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The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1900-05-22
Ki1Is Without Hitting

What is lyddite? The high explosive
thus called from the name Of the small
Kentish town and gunnery center
where the experiments with 1t were
made is nothing less than picric acid
brought into a dense state by fusion.
Picric acid is a bright yellow sub
stance freely used in peaceful indus
tries for dyeing purposes. 1t is OBJ
tanned by the action of nitric acid on
phenol or carbolic acid. 1t burns very
violently, and, owing to the tremen-
dous blast produced by the explosion,
the destructive effect of a bursting
shell filled with it is some II times
greater than that Of shell filed with
powder.
All lyddite shells are equipped with
percussion nose fuses only; hence their
explosion takes place on impact in the
following fashion: The percussion fuse
ignites a picric powder exploder, which
in turn ignites the bursting charge OF
lyddite, the detonation of the fuse and
of the two explosives inside the shell
being instantaneous The picric pow
der exploder, we should add, Is insert
ed in recess left in the lyddite for
that purpose. Lyddite shell is to some
extent less barbarous than shrapnel
exploded by powder, for, though wide
spread, its death dealing effects are
due more to air conclusion than to the
wounding effects of the flying frag-
ments. In other words, in the case OF
a lyddite shell bursting in group OF
men, the greater number will be killed
not by pieces of the shell, but by the
blow Of the suddenly compressed air.
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ono of Lamb,s Pranks.

A pretentious poet got his verses sub
mitted to Charles Lamb by friend
lust before the poet was to meet Lamb
at dinner. Lamb found the verses to
be feeble echoes of other poets, and
when the author arrived he was seen
to be as empty as his verses. This
awakened Lambs spirit of mischie-
vous waggery. At dinner he said in the
course of conversation:
"That reminds me of some verses
wrote when / was young" and then be
quoted a line or two which he recol-
lected from the poets book, to the lat
ter's amazement and indignation. Lamh
was diverted immensely, but kept per
fectly serious and quoted more lines IN
connection with another remark, beg
ging the company to remember how
young he was when he composed them
The author again looked daggers al
him.
Lamb capped all by introducing the
first lines of Paradise Lost col
mans first disobedience," etc. as also
written by himself, which brought the
poet to his feet, bursting with rage. He
said he had sat by and allowed his OWL
little verses to be appropriated with
out protest, but when he saw Milton
also being pilfered from he could sit
silent no longer Lamb reveled in tell
ing this story.-Rev. David Macrae IL
English Humor."
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SHE WANTED GOLD.
One WOman's Idea of the Money I
Deposit In a Bank.

One WOman's Idea of the Money to
Deposit In a Bank.
Most comical stories are told at the
expense of the fair sex regarding their
lack Of familiarity with banks and
their methods. One came to the ears
of the Saunterer that apparently has
the merit of newness.
'sMy wife had saved up her pin
money, or what she hadn't had occa-
sion to use of it." said the relator Of
the story, until che had $40 in bills
of various denominations. This she
was extremely DESTROYS of securing
gold for, and every day when l came
home to dinner she would haul me over
the Goals because l had forgotten to
procure the shining metal. Finally she
said she would attend to the matter
herself. That evening she greeted me
with triumphant smile.
"T got my gold,' she exclaimed as
soon as l entered the house, but had
a time in doing it, though
'Then she told me how she had gone
to the mint with her bills and been re-
fused the coveted coin because the
notes weren't good notes. Next she
hustled around to bank and secured
four $40 gold pieces. These didn't
suit her because they weren't new and
shiny, so she trotted back to the mint
with them and exchanged them for
two double eagles, fresh from the dies.
listened to her recital and asked her
to let me see the coins.
"'Let you see themp she exclaimed
in surprise. Why, l haven't them
any more, you gooseP
"'Haven't them any moreY l re-
peated. What did you do with themY
'She looked at me with mingled
scorn and contempt.
"T deposited them in the - Saw
ings bank, of course. That's what ]
wanted the gold for. What did you
think I was going to do with them?
Keep them around the house to look
atP
"But l was too busy laughing just
then and for half an hour afterward
to make any reply."-Cincinnati En-
uuirer
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WHILE THE HEART BEATS YOUNG

