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The Science of Chemistry.

Chemistry did not become a sciepca
in other words, chemistry proper did
not exist-until the seventeenth cen
fury. and it was as late as the middle
of the eighteenth century before it be-
gan to amount to much The old al
chemy undoubtedly contained the
germs, or at least the possibilities. of
the present day chemistry, but beyond
this the relationship between the mod
ern science and the ancient delusion is
slight indeed. Still, it cannot be de-
MED that it was in the foolish search
FOR the Philosophers Stone and the
Elixir of Life that men first hit upon
the discoveries which were destined
TO develop into the great. science of to-
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One Question Too Much.

The servant problem was under dis
,ussion. and experiences" were being
related. Several women stopped talk
Ing at the same moment. and the ST.
lence, which had lasted nearly two sec
onds. was broken by a young matron,
who said: But, ladies', that's all moth
Ing to what happened to me last week
Ny cook left me, you know, for no
earthly reason except that she told the
chambermaid we starved the help.
The idea! Well, / went to the intelli-
gence office and after a long search
found the girl | wanted to take Mag
gie's place. She answered every ques-
ton to my satisfaction until / asked
her, Why did you leave your last
place? Then she got red In the face.
threw her head back and said in an
angry tone: Because l wanted a
change. Why did your last cook
leaveT And before | could answer she
turned away saying, You'll not suit
Now, isn't that dreadfulT And then
all the other women told dreadful"
stories.-New Yo-k Tribune.
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PARIS THEATERS.
Manners and Customs That Strike an
American as Peculiar.

Manners and Customs That Strike an
American as Peculiar.
1t is not the play or the acting or the
applause that attracts and holds the
attention of the American who is at
tending for the first time a Partisan
opening. 1t is the audience. In the
first place, the predominance of men
In the best orchestra seats will provoke
a question which brings forth the in
formation that in the majority of the
better class theaters in Paris the first
three rows of the orchestra are sold
almost exclusively to men, and, as far
as it is possible, the box Office favors
men for the body of the house, princi-
pally because they do not wear hats
and do not therefore obstruct the view
of those sitting behind. Before the
curtain goes up the stranger glances
about and is surprised to discover Jew
els and gowns decollete in the highest
balconies, the part of the theater
known In America as peanut heav-
en-" Both men and women, dressed
as for grand ball, are perched away
up at least three flights of stairs, and
during entr'actes they come down and
promenade with the others and visit
their friends, and few are the wiser
as to the location of their seats. The
very fact of being present at an i'm
portant opening Is enough to give
certain social precedence even though
they sat on the rafters or chung to the
chandeliers.
Another feature which attracts the
American is that during the entr'actes
the men who do not join the prom
enade stand up and don their hats the
moment the curtain is down, and they
spend the entire twenty or twenty fave
minutes inspecting their neighbors
through opera glasses. There is much
activity In the balconies and In the
boxes, caused by the social calls which
are being exchanged. In the orchestra
rows and family circles the men and
the women stand up, and opera glasses
are used freely by both, and many lit
tie tiirtations are enjoyed between
those in the balconies, or loges, and
those on the first floor.
IL ID Hot conSlueTeu ruue 10 IeVel
glasses at any one, whether within
few feet or up In the balcony, but 1t Is
rather considered compliment to the
face or more often the shoulder that
attracts such close inspection. 1t Is
true that the French are famed for
their polished manner but 1t is equally
true that In the eyes of an American
the toughest cowboy possesses a bet
ter appreciation of refinement than the
dapperest member of the French no
bility, and especially is this noticeable
in q th2ater--Harriet Quimby La Les
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DON'T Hurry.

Do nothing in hurry. Nature never
does. More haste, worse speed" says
the old proverb. If you are in doubt,
sleep over it, But, above all, never
quarrel in a hurry; think it over well.
Take time. However vexed you may
be overnight, things will often look diff
ferent in the morning If you have
written a clever and conclusive but
scathing letter, keep it back till the
next day, and it viii very often never
go at all.-Lord Avebury.
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The Sarcastic Cabby.

The London bobby is notorious for
overgrown feet and hands. Likewise
the London cabby is generally ac-
credited with never being at loss for
a reply. One day bobby lifted up
his hand majestically to halt a cabby,
but the latter crowded his horse ahead.
Didn't you see me raise my 'andT
demanded the bobby.
Il did see the sky darken moment.
but my 'orse was shyin' