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The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1900-11-06
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'T have young professional friend"
said the veteran lawyer, "who is very
bright mentally, but an abominably
poor story teller. In fact, believe it is
his mental activity that makes him a
bore in that regard.
''The other morning met him on the
way down town. He greeted me cor
daily and with the air of man who
had something good on his mind that
he must share with some one else.
"'Say,' he said, Pm going to tell you
the best story you ever heard
"Of course l inwardly resented this
statement though l said nothing. He
started with his story, but he had not
gone very far before he made lengthy
and tiresome discussion from the sub
ject. He jumped the track two or three
times in this way, until finally his sto-
ry, as far as he had progressed, was a
mere tumble of words. Suddenly, as
we reached Grand Circus park. he
stopped and began to smooth his knees
and rub his hands In the most peculiar
fashion.
"'What in the world are you doing
that for? asked.
"'I'm trying to express my humilia-
ton, he replied meekly. Blamed If
haven't forgotten the rest of that stO-
ry.' Detroit Free Press.
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AN EFFECTIVE SERMON.
Trumpet Blast That Drove the PeO-
pie to Repentance.

A Trumpet Blast That Drove the PeO-
pie to Repentance.
A prominent Methodist churchman
recently told the following story of old
Peter Cartwright, the famous preacher
and circuit rider of many years ago:
The exhorter was holding a camp
meeting in Ohio. There was great
number of campers on the field, and
the eccentric speaker addressed vast
concourses at every service, but he
thought too few were being converted.
He felt that something should be done
to stir the sinners to repentance, SO
ne prepared a strong sermon on the
second coming of Christ. He told how
the world would go on In It's sin ana
wickedness, and at last Gabriel would
sound his trumpet and time would
come to an end. He described the
horrors of the lost and the joys OF
those who were saved. The sermon
grew In intensity, and he brought his
people up to a grand climax when sud-
denly the sound of a trumpet smote
the ears of the anxious throng.
There was great sensation, and
many fell upon their knees in terror
and began to repent and pray. Women
screamed and strong men groaned;
pandemonium was let loose for a few
minutes. After the terror had some
what ceased the preacher called to
man I'D a tree and he descended with
q long tin horn In his hand. The
sneaker then turned In fierce wrath
and upbraided the people. He cried
out In stentorian tones that If man
with a tin horn up tree could
brighten them so, how would 1t be IN
the last great end when GabriePs
trumpet sounded the knell of the
world. The sermon had great effect
upon the vast audience, and many
hundreds fiocked to the front and were
converted.-New York Tribune.
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A DIAMOND RING.
By M. QUAD.
COPYRIGHT, 1900, BY o 3. LEWIS.

