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Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1906-06-16
Notice To Tax Payers.

The first installment of City
taxes will be due and payable at
the City Hall, from and after
June 18th, till July 10, after which
time a penalty of ten percent will
be added on those who are delin-
ouene on the first installment.
The second installment is due
and payable Oct. 1st.
This June 9th. 1906.
C. M. Wise City Treas.
103.1mo.
Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1906-06-16
For Up-tO- Date Furniture

cali and see those nice kitchen
Cabinets, with the new designed
fitting flour bins, at ]. W. Shuts
shop, corner Grant and Oconee.
64-tf.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1906-01-09
The Bells OF England.

The metal tongue of the big bell rings
out many changes to our modern ears.
1t speaks Of disaster and death, Of re-
joicing and devotion. In England it
often tells of old times and quaint Gus
toms. Mr.. Ditchfield, in book on old
England, gives some of the traditions
handed down through the "tintinnabu-
lation of the bells"
In some parts of the country the bell
which tolls the old year out is called
the "Old Lads Passing Bell" In west
ern England the bells peal merrily on
Coax Apple Day." to celebrate the es-
cape of King Charles at Boscobel. An
other bell, rung at the beginning of
Lent, is known as Pancake Bell" be-
cause, in old time phrase, it summons
people away from their pancakes to
confession and fasting"
A lively peal of bells is often rung at
the end Of the Sunday morning service,
and is called Pudding Bell' Perhaps
it's purpose is to announce to the stay
at homes that service is over and that
the pudding may come out Of the oven
Every night at five minutes past 9
Great Tom the great bell of Christ
Church college at Oxford, booms out its
ponderous note 101 times. This par
ticular number was chosen in accord
ance with the number of students at
the foundation Of the college.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1906-01-09

There are some interesting anecdotes
of the leading British literary lights Of
the middle nineteenth century in Mrs.
Brookfield and Her Circle" On one
occasion there was great embarrass-
ment at one of their gatherings. The
majority of the party were anxious to
hear Tennyson read Maud" the first
copy of which had just reached him,
but 1t was known that Carlyle could
not endure to hear any one reading
aloud. What was to be done? A plot
was laid to have the reading during
the time of Carlyle's morning walk, but
for this he always demanded an appre-
ciative companion. Mrs Brookfield
says: chairs had been arranged in a
quiet sitting room. The visitors were
taking their places Alfred was ready
So was Carlyle-in the hall, waiting
for companion in his walk and evil
IDENTIFY determined not to stir without
one. 1t was quite an anxious moment.
At length Mr.. Goodwin Smith generous
ly stepped forward and Joined the phi
losopher, and then Mr.. Brookfield join
ed them both, while the rest Of us re-
manned to listen with enthralled atten-
ton to the new words of the poet"
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1906-01-09

The clock in the anteroom of the min
istry of justice in Paris having stop
ped, a matchmaker took it to pieces
and was surprised to find engraved on
one of the wheels this inscription: ~.
Jean Blanchet, this 22d Aug, 1892,
saw the Sieur Danton profane the EN-
blem of divine kingship by breaking
a fieur-de-lis, which so rightly adorned
the hand of the clock" The inscription
had been hitherto undiscovered. Dan
ton at the time mentioned was minister
of justice, and it is known that the
clock stood for more than century in
the minister's private room Presum-
ably he was lrritated by watching the
feur-de-lis, which finished off the min
ute hand, as in many clocks of the
eighteenth century, slowly mark feet
Ing time as he sat at his desk, and on
the day in question he suddenly started
up in temper and broke the emblem
off. The hand still shows a mark where
it was mended and the fieur-de-lis re-
adjusted. The Jean Blanchet who In
his respect for dethroned royalty re-
corded his Indignation at Danton's act
is unknown, but he may be supposed
to have been the matchmaker who
mended the broken hand.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1906-01-09
GATHERINGS Generals.

