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The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1900-04-03
He Drank Alone.

In the early days of Ventura, Cal.
DIR. Bard established such reputation
for willingness to fight that few pre-
sumed to provoke his anger. He was
once informed that the lawyer he had
engaged to represent him in certain
case had sold out to the opposing side
''I'll cut his heart out" said Bard wheT
the news came to him.
Shortly after that, walking with one
Of his friends, Dr. Bard met the law
yer on the street. "Come In and have
a drink" said that worthy, and the
three men, entering the barroom, or
dered three glasses of whisky, which
were put before them.
"Drink," said DR.. Bard to the law
yer.
"Not until you are ready" the law
yer politely replied.
"No, not with me-" said Bard; "yor
drink now"
mot until you drink" insisted the
legal light.
DIR. Bard's pistol was out in mo
ment and pointed between the eyes OF
the man who had betrayed him
Drink said he in voice Of thun.
der; drink. tell your The lawyer
drank with avidity, and when he was
through Bard and his friend threw
their full glasses on the floor. 1--WE
don't drink with curs." said they and
turning their backs, walked out of the
room.-San Francisco Argonaut.
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Cabs Not Admitted.

Americans visiting London for the
first time are more than likely to hail
hanson the day they arrive and start
promptly to see the row. Half the
books, stories, newspaper articles, etc.,
treating of English life make promi-
nent mention Of this the smartest
driveway in the world. London So
ciety circles largely about Hyde park,
and naturally enough tourists regard
it as good starting place from which
to study British manners and peoples.
Imagine, then, the indignation and
the disgust of pair of pretty girls, ac-
customed to traverse home drives in
any fashion they like, warned back
from Hyde park entrance by q
six foot arm of the law. No tips, no
remonstrance, no pleading, has the
slightest effect upon the stern bobby"
who simply orders cabby to depart
and tells his fares to get more cor
rect equipage if they desire to take
part IN the row parade.
1t is livery or nothing, and if the
visitor continues to long for glimpse
Of the Hyde park show she must have
boots and breeches to drive her, there
by having at least the semblance Of a
private establishment. No admittance
is the standing rule for the ostensible
cab-Boston Globe.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1900-04-03

Gwen Moses tell de sun ter stan
stilp'- began the old deacon.
Dat warn't Noses" interjected q
brother in the amen corned; "dat wu2
Joshuaw
"Ez said," continued the deacon,
gwen Joshua tell de sum
''Yoh didn't say dat at a1l!' said the
brother who had corrected him. "Hit
wuz me dat said hit! Hit wuz me dat
tuck yoh up to hitw
The deacon's patience was exhaust
ed. He folded his brass trimmed spec.
tacles, laid them carefully on the table
before him, walked over to the amen
corner, took the objecting brother by
both arms from behind and, with the
swish Of a cyclone, swept him forward
toward the door, landing him precipi-
lately in outer darkness.
'sEz l wuz sayin fob dis little incl
dent occurred" he continued, "w'en
Moses tole Joshua ter tell de sun ter
stan stilp'-
Some of the older, learned brethren
moved uneasily in their seats. They
looked as if they wanted to correct him,
but they did not. They let it go at that.
Atlanta Constitution.
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It WASN'T the He'll.

The Lewiston (Me.) Journal tells a
story of a minister in prayer meeting
who cut short Uncle Ira, a prosy old
deacon, by ringing bell at the end OF
five minutes. But after doing so he
felt sorry, because he had apparently
hurt the feelings Of an old father In
Israel. So he arose and went down to
'.Uncle'' Ira and put his hand on the
old mans shoulder.
"'Uncle' Ira," said he, 'T'm sorry for
that. ask your pardon and
HUncle" Ira looked up, the anger still
in his eyes.
"Why, We don't think 1 set down on
account Of that pesky little bell OF
your'n, do ye?" he demanded
"Why, I-I-well, thought STAN
mered the minister.
"Waal," said "Uncle" Ira, Eye needn't
think no more about that bell. l want
to tell We right now that no bells amt
ever goin to set me down in this vestry
where I've talked goin on 20 years. l
want to tell We right now, young man,
if hadn't jest swaIlered my chaw I'd
"a kept on talkin till I'd "a 'lucidated
that pint if it had "a took me all
night"
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1900-04-03

