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The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1906-06-05

Culver took the norse 10 the stables
and then rejoined the waiting group on
the grass plot In front of the house.
Culver knew now why Narbel had in
sisted upon a grass plot) They had not
long to wait for presently gasp from
the crowd caused Culver to turn, and
there on the step stood Narbel and
the very girl Of the picture. She was
smiling now as she acknowledged the
various introductions Culver was the
last to come up, for he had not recov-
cred from his amazement until Narbel
called to him.
II feel that ought to be very CRATE
full to you" she said in a low voice,
even though you were trying to play
q joke"
1.-The joke seems to be on me-" he
said lamely.
II don't think there is any Joke" she
said decidedly. ct was just the work
Ing Of fate"
He turned to receive the farewells
Of the men from the mine, and more
than one toked him on his vivid imagi-
nation. 1t was clear that they thought
he had been fooling them. and he was
glad that he was at least saved their
Jeers, but it was with no pleasant an
ticipation that he followed Narbel and
his wife into the house.
you builded better than you knew,
Jack, when you sent that letter wrote
In jest"
But this is not Lucy Mears," he
stammered. Il thought you were go
ing to keep faith at any cost"
Aunt Lucy died year ago." smiled
Mrs. Narbsl. II suppose no one wrote
you. As was the only Lucy Mears l
got the letter"
"And got the sweetest little woman
on EARTH" supplemented Narbel.
And l." wound up Culver, II don't
know whether should be praised or
kicked. think I'd prefer the latter"
But instead he received the praise.
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There goes a man who was once 8
great bull operator in this town." said
broker as an elderly, listless gentle
man passed through the lobby of a no
tel.
"HOw long agor' asked his com
pani0n.
''Oh, q good many years. He failed
three times and his financial career IL
lustrates q curious trait In human ma.
ture. After his first suspension the
creditors got together for conference
with him. When 1t was found that his
liabilities ran near the million mark
they eagerly helped him resume, for
the sake Of preserving general bust
ness confidence, they said.
"Some years later he went under
again. There was another conference
Of creditors. The liabilities were small
er this time. but ran into the hundreds
Of thousands. We mustn't impede an
able nnancier.' they decided, and he
was helped TO become solvent once
more.
"But after his third failure the liza
bilit1es ran up to alnNst nothing at all
for Wall street-hafdly $25, 1000 His
creditors met and decided that the age
showed too strong tendency toward
reckless speculation. So they drove
him into bankruptcy" = Nsw York
Press.
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Eight men exclusive of the butler are
required to serve a dinner of twenty
four covers, one being allowed for ev-
cry three diners. Another Is stationed
In the pantry to run In" the courses.
Absolute order and silence reign
among these men, who perfectly under
stand the buffers cabalistic signs.
Electric signals pass constantly be-
tween chef and butler. From the seat
ing Of guests until the ladies leave not
more than eighty-1ve minutes should
elapse. for long dinners are considered
bad form. Upon these occasions
scarcely a member Of the domestic
corps escapes some special duty. The
housemaids assist the pantry maid.
After each course twenty-four silver
plates and countless small silver must
be carefully cleansed, wiped very dry
and then polished with chamois before
being put away. Nearly 200 pieces Of
engraved crystal ware must be washed
and polished, and 1t Is too costly and
brittle to be hastily handled.-EveFy-
body'e Magazine
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SARAH,
HUSTLINC DONALD
HEROINE A--l'
Copyright. 1908. by Beatrix Reade

