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Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1906-01-19

EOR SALE.-Three tenement house and
IL barn, Grove street. A good home. or an
investment. s. W. BDGETT n co. 3-tf
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1906-01-19

NOR SALE.AChester white boar w. G.
~ DOOLITrLE. IlrnI tlehnrn. a.lw
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1906-01-19

"ANTED.-A reliable man on farm, one
w that can milk aud knows enough To run
a moving machte. JOHN HUNT, Brattle-
bOrO. 3w3
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1906-01-19

ENOR SALE-Two brindle puppies, white
~ markings. three months old, very III
telligent aud make nice pets. Price s. EACH
II. IL
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1906-01-19

ENoH SALE.-The Tripp house. Green street
II One of the finest locations in town Pos.
session given May /. $. W. EDGETT & CO.
3tf
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1906-01-19

%" ANTED-Al kinds Of soft wood lumber
w in the log, delivered at our mill. High
est prices paid for the same. HOLDEN 4
MARTIN. 4Dtf
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1906-01-19

WTANTED.-Comp house girl who can
w do plain cooking in small family: no
washing or ironing. Must be in good health.
Good wages raid t0 right party. Address Box
8l. HiusiHle. N. II. 4gtf
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1906-01-19

ENOR SALE COTTAGE HOUSE on Green
~ ST. Eight rooms. furnace, Was, etc. Part
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1906-01-19

rTNO RENT-Two furnished rooms. with use
Il OF bathroom. at Is Clark st. 2-tf
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1906-01-19

Nor SALE.-One Old Comfort sleIgh second
a. hand in Roud condition. Iuquire of
CLAKENCE A. BARBER, BrattleborJ. l.tf
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1906-01-19

nor SALB-A wind mill about ~ feet high
II II can he seen by calling at w. q. AmidOn's
residence nn NOrthaeld street In Hinsdale
n. II. A great opportunity for part es wishing
a wind mill. w. %. AMIDON. 4ltf
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1906-10-16
DEEP SEA FISHES.
There Being Nothing Else to

There Being Nothing Else to Eat,
They Live Upon Each Other.
"All the deep sea fishes are enormous
eaters" says a naturalist. '9There be
ing nothing to eat but the life about
them, they live upon each other. Every
facility for killing and devouring
is ded-lumnescence to dazzle,
swiftness and strength to overtake
and overpower, knife blade teeth for
tearing, abnormally large jaws for
crushing Whatever the prey or how
ever large it may be, there is little
trouble in swallowing it. The mouth
yawns like a cavern, and the stomach
than the swallower. The appetite in
fishes seems never wanting, and COM
plete digestion with some Of them is
only a matter of half an hour" For
this reason slaughter goes ON unend-
ingly. Usually it is produced only by
hunger but some monsters. like the
bluefsh, even when gorged, kill for
pure love of killing.
OF the eternal warfare that goes on
beneath the surface of the waves the
same writer remarks: "They follow the
prey like packs of wolves, and In turn
are followed, band succeeding band,
increasing in size as they decrease in
numbers. The behring's eat the smaller
fish, even their own young; they are
harried by the bluefishes until trail
of blood stains the water, while fol
lowing the bluefishes come the insati-
ate porposes Nothing saves the
weaker ones but breed. Many thou
sands of eggs are spawned that
dozen or more may be Matched and
brought to maturity. Billions are lost;
yes, but millions survive.
1.-THE herrings move on the sea in
uncountable numbers-in banks that
are miles In length and width, in wind
rows so vast that they perhaps keep
passing one given point in unbroken
succession for months at time. Just
so with the menhaden. A catch in a
purse net of 100000 is not infrequent
Such numbers are sufficient to with
stand all the ravages of the natural
enemy The bass, the haddock and
the pollock may kill to their hearts
content. and still the menhaden will
hold their wn."-Chicago News
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1906-10-16

According to Professor Rowland, the
safest of all places in thunderstorm
is an iron bedstead. Lying on this,
one Is in kind of metal cage which
acts as lightning screen. This Is
contrary to very generally accepted
theory, as metal of all kinds and forms
is generally avoided under the belief
that it attracts the electric fluid. Trees,
experience shows, are very dangerous
places to shelter beneath in thundei
storms, and isolated trees more so than
clump, especially if near water An
oak tree by the side of a pond is con-
sidered by electricians as peculiarly
unsafe, but water and damp groun
are to be avoided quite as much as
trees If the storm is directly over
head it would be safer to lie on the
earth fat than to stand up. Indoors
the safest placement to the iron bed
is In the middle of the room, and
room in the middle of the house Is
safer than one at the bottom or top.
All drafts and air currents should be
avoided, and all metal objects, such as
mirrors, picture frames and wire bell
pulls, should be kept as clear as posi-
BILE
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1906-10-16