-
If any one had told my friends that l
was possessed of the slightest spark of
romance at the age of As, the informa-
ton would have been received as a
base canard A bachelor of that age
who has drifted about with all sorts OF
people and bumped up against all sorts
Of adventures is pretty sure to have
had all romance knocked out of him.
He thinks more of his hat than his
heart and more of his pipe than the fe-
male sex. Yes, l was hardheaded,
practical man, and had the most beau
tiful woman on earth attempted a fir
tation with me l should have scowled
her down. That was the sort of man l
was, and l gloried in it, but alas, no
man can tell just what day Of the week
he is going to fall over his own feet
and make an ass Of himself
On certain Tuesday l took train
at Elmer Junction for London, and as
there were but few passengers l had a
compartment to myself had been
busy with newspaper for half an
hour when noticed small package
lying under the opposite seat. found
1t plain pasteboard box and was pre-
pared to find specimen of free chew
ing gum or new brand of troches in
side. 1t was something different, how
ever. It was lady's diamond ring
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ing back, and was more than ever de-
termined to find my unknown love.
With that independence which should
honest man 1 advertised for the fourth
time. This time 1 asked "B. p" to
communicate with me in case she had
lost anything. There were just lot ''B.
p" answers, but among them select
ed one which appeared to be genuine.
This "B. p" had lost double hoop
diamond ring containing five stones.
1t had been lost on a railroad train and
was a birthday gift from dead moth
er. l was asked to call at the cham
bers Of certain solicitor to have the
ring further identified. There is moth
ing romantic about calling on solicit
tor. | had been in hopes to be invited
to a Sloan square mansion or a grand
country seat, and | was disappointed.
It was quite possible, however, that
the blond haired heiress would be at
the solicitors and that all would be
well, and SO was on hand at the APP
pointed hour. So was a stern faced
anu dESICSSlVS AOOhklS uOQSCDOAQCA, W
gether with a slick looking villain
whom l at once spotted for detective
and a young woman whose hair was
red instead Of blond. The ring was
speedily identified by the stern faced
man and red headed girl. "B. p" was
Bertha Perkins, and her father and
her maid were before me. Perkins was
a country squire, and on the night pre-
vious to my finding the ring his daugh-
ter's jewels had been stolen. The hoop
ring was part of the plumber.
OF course / was ready to hand over
the ring, but it wasn't to stop there.
That red headed maid was sure she
recognized me as the man who was
hanging about the grounds few hours
before the robbery, and that villain of
a detective was only too glad to snap
the handouts on my wrists and hurry
me off to jail. 1t took me three days to
prove myself q respectable character
and an alibi. They had to give me my
liberty, but it was grudgingly done,
and the detective said he'd have an eye
on me all the rest of my days. The
romance had departed when l was
locked up. came out of Jail deter
mined on securing reparation. Old
Perkins had helped the red headed girl
to conclude that was the robber, and
went down to his country seat to re-
ceive an AFFECT apology or pull his
nose. He not only refused an apology,
but threatened to kick me off the
grounds, and the red headed girl de-
clared that had a cast in my left eye,
and by that cast she would swear to
me in any court as man who would
not stop at murder. There was one
more thing to be cleared up. wanted
to find out about "B. P" herself. Was
she the blond haired, blue eyed girl of
my dreams, and was she worthy of my
love? / had not long to wait. was
walking from the country seat to the
village when a dogcart knocked me
down and rolled me all over the road,
and the driver halted to call me a
tramp and threaten me with the law.
The driver was "B. P" Her hair was
bleached. her eyebrows colored and her
nose turned up. She had a big mouth,
bad teeth and milky eyes, and when
she drove on she whistled like man.
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Times When 1t Sends the Gold shiv-
era Down Your Back.

