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The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1902-01-27
Ambrose Fleming Given Medal
for His Bravery.

A medal was presented last night to
Ambrose Fleming Of ST. Jean Baptiste
plat, Attleboro, for gallantry in saving
two lives last September. The ceremony
took place at an important meeting Of the
81. Jean Baptiste Improvement society,
held to start an agitation IN favor Of ru-
raj free delivery for their neighborhood.
Percy A. Randall made the prcsenta tion.
The medal was secured through Mr. Ran
dails efforts from the Massachusetts HUI
name society. The medal IS a very hand
some one II has bar OF bronze. from
which hangs pendent disk OF bronze an
inch and a quarter In diameter. on tho
diverse Is the coat Of arms and crest OF
the Humane society. and on the reverse
wreath OF laurel aud the inscription,
Presented 90 Ambrose Fleming for gal
lsutry in saving life. Sept. p. 1901"
The rescue for which the medal was
given took place In Carpenter pond which
forms the eastern boundary of the plat
ON sept z two boys aged and IT, the
youngest members OF "A family named
Paige living in pswtucket We're playing
on the shore " the pond. A light timber
raft was moorcd to the bank. and they
pushed Oft from shore on the frail craft
They were 81 feet from land and over
water between eight and ten feet deep
when their movements capsized the raft
and they were thrown into the water
Neither could swim. and the raft slipped
beyond their reach. on the railroad en-
bankment az the south end ~ the pond
Mr. Fleming was passing
Rushing down the enbankment and
without divcstlng himself ~ = single gar
ment. ne leaped into the water and saved
both boys.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1902-01-27
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ERATED OPERAIIC BARIrONL,
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no. assisted by company OF four Will present
SINGER" -
Book by willard Holcomb. Music BY Julian Edwards
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1902-09-09

Few animals seem more impassive
than the tortoise, but those who have
ever watched its movements know that
the creature is really very sensitive.
A few drops of rain will send it home
with all speed. Even the distant ap-
proach of shower makes it uneasy.
Hence Gilbert White remarked that his
tortoise showed 'as much solicitude
about the rain as a lady dressed in all
her best attire"
The bright light of the sun seems
especially grateful to tortoises. They
rarely stir out at night, and the ap-
proach of winter drives them into their
retreats. This physical sensitiveness
shows their temperament to be less
sluggish than is commonly supposed
The animal also learns to recognize
persons and remembers those who feed
it. instantly distinguishing them from
strangers.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1902-09-09
A Cats Love For a Donkey.

In the bowels of the earth, says a
correspondent. l was a witness to one
of the most pathetic friendships that
ever existed between animals. In this
certain mine there was cat which had
lived In the underground stables for a
great number of years. 1t was always
to be found in the stall belonging to
an old donkey when the animal was
resting from It's labors and would very
often accompany the donkey In it's
working journeys mile underground.
One day. owing to the carelessness
of its driver in unloading it, the poor
little animal suffered a severe strain
and was unable after to do its daily
work. For nearly a couple of weeks
the donkey lay in agony in its stable,
and during that time the cat scarcely
ever left it's friend Sometimes the
lads would drive it away, but it would
stealthily steal back again, and when
the donkey died as a result of its in
juries the cat began to howl pitifully
and would not be comforted.
But the climax came when they
were taking the donkey's carcass to
the surface The cat began to scratch
and fly at the men who were removing
it to such an extent that it had to be
killed.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1902-09-09

ing up the street, and the roof was ~
ing ON the floor of the first story. In
the cells of the basement We're twenty
eight prisoners, all of whom escaped
harm. On the two floors We're thirty
police officials, including the chief, and
not one of them escaped death. 1t was
a day and night before the debris was
removed and the bodies We're recovered
and another day before an investiga-
ton was begun. During this interval
l heard nothing whatever from Grod-
no. After day had gone by made
up my mind that he was among the
killed. 1t came to me that he was not
carrying the package when he left the
building, and l figured that he had re-
turned for it and had been made
victim with the others. | got a look
at every body taken out, but his was
not among them.
1t was only when a public inyestiga-
ton had begun and the newspapers
were talking about nihilists and ex-
plosives that l suddenly caught my
breath. In less than an hour l was
speeding out of Cracow by train, and
1t was not until was beyond the linn
its of Austria that l dared try to think
it out. Grodno had come to Cracow to
do exactly as he had done. He owed
the police a grudge, and he left that
package to blow up the building.
Whether it was exploded by clockwork
or by some one seeking to open it
could not be told, but it certainly
caused the disaster, and he had made
good his escape before it happened.
learned that the investigation threw no
light on the matte. except that some
explosive had beol used, and it was
not even laid to nihilists. could have
told story; but, innocent as l was of
any completely, it would have resulted
in my death on the gallows.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1902-09-09
How to- Rnsk ProperIr.

