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The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1900-08-14

We seated ourselves on cushions, and
each took possession of the fiat piece
of scone which supplied the place of a
plate during the meal, those articles
not being considered necessary lux
ury. In the center Of the table stood q
large bowl full of white soup, from
which everybody ate, taking as many
spoonfuls as they chose from the COM
mon tureen with the long handled
wooden ladies provided for each guest
When this was removed, a large piece
of meat boiled to rags took its place
and was speedily diminished under the
violent treatment it received from us
all, each one pulling lump of meat
from the joint with the fingers and
eating 1t off with her own fiat scone
We then had curry of vegetables, fol
lowed by the Zagazig pudding, fruit
and rice, called so from a native of that
village having brought the recipe to the
harem.
Our meal was concluded by coffee,
made in a corner of the room over red
hot charcoal In copper pot and pour
ed thick into small glasses fitted in
gold filigree cups. The lady who made
this rather disagreeable beverage was
the same who had removed the center
dishes during dinner. She was black
as coal and bore the delightfully."- de-
scriptive name, translated to us, of
Lily In the Desert.-Good Words.
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Mrs. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS are you
reading that absorbs you so?
Mr.. Hohmboddie Cooking up from
his book)-It Is new Scotch novel.
Mrs. Hohmboddie with enthusiasm
oh, am so fond of those dear dialect
thingsl Do read me little.
Mr.. Hohmboddie reading)-"Ye see,
Elpsie," said Duncan doucely, 81 might
haze mair the matter WI me than We
wad be spierin. Aiblins me cen is a
bit dazzlit an am hearin the poolses
thuddin in ma ears, an ma TONGUE In
clavin when it sud be gaein, an div ye
no. hear the dirliH O. ma HART an feel
the shakin O. ma hond this day gin L
gat glimpse O. We, sair hirplin like an
auld mon? Div We nae guess what's a.
the steer, Kinney, wfout me gaein it
mair words?'
Mrs. Hohmboddie- Stop, for good
ness sakel What In the world Is the
creature trying to say?
Mr.. Hohmboddie-He's making a dec
laration of love.
Mrs Hohmboddie-A declaration or
Lowell l thought he was telling a lot
of symptoms to his doctor.-Collier's
Weekly.
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To Cure Constipation Forever.
Take Cascarets Candy Cathartic. 10c or 25c.
II C. C. C. fail to cure. druggists refund money
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Put Through His PAGES

The wealthy Briton is confessedly
the most fastidious man living as to
the quality of his personal domestic
service The concentrated energy with
which an Englishman will rebuke his
servant for an offense. so slight that
the average American fails to observe
1t bears out the above statement, and
it is this social condition that has de-
veloped the hyperaristocratic intelli-
gence Office in London.
Those who propose changing serv-
ants are not content with references
and perfunctory interview with the
man or maid under consideration, but
insist upon full dress rehearsal of
both manners and appearance.
The servant in livery is put through
all his PAGES, must display the size of
his calves, the haughtiness of his pose,
as we'll as breeding in handling a
card, announcing guest or serving at
the table.
Nothing is taken for granted. The
master and the mistress sit by and dis
cuss the points of groom or butler as
they would those of a high priced horse
or valuable dog. Domestics are taken
with great seriousness by the upper
class Englishmen, and for that reason
nothing is left to luck in peopling the
servants hall.-Cleveland Plain Dealer.
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nestrnxinr the Point.