Times When 1t Sends the Cold shiv-
ers Down Your Back.
ever sit" said Mr.. Goblinton, late
at night alone in a room, reading or
studying, everybody gone to bed long
ago, the house, the whole city, quiet,
and see presently across the table on
the other side of the room door open
ing slowly? That's hair raising ex-
perience. You don't know by what
means the knowledge that 1t was open
ing was first conveyed to you, but you
see it now, opening slowly and steadi-
ly and silently, and you get up and
grasp the chair in which you have
been sitting and stand up, with the
table between you and him for fur
Their protection, and wait for him, but
he doesn't come.
'srhen you go around to the door. 1t
has stopped now and is standing dead.
1t yields with no resistance except that
of its own weight when you open 1t
wider, and, holding to 1t, you look
around the door jamb into the hall.
Silence there, perfect and complete;
uODOuy LuSr0S LlOSS were SAOStAJ uA-
gers, If any, that turned the knob.
And so you shut the door securely and
go back to your reading.
Presently you find the door open
again, but this time there is an air Of
vacancy about it, and now you realize
what it all means. The back of the
catch bolt that you turn with knob
is worn off a little, rounded, or the
metal frame around the socket into
which the bolt enters may be worn. or
BOTH Or it may be the door has
shrunk or the jamb has drawn away
from it, so that only the tip end of the
bolt catches in the socket and has 8
constant tendency to work free. The
slightest shaking or jarring starts 1t,
and gradually 1t works itself clear Of
the socket, and then, If it happens to
be hung just so, the door slowly opens.
"And there you are, and it is all very
simple when you come to know about
it, but it's never altogether agreeable.
You never really get used to the door
that opens."-New York Sun.
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laughed And the bewilderment of the
head of the house of Stafford, of the
golfng son, and the studious son, as
they in turn were presented, set them
laughing again.
Lord bless meY' cried Stafford SEN
Tor, ruffling his hair, your father said
you were little grill"
"Oh, l shall never be grown up to
papaw cried Miss Chester.
HE said" stammered the young
gentleman who was getting up an ar
ticle on the architecture Of the tenth
century, "that-that you were a nice
child"
Don't you think" queried Adele
Chester mischievously, ''that Pm
niceT
Whereat Ralph grew guilty red.
Helen Stafford reached home before
dinner was over. Her brothers rap
turous reception amazed her. Never
had she know how they missed herl
Nor could she dream that each of three
young hypocrites was saying to HIM
self:
''She won't go east in such hurry IL
she and Helen take to each other"
They did take to each other Ross
found it was not necessary to keep his
engagement that evening and permit
ted his friend to cool his heels alone at
their appointed rendezvous. Ralph
learned his tenor went wonderfully
well with the pure soprano of their
guest. And Dick was so anxious to
initiate Miss Chester into the mysteries
of flashlight pictures that he made him.
self no end Of a bore The country
cousin of the Staffords did not go east
that week nor the next. When she
did go, all the mirth and laughter of
the Stafford domicile seemed to go with
her. One morning week after her de-
parture Ralph and Dick said some Bit
ter things when they discovered that
Ross had found out he must attend to
business In New York and had left for
the city on the midnight train. And
when Ross returned, silent, but smil-
ing and exultant, they were not at all
backward about telling him with true
fraternal frankness their opinion of his
conduct
"You were awfully good to go to meet
that little country Iassie," commented
Ralph witheringly. II believe you
knew all the time she was the prettiest
kind of grill"
"Kindness-sheer kindness on my
part, dear boy. But, as 1 have striven
to impress on you. virtue is ever its
own reward"
"Oh, come OFF, entreated Dick. you
just got the inside track, and you kept
it."
Ross pulled his mustache.
II assure you in taking my late hasty
trip had only the best interests of my
brothers at heart. My sole ambition
was to secure you the most charming
sister-in-law in the world"
Helen jumped up.
"Oh, Ross! Did you-did she"-
He laughed quizzically. adele gave
me a message for you, my dear She
said to tell you that you are to be-
"What, Rossq"
sEPridocrnofd -RuffaIn CommoroiaI
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HOW WILL YOU voTEG
A workingman's Plain Talk to His
Fellow Workingmen.