'Basking in the sun" is in itself of
real and considerable benefit, and it
is no compliment to our human intel
ligence to find that cats and dogs I'M
derstand that fact better than we do.
The love of sunshine is naturally one
of our strongest instincts, and we
should be far healthier and happier if
we followed and developed it instead
Of practically ignoring and repress-
ing it.
How sparkling sunny morning ex-
hilarates us and makes us feel that
tits too fine day to spend indoors"
and yet how few holidays are taken
for that reason! The wealth Of the
sunbeams is poured out lavishly all
around US, and we turn from it to
struggle for few pitiful handfuls Of
something else that is yellow and
shining, but not half so likely to
bring us happiness, and often has
strange, red spots upon it. Give ma
ture chance. and we will find that
there is more than d mere fanciful
connection between natural sunlight
and that sunny" disposition which,
after all, is the true philosophers
stone "-Exchange
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1902-09-09
A knight. way of Marrying.

Of all the matrimonial trafficking-
in the age of chivalry-the ways of
widows are at once the boldest and
most comprehensive. AS a rule their
methods seldom resort to blandish-
ment; it is remarkable when tender
ness is an item in their bargain Speed
was their maxim; it was one King
John honored, for he profited by it.
Yet one of the rarest exceptions in
the way of delicacy to these CONNER
cial negotiations has evidently been
prompted by widow who had quite
an exceptional lover In 1906 William
de Landa-either one of the most IA
nous of the crusaders or his son-offers
80 marks and palfrey for having
to wife Joan. who was the wife of
Thomas de Aresey, ''if he may be
pleasing to the said JOAN" the sheriff
is instructed to ascertain the widows
wishes, ''and if the said Joan shall
be pleased to have him for a husband
then the sheriff shall cause William
to have seizin of Joan and her land"
both of which he obtained in the name
of gentle love and the faith of a true
soldier. 1t is fitting that the name
of one of the men who led the assault
of Acre should be preserved in such a
record as the above. He was in truth
a very perfect knight.-GentlemGn
Magazine.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1902-09-09
HOLES IN THE AIR.
Invisible Pitfalls with which Air
ships May Have to Contend,

ships May Have to Contend.
Some very terrible accidents may be
expected to befall aerial navigators
should airships ever become sufficient
ly perfected to make this species of
travel at all common owing to the fact
well known to all aeronauts, that there
exist in the earth's atmosphere at GER
tain places and under certain condi
tons veritable holes or pits of vast
depth. An airship sailing unwittingly
into one of these aerial craters would
sink with far more certainty and far
greater swiftness than would a leaden
ship of the same size and shape in an
ocean of water
Accidents of this nature have actu.
ally happened to aeronauts in the past,
but of course the ordinary balloon is
not nearly so much affected by the
sudden descent as an airship would be-
Nevertheless. an experience of the kind
is sufficiently disconcerting even to the
stoutest hearts and strongest nerves.
NJ. Tissandier, ballooning with two
friends above the town of Vincennes.
some years ago, happened on one of
these invisible air holes, which proved
to be over a mile in depth, the balloon
falling that distance with such in
credible rapidity that the earth ap-
peared to be rushing up to meet them
with the speed of an express train. and
the bags of ballast thrown out by the
alarmed travellers fell not downward.
as might have been expected. but up
ward. Luckily denser stratum of air,
answering to the bottom of the pit in
question, was encountered when they
were a few hundred feet from the
ground, and the downward rush of the
balloon was checked as if by contact
with pneumatic cushion.-Pe Parsons
Weekly.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1902-09-09
AN AUTHORS WORKSHOP.
The Place Where Bulwer-LyttOn
Could Write at Ease.

ne EAaCC w mere nulWeE-LytIOm
Could Write at Ease.
When Charles Mackay was visiting
Lord LyttOn at Knebworth, he was i'm
pressed he says in his "Recollections,
with the beauty of the library He re-
marked to the novelist that in such a
cheerful room among so many books
any author could get through a vast
amount of labor.
Il cannot write so well in the IL
brary," replied Lord Lytton, ''as in an
other place. Take stroll with me, and
| will show you my favorite study"
They went for a considerable dis
lance to the shore of an artificial lake
in Knebworth park, and there stood
boathouse. A small boat was drawn
up on one side of it, and on the other,
near a small window, stood a chair
and a common deal table, on which
was pewter inkstand.
Pulling open the drawer, Lord Lytton
showed his guest good supply of pa
per, pens and blotting book.
Il can write more freely here" he
said, than in the grand library. | will
tell you how the habit grew. When |
was small boy. was very ambitious
to write and wrote an immense amount
of trash. My mother thought that the
occupation of so much time in writing
would be injurious to my health and
prohibited my writing in the library.
81 then had recourse to my bedroom,
but was in dl1e time haniShad from
that and deprived Of pen and ink. The
more imperatively l was forbidden to
write the more INDUCED in the pro-
hibited joy. l took refuge In the boat
house and wrote for hours with lead
pencil. using the seat Of the boat for
my writing table. So learned to write
here, and | can do better work here
than anywhere else Youths Com
paniOn.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1902-09-09
A Sudden Marriage.