The soldiers to whom Catherine was
indebted for the glory of the Russian
arms included Rumiantsof, the con-
queror of Kagoul; the savage Kamien-
81, who would bite pieces of flesh out of
his men at the maneuvers and who
stripped his prisoners In 80 degrees of
cold and dashed cold water over them
until they were literally frozen; the
Prince of Nassau-Siegen, who was
beaten by Gustavus of Sweden at Sven
slSund; Joseph Ribas, upon whom was
written the unusual epitaph that "by
his own wits he became a good general,
an excellent diplomat and even an
honest man." and, most famous Of all,
Suvorof or Suwarrow. This celebrat-
ed general, who figures inaccurately In
Byron's Don JUAN" was never defeat
ed in the field He was short of
stature, being only five feet four inches
in height Suvorof was idolized by his
soldiers. He had implicit faith in his
star, his conceit was unbounded, and
he behaved sometimes like a raving
lunatic. He would come out of his tent
stark naked and turn somersaults on
the grass His other eccentricities
were equally amazing At times ap-
parently humane and averse to the
shedding of blood, on other occasions
he sanctioned the most awful massa-
ores. 1t was his deliberate conviction
that there were only three great gen
erals in the history of modern war
fare-Turenne, Laudon and Suvorof.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1906-01-09
POISONED ARROWS.
Their Use In Warfare Dates Back -
Prehistoric Ages.

Their Use In Warfare Dates Back -
Prehistoric Ages.
The use of poisoned arrows In primi-
tive warfare is undoubtedly Of very
ancient origin. The custom is men,
toned by Strabo, Pliny and Aristotle,
all of whom agree that it was well
known in both prehistoric Europe and
Asia. In later times the Celts and
Gauls envenomed their arrow and
spear shafts with the juices Of the
hellebore, and the American and AUS
tralian savages with serpent venom
and virus from decaying flesh.
The very earliest mention Of the
Scythians refers to them as "a people
who prepare arrow poison by mixing
serpent venom with the virus Of putrid
blood serum" At the time Of the dis
covery Of America the Indians were as
well skilled In the science of preparing
arrow poison as the Scythians or any
other early tribe Of European or Ash
attic people. The favorite mode as
practiced by the American aborigines
was to kill some wild animal, a deer
or buffalo preferred, remove its liver
and cause a heavily envenomed rep
tile to strike its fangs into it until the
meat turned green with poison. If one
serpent did not supply enough, others
were obtained, and the work of enrag-
ing the creatures and causing them to
strike the liver was kept up until the
desired results were obtained. One
large liver thus prepared would furnish
poison enough to coat the shafts of TO-
900 arrows The Smithsonian institute
has hundreds of these poisoned arrows,
the microscope showing that most Of
them have been poisoned with rattle
snake venom.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1906-01-09

The power of imagination is strongly
illustrated in the following ghost story:
One OF the most famous murder cases
In Australia was discovered by the
ghost of the murdered man sitting on
the rail Of dam australian for horse
pond into which his body had been
thrown. Numberless people saw it,
and the crime was duly brought home.
Years after a dying man making his
confession said that he invented the
ghost. He witnessed the crime, but
was threatened with death If he d.
vulged it, as he wished to, and the only
way he saw out of the impasse was to
affect to see the ghost where the body
would be found. As soon as he started
the story, such is the power Of nervous
ness that numerous other people be-
gan to see it until its fame reached
such dimensions that a search was
made and the body found and the muir
derers brought to justice.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1906-01-09
"Rubbing 1t In"

When Mrs. Morse after a lapse of
thirty years met her old schoolmate,
Mrs. Graham, in the guise of a summer
visitor to Aldersfield she made up her
mind to one thing Lydia Graham's
measure of worldly prosperity had
been large, but not for one moment
would Mary Ann Morse allow her to
feel set up
1t was with the intention of REDUCING
any possible pride that might be lurk-
ing behind Lydia Graham's placid
countenance that Mrs. Morse held her
off at arms length when the first af.
fectionate greeting had been ex-
changed
How fat you've grown, Lyddyp'
said Mary Ann Morse, holding her little
figure erect as a small stiff tree.
Mrs. Graham smiled contentedly, and
Mrs. Morse saw that her thrust had
done no harm.
And yet-and yet you're wrinkled in
spite of It," said this determined old
friend. And then she gave Lydia Ora.
hams flushed cheeks a consoling kiss.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1906-01-09

