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The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1901-06-18
KEYS IN FLATHousEs.
New York Tenants Do Not Seem to
Trust Their JanitOrs.

New York Tenants Do Not Seem 70
Trust Their Janitors.
"AI right" said the locksmith, who
keeps little shop In Amsterdam avenue
and does odd jobs of no great Importance
In themselves for the residents OF the
neighborhood, 'tall right, sir; can nix
this key to suit you, think"
ssYou see," he explained to a visitor,
when the customer had retired, he
wants me to give him janitor proof key
/ guess you don't know what janitor
proof key is, because l know you live In
q house. If you lived in fat, you'd
know.
eWhen a man moves into a new apart
ment-that is, an apartment that Is new
To him-the first thing he begins to worry
about is the key proposition III take my
oath that New York people are the most
suspicious set of citizens that l ever saw
in all my life Why, they don't trust
their relatives. After the man Of the fat
gets his string of two or three keys from
the ianitor he begins to let his suspicious
loose.
ale thinks of course that the janitor
is predatory by nature. Maybe ne Is
right, but I believe the law holds all per-
sons innocent until they are proved guilty.
and it would be a pretty hard thing TO 90
to prove a janitor guilty. Anyway, the
man of the fat gets nervous. He has re-
ceived SO many keys. What is to prevent
the janitor from having kept duplicate
KEY of the apartment Nothing at all.
It would be the easiest thing in the world
for the janitor to hold out, turning over
all the keys but one and making use OF
that to enter the fat whenever he saw
good opportunity in the absence OF the
family.
ssThat's the way the householder figures
the case out to himself Then he comes
around to some locksmith in the neigh
horhood and gives one excuse after an
other to account for his wish to have the
lock changed on his front door. 1t doesn,t
make any difference to the locksmith
| what the reason is, so long as he gets
paid for the work he does, but the Hat
| ter seems to think it necessary to spin
| him a fairy yarn. Anyway, the matter
| ends by the locksmith going around to
| the fat, taking a squint at the lock,
marking a place where he can cut OF q
| trifle of the iron so that the key belongs
to it won't work and then altering the
key so that it will fit the revised lock.
ssFor this the charge is very slight
There is only few minutes work to the
! Job, and a locksmith hasn't the heart tc
make an overcharge, you know. Now,
this is much cheaper than having the old
lock taken off and a new one put on, fol
then new keys would have to be made
and good keys cost considerable, you
know. By simply scraping piece off the
| lock at a certain point and scraping
corresponding piece Of the key the fat
ter gets practically a new protection, anc
| the janitor doesn't stand the chance Of
| paying him visit without ringing ths
bell and being regularly admitted. New
! York Herald.
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ANOTHER of the laws delays has &C.
CURED and the cause of justice is forced
to suffer. The trial of the men indicted
for the murder of an inoffensive, respect
able city of Burlington county, was to
have taken place on Wednesday, but was
halted on technicality that was of such
trivial nature that general surprise is ex
pressed that any one should offer 1t In a
serious manner. The point made was
that there was difference In the names of
the jurors as drawn from the box and as
served on one of the prisoners. Allowing
the point to be well taken the general opin-
ion prevails that it is very trivial mat
ter, and should not have been pressed.
That it was merely to gain time there is
not the slightest doubt. We are among
the many who do not believe counsel was
compelled or justified in the action. By
postponing the trial the county is put to
great expense and the cause of justice is
delayed, for there was every reason why
this trial should have been promptly
pressed. Nobody will for moment agree
that the fact that man was selected by
by having his first name spelled out,
would for single moment have affected
the evidence. The case was to have been
decided by the evidence, not by the spell
ing of jurors name. The matter could
easily have been settled by the prisoners
being advised to waive this technicality.
In the trial of Wesley Warner, it will be
remembered, the jurors visited the scene
of the murder and when the matter was
called to the attention of the court, coun-
sci were informed that the action was a
just cause for stopping the trial right
there, but Judge Hendrickson, who was
for the defence, stated he had no desire to
put the county to the expense of again
going over the ground already traversed,
and the prisoner waived all rights of ex-
ception. Yet that was graver error than
in the present case. The point has been
advanced that in the Warner trial the
same OBJ action to the panel of jurors was
offered as in the present instance. but that
is not correct. The objection then was
that the sheriff did not certify that the
list was correct. Hence, there was moth
ing to show such fact. We have no de-
sire to hound man on trial for his life,
nor do we believe that desperate charac-
tiers should be allowed to have chance of
escape on some fool piece of business that
has no weight. We readily agree to the
proposition that counsel should not sit
idly by and neglect the interests of their
clients, but we are not ready to agree that
counsel are to act solely for the interests
of client to the exclusion of the county 8
rights, especially when the fee for defend
ing the criminal is to come from the
county treasury. The action of Wednes-
day was merely for the purpose of delay.
On the point of working everything to the
advantage of the prisoner, we are of the
opinion that in this case there has been an
overstepping of the mark. The prisoner
had Il good chance of a fair trial. While
there was natural feeling of interest in
the matter, there was nothing like the
talk and indignation that is now being in
dulged in all over the county.
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CHERIFF's SALE.

