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The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1905-05-23

He paused abruptly, as if some I'M
expected thought had arrested him,
and, trailing his oars, he looked curl
ously at her. She, too, appeared alb
stracted, but she aroused herself and
smiled, ''Well?
1--WE had an awful thought" he re
sumed soberly. ut never occurred to
me until this moment, but don't you
see-there'll be no more you, either.
And I've got $3.50 accustomed to you,
you known
His face showed a puzzled amaze
ment that this should be so, and the
girl opposite, seeing it, smiled involun-
tarily. She, too, was trife bewildered
at a certain quick construction of the
heart that his talk about going abroad
had given her They had been the very
best of friends and companions, but
was that any reason why she should
feel quick, overwhelming sense of
desolation at the mere mention of his
going away?
Cartright rowed on absently, mechan-
ically. Then, as the dusk melted soft
~ into darkness, he made for the shore.
The girl opposite him was a mere
blurred shadow. The boat poked its
nose into the shore, and he jumped out.
The action seemed to shake off the be-
numbing amazement that had fallen
upon him, and In its place came a
great, glad certainty.
He held out a hand-two hands, in
fact--to help Miss Comyng ashore, and
as she put hers into them he muir
INJURED, my dear, my dear-it's the
scarlet thread after allr'
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1905-05-23

Boston has had to stand much joking
on the subject of its crooked streets.
Ever one has heard Of the stranger
perately caught the coat tails of the
man in front of him and got along
very well until an abrupt turn revealed
the fact that it was his own coat tails
to which he was clinging Early last
centurv a Frenchman gave an inteTpre-
tation of the deviousness of the high
ways which is both pleasant and pa
triotic 1t is found in a book called "a
Trip to Boston, by z. c. Wines.
81 have passed a delightful morning
in Boston," writes the author 1--WE
went to Charlestown in an omnibus,
passing through a considerable portion
Of the city. The irregularity of the
streets Is amazing. 1t is a common
saying that Boston was laid out by
cows, and l can well believe it. The
labyrinth of Crete never equaled it. 1
do not say the irregularity is disagree
able; on the contrary, the effect is
pleasing. To a stranger it is a per-
petual surprise"
Many years ago the Marquis of
Chatelot visited Boston.
Marquis" said an apologize citizen,
you will find Boston streets very
crooked. They turn and twist in ev-
cry direction"
"Ah, YER good, YER good" replied
the courteous nobleman. at show de
liberte,"
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1905-05-23

Old Barney Maguigan was as well
known on his "sweep stretch" as the
bluecoats on the beat AS his work
became somewhat burdensome with
the increase of years the residents Of
the neighborhood urged the employ
ment Of an assistant.
Barney did not look upon the sugges-
ton with favor-it savored too strongly
Of the time when he should be laid on
the shelf'-but he consented to the
trial of a new hand at last, and stout
youth was engaged whose broom made
quick work of the leaves and litter.
yes, SIR" Barney admitted reluc-
family few mornings later when ask
ed by an old friend If he did not find
his assistant good worker-'yes, sir,
there's no denying he's got the muscle
to swing a broom in the open; but, man
alive, when it comes to the fancy
touches round lamp post or a sewer
mouth, why. he's no good at ALP
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1905-05-23
The Phonogrnph Foreseen.

Photography is thus described in the
April number, 1852, of the Courier Yer
table, a little monthly publication in
which novel fancies were frequently
aired: Captain Vosterloch has return
ed from his voyage to the southern
lands, which he started on two years
and half ago by order of the states
general He tells US, among other things,
that in passing through strait below
Magellan he landed in a country
where nature has furnished men with
kind of sponges which hold sounds
and calculations as our sponges hold
liquids. So, when they wish to dis
patch message to a distance, they
speak to one of the sponges, take them
up gently and press out the words that
have been spoken into them and learn
by this admirable means all that their
correspondents desire to know"
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1905-05-23
Napoleon and Beet sugar.

Although the great Napoleon was not
the sort of man whom it was ordinarily
safe to laugh at, he was ridiculed and
caricatured on account of his faith that
sugar could be made profitable from
beets. In 1911 the emperor promised
the French people that they should
have sugar from beets If he excluded
from France the commerce Of England,
including the sugars of the British
West Indies This promise led to the
publication of a caricature in which
the emperor and his little son, the king
of Rome, were represented. The en-
peror was shown sitting in his boys
nursery, squeezing beet root into a
cup of coffee. The baby prince sat
near him hard at work sucking a beet
root, while the nurse, standing close
by, was represented as exclaiming,
Suck it, dear, suck it; your papa says
it is sugar." This biting sarcasm did
not prevent Napoleon from spending
several million francs at a time when
his empire was under tremendous
strain of expenditures in bounties for
sugar made from beets.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1905-05-23
A DEEP SEA GLUTTON.
This Marine Wizard Can Swallow n
Fish Twice Its Own Size.

