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The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1902-01-28

ests. for the government expects him
to have none but the governments
own
However, Terri had been obliged to
take case No. 2252C, and he had con-
tented himself with writing rather
striking and lengthy note to Miss
Deane and ordering a box Of violets to
be sent with It
Therefore here he was the next day
In Battletown In no patient mood with
the obstreperous southern hot heads.
He was greeted by babel of voices.
We've driven that niger out Of the
slater
The assistants in charge nowv
'The nigger's afraid to come backp
"What are you going to do about It'll"
Tefr1 stood unmoved.
"One moment, gentlemen" he said
quietly. 81 can't listen to you all at
once. Besides, there are too many
young fellows here. Suppose some Of
you older men come with me into the
next room Then we can discuss this
matter calmly and" smiling, with
less noise"
That's reasonable" said young
John. And forthwith old John Sylves-
ter and four others, fathers In the COM
munity, retired with the inspector. to
convince him that there was but one
thing to do--to appoint a white man
in the negro's place.
as there anything against the black
mans characterY' asked Terril.
I'VE don't concern ourselves with
the character of niggers." answered
Sylvester majestically. "Jones is a mig
ger. and that in itself is enough
against him."
Terril, who saw that he might as
well have talked to the younger men,
said but little until he had heard all
sides of the question. When he re-
turned to the main room and noted
the determined faces before him. he
made his decision promptly. but pri-
vately.
1T win teach them a lesson" he
thought to himself. land, besides,
want to get back to Washington"
"Gentlemen." he said aloud, ''this
matter cannot be decided at once.
shall have to explain the situation at
headquarters. In the meantime my
instructions are to remove your post
Office to the county seat"
There was look of dismay on the
faces of his hearers.
But Wen have to go eight miles for
our mail" said one man.
How long will 1t be before we have
our own Office back?" asked another.
"Oh, it may not take long to decide"
said Terril smoothly. Before they had
finished talking about it he had gath
cred up the money orders, stamps and
other government property, dismissed
the assistant and was on his way to
the county seat At the postoffice
there he deposited the effects. with the
necessary instructions, telegraphed the
railway service not to put off any
mail at Battletown and then fretted
and fumed at the twelve hour wait
until he could take the train to Wash
ington. En- route he drafted his re-
port and wound up with, I'm view Of
the foregoing facts and circumstances
! have the honor to recommend that
the postof1ce at Battletown be discon-
hnued for an indefinite period. d.
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origin of the Sandwich.

During the administration of Lord
Sandwich that nobleman was at a
gambling house "a very usual thing
with hIm), and In the fascination Of
play had forgotten fatigue and hunger
for more than fve-and-twenty hours.
Suddenly feeling faint, though still riv-
eted to the table, he called for anything
that was to be had to eat. The only
available food proved to be piece of
beef and two slices Of bread. Clapping
them together for the sake Of expedi-
ency he devoured them ravenously.
The news of his discovery soon spread,
and waggish papers. giving the newly
Invented morsel his name, bequeathed
1t to his country as one Of the most
fmportants acts of his administration
Washington Times.
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Ffnaing His Bride.

In one part of the canton of Tcfne.
In Switzerland, very quaint marriage
ceremony prevails. The bridegroom
dresses in his Sunday best" and, ac-
companied by as many friends and rel
atives as he can muster for the fete,
goes to claim his bride.
Finding the door locked, he demands
admittance, the inmates ask him his
business, and in reply he solicits the
hand of his chosen maiden.
If his answer be deemed satisfactory,
no Is successfully introduced to num-
Der Of matrons and maids, some per-
haps deformed and others old and ugly.
Then he is presented to some large
dolls, all of which he rejects with
scorn, amid general merriment. The
bewildered bridegroom, whose impetu-
osity and temper are now sorely tried,
is then informed that bis ladylove is
absent and invited In to see for him
self.
He rushes into the house and search
es from room to room until he finds her
in her bridal dress, ready to go to
church. Then are his troubles over
and his state as Benedict assured.
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Several young men in our smartest
set were asked by an inquisitive genius
how they managed to get in high socie-
ty. 81 danced my way H." said one,
who frequently leads cotillon. Anoth-
er said: 81 was too ungraceful for that.
But had serious way with me, and
got into the sacred circle by means Of
the Sunday school. l taught Bible
class, made acquaintance Of the best
young men, met their mothers, fathers
and finally their sisters" A third: 81
got in by being a stranger In New
York. While on a hunting expedition
In the west was able, through hap
py circumstance, to be of assistance to
very prominent leader Of New York
society. In gratitude, suppose, be ex-
acted promise that would visit him
II ever came east. came, called, l
conquered. He dined me at his club,
then at his home, where met his fam
lily. His daughter is now my wife. -
New York Press.
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HIS ENGLISH FRIEND.
A Visit what Wrecked the Nerves