GHERIFF'S SALE.
By virtue of writ OF fieri facias, to me di-
rected issued out of the Court of Chancery of
the state OF New Jersey, will sell at public
sale, on
THURSDAY, JULY 1S, 1901.
between the hours OF IL and O'Clock in the
afternoon OF SAID day (to-wit, at O'Clock, at
BENJAMIN w Zelley's hotel. in Mount Holly.
N. j.,
hereinafter particularly described. situate in
the town of Palmyra, in the county OF Bur-
lington, and state OF New Jersey. beginning
at a stone in the middle of the public road or
Main street and corner to land now or late OF
Howell Cathcart and runs thence ~ along
the line of SAID Cathcart's land north thirty
one degrees and fifty five minutes west three
chains and seventy-seven links to stone in
the line of now or late Souder's land; thence
(2) along said Souder's line north f1tty-eight
degrees and five minutes east forty eight
links to a stone corner TO land now or late of
Benjamin art; thence (3) along the line
OF said Benjamin Cathcart's land south
seventy-nine degrees east ninety-six and a
half links to stone corner to other land OF
the said Howell Cathcart; thence az along the
line of his said other land south thirty-one
chains and twelve links to stone in the
middle of the aforesaid Main street; thence
(5) along the middle thereof south ftty-eight
degrees and five minutes west eighty feet to
the place of beginning, containing forty three
hundredths OF an acre of land, be the same
more or less.
Being the same premises which Gardner A.
Sage and wife, by deed bearing date the
twenty-seYenth day of August, A. ID. 1888, of
record August Both, 1888, in the Clerks office
of Burlington county, at Mount Holly, in
Book U 10 of Deeds, folio 474, &C., granted and
conveyed unto Anna V. Blackburn in tee.
Seized as the property OF John W. Blakey,
defendant, taken in execution at the suit OF
Howard Parry, complainant and to be sold
by
8. A. ATKINSON, Sol'r. Sheriff.
Dated June 1s, 1901 PRS. adv. fee, So go.
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JAMAICA GINGER IN GEORGIA.
What a Merchant Found Out After II
Had Killed Four Men.

What a Merchant Found Out After 1t
Had Killed Four Men.
They were relating incidents that oc-
Cured in the blind tiger district. Said
the revenue officer:
"All of you know that in those dry
counties the topper who is deprived of his
dram will soon learn to drink anything
that is hot or fiery, from cologne to ia
maica ginger or pepper vinegar. Wen,
one of the most remarkable things OF this
kind that ever came under my obserya-
ton happened down here in one OF the
counties touched by the Southern rail
road Some time after the county went
dry a man yielded to the demands of the
frequenters of his general store and or
dered an extra supply Of the various hot
stuffs that ordinarily would have only
moderate sale. In the lot was case of
Jamaica ginger. The first to buy any of
this ginger was a couple of brothers who
had lust returned home from the state
university. In few hours after drinking
some of the stuff they were dead. With
out saying word to anybody, the mer-
chant carried the case of ginger to the at
tic and instructed the clerk never to sell
any Of it.
A few months after two brothers who
were in the turpentine business called at
the store and asked for Jamaica ginger.
The owner of the store was absent at the
time and the clerk, remembering the box
up stairs, finally, after much pleading on
the part Of the boys, told them that there
was some up stairs. but he couldn't sell
it. The young men proposed that they
would 20 m and get some of it, and then
he could tell his employer that he didn't
sell it. The clerk was finally persuaded
into this arrangement. In few hours
both young men were dead.
"When the owner of the store heard Of
the deaths and the action of the clerk, he
kent his own counsel He knew, but the
clerk did not, that the deaths of the two
sets of brothers were caused by that gin
ger.
"Quietly he went into an investigation.
He discovered after so long time that
the ginger was made by an up country
firm, who, in order to produce a cheap
grade of the SO called ginger, had used
wood alcohol in the preparation of it.
This wood alcohol being deadly poison,
death was sure to follow the drinking OF
it. The storekeeper was so miserable
over what had occurred, accusing himself
of being the cause of the deaths of the
four men, that he finally told a friend
about the whole transaction and then
drank a bottle of the ginger, the last of
the case, having destroyed all but one
bottle he had reserved for his own use.
It ended his Interpolation (Ga.) Tele-
graph
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.ECEIyER's SALE.