'Let me tell you" says a Missouri
correspondent Of the Kansas City
Journal, about a marriage that hap
pened in Saline county in 1856. The
ceremony was performed by Elder Nc
Garvey. The groom was man named
Johnson forget his first name-and,
being mighty nervous about the ap-
preaching ceremony, he went to Nc
Garvey and requested that he make 1t
as short as possible and received the
minister's assurance that he would do
SO. Mr.. Johnson never forgot that
night as he marched down with his
bride on his arm and was met by the
minister at the foot of the stairs. AS
soon as they reached the bottom step
McGarvey stretched out his hands and
said, You're married. The suddenness
of it took the groom's breath away,
and he turned to his best man and
shouted. Henry, am | marriedY This
marriage ceremony didn't take over
ten seconds"
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1902-09-09
Change of work.

Change of work is often real rest"
says writer in Ainslee's. EVERY one
ought to have an avocation as well as
vocation and cultivate an amateur
interest in some form of exercise. game
or culture very remote from his line
OF breadwinning activity. Perhaps no
tire Is so acute as that which is very
partial and involves certain muscles.
movements and brain centers, leaving
others perhaps overrested. BY exercis-
ing the latter and, as it were, equaliz-
Ing the area of fatigue or making it
more symmetrically distributed many
of the best effects of rest are secured.
Many Of even the diseases of exhaus-
ton are because energy of one part
or our psycho-physic organism is over
drawn while that of other parts is
overrested. This may make even sleep
partial and haunted by the specters of
the night. Every one who works with
his muscles should carefully reserve
some fraction of the day for reading
and intellectual work. We are prone
to forget that this is just as important
as for literary men to take exercise.
1t is really amazing what one can do
with only fragment of day and of
their total strength if it is systemat
ically used in one direction. Those
who seek recreation in mere amuse-
ments of a frivolous nature are vast
Ing precious time and capacity"
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1902-09-09

Happiness is. we maintain, a good
end. The only question is, How much
sacrifice is it worth? Well, certainly
not the sacrifice of sincerity and GER
tainly not the sacrifice of others. but
surely the sacrifice of the habit of men
tai laziness. which is only self sacri-
flee. If by little trouble we can Gre
ate for ourselves a sweet atmosphere
in which to live, we are surely doing
nothing of which we need be ashamed
After all. no one breathes his own at
mosphere alone; others breathe it with
him. If happiness is despicable OBJ
ject, let us face the fact sincerely and
give up all the many things which we
now do openly and exclusively to OBJ
tain it. If it is not. why should we not
pull ourselves together. give our at
tention to the game and play up?-
London Spectator.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1902-09-09

A well dressed lad, the son Of
wealthy parents, thought it would be
quite manly to earn few coppers for
himself by selling daily papers, says
the Chicago Journal. He stopped a
tattered newsboy in the street and
said to him:
do you think should be able to
earn money as you do if l bought
some papers and came to this corner
TO sell them?"
"Why do you want to sell papers?"
"I'm tired of being idle"
WELL" said the philosophic little
newsboy, with a serious air, dyer
think yer can hold thirty-six papers in
one hand, lick three or four boys big
germ yerself with the other hand,
while yer keeps two more off with yer
feet and yells 'Evenin' paper all the
timer
Moo. DON'T" replied the well
dressed boy.
''Then yer are no good in the news
boy biz" replied the tattered philoso-
pher. "Ye'd better git yer people to
prentice yer to somethin' light"
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fall He was arrested, confined in q
dungeon for seven months and then
without the farce Of trial was ban
ished from the country.
Grodno arrived in Cracow to hunt up
some old friends, but as soon as the
police officials learned that he was an
exile they arrested and insulted him
and ordered him to move on. He made
his way to England. learned the Ian
guage thoroughly and in time became
leading nihilist. For about eight
years he had spent all his time schem-
ing and planning against the Russian
government. and all the efforts of the
ears officials to locate or identify him
had been futile. Grodno did not tell
me as plainly as have told you what
he was, being too prudent for that but
he left me to infer 1t. As to his bust
ness in Cracow | did not inquire, and
he did not volunteer the information.
All the towns along the Polish Dor
der are under the espionage of Russian
spies. and | thought Grodno was TAX
ing great risks to show himself al
openly as he did. He moved about in
perfect unconcern for ten days, being
most of the time In my company, and
we had no adventure. Then he asked
me one morning to accompany him to
the police station, where he was gong
to seek certain information. l no.
ticed that he had a package under
his arm, but gave it no particular at
tention. AS we walked along the
street he was as chatty as usual, and
he led the way into the police build
ing without the slightest hesitation
1t was two story building of stone
and brick There was a prison in the
basement and offices were on the first
and second floors. We entered the main
room, presided over by captain of po-
lice on one side and an information
bureau on the other. There were
number of people making inquiries, and
Grodno and | sat down on one of the
benches to wait. He stepped to a
window, asked n question | did not
catch, and then passed out, and l fol
lowed. | noticed that he was pale and
fiurried, and when l joked him about
1t he said that he had seen visitor
in the room whom he thought he rec
ognized, He had another errand, he
said, and asked me to wait at the
hotel for him. He left me on a street
corner with a wave of his hand, and
that was the last l ever saw of him.
Two hours had passed, and was
sti1l waiting in the Office of the hotel,
when the town was suddenly shaken
as with an earthquake, and five min
utes later it was known everywhere
that the police station had been blown
up. 1 rushed to the scene with thou
sands of others, and the sight was one
never to be forgotten. The fine, large
building was nothing - smoking
pile. 1t had collapsed. the walls block
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1902-09-09