While it is a fact that in places the
crow is not destructive to an important
degree, it will be long time before he
will be considered friend of either the
farmer or the portsman-perhaps
never. And all the arguments that
may be advanced in favor of the crow
will not save him from being shot at;
killing is a different matter. While
those who have grown morbid from
reading new nature stuff go to ex-
tremes concerning crows, or anything
else for that matter, sportsmen as a
rule permit the crow to live in peace
during the nesting season. 1t is merely
question of fairness that dictates
their actions in this. 1t stands to
reason that the sportsman who avoids
fishing during the spawning season and
protects game and game birds In the
summer will not modest a crow when
1t has little ones in the nest that would
starve if the old birds were killed. But
after the young birds have grown
strong enough to take care Of them
selves and all Of this black race have
resumed active operations against the
agriculturist and other birds they must
take care of themselves if found guilty
Of marauding. and Stream.
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Humble
g Pie g
BY Louis j. Strong
Copyright, 1905, by P. c. Eastment

You're heartless coquette! You've
driven my boy away forever! He's
Eone-he's gonev' Mrs. Hale walled,
with angry, fearful eyes.
Gone" Dora repeated, the indig-
nant red fading from her cheeks.
Yes, gone. And l hold you little
better than a murderer, missr' with
which startling declaration she was
leaving when Dora caught her arm.
Mrs. Hale, please tell me, do you
mean that Steve Is really gone nowY'
Eyes. l do mean that he is really
gone nowr Mrs. Hale's eyes snapped
with vindictive satisfaction at the girls
distress. He went across country In
his buggy, meaning to stop at his I'M
cle's to tell them goodby. He'll take
the train at Lynchburg. oh, I'll never
see him again, and it's your doing. you
good for nothing She left the I'M
pleasant epithet unspoken and stalked
away.
Dora fed to her room and fell upon
her bed in tempest of grief. 1t had
not seemed possible that Steve could
carry out his threat and leave her. As
she thought Of 1t the long years ahead
without him seemed to envelop and
smother her. She sprang up, gasping.
She must get out.
Pm going for long ride, mamma"
she announced later, and, pulling her
cycling cap over her swollen eyes, she
rushed away.
She sllirted the village with head
down, vowing she would not speak to
soul, but an insistent voice hailed
her from a small house out on the
road, and Miss Prissy Allen, the old
maid seamstress, hurried to her
'Of all people in the worldw Dora
groaned, dreading the sharp eyes and
usually sharper tongue of Miss Prissy.
I've heard all about it, Dora" Miss
Prissy said bluntly, but with unwonted
kindness. 81 happened to be there
when Mrs. Hale came from your house,
and her wrath boiled over to me. / was
just going to see you. I-I-want to-
advise you, my dear girl. Don't let
foolish anger and foolish pride ruin
your life. Never mind what Steve said
or did. You know he loves you, and
you love him. Let everything go. Think
of the long years.
"Oh, Miss Prissy," Dora broke in
traglcally, II do think of them and how
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1906-10-16
Shifting the Responsibility.