By virtue of an order issued out of the
Court OF Chancery of the state OF New Jer-
sey on the twenty-seventh day of May, A. d.
1901, in the suit between Harry l.. Campbell,
ct al, compIainants, and The John w. Taylor
Manufacturing Company, defendant. L will
sell at public sale,
ON THURSDAY, JULY IL, 1901,
between the hours of u and o'clock in the
afternoon OF said day Ito wit: at o'clockl, at
the premises on Church street, in Mount Hol-
ly, New Jersey,
All those certain tracts or parcels of land
ana premises situate on Church street, in the
town OF Mount Holly. in the county OF Bur
lfngton and state of New Jersey, of which the
said The John w. Taylor Manufacturing Com
pany became seized by virtue OF deed from
under the hands and seals OF Josephine j.
Risdon, surviving executrix Of Theodore Il.
Risdon, deceased, and others, dated the
twenty-eighth day of June, A. D. 1900, re-
corded in the clerks office of Burlington
county, ut Mount Holly, New Jersey, on the
ninth day of July, A. D. 1900, in Book No. BAG
of Deeds, folio 276, ETC.; also, all the tools,
machinery and fixtures, patents and all
other property of every description OF the
said The John w. Taylor Manufacturing
Company.
WALTER a. BARRows JOHN b. DAVIS,
and EoKARD P. BUDD, Receiver.
Solicitors.
Dated June 3. 1901. PRS adv. tee $740.l
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II don't see why you should persist in
asking me to lend you money" said the
man whose patience had sustained much.
II don't know you very well at BEST
my dear SIR" replied the person with
shabby genteel manners, you compel me
to be blunt where would fain have been
delicate. ! was merely DESTROYS of fur
Their and more favorable acquaintance.
Ben Franklin says that the way to win
mans friendship is not to do him ia
yor, but to let him do you one. Wash
In 0fon Cfor
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kKRCS
TELEpHoNB No. 6
TELEFHOEE NO
Fine GRADUATED Sugar 53lc.

TELEPHONE NO.
Fine GRADUATED Sugar SIC.
FIOur-Here are three good
ones: Red Rose, $50 per "a ).
P. K, Goo per "a, and Holly
CSC per a.
COffee-Lion and Arbuckle's
pounds for 25c.
MaCkerel- AS the season
for shad has closed your mind
reverts again to the old stand
by, Mackerel. We have some
elegant fat and white Norway
fish No. and No. 2 both at
the same price, sc per pound,
and some fancy Irish No. rs at
&c. each.
Uncle Jerry's Pancake
FlOnr-Ioc per package. Hot
pan cakes these cool mornings
are not amiss.
Frying TOmatOes-Ander-
sons Favorite brand. These
are too well known to need any
comment. We have only a few
of them left. nc per can.
New Orleans MOlaSSeS i'm
CanS-This is nice, clean way
to handle it. No spilling or
running over more than a
quart in can.
Buttermilk Soap, the only
cosmo, 8 cakes for CSC.
Mothers Gelatine is good
one and cheap. SC and Ioc
packages.
JellO. the new dessert, four
favors, Orange, Lemon, Straw
berry and Raspberry, Ioc per
package.
Fresh Meats-You can de-
pend on our meats being kept
in prime condition, as our re-
frigerator is one of the best
makes in the country.
Phil. Karg. q l, King u Street
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pURIlNeroN COUNTY ORPHANS