A Visit what Wrecked the Nerves of
an American Host.
"Tve been having the time of my life,
I tell you," said the suburbanite gloom
lily to his city friend at lunch.
'sWhat's. the matter? Pipes burst?
Furnace won't work? Dog killing the
neighbors' chickensY' asked the friend.
alphabetically running through the
list Of the suburbanite's usual griev.
ances.
"No; worse than that" sadly answer
ed the first speaker. 1--WE been hav-
ing an English friend visit me. It's
years since I've been across the water,
so one or two of his ways were little
strange. The worst of his doings was
what has broken me up so. He went
to bed the first night before the rest of
rs, and when came along the corridor
an hour or so later there were his
shoes standing outside his door and
frightfully muddy too.
81 looked at them In establishment.
Then l remembered the English Gus
tom of having the boy come up for
the boots. We keep only two servants,
you know, both women, and Of course
in the country you have to rub them
the right way or they'll leave. knew
perfectly well that If / told either Of
those free and independent Irish wo-
men to clean the Englishman's shoes
we'd be left servantless, and that
would have been the death of my
wife.
II lifted the shoes gingerly by two
fingers and carried them to my room.
When I thought the servants must be
asleep, / crept down stairs and got to
work with brush. At every sound
would nearly jump out of my own
boots and drop his. fancied every
moment that the girls would see my
candle and give the alarm of burglars
or that my friend would be taken i'll
and get up and find me brushing his
shoes. Oh, had pretty time of It'll
He stayed a week, that Englishman,
and what with loss of sleep and over
strained nerves I'm wreck"
'sWell, why on earth didn't you have
the moral courage to-
"Moral couragel I'd like to see the
man who'd have the moral courage to
tell an English gentleman with mono
Gle that the ways of even well bred
people in this country differ from those
he's been accustomed tol Ny friend,
you do not know the breedr' And be
drowned his sorrows and braced bis
nerves with second cup Of unsur-
passed coffee.-New York Tribune.
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The first iron ship has more reputed
l5irthplaces than Homer. Both the
Clyde and the Mersey claim pre-emi-
laence in this respect. Sir q. ]. Robi-
ion of Edinburgh designed an iron yes
lsel in 1916, which was not launched
Till three years later, and it is said
that an iron boat was worked on the
Severn even as far back as 1887. Steel
twas not used in the construction OF
merchant ships hulls until 1852 Old
l,alts were not alone in their belief that
wood was meant by Providence to
iloat, but iron to go to the bottom. A
naval constructor Of some repute once
said: "Don't talk to me Of iron ships.
They are contrary to nature" Now
none but small craft are built of wood
in this country.-Chambe Journal
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Mirror. of the I.rae1ite..

The earliest mirrors of which men
ton is made in history were in use
among the Israeiites In the time of
Moses. That gentleman, as recorded
In the Bible, commanded in certain
emergency that these articles should
be transformed into wash basins for
the priests. They were made of brass.
Doubtless similar utensils of this and
other materials were in use long before
that. At that same period black glass
was employed for the purpose, as well
as transparent glass with black foil on
the back. 1t is related that the Span
iards found mirrors Of polished black
stone, both convex and concave, among
the natives of South America.
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she Soon Altered It.