tsrsr<<rS<'<<S<FSS<SSSSSISS
Look here, Jim" began Colville one
evening. when her brother James came
home to supper, Gin walking past the
tavern this afternoon / saw a strange
young man"
Eyes, there is one there" was the re-
ply.
who is heY'
II can't tell you much about him
His name is Ripley, believe, and he's
come down from the city for a four
weeks vacation. He was asking me
about boating and fishing"
James Halliday was a carpenter of
the village of Branchville His sister
Sarah kept house for him.
Sarah Halliday had lived for thirty
three years and no man had limited Of
matrimony to her. She never pretend
ed to good looks, but she always In
sisted that she was tender hearted and
had emotion sufficient to make a great
actress. Her failure to bring men to
the point had ranked, and she had
finally made up her mind to do a little
hustling for husband. She had seen
the young man sitting on the hotel
veranda with his feet cooked up on the
railing, and he had at once been mark
ed down. He had looked after her In
an eager way, and she fattered herself
that she had made an impression.
IF Mr.. Ripley is all alone down here
he must be lonesome" she said to her
brother Jim after supper.
Eyes, he may be-"
Then you'd better saunter I'D to the
tavern and show him that you want ia
be friendly. You can bring In, IL you
want to, that l noticed him this after
noon. We've got the mill pond here, and
we've got boat and fishing tackle, and
it seems our duty to make the stran-
gers stay as pleasant as possible. You
know how you'd feel II you were away
from home"
The brother dutifully obeyed orders.
He found Mr. Ripley smoking q cigar
on the veranda. He mentioned Sarah.
the mill pond, the boat and the black
bass waiting to be caught, and Mr..
Ripley replied that he should surely
take advantage Of the situation. He
didn't set any date, however and when
he came home to supper on the follow.
ing evening the brother observed to
the sister:
What do you think, Sarah? That
Susan Jones has somehow managed to
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An honest old Pennsylvania farmsE.
had tree on his premises he wanted
to cut down, but being weak in hiS
back and having dull az, he hit upon
the following plan: Knowing me pas
sion among his neighbors fer coca
hunting, he made coon's foot out O
potato and proceeded to imprint nu-
merous tracks in the snow to and up
the tree. When all was ready, he In
formed his neighbors that the tree
must be filed with cOons, pointing to
the external evidence made with his
coon's foot. The bait took, and In q
short time half a dozen fellows with
sharp axes were chopping at the base
of the tree, each taking his regular
turn The party also brought dogs ana
shotguns and were in ecstasfes over
the anticipated haul of fat coons. The
tree finally fell, but nary a coon was
seen to Experimentation Telegraph.
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Hot Pine Bite. the ronmmo

you see smoking tobacco advertised
every now and again guaranteed not
to bite the tongue. Dealers sell It, Of
course, but inwardly they smile at the
idea" So spoke a tobacconist. "YOu
see, it's this way. The flre In the pipe
win bite the tongue If the tobacco
burns too fast-namely, II It Is very
loose long cut tobacco or a very short
dry cut and not packed closely enough
in the bowl There is a point where
tobacco may be too closely packed to
draw and a point where it may be 30
loosely packed that it burns fast, and
minute sparks pass through the stem
and reach the smokers mouth. These
are the causes of burnt tongues.
Pittsburg Dispatch.
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from Mr.. Ripley excuslng nImser rrUm
calling on the ground of q skght ILL.,
ness, and two hours after she had read
the note she learned that he was Sc
ting on the piazza with the Widow
Phelps, who had had two huSba@as
and wanted a third.
Sarah planned fast from that time
on. Sarah had learned that Mr.. Ripley
arose and breakfasted at O'Clock. He
then spent an hour on the EsFR4da
smoking and reading. The mill dam
was not a hundred fest away and in
plain view.
Next morning as the. young man on
a vacation sat smoking, he heard some
one calling his name. He looked up,
and there was Sarah Halliday in an
Oarless boat floating down upon the
dam. She cried to him again and again,
and 1t was plain to him that she must
The best thing he could do, hewe~er,
was to fall over his rocking chair ana
roll down the steps. Right under ~
eyes the boat went over the dam, aa@
right under his eyes a sawmilI MAJ,
who had never longed to be 4 hero
fished Sarah out with long pole sha
was heroine, but insensibls. They
rolled her on a barrel They dragged
her around In the sawdust. They car
ried her home on a slab and Rent for
Jim and the doctor She was wrung
out and put to bed, and it was tive
days later when Jim was permitted to
ask:
Now, then, what in the old Harry
were you doing In that beat at thaG
hour in the morningT
Rowing" she answered.
'How came you to lose the carsr'
II wanted to be rescued"
"Oh, see. You wanted to be q hero
inc, eh, and you wanted to give Ripley
a chance to play the heroY
HAS he sent me any nowerBr' she
asked, avoiding a direct reply to his
question.
"Naw!'
"But he surely calledT'
"How could he call when he took q
skate that very forenoonT bluntly re-
piled the brother
did he see me all wet and wopsyf'
"Of course, and that's why he
skated"
Poor Sarah! She had hustled, but
she had lost.
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Culver 'sJOke
By Sass Clements willie
Copyright, 1905, by E. N. PARCELS