While the heart beats young. oh, the splendor Of
the spring,
With all her dewy jewels on, is not SO fair a
thing;
The fairest, rarest morning of the blossom time
Of May
Is not sweet the season Of today,
While youths diviner climate folds and holds
us, close caressed,
As we feel our mothers with us by the touch Of
face and breast;
Our bare feet in the meadows and our fancies up
among
The airy clouds of morning-while the heart beats
youngi
While the heart beats young and our pulses leap
and dance,
With every day holiday and life a glad ro-
nance,
We hear the birds with wonder, and with wonder
watch their fight,
Standing still the more enchanted, both of hear
ing and of sight,
When they have vanished wholly, for in fancy,
wing to wing
We fly to heaven with them, and, returning, still
we sing
The praise of this lower heaven with tireless
voice and tongue,
Even as the Master sanctions-while the heart
beats young.
While the heart beats youngl While the heart
beats young
Oh, green and gold old earth of ours, with azure
overhung
And looped with rainbows, grant us yet this
grassy lap of thine;
We would be still thy children through the show
er and the shinel
So pray we. lisping, whispering, in childish love
and trust,
With our beseeching hands and faces lifted from
the dust,
By 'fervor of the poem, all unwritten and unsung,
Thou givest US answer, while the heart beats
young.
james Whitcomb Riley.
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CASTING DRAFTS ABROAD.
Easy Banking Methods which Cause
Americans Much Surprise.

Easy Banking Methods Which Cause
Americans Much Surprise.
"The continental banking methods
are a great surprise to Americans"
said a resident of New Orleans who
has just returned from a trip abroad.
"When l was in Paris last month, l
met a friend one day who had an
English draft for f100 on one of the
largest banks in the city and wanted
to get the money. He had nobody to
identify him, but said, half jokingly,
that he was going to try for it any
how, and we went to the place to-
gether.
eve were shown up stairs to large
reception room set aside especially for
customers, and presently messenger
came in and took the draft. About a
dozen other people were also waiting
in the room, and after delay of about
ten minutes a well dressed young gen
tleman came to the door and bawled
out in a loud voice, Mr.. John Smith,
MY friend (call him John Smith for
short got up and was handed a bum
die Of bank notes. No questions were
asked.
IT was astonished, and in going out
took occasion to ask the well dressed
young gentleman whether the bank
wasn't taking desperate chances doing
business in that catch as catch can
fashion. And whyT he inquired, open
ing his eyes. l tried to explain, and
he shrugged his shoulders. we have
never had any losses he said."-New
Orleans Times Democrat.
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THE FORCE OF HABIT.
How 1t Once Played a Mean Trick o.
Frederick Villiers.

How 1t Once Played a Mean Trick on
Frederick VillIers.
3. W. Sabel, in The Saturday Even
ing Post, tells an anecdote of Freder
lex Villiers, the famous war CORE
spondent. Villiers had been under fire
for some days, the enemy bombarding
the force to which the artist was at
tached, so that the arrival of she'll
was commonplace circumstance to lac
treated in the usual way. Out of this
ordeal he came unscathed to London
and was strolling down the crowded
Strand.
On a sudden the pedestrians were
appalled, to see him fling himself ut
full length upon the greasy, muddy
pavement and there lie on his face.
rigid as a dead man. From all direc-
lions men rushed to render him a.
sistance They turned him over IL
rub his hands and unbotton his collar,
expecting to find him In fit But no.
On his face they found not the pain
and pallor of epilepsy, but astonish-
ment and mud Villiers, when they
laid hold of him, quickly jumped to
his feet, shook the mud from his hands
and clothes and then looked around
for an explanation of his own appar-
emily idiotic act. The explanation was
forthcoming.
A few yards behind him stood
horse and cart The carter had mo-
ment after Villiers passed pulled the
pin and allowed the cart box to dump
upon the ground a load of gravel. The
heavy beams of the cart, of course.
struck the wood paving with a re-
sounding dull thud," and the clean
gravel Kissed out with an evil roar
This combination of sounds, the war
artist declared, was Identical with the
striking of a live shell, and Villiers,
forgetting that he then stood some
thousands of miles from the seat of
war, automatically flung himself down
to await the dreadful explosion.
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Greatest Knitter. In the world.

All the women of Shetland knit.
They learn the art in early childhood
and continue it all through their lives.
The wool used for their knitting is
grown on the islands and is carded
and spun by the people themselves.
Machinery they have not except the
primitive spinning wheel. Many of
the most elaborate shawls have taken
months to make and some even years,
so that very fine shawl may be worth
as much as $3.50 or 5000. Most Of the
knitting is, however, of the more home
ly and serviceable kind and may be
bought from the women themselves for
very moderate price.
| The manner in which the washing OF
knit shawls is accomplished in Shet-
land is a matter of interest to most
visitors. They are washed carefully
in soap lather, and then to prevent
their shrinking they are laced from
point to point of the scalloped border
In a large square wooden frame and
placed outside the cottage to dry.-Chi-
cago News.
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PENNSYLV ANIA RAILROAD
Tie Standard Railroad Of Ameyica. Pro
tected throughout BY Block Signals
and Iarteyloekimg SoystcAes.
IN EFFECT JANUARY 10, 1900.