This Marine Wizard Can Swallow =
Fish Twice Its own Size.
"That one animal can devour another
twice its own size at a single swallow
is statement that may seem as in
credible as any fish story ever invent
ed" writes Dr. Sanderson Christison.
Nevertheless it is true of certain fish
es. So far as known such fishes are In
habitants of the deep seas, where utter
darkness perpetually prevails, with an
unvarying temperature almost as cold
as ice and pressure ranging, accord
ing to depth, from a quarteE to three or
four tons upon every square inch of
their body surface. The deep sea is
commonly regarded as commencing
where the rays Of sunlight cease to
penetrate, which is estimated to be less
than 1,200 feet below the surface, and
may extend to twenty times that dis
lance or even much more, down to the
bottom of the ocean. Fishes have been
dredged from below 1900 feet
"A deep sea fish, the Chiasmodus nj
ger, six and five-eighths of an inch
long, has been found to have swal-
lowed another fish ten and half inch
es long. The stomach of the devoureI
is stretched as thin as gold beater's
skin. 1t has sharp, hooked teeth, which
cross each other from opposite sides Of
the mouth and usually point backward
According to Gunther, the fish after
| having seized its victim with its capa
cious and very movable jaws partly
presses it down as a snake would dc
and partly draws itself over it. The
prey is received into an esophagus anG
stomach the membranes of which are
/ as extensible as an india rubber pouch
The stomach when empty is contracted
and folded up and projects but little
below the abdomen.
when deep sea fish is brought tt
the surface, how gradually and careful
soever, it's bones are often like so mucf
touchwood and its muscles like rotteI
| pulp, while its eyes are burst from its
sockets and its viscera are often blown
out of the body cavity by the expan
sion of the air bladder. 1t frequently
happens tnat deep sea nSneS are fOunC
floating helplessly on the surface Of
the ocean with large prey in theil
stomachs. Their appearance under
these circumstances is accounted fol
by the efforts of their struggling vic
tins to escape from their jaws, caus
ing them to ascend beyond the horizon
tai zone which they usually inhabit
deep sea fishes are commonly blacl
or dark brown. But, although it Il
claimed that light is essential to thu
formation of colors. some deep Sc,
fishes are scarlet in parts or uniform
red or rosy. Others are silvery white
while, according to Alcock, the neo
copelus is one dazzling sheen of pur
pie and silver and FURNISHED gold
amid which is a sparkling constellation
of luminous organs I"
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1905-05-23
ESTABLISHED 1879

suddenly caught the clowns fingers
with a thrilling grasp Quick as
thought he slipped ring on the third
finger of her left hand
The king and queen had risen to
depart.
Il shall come for my answer at to-
morrow" he reminded
"Why-why not take it tonight?" the
queen asked shyly. 81 can never mar
ry you, your majesty, because I am to
wed another"
ITO wed anotherT the king faltered
pitifully. -wed-another2"
''This is be, your majesty" the queen
replied, turning to the Jester.
Think" the king pleaded. Think
''The queen has thought" the Jester
announced in manly tones. And he
knelt and kissed the cold hand of the
king.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1905-05-23
Mnch More Powerful.

Professor Smith was once lecturing
on natural philosophy, and In the
course of his experiments he intro
duced most powerful magnet, with
which he attracted block Of iron from
a distance of two feet.
Can any of you conceive a greater
attractive powerT demanded the lee
turer, with an air of triumph.
81 can," answered a voice from the
audience.
'Not a natural terrestrial object"
Eyes, indeed"
The lecturer, somewhat puzzled, chal-
lenged the man who had spoken to
name the article.
Then up rose old Johnny Sowerby.
Said he: II will give you facts, pro-
fessor, and you can judge for yourself.
When l was young man there was a
little piece of natural magnet done up
In a neat cotton dress as was called
Betsy Maria She could draw me four
teen miles on Sunday over plowed land
no matter what wind or weather there
was There was no resistin' her. That
magnet O. yourn is pretty good, but it
won't draw so far as Betsy MariaP'
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1905-05-23