On the application of Samuel
A. Atkinson, administrator RuIe 70
with will annexed OF Marx r. W
Sooy. deceased, for sale OF land snow cause
to pay debts.
Samuel A. Atkinson, administrator, with
will annexed of Mark r. Sooy, deceased, haV-
Ing exhibited to this Court under oatn a Just
and true account OF the personal estate and
debts of said deceased, whereby 1t appears
that the personal estate, of said Mark e SoOy
is insufficient to pay his debts, and requested
the aid OF the Court in the premises; It is. on
this nineteenth day OF April, A. d. 1901, order
ed that all persons interested in the lands,
tenements, and real estate, of said Mark r.
Sooy, deceased, appear before the Court at the
Court House, in Mount Holly, on the Fifth day
of July, next. a ten O'Clock in the forenoon,
to show cause why so much of said lands, ten
ements. hereditamentS, and real estate OF the
said Mark r. Sooy, deceased, should not be
sold as Will be sufficient TO pay his debts, or
the residue thereon, as the case may require.
By the Court,
ELWOOD II. KIRKBRIDE,
8. A. ATKINSON, Proctor. Surrogate.
Dated April 10, A. d. 1901.
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CURIOUS CHRISTIAN NAMES.
Burdens Imposed Upon Children b,
the Caprice of Parents,

Burdens Imposed Upon Children By
the Caprice of Parents.
One of the most curious names ever be
slowed upon girl Is Airs and Graces
her name being registered at Somerset
House, London. in 1893, when she was
baptized. Her sisters name is equally
unusual-Nun Nicer. When Airs and
Graces and Nun Nicer arrive at the age
Of matrimony, at least one of them should
marry a youth whose Christian name
compares favorably-for example, Acts OF
the Apostles.
This Is name found on an English
parish register: Actsapostle. son of Thorn
as and Elizabeth Pegden, was baptized
Aug. 2. 1906. Again this name figures in
records in 1888, when Acts of the Apos-
ties, son Of Richard and Phebe Kenneth,
was baptized. This name, curious as 1t
is, is preferable to What and Dunn Spiro
Spero, names with which children have
been handicapped.
1t was a patriotic American who be-
slowed upon his young hopeful the name
of Declaration of Independence. A most
warlike name is Robert Alma Balaklava
Inkerman Sevastopol Delhi Dugdale,
who is an English innkeeper's son. A
similar name is Richard Coeur de Lion
Tyler Walter Hill.
About 100 years ago a. snowstorm in
western Pennsylvania set in about the
LIST Of March, and there were many weeks
Of sleighing, traditional for years for the
length Of time it lasted. What did Mr..
Smith do, who happened to have a boy
born about this time, but name him Seven
Weeks Sleighing In March. He usually
went by the name of Weeks. His initials
were all written outs. W. s. l. M.
Smith.
Parents of large families need no as
surance that the advent of another child
Is not always as welcome in fact as in
theory, but it is scarcely kind to make
the child bear token of disapproval all
its life. 1t must be rather unpleasant to
go through life, for example, as Not
Wanted James, What Another, Only
Fancy William Brown or even as Last
Of EN- Harper or Still Another Hewitt.
And yet these are all names which the
caprice of parents has imposed on limo
cent children.
An American lady spending some time
In Devonshire, England, met at an after
noon tea Mr. Pine Coffin, Mr.. Deith (pro-
nounced Death and Miss Graves.
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DURAND'S
70 and so Main Street.
Telephone No. 8.

housekeeping time is here and
the question is how can you do the
work thoroughly and as quickly
as possible, for we all know you
want to get through with it as soon
as you can. You can get anything
you need to do the work with right
here-from a broom to a bucket
and from soap to soda. When you
are through you are too tired to
cook for supper or dinner and then
the question arises, "What shall l
get to eat ?" Let me suggest few
things to you, and remember they
are all prepared at our own place
and are thoroughly sweet, clean
and palatable.
Air Dried This is our own curing and
Beef drying (no smoke at 3oc.
or SC. 4.
Boiled This also is boiled by us. The
Ham price is no more than you pay
for the Western Boiled Ham
and is great deal better. 25c. Id.
Cured Corn A very common article,
Beef you say, but try it. We
started only two weeks
ago to prepare it and already have
trouble to keep it on hand. 1t sells SO
rapidly. lbs. for 25c.
Lunch in cans, is fine article,
Tongue CSC.
Ported Ham We sell lots of these lit
and Tongue tie hams They are so
handy, Ioc
Veal Actually made from veal.
Loaf Only I5c
Ham Ready to put on your bread or
Loaf biscuit, 25c
A full line of Canned Fish al
ways on hand. All kinds of For
eign and Domestic Cheese, Pickles,
Sauces and Chow Chow. A large
ALWAYS kent in stock. at
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A N oRD1NANoE