If your hair is fine, it denotes gentle
birth. If the ends cling together, it is
a sign OF great intellectually, and a
tendency to curl shows inherent grace
and poetic nature.
These are some of the things set
forth by the science of hair reading,
yet undeveloped, but likely to give us
away" In a manner often more accu-
rate than pleasing.
This science tells us, too, that the
person with straight hair has firm,
positive and practical disposition. Col
or shows the temperament. For in
stance, it is well to watch out for the
person with black, lusterless hair. He's
apt to be treacherous and jealous. The
lighter the hair the more sensitive and
''touchy" it's owner. Brown hair be-
longs to him who has common sense,
good Judgment and reason In high de-
gree, which would indicate that hui
mainly isn't even half bad. Red hair
shows honesty and cleverness.
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Pennsylvania RAILROHD
The Standard Railroad of 4mevicu. Pro
tected throughout By Block Signals
and Inteyiockimg .SwitcHes.
IN ErFrcr JANUARY 10. 1900.


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The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1900-04-03

ing to bury my dagger in her heart
Then the words Of Charmicles, the
charioteer, came hack to me-''If low
ed her enough, o king, perchance
should set her free"
l snapped the dagger before her and
threw the pieces away.
FL came to kill you" 1 said. Then
/ fed into the street People leaped
aside from my path as sped along to
my old friend, DR.. Strange.
"Put me away" demanded, "ol
some day shall kill her! l am madp'
So they put me away.
That is ten years ago. l have sta1d
here since, except twice, when they
have taken me to Egypt for some re
searches. / am seeking for the spell
Soon l shall find it. Then shall SLEEP
to wake again. This time she loved
me little. There will be third act
and-who knows?
He dropped his head in his hands and
was silent. l left him thus.
"a sad case" said the doctor; ga very
sad -homicidal mania, complicat-
ed with the delusion that he is an an.
cient king. 1t is thousand pities. He
is the authority Of the century on
Egyptian antiquities, you know, and
on most points as sane as you or l."
said nothing. was thinking Of his
dark. wise face and the things he had
said. A month later he sent me note
to announce that he had recovered the
spell. The next day heard that be
was mysteriously dead. The second
act was closed, and the curtain would
not ring up FOR another 1000 years.
Madame
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1900-04-03
Mi.tool her Obfect.

The average drug clerk is proof
against sudden excitement. But in one
of the prominent down town drug
stores one day a clerk had a sudden
and serious fright that set him ahead
about ten years.
A young woman, decidedly pretty
and charmingly gowned, rushed into
the store breathless and in great
state of agitation. She called for q
bottle of chloroform and wanted II
quick.
The young man behind the counter
turned pale and declared with great
firmness. "You can't have it."
"But I must" declared the young
woman. .'or my dress will be spoiled"
''Your dressY
Eyes. my dress! While crossing the
street just now lot of mud was
splashed on to my dress by some pass
ing horses"
"Ah" exclaimed the drug clerk, with
a smile of relief That's different.
thought that-er-po possibly you were
tired of living, don't you Chi
cagO News.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1900-04-03
This Rooster Wore a scarfpin.

TINS 1kO08ICE w OEG - SCAEAR AAAs
The crack chicken story comes from
the kitchen of the Golden Eagle hotel
az Reading. 1t concerns an energetic
young rooster that crowed and grew fat
while carrying in its gizzard a stickpin
nearly two inches in length, the sharp
point of which had worked through the
muscular second stomach Of the fowl
and protruded a quarter Of an inch on
the outside.
Josiah Barnes, the second cook at the
Golden Eagle, was engaged in cleaning
lot of fowls preparatory to cooking
them for the Sunday dinner. While
handling a particularly fine, fat. young
rooster something pricked his hand.
He made an investigation and found a
sharp pointed instrument protruding
through the gizzard. Sc cut open the
organ and was surprised to find stick
pin therein. The pin was mounted
with a diamond shaped piece of pearl
on which was gold letter wv"
The young rooster had probably OBJ
served the piece Of pearl and, believing
it to be an extra fine pebble with which
to digest its food, had made the mis-
take of swallowing threading Search
light.
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DON'T Be soRRowruL. DARLING.