There are two standards of measure
ment of human life-the one by years
the other by achievement. Measured by
years, Sidney Lanier's life of less than
twoscore was a broken column; meas
ured by achievement, his life is not yet
ended-he is immortal. Robert Burns
died at thirty-seven, Byron at thirty
six, Poe at forty, Raphael at thirty six
Lanier at thirty-nine. 1t is whom the
gods love die young. And yet who
shall say that the Scottish pillow boy
or the author of "Childe Harold" or he
who sang of the Raven" or the paint
er of the TRANSPORTATION" or the com
poser of Centennial Cantata," do not
one and all, still speak to us In voices
whose echoes will command enraptur
ed listeners away down the centuries,
-Lippincott's.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1905-05-23

A prominent physician in Baltimore
recently perpetrated a wittlcism at his
own expense. 1t was late at night.
The doctor had lost his night key; the
door was locked, and the more he rang
the night bell the more the suspicion.
grew in his mind that some one had
chloroformed the entire household.
Finally, however, his sister was
aroused by a long ring of the hell.
Naturally she thought that there was
some one at the door who wished to
see the doctor and that, as the doctor
was out, she would herself have to
answer the summons, else the caller
would keep her awake for long time
So, hastily throwing loose gown over
her nightdress, she hurried to the door.
Opening the door the least bit, in order
not to present her dishabille to an in
truding eye, she shouted through the
crack in tone of sleepy Impotence
''The DOCTORS out" and was about to
close the door when the physician
thrust one foot through, at the same
time exclaiming;
4 Eyes, l know the doctors out, but he
wants to get inp'-Harpers Weekly.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1905-05-23
The Burlington and Bristol Steana6oa
Ferry Company.

Schedule in effect 700 a. M, April l, 1905.
LEAVE BRISTOL FOR BURLINGTON.
Daily except Sundays and Saturdays, 200,
500, 900, 1000, ll.00, M, $780, lSO, 23O $50,
4.3O, $50, $50, p. m.
Saturdays, zoo, 500, 800, 1000, IlOO a. m 1890
l3O, 30, 800, $40, 4.30, $50, $40 p. m.
Sundays, 500, $780, 1000, ll.00 a. M, 1890, l30
40, 800, $40, 430, $50, $50 D. m.
LEAVE BURLINGTON FOR BRISTOL.
Daily except Sundays and Saturdays, 100,
$50 $50, 1885, ll.3O a. m, LOO zoo, 800, AGO, 500
$40, $50 p. m.
Saturdays 40, $50, $50, 1880, ll3O a. M, LOO
200, 2.40, $40, 400 500, $40, 700 p. m.
sundays, $50, $50, 1870, ll.3O a M, LOO, 200,
2.40, $40, 400, 500, $40, 200 p. m.
NOTES.
The boat for the performances in the Audi
forum will leave Bristol at 7.40 p. M, return
ing will leave Burlington twenty minutes
after the performances.
May 3Oth, 1905, the 1000 o'clock morning trip
from Bristol will be withdrawn and the boat
will leave Bristol at $40 a. IN,
No trips will be guaranteed in foggy weather
WILLIAM <. DORON,
Sec'y, Treas. and Gen'l Manager
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1905-05-23
A SHIPS DOCTOR.
The Things For Which He Should or
Should Not BE Paid.

Should Not BE Paid.
A correspondent of Lloyd's Weekly
has expressed the views of a ship doc
tor in the following words; Many
travellers are in doubt as to the po-
sition of the ships doctor in regard to
his remuneration from passengers for
services rendered. The merchant ship
ping act enacts that every foreign 60
ing vessel having hundred persons on
board OF upward shall carry on board
as part of her complement a duly
qualified medical practitioner Further
more, an emigrant ship. e., foreign
going vessel which carries fifty or
more steerage passengers must have
d medical man, irrespective Of the
number of crew or of other passengers
carried. The salary of the doctor on
board is commensurate with these du-
ties to his ship. To any passengers
who are suffering from ordinary forms
of seasickness and its concomitant
evils or who receives injuries which
are in any way due to the ship the
doctors services are free. For any
during voyage which is not connected
with the above named conditions he Is
entitled to remuneration at the same
rate as he would receive on shore. OBJ
viously it would be as unfair to eX-
pect that his services to passengers
be for any visitor in hotel or travel
ing on railway to expect to have
medical attention free in any illness
for which the hotel or railway authori-
ties could not be held responsible"
The writer of letter to the London
Lancet says that the case of the ships
surgeon is stated with accuracy in the
above sentences and adds that ships
surgeons are of two kinds first, those
who after they have qualified take
such a position either for health or for
pleasure, and, second, those who elect
to make sea life a permanency.
The pay of the ships doctor varies
from $50 to $50 a month. This is for
duties to officers and crew. AS regards
passengers in relation to the surgeon
the following groups will include all:
First, the passenger who takes the
initiative by remunerating the surgeon,
perhaps handsomely, for any services
rendered; second, the passenger who
asks for his bill and pays it If reason
able; third, the passenger who, travel
ing for the first time, does not know
whether to ask for his bill or wait for
it to be delivered, but is pleased to be
enlightened on the matter; fourth, the
passenger who clings to the old time
notion that the surgeon is there solely
for the benefit of passengers, and, fifth
the passenger who never intends to
pay the surgeon Medical Record.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1905-05-23
a apeer Rainbow superstitlon