Many young ladies have found 1t
necessary to improve. or rather to alter,
the spelling Of the names with which
they were originally blessed. Mabel
becomes Mabelle, Jessie becomes Jes-
sica, Mary becomes Marie and so
forth. A brother lately received let
ter from his young sister at fashion.
able boarding school. 1t was signed
Jessica. He answered.:
Dear Sister Jessica-Your welcome let
ter received. Papaica and mammaica are
well Aunt Maryca and Uncle Georgia.
started for Glasgowica yesterday. 1 have
bought new horse. You ought to see
it. 1t is a beauty. Its name is Maudica-
Your affectionate brother, SAMICA
The sisters next letter was signed
UTocsio0
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NATURAL HISTORY.

Thoroughbred dogs are less intelli-
gent than mongrels.
A full grown elephant can carry
three tons on it's back.
The horse has no eyebrows.
There are $500 muscles in the body
of moth.
The Dorking fowl is the only living
bird which In Its adult condition pos
sesses five toed foot.
The largest bird of prey in the old
world is the lammergeier, or bearded
vulture, which has a wing expanse of
nine to ten feet
Comparatively few horses attain to
seventeen hands, but Kansas boasts of
one that measures twenty hands and
weighs 2,412 pounds.
Wasps may often be observed de-
taching from fences, boards or any old
wood the fibers, which they afterward
manufacture into papier mache.
The smallest of British animals is
the harvest mouse. which makes a
globular nest In wheatfields. A full
grown specimen weighs half an ounce.
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DO YOU KNOW

how fascinating English history really That England during
the thousand years. has given literature heroes and
heron than all the the world and ages What know
OF the private personal lives of her queens well being
stately overeigns with of love and hate living papta
ting women?
Do know of that king and who stood bareood and
call naked from their waists upwards in the hall of Wesmn
what plumbers dog licked the blood of king? why
Henry VII hanged his four English mafs traitors? Or what
king pooged for taking long die? Or why Marlborough and
his duchess disgraced?
Do you know the story of Thomas Beckett and the Emrs
daughter? Of fair Rosamond Cods bower in the labyrinth
Woodstock the eale sken thread Hen golden that
becoming Of Richard II and the fatal of
Vdomar Of the dreadful warning that hung the bed of
bella Angou1eme? Of the who discovered London
disguised a cook-maid?
Do you how the fact that the Duchess Marlborough
putting by mistake the queens gloves changed Voae says
the dene of Europe? Or why the great Elizabeth and her prime
minister had deal secretly with Catherine de Medc talors Or
what that which passed between MAN Boeyn and King Hal be-
meath the yewtree the clustered shade of Sopewe nunnery,
meant Wolsey?
Those who interested specimen pages of
that will show how English history be had quite different
from that presented by Hume Rapin Macaulay Guzo
or Hallam, Froude
REQUEST
GEORGE BARRIE g. SON. Publishers
1915 Walnut Street. philadelphia
AGENTS wANrED-I1BERA1 COMMISSION
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Constantinople Beggars' Feast Day.
One day in the year Constantinople
is free from the beggar nuisance-on
Nov. %. This is the festival Of st.
John the Almsgiver, the patron saint
OF the mendicant profession. No beg
gar of the Greek faith Is on his or her
beat that day. In the forenoon all, or
nearly all, Orthodox mendicants at
tend special service in the church Of
st. Constantine, at which an archbish-
op officiates. 1t is arranged by their
corporation, for they are organized into
a guild like any other trade. The
church, spacious as it is, is none too
large for the numerous congregation
Of cadgers, many Of whom In their
holiday garb look like respectable citi-
zens. The rest Of the day is spent in
festivities, which are apt to extend so
far into the night that many Of the
jewellers are unable to attend to bust
ness on the morrow.
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The popular view Of the relation of the
blood to human character and conduct is
marked in many familiar expression.
We speak of there being bad blood" be-
tween people at enmity, Of "blue blood"
as indicating ancestry, of black blood" as
describing treacherous nature, and In
many another phrase mark our belief that
in Elemental, moral and physical man,
''the blood is the life'' The one basis of
healthful, happy and useful life is pure
blood. With the blood pure. disease has
no permanent lodging place in the system
For this reason the use of Dr. Pierce's
Golden Medical Discovery rids the body
of diseases which have their origin in i'm
purity of the blood. 1t absolutely purifes
the blood, carrying off the waste and
poisonous matter, increasing the action of
the blood making glands, and building up
the body by supplying the blood in
quantity and quality such as is essential
to condition of health 1t cures ninety
eight people out of every hundred who
give it fair trial.
ALI who use Atomizers in treating nasal
catarrh will get the best result from Ely's
Liquid Cream Balm. Price, including
spraying tube, rs cts. Sold by druggists
or mailed by Ely Bros, 56 Warren Street,
N. Y.
New Orleans, Sept. l, 1900.
Messrs. ELY Bios. II sold two bottles
of your Liquid Cream Balm to customer,
VIM Lamberton, 1415 Delachaise ST., New
Orleans; he has used used the two bottles,
giving him wonderful and most satisfac-
tory results.
GEO. w. .MoDUFF, Pharmacist
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OF certain Scottish professor the fol-
lowing story is told: Among his students
was a young man from the highlands
who, before he left his country home,
had taken to himself helpmeet for life.
One morning he entered the college class
room rather late, and the professor asked
him the cause Of his unwonted unpunctu-
atty. Bashfully the young man explain
ed that that morning his wife had given
birth to a son and heir.
''Oh, in that case it's all right!' said
the teacher making the usual stereotyped
reply. "Only see it does not happen
again."-London Answers.
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What the Trume I..