Sir John Macdonald, when premier
of Canada, one evening was present
at public dinner at which he was
expected to deliver a rather impor-
tant speech. In the conviviality of the
occasion he forgot the more serious
duty of the evening. and when at
late hour he rose his speech was by no
means so luminous as it might have
been. The reporter, knowing that it
would not do to print his notes as they
stood, called on Sir John next day and
told him that he was not quite sure of
having secured an accurate report
He was invited to read over his notes,
but he had not got far when Sir John
interrupted him with THAT Is not
what said" There was a pause, and
Sir John continued, LET me repeat
my remarks" He then walked up and
down the room and delivered a most
impressive speech in the hearing Of the
amused reporter, who took down every
word as it fell from his lips Having
thanked Sir John for his courtesy, he
was taking his leave when he was re-
called to receive this admonition:
Young man, allow me to give you this
word of advice-never again attempt
to report public speaker when you
are drunk"
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course or an nour ne Iound nef. Sne
hadn't quite Sc much mourning on now
and was better looking than he had
thought. She had received the plain
woman's trunk with the broken handle
She was refined, ladylike girl and in
mourning for an aunt who had left her
$4,000, but yet she used language
tinged with acid. Next time she went
travelling and had to appeal to a man
for help she would make sure that he
knew enough to check his own trunk,
and so forth, and so forth A woman
may lose her sweetheart and say moth
ing, but let her lose her trunk while
travelling and 1t takes years to exhaust
the subject
Mr.. Lee got away with his ears burn
ing, and yet he admired Miss Strothers.
He arranged to have the trunk sent on
to Rochester and then took the train
for that city. The plain woman was
expecting him. She had the trunk all
ready to point at, but it didn't happen
to be Miss Strothers' trunk. 1t be-
longed to Miss Remington Here was
another mixup
The bachelor drew a long breath
and started to explain. but was cut
short after minute. He was asked to
Identify himself as an honest man: he
was asked to prove that he was not a
baggage thief; he was asked to con
vince the plain looking woman, who
looked palmer than ever in her own
house and with her anger up, that his
grandfather had never been hung for
capital crime
At the end of half an hour the plain
woman soften on him a bit. She
softened enough to say that perhaps
after all it was his first crime and that
If he hustled around and got that one
handled trunk In Rochester inside of
two hours she would not call in the
police.
Bachelor Lee longed to return to New
York and find rest and peace, but mex
orable fate drove him on to Buffalo.
There he found Miss Remington.
II am not going to blame you at ALL"
she said as she met him. 1T was all
my Iault IN thinking that you knew
anything about the operation of rail
roads. You could have loaded that
trunk into an auto and had it into the
Staten Island ferry in half an hour.
Mr.. Lee proceeded to explain. but it
was not much of an explanation. How
ever, the more he explained and the
more he failed to explain the more he
became interested in Miss Remington.
1t was matter of four days before
the big trunk, the little trunk and the
one handled trunk reached their re-
spective owners.
The chapter was closed then and
there with the plain looking woman,
but not SO with one of the others. Ever
since that date, and particularly during
the last three months, the bachelor
club man has found it necessary to go
up the road to talk trunk business, and
he finds that the most effective way to
remind Miss Remington of her duty to-
ward the diamond ring she wears is to
suggest that he take a trip to Syracuse
to see the other young woman about
bar. fI11nI
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1906-10-16
Courting In the Txrol.

Tyrolean maideps are by old custom
spared the necessity of giving tongue
to their AYE" or mo" The first time a
young man pays visit as an avowed
sutton he brings with him bottle Of
wine, of which he pours out a glass
and offers 1t to the object Of his affec-
lions. In any case she will not refuse
it point blank-that would be too gross
an insult-but should the wooer not be
agreeable to her or his declaration
come little too prematurely she de-
clines the proffered wine, pleading that
it looks sour or that wine disagrees
with her or any other excuse that
feminine ingenuity may suggest If
she likes the lad and Is equal to own
ing it she empties the glass, taking
care not to spill any of the wine, for
If she does so or the glass or bottle oe
broken it is an unhappy omen 'They
have split the wine between them,*
say the peasants when the marriage
turns out badly.
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yourself, but I'm generous. Oh, nc
laughed at her look of surprise, 'it's
no secret that Steve shook you and put
out this morning"
You are very wisel" she retorted,
endeavoring to pass.
"Oh, it's common wisdom he grin
ned, still preventing her. 1T wasn't
gentlemanly of Steve to jilt girl so
publicly Come, now; let me make you
Mrs. Lawson at once, and you'll turn
the laugh on him good and hard"
"Steve did not jilt me! l was to
blame myselfr' Dora fared. 'Let me
pass, please. must go onr'
why, you don't mean that you're
tagging the fellow to try to coax him
back? he jeered insolently.
Scarlet, but disdaining denial Dora
evaded him and fed, murmuring with
a long breath: "That was a horrible
piece of humble pie! But it's better
than eating bitter bread the rest Of
my lifer
With siekening fear that she was
already too late, she scorched desper-
ately over the remaining miles and
dashed, painting and disheveled, into
Lynchburg, coming almost Immediate
ly upon Steve, with Don and the bug
gy, at sale stable With a pang she
noted that Steve was pale and bag
gard. He, too, had suffered, and yet
he looked so stern and grave Her
courage faltered. He might not-but
she must take it, this last and biggest
piece of humble pie, and if Steve were
implacable she was so exhausted she
was sure she would die and there
would be no Miss Prissy's fate for her
AS she timidly approached Steve
turned, saw her and with an exclama-
ton darted to her, and at the sudden
light in his eyes Miss Dora Topped
over In his arms, half fainting, muir
muring heartbrokenly: "Oh, Stevel
Steve!'
That was all, but enough.
THE humble pie I've eatenl l GER
tainly deserve entire absoutionw Dora
cried self righteously when the high
stepping Don was prancing home with
them.
Humble pier Steve exclaimed
"Your little piece is nothing to the
hunk I've got to swallow-going back
after all the fuss-and how I'm to
do it l don't see unless we're mar
ried at once and run away on long
trip"
Dora blushed, but said nothing, and
silence gives CONSENT
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1906-10-16
RESTAURANTS.
The First of Them Was Established
In Paris In 1765.