4 Copyright, 1905, by Z. n. PARCELS &
ESSSSSs$SssSsSSsSssSSsSSSSSsSS
Il don't know any girls; simple rea-
son." laughed Blake Narbel you see,
after mothers death. We have re-
treated before civilization ever since"
"Pll give you couple Of mail intro
auctions back east laughed Culver.
II know q lot. You write q nice little
letter, and I'll send It"
II guess you'd have to write the let
ter, too," chuckled Narbel. II never
wrote to woman in my life"
You never can tell till you try"
suggested Culver. II wish you'd try
now. 1t would keep you busy until /
finish this letter.
He went on with his writing, and
Narbel good humoredly picked up a
pen. There was q pack train going
down from the mines tomorrow, and
he could understand why Culver want
ed to finish off the letters he was writ
ing back east. The train went down
one week and back the next, affording
them bimonthly communication with
the outside world.
Whom shall 1 address it TOT" he de-
manded.
Miss Lucy Mears," laughed Culver.
Then two pens scratched over the pa
per, Culver's with easy, rapid move
ment, Narbers painstakingly. he was
less accustomed to writing. and Culver
had finished half dozsn letters before
the others pen was still.
Culver laughed over the effusbon, In
which the writer had pictured his dull
life and had pleaded for permission to
open a correspondence. He explained
fully his relations with Culver as bust
ness partner and chum and limited at
possibilities of matrimony.
Had he been In earnest instead Of
merely seeking q means Of killing time
while Culver was occupied he could
not have done better.
In the morning Culver came across
the sheets and, with a wicked chuckis,
slipped them into an envelope and ad-
dressed them to Lucy Mears. anticipat-
ing that elderly lady's surprise when
abe should open the envelope back in
the New England town.
Narbel, clearing up the table that
evening, noted the absence Of the
sheets, but concluded that Culver had
torn them up along with his own odd
sheets and thought NO more Of the mat
ter until month later lstter came
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smolxia~ the Na-xals.

A Greek thus tells how the nargile
is smoked by his brethren:
'Oniy pure tobacco IL used In the
naRgiie. 1t 10 grown expressly for the
purpose in Persia The weed there is
called tGmbeky. This kind OF tobacco
il first washed two or three times by
the man who keeps the restaurant. BE
puts 1t under a faucet and squeezes
the juice out. Otherwise the tobacco
would be too strong. Then, when the
smoke of it is drawn through the wa
ter, the tobacco having. of course, been
dried first, all the nicotine Is deposited
in the water, and delightful and in.
nocuous smoke Is the result"
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ItIstOLaugh"
Copyright, 1905. by Beatra1 Read.
By n. }. Phillips

