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The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1902-08-26

we seemed as FAR from the solution
as ever l started out one morning to
get a pair of the doctors boots re-
paired. Just as | was turning into a
small street to visit a cobbIer, l came
face to face with a member of my
London Cuba man with whom l was
well acquainted. My whiskers and
eyebrows had grown again and l
looked like my old self. He at once
put out his hand and saluted:
why, old boy. you've been dead for
months and months. and yet find you
in Paris very much alivey'
| looked at the man In open mouthed
astonishment for minute and then
went down in heap. | was taken to
his hotel instead of hospital, and
after a time was restored to conscious
ness, and the very first words ut
tered were shout:
Write it down-write it down. MY
name is Joseph Kiddy, bachelor, of
Londonw
Everything came back to me with a
rush, and for a time | was so excited
that l acted like a lunatic. At home,
was supposed to be dead, and my law.
yers had searched in vain for traces of
me. AS l got out Paris looked as Of
old to me. Every little incident came
back, and the French doctor who had
been SO kind to me was one of the
heartiest in his congratulations
sought the aid of the police to hunt
down Graham and his friend. but moth
ing ever came of it. They had moved
on to find other victims.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1902-08-26
Kentucky summer ontfit.

Many years ago Senator Blackburn
Of Kentucky was summoned to Wash
ington in the middle of June to look
after small matter of patronage.
His departure was so sudden and the
prospect of his staying more than a
day or two away from home so remote
that he carried with him only a hand
bag. But business heaped up on him
after his arrival at the capital, and he
was obliged to telegraph back a re
quest for a trunkful of summer cloth
ing. His little daughter happened to
be the only member of the family at
home when his dispatch arrived, and
thinking it her duty to respond
promptly, she packed trunk and ship
ped it, first slipping a note inside. as
follows:
Dear Papa-I send you all the clothes
can find and hope you are well
The trunk contained seven white
shirts, six winter scarfs. one tooth
brush, one bowie knife and two re-
volvers. 1t was a rueful outlook for
Blackburn, with the thermometer up
among the nineties, but he listened to
no proffered condolences. my daugh-
ter has done right" he said "She
sent me what real Kentucky girl re-
CARDS a suitable summer outfit for
gentleman" -Harper's Weekly.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1902-08-26
Ran Away From Doctor.

The family hope and pride. five years
Of age, was out of sorts. He didn't
eat well, and he had slight cold.
Mamma thought the doctor should be
sent for, and papa concurred. The doc
tor looked at the little chaps tongue,
felt his pulse and left some little pills.
The next day he came again. The boys
cold hung on, and so did the doctor.
At the end of the sixth visit, however,
the father thought the patient well
enough, so he paid the doctor off with
the understanding that he need not
come again. Nevertheless, the next
day saw the doctor arrive, and the
day following. Not wishing to offend
him, the family thereupon bundled up
the boy and went away for a visit.
The doctor could not charge for visit
to locked up house. and that was an
easy way to escape his attentions and
his bill.-New York Press.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1902-08-26

The popular examinations of pet
names in earlier times were In, on, ct,
kin, cock and others. Emma was
shortened to EN-, and for loves sake
it became Emmott or Emmett Matilda
was first Til, then Tillot. Bartholomew
was Bart, then Little Bart or Bartlett.
The popularity of these pet names is
seen In the great number of them
which eventually became family
names.
The Tillotsons, the Emmetts and the
Bartletts are numerous in England and
America, although few dream that
their names were originally pet and
not surnames. Before the use of fam
lily names 1t was often necessary to use
diminutive forms from the fact that
the same name was not infrequently
given to two or three children of the
same family. The original Of the sur
name Robinson is the pet name of
Robin or Little Robert
As Germans of today add chen to
children's names as a term of endear-
ment, making Anna Annchen, Eliza
beth Lischen, so our English ancestry
used the equivalent kin. Watkin was
Little Walter, Simkin Little Simeon,
Perkin Little Peter. Examinations In
kin and cock were In use among the
lower orders-that is, among the An
glo Saxons-while the diminutives In,
on and ct were more aristocratic and
used by families of Norman blood.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1902-08-26

