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The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1901-07-23
YOUR TEETH.

Without good teeth there cannot be
good mastication.
Without thorough mastication there
cannot be perfect digestion, and poor
health results.
sound teeth.
Clean teeth do not decay.
The Importance of a sound first set Of
teeth is as great to the child as a sound
second set is to the adult.
Children should be taught to use the
toothbrush early.
Food left on the teeth ferments, and the
acid formed produces decay.
Decay leads In time to pain and the
total destruction of the tooth.
The substance of the following rules
should therefore be impressed constantly
upon all children:
/. The teeth should be cleansed at least
once daily.
2 The best time to clean the teeth is
after the last meal.
g. A small toothbrush with stiff bristies
should be used, brushing up and down
and across and inside and outside and in
between the teeth
4. A simple tooth powder or little soap
and some precipitated chalk taken up on
the brush may be used If the teeth are
dirty or stained.
s. 1t is a good practice to rinse the
mouth out after every meal.
g. All rough usage of the teeth, such as
cracking nuts. biting thread, etc, should
be avoided. but the proper use of the
teeth in chewing is good for them.
When decay occurs, it should be at
tended to long before any pain results.
1t is stopping of small cavity that is of
the greatest service.-Motherhood
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Gladstone In a Hun.

Max Muller told me about curious
experience he had when staying in Glad
stones own home at Hawarden- The
conversation naturally turned to matters
Hellenic, and in the course Of it Glad
stone made a grammatical mistake In
Greek. His learned guest mildly tried to
correct him, but Gladstone rather haugh-
tily maintained that he was perfectly
right. After another fruitless attempt of
Max Muller, Gladstone became so inn
perative in his assertion that his guest
quietly answered: well, we can easily
solve the difficulty No doubt you have
a Greek grammar In the house. Let us
look into tip
Thereupon Gladstone rose in huff.
Nc Greek grammar was brought down,
nor did the great statesman appear him
self any more on that occasion. 1t was
a most painful scene for Max Muller.
Mrs. Gladstone tried her best, In the
meantime, to apologize for her husbands
behavior. Il am sorry to say" she re-
marked, that he cannot brook contradic-
tons. hope you won't mind it. "-West-
minister Review.
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TANNING A PIANIST.
The Effective Trick That Was Once
Played on Franz Liszt.

The Effective Trick That Was Once
Played on Franz Liszt.
The famous pianist and composer Franz
Liszt was once made the victim of good
practical joke.
1t happened in Rome at the house of a
certain princess who had invited num-
Der of guests to meet Liszt and assured
them that they should have an opportuni-
ty of enjoying his playing. The princess
was we'll acquainted with two of Liszt's
peculiarities. He was SO passionately
fond of playing that 1t was difficult for
him to keep his fingers away from the
keys; but, nevertheless, like many other
pianists, he expected to be urgently en-
treated and coaxed before he would con-
descend to perform.
On this occasion his hostess was deter
mined to make him play without word
Of entreaty. 1t was agreed by the whole
company not only that List should not
be asked to play, but that the subject OF
music should not be mentioned. The piano
was even closed and locked and the key
hidden. List came and soon saw that be
was not to conquer. His usual triumphant
expression vanished as he perceived that
for once he was not apparently regarded
as the lion of the hour.
Not a word was spoken of music, and
List became visibly uneasy In mind. As
the evening wore on he grew more and
more excited That his fingers were itch
ing with the desire to play was obvious to
all, but nobody helped him out. At last
when he could stand the strain no longer
he took advantage of lull In the CONVEX
sation, seated himself unbidden at the
piano and attempted to raise the lid.
The laughter and applause that follow
ed the unsuccessful attempt showed Liszi
that he was the victim of a conspiracy
But his love for playing was too strong
for his resentment. The key was brought
and List played, to the delight Of his en-
raptured audience.
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SELECTING A DEGREE.
The Bishop, the Young Professor and
q Bad Case of Shock.

