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The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1902-08-05
VALPARAISO AMUSEMENT.
Sunday Is the Great Gala Day For
Rich and Poor Alike.

summary Is the Oreat GS1a Day FOR
Rich and Poor Alike.
All around the edge of Valparaiso
bay is a string of little towns so close
together that you cannot readily dis
cover where one leaves off and the
next begins. The most pretentious of
these is Vina del Mar, which is a very
popular seaside resort. During the
summer season, from December to
February, it is gay place. A short
distance from the town is the ''cancha, -
or race track, in connection with which
are golf links. cricket and polo
grounds. all managed by the English
sporting clubs. The polo matches and
the races are over by the LIST of Deem
Der, but cricket, golf and tennis go on
all summer Tennis tournaments are
held, lasting for several weeks. Most
of these sports, with the exception of
tennis, which goes on all the time,
take place on Sunday. Sunday is the
great gala day, when all the popuIa-
ton, rich and poor alike, turn out to
have good time.
The common people find their holt
day sport in getting gloriously drunk.
If you walk along the street on Sun
day afternoon, you must not be sur
prised to meet every few minutes in
diyiduals decidedly unsteady on their
feet. The little wineshops do a rush
ing business, and there is always a
large crowd about the door watching
and loudly applauding the dancing of
the ''cueca." which goes on all day.
This is a sort of national dance, per-
formed to the accompaniment of the
guitar. The dance is quaint and rath-
er pretty if the dancers are sober. but
in its ordinary environment it is far
from inviting.
During a good season at Vina del
Mar one has an excellent opportunity
of seeing the aristocratic Chileans of
Santiago. In January Santiago is very
warm, and the society people come
down to the coast during the hot
weather. The ladies are many of
them quite handsome. They all dress
gorgeously and have very bad man
ners. They stroll along the hotel piaz-
"a, and if they see anything that
arouses their curiosity in any of the
rooms they stop and look on serenely,
regardless OF the occupant. They
never make their appearance until 10
or IL O'Clock In the morning, when
they go down to the beach for a morn
ing dip. After the IL o'clock break
fast they disappear until O'Clock,
when they all come out in gowns that
would rival Solomon in all his glory.
They either drive on the beach and
trail their skirts and embroidered chif-
fons through the sand or stroll up and
down the long platform of the railroad
station, watching the trains pass.
These exciting diversions occupy them
until dinner. Sometimes there are
dances in the evening-dances called so
only by courtesy, for they rarely
dance; they only walk around and ex-
hibit their gowns.-Indianapo News.
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In Georgia justice court a colored
witness was asked to name the time a
difficulty occurred
Hit wuz in fodder pullin' time, sub, -
he replied.
"You don't understand me-" said the
Judge. II mean what time was 1t by
the clockY'
"Dey warn't no clock dar, suh," said
the witness.
swell, by the sun, thenY'
"Now," exclaimed the witness tri-
umphantly, "sence you hez come right
down ter business I'll tell you plain.
Eff de sun had been a-shinin' hit would
er been bout two hours en- a half by
sun, but ez de sun didn't show his face
tall dat day | couldn't say fer sartin
des what time hit wuzl-Atlanta Con-
stitution.
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In the face of foreign criticism and
In the face of ones own dismay at ex-
listing conditions with regard to d.
vorce, we still sympathize with the re-
tort administered to an alien critic of
our people who had declared in pri-
vate conversation that America SEEM
ed to be afflicted with the disease of
prudishness. The answer was some
what In these words (the incident oc-
CURED several years ago): Eyes, prob
ably it is true that Americans are
prudish; but, considering the revela-
tons that have recently taken place
concerning certain circles In London
and considering the condition of good
part of the Partisan stage and of
French literature, l, for one, am will
ing that we should pay that price for
the knowledge that, on the whole,
Americans are the decentest people in
regard to the relations of the sexes on
the face of the lobe."-Century.
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BUSINESS AND HOMES.
The Cause of the Trolley Car ana
the Street Railway.