Thomas. tenth earl of Dundonald, at
his death vice admiral in the English
navy, tells in his autobiography of a
Seaman" of an incident on board the
Hind. on which he served as midship-
man. The pet of the ship was a parrot,
the aversion of the boatswain, whose
whistle the bird learned to initiate ex-
actly.
"One day party of ladies paid us a
visit aboard. By the usual means of a
whip on the yardarm several had
been hoisted on deck. The chain had
descended for another Scarcely had
its fair freight been lifted out of the
boat alongside when the parrot piped,
Let gor
'"The order was instantly obeyed, and
the unfortunate lady, instead of being
comfortably seated on deck. was soused
in the sea.
Luckily for her, the men were on the
watch and quickly pulled her out, and
luckily for the parrot the boatswain
was on shore. or this unreasonable as
sumption of the boatswain's functions
might have ended tragically for the
bird
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1902-08-26
Man,. wonderful stomach.

The human stomach possesses most
wonderful powers of adaptation to cir
cumstances. When Lieutenant Bligh
and his eighteen men were cast off
from the Bounty by the mutineers in
an open boat, they subsisted for forty
one days on daily allowance of one
twenty fifth of a pound of biscuit per
man and quarter of pint of water.
DR.. Tanner in 1880 tasted for forty
days, subsisting, it is said, on water
alone, and Succi and other fasting men
have since excelled this.
Kafflrs, North American Indians and
the fat boy in 'Pickwick" may well
be quoted as fearful examples of vo-
racity, but even their gasronomic feats
are exceeded by the full grown Eski-
mo, who will daily eat twenty pounds
of flesh and oil If he has the chance,
while on the authority of Admiral Sar-
itcheff a Yakut of Siberia has been
known to consume in twenty-four
hours ''the hind quarter Of large OK,
twenty pounds of fat and a quantity
Of melted butter for his drinkp'
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1902-08-26
POULTRY POINTERS.

Game chickens have more meat in
proportion to their height than any
other breed of fowls.
When the chickens are growing fast,
it is good plan to mix a little bone
meal in their soft feed.
Smearing whole wheat with kerosene
or turpentine and feeding it to the
chickens is a good remedy for gapes.
Adding some carbolic acid and put
ting on hot will secure much better re-
suits from the embarrassing of the
poultry house.
While it is at no time advisable to
keep food of any kind before the fowls
all the time, it will be an advantage to
keep milk where they can drink all
they want.
Fowls do not run together in large
numbers. They will always divide into
fiocks of small size and will select diff
ferent feeding grounds. always pro-
vided they have the opportunity.
A growing chicken, like growing
animal, requires plenty of good, whole
some food supplied literally and often
in order to enable them to grow and
mature rapidly and to develop proper
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1902-08-26
IN MANOALAY.
thousands of Pagoda Bells Ring NJ
the Setting of the SUN.

Mandalay has its own sky, soft and
gray and incurving like tent, with
white cloud lines that seem meant for
scrolls If one could read 1t Is the
Very Sacred City, the city Of contem-
plation, the city of all the monks. A
thousand pagoda bells give tongue TO
the wind there when the sun goes
down: crumbling thousand more give
up to time the testimony Of outworn
Things.
It lies in curved arm Of blue hills,
and something broods over it with So
hcitude. This you suspect from the air
of the place and the way the shrill
talk of the parrots and the complaint
OF the goats and the laughter of the
people come to you wherever you are
sitting. Afterward you go out, as !
did that morning with the commission
er, and see under the very zenith, where
the low gray sky Is caught up, the
square Of the dark red crenellared
walls of the old royal city, three miles
each way, and outside the walls the
parallel clear moat thinking back at
the sky, and then you are sure that
over and above the government of In
dia some spirit is in possession here
some spirit that bends In affection over
finished and forgotten things.
Seven rooted kiosks stand at inter-
walls over the gates in the wall-they
are called pyathat, but they strike the
eye like peaceful conclusions-and low
white stone bridges raised in the mid
die span the moat The buttresses of
the gates are painted deep gray and
white, and the bank that slants steeply
from the wall to the water has here
and there low, twisted, spreading
tree on it, purely for decoration. You
may stop at a corner and look two
ways along the rejecting water, with
bridge after bridge receding across,
and pyathat after pyathat diminishing
above. and each red and gray and
white vista so picked out and finished
under the quiet light slipping adorably
into the near blue of the hills.
Mandalay seemed aware with bunt-
ing that day, flags and arches of well
come everywhere and crowds fiocking-
aware and almost awake-but you
looked again and saw that she only
turned in her sleep and smiled, as at
dream.-Exchange
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1902-08-26
Ninatx-eirht Per Cent.