h DA0 OaSC OA SAAOCAs
A prominent university once invited a
distinguished bishop to be present at it's
commencement exercises and to deliver
an address. After he had slgnifed his
acceptance Of the invitation the university
authorities thought that it would be a
very graceful act on their part to show
their appreciation Of his presence by con-
ferring upon him an honorary degree, and
so in order to arrange the matter In prop
er form they delegated one of their num-
Der to visit the bishop and notify him OF
their intentions.
The person selected for this mission
was a callow young professor who had
not long occupied his chair and who still
regarded his university as representing
pretty nearly all the world that counts
and q portion of the rest Of the universe
besides. He was immensely impressed
with the Importance Of this mission and
with the general tremendousness of the
honor which he was going to announce.
Reaching the city where the bishop lived,
he went to the episcopal residence and
after sending in his card was ushered into
the bishops study. With bated breath
and many circumlocutions, lest the bishop
should be too much overcome If the news
were sprung upon him without certain
amount of preparation, he delivered the
message with which he had been charged.
81 have also to inform you," he added,
''that the university will consult your
preference in the matter Of the degree
and will confer upon you the one that you
would most desire to have"
"Oh!" said the bishop. "Let me see.
What particular degree did they have In
mind ?"
"Of course the very highest, one which
belongs to the doctorate-LL. D., D. D.,
s. T. D. or D. G. L."
"Well" said the bishop, looking out of
the window and then at his watch, sup
pose you make it D. O. L. / think l
have fewer of those than Of the other
kinds"
1t took the callow young professor
long while to recover from the shock but
when he came to think 1t over 1t probably
taught him something he had never
known before.
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RAILWAY RuMBLEs.

The island of Formosa has only one
railway line.
Express trains in Russia do not as q
rule run over % miles an hour.
Read in round figures, 200 through pas
senger trains come into the six passenger
stations of Chicago every day, leaving
10000 strangers in the city.
All the trains that reach the New Or
leans station, in the center of Paris, are
brought there by electric power In tun.
nels, This Is considered the ideal depot OF
the twentieth century.
The 'Stourbridge Lion" imported from
England was the first locomotive In
America and was used by the Delaware
and Hudson Canal company. The road
was 16 miles in length and was opened in
1929
Other things being equal, the forward
seats in street or railway car are the
most healthful The forward motion OF
the car causes a current of air backward,
carrying with 1t the exhalations from the
lungs Of those In the forward end.
Four lines of railroad now enter the
Mexican republic from the United States
and one can make the journey in five
days from New York to the City of Mexi.
co in a Pullman car on the regular trains,
with only one change, either at Kansas
City or New Orleans.
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Rnnnnna In Honduras.

Bananas and plantains." writes q
Honduras correspondent of the Boston
Herald, "are of course grown almost ev'
erywhere, and while in camp 1t was my
custom to purchase bananas for our par
ty. And such bananas, of red or yellow
variety, just as we might select, but II
every case large lunches almost as high
as a man and weighing over 100 pounds
each!
'One of the many purchased was Of
the red variety and contained by actual
count 262 bananas and was over B feet IN
height. Some of the bananas measured
95h inches long and inches round. They
were brought from the plantation of an
Indian, who Travelled with the bunch OF
his back and held to his head by leather
strap. He crossed the Chiquilla river live
times, and his price for this bunch was II
cents in our money.
''Our custom was to eat raw when ripe
or fry them Our cooks way of prepar
ing them was to roll them in -four so az
to avoid their sticking to the PAN"
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THE ooMPANYs SHARE OF IT.
Plan Followed by a Conductor In
Dividing Up Cash Receipts.

O1V101n2 UQ OAhn heceAVlss
1--WE heerd it said," remarked the rural
traveller to the conductor of the subur-
ban train, tibet, in spite of what folks
SEE about big combinations and syndi-
Gates grindin down the laborin man and
swindlin the poor, the company don't al
ways get the best of it."
mo; not always" said the conductor.
"But how kin conductor-well, now,
not bein pussonal, but you, fer instance
how could you get the best of the COM
pany just takin up tickets of which the
company knows how many is issuedf'
You can't get the best of it on tick
cts" replied the conductor, "but some
times passenger boards a train in such
a hurry that he hasn't time to purchase
d ticket, and we collect his fare in cash.
l knew q conductor once-Bill Scruggins
was his name-who made considerable out
of cash fares, and yet Bill claimed that
he always gave the company its proper
portion"
"How's thet?" asked the rural traveller.
"Well, Bill had good route for cash
fares-he used to run an accommodation
and when he came near his last station
he'd take all the money he had collected
and throw it up in the air. Whatever
part of it stuck to the bell rope he gave
to the company. The rest was his"
81 expect the wear and tear on tibet
there bell rope didn't amount to great
deal"
81 expect you're right about that And
yet they do say that $40 note got
caught on to it one day"
"Then 1 suppose he turned tibet in to
the company"
We'll l believe Bill did intend turning
in that note, but when he took 1t down
he found it was folded so derned peculiar
that 1t just had to stick to that bell rope
if It came anywhere near it, and SO he
didn't think he'd had square deal"
What did ne do about it?'
Had a passenger change the note into
silver and threw it up again. New
York Sun.
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Flow victor Hugo Proposed