A Workingman's Plain Talk to His
Fellow Workingmen.
Fellow Wa ingmen, how are you go
ing to voter
have m$ie p my mind how I am
going to vote, al, want to ask you
to vote the same way.
am not an orator nor scholar.
cannot make speech nor write mag
azine article. l am just an ordinary
everyday workingman with intelligence
enough to have a little common sense
and tell it to others.
am a workingman with wife and
four children. Eight years ago, in
1892, was doing fairly well, and my
older boys were both at school.
voted, as did all good Democrats, for
Grover Cleveland. In less than six
weeks after election, just before Christ
mas, lost my job. could not get an
other. Things went from bad to worse.
The boys left school and tried to earn
a little money. We never got In the
bum line at Madison square, but we
at Tenth strDt. l could not tell you
all the hardships of those four years.
Always behind in the rent and half
the time without anything to eat. The
wife worked hard, and the boys and l
did anything to earn dollar
Well, 1896 came and another cleo
ton. With thousands of other Demo
Gratis 1 voted for Mckinley and hoped
for a change. In less than a month
got job and have had work constant
ly these four years. The boys soon
went back to school. am now getting
$1S a week My wife and have plen-
ty to eat and wear and we are happy
oh, so happy-to see our boys growing
to be educated men.
Fellow workingmen, do need to tell
you how am going to vote?
l don't exactly understand this ques-
ton of imperialism, except that am
for the stars and stripes, and do not
believe anybody can or wants to make
this country an empire.
l know little about the money ques-
ton, except that when 1 earn a dollar
/ want 100 cents, and when | put lit
tie money in the bank l want to be sure
of taking out as much as put in, with
a little interest
l don't know much about the tariff
except that free trade would throw me
and thousands of others out of job,
with no chance to get another.
l haven't anything to say against
Mckinley or Bryan, but l know, and
you know, that If Bryan is elected
thousands and hundreds of thousands
of us are going to be out Of work for
the next four years, if not longer, while
if Mckinley is elected believe there
will not be an honest capable man
who is willing to work that will not be
able to find it.
If Bryan is elected, my boys will I
have to leave school. If Mckinley is
elected, my older boys will soon have a
complete education, and the mother
and 1 will never have to worry again
Fellow workingmen, you want better
wages, don't you? You want more
than a mere existence. Well, you are
not going to get it if we have free sill
yer, free trade and free soup.
The election of Bryan would throw
the workingman and his condition
back to that of 1895.
l ask every workingman who reads
this to vote for me and my job and my
boys and my home, and I'll vote for
you and yours. A ROBINSON.
New York, Oct 10, 1000.
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which were written by Elizabeth Bar
rett Browning, were never intended for
publication. but when she showed them
10 Mr. Browning. whom she had mar
ried after they were written. he real
lied the fact that In them was sung
the most perfect love song the world
had ever heard, and he concluded such
poems should not be hidden Mrs.
Browning WINS unwilling to publish
them in her own name. and as he was
fond of calling her his Little Portu-
guese" II was decided to have them APP
pear under this name. They are Pc
trachlan in form and among the most
beautiful of the language.
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Discrediting His NeighbOrs' Credit.
A most valuable lesson has been
pointed out to the confusion of Bryan
and Organism by a publication entitled
american Investments CLASSIFIED
$500, book published by Curtis G.
Harraman of New York, which lists
the bonds of the cities, counties and
towns of the United States. The New
York Times says: I'VE have been in
terested to trace in this book the own
ership of the state and municipal bonds
of Nebraska. We find that in addition
to the state bonds, many of which are
held by eastern savings banks and IN
surance companies, there are 367 lots
of Nebraska county, city and town
bonds, ranging from few thousand
dollars to 100000 and even higher,
owned mostly by savings banks in New
England and the middle states. Lin
coin. Mr.. Bryan's own home, has dis
posed of nearly $4,000.
"How much money could the eoun-
ties and towns of Nebraska borrow OF
eastern savings banks with Mr.. Bryan
in the White House writing allocutions
to congress in support of free silverF
After Mr.. Bryan had put the country
on silver basis does any one suppose
that any of the Nebraska cities or
towns would take into account the de-
probation Of the currency and tender
$4,000 in payment of $1,000 bond?
Hundreds of eastern savings banks
would be ruined and the money saved
up by workingmen lost"
This is an argumentum ad locum that
ought to touch to the quick the civic
honor of Mr. Bryan's townsmen, even
though he himself is callous to its barb.
1t demonstrates clearly that Mr.. Bry-
ans own state and city owe their de-
velopment to the faith of eastern in
vestors in the stability of Nebraska Sc
curities despite the fact that Mr.. Bryan
resides there and is advocating policy
that would depreciate the value of the
obligations. But for this confidence on
the part of "the enemy's country Me-
braska securities would have gone beg
ging and Nebraskan enterprises have
come to a standstill.
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A STICK WITH A STORY.
The Odd ONCE Which 1t PerfOrme,
r.

The Odd Office Which 1t Performed
In Gambling Den.
''There's an odd little story connect
ed with this old cane," said a New
Orleans sporting man the other day.
"You will observe how heavy it is and
how the ferrule comes down to sharp
point 1t used to be carried by an old
chap who was well known character
here back in the seventies. He had an
interest in a very crooked gambling
house. won't hurt anybody's feel
ings by mentioning the exact location,
but it was saying that you might as
well slide your money under the door
and walk off. 1t saved time.
''This old fellow I'm speaking Of
never operated any Of the games, but
was apparently mere spectator. His
business was to dispose Of what were
known technically as Knockers A
knocker was anybody who attempted
to put victim on his guard, usually a
we'll meaning but off1cious friend. For
example, a visitor would be playing at
one of the games and his friend, look
ing on, would smell a rat. AS rule
he would feel it his. duty to say some
thing, and such suggestions were nat
urally resented by the house.
"When the old man would see a
knocker about to knock he would
hobble up. leaning heavily on his cane,
and plant the ferrule, as If by acci-
dent, squarely on the offenders foot.
Such a prod would cause the victim
excruciating agony, and he would Inn
mediately lose all interest in exposing
fraud. While he was writing and
groaning the old fellow would over
whelm him with apologies and insist
upon his coming into the back room
to get a drink. Meantime the other
chap would be losing his money as fast
as he could get 1t out.
There's no telling how much
plumber this stick has been the means
of securing. Its original owner has
been dead these many years. and !
keep it as a curiosity Orleans
Times-Democrat
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RAINDRoPs.