The Kurds and Armenians, whose
many folklore stories and tales of SUI
perstitious fancies far exceed those of
the gypsies, have some rainbow be-
liefs which are perhaps not duplicated
in the popular notions of any others
among the races of mankind. They
boot at the idea of its being witness
to Gods covenant with man that the
earth will no more undergo the ordeal
of food and declare that it was made
for the express purpose Of letting the
first man and woman down from
heaven, the man securely fastened to
one end of the great variegated band,
the woman at the other. The end of
time, according to the Kurds, will be
ushered in by the appearance of four
rainbows, which will cross at the
zenith, furnishing eight passageways
for God and his hosts.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1905-05-23
MARCUS DALYS PLUCK.


The story of Loan That Brought
Success and Wealth.
When the outlook was the blacklist
and this indomitable captain of men,
Marcus DAILY, had exhausted his re-
sources and his credit fortunate ac-
cident placed in his hands a small but
sufficient sum of money to transform
inevitable defeat into certain victory
Lloyd Tevis, the California lawyer, and
his mining partner, ]. B. Haggin, who
had been visiting their properties at
Homestake, stopped at Butte on their
way home to California to take q look
at the new camp. Marcus DAILY knew
Messrs. Haggin and Tevis WE'LL for he
had worked for them in the old Califor-
mia days. He visited them at their
hotel, not the gorgeous palace of gran
lite, marble, precious onyx and mahog-
any which adOrns Butte today, but
humber wooden structure more In
keeping with the squalid surroundings
of the new camp. In Haggin's bed
room, the only place available for
private conversation, DAILY made
clean breast of it to his friends and
appealed to them for aid, explaining
his theory fully and citing many adj
ditional facts which had developed dur
ing his mining operations in Anaconda
that went to strengthen it.
1t was thoroughly characteristic of
the man that he did not attempt to
haggle over the terms of the loan, but
or fnd wv fIaa fo al III
negotiations with the words: ''Now,
gentlemen, that is a correct statement
of the situation of my affairs and the
condition of my mine. | must have
$4,000, and l must have it at once to
meet next Saturdays payroll and cur
rent bills and to provide for the ex-
penses of operation for another six
months or So If l do not get 1t / am
fiat broke and will have to close up.
have told you what / have got and
what / think and what l think l am
going to get when that shaft is down
another 100 feet or so. Make your own
terms, but let me have the money"
They gave him the $4,000, and, of
course, being astute business men,
contract was drawn up and signed then
and there transferring to them the con-
trolling interest in the property. But
w to the date of his death Lloyd Teyis
always declared that, though he believ-
ed thoroughly in Marcus Days integ-
rity, both he and Mr. Haggin thought
that he was chasing a chimera, that the
theory upon the elaboration of which
Marcus DAILY had spent SO many sleep
less nights and all his substance was
fallacious and that no gOld-copper de-
post would ever be discovered In the
bowels of Butte mountain. In fine,
Haggin and Tevis let DAILY have $4,000
because they liked him. They certain
ly never dreamed that Anaconda
would prove a more veritable bonanza
than the ComstOck lode. As for DAILY,
he had never doubted his ultimate sue
cess, and when three months after that
meeting in the hotel bedroom the main
shaft of Anaconda penetrated, as he had
always believed it would, the richest
and most extensive gold-copper deposit
/ in the known world he conveyed the in
telligence to his partners in California
In this most matter Of fact telegram
eve have reached it. Come out and
look at it."-Public Opinion.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1905-05-23
Rewards For churchgoing.