In Paris In 1765.
For a long time inns and eating
houses In France were only intended
for the benefit of travelling people, for
the people took their meals at home
and restaurants were unknown. The
first enterprise of the kind was found
ed in Paris in 1865. A citizen by the
name of Boulanger opened in the Rue
DIES Poulies an eating house where
soup, meat, fowl and eggs were serv-
ed. A chronicler relates that meals
were served there on small round
marble tables and everything was scru-
pulously clean.
Over the entry to this first eating
house the proprietor had hung a sign,
upon which were the Latin words, We
mite ad me omnes quae stomacho labo-
rats, ct ego restaurabo yos" Come
unto me all We whose stomachs need
attention, and l will restore them).
This is a parody on the well known
Biblical quotation, Come unto me all
We who labor and are heavy laden, and
/ will give you rest" only in place of
labor and heavy laden he said, whose
stomachs need attention" The word
''restaurabo," from the Latin ''restau-
rare" (restore or refresh), was the
main characteristic Of the new estab-
lishment and gave it it's name. Bou-
LANCER amassed a large fortune, for
his enterprise proved eminently sue
cessful, but he was soon initiated, some
of his imitators becoming more famous
than he
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1906-10-16
Di.raeli,. Ideal Of Greatness.


When Disraeli was curly and smart
and comparatively unknown, he visited
the Royal Exchange of Liverpool in
company with Duncan Stewart, lead
ing merchant of the city. 1t was at
high noon and the exchange was
thronged by merchants. The scene so
impressed the young member of parlia-
ment that he said to Mr. Stewart:
my ideal of greatness would be that
a man should receive the applause Of
such an assembiage as this-that he
should be cheered as he came into this
room"
Disraeli went in and came out I'M
noticed, but several years later he
again visited the Liverpool exchange
in company with Mr.. Stewart His en-
trance was greeted by a cheer which
spread into roar and ended in an
ovation. The testimony to his political
prominence deeply moved Disraeli,
who, recalling to Mr.. Stewart the re-
mark he had made years before, said,
MY ideal test of greatness has been
realized"
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1906-10-16
Three Baggage
Checks
BY aid Allen
Copyright, 1905, by NJ. N. Cunningham

Whatever caused Harry Lee, bache-
Tor. club man and good deal Of a cynic,
TO saunter into the Central depot that
afternoon he never has been able to
explain except by laying it to fate. He
wasn't going anywhere, didn't want to
see anybody in particular, and he al
ways kept clear of passenger depots on
account of fearful old women and cry
ing children. On this occasion he had
scarcely caught sight Of one fearful old
woman when somebody caught sight
of him.
"And who on earth told you that I
was going to BuffaloY exclaimed a
voice at his elbow as he turned to go
out
1t was Miss Remington, whom he had
known fairly well for year past and
who had sometimes struck him as be-
ing rather good looking and of engage
ing manners. Just now she was look
ing unusually well in her travelling
suit and her eyes shining with excite
ment
II came to say farewell" replied
Lee, with ready wit
How nice of you! My trunk was
sent on half an hour ago ahead of me
and must be in the baggage room.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1906-10-16
The burlington and Bristol Steamboo
Ferru Company.