the water, oonr wei ana we've got 10
do something"
But get married, after two hours,
and not know a thing about each
other?"
well, tomorrow II make twenty
four hours more, and month will be
thirty whole days. And We'll be out
every day boating and talking. Isn't
that enough?"
Blanche drew long breath
81 don't know" she answered doubt
fully "We'll see. But | wish the other
Howard-mine, you know-had a little
more of your brass. l wouldn't so
much mind him then. But T. de Folk
stone Howard. Pah! 1t makes me
think of dancing master"
Tom turned red and then purple, but
the last was with laughter, held back.
$50 the other fellow is a Howard
too" he choked, land T. de Folkstone {
What a cadl But don't you suppose
that might be the adolescence of col.
lege days, Blanche. to be outgrownl
Why, | once heard of girl who bud
ded at Wellesley as B. Gladys Clorinda
Wilmot. Don't you think that name
to run away from?'
"You-wretch. Are you Thomas de
Folkstone Howard?'
Guilty, with no extenuating circum-
stances"
Blanche stared, bit her lip, then sank
weakly upon thwart.
Tom she said family, "lets go In
now, before anything more happens.
I've had all | can stand today. To
morrow we will start again"
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1906-01-09
Advice to Smokers.

More smokers contract consumption
from neglecting an ordinary precau-
tlon than from inhaling smoke" de-
clared a physician. "None of us cares
to infect the lungs with ordinary street
dust, yet every consumer of cigars in
hales more detrimental kind of dust
every time he lights a fresh specimen.
The majority of cigars have short inte-
rior filings which contain lots of small
particles Of tobacco dust. Especially is
this so of cigars that are handled
great deal and of those that become
very dry from age The ordinary
smoker bites or cuts off the end and
draws this dust into his lungs with the
first puff. Often it only lodges in the
throat and produces irritation or
hoarseness, with which most smokers
are afflicted. A safe precaution against
such danger is very simple Before
lighting the cigar merely blow through
it, and you will see issuing from the
large end the dust particles l refer to-"
Philadelphia Telegraph
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1906-01-09
TWO IN THE
CAB
By CLARA TAYLOR

Copyright, 1905, by E. C. PARCELS
D~~~~~~~oo~oO~-~-~-~-G
Far down i'll the valley a headlight
cleaned, and Carl Wilbur turned to his
fireman.
Here she comes, JIM" he an.
nounced.
Something's the matter" declared
Jim; shes running"
That's what We'll be doing in half
an hour laughed Carl. IT'S not often
that we have the honor of pulling the
president and whole board of directors.
The old girl viii have to do us proud
tonight"
He glanced affectionately at the huge
locomotive painting on the siding 1t
was one Of the newest on the division,
and with the five cars making up the
presidents special it would be better
than mile a minute most of the way
after the eight had been passed.
The Haven section was on the south
slope of the divide, and once in drop
ping down the grade they had to make
complete figure eight in order to
make the turn properly about the spur
of Mount Diavolo Carl was lost in
speculation as to just how far he could
extend the leviathan, and not until Jim
leaned out from the platform in front
of the firebox did the latter realize
that Carl was facing toward the ap-
preaching train.
II was talking about Susie" he
laughed. Wondered why you called
her the old girl"
Carl faced about just as a slip of
girl in a faded print dress came run
ming down beside the track. He has
tened toward her with cry Her face
wore the look of some hunted creature,
Il can't stand it any longer, Carl"
she painted as she half stumbled, half
threw herself into his arms 81 want
you to take me away"
Next week, dear" he soothed, as be
patted the curly head resting upon his
shoulder. Bear it for week until
can get my layoff, and we'll slip off to
Haven and get married You can wait
that long, can't your"
go back therep' the girl shuddered.
"She would kill me, Carl"
'Its not as bad as that, is it?' he
asked. For answer she drew back the
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1906-01-09
The EscoriaI.