At Trustworthy, in Devonshire, Eng
land, the prettiest girl who attends
church gets we'll rewarded for doing
so. About fifty years or so ago it struck
the Rev. Thomas Meyrick, who was
then vicar of the parish, that the young
ladies there did not attend church so
often as they might do. So he left a
sum Of money, and this, according to
the terms of his will, was to be put out
at interest. The annual income from
it was to be given each year to the
prettiest young woman at Trustworthy
who had attended church regularly for
that year.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1905-05-23

Bosky-I say, doctor, l want you to
look at a horse up here at the stable
and tell me honestly just what you
think about him-whether he is sound
or unsound. Veterinary always tell
just what l think. BY the way, is it
horse you think of buying or one you
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1905-05-23
PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD.
The Standard Railroad Of America. Pro-
tected throughout BY Block Signals
and Intoxicating .SzOJiches.
IN EFFECT MAY I. 1905.
1rafns Leave Mount Holm

Irains IedUe Mount Holly
For Philadelphia, 5.55, 6.52, TIA, 7.49, 818, 9O6
92l, ILL a. m, 1898, 22I. 800 463 SOL 600 $40
1886, l0.E p. m. On Sundays, 803 8.57, 1852 a
M. Ais, $40, 7.l9, $50 p. m.
For Pemberton, 6.55, 800, ll2l a. M, l.41, 3.39
AT, $50, 7.22, (l240 a. m. Friday only. On
Sundays, 831, 1000 a. m, 40, $50, $50 p m.
For Burlington, Bordentown, Trenton and
New York, $50. 9.l0, a. M, 4.05, 7.35 p. m.
For Lumberton, Medford, Marlton and Had
donfield, $40 ll.30, a. M, AL p. m.
For Vtncentown, l242 1926, $50 p. m.
For Toms River, Island Heights and Sea Side
Park, 800, a. M. AT p. m. On Sundays, 8.3l
a. M
For Asbury Park and Long Branch, 800, a
M. 4.47 p. m. On Sundays, 83l a. m.
Trains teGve for Mount Holly as JoItosOs:
From Philadelphia 500, 82O 1870, ll.40 a. m.
1850, l5O $50, 400, 432 504, 5.44, SOS, 6.28, 1880
80, l0.4O, 1l.50, p. m. On Sundays $50 9.A
a. m. 1910, 2.30, 500, 740, 1910, pm.
From Trenton, 7.40, $50, a. m, 2.55, p. m.
From Burlington, $40, 1905 M, $50, 9.52 p. m
From New York, via Trenton and Burlington
800, a. No., LOO, 400, p m.
From Medford, 7.07 a. M, l.3O, OH p m.
From Toms River, 8.07 a. M. 4.n p. m. On
Sundays, 6.22 p. m.
From North Pemberton, 6.37, 7.25, $40, 9.03, a.
M, 1925, 3.46, Gil, 81 p. m. On Sundays
7.34 a. M, 1928, 5.35, 6.55, 9.l5 p. m.
From South Pemberton, 8.48 a. M. 4.44 p. m
On Sundays, 7.01 p m.
From Asbury Park, 6.5l, a. M, 2.45 p. m. On
Sundays, 5.11 p. M.
From Long Branch, 6.85, a. M, 230 p. m. On
Sundays, 500 d. M.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1905-05-23

Hush, hushT whispered Roxana,
with her hand on his lips. You know
1 never really believed
''Of course not" he agreed promptly.
Then, as his arms frightened about
her, But, oh, Roxle, don't let us play
that game again.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1905-05-23
WEST JERSEY SEAsHORE RAILROAD
October 4, 1904.

Medford, Marion and Philadelphia
Leave Medford for Philadelphia ats7.OO, zoos a
M, Eos, $40 p. m.
On Sundays, 7.05 a. M, 4.05 p. m.
Leave Marion for Philadelphia at TIA lO.lS a.
M, 223, 5.22 p. m.
On Sundays 7.I9 a. M, All p m.
Leave Philadelphia, Market street, for Med
ford and Marion at zoo, 1870 a. m, except
Saturdays), LOO p. M, saturdays only. $40
$50 p. M.
On Sundays, 800 a. M, $50 p. m.
Leave Marlton for Me1ford, sly, lilo a. m.
Except Saturdays, LAB p. M, Saturdays
only, 406 Gil p. M.
On Sundays, 9.46 a.. M, 628 p. m.
For further particulars apply to the ticket
agent at the station.
w. w. ATTERBURY, j. r. WOOD,
General Manager. Gen. Pass. Agent.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1905-05-23

Jobson-Miss Blank looks awfully
frivolous to me. What makes you think
she has so much hard sense? Robson
l just heard her refuse an invitation
to a card party because she couldn't
play cards.-Detroit Free Press.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1905-05-23

Aunt Jane-Well there's one thing
about Martha-she attends to her own
business and to nobody else's Eva
Poor thing! She must lead a very dull,
uninteresting life-Boston Transcript.