The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1906-12-18

0arth QldnJ you meet US Yesterday
Pen thinks you're dead or lost. She
phoned the Office, and they said you
hadn't been there since Saturday"
Il had not 1 only went back today
answered O'DonneH slowly. Some
body must have got hold of the elope-
ment and cabled it here. but they made
a little mistake in the names. They
said that Miss Penelope Graham was
married to Stephen Halliday"
"Oh, how perfectly killing, Jackr'
Bess gave one of her crazy little girl
ish cries. "And you thought, you poor
old boy-why, of course you must have
thought-but, then, how could you ever
think that Steve would want to marry
Pen instead of me?''
Wasn't it absurdY murmured
O'Donnell abstractedly, looking at the
depot clock "And Pen Is out home at
Glenwood''-
mo. Did l say she was? You know
I'm half crazy these days. Steve says
It's permissible PENS right here In
the depot with mamma waiting for me.
I wanted to see Steve before we left
town, and they went on ahead. Stoves
coming out on the 5:35 with papa. Oh,
Jack. just think, you and Steve will be
brothers now"
"Yes?" muttered O'Donnell under his
breath, and they entered the depot,
where Penelope was waiting.
Second sight and Mirage.
Has second sight any relation to
the phenomena Of mirage? The fol
lowing anecdote suggests that second
sight may be the result of ''refraction
of events" In a normal way. The Rev.
-, a celebrated scholar, who tells the
tale, was fishing Loeb Leven with
Lord - They were out of sight OF
the little wooden pier whence the boats
start. Mr.. remarked that Lord
was gazing with a strange and
startled expression across the loch.
What is the matterT he asked. 1--WE
are out of sight of the pier. are we
not?" answered Lord -. Certainly
we are" said Mr.. - 'Well, | saw
tine pier and boat coming in, with
very tall, heavy man lying in 1t. The
boatman lifted him on to the pier
with difficulty. He seemed to be
dead" Returning at sunset, the an
gler found that heavy fisher had died
suddenly in his boat and been lifted
to the pier at the moment when Lord
saw the thing happen.
Could this be a case of natural re-
fraction, as when a friend Of mine,
walking down Market street, St An
drews, with his back to the cathedral,
saw the cathedral facing him? Much
amazed, he asked passerby If he
saw anything unusual. Man, see
the cathedralr' said the other. The
vision was shared, but Mr.. did
not share the vision Of Lord -.
Andrew Lang in London Illustrated
News.
The Value of Literary Criticism.
Has literary criticism any value? A
contemplation of it's blunders almost
makes one hesitate to say Yes" she
history of literature, ancient and mod
ern shows that if Homer sometimes
mods Aristarchus Is still oftener found
mapping The oracles of criticism, like
all others, have erred in all ages and
never more egreglously than when they
have been most confident and most
dogmatic in their judgments. To
reader who lacks imagination and
taste the most exquisite poetieal CON
ceptions and expressions are like Gu
neiforn writing or a roll from Pom
pei.
j. Blanco White, speaking Of wo-
man carrying primroses by his win
dow, says, They were new primroses,
so blooming and SO tender that 1t
might be said that their perfume was
received by the eye" This is a novel
and striking thought, which only the
fondest love could have suggested.
But think of the seorn which the mon
sense would elicit from a cold blood
ed matter of fact readerl He would
class it with the mot light, but dark
ness visible" Of Milton or the lines in
Keats pot of BASIL
So the two brothers and their murdered
man
Rode toward fair Florence
William Mathews In Success Maya
zine.