NO OuW1C Va inc AEOAAGE OB&E anu
the Street Railway.
On one point the American is deter
mined-he will not live near his work,
says Charles M. Skinner in the Allan
tic. You shall see him In the morning,
one of sixty people in a car built for
&enty-four, reading his paper, cling
ing to strap, trodden, jostled, smirch-
ed, thrown into narrowing relations
with men who drink whisky, chew to-
bacco, eat raw onions and incontinent-
ly breathe, and after thirty minutes of
this contact, with the roar of the
streets In his ears, with languid clerks
and pinguid market women leaning
against him, he arrives at his office.
The problems of his homeward journey
in the evening will be still more diff
cult, because, in addition to the work
ers, the cars must carry the multitude
of demoiselles who shop and go to
matinees.
To many men and women of business
seat is an undreamed of luxury. Yet
they would be insulted If one were to
ask why they did not live over their
shops, as Frenchmen do, or back Of
them, like Englishmen. 1t Is this I'M
easy instinct of Americans, this desire
Of their families to separate industrial
and social life, that makes the use Of
the trolley car imperative, and the
street railway in this manner widens
the life and dominion of the people. It
enables them to distribute themselves
over wider spaces and unwittingly to
symbolic the expansiveness Of the ma
t10n
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sTockToN,s KIND HEART.
The Authors Profound Respect For
the Feelings of Others.

The Authors Profound Respect For
the Feelings of Others.
In the old days when Frank r.
Stockton was my associate in editing
Hearth and Home he invented or Gre
ated Marcus Aurelius of his own in
the person of an imaginary Office boy.
Every week he would fill a column or
two with a grotesque account of the
doings and sayings of his fictitious
Marcus Aurelius. At last the worm
turned. Our actual Office boy, youth
of unusual seriousness, requested him
to stop the Marcus Aurelius humor.
$50 you have taken it seriously?"
asked Mr.. Stockton.
"Well, you see, all my friends laugh
at me about it, and it hurts" answered
the Office boy.
Il am sorry" said Mr.. Stockton
you are a good, honest and faithful
Office boy. had no thought of hurting
your feelings, and shall write no more
about Marcus Aurelius."
Here was an indication of the rare
character of the man. His respect for
the feelings of others was profound.
His tenderness toward them was a
most lovable characteristic Of the man.
1t ran through all his conduct. He new
er willingly or knowingly hurt the feel
ings of any human being, for the rca-
son that his soul was filed with an
Astounding charity and love for all his
fellow men.-George Cary Eggleston in
Golfers Weekly.
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AN iMPRoMPTu wHlRL.
1t Scared the Chef Worse Than II
Did His Assistant


Did His Assistant.
Pat was assistant cook on one Of the
dining cars on the Great Western road
running into St. Paul. He was OBJ
stinate and i'll tempered. The chef was
equally so, and as a result constant
warfare waged between them. One hot
day Pat was making ice cream and in
spite of the chefs warnings insisted
upon sitting in the doorway of the
pantry while he turned the freezer.
The train, going up grade, made sud
den lurch, and Pat and his can of ice
cream fell out the door, as his superior
officer had predicted Frantic with
fright, the chef in his white cap and
apron tore through the train looking
for the conductor.
Mon Dieu, NJ. Conductaire," he
cried, wringing his hands when he
found that person, re ice cream
freezaire he fall off, and Pat go wiz
heem! Stop re tramway or we will hat
pas dessert pour lie diner. Trouble,
trouble always wiz Eat Irishmany
The conductor pulled the bell and
stopped the train, but it had already
gone two miles past the spot where
Pat had rolled out. They backed the
train, fully expecting to find Pats man.
gled body beside the track. Instead
they saw him coming over the ties on
run, carrying on his back the ice
cream freezer. He climbed ON the
train, looking foolish, but all he ever
said of his miraculous escape was, "Be
gosh, it Jared me some, it did thotg'-
Lippincott's Magazine.
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NOT A LOVE KNOT.
Embarrassing Experience of a Wom-
an In m Street Car.