There is fascination about big profits
to business man. But the conservative
and cautions trader perfers to have the
lesser per cent. of interest and the larger
per cent. of safety in his investments
There is no business man who would not
consider it a sound proposition to invest
in an enterprise in which absolute loss
was impossible and which offered ninety
eight chances in hundred of rich profit.
The statistics of cures effected by DR..
Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery show
that ninety eight per cent. of cases Of
weak lungs" can be absolutely cured
Almost if not all forms of physical weak.
ness may be traced to starvation. Starva
ton saps the strength. The body is just
as much starved when the stomach can.
not extract nutrition from the food it re-
ceives as when there is no food. ''Weak
lungs" bronchial affections, obstinate
coughs, call for nourishment Golden
Medical Discovery" supplies that nourish-
ment in its most condensed and assimil
able form. Itmakes weak lungs" strong
by strengthening the stomach and organs
of digestion which digest and distribute
the food, and by increasing the supply Of
pure blood.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1902-08-26
INDIAN AND BUFFALO.
How the Latter Turned Hunter and
Chased the Red Man.

How the Latter Turned Hunter and
Chased the Red Man.
A retired officer OF the Northwest
mounted police who took part in Mis-
souri, buffalo run forty years ago de-
scribes the impression at the time as
Of an earthquake. The galloping
horses, the rocking mass of fleeing buff
falo. the rumbling and quaking of the
ground under the thunderous pound
ing, were all like a violent earthquake.
The same gentleman tells how he once
saw a wounded buffalo turn on an In
dian hunter. The mans horse took
fright. Instead of darting sideways to
give him chance to send a last finish
ing shot home the horse became wildly
unmanageable and fed The buffalo
pursued. OF they rushed, rider and
buffalo, the Indian craning over his
horses neck, the horse blown and
tagged and unable to gain one pace
ahead Of the buffalo, the great angry
beast covered with foam, with eyes
like fire, pounding and pounding, closer
and closer to the horse till rider and
buffalo disappeared over the horizon.
"To this day / have wondered what
became of that Indian" said the off
Ger, ''for the horse was losing and the
buffalo gaining when they went behind
the bluff" This incident illustrates a
trait seldom found in wild animals, a
persistent vindictiveness.-A. G. Laut
In Outing.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1902-08-26
THE YANADIs OF INDIA.
Some of the Peculiar Customs Of
This Queer Tribe.

Some of the Peculiar Customs of
This Queer Tribe.
In the Nellore district Of the Madras
presidency live the Yanadis, strange
tribe, as may be seen from a report
which has been issued by the authori-
ties Of the Madras government muse
UNI. They live in forests and that they
are little removed from savagery is
indicated by the absence of implement
tai or monumental material, the ami
mistic nature of their religion, the
primitive hunting and fishing methods
followed by many Of the tribe and the
habit of eating the almost raw flesh
of the game they kill after slightly
heating or scorching 1t. They are fear
less in catching cobras, which they
draw out of their holes without any
fear of their fangs, and it is supposed
that they protect themselves against
the effects of snake bites by swallow
ing the poison sacs of the snakes. Els
pecially singular is the manner in
which they produce fire by friction.
For this purpose they prepare two
stocks, one short, the other long. In
the former a square cavity is made,
and it is held firmly in the ground
while the long stock is twirled rapidly
to and fro In the hole. Instead Of
charcoal powder they use rags or even
dried leaves, which they find little diff
ficulty in lighting.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1902-08-26