Every one knows the man who Is
notorious for so telling a story as to
destroy it's point. An English noble
man, Lord P, was noted for his sue
cess in thus running the prosperity of
a story. The author of Collections
and Recollections" exhibits specimen
of his lordship's peculiar art
Thirty years ago two large houses
were built at Albert Gate, London, the
size and cost of which seemed likely to
prohibit tenants from hiring them. A
.wag christened them Malta and Glib
.raItar because they can never be
taken"
Lord P. thought this an excellent
joke and ran round the town, saying to
every friend he met:
sI say, do you know what they call
those houses at Albert Gate? They
call them Malta and Gibraltar because
they can never let them. Isn't 1t aw-
fully goodY
Some one told Lord P. the old rid
die, "Why was the elephant the last
animal to get into the ark?" to which
the answer is, Because he had to pack
his trunk"
Lord P. asked the riddle of the next
friend he met and gave as the answer,
Because he had to pack his portman-
team"
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When its limited express trains were
put on some years ago, the Lake Shore
Railway company decided to charge
extra for the privilege of riding on
them, and John Newell, who was pres
ident of the system at that time, gave
orders that passes, half rate tickets,
ETC., should not be honored on the ''fii-
ers." 1t was not intended, Of course,
that the complimentaries issued to high
officials of other roads should be void
on the fast trains, but through an over
sight a yearly pass was sent to D. W.
Caldwell, president of the Nickel Plate,
which bore on it's face the words:
mot good on Lake Shore limited
trains"
A few days after Mr.. Caldwelrs pass
had been Issued Mr.. Newell received
an annual pass on the Nickel Plate
with the following Endorsement:
mot good on passenger trains"
Messrs. Newell and Caldwell remain
ed consistent enemies until the former
died and was succeeded by the latter
as president of the Lake Shore.-Chi-
cago Times Herald.
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The MILL RUNS ITSELF.

Economical Way of Doing Business
on Connecticut Farm.
Joe Mccormick Of the international
Pulp company tells delicious story Of
paper making in Connecticut. which
shows that operating mill is not such
serious matter as these big proprie-
tors would have us believe. Strolling
along the countryside in haymaking
time, Mr.. Mccormick happened on a
little paper mill which buzzed merrily
in shady dell, with everything clean
and sweet around it. A look in the
office showed no one there, and the Wis
itor then wandered over the mill, hop
ing to find some one to whom he could
talk business. The machine was hum
ming along, and it seemed impossible
that there should be no one In attend
ance But even shouting failed to bring
forth signs of life, and Mr.. Mccormick
was about to leave when be spied
some men in a bayfield, some distance
away
81 say" he called out to the nearest
one when he got within hearing, ''who
runs this mill? 2"
II do" was the reply.
"Well, who's the owner~
"Why, am. to be sure"
ado you mean to say that the mill
runs itself?'
Cert. We start her up at 6 in the
morning, and she runs till 6 in the
evening. This mills been weaned,
stranger; she don't need nurse.
While Pm getting in hay she puts half
ton of paper on the roll. Gee up,
Bessy'-Paper Trade Journal.
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Aeassis at the saranac.

The whole Saranac community was
on the qui vive, says W. J. Stillman in
The Atlantic, not to see Emerson or
Lowell, Of whom they knew nothing,
but Agassiz, who had become famous
in the commonplace world through
having refused not long before an offer
from the emperor of the French of the
keepership of the Jardin des Plantes
and senatorship If he would come to
Paris and live Such an incredible and
disinterested love for America and sci
ence in our hemisphere had lifted
Agassiz into an elevation of popularity
which was beyond all scientific or po-
litical dignity, and the selectmen of the
town appointed deputation to well
come him and his friends to the region.
A reception was accorded, and they
came, having taken care to provide
themselves with an engraved portrait
of the scientist to guard against per-
sonation and waste of their respects.
The head of the deputation, after hav-
ing carefully compared Agassiz to the
engraving, turned gravely to his follow
ers and said, Yes, it's him." and they
proceeded with the same gravity to
shake hands in their order, ignoring all
the other luminaries.
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The Architect.


One must wonder why it really is
that so little is said or thought about
architecture, the grandest, the mother,
of all arts, great, a most useful, sci
ence, one In which a greater revolution
has lately taken place and In which
more progress has been made, with
more stupendous results. than In any
other, remarks a writer In The Inter
national Magazine.
Was it not Richelieu who, paraphras-
ing an ancient writer, said: IF it Is
versatility you seek, go find an archi-
tect. He must be an artist, or his
buildings will offend the eye; an engi-
neer, or they will crumble into trouble;
a lawyer, or he will get his patrons in
to trouble; doctor, or his buildings
will be hygienically unfit to live In,
and, last, but not least, he must be a
gentleman. or we will have nothing to
do with him."
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AN EXCITING LIFE.