Embarrassing Experience OF q W0m-
an In a Street Car.
A handsomely dressed lady riding re-
Gently In crowded Amsterdam ave-
nue. car was fortunate enough to have
a seat. but when nearing her destina-
ton she noticed that the lacing of her
shoe was unfastened. 1t was the work
Of moment, but very trying mo-
ment, to stoop down and knot it secure
~. When this was accomplished, her
hat veil readjusted and her gloves once
more carefully put on, it was time to
signal the conductor. This she did
and after two vain attempts to rise
looked around Indignantly to find the
cause of her retarded movements. She
came face to face with q very irate
gentleman who had been sitting next
to her.
Madam, madam, where are you try
ing to take mew he demanded.
"I-youw she stammered.
YES Look therep' He pointed to
the floor, and In an instant she had
grasped the situation. By mistake in
cropping she had found the lacing Of
his shoe, which she had taken for the
other end of her own, and had fasten-
ed them SO carefully together that it
took the gentleman quite five minutes
to effect release. under the amused
glances of the other occupants of the
car, which had travelled twice that
number of blocks before the lady was
ready to give another signal.-New
York Times.
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oI Coprins recopn,zed MIN.

toll. Coggins recognized him.
Look out, Steve! I'm going to run
her through he called, but as the car
swept forward with fresh impetus
there was another shot, and Sue saw
her father fall. Before she fully real
lied what had happened she had
sprung up and taken his place, and
when the strikers started to make
rush for the car all they saw was
pink sunbonnet waving from the win
dow. A dozen shots had followed up
the one sent by the foreman, but now
the sight of that flag Of truce stayed
many a finger waiting on a trigger,
and the angry faces on either side of
the track softened as Sue leaned out
and waved to them as she had so often
done.
you've shot fatherw she cried, and
then the car had passed. Not another
shot was fired, for the word went from
lip to lip, Its Coggins' Sue"
Five minutes later the car drew up
at the mines. and Tom Holmes ran to
meet it. Now that all was over and
the danger past Sue was kneeling be-
side her father, crying as if her heart
would break
HE isn't dead, Suer' Tom exclaimed
after he had found the wound in his
shoulder and Sue had sobbed out her
story. And never mind the strikers
Well be ready for them"
When the strikers came up the mar
row gulch, they found the entrance to
the mines guarded by sturdy little
force of armed men, so as the sunlight
faded over the mountains they settled
down to siege.
1t seemed an age until there came
the sound of the surprise in the gulch
as the soldiers came up behind the
strikers and drove them back, on and
on, through the thick woods. Then at
last all was silent, and when the motor
car made it's homeward trip at dawn
with Sue and her father and old
Holmes and Tom safe on board the
blue clad boys who guarded the track
cheered when they saw the face of
Coggins' Sue at the window. And up
at the mines, when the first shaft Of
gold shot through the pines, it glim-
mered on something that futtered far
up on big fiagpole outside the en-
trance, a faded pink sunbonnet hang
ing there In honor beside the stars and
stripes
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The guidebooks unite in telling the
visitor in Edinburgh to see the grave
Of John Knox. 1t is situated in Parlia-
ment square and is marked by a small
rectangular slab of stone sunk in the
cobblestone paving of the street, with
the chiseled inscription, ~. K. 1873"
But it is odds against even the acute
tourist that he finds the great reformer
at once, for only five feet away from
the holy ground there is similar
sunken slab, and many times a day
parties of tourists may be seen ap-
preaching on tiptoe the second stone
and bending over it with keen interest
only to read, "Wilking Patent Hy-
drant," and find themselves face to
face with the water supply system Of
a modern town instead of the bones of
the eminent clergyman.
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Tracing Responsibility.

A woman bought cloth skirt ready
made of a reputable firm. After wear
ing it for several days she discovered
damaged spots in the front breadth.
She took it back to the shop where she
had bought it and was told that the err
ror would be cared for. 1T is not our
fault, however" said the foreman,
''and we will have to send it to the fac
tory from which we bought it. 1t is
up to them to make it good'
"And upon whom will they fall
backT
ION the manufacturer from whom
they bought the cloth"
"And he?"
swell, l suppose there would be no
one but the sheep for him to blame,
so he will have to bear the loss."-
New York Press.
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When William r. Travers was in the
directorate of the New York Central
railroad, Jay Gould was running the
Erie in opposition, and his manage
ment of that system betrayed a con-
slant and intimate knowledge of what
was going on in the Central's star
chamber. Commodore Vanderbilt was
naturally exasperated, and one day,
after expressing how helpless he found
himself to outwit his rival, he turned
to Travers with the query:
well, Billy, how can we stop Gould
from getting knowledge of what we
are doingY'
'Ww-why," suggested the genial
wit-"w-w-why d-dont you m-m-make
him a d-d-director Of N-N-New York
C-C-Central?''
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WEAK ON SPELLING.
G'he Combination Word That Opened
Commodore VanderbfIt,s Safe

According to all the traditions, Com
modore Vanderbilt, who laid the foun-
dalton of the family wealth that has
become proverbial, was man without
education, knowing little of the three
RS and lamentably weak on spelling
He kept to himself the word ON which
the combination of the office safe was
based until sudden sickness prevented
his appearing one morning and it be-
came necessary to transfer the secret
In order that the days work might be
done without let or hindrance
The bookkeeper sent to the commo-
dore's house for the word key and re-
ceived reply that dog was the neces-
sary word. But every effort to re
lease the bolts on the dog combina-
ton failed, and it was necessary to
send again to the Vanderbilt home in
fear that the old financier might have
made a thoughtless mistake But the
messenger was speedily convinced that
the mistake was somebody else's when
the irascible commodore roared at
him: Dog, you dog! Dogr Con-
found you all for a lot of zaniesl Go
back-go back to the office and open
that safe on 'dog8'd-o-r-g-e,' 'dog!"-
Philadelphia Times.
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cHELsEA,s NOTED BUNS.
All London Used to Visit Mrs. Hands
on Good Friday.

All London Used to Visit Mrs. Hands
on Good Friday.
However religious observances may
change in England, the eating Of hot
cross buns on Good Friday is not likely
70 die out Still, enthusiasm in this
particular has considerably declined
since the days when Mrs. Hands kept
the Chelsea Bun House at the corner
of Jews row, now Pimlico road. SC
many people were In the habit of flock.
ing there on Good Friday in order to
eat hot cross buns that on one occasion
$4,000 persons assembled there, ano
ESQ was taken In the day for buns
alone. After this the inhabitants OF
Chelsea protested against the noise and
disturbance this caused, and Mrs
Hands. fearing to be restrained by the
law, issued in 1893 quaint proclama
ton, stating how, "desirous. therefore
Of testifying her regard and obedience
to those laws by which she is happily
protected, she is determined, though
much to her loss, not to sell cross buns
on that day to any person whatever
but chelsea buns as usual"
This Mrs. Hands was something of a
character in her own way. The royal
family and many of the aristocracy
used to visit her in the morning, and
Queen Charlotte even presented heI
with silver half gallon mug contain
ing guineas. The house remained in
the possession of her family for some
time. as Sir Richard Phillips, writing a
few years before its destruction, men
lions. After admitting that for upward
of thirty years he had never passed the
house without filing his pockets. he
goes on to say, "These buns have af
forded a competency and even wealth
to four generations Of the same family
and it is singular that their delicate
flavor, lightness and richness have new
er been successfully Initiated" When
Ranelagh was closed, the Bun House
declined in popularity, though as late
as 1889 $4,000 buns were sold on Good
Friday alone.-London Chronicle.
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Putting food into diseased stomach is
like putting money into pocket with
holes. The money is lost. All its value
goes for nothing. When the stomach is
diseased, with the allied organs of diges-
ton and nutrition, the food which is put
into it is largely lost. The nutriment is
not extracted from it. The body is weak
and the blood impoverished
The pocket can be mended The stom-
ach can be cured That sterling medicine
for the stomach and blood, Doctor PIERCE
Golden Medical Discovery, acts with
peculiar promptness and power on the
organs of digestion and nutrition. 1t is a
positive cure for almost all disorders of
these organs, and cures also such diseases
of the heart, blood, liver and other organs,
as have their cause in weak or diseased
condition of the stomach.
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The queens interest in and oversight
of public affairs did not cease with the
princes death, although in the first
years of overwhelming sorrow it must
have been difficult to carry out her con-
ception of duty. All important resolu-
tons were taken by her; the personal
notes in The Court Circular were writ
ten by her own hand and were seen by
no one else. When Sir Henry Ponsonby
became the queens private secretary,
she said to him: Remember this, no
advice! l am older than you are and
have had more experience" In after
years historians will have much to say
upon the queens personal share in the
government of her dominions All her
papers have been most carefully pre-
served and arranged and some day,
perhaps, will be accessible to the in
quirer. On the other hand there is not
a single paper belonging to George III.
which is known to be in existence
Professor Oscar Browning in Century
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Also Important.

The Rev. Peter Cartwright, the ia
nous pioneer Methodist circuit rider,
while travelling to an appointment one
day saw two young men of his ac-
quaintance sitting idly on the bank Of
a small stream fishing. 1t was fine
spring day, and the scent Of freshly
plowed fields was in the air.
Boys" he said, Il am sorry to see
you breaking the fourth command
ment."
"Why, Uncle Peter" they said, with
laugh at his expense, this isn't Sun
dayv'
II know it." he retorted, ''but you are
breaking the fourth commandment.
You forget that one part Of it says,
Six days shalt thou labor"
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Dreaded the Results.

Doctor-You'll have to accustom
yourself to one cigar after meals.
Patient-Oh, doctor, that's pretty
hard
Doctor-Tut, tut. After a time you'll
find 1t easy to give up even the cigar
after meals.
Patient-But I'm sure I'll be giving
up my meals after the cigars I've new
er smoked, you know.-Catholic Stand
ard and Times.
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Beggem Ito himself)-I've got around
that rich old great-aunt Of mine at last.
She's interested in benevolent schemes,
and I'm helping her night and day to
search out worthy objects. Today she
said I'd have cause for rejoicing when
her will was read.
His Great-aunt Ito herself)-I had no
idea my granddaughter was so good. 1t
worries him almost sick to see so much
misery In the world. How delighted
he will be to find that all my money is
to go to the support of the poor friend
less orphansi-New York Weekly.
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Actors and actresses say that if one
OF their number faints cold water is
poured on the wrists. The result is
always immediate recovery. Athletes
engaged In feats of endurance under
stand the Importance of keeping the
wrists cool in summer and warm in
winter, but the general public goes
on wearing tight gloves and heavy
cuffs during the dog days and then
wonders why it is hot. Taking off ones
gloves, especially in church, makes
quite surprising difference in ones
temperature Tight sleeves, above all
things, make the wearer hot in oppres-
sive weather
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a
On Medical Discovery cures the diseased
stomach and enables the perfect digestion
and assimilation of food, so that the
sluggishness, irritability, nervousness and
sleeplessness which result from innutri-
ton are cured also.
al was taken sick nine years ago with fever.s
writes Mr.. NJ. NJ. Wardwei1, of Linwood, Leaven-
worth Co., Kansas. Had the doctor and he
broke up the fever all right, but took diar-
rhEa right away; he couldn't cure 1t and II
became chronic, and then he gave up the case.
got so weak with it and had piles 50 badly I
couldn't lie down, nor hardly sit up. Was
tsat way two or three months; thought would
never be well again, but picked up one Of DR..
Yfercs's Memorandum Books one day and saw
your description of catarrh Of the stomach. I
thought It Fit my case. We had bottle Of Dr.
Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery in the house
that was got for mother. You recommend it for
eatsrrh OF the stomach, so went to taking t.
The one bottle nearly cured me. got two bot
ties next time and took one and one-han and
was we'll haven't been bothered with diar-
ThVa sincs."
Dr.. Pierce's Pellets cure biliousness.
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"Papa." said the inquisitive young
ster, why is it that people rescued
from drowning are always saved just
as they are going down for the third
timer"
why is it," returned the father.
shat small boy always picks out
unanswerable questions to ask 2'-Chi-
eago Post.
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A political critic of a former genera
ton was engaging an apartment in
one of the chief streets of Paris The
landlady. wishing, like all landladies,
to make the best of her rooms, led
him to one of the principal windows
and as she swung back the venetian
blinds remarked, 1T is from this point,
sir, that all of our revolutions pass"
The good woman was no cynic, but
spoke from her heart and just as an
English landlady who harps upon the
splendid view of the sea from the two
pair front.-London Answers.