The raindrops FELL each drop living soulS
Joyfully they left their cloud home
Rushing downward through the unknown.
And some fell on the parched ground
And gave their new life to the grass,
And some into stately, grand souled rivers. and
were with them;
And some into laughing streams leaped and danc-
ed their lives through,
And some into the deep, wild ocean,
And some into stagnant pools-the quick souled
raindrops.
And when they were tired the wind stopped down
and carried the raindrops home.
Margaret Crowell in Lippincott's.
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In 1896 William J. Bryan, then, as
now, candidate for president, made
the following public statement:
If Mckinley and the Republican party are sue
cessfuI and put in power for the next four years,
wages will be decreased, hard times will come up
on us all over the land, the price Of wheat viii go
down and the price Of gold will go up; mortgages
on our homes will be foreclosed by the money
lenders; shops and factories win close We will
export no goods; we will import from foreign
lands all the goods we use. Thus viii ruin, want
and misery be with us.
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RAILROAD OBJECT LESSONS.
Statistics Showing the Prosperity of
Railway Men Under Mckinley.

Statistics Showing the Prosperity of
Railway Men Under Mckinley.
Three publications recently issued
the sAnnual Report of the Railway and
Telegraph Employees Political League
of Illinois, the Annual Statistical Re-
port of the Interstate Commerce Com
mission and "Poor's Manual of Rail-
roads"-contain much valuable and I'M
assailable evidence in support OF the
claim that President McKinley's ad-
ministration has resulted in great pros
perity to all lines of industry. 1t is IN
teresting to notice from a study OF
these works how nearly railway ex-
pansion was at standstill in the years
from 1894 to 1897 and how remarkably
rapid the growth has been since that
time. The increase in freight rolling
stock. for example, from 1894 to 1891
was only about 5000 cars, whereas the
increase from 1897 to 1899 was nearly
10000 cars. The tons of freight NOV
ed was little greater in 1897 than III
1898, but 1899 shows an increase OF
nearly one-fourth over 1897. Passen'
ger traffic remains nearly stationary
the growth year by year being largely
offset by the loss of suburban travel &c
electric lines. Earnings, both gross
and net, show like ratio of increase
to the freight traffic in the lean times
and fat times respectively.
The statistics of number of EN-
ployees show a total in 1899 of 92S,924
a far larger number than in any yeai
on record. In 1893 the total was S7S'
602. but the number was reduced py
more than 100000 in the following
wear. and not till 1898 were the figures
Of 1893 equaled. OF this huge army
constituting, with their families, prob
ably nearly 4 per cent of the total pop
ulation of the country, only about 9,lOo
or less than 1 per cent, are ranked al
officers.
The following table gives the com
pensation paid to the different classes
of railroad employees in the specified
years:
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As He Put Il.

blanche told this story Of an Irish
man who was driving a mail coach.
He observed him to be tying his neck
up in the voluminous folds OF his COM
forter and remarked. 'You seem to be
taking very good care Of yourself. my
friend"
"Och, to be sure, am, STR" answer
ed the driver, whats all the world 20
a man when his wife'a a widdyT'
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wanted His Full share

Little Willie, sitting down to tea
with his grandmother, who is just
about to cut the cake. Willie (hastily)
-Grannie, before you cut my piece of
cake want to ask you question.
Grannie-W Well. dear. what is 1t?
WILLIE want to know If your spec
tacles magnify?
Grannie- Yes; little. dear.
Willie-Well. then, win you please
take them off while you cut my cakeg