IA
Prescribing q penalty for the violation OF
any ordinance, or any section thereof, made
by the Township Committee of Pemberton
township, county of Burlington and state OF
New Jersey
Be it enacted, by the Township Committee
of PemDertOn township, county of Burling-
ton and state of New Jersey:
Section /. That any person or persons VIC
lating any ordinance of the township above
mentioned, or any section thereof, shall be
punishable by fine of not exceeding one
hundred dollars or by imprisonment in the
township lookup or county jail for not ex-
ceeding ninety days and until costs are paid,
or by both fine and imprisonment, as herein
after mentioned, and that the Justice before
whom the proceeding shall be instituted shall
determine whether the penalty shall be by
fine or by imprisonment, and the term there
OF within the limits above prescribed, and that
the Justice may also fix the amount of the
fine and commit the defendant to the town
ship lookup or county jail, until the fine be
paid with costs, or until he be otherwise dis
charged according to law.
Section 2. And be it enacted, that this or
dinance shall take effect on this 10Th day OF
June, A. d. 1901.
T. G. SHREVE,
Chairman Township Committee.
Attest: M. WARNER HARGRovE,
Township Clerk.
/ hereby certify that the foregoing is a true
copy of an ordinance now on file.
M. WARNER HARGRoVE
June s, 1901. Township Clerk.
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Kent His Money Dark.

Little Ben Ito gentleman caller)-You
amt black, are your
Mr.. Moony-Black, child? Why, no:
should hope not. What made you think
] was?
were awfuIly niggardIy Fun.
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BY virtue of writ OF feri faelas, to me di.
rected, issued out of the Court OF Chancery OF
the state OF New jersey will sell at public
sale, on
THURSDAY, JULY 1S, 1901,
between the hours of II and O'Clock in the
afternoon OF said day (tO-wit at o'clock, at
BENJAMIN w. Zelley's hotel, In Mount Holly.
Nj,
All that certain tract or parcel OF land and
premises, situate at Riverton, in the county
of Burlington and state OF New Jersey,
bounded ana described as follows:
Beginning in the westerly line of Thomas
avenue, at the northeast corner of lot num-
Der 1859 thence northwestwardly along the
westerly line of Thomas avenue one hundred
of lot number l56; thence southwest
wardly of that frontage between parallel
lines at right angles to said Thomas avenue,
forty feet to the building line; thence on in
the same direction one hundred and twenty
five feet more to the rear or the easterly line
of lots numbers l72 and l73, containing with
in said bounds lots numbers one hundred
and fifty-seven Q5D and one hundred and
f1fty-eight (l5S) on Thomas extension OF Riv-
erton.
Being the same two lots that Philip A.
Dorch, ct ux., granted and conveyed to Sophie
G. Sutton, by deed dated May %, A. D. 1887
of record in the clerks Office of Burlington
county, in Book II of Deeds, page 1877. &c.
Seized as the property of George q. Sutton,
ct AL, defendants, taken in execution at the
suit OF Elias r. Carey, complainant, ana to be
sold by CHARLES K. FENTUN,
MARTIN V. BERGEN, Sol'r. Sheriff.
Dated June IA, 1901. TPrs. adv. fee, $500.
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A Compliment.

II understand that one Of your ances-
tors was horse thief" said Billings to
Ricketts,.
HE was. Glad you mentioned 1t. 1
egard that as a compliment
"How's that?"
ut is an acknowledgment that have
improved on my ancestors. Detroit
Free Press.
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IN cHANoERY OF NEW JERSEY i.
To REBEooA r. STINERUcK, JOHN A. RIoHARI
SON AND LILLE s. RICHARDSON.

SON AND LILLE s. RICHARDSON.
By virtue of an order of the Court of Chan
Gerry OF New Jersey, made on the day of the
date hereof in a cause wherein Lydia Ann
Lamb, administrators, ETC., of samuel N
Sharp, deceased, is complainant, aud you and
others are defendants, you are required to ap-
pear, and plead, demur or answer to the COM
plainants bill on or before the third day Of
July, next, or the said bill will be taken as
confessed against you.
The said bill is fled to foreclose a mortgage
given by Richard s Braddock and wife TO the
SAID Samuel N. Sharp in his lifetime, dated
the twenty-fourth of May, eighteen hundred
and seventy-eight, on lands in the village OF
Medford, Burlington county, New Jersey,
and you, the said Rebecea Il. Stineruck j. Ohm
A. Richardson and Lille S. Richardson, are
made defendants, because you are tenants in
common with others in the ownership of said
lands.
CHAS. EVAN MERRITT.
solicitor of Complainant,
2. o. Address, p High street.
Mount Holly, New Jersey.
Dated May l, A. d. 1901.