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A. NJ, 1887, 4.07, S.22 p. M.
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ESTABLISHED 1879.

cried. 'FIt was w1o'wrote him to re-
turn = that you needed him at the
FORGE
She chung to her husbands arm, and,
! sobbing, dragged him back, and in their
room the weeping children could hear
their parents wholesome full of tears,
the other of anger, SO changed that they
could hardly recognize them.
The blacksmith stood still moment
and looked at his wife.
All, it was you, was it, that made
him return? Very we'll. He may go to
bed. shall see what will do in the
morning.
The next day Christian awoke after
sleep full of nightmare and terror to find
himself in the room where he had slept
when a child. Across the little lead
framed panes grew hop vine in flow
er, and the sun was already high in the
heavens. Below the hammers sounded
on the anvil.
His mother was at his bedside. She
had not left him during the night be-
cause she feared her husbands rage
might return. Her husband also had
not sought his couch, for until it was
dawn he had walked about the house,
weeping, signing, opening and shutting
the drawers of the presses, and now
that it was day had quietly entered his
sons room, dressed as for journey,
with high CATERS, large hat and car
rying an iron ferruled mountaineer's
staff. He came up to the bed. saying
only. sect upI''
The boy, trifle confused. started to
put on his zouave uniform.
mot that, !" said his father sternly.
But be has no others, " his mother
interposed.
''Give him. mine, then. shall not
need them any more.
While his son was dressing, Lory
carefully folded the uniform, and, max
ing package of it. hung it by it's strap
over the end of his stick.
sNow come down stairs. he said at
last, and the three went down to the
forge without speaking. The bellows
roared, the men were at work The
sight of the open shed door reminded
the zouave of his childhood, how he had
played there SO long between the warm
road and the door where the sparks of
the forge shone in the black coal dust.
A feeling Of tenderness came over him,
desire to have his father pardon, but
when he lifted his eyes he encountered
an inexorable glance. At last the black
smith spoke:
my son" said he, there are the
anvil and the tools; all are yours. And
all this, too, added he, pointing to the
little garden, full of the sunlight, and
the humming of bees, framed in the be-
smoked doorway "The hives, the vines,
the house, all belong to you. As you
have sacrificed your honor for these
things it is only right that you should
take care of them. You are master over
all here. AS for me, am going away
You owe five years to France, and am
going to pay them for you.
'Lory, Lory, where are you going?"
cried his poor wife.
'sFatherP wept his son.
But the blacksmith had gone, walk
ing away with great strides without
turning once.
At Siddi- el-Abbes, at the garrison
Of the Third zouaves, not many days
later there was enrolled among those
who had enlisted as volunteers one
whose age had passed half century by
five years.-From the French of AL
phonse Daudet For Short Stories
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THE GOLDEN AGE.

There are no days like bygone days.
So thinks the senile heart,
No ways there are like ancient ways
None now such bliss impart;
For when the vision back is cast
1t sees a golden age.
That heart then signs for all the past
And deems the action sage
The brightest days are coming days,
Af1rns the youth in glee,
And on the future is his gaze
While present moments flee.
The golden age is yet to beam
Before his eager mind,
And thus his thoughts with luster CLEAN
As they their views unbind.
But to the sensual epicure
The olden age is now.
With plenty near his Joy is sure,
And pleasure crowns his brow.
Within the present days he tries
To taste the chiefest good,
Asserting that the rich and wise
Are those supplied with food.
~
The true philosophy is found
In looking up and on
Away from sordid, earthly ground
Toward everlasting dawn.
The better life beyond us lies.
Declares the sacred page
And those who look with faith lit eyes
Discern the golden age.
Rev.W. II. Bancroft in Philadelphia Ledger
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mornfn . he said.