wrong in a few whacks.' so wild a
whOop | grabbed me stick an rushed
in
BE the Donnybrook fair but it was
swate time we had But it was too
fine to last. What should that Baptist
do but swing chair over his head,
thryin' to kill DR.. Whitley, an instead
av bringin' it down where he should
he hit the glass jar on the shift an
knocked the great brain to the floor an
broke it into million pieces.
Thin how cristfallen an ashamed
thin preachers was whin they came to
thimsilves an saw what they had been
dom.
"Av coorse the doctor would not tx
plain, an so the preachers began beg
GIN him not to tell on thin, which he
promised
'But l didn't
"Thin the story whit around that
there had been terrific explosion in
the doctors office, an him an l were
taken to the hospital. Whist there
comes the nurse wild the gruelr'
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No excuses for his conduct can be
offered further than it was his first Of
tense, and the whole thing was done
in an offhand, unprecedented sort of
way. Besides. Mollie was really an at
tractive girl.
Burton had been living with the Low
dons for a number of years and had al
ways been regarded as one of the fami-
ly, SO much SO, indeed, that his real po-
sition, that of a boarder, was kept in
the background.
The Lowdons did not like to think of
themselves as keeping boarders' and
saw no reason for descent in the So
cial scale simply because Jim Burton,
their old friend, lived with them in
this comfortable home and bore le-
climate but fixed share of the ex-
pense.
Martha had been stock feature in
the Lowdon home for years when Id
denly she was replaced by Mollie. The
contrast was superlative. Martha, the
hard faced. the stern, that martinez of
the kitchen, the scourge of laxity, was
a million removes from Mollie, the APP
pie checked, the smiling, with Irish
mischief in her eyes and the comether
on her lips. Burton thought the change
splendid. At breakfast he smiled cheer
fully into Mollie's bright face in shame
less, good natured admiration.
What wonder. then, that three or four
evenings later, when Burton was enter
ing the house and found Mollie in the
dusky hall lighting the lamp, he should
tiptilt chat dimpled chin and kiss the
inviting lips?
THAT'S for your good looks, Mollie,"
he said and went upstairs three steps
at a time. In the rear he heard
stifed Shrek that died away in soft
chuckle. AS he dressed he smiled
complacently at himself in the glass.
Burton dined out that evening. At
breakfast next morning he found
second Martha. Mrs. Lowdon appar-
emily did not think the matter worth
explanation. She had other matters
on her mind. Turning to her husband,
she said: Jim must dine home this
evening. want him to meet Eta.
Eta" she continued, speaking to Bur
ton, ''is my cousin. She is going to
stay with US here for month or two.
She is a charming girl. You'll like her
awfully. Jim. Now. be sure and be in
time for dinner"
Burton was politely interested He
did not look forward to the prospect
with any great joy. Mrs. Lowdon's
friends were usually a duty to him
and involved more attention than he
was at times willing to give His meet
ing with Eta Kingsley that evening,
however, put matters at once on an en-
tirely different footing. Rarely had
Burton seen so much demure viva
ciousness. A sparkle and a ripple in
her laugh foretold pleasant things.
Her smile was sometimes in reserve
Burton had his first acquaintance man.
ners. He was little slow. trifle i'm