The Escorial is to Spain what st.
Denis is to France, the burial place of
kings. Built by Philip H., it was be.
gun in 1868 and finished In 1854. The
king lived there for fourteen years and
died there in 1893, finding the place
congenial for his gloomy temperament.
The French stripped the convent of
much Of its golden ornaments in 1908
and did irreparable damage to the in
terror, afterward repaired as far as
possible by Ferdinand VII The elms
with which the slopes below the edifice
are planted were brought from Eng
land in the reign of the Bloody Mary.
1t stands 2,700 feet above sea level and
is exposed to gales SO furious that they
once, it is said, hoisted an ambassador,
coach and all, into the air, and whiried
the lords of the bedchamber round and
round the courtyard like dead leaves
Westminster Gazette.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1906-01-09
OVER THE
WIRE
By ROSE ELLEN THOMAS
Copyright, 1905. by K. A. Whitehead

Copyright, 1905. by K. A. Whitehead
C~~~O~~o~-~~o~O~~~3
When Jim Lee, the village carpenter
and a widower, died, people felt sorry
for his daughter Molly and wondered
how she would get along. They did
more, for a wonder. A number of them
SO interested themselves that she was
made telephone operator at Sandsville
with a good weekly salary. She made
her home with a neighbor. and things
went on very we'll with her.
Molly Lee was a girl of twenty, and
if she hadn't married before her ia
TIERS death it was not because of the
lack of opportunity. Why she didn't
was her own affair Why she attended
strictly to business afterward and had
no beauX was also her own affair, but
the villagers winked and nodded to
each other and said it would come
around by ana by.
At Stapleton, twenty eight miles
away. James Williams opened a store
about the time Mr.. Lee died He had
much telephoning TO do in various di-
rections, and he called up Sandsville
at least once Il day. When he heard
the new voice over the telephone he
liked the sound of it. The more he
heard of it the better he liked it.
AS he was bachelor and as he was
charged with having an eye open for
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1906-01-09

The cashier of a certain firm had
absconded. and the staff of clerks were
deciding on fit and proper person to
acquaint the head of the firm of the
fact on his arrival.
Ultimately the matter was left in the
hands of the head clerk, possibly be-
cause none of the others cared to I'M
dertake the responsibility.
There had been dog fight in the
street, and a small crowd was Just
dispensing as the chiefs carriage dash
ed up.
whats that crowd after, Jorkins r.
demanded the head Of the firm.
The chief clerk thought he recog-
niZed a chance of breaking the news
gently and seized it,
''The vacancy, SIR" he replied.
Vacancy? What vacancy"
cashier, sir"
But we want no cashier, Jorkins."
BEG pardon, sir, but we've a vacan-
cy for oner'
"Jorkins, are you madY'
mo, sir. That is, sir, don't know,
sir. Fact is. sir, all the cash is gone,
and-and"-
"Well?
1.-THE cashiers gone with it, sirp'
From the way the old man took it
the clerk thought he might just as
well have 5lurted it out at the start
London Tit Bits.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1906-01-09

1t is usual in other places than nov
els to hear of waves running noun
tains high, but in reality the mountains
of the sea are by no means steep and
only appear so when two systems Of
waves meet, as in a choppy sea, and
add their amplitudes. For example, as
is shown In series Of wave measure
ments lately undertaken by the French
government, the highest normal waves
encountered in the southern Pacific are
not more than fifty-three feet high
from crest to base Of trough These are
in a sense the waves of greatest known
amplitude. The distance between their
crests is 1000 feet. Waves of the north
Atlantic are normally 52S feet from
crest to crest and twenty feet high.
London Post.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1906-01-09

