.
after he ceased to keep a fire. it would
run all right.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1899-04-11
A Race of Tailed Mem.

Africa is a continent rich in tailed
men myths. There is supposed to be a
caudate race of pygmies somewhere in
the uplands of Abyssinia. The Main
Mains are a celebrated case. A good
many years ago the French government
dispatched a NJ. Descouret with instruc-
tions to explore some of the least known
parts of Africa and to ascertain the ex-
act degree of truth in the various stories
about the Main-Mains. He describes
the people as being mostly under five
feet in height, i'll proportional, thin,
weak and ugly, with short, woolly hair
and with an external elongation of the
vertebral column, which, he says, Gin
every individual, male or female, forms
a tail two or three inches long. Med
ica1 Record.
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Here is a story of a Milwaukee couple
who agreed to separate after 10 years
of married life: They continued to re-
side within a block of each other and
to pass the time of day impersonally
when they met. When the silver ami
versary Of the wedding came on, both
celebrated it, although separately. Two
church ceremonies were performed in
the church where they were welded %
years before, the husbands ceremony
being at s o'clock in the morning and
the wife's at 9. That evening each gave
a reception at the residence at the same
hour. and the same friends called to
pay their respects, successfully going
from one house to the Other. -Milwau-
kee Sentinel.
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Salt For Small Change.

Besides the Maria Theresa 1880 dollars
the people of Abyssinia for small change
use a bar of hard crystallized salt, about
10 inches long and ~ inches broad and
thick, slightly tapering toward the end.
five of which go to the dollar at the
capital 1t is a token of affection among
the natives when friends meet to give
to each other a lick of their r espectiVe
bars, and in this way the material val
ne of the salt is also decreased
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1899-04-11

IT HAS BEEF FULLY demonstrated that
Ely's Cream Balm is a specific for Nasal
Catarrh and cold in the head. This dis
t~inction has been achieved only as the re-
suit of continued successful use. A NOR
bid condition of the membrane in the
nasal passages can be cured by this puri-
flying and healing treatment. Sold by
druggists or it will be mailed for so cents
by. Ely Brothers, 56 Warren Street, New
York. 1t spreads over the membrane, is
absorbed and relief is immediate.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1899-04-11
Its Meaning.

"Oh, yes, said Miss Flyppe, "Mr.
Gayson is a nice enough fellow, but he
ought to have his clothes made by a
tailor"
"How do you know he doesn'tP"
asked young Throggins.
"How do | knowf lean tell hand me
downs on anybody by the way they fit. +"
THAT means, bitterly soliloquized
young Throggins as he wended his way
homeward an hour later, ''that I'll
have to pay $50 instead of $50 for my
next suit. Chicago Tribune.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1899-04-11

Instant relief and a permanent cure by
the great remedy Otto's Cure for Lung
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E. D. Prickitt, Mount Holly; w. C. Jones,
New Egypt; Edw. w, Rossell, Pemberton,
and H. H. Leeds, Rancocas, sole agents,
will furnish you a free sample bottle of
this guaranteed remedy2 Its success is
wonderful, as your druggist will tell you.
Sample free. Large bottles soc and Csc.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1899-04-11
A SOUVENIR.

] found them in a book last night,
These withered ~yiolets,
A token of that early love
That no man e'er forgets.
Pressed carefully between the leaves,
They keep their color still.
l cannot look at them today
Without an old time thrill.
All, me, what tricks does memory playi
The passing years have fed
And hopes that lived in vigor once,
Alas! nave long been dead.
And this is all that l can say,
When all is said and done,
Those flowers remind me of some girl
wish / knew which one!
hi
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1899-04-11

One of the serious things told in Mark
Twain's "Along the Equator" is that
formerly all that people in India knew
Of the United States was the name Of
George Washington. Now they know
also the name "Chicago, the holy city,"
where the congress of religions was held
in 1S93.-Boston Transcript.
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DlSCONTENT.

Fair arc the fields in the spring with the sweet
perfumed breath of the meadows,
Fresh as the green messy dells where the
gorse flares its torches of gold;
Winter has gone from the earth and returned
to the kingdom of shadows;
Feelings rush out from the heart, like to
frozen streams losing their hold.
Yet as I stand in the light of the sun and in
gladness rejoice
Deep in my heart there arises a restless,
dissatisfied voice
"Life's hopes are never fulfilled; there is al
ways left something to long fori"
Lillian Eleanor Barlow in Madame.