The ancient Romans. at whose sump-
tuous banquets truffies played an inn
portant role, supposed that their ex-
istence was one of the material results
of thunder. More modern botanists
have classed it as a species Of mush-
room, but it can scarcely be termed
such. To be exact, the truf1e is a tu-
berculous fungus, sort Of morbid ex-
travasation of vegetable sugars anal
ogous to oak balls or nutgalls and
doubtless originating, as these latter,
from the sting of an insect.
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There is a famous echo on the Rhine
between Coblentz and Bingen which
repeats word seventeen times, while
in the sepulcher of Metella, the wife
of Sulla, in the Roman Campagna, there
is an echo which repeats five times in
different keys and will also give back
with dlstinctness a hexameter line
which requires two and half seconds
to utter. Brewster mentions an echo
on the north side of Shipley church, in
Sussex. England, which repeats TWEEN
ty-one syllables.
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nu.b.nd., Motto . BLDG verne.

The Husbands Protection society of
London has as it's motto the naive
verse found in what is known as the
Wife Beater's Bible, published in 1549,
copies Of which may be found in many
museums and libraries. This verse is
as follows:
HE dwelleth wyth his WYE accord
inge to his knowledge and taketh her
as necessarye healper and not as a
bonde servant or bonde slave. And
II she be not obedient and helpful to
hymn he endeavoureth to beate the fear
of God into her heade that thereby she
maye be compelled to learne her dutie
and to do it."-London News.
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The change of thought and condi-
lions of mankind Is no better illus
trated than by the history of the rod.
In an article on the morals of the
child by DR.. Grace Peckham Murray
there is mention made of a Suabian
schoolmaster who during his ffty-one
years Of superintendent of a large
school had given 911.5OO canings, 121,
600 fioggings, 100000 custodes. 1885,
600 tips with the ruler, 10000 boxes on
the ear and 22,700 tasks by the heart
Delineator.
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Ii Hung Chang had beyond all doubt
I'm iron will and very unsentimental
heart Once when he was viceroy Of
Chill a man who had tempered with q
telegraph wire was brought before
him. The man wrung his hands and
begged for mercy, saying that he would
never touch the wire again
'sDon't be vexed, my good fellow,
said Ii, ''or trouble yourself any fur
l.her about the matter. shall take care
that 1t does not happen again"
Then he turned to the jailers and
gave the order. "Cut of his headg'
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Whom did you discuss at your liter
airy club this afternoon, dear7" asked
the husband In the evening.
LET me see," murmured his wife.
"Oh, yes, ] remember nowl Why, we
discussed that woman who recently
moved into the house across the street
from us and Longfellow."-Ohio State
Trrrr,oI
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A man made volcano exists in Bel
GUM. which has been burning con-
tinuously for nearly 100 years and
emits vast columns Of black smoke,
rendering the neighboring country bar
rem, baked and utterly Improbable.
At Brule, France, Is even the most
remarkable volcano made by man.
Originally it was mass Of coal. mil
lions of tons. One day about a century
ago the coal caught fire, and it has
never ceased burning. The summit of
the smouldering mass has genuine
crafnr
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''You know" she said, 81 am not
much Of conversationalist"
This seemed to him the opportunity
for which he had been waiting.
well" he returned, IF do the pre-
hminary talking your conversational
ability will be sufficient to enable you
to say Yes won't itY'
After all, in courtship there is moth
ing like getting your answer before you
ask the question.
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Extreme. Meet.