why the Chicago Girls Brown Hair
Turned Golden Hued.
Gosh, Marier, but that wuz a close
shaver exclaimed Uncle Eben as he
dragged his worthy spouse out Of the
way of street car that was yet 20 feet
away. .'This yer Chicago life is 'nough
to make mans h'ar turn gray"
.sTurn grayw snarled his wife.
'Twouldn't be so bad eff thet wuz all
it done. It's decent and respectable to
have gray hair, but when it comes to
maxim a poor young gals ha'r turn
yaller jist on account of the excitement
NV all these cars an railroads on stills
an howlin people then's when say It's
a sin to hev sich big cities. I'm a-goin
right out to Liza James house, eff | kin
ever find it, an stay right in 1t till we
leave Chicago"
.How do you know it makes peoples
ha'r turn yallerY asked Uncle Eben.
81 amt never hearn tell of ennything
of that kind"
'Well, | see it with my own eyes
leastwfse see it turn brown agin after
the poor dears wuz rested all summer
in the country. You know them four
gals what staid all summer over at
Cousin Ellens? When they fust come,
they'd big brown eyes an far complex
ions an right yaller ha'r. Purity soon
every one of ems ha'r begin to get
streaked in spots, an before the sum
mer wuz gone they all had rich brown
ha'r. Then.I asst one of 'em what made
their hair turn brown. an she said 1t
wuz alias brown, but that the excitin
life she'd been Twin in Chicago, whar
she had to act in a theater every night,
made it turn yaller. Poor thing! She
looked so much better at the end of the
summer that l hate to think of her
comm back to this great, wicked city"
Chicago Journal.
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Table Talk.


Rather curiously Roxane in "Cyrano
de Bergerac" belongs to the modern
type which dates from the days Of
the Hotel de Rambouillet and has al
ways had its votaries in France. To
those precieuses mere conversation
was une betise. They liked declama-
tons; discussion, not on the right Of
woman to the ballot, but whether she
should be held little higher than the
angels or consent to be beloved. This
phase of preciosity led up to the
French salon, where that dollhouse
fashion of preparing an intellectual bill
of fare for guests found it's most ac
ceptable phase.
Nine Campan, whose advice may be
said to have formed a whole genera
ton of charming women, used to pre-
scribe the subject Of talk for dinner
tables, just as certain coteries of wo-
men prescribe it today. This was her
system: "With II at table, talk voyages
and literature; with eight, the fne arts,
science, invention; with six. politics or
philosophy; with four, sentiment, TO
mantle adventure; with two, talk Of
yourself; egoism belongs to the tete-a-
tete." = Ellen Olney Kirk In Lippin-
colts
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HuMBLED THE SENATOR.

He Tried to Assert His Independence.
but Failed MiserabIy.
The writer remembers good many
years ago when the late Ezekiel Clarke
was a member of the state senate from
johnson county. 1t is well known that
the senator or member from Johnson
county is always expected to get a
large appropriation for the state uni
yersity. To fail would be political
death. Senator Clarke was anxious
to succeed and during the early part
of the session voted for everything.
If another senator had bill. all he
had to do was to go and whisper in
EzekieI's ear, and he would vote AYE"
One day, however. Ezekiel came into
the senate with hair cut and clean
shave. He sat upright in his seat and
began to slaughter right and left.
State Senator George f. Wright look
ed across to where the senator from
johnson was sitting and inquired what
change had come over the senator
from johnson county. The other SEN
ator replied that the appropriation bill
for the state university had now pass
ed both houses, and the senator from
johnson was going to make up for
lost time.
Clarke kept on punching heads until
the senator from Jefferson, Moses A.
McCoid. rose and solemnly introduced
bill for an act entitled IAN act
repeating the appropriation for the
state university" A broad smile pass
ed around the room. and everybody
except the senator from Johnson saw
the joke. But the spirit Of leyity pass
ed away from Senator Clarke. He at
once assumed his humble attitude, and
the other boys voted him as usual dur
ing the remainder of the session.
Moines Capital.
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he Knev PInyfair.

