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The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1907-12-24
E,xEouToRs' SALE OLA
VALUABLE FART.

The subscribers, executors of the estate of
Barclay White, deceased, will offer at public
sale, on the premises, on
TUESDAY, DECEMBER "a,
the farm known as Pine Lane farm, midway
between Jobstown and Juliustown, Spring
field township, Burlington county, N. j., on
the KinkOra branch of the Pennsylvania r.
R., at Pine Lane station, containing about
go ACRES
of high grade meadow and farming land; also
about
10 ACRES OF TIMBER.
This farm is supplied with ample buildings,
consisting of large frame dwelling house,
stable, barns, ETC., and long known as one of
the most productive farms in the township.
A never failing stream runs the entire length
of the property.
Sale will begin at 2 o'clock P. M.
Conditions at sale.
HOWARD WHITE,
JOSEPH j. WHITE,
GEORGE FOSTER WHITE.
DANIEL s. WHITE,
Executors
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CHERRIES SALE.

SHERIFF'S SALE.
By virtue of writ Of feri fac1as. to me d
rected, issued out of the Court of Chancery
of the State of New Jersey, win sell at public
sale, on
THURSDAY. JANUARY ss, 1908.
between the hours of II and 5 O'Clock in the
afternoon of said day, (to.wit, at 2o'clock,) al
Richard Lambs hotel, in Mount Holly, N. j.
All that certain lot or piece of land situate
fronting on the southerly side of Church
street, in said city of Beverly, county of Bur
lington, state of New Jersey, and according
| to survey made by Charles Stokes, survey
or and G. E.. on the Jwenty-fourth day d
April A. ID. 1899, 1s described as follows, to wit
Beginning at stone placed for corner in
the southerly line of said Church street at 8
distance of about seven hundred and sixty
six (766) feet westwardly from the southwest
corner OF said Church street and Farnham
street, and extends ~ along the said souther
| ly line of Church street north eignty-five de-
grees fifteen minutes west fifty (50) feet to q
with the said line of Church street south foul
degrees fOrty-f1ve minutes west one hundred
and fifty (l50) feet to a stone for a corner
thence (3) at right angles with this last named
line and parallel with the said line of Church
street, south eighty-five degrees fifteen min
utes east fifty (50) feet to a stone for a corner
thence az at right angles with he last named
line and parallel with the second course north
six degrees ffty-ive minutes east one hun
dred and fifty (l5O) feet toa stone, the place
of beginning, and being the same premises
conveyed to said Mary s. DennistOn by Ellis
worth s. Adams by deed dated the day
of February, 1900, and recorded in the Clerks
Office of said Burlington county at Mount
Holly. in Book Of Deeds for said county
on pages
Seized as the property of Mary s. Dennis
ton, ct al, defendants, taken in execution al
the suit of the Connecticut Loan and Realty
Company complainant, and to be sold by
JOHN j.. NORCROSS,
WALTER H. BACON, Sopr. Sheriff
Dated Dec. %, 1907. Prs adv. fee, S10.40.
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Grand Jurors.

The Burlington County Courts opened
this morning. The following are on tn,
grand jury:
Harry L. Knight, Medford.
Charles r. Sapp, Burlington city.
Charles L. Carslake, Mansfield.
Alfred G. Smith, Burlington township.
J. Newton Clevenger, Pemberton borough.
Lewis Corner, Riverton borough.
Joseph Deacon, BordentOwn city.
Frederick Lee, Northampton,
Charles A. Bovine, Florence.
Arnold Beckenbach Palmyra.
Walter N. Black, Chesterfield.
John T. Morrell, Beverly city.
Charles K. Joyce, Southa m pton.
George F. Harbert, Pemberton.
Samuel L. Tomlinson, Northa m pton.
Oliver Van Wagner, Burlington City.
william F. Parker. Florence.
Firman Dubell, Westampton.
Samuel Garwood, Medford.
George G. Gillespie, Chester.
John Dugan, Mount Laurel.
James Haines, Lumberton.
Charles w. Fraser, Evesham.
James M. Armstrong, Shamong.
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TO "A.
nsor. tho ,Ths Kind You Have Always BOugh
Signature s1 AAzzZI
The Ion2 Session

The Estate Gazette" will contain full
synopsis of the proceedings of the Senate
and Assembly of 1908; a list of all bills in
troduced. passed and vetoed The session
promises to be one of unusual interest
The daily Estate Gazette" will be mailed
to subscribers for the session for seventy
five cents. Address,
The John L. Murphy Publishing Co.,
Trenton, n. J
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JOSEPH HUFF

JOSEPH HUFF
NOTARY PUBLIC
lbs Main street, opposite Surrogates office
Mount Holly, N. j.
Special attention given to making Abstract
of Titles. Conveyancing, General Accountant
no Adm inistration of Estates.
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Do You Eat Pie E?

life. Just rider from your grocer few pack.
ages of "OUR-PIE" and learn how easy 1t Is
to make Lemon. Chocolate and Custard pies
that will please you. II your grocer won'i
supply you, go to one who will
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DO It To-tiax-Now.

Christmas and New Year Souvenir Post
Cards and Booklets. L. s. Boyce. Sta.
toner, % Garden Street.
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A pMINIsTRATRIoEs, SALE.

A DMINIsTRATRICEs' SALE.
BY virtue of an order of the Orphans Court
of the County of Burlington, made on tn
seventh day of November, 1907 in the matte
of the estate of William B. Ogburn, deceased
undersigned, ADMINISTRATORS of the sai(
William b. Ogburn, deceased, will expose tt
sale at public vendue, on
FRIDAY, JANUARY "a, 1908,
at the Hotel of Richard Lamb, known as tn,
Washington House, in Mount Holly, New
Jersey, between the hours of IL and o clock
to wit, at o'clock in the afternoon of SAID
eastwardly side of White formerly called
Race) street, in the town of Mount Holly
county of Burlington, state of New Jersey
Beginning at stone or stake in the middle
OF White street standing about two hundred
and eleven feet from the curb stone on the
southerly side of Church street at its point OF
intersection with White street aforesaid
which beginning point is In the line of land
now belonging to DR.. Richard II. Parsons, by
which 1t runs ~ an easterly course distance
of about one hundred and fifty-seven feet two
inches to corner to land of said DIR. Richard
III. Parsons and land of Theodore H. Risdon
by which it runs (2) southerly course oi
about twenty-five feet to corner in the line
Parsons, by which it runs (S) westerly
course OF about one hundred and ffty-Seven
feet two inches to the middle of said White
formerly called Racel street, thence az a
White street about twenty-five feet to the
place of beginning, be the contents what il
may.
Conditions at SALE
SARAH G. OGBURN,
AIRLINE b. LYNCH,
SAMUEL A. ATKINSON, ADMINISTRATORS
Proctor.
Dated December %, 1907.
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lIC Eth DIVIDEND.
Mount Holly, N. j., Dec 81 1907.
The Directors of the Farmers National
Bank have this day declared dividend OF
three per cent, ION the earnings of the past
per cent. payable on and after January 2, 1908.
LNO. B. DAVIS. Cashier.
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Several of our exchanges issued special
Christmas numbers, last week, with hand.
some illuminated covers, and in each case
the efforts of the publishers were com.
mendable. The general public knows but
little of the work entailed in getting out
such editions. In each paper can be seer
the interest taken by advertisers. who oc
cupy a great amount of space. The il
Illustrated edition of the Press. published
at Riverside, was in celebration of thai
newspapers twentieth anniversary. In i
are shown many of the leading industries
of that manufacturing town, togethe
with some of the leading citizens
Having driven into Burlington will
his family to do some Christmas shopping
Samuel Greedy, well-known farmer WHIT
lives about four miles out ON the Noun
Holly road, left his team standing at tn
Exchange Hotel, High and Union streets
the business centre of the city, Saturday
Ten minutes later he returned to find |
J gone. He at once notified Justice of tn
! Peace Smith, who got the telephone wire
! going in every direction. Among thos
) who got wire messages of the theft wa
! Justice of the Peace Townsend, at Colum
bus. He and his son Floyd and Aaro
: Waters went out on the road to watch
9 They soon saw a team answering the de
l scription of the stolen one. Waters aske
$ for ride, and. being taken up, told th
. driver he was under arrest. The ma
showed fight, but the other two men cam
up, presented pistols to his attention an
: changed his mind. The man, who refuse
4 to give his name, was taken to thelock-u
/ and the team to stable. 1t was just
+ minutes from the time it was stolen to I'll
J. time it was captured. and the town
s Columbus had more excitement than
Isnmmer circus brings.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-04

din, with all his giant intellect and vast legal lore, and without his coarseness and his malice. He might have been Ben Hill, less ruthless indeed, and made irresistible by his sense of humor in which liill was hopelessly deficient
 A great Englishman of letters contrast ed the powers of Voltaire. Swift and Ad- dison as masters of rdicule, and each was superb In his sphere. In another essay he declares that the moclery )f Voltaire was the most terrible thing with which man or devil was ever armed, oi words of that import Perhaps the great est master of ridicule either house or the American Congress ever knew was John B. Thompson of Kentucky, who served In both ends of the capitol. Proc tor Knott provoked more laughter than anybody else but he was the humorist; he was also the poet. He left no sting. Even Duluth presented him a conner lot. "Sunset'' Cox bubbled over with wit and humor, but he did not go to the spot as Knott did especially after old Ben Butler ran him through a threshing na- chine and threw him into hysteria or chagrin John Allen was delightful nu- morist and, though he plays on only one string. no one can deny that he gets more out of that string than most funny men get out of a full band Landis of h. diana is a dashing fellow. but he Is the epigrammatist. rather than the humorist' Speaker Reed could make the Houss laugh, but he was a wit rather than a humorst. He always left sting Ihere would have been what never "as' sHlee parliaments were instituted among men, if Thomas B. Reed and John Randolph of Roanoke had been contemporaries.
 In inc spring of 1900 the Senate had the Porto Rico tariff under consideration. and MT. Beveridge made wonderful speech on the subject. but subsequently voted on the other side. Here Is a pas sage. words. words. words, langwidge, langwidge. langwldge:
 MT. President: The great movement oh which the American people have em- parked Is a movement Of conscience as well as of power; of civilization as well as Of commerce. It touches the shores of every sea Directly or indirectly. 1t df fects all humanity. We go fort hon world career; we must conduct 1t with world statesmanship-a statesmanship that considers the effect of every law we pass upon the peoples over whom our influence is extended and upon the world at large, as well as upon ourselves.
 Sir, administration of government means more than balance sheets, more than weights or measures. IL means this. but 1t also means the weighing of the hearts of men and the balance sheets of the af- fections of the governed people. The American masses, in whose breasts dwell the purity, power and hope of the re- public and of the world. understand this well. They feel and deeply know that we are hencsforth the master people of the world. They doubt not that human prog Eess is enc vast and swelling harmony
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-04
CLARA CHER AND GENUS OF GEORGE ELIOT

grades as these are common enough in real life Indeed, they are the rule, Burns and Byron were both dissi- pated, and both licentous; and yet who believes that there was not vast moral difference between the honest Scot tish peasant and the lordly English liber- tine? Sterne and Swift were both coarsely obscene, and both clerical misereants. But who will deny that there was a great moral interval between the mighty master of English undecided, and the hypocrtleal vender of tawdry sentimentalitles?
 IL Is frequently held and published that genius is very rarely found combined with common sense, sound judgment and skill In matters of business. But one of the few things that we really know about Shakespeare is that he was an excellent man of business, who looked sharply to the main chance, managed his finances with great skill and made an independent fortune.
 Walter Scott loved to make money, and did make vast sums, which he not very wisely expended in gratifying his luxuri- ous and enormously expensive tastes and yet he would have died rich, but for an unlucky investment in a gigantic publish ing business.
 Pope made a fortune by his pen; and
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yet scarcely any competent c,itic will venture to deny that George Eliot is, speaking generally, the peer of any of them. and in some important points, the leader of gil of them. In the storytelling capacity she is inferior to Scott; in plot she falls below BulWer; in humorous car feature she is not equal to Dickens, and in highly finished satire she must yield to Trackeray; but in her English style she has not been excelled by any one of them, nor even by Fielding himself, and in the drawing of character and the paint ing of manners and of real life, she has a place which is all her own. In these last points she is eXcelled by Shakespeare alone Her two greatest works Adam Bede' and "The Mill on the Floss may fairly be called prose dramas of real life. and "Mlddlemarch' is only a shade, if at all inferior to them.
 Many men of no very high order of in- tellect have been good story tellers. James Fenimore Cooper was one. Liter ary plotting requires higher order of mind; but NNikie Collins did it wonder fully well; and he has no pretensions to the highest rank, nor to even a very high rank as a man of genius. The mimic and the humorous caricaturist can scarce ly be said to need the highest order of genius. Clowns in the circus have made
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-04

TT may be true that rats have some
 means of knowing when a ship will \ sink and that they leave in time to save their lives. but experience shows that they take some desperate risks. All ships have rats and considerable damage is done to the cargo at times by them Some ships become infested with the yer min and it requires the aid of the profes- sional rat-catcher to exterminate them. but no matter how much of a pest they may be, it has always been considered a bad omen for rats to leave a ship on their own account, and their coming on board is regarded as a sign that the ship will safely reach the next port. no matter what may happen after
 It was nothing but this belief that pre- vented the whole crew from leaving the barque "Kenilworth' in Taxow. one of the principal seaport towns in the island of Formosa. From Shanghai to Takow it was case of pump or sink and that is an alternative that does not appeal to sailors, but is only accepted when the sit uation absolutely requires making a choice It is sort of Sisyphusian labor something like the task the sailor gave
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the water, but they swan ashore and made for the hawser again. In spite of all that could be done hundreds of them got aboard and Immediately went down the hold.
 While the advent of the rats had re- assuring effect on the crew and dispelled all fear of shpwreck, still the great num- bers of them caused considerable alarm, for not only was their actual number to be considered, but the natural increase which would happen during a long voy- age through tropical seas But there was no help for it, so when the cargo was all aboard, the matches were bat tened down and the vessel started on her homeward voyage. It wasn't long until the fermentation of the green sugar caused terrific heat and accumulation of gases in the hold necessitating the re- moval of the matches to give ventilation and when they were taken off the rats swarmed on deck, in the cabin, the gal ley the forecastle. everywhere. in fact, except back down the hold where the heat had become intense. One of the re- markable effects of the heat on the rats was the change in their eolor they were brown when they cams aboard but now
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co-operated with by the faculty, and is
 sound-then the new graduates would
 cease to be the proverbial easy mallrs for
 the worldly wise when they begin life's
 battle. It would be quite possible to
 turn out men deeply versed in :ne study
 of mankind as well as in books.
 Responsibility, too, Is great developer.
 and the management by students them selves of as many affairs relate direct
 ly to their own life and conduct. has al
 most invariably proved a successful ven ture. The faculty of the University of Alabama has evidently reached this con clusion. as appears from the announce ment that the boarding department of that
 institution will be turned over next ses-
 sion. unqualtiedly, to the management Of the students This will, doubtless, prove d satisfactory arrangement for all con- cerned. 1t will relieve the authorities of many petty annoyances. and at the same time will have a most beneficial effect on the students themselves. This Is un- questionaby a step in the right direction toward the solution of the problem of the correct student life at educational in- stitutions. Those departments of college life which the students themselves control and manage are the very ones In which they become naturally. the most inter ested. and which are probably the most successfully conducted. Undoubtedly, the facts that athletics are solely under the charge of the boys has great deal to do with its popularity and enthusiastic
 support in all of the colleges And 1t is quite possible that some Of this en- thusiasm, some of this ambition may be ellcited in other pursuits and avocatlons, more permanently worthy, by making of such students affairs and student under
 takings It Is to be hoped that in the matter referred to the University au- thorites will sustain a helpful and CO., operative spirit toward what efforts may be made in this student undertaking next .r.iu n
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E WITH RATS ON BOARD SHIP

empty gun and pulls the trigger. he ex- ploded and fatally shot MeWilliams. In the hopes of burying him on one of the Philippine islands, among which we were sailing a the time, the body was sewed up in canvas and laid on the deck to await sunrise the next day, but the rats came out in legions and attacked it from all sides. All night long It took four men to beat off the hrutes, and at day light it was found actually necessary to bury the body at SCI. Whether it was the smell of the corpse or hunger cannot be said, but the rats got fighting among themselves and they ate all they killed. Night and day they were chasing and killing, the taste of the blood seemed to make them ferocious.
 It is needless to say with what pleas ure we began to notice the reduction in their numbers, although those that still remained were big, fierce looking animals. Instead of having rat hunts the sailors used to amuse themselves by harpoonng the rats and some of the crew became adopts in throwing the spear. Long be- fore the ship reached Sydney 1t was a rare thing to seke a rat. and he gener- ally made for cover behind cask or
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He was a big man in every way-blg
 boned, heavy muscled, big brained, stout
 hearted, robust in health, gigantic In
 strength. The one thing light about him
 was his conscience-that he ever kept
 void of offense toward his brother. lie
 never sought preferment. His character
 and attainments commanded it. He was
 solicitor of his circuit and judge on the
 bench, as well as lawyer at the bar, and
 never was there a whisper against his
 unblemished fionor There was a honeli-
 ness about him that was delightful. A sound mind in sound body, his heart
 was also healthy, and it was malice were
 ever strangers. Big as it was, duty so filled it that there was no room for hate. His speech was simple and direct, though , he was matser of the classics and deeply read in general literature.
 When the inevitable came Pettus went with lis state and his section, and was
 a brave soldier in the big war. At Vicks- burg he performed a feat that reads like D'Artagnan The enemy had erected redoubt that meant almost immediate surrender to the garrison unless 1t was taken Assault after assault was made
 upon it. only to fail. Then there was d call for volunteers to make one last at tempt and Pettus offered himself. Texas command composed the rank and file, and Pettus was the ranking officer He directed the attack, one of the blood-
 fest of the war, numbers considered, and
 after prodgies of valor, performed on
 both sides, the redobut was taken The surviving Texans then assembled and gravey promoted Pettus to the rank of
 Texan" and Texan" he was the rest of the war. In Cousin Bettec,' Balzac re- lates how old Hulot under the eye of Napoleon, performed the most desper ate
 deed of daring even Napoleon ever wii- messed, and all the tens of thousands who loved old Pettus are fond of believing
 that Hulot at the bridge was not more ! intrepid or serene than Pettus at the re- ! doubt. He rose to the rank of brigadier general and helped to dispute the country inch by inch from Dalton to Atlanta where he faced death with sedate courage daily.
 When the war closed he was bankrupt
 in all but honor and valor, and set about to aid in restoring to Alabama civil lib- erty. He might have had any office in the gift of the state after the jackals were
 driven from Alabama. He preferred the , practice of his profession. which he fol-
 lowed for more than thirty years. In 1897 he was chosen a senator in Con gress. in which position he shed addi- tional luster on the state of King and Lewis, of Yancey and Houston. But the presence of Pettus and Morgan there in the body now became latiudinarian al ways recalled to my mind that q. least two senators on that floor contrasted un- favorably the temple builded upon the permit of Cyrus with the house Solomon erected to the God of Israel That was manifest in their votes against the rate bill, which was only another and an ad-
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EVELYN HOPE.

By Robert Browning Beautiful Evelyn Hope is dead Sit and watch by her side an hour. That is her bookshelf this her bed; She plucked that piece of geranium-
 flower, Beginning to die, too, in the glass. Little has yet been changed, I think The shutters are shut, no light may pass Save two long rays thro the hinge s
 chink. Sixteen years old when she died. Perhaps she had scarcely heard my
 name It was not her time to love; beside, Her life had many hope and aim, Duties enough, and little cares, And now was quiet, now astr r- Till Gods hand beckoned unawares, And the sweet white brow Is al of her. Is it too late, then, Evelyn Hope? What, your soul was pure and true, The good stars met In your horoscope, Made you of spirit, fire and dew And just because l was thrice as old, And our paths in the world diverged so
 wide,
 Each was naught to each, must be told? We were fellow-mortas, naught beside No, indeed. for God above
 Is great to grant, as mighty to make, And creates the love to reward the love. I claim you still for my own loves sake! Delayed it may be for more lives yet. Through worlds 1 shall traverse, not a
 few