mornin," he said.
Then Piper Farquharson played
marches and strathspeys, and in the
cold and darkness death came to many
of his audience. But as they fell
asleep and their thirst was stated and
their pain eased, their lullaby was, to
them, the sweetest they had heard
since childhood
Duncan could play no more. 1t was
indeed only fitfully he had played at
all.
And the laird was passing.
"Goodby, old man, and thanksP'
sighed the laird. "If you go home, tell
them sent my love. wrote to them
all yesterday. Good
There was slight tinkle, the laird
fell sideways. He had gone with his
comrades.
The dawn would come soon. Already
the SUBMITS of the eastern hills were
beginning to appear through the gray
ness. Day was coming, and the night
and those who had gone under its
blackness were now to be numbered
with that which had been.
Duncan, however, was only concern
ed about one thing.
The laird was gone. He had asked
him for march. He should have one.
Duncan rose, propped himself against
the bowlder and stood over the body
of his lieutenant
Then over the veldt the low, wailing
strains of "Lochaber No More rose
and swelled in the dawn, like the voice
of mother mourning with a sore ar
ticulate grief the loss of her children
1t was well played. The infinite sor-
row, the wild hopelessness of the mu-
sic rang out over veldt and kopje, and
the more superstitious among the
Beers muttered that ''it was the wall
ing of the souls of the petticoat roof
neks." 1t was probably Piper Farqu-
harsons best effort. 1t was his last.
The Boer sentinel in the advanced
trench saw, as the dawn came, a
rooinek standing facing him. He was
a petticoat and might have thousands
behind him. The sentry brought his
rifle to the present" 1t was an easy
shot-a tall man, with no khaki tunic
to deceive the marksman. Then the
Mauser parked.
In this wise Piper Duncan Farquhar-
son of the Highland brigade rejoined
his laird.-Detroit News.
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NM Paint of view.

The Bird in the Hand assumed his
most winning aspect and addressed the
Bird in the Bush.
at is conceded" said he, that my
position renders me worth twice as
much as you are, but will trade places
with you, even up, asking nothing to
boot!'
But the Bird in the Bush thought ne
could detect something of disingenu-
BUSINESS in this seemingly magnani-
nous offer and few away. = Detroit
Journal.
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ON SECOND THOUGHT.
Times thief / trusted him
When he came to me with smiles.

Times theft / trusted him
When he came to me with smiles.
] had heard that he was grim,
Stern and full Of artful wiles,
But he seemed so frank and kind,
And SO honest hearted he,
That full soon I changed my mind.
All, what gay companions vel
Times thiefl He stole away,
All before was aware,
Gold of youth and left the gray
OF life's autumn in my hair;
Stole the roses from my face
o youths roses, fair to seel
Robbed my step OF agile grace,
Laughing in his sleeve at me.
Times thief. said. But stay
After all, he was my friend.
Though he stole SO much away,
Has he not made some amend2
He has helped me climb hfe's sleeps;
He has given me home and lit
On its hearth fire that keeps
All cold weather out Of it.
Time, forgive me what said.
What you robbed me of was dear.
What you gave me in its stead
Grows more precious every year.
Roses fade, as fade they must
For hfe's withered flowers a sigh
But. o Time, will be just,
Greatly in your deDl am II
-Eben E. Rexford in New York Sun
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BROUGHT BACK OLD TIMES.
A Tidbit That Was Not on the Res
taurant Bill of Fare.

A Tidbit That Was Not on the Res
taurant Bill of Fare.
The force of childhood recollections
and the truth of the quotation, "a
touch of nature makes the whole world
akin" were shown graphically. by a
little incident in a restaurant the 9th
er day A quiet looking, middle aged
man of prosperous appearance was
eating his dinner when another well
dressed man took seat opposite him.
After giving his order in bluff, genial
manner the newcomer took a sip Of
water and faced around. Suddenly a
queer expression came over his face
as he watched attentively the actions
of his vis-a-vis, and apparently with
out realizing what he was doing he
blurted out In a loud tone, well, well,
wellp'
Every one at the table, including the
quiet looking man, started, and the
others, observing the direction of the
speakers gaze, turned their eyes also
upon him of the quiet appearance to
see what had caused the exclamation.
The man who had come in first was
in the act of spreading sugar over a
slice of buttered bread, and when he
realized that all eyes were turned upon
him he blushed like one detected in a
heinous crime and almost fell off his
chair 1t took him minute or two to
recover, and then he said to the table
in general:
81 used to get bread and butter and
sugar for being good when | was a
child, and eating it is habit which |
like to indulge in even yet. ! know it
isn't upon the restaurant bill of fare,
but couldn't resist the temptation"
81 must beg your pardon for my rude
exclamation" replied the other man.
'My mother used to put bread and
butter and sugar in my lunchbox when
went to school as an 8-year-old up in
the country town where 1 was raised,
and l haven't eaten any since my
childhood, and I guess I'll join you in
a piece now for the sake of old times"
And he did -RanpOr WhiR,