The manager of the phosphate mine
was a Scotchman, tall, big boned, with
the strongest Glasgow Doric in his
tongue. At first he was obdurate and
desired us to leave the ground and to
drop the specimens which we had
taken before he appeared. At last
addressed him in good Scotch and ask
ed him whether he thought | was a
mining adventurer. aye, that's just
what We are"
NO." l replied, 81 am a Scotch pro-
fessor."
"Then, if We are, yen be havin a
name"
'My name," 1 said, sis Playfair."
MAN." said my Scotch friend, "are
We Lyon Playfair?"
I assured him / was, but expressed
surprise that he knew the name, to
which he replied, looking from his g
feet 2 inches with compassion on my
5 feet A inches, "Hoot, mon, yer names
Travelled farther than yer wee legs will
ever carry Letters of Lyon Play
fair"
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An Awful Miahap.

Two passengers on an Atlantic liner,
one an American and the other an Eng
lishman, did not exchange the farewell
courtesies when the steamer reached
her pier usual between voyagers who
have occupied adjoining staterooms
and hobnobbed during an ocean voy-
age. A plausible explanation was
vouchsafed by the American.
During the voyage the Englishtnan
persisted in fraternizing with the
American in a most obtrusive and an
noying manner Within two days of
Boston the Englishman one morning
hunted up the American and found him
in apparent dependency, gazing sea
ward from the hurricane deck.
sConfounded blue this morning, old
chap. What's the matter% And the
Britisher slapped his companion on the
back.
Matter enough" growled the Amer
ican "Ship's lost; captain don't know
which way to steer. Forgot to wind
the compass last night"
The Englishman listened with mouth
agape, then rushed off to tell his friends
of the consequential mishap. Evident
ly the gullible Britisher was pushed
along" for some time until he found
everybody guying him.-Boston Post.
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CLEVER. BUT souLLEss.
one woman's New Way In which to
Pay Social Debts.

One tt0mAn'B new WY IN W men ~
Pay Social Debts.
81 don't know much of the ways of
fashionable people" said a young ply
stefan not long ago, 9for am not In
society, but If many society women are
like one | know here in town / think
I'm safer to be out of it. 1t was not
this season, but 1t wasn't so long ago
but that plenty of people can remem-
Der the circumstances. | had among
my patients an elderly woman who
lived with the daughters family. The
daughter lived, IL not beyond her
means, at least up to the very edge,
went out a great deal and was enter
tanned a great deal.
.erhe mother fell sick with COM
plant which knew would prove fatal.
l did not inform the family till one
day the daughter asked me to tell her
frankly what her mothers condition
was and just how long she could live.
| told her that the old lady could not
possibly last more than a fortnight
She begged me not to let anybody
know how serious the case was She
didn't want her young daughters dis
tressed, she said
'Of course told nobody, and just a
week after that / read in the papers
that Mrs. Dash, the daughter of my dy-
ing patient, had sent out invitations
for a large dancing party, to be given
on an evening a fortnight away. Ny
patient did not live as long as | had
expected The day after she died /
read in the papers that owing to the
sudden death of her mother Mrs. Dash
had been compelled to recall her invi-
tations.'
"She had never intended to give a
ball She could not have afforded IT.,
and she bluffed.' | have cold shivers
every time see ."-Cleveland Plain
Dealer
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when . Bachelor Pays Calls.

An unmarried man, in calling at a
house where there are a mother and
daughter or any married woman and
other women relatives, leaves one card
for the host and hostess, one for the
daughters and one for any guest who
may be staying with them. No matter
how many there may be in the family,
he should leave no more than three
cards. Whatever the terms on which
he may stand with the brothers or 9TH
or masculine members of the family,
he leaves no cards for them at the time
Of making his general call on the fam
lily. The exception is the head of the
house, and he leaves card for him aft
er he has had call from him or Its So
cial equivalent, an invitation.-Leah
Lanceford In Woman's Home Compan-
inn
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And tha STiutstar smiled

The York (Me) Transcript says that
a Portland minister recently called up
on one of the families in his parish
He assembled the steps and knocked at
the door Receiving no response, he
was about to depart when he heard a
window In the next house open and a
woman's voice say, Mrs. Smith, the
minister's at your door"
What was the pastors surprise and
amusement when he caught Mrs.
Smiths response waited gently around
the corner of the house, Ssh, don't you
s'pose know it,
The next Sunday after service Mrs.
Smith met her pastor and expressed
her sorrow that she was away when he
had called
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TIE ARCTIC MOSQUITO.