Adele, holder and more curious than
Victor flor she was Crib, wanted to find
out what was the meaning of his silent
admiration. She said: II am sure you
have secrets Have you not one secret
greater than al2" Victor Acknowledged
that he had secrets and that one of them
was greater than all the rest Just like
meP' cried Adele. "Well, come now, tell
me your greatest secret, and l will tell
you mine" my great secret" Victor re-
piled, sis that I love you" sand my
great secret is that love you" said
Adele, like an echo.-"Love Letters OF
Victor Hugo"
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Very remarkable is the instance of q
sparrow initiating the articulation OF the
grasshopper One spring a cage contain
ing a sparrow was hung side by side with
another In which were grasshoppers. NO
notice was taken by the sparrow Of his
neighbors, but next year, when he was
again In the same society, he essayed the
grasshoppers' chant. And for the rest OF
his life, when the grasshoppers had long
been dead, the sparrow was accustomed
to utter a polyglot song combining the
notes of the insect and those OF other
birds The fact that young linnets VIII
sometimes learn the song Of the nightin-
gale instead of their own is mentioned.
And 1t Is also stated that several kinds OF
birds In Thuringia sing much better than
the members of their own species dwell
Ing in the Harz mountains.-Revue Sci
anfihune
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white to the lips, but stood perfectly up
right, and something in the pose of her
uplifted face suggested an appeal from
an earthly to heavenly judge.
Think" echoed Mrs. Lawrence furi-
ously. when it was found hidden away
among your things, you horrid girl! Upon
my word, l think In the interests of jus
tice / shall have to prosecute you. If
send you back to your father, you will be
presently stealing from somebody else"
"NonsenseI" said Standish, with a
roughness he had never before used to a
woman. "AIiss O'BPien has stolen moth
ing of yours. What hallucination is this,
Mrs. Lawrence%
Mrs. Dolly gasped for breath, then re-
covered herself, and her next speech had
a slow and cold malice.
"She will have to prove it, thenl She
admired it from the beginning, my beau
tiful pink pearl pin. should never have
suspected her, of course, only for my dar-
ling Millicent's acuteness. Win you de-
fend Miss O'Brien, Mr. Standish?"
Herbert Standish made a step or two
to the girls side and took her cold fingers
in his and raised them to his lips.
''If she will permit me- he said, 81
shall defend her with my life."
There was a horrible commotion out
side, and suddenly struggling little girl
in the midst Of a mass of boys came as
though from a catapult into the middle of
the drawing room floor.
Here she is, the little sneakw cried
Guy, Cecil and Arthur with one voice,
pushing their sister Millicent toward the
astonished group by the mantelshelf.
Millicent was disheveled and looked
cold. Her eyes had frozen tears in them,
and her lips were blue.
what have you been doing to your sis
ter, you rough boysf' cried Mrs. Dolly
Indignantly, forgetting her own griev-
ances for the moment.
'tOnly holding her head downward over
the pond till she confessed" cried her
brothers triumphantly.
Confessed what?"
"Why that she sneaked that old pin of
yours and hid it away in Miss O'Brien's
things"
The miserable Millicent's fears melted
and began to run forlornly down her
cheeks.
81 did do it." she said, "and l don't
know what l did it for, and if it wasn't
for those dreadful boys I'd say now
didn't do it. But they'd nearly drown
me again."
Mrs. Dolly pushed the sobbing peni-
tent from her.
"T'm really very much annoyed" she
said. "I'm sure don't know why people
ever have any children to be SO horrid- !
must apologize, Miss O'Brien. OF course
you won't care to remain in charge of
these children any longer"
Standish had a wicked thought of sug-
costing that Miss O'Brien had a very
good case for damages, but refrained for
Tom Lawrence's sake.
at has only made us understand each
other a little sooner" he said, taking up
again the hand which the entrance of the
young Lawrences had made him drop.
"But, of course, in any case ! could not
have spared her to you for very long,
Mrs. Lawrence"
81 had no idea began Mrs. Dolly
civilly.
81 say, old fellow" shouted the three
hopes of the house in one voice, "it's no
end of a shame for you to go sneaking
the very incest governess we ever had. =
Mainly About People.
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side of the street looked grim ana fore