Schedule in effect $40 a. m, September a. 1906.
LEA We BRISTOL FOR BURLINGTON.
$40, 500 600, 1000 1910, ll.l5 a, M, 1880,
Saturdays-6.40 500, 900 1000, 1910, U.l5
a. M, 1890, LSO, 2.20, 800, $40, 40, 80,
sundays~s.Oo, $780, 1000 1910, Ills a. M.
1890, l.3O, go, 300, $40, 4.SO, $50, s6.sO,
T.20, p. m.
LEAVE BURL INGTON FOR BRISTOL,
$50, $50, $50, 1920, HOO, i1.30 a M, 100,
200, 300, 400 800, $40, $50 p. m.
Saturdays-6.50, $50, $780, 1929, ll.00, 1.3O
a. M, LOO. 20O 2.40, 800, 400, 800, $40 $40,
Sundays-ssO, $780, 1920, HOO, l1.sO a. m.
1OO 200, 240, 320 400, 90, $40 s640* 7.30 p. m
Notes.-The trips marked thus ~ will be
withdrawn on and after November lst. The
last boat from Bristol on Saturdays and sun
days will leave at $50 p. M, and the last boat
from Burlington on saturdays a nd sundays
Will leave at 700 p. m.
On October End, 3rd and 4th mount Holly
Fafr) see notice of extra trips.
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.
On Thanksgiving Day the trips Will be as
Saturday Time Table.
November q, 1905 the 1000 morning trip from
Bristol will be withdrawn and the boat VIII
leave Bristol at $40 a. m,
Winter Schedule will go into effect on Mon
day, December Bird, 1906; sooner If there is Ice
in the river.
No trips viii be guaranteed in foggy weather
WILLIAM E. DORON,
Sec'y, Treas. and Genl Manager
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1906-10-16
A Child wonder.

The French Academy of Sciences In
1923 examined the case of a French
lad only seven years old who, in all
respects save that of intelligence, was
the equal of man of twenty. His re-
markable physical development began
when he was two years old At four
he could do the farm work Of boy Of
fifteen or sixteen. and at seven he was
a fully grown man. Although his
physique was thus remarkably devel-
oped, his intelligence was no greater
than that of children of the same age.
He died before he was twenty. As is
usual in such cases of premature de-
velopment, his strength faded away,
and he became prematurely old before
other men would attain maturity.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1906-10-16

Needles are all made by machinery.
The piece of mechanism by which the
needle is manufactured takes the rough
steel wire, cuts it into proper lengths,
files the point, fattens the head, plerces
the eye, then sharpens the tiny instru-
ment and gives it that polish familiar
to the purchaser. There is also ma
chine by which needles are counted
and placed In the papers in which they
are sold, these being afterward folded
by the same contrIvance
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1906-10-16

The pandects of Justinian, the most
complete body of Roman laws ever
collected, were supposed to be lost, but
In 1137, when Amalf was taken and
plundered by the Pisans, a private sol
der found copy. which he sold to an
officer for few pence. The value of
the discovery was soon apparent, and
the precious volume was taken to Pisa
and stored In the city library. When
Pisa was stormed by the Florentines
In 1915 the precious volume was cap
tured and taken to Florence, where it
was placed in the library of the Medici.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1906-10-16
he was Realistic.

A newly enrolled volunteer was rath-
er alarmed during his first experience
of sham fight, especially as he heard
the colonel in command declare that
everything was TO be done 1.-The same
as in actual warfare" No sooner was
the first blank cartridge fred than the
frightened soldier dropped his gun and
took to his heels.
Hey, why are you running awayf"
shouted his captain as the man dashed
by him.
TITS all right, sir. I'm doing the
same as / would do in actual warfare"
London Answers. g.
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your ne cried, win

TAKE tnem, your ne cried, win
a bitter OATH
And so it was not until Miss Elliott
sat opposite Bentley at a table at
lunch that she learned how nearly she
had been delivered from her "abun-
dance Of riches" She sat speechless,
watching Bentley with beautiful, hor-
rified eyes as he laid bare the decep-
ton that had been practiced upon her,
touching lightly upon his own part in
the affair
"Oh,' she said In an unsteady voice,
what can 1 say to you? / want to
thank you. l cannot-I do not know
how
He leaned forward, his eyes holding
hers across the flowers on the center
of the table.
II know" he said under his breath,
"but dare not ask-it is so much
She colored delicious pink, but her
eyes met his bravely.
'There is nottingham could be-too
much" she said