Pest In the World.
Nothing that has ever been written
about the arctic mosquito begins to
come up to the real thing" said guest
In the ST. Charles corridor the other
evening. 81 went up the Yukon river
in the summer of 1896, representing
the Alaska and Dominion Trading
company. and we struck mosquitoes as
soon as we got into the hills. They are
twice as large as our familiar bayou
species, and their sting is like the. prod
of hot needle. They sweep along the
valleys in dense clouds, and If they
catch man unprepared they are liable
to blind him before be can escape. |
heard stories of children being stung to
death and can readily believe them.
"Wheneyer we went ashore we wore
heavy hat nets and took the utmost
precaution, but were certain to suffer
more or less. One of our party cut the
tongues out of his shoes, and narrow
line of sock was exposed under the lac
ing. Next day he was bitten there at
least a hundred times, and his feet
were so terribly infamed that the shoes
had to be cut off.
Another man, fireman In the boat
crew, got drunk on Alaska whisky one
afternoon and lay down to take nap
In corner of the engine room. no
ticed him little later and was horrl-
fed at the solid brown mass of mos
quitoes that had settled on small ex-
posed section of his cheek and throat.
In an hour his face was swollen out Of
all resemblance to anything human, he
was unable to swallow and was burn
ing with fever. 1t was week before
he was able to be about. ! saw num-
Der of cattle near Fort Hamilton that
had been made stone blind by stings
near the eye.
'"Fhe arctic foothill mosquito Is with
out doubt the most terrible insect pest
In the world. New Orleans Times
| Democrat.
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RAN A RACE WITH DEATH.
harrow Margin by which Man ON a
Railway Bridge Won.

Harrow Margin by Which Man on a
Railway Bridge Won.
A high trestle bridge more than q
quarter of mile long, supporting the
single track of the Nickel Plate rail-
road. spans the valley of Grand river,
east of gainesville, o. The bridge is
little wider than the distance between
the rails. and the ties are placed eight
or ten inches apart, the space between
being open to the river below.
A young man who crossed recently
had a thrilling experience on the
bridge. He had just passed the center
when a fast train rounded the curve
behind him. AS the engine whistled
he quickened his pace. With every
step the train was rushing nearer, and
there was not moment to lose.
Once the young man stumbled and
seemed about to fall, but quickly re-
gained his balance and hurried on. As
he reached the place for which he had
started the train was close behind. and
he had just time to swing himself over
the side of the bridge as the locomotive
Numbered by. The ends Of the ties
were slippery with grease from drip
ping axle boxes, and his foot slipped
wide as he left the track. His right
hand, stretched blindly out before him.
touched a round iron bar, bracing two
parts of the bridge, and. with grip
like that of a drowning man, his I'm
gers clasped around it. For a moment
he swung in empty air. In another his
left hand had found place beside his
right. and his feet touched the well
come edge of brace below. With
bleeding fingers clutching the slender
iron bar that vibrated widely from side
to side, moments seemed hours.
At last the train passed, and the
young man was able to climb slowly to
the track above Unnerved by the try
ing experience. he lay for a moment
stretched across the rails and, then
rising to his feet, with blanched face
and unsteady limbs made his way to
firm ground.-Cleveland Leader.
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Opposite Patent once. Washington. D. c.
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In all stages of Nasal Catarrh there
should be cleanliness. AS experience
proves, Ely's Cream Balm is a cleanser,
soother and healer of the diseased mem
brane. 1t is not drying nor irritating, and
does not produce sneezing. Price so cents
at druggists or it will be mailed by Ely
Brothers, So Warren Street, New York.
Upon being placed into the nostrils il
spreads over the membrane and relief is
immediate 1t is an agreeable cure.
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Kamr Greeting.

"Saku bona are the first words a
stranger learns Of the Kaff1r vocabu-
larry. The expression is the common
form of salutation used by the natives,
and its literal translation Is, Il see
you" 1t is considered a mark Of re.
spect not to give the greeting imme'
diately, the delay showing the rever-
ence In which the native holds his
visitor-P Philadelphia Record.
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Biliousness is cured by Hoods Pills, Csc.