Peter Cunningham was telling one
evening where he had been dining and
what he got. I'VE had thing never
saw before-a soup made of calves
tails"
Extremes meet" was the remark
Of Douglas Jerrold. at that time the
prince Of wits In England.
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"You are an iceberg!' exclaimed her
elderly but well preserved adorer, pale
with anger and modification. "a dozen
Cupids. with hundred arrows each,
could never find vulnerable place In
your fiinty hearth
( '4Not If they used an old beau to
shoot WITH" coldly replied the beauti-
ful girl.
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A capital pun may arise by pure ac-
cident, as recorded in Buckles Book
of Table Talk"
"a Mr.. Alexander Gun was dismiss
ed from post in the customs of Edin-
burgh for circulating some false ru-
NOR. The dismissal is said to have
been thus noted in the customs book at
the time, "a. Gun discharged for MAX
ing false report"
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Among the famous bells of Dews-
burg, Yorkshire. England, is one known
as ''Black Tom of Soothill." which was
presented to the church in expiation of
% murder. .Black Tom" is always rung
on Christmas eve. Its solemn tolling as
1t strikes the first tap at exactly mid
night IL known ali over Yorkshire as
the '-devil's knell, " it being the notion
that when Christ was born the devil
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A cross between headless cabbage
and the turnip produced the rape plant.
Cabbage and turnips themselves are
relatives; the lettuce plant also claims
near kin to them, and far back in plant
life grew parent plant with some Of
the characteristics that each now
claims as Its own, from which all
three. and many anotb- .lant also,
descended.
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During football game at Cambridge
between the Harvard eleven and the
Carlisle Indian school team Malcolm
Donald was playing opposite splen-
didly built Indian. The play was ex-
ceedingly rough, and Donald had in
the course Of the play landed some
pretty hard elbow blows on the slower
moving Indian
Presently the Indian began to take
notice of the punishment he was re-
ceiving and during a pause between
plays walked slowly over to Donald
and said with certain note Of remon-
STRANGE in his voice:
'You hit me three times. think l
shall have to hit you"
Donald thanked him for his courte-
GUS warning and resolved to be on his
guard, but during the heat Of the play
he wholly forgot the little matter.
Presently, at the end of scrimmage,
while Donald was standing watching
the crowd, the Indian strobe up to
him and deliberately dealt him blow
over the head which stretched him
out.
With difficulty Donald picked himself
up and resumed the play. At the end
Of the game the Indian came up to him
again and said rather apologetically.
II hit you"
$50 l noticed" said Donald, rubbing
his head ruefully.
"Well, 1 guess we are square now.
Ehakep'
And the Indian stretched out a
brawny fist.
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Goldsmith. it appears, is married
and has gone to housekeeping"
mot at all. What made you think
so?"
"He's been writing so many jokes
about servant girls lately he must
have had some experience with them"
''Nonsensei If he'd had such expe-
rience, he wouldn't joke about it"
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The following epitaph is found on q
tombstone in an old cemetery in Yer
mont:
In silence his body must molder to dust
TIL deaths iron bondage his spirit shall
bust;
Then in heavens bright regions with
seraphs divine
Tho untimely lost Frederick forever win