side Of the street looked grim and Tore
boding.
1t might have been city Of the dead,
everything was so silent-not soul in
sight. The gaslights had grown dim.
looked about me nervously and recognized
with horror a form that had grown to me
terribly familiar. l threw self control to
the winds and started to run. There
were only two blocks more, and | felt
sure l could reach the end Of the way.
On, on, I sped, my heart beating with
such rapidity that 1t almost suffocated
me- One block more and l would be
safe With a courage born of despera-
ton 1 made the final effort I looked
around. The form was gaining upon me
rapidly. Would | ever reach it? At last
my foot was on the step and l clutched
the balustrade. Just at that moment
felt a clutch upon my shoulder. My
head was bent backward by the contact
l felt q hot breath upon my face. A
hand clutched me with grasp Of iron
and my face was uplifted to another, held
there by some terrible magnetism.
closed my eyes resolutely. At that mo-
ment l was stronger than l had ever
been. / thought OF my mother and the
ucdT lT1euuS WHO uuu all ueeH 81 kOOu "
me. My time had come and was going
1 felt the keen edge Of a knife as it cut
into the flesh l can remember how ii
felt-that it did not cause me great pain
and then knew no more.
l was in my own room, and my sister
Lila was bending over me. had had a
terrible struggle with death, and had
serious wound They told me all about
it when l grew strong again. He was
Professor Joseph, a hypnotist, whose
wife. little lady resembling me greatly
became insane and was confined in an
asylum. The shock was so great that
it had eventually unsettled his reason
and he was constantly pursued by the
fear that she was trying to murder him
He had met me, of course, accidentally
and the resemblance that / bore to his
wife was so strong that with all the cum
ming a mailman viii sometimes exhibit
he had watched his opportunity until the
best time to retaiate.
Friends coming home to neighboring
houses had witnessed the struggle and
run to my rescue. He escaped, but was
afterward captured and confined In the
Jefferson insane asylum, where he now
is.
never board a train but what 1t all
comes back to me-the wild ride among
the drifting shadows and my encounter
with a madman.-Waverly Magazine.
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Ecnnomiea of the Flat.

The fiat is economical in other ways
than are involved in the solution Of the
servant problem and the payment of large
rents and gas bills. They discourage fads
and collections. No dweller in fat can
accumulate pictures, books, coins, min
erals, postage stamps, children or porce-
lains, because there is no place to put
them. Therefore he puts his money into
his stomach and the bank. With the in
crease in fats has come the disappear
ance Of pianos and parlor organs, SO that
people sometimes sleep O nights, even IN
fats. And where there is no room for
pianos it follows that there cdn be no
room for the wife's mother or the country
aunts and uncles or the nephews from
st. Louis.--B Brooklyn Eagle.
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THE LOST GARDEN.

Somewhere in the distant southland
Blooms a garden-lost to me
Warm with peoples burning fragrant,
Drewsy fires may not see.
Subtle shadows fit and beckon
Down dim pathways bound with yew,
Where white wrath wanders lonely
'Twixt the darkness and the dew.
In the ruined walls that echoed
Once to happy hearted moods
Now the stealthy lightfoot lizards
Unmolested rear their broods,
And beneath the oleanders
No. clear voice sings as Of old,
But the feet caressing sunbeams
Whisper secrets to their mold.
Though follow as the south wind
Fares his way through wood and plain,
Though l question hill and valley,
/ shall never find again
Ny lost garden, where lie buried
Joys that swift the glad hours sped;
Only one could bid me enter,
Only love, and love Is deadi
Charlotte Becker in Ainsaae's.
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Quaint old custom.

Some quaint old savings regarding
Whitsuntide have come down to our
times. Perhaps one of the most curious
of all is the one to the effect that child
born on Whitsunday is fated either to
kill or to be killed. In some country dis
tricts it was customary at one time to go
through mock form of burial. The in
FAINT was laid in small grave and sprin-
kled lightly with clay. while sod, support
ed by twigs. was placed over him. He
was then taken out and by virtue of this
resurrection was considered quite free of
the faint. There was an idea, too, that
whatsoever one asked of God on Whit
sunday morning at the instant the sun
rose was sure to be granted. London
Chronicle
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The celebrated Erasmus, although a
native of Rotterdam, had such an aver
sion to fsh that the smell Of 1t threw
him into fever. Ambrose Pare had a
patient who could never see an eel
without fainting and another who
would fall into commissions at the sight
of carp.
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PENNSYL lANlH RAILROAD
The Standard Railroad of .Ameyica Pro
kecfed throughout by Block Signals
and InteylOcking .SwitcheS.
IN EFFECT JUNE 30. 1901.
Trains leape Mount Holly