Several stories are told of Tenny-
sons thoughtIess speeches. What fish
is this?" he once asked his hostess
where he was dining. whiting" she
replied. "The meanest fish there is"
he remarked, quite unconscious that he
could have wounded any ones feelings.
Yet his kindness of heart was such
that when his partridge was afterward
given him almost raw he ate steadily
through it for fear his hostess might
be vexed.
On one occasion Tennyson was very
rude to Mrs. Brotherton, a neighbor
at Freshwater. The next day he came
to her house with a great cabbage
under each arm.
Il heard you like these, SO brought
Them" he said genially. 1t was his
idea of a peace offering.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1902-08-26

The wild strawberry is very widely
diffused over the surface of the earth,
being found in the chill regions of the
north as well as in the sunny climes
of the south. 1t is not a tropical plant,
however, and except on mountain sides
is not found south of latitude 38 de-
grees north On the European CONT
nent it grows extensively from Lap
land and the Shetland isles to Italy and
Greece. 1t is also found throughout
western Asia, but is unknown in China
and Japan. 1t has grown abundantly
on the bleak hills of Iceland for cen
turtles. 1t is found in America from
Labrador and British Columbia to the
pine woods of the southern states and
on the high lands of Mexico and the
Andes. The hardy plant, with its tiny
scarlet berry, may be said to girdle the
earth on the line of the polar circle and
several hundred miles southwark, ex-
cept that it is not found in the basin of
the river Amur, in Siberia.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1902-08-26
A SERMON TO SUIT.
The Folks Who Paid For the Dis
course Got What They Wanted.

The Folks Who Paid For the Dis
course Got What They Wanted.
Many Maine people who live in a
certain part of Cumberland county will
well remember one Abner-so he was
always called in his town. Abner was
the wit of the village, and he was
commonly selected to take charge of
funerals because he was about the
only man in town who had time hang
ing on his hands. A citizen died, a man
who never amounted to much, who
was never positively wicked, because
that would have required more of an
effort than he was willing to make.
He was, however, far enough from be-
ing good citizen, and Abner knew 1t
as well as anybody else.
Abner was requested to ask a certain
minister to conduct the service, and he
hitched up his old horse and drove to
his house The minister said he would
attend and then tried to get a little in
formation concerning the late lament
ed.
"What sort of a man was hep he
asked.
"Well, about the same as no sort of
man at ALL" replied Abner frankly.
81 suppose his loss will be deeply
felt in the community?' said the min
lister.
They're all bearing up well under
it." said Abner slowly.
"Was he a ChristianT asked the
minister
'If he'd been accused of it, the YER
dict would have been not guilty and
the jury wouldn't have left their Seats"
replied Abner cheerfully.
did he attend church," asked the
minister bit anxiously.
81 never heard of his doing it." said
Abner
'How did he dieY' continued the
minister
"Just the same as he lived, sort of
naturally" said Abner.
II don't see how I'm to preach much
Of sermon under such circumstances"
said the minister.
''The neighbors all said they didn't
think they wanted much of a sermon,
and so they sent me over to see you."
said Abner.
The minister pocketed his wrath and
five dollar bill. and after the funeral
the satisfied Abner said, ''Well, we got
just what we wanted. b'gosh. Lewis
ton Journal.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1902-08-26
A STORY OF CESAR.
Tho Quality of Mercy as Exercised
by the Great Roman.

The Quality of Mercy as ExercfseA
by the Great Roman.
Cesar Travelled with the retinue Of a
man of rank, and on his way to
Rhodes he fell in with an adventure
which may be something more than
legend. When he was crossing the
Agean, his vessel is said to have been
taken by pirates. They carried him
to Pharmacusa, an island off the Ca
rian coast, which was then in their pos
session, and there he was detained for
six weeks with three Of his attendants,
while the rest of his servants were
sent to the nearest Roman station to
raise his ransom.
The pirates treated him with polite
ness He Joined In their sports, played
games with them, looked into their
habits and amused himself with them
as well as he could, frankly telling
them at the same time that they would
be hanged.
The ransom, very large one, about
10000, was brought and paid. Caesar
was set upon the mainland, near Mi
letus, where, without a moments
delay, he collected some armed vessels,
returned to the island, seized the
whole crew while they were dividing
their plumber, and took them away to
Pergamus, the seat of government IN
the Asiatic province, where they were
convicted and crucified Clemency was
not Roman characteristic. 1t was
therefore noted with some surprise
that Caesar interceded to mitigate the
severity of the punishment The poor
wretches were strangled before they
were stretched on their crosses and
were spared the prolongation Of their
torture.-James Anthony Froude
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1902-08-26
Hope Springs Eternal.

