The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1906-03-27


MANDED HOARsELY.
The Continental stands ready to spend
5000 in eonvicting the man who steals
a hundred. Employees who have CIV
en- the best years Of their life to its
service are pensioned. The only touch
of human nature about 1t Is the pres
ent of a FIVE dollar bill which, with q
formal and frosty little letter., Ia sent
each Christmas to every employee who
has worked for the Continental a year
or more.
The spirit and essence of the Cont
mental is its book of Rules and Regu-
lations." The tome is a ponderous mass
of bound circulars foot thick. Every
fortnight or so another printed yellow
folder Is issued, bringing TIE express
world up to date, and this Il 'uly read
by agent or messenger and fastened
into the covers.
Somewhere In the musty depths Of
the RULES and Regulations" are In
structions covering every possible con-
tingency. from handling Egyptian
mummies to the feeding of live stock
In transit No matter how absurd an
employees procedure in an emergency,
when viewed In the light Of common
sense he has only to quote Rules and
Regulations" correctly. He Is sure Of
forgiveness And the man who Ia
versed In ''Old r. and R." as the book
is called, Is held by his colleagues in
much the same half envious regard
with which ministers look upon q
brother who knows his Bible exceed
ingly we'll
Booth. money clerk at Morgantown,
had a special name for the canvas Gov
cred volume 1.-The Book of Revela-
ton" The agent, Hornbeck, who had
grown gray in the Continentals serv-
ice, chided him one day for his Zip
pancy.
Il tell you, Bill" he said seriously,
"'Old R. and r. can't take you far
astray any turn of the road. You could
use it as a guide and be pretty good
Christian. Doesn't it tell you to be
strictly honest, to be temperate and
keep good hours, to affiliate yourself
with some church and attend divine
services on Sunday, to dress neatly
and as well as your income will per
NIT. to treat everybody with polite
ness, for we must depend on rich and
poor, white and black, for our bust
nessT"
That's true, all right" replied Bill,
impressed. Il never looked at 1t that
way before"
And" chimed in Bobby Taylor, the
driver. "'Old r. and r. makes you
insure your life before you can work
for the company. That isn't all of 1t
either. Away back In Series D, No.
439. dated June /, 1893, found
paragraph advising employees to mar
ry"
Funny you'd stumble on to that,
hey. Bobby" queried Booth, with
grin and wink at Hornbeck, where
upon Bobby, blushing like a school
girl, FASTENED back to his wagon.
Bobby was the best driver the Nor
gantown Office had. He did oceans of
work every day, collecting parcels and
making deliveries. Besides, there were
four round trips between the office and
Morgan Junction, mile away The
railroads got no nearer town than the
Junction He did all this and hank
cred for more, anxious for promotion,
for promotion meant more money, and
more money spelled matrimony. Bob
by and Marion Hackett had 1t all ar
ranged. When his salary touched $50
Il nlonth-a driver gets $45-or when
he had $500 saved, then they would ad-
venture down life's stream together.
For, you see, Marion, $45 month
isn't much, although it would buy coal
and something to eat" Bobby would
explain. But, darling, / don't want
you regretting having married me
right at the start. I'm going to have
enough so Wen be comfortable"
And Marion, with fond belief in Bob
by's financial acumen, would lay her
curly head on his shoulder and agree.
satisfied this was right, for hadn't Bob
by said so?
Bobby was thinking up ways and
means one winters night as he turned
his horses head homeward with the
load of freight from the eastboundr
train. The first quarter mile Of the
Journey, between solid rows of lum
Der piles and lighted by a single arc
light, was lonesome. Bobby often
thought that II holdup for the valu-
able money packages he carried were
ever attempted it would be on this
stretch of narrow, deserted street.
The possibility of such an occurrence
was always present. Tonight 1t be-
came a reality. A man, dark cloth
tied over his face, suddenly sprang out
of the shadow and seized plodding old
Dick by the bit Something glittered
In the hand which he pointed at Bob
by. Throw down that sack" he COM
manded hoarsely. 1.-The red way bin
stuff" as the valuable packages are
called. was In a sack swung over the
drivers shoulder.
Bobby's reply was to reach for the
Colts thirty eight, which drivers OF the