Trains leaue Mount Hollv
FOR Philadelphia, $50. 800, 6.b2. 7l2. 74s. 7.5l,
1884, 8.46, 80 n.l7 A. M, 1882. LIS, 2.35, 4.53,
s l5, 6.22. 7l5, S.37, 1886 P. M.
For PembertOn, 7.04, 1927, 1859 A. M, LAT. 2O6,
4l5, 5.43, SIS, 726. P. M.
For Bordentown. Trenton and New York, 6.2S,
7d0. 9.l9, HOO. A. NJ, 1890, 800 4eO, 4.4O, 800.
7.25 P. NJ.
ON Sundays. 9.25 A. M, 2.O5, Z25p.M.
For East Burlington, 62s, 7.25 TAO. s.22, $50.
9l9. 1000, llo0 a: NJ. 1890, 3OO 400, 44O, Bio,
49, s2s ~ s q 1879 q E 70 90 DOS 20
3d. 3.4, Ais, 800, $685. 6.o5, 625 725. s.l5, $40
M.
For LewiStOwn, Columbus, Kinkora, etc.,
LAT. 4.l5 P. M.
On sundays, 7.0l P. N.
For LumDerton. Medford, Marion ana Had
dontield. 9.35 A. N.
For vfncentown, 1875. 6 l5 Pm.
For Toms River, Island Heights and Sea Side
PARK, s27. $50, A. NJ, 2.Os, 4.27, SAB, P M
For Tuckerton and Beach Haven, $50 A. M,
4.49 p NJ.
For AsDury Park and Long Branch. s27. $50
A. NJ. EOS, AT P. NJ.
On Sundays, S.4 Am.
Trains LEAVE for Mount Holly as JoIIoOs:
From Philadelphia. 6. 90, $40, 724, 9.l2, 1000.
ll20 M, 1910, 80, 800 1852, 4.l2, 1872, 800
$40, sos, 6.2S, $780, 1880, Il.50 P. M.
On sundays. 7so. s.l5A. M. LOO. 500. 1890 Pm
500, $50, NJ, LOO. 800, 400, 800. 800. P. M
On Sundays. l000A. M, 7.o0PM
From Trenton, 6.45, LAO. $780, ll.23 A. M, zoos
On Sundays a SIS, li.55. A. M, 4o5. s.Os, Pm
From East Burlington, TOO, 800, 826, 848, 9.23,
1905, 1850 A. M, Il M. l.05, $50, 4.35, 800 600
$40, 100, 100, $50, 1920 P. NJ.
On Sundays, 7.55, 800, 1890, A. NJ, $780, 2.35,
800. S.45, 4S0, 49, 5.S0. 500, $50, 100 75o s4o
from Toms River, 6.56, s.o4. A. M, 1925. Al.
6.26 P. M.
On Sundays, GERM
from AsDury Park. ZOO, lib A. M, 2.3O, 5.l5
p. N.
From Long Branch, 6.45, l0.55 A. M, 2l0. 500
ON Sundays, 5O0PM
From Pem6erton, (north) 637. 7.22, 7.29. s44.
HOO A. M. 1887, LOO, 4.0s, Al, s.22 P. M.
On Sundays, IT'S A. M, 800, OBS P. M
From PembertOn (south), 7.33 A. M, 40, p. M
On Sundays, 7.03P. NJ.
From vincentOwn $50 A. M, 400 P. M.
From Beach Haven. ITO A. M, 255 P. M.
On Sundays, 5.25 P. M.
WEST JERSEY q SEASHORE RAILROAD
June 20, 1901,
MedfOrd, Marlton and Philadelphia.
Leave Medford for Philadelphia at 700. 1907
AM, 200, $40, Pm.
On Sundays, 100 A. M, 40 P. M.
Leave Marion for Philadelphia at ia, lOD
AM, go, 532. p. M.
On Sundays, ia A. M, 4.59 P. M.
Leave Philadelphia Market Street, for Med
ford and Marion at 100, l0.45, A. M, $3.50. BIS
P.M
On Sundays, 800 A. M. 6.4eP.M.
4IS 60, P. M.
on Sundays 9.52, A. M, 7.2S Pm.
For further particulars apply to the ticket
agent at the station.
j. b. HUTCHINSON, j. r. WOOD,
General Manager. Gen. Pass. Agent
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BEFORE NIGHT.

It Is the hour when faints the long gold day,
That hour when all the spent world sighs to
rest,
The low wind sleeps, the lilies idly sway,
And drops the bee into the roses breast.
Now the last weary swallow wheels on high,
flash of silver on the rosy light;
Soon the first star shall CLEAN in the still sky
And earth be clasped by the cool arms of night.
Now the round notes Of restless birds are dead,
Peace on the scented land and shimmering sea;
Now sorrow fades as fades the sunset red
And with the tender night comes peace to mel
Eleanor Norton in Harper's Magazine.