The patience of fishermen who really
love the sport is the theme of many
stories. One is told by man who,
travelling on foot through part of Eng
land, came upon solitary fisherman
who looked as if time and the world
might pass away without disturbing
his content
Have you ished long In this
StreamT asked the traveller
Eighteen year.. was the calm re-
Spouse.
sect many bitesT was the next
question.
The fisherman scarcely turned his
gaze from the rod in his hands
Five year ago in this very spot l
had a fine bite" he answered hope
fully.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1902-08-26
JAPANESE JoTTINes.

Chrysanthemums served as a salad
are fayorite article of diet among
the japanese
At a japanese banquet it is con-
sidered compliment to exchange cups
with a friend.
japanese cooks are the most cruel In
the world. They cut every atom Of
flesh off living fish piecemeal with
out first causing death.
The lower class of the Japanese en-
ploy hardly any other material than
paper for their clothing Where wages
are exceedingly low, cloth is an Inn
possible extravaganza.
Every hotel In Japan has a fan, spe-
cial to itself, containing a view of the
hotel and blessing from the writ
ings of Confucius. One of these is al
ways given to the departing guest
Many Japanese women are UNDER
going the slight surgical operation nee
essary to straighten the slant of the
eyelid. which distinguishes them so
Enthusiastically from Caucasian women.
The Japanese eat more fish than any
other people in the world. With them
meat eating Is a foreign innovation,
confined to the rich, or, rather, to those
rich people who prefer it to the ma
tional diet.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1902-08-26
above tile foothf11s-a very night for

above tile foothfIls-a very night for
romance, and as Eunice leaned over
the rail she sighed softly. Guy looked
down on her. well, it's over" he
said gently "but l shall always re-
member this trip. Usually it's so dull
across the desert. Has it been tire
some to your
NO." she cried; anything but thatl
At first was afraid of my-my-'hus-
band but you were so good that
soon forgot that part. 1t was almost
real. l never supposed marriage was
so happy"
ut isn't" he replied harshly; "it's all
right pro tenn. but the quarrels will
creep in. My wife and / always book
In different companies because we al
ways fuss when we're together, and at
that we get along better than most"
His wifer' Eunice laid her head on
the rail, and for a moment she forgot
everything. Then the auto suggestion,
the unconscious influence, of the man
and the mountains passed away. and
she was herself again.
81 thank you so much for your kind
ness, Mr. Crawford" she said in her
ordinary tones. Il have had such a
pleasant time. and / hope that when
am married to man back east | will
be as happy a real wife as | was when
wife pro tenn Here is your divorce!'
And she handed him his mothers we'd
ding ring.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1902-08-26

Fear causes more disease than do
microbes, more deaths than famine,
more failures than panics; it costs
more than war, is always failure and
is never necessary. Fear weakens the
hearts action. induces congestion, in
vites Indigestion, produces poison
through decomposing foods and is thus
the mother of autopoisoning, which Ell
Their directly causes or greatly aids in
the production of quite 90 per cent of
all our diseases.-G. f. Meacham, M.
D., in Health.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1902-08-26

Birds Eggs Too Much For Science.
1t is not often that science acknowl-
edges herself at fault in an apparent
ly simple matter. but she frankly does
SO In regard to the color and marking
Of large proportion of birds eggs.
A reason there must be for their in
finite diversity; it cannot be an @s-
thetic one, and all we can say with
any confidence is that the ever per-
vading instinct of distrust is probably
exhibited In eggshells as In more i'm
portant things, and the main idea in
their scheme of coloration has been
the securing of safety from many enc
mics by harmonizing them with their
surroundings. But it is scheme full
of perplexing exceptions, which any
enc can study for himself.-Pall Mall
Gazette.