Ec>SSS$SS$cSSS$$$$$S
Bob Wentworth tucked his sister and
himself snugly into their cutter and
started old Dobbin on brisk trot, for
there were three miles Of crisp white
road to be covered, and 1t was almost
chore time. When they were fairly IN
der way Wentworth turned to his pref.
ty sister, christened Elsie, but known
as Toots to all her many friends, and
said, II hear you're going to get mar.
ried, Toots"
Miss WentwOrth's very becoming
flush was no doubt due to the weather
for the thermometer lowered about
zero. At any rate. she answered very
composedly: "Oh, indeed! And who
told you, Mr. Smartyr'
"A little bird, Elsie from Chelsea; q
little bird" He bent a waggish glance
upon her. Il say, which one is 1t GO
ing to bef"
ASK your little bird" she retorted.
Bob tried a new tack. well, Harry
Crossman Is a nice fellow"
Indeed he is," replied his sister.
Good looking"
Eyes"
Better looking than Luke Cotter. !
think"
do your
"And more money too"
YES"
Romantic disposition too" Bob was
warming to his theme. ANY fellow
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When a doctor does not have much
faith In medicine it Ia a sign that he II
Q good doctor. The best doctors are
those who give good advice rather than
medicine; advice that 10 simple and
has common sense back OF It. Too
many people imagine they can abuse
themselves and hire doctor to make
them e. well az ever for 81. Nothing
in it-AtchisQO GlobA
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An elephants trunk answers mat
animal as nose and hand. He also
uses it for drinking, drawing up the
water through his trunk and then pour
ing it into his mouth. The elephant
has a singular habit when suffering
from the heat Of poking his nose down
his throat into his stomach and with
drawing quantity Of water, which he
then squirts over his back and sides to
cool his body. As during a warm day
this operation il repeated about once
in every five minutes riding an eis-
plant In the sun is no pleasant under
taking.
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How do You like your new music
teacherT
Hes no good"
"Why, what makes you think sor"
Yesterday played a common tune
clear through, and he didn't say it
would take weeks practice to Offset
the harm done"
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II want to Introduce you to you1xa
lady-a very nice girl-and she's worth
her weight In gold"
STOUT girl, l hope."-London Taller.
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"Poor Jones Is suffering from melan-
cholia"
'sWhy, Thought he was the editor Of
q comic paper"
HE is"
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Mrs. Janson said to Mrs. Lammis II
perfect confidence, do you know mine
is the prettiest baby in the world%
well, really, now, what coinca~
dsnce! said Mrs. Lammis. $50 Ia
miner
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When and great deal of gratitude
In a poor man l take it for granted
there would be ~ much generosity II
- wee xiaA. Pope.
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$50 you don't believe in college sdu-
cationT
mo, sir. After graduation 1 nearly
starved to death practicing law"
But you look prosperous now"
Eyes, sir. l went into vaudeville and
made fortune balancing a barrel on
my feet while standing on my head
Detroit Free Press.
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"Bare" means mere" as well 40
naked" and 1 cannot doubt that by
bare bodkin" Shakespeare meant
mere bodkin," the point Of the passage
being with how contsmptibly small an
instrument we could, II we chose, put
an end TO life and all its bother. "HArg''
probably was used instead OF ''msrs~
for the sake of effective ALTERATION
(Cf with HamNt's bare bodkin;"
Richard IFS little pin," III. 2. 1ea4
For bare In the sense Of ''mers" {
need cite only bare Imagination 81 Q
feast London Notes ana QnegiAA
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Imagine very broad unpaved road
like dusty, plowed field, and wild gar
dens trailing around and over white
matched cottages. Each cottage ID
one storied, with old world caves and
q veranda which runs along the whole
front. The matched roof seems to lear
with all its strength upon toy shaped
colonnade, while the creepers afford 9
contrast to the whitewashed walls. II
you walk down the road at dusk you
will ind at each door one of the house
hold vigorously brushing clouds Of dus'
away from the footpath, while long
ales Of clean. curly pigs are trottine
swiftly homeward and lean mongrels
bay the whispering wind" unceasing
ly. The men wear linen shirts and
kits. On wOrkdays the costume has
the appearance Of q long, dingy night
dress tied with a leather girdle. On
hsydays the kilt is white and stiff, with
aecordiou plating. while the shirt Is OF
dainty embroidery and sets OF an
elaborate worsted waistcoat. The girls
full dress 10 still more picturesque, ow.
ing to the harmonious blending Of the
brightest prints-all shades and depths
Of blue and red and pink; no other col
ors-and to the graceful fall Of the
short petticoats, which do not reach the
ankle, and are inflated by a slight sus-
piciOn OF crinoline.- Saturday Review
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Pennsylvania
= = - = - - - =. -
In EFFECT MAY NJ. 1895.

Trains Leave MOUNT HOLLY ~ follows:
For Philadelphia, 5.55, 652, TIA, 7zs 7.62, s.l7,
8.45 921. Ill a. M, l2.45. 246, 320 4.0S, 500
6.58, $40, 7.33, $3.50, l045 m. On Sundays 755,
S.55 a. M, 1854. Ais, 5.49, 7.l9, s.2S p. M.
For Pemberton, 654 and n.52 q. m. La, 3.39,
AT, SAL, 607 and 7.22 p: m. weekdays Q2.40
a. M Fridays only. Sundays. 1903 q. M.
For Vincentown, l24l, 3ss and 6.2e p. m. week
For Burlington, $40 a. M. 7.s5 p. m. week
days.
For East Burlington, 7.S5 p. m. weekdays.
For Bordentown, Trenton and New York
$40, a. M, and 7.35 p. M. weekdays.
For Lumberton, Medford, Marlton and Had
donf1eld. $40 and ll.52. g. M, AT p m. week.
days.
For Toms River, Island Heights, Seaside Par K
and Long Branch, 300 O.. m. and al d. m.
weekdays, $50 g. m. Sundays
Tor Tuckerton, sos q. m. and Sal p m. week
days.
For Barnegat City and Beach Haven, sos
=. M. and BAL p. m. weekdays.
r. stops only on notice to Agent or Conduc-
or or on signal.
Medford, Marlton and Phiiadelphia.
Leave Medford for Philadelphia at 200, 1905 q.
M, 2.06, $40 p. m. Sundays, 7.o5 q. M, 4O6
Leave Marlton for Philadelphia at TIA, lois ~
M, 2.25, 522 p m. Sundays at 7.l9 g. m. All
IL o. m.
For further particulars apply to the ticket
agent at the station.
W. w. ATTERBURY, J. R. WOOD,
General Manager. Pass'r Traffic Manager.
GEO. w. BOYD,
General Passenger Agent
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TUCkERTON RAILROAD
Via Pennsylvania Railroad
November &. 1905.
The Burlington and Bristol steamboat
Ferry Company.

Schedule In effect 700 q. M, December 4, 1906.
LEAVE BRISTOL FOR BURLINGTON.
$50, 500 800, 1000, HOO q, M, $780, 160, 80,
$50, 49, $50 $40 p. m.
On Sunday first boat leaves at 500 q M Last
boat leaves at $50 p. m.
Leave BURLINGTON FOR BRISTOL.
100, $50, $50. 1885, ll-30 q. M, LOO Zoo, 800,
400, $780, $40, 100 p. m.
On Sunday first boat leaves at $50 q. m. Last
boat leaves at 100 p. M.
May 18th, 1905. the 1000 O'Clock morning trip
from Bristol will be withdrawn and the Boat
will leave Bristol at $40 q. m.
On Decoration Day, the trips will be the
same as Saturday Timetable.
The boat for the performances In the Audi
torium will leave Bristol at 7.40 p. m. Return
ing will leave Burlington twenty minutes
after the performances.
No trips win be guaranteed In foggy weather.
WILLIAM e. DORON,
Secy, Treas. and Genl Manager.
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Tommy IL such sweet child" said
a doting mother. shat / often think It
will be a miracle II he lives to grow
up"
EFT WILL" said the candid neighboT,
with baleful CLEAN in his eye.
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Always Awak.

BacOn-They say a person will die
for want Of sleep in ten days Egbert
Its miraculous what keeps that baby
Of mine alive.
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Canss 81 WaR@ and Cold Periods.
Experiments Of the Swedish physi-
cist Arrhenius, supplementing the in
vestigations Of Professor Langley, in
dicats that In order to explain the orr
gin Of the warm climate which prevail
ed over the earth il the tertiary age,
when even the polar regions seem to
have abounded with life, and of the
intense cold that caused the glacial pc
RODS, when half the northern hemi-
sphere was buried under ice, 1t is only
necessary to look to slight changes in
the composition Of the atmosphere. The
active agent in these changes is thought
to have been carbon dioxid. 1t has
been shown that this gas possesses SO
great power to retain solar heat that
its addition to the extent OF only one
tenth OF per cent of the present at
mosphere would suffice to produce q
tertiary climate and that taking away
only one-fftfeth of per cent from the
present atmosphere would bring on
glaciat1on. It has been conjectured that
the fall Of meteors was the source Of
the extra supply Of carbon dioxid In
former geological periods.
DRnd1es Of Papua,
Even the natives of Papua have their
hne gentlemen. their handles. To rank
In this class the young man is COM
PEELED to lace his waist and to have q
nose ornament Of polished shell. But,
as an explorer says, very few young
blades can afford to possess one. and
accordingly 1t may be lent either for a
consideration or as very special ia
vor. The possessor Of one of these or
naments could easily buy wife for it.
and sometimes 1t Is paid as a tribal
tribute by one should he have to pay
blood money or be unable to give the
statutory pig as atonsment for q muir
der" Papusn husbands, too, have a
primitive way of dealing with their re-
calcitrant wives. A man named Gedon
had shrswish helpmate whom he at
tempted to tame according to this
method: he would pick up a billet of
wood when she was halfway through
tremendous scolding and give her
terrific blow over the back. Thereupon
ensued pandemOnium. The other men
and women would gather round, jab-
bering. but they would make no at
tempt to stop the beating once 1t had
begun"
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CIIDEN and SUBURBAI RAILWAY Led
CAMDEN AND TRENTON RAILWAY co.

WINTER SCHEDULE.
East Bound.
Burlington, Broad and High streets-642
642 742 S.42 e42, 1912, 1l.42 q. M, Il. AZ. l.42
242 a42. 442, 642 $40, 742, S.42, 49, 1912, ll42
p. M; l2.42 8. m.
West Bound.
Burlington, Broad and High streets-6.0S.
"a 8O8 9O6 iOO8 IL 06 g. M, l2O8 los, 2.08, S0S,
O6, sos sos. 7.Os, sos .Os, 1905 li.0e p M; l2oS,
O8 q. M
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STEER.
who will go west and be a cowboy for
a year must have some romance about
him. Now, don't believe that Luke
Cotter has even been out Of the coun.
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