OF course we had chaise = Cape
Gods ship of shore-called a one horse
chaise to distinguish 1t from the two
horse cIaise which never struggled
through Cape Cod sand. Everybody
big enough to be anything above moth
ing had a caalse. He had to. A Cape
Colder without a chaise was not a
Cape Colder, and nobody but Cape
Colder, by birth or marriage, long
lived on Cape Cod. There are some of
the old chaise hulls left, some even in
use, and none of them has completely
persisted. Once Cape Cod chaise al
ways Cape Cod chaise, for neither
the rifled east wind nor the forest FIRE
can destroy or put it entirely out
Of commission. The whole or a part
Of each and every one of them lives,
In its entirety or in part, forever
"Gumption," by ~ G. Fowler, Jr.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1906-01-09
A CITY OF MUD.
PecuIinrities of Yezd, It's People and
Its Housea


Its Houses.
zone of the most extraordinary cities
In the world is Yezd, in central Per-
sia," writes a traveller. 1T is situated
in the midst of vast salt desert which
stretches for hundreds Of miles in all
directions. The nearest inhabited place
Of any size is Ispahan, and that is 200
miles away. The inhabitants Of Yezd
who have been away from YeZd dur
ing their lives number perhaps two or
three score, and the bulk of these have
not extended their travels farther than
to Shiraz or Kirman In the one direc-
ton OF to Ispahan in the other. Yet
between $4,000 and 10000 people make
the place their home. For ninety-nine
out of every hundred Of these the great
outside world has absolutely no exist
ence at all.
"Yezd is a city made almost entirely
of mud. Not only are the houses built
of this material, but the very furni-
ture, the fire pans, the barrels for grain,
the childrsn's toys, the bread recepta-
cles, even the beds, are simply mud
nodded into a rough form and dried in
the sun.
I'm the Yezd shops the goods, mostly
mud, are displayed on tiers of mud
lodges, and there is a mud room be-
hind. The bakers ovens are of mud,
down to the very doors. Many Of the
Yezdis even eat mud and develop an
unwholesome muddy complexion In
consequence"
one Phase of Life.
$50 they live in the same hotel, eh?
Eyes; he has room on the second
story"
And sheT"
"Oh, that's another story "-rh,~a--
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ner almost unconscious lover endeav-
oring to stanch the flow of blood that
made line across his face. With
trembling hands he forced her away.
The eighth Running away StopP
he gasped.
In a fash she grasped his meaning.
The engine under a full head of steam
was bounding down the side of the
mountain straight toward the dreaded
figure eight 1t was impossible for the
fireman to climb over to the cab at the
speed they were going She must act
quickly If she would save them.
In her rides in the cab she had
learned the use of the various levers
and cocks, and once or twice Carl had
let her hold the throttle along a straight
stretch. Now she grasped the throttle
and pulled 1t over She knew that to
attempt to check the speed too sudden.
ly would be as bad as to let it continue
With white face and set teeth, she
worked at the throttle until the speed
gradually slowed, and just as the
eight" came into sight she realized
that at last she had the powerful en-.
CINE under command.
She brought the machine to a stop,
and Adams came running forward
Serves YOU rightr' he shouted as he
sped along the track Got Cabling
with your sweetheart and let the en-.
CINE get away from you. Fine sort Of
engineer to be trusted with the special
You'll be on the carpet for this in
He came to stop as he climbed into
the cab and at glance comprehended
the tableau he saw there. He knew
something of Carts story, and Jim told
him the rest while Susie, all uncon-
scious of the sensation she had made.
bent over the form of her lover.
When at last she had brought him
back to consciousness and stepped ia
the door of the cab to go in search OF
water she found the entire party stand
ing beneath her.
1t was Gordon, the president, who
broke the silence
Young woman he said severely, al
is against the rules of this road for Wis.
itors to ride on the engines. l shall
have to ask you to come back into my
private car. The fireman says he can
run the engine and Adams will fire for
him. so as soon as we move Wilbur
back there we will go on. l might add
that we have discharged Wilbur for
violation of orders, but on account of
his wife to be we are going to make
him division superintendent OF course
he broke the rules, but 1, for one, am
rather glad of it."
With an impulsive gesture, Susie
sprang forward and planted kiss di-
rectly beneath the grizzled mustaehe.
$50 am l." she said quietly.