Oh, don't be sorrowful, darling,
And don't be sorrowfui, prayi
Taking the year together, my dear
There isn't more night than day.
It's rainy weather, my darling,
Times waves they heavily run,
But, taking the year together, my dear.
There isn't more cloud than sun.
We are old folks now, my darling,
Our heads are growing gray,
But, taking the year all around my dear.
You will always find the May.
We have had our May, my darling,
And our roses long ago,
And the time Of the year is coming, my deaE
For the silent night and the snow;
But God is God, my darling,
OF the night of death SO grim;
The gate that leads out of life, good wife,
Is the gate that leads'to him.
Rembrandt Peala
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1900-04-03
The Lady and the Teeth.

ri was called one day to certain
hotel to give chloroform to a young
woman who was about to undergo a
slight surgical operation to remove a
morbid growth in the ear, said a ply
sician. "The patient, as it developed
on my arrival, had been married only a
few days before and was in the city
with her husband on their bridal tour.
Although quite handsome, she was no
longer exactly in her first youth, and
she was very much averse to having
her husband present at the operation.
However, he insisted, and she finally
agreed that he should stay, but / no
ticed that she seemed very nervous and
preoccupied.
"The operation, as said before, was
trifing. She took the chloroform easily
and all went well until she was just
regaining consciousness, when she
opened her mouth, and out fell set of
false teeth. She had said nothing about
that detail, and the truth was that she
had hoped, poor woman, to pass
through the ordeal without the fact of
her wearing such things being known
to her husband.
"But the effect on that individual
was entirely unexpected. He gave one
Mortified glance and then rushed at the
old surgeon and seized him by the
throat. You infamous scoundrelY be
yelled. You have broken my poor dar-
ling's jawY
"At that stage of affairs beat a re-
treat. 1 never did learn exactly what
the husband thought had happened or
what sort of explanation was offered"
New Orleans Times Democrat.
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They SMILED over.

Marjorie never cries when any little
mishap befalls her and has been known
to sustain without shedding a tear Sc
we're bumps that have rapidly acquired
a black and blue aspect But the other
day Araminta, her dearly loved and
tenderly cherished doll, fell into the
open crate and received confusion Of
the nose which was most unpleasant to
contemplate. Marjorie winked very
hard for few minutes, and then, run
ming with her injured Araminta to her
mother, she buried her head in her lap,
sobbing, "Oh, mamma, don't want
to cry, but my tears have all come I'M
fastenedv
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1900-04-03

Mrs. Walldoff-Which of these an
cestors are yours and which are your
husbands?
Mrs, Justinn-Oh, it's funny thing
about them ancestors! The decorators
got 'em mixed while fixing the gallery,
and we couldn't tell t'other from which.
SO we punched the whole lot and called
,en our ancestors.-Judge.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1900-04-03

ST thought you were working on Jay
FRANKS new house." said the house
painters friend.
81 was going to-" replied the house
painter, "but 1 had quarrel with him,
and he said he'd put the paint on him
SELF
"And did he do itT'
eyes, that is where he put most OF
it."-Philadelphia Press.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1900-04-03
A HealthfuI Swelling

Physician with ear to patients
chest)-There is a curious swelling
ovef the region of the heart, sir, which
must be reduced at once.
Patient (anxiously) THAT swelling IS
my pocketbook, doctor. Please don't
reduce it too much.-Harlem Life.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1900-04-03
WAN Reruinted parentn

"Our little Dick makes very clever
conundrums-really very clever"
"Can you guess themw
"Oh, we never dare do that. Little
Dick wants to tell the answers him
self."-Indlanapolis Journal
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1900-04-03
THE SUICIDE.

foIl worn, but trusting zeno's mad belief,
a soul went wailing from the world Of grief
A wild hope led the way,
Then guddenly- dismayl
L., tie old load was there
The duty, the despairi
Nothing had changed, still only one escape
From its old self into tile angel shape.
Edwin Markham In ScrihnersR
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1900-04-03

Friend-I suppose there are great
many people who owe you their lives.
Doctor-They say they do, but the
relatives always kick like thunder
when l accidentally collect bill of
that kind.-San Francisco Examiner.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1900-04-03

A photographer does wrong who
takes such a picture of girl that she
will make herself unhappy all the rest
Of her life trying to look like it.-De-
troit Journal.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1900-04-03
How It was.

Jack-I hear you lost lot Of money
on Wall street while you were drunk.
Xom--I wasn't drunk. but the stocks
1 bought took a drop too much. -Bos.
ton Journal
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MY LADY's GOWN.

W. t~FaS - ~ eff'p
B Ny lady's gown is gray and soft,
So like her eyes
That from its silken folds there Gomez
A hint of paradise.
hold it close against my heart
My lady's gown.
The while she hummed little song
saw her lay
This bit Of lace around her throat;
Dear eyes of gray
30 serious in fashioning
My lady's gown.
Ny lady's gown is folded now;
The knot of blue
Upon her breast is passing sweet
With lavender and rue;
Il brings me dreams Of bygone days
My lady's gown.
Today see the little gown
With trimming eyes,
For out beneath the grass grown hill
. My lady lies,
And with despairing sobs kiss
My lady's gown.
Myrtle Reed in Munsey's
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1900-04-03
When 4 poenn,t Turn.

A woman's silk frock Is spun by 3
worm. but II the worm tries to crawl
on it the woman shrieks. Chicago Rec
ord.
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Union Transpor.atlon company.


Tuckerton Railroad.
Leave Mount Holly tor Tuckerton 9.26 A. N.
AT P. NJ, daily except Sunday.
Leave TuckerUOn tor Mount Holly, 7.05 A. n.
3l0P. M, daily except Sunday.
Leave Mount Holly for Beach Haven, 9.26 M.
Tuesdays. Thursdays and Saturdays; 4.H P
NJ, Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays.
Leave Beach Haven $50 AM. Tuesdays, Thurs
days ana Saturdays; 2.35 P. M. Tuesdays
Thursdays and Saturdays.
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It is an open question as to whether
indecisiont or rashness has assisted Us
to make the greater humber Of nils.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-02-28

mat my estimates of death have a basis
worthy of acceptance
me soldiers were a picked a selected
LASS, class TO which insurance companies
Gwaroed policies at reduced premiums
Inc war was not a picnic vet to thousan5s
OF soldiers 1t was a tonic that lenethened
toeir days. Their army wcissitudes So re-
auced the expectation of life" as to take
tne veterans out of the selected class and
lower them into the class of ayers 90 c,,T
zens, and, therefore, all my calculations a.
TO their rate of mortality have been hased
upon the ordinary tables of mortality as
used by insurance companies
Having early in my soldier life 6etar-
mined, II spared to return to nv home RI
write history of my regiment-the aath
massachusetts, 1nfantryI gathered yolum
nous DATA AT our muster out [ knew ac-
curaRely the average age of the survivors
also knew how many were living I'm JuIv
isoo. when l gave the data TO a life insur-
ance actuary, who told me there should he
SO many then living. He had computed
on the basis of the ordinary average NOR
tahty, and came within two of the actuaI
number OF survivors at that date
The burden before me was to annrox,
mate TO the ages of the soldiers at enlist
ihent, making due allowance for what uras
true or our army and also of the confe6ar-
ate army, that the ages of recruits durins
the last two years of the war We're consid
srapIy greater than those who enlisted dur
ing the first two years.
L sum up follows: July 1 1aoo the
number of honorably discharged soldiers
Will be 1898, add to which Il 446 desert
ers Creal or nonlinaD and we will have
1Oto.fS5 living veterans who will heiono
to the following age periods. Eifty-iI1ee
years and under. Dol, 404; between fifty-fve
and sixty-four years, 651 GIL; between six
ty-hVe ana seventy-fonr years, los 0s9: be-
tween seventy-five and eighty-four vaars
IL. LOG; eighty-four years and upws I'd 4 EEK
July 1, 1900, the average age of survivors
VIII De sl1ty-three years. II. T. JOHNS.
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uccRaw AND ROBINSON SIGN.
These Two Insurgents to Lead Orioles
Again Next season.

Many doubts and fears in the minds of
Baltimore base ball enthusiasts were set
at rest yesterday. when President Hanlon
of the Orioles signed John j. McGraw to
manage and Wilbert Robinson to captain
the Oriole team next season
Mr.. Hanlon met Robinson and McGraw
at their place of business yesterday and.
after a few minutes conversation, the
party retired to d private room to talk
business. Perfect good humor prevailed on
all sides, and after a conference of an hour
Mr. Hanlon came out with the signatures
of the two great players to Baltimore con-
tracts.
Mr. Hanlon will meet McGraw tomorrow
and arrange the details connected with put
ting him in charge of the Baltimore team.
McCsraW would not say what his salary
will be- but admitted that 1t will be between
5000 and 81, 0U0. He does not yet know
how full a rein he will have, but 1t Is
known that he will work upon practically
the same basis last year, when he was
unrestricted in every way.
Mr.. Hanlon was asked yesterday whether
or not he has his eyes upon any new men
for Baltimore. He replied that he was moi
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-02-28

To the Editor of The Evening Star:
A few years ago l spent nearly a month
In an attempt to determine the respective
ages of the veterans Of the war of the re-
bellion. The conclusions L then reached
were so important that 1 think the general
public will be interested therein. as they
approximate closely to the truth of the
matter. 1 will not weary your readers with
the data of the case.
L have before me nearly everything of
Importance on the question at issue that
had then been published, but my main re-
lance was in the voluminous report of the
United States sanitary commission, COM
piled by DR.. b. A. Gould. actuary of that
commission. giving ages. services and other
data of 81, 1S4 officers and 1.012,213 enlisted
men. AS it is not necessary to eat the
whole ham to test its quality that which
was true of SO large number of soldiers
may be accepted true of the entire body
] have brought down the calculations to
July l, 1900.
The records of the War Department show
that the states and territories furnished for
the war 2IIS.304 men. This may be ac-
cepted as substantially accurate. 1t has
been estimated by Gen. Ainsworth having
access to all the records of the War De-
partment. that the number of re-enlist-
ments amounted to 546. $50, leaving 2,231 .565
as the number of separate individuals who
served. for longer or shorter periods, in the
army and navy during the war. Deducting
the known number of deaths prior to July
l, 1865, of honorably discharged soldiers
and assuming I,219 the number of de-
serters. who had died, and in round num-
bers there We're at that date 1,S6O 900 living
soldiers and sailors.
/ ascertained from careful and numerous
tabula tons taken from DR.. Goulds volume
that July /, 1863, the middle of the war
the average age of the enlisted men was
twenty-five years and nine months, in
round numbers twenty-siX years, and that
of the officers twenty-nine years. That
would make them July i. 1865 as re-
spectively twenty-eight and thirty-one
years Of age.
Given such data. and also the average
death rate of our soldiery, and computing
the number living July /, $780, is simple
matter of actuary toll. For the first ten
years after the close of the war that death
rate was much in excess of the ordinary
mortality of the people at large as shown
by the tables OF our life insurance compa-
MES During that decade the badly wound
ed and those sorely stricken with disease
succumbed. From 1915 to 1895 the mortali-
ty of survivors was considerably less than
the general average of citizens. 1t was not
until 1895 that their death rate reached
that general average. ] gather these sta
tistics of the mortality of veterans from
the annual reports of deaths sent forth by
the bureau Of pensions and the Grand
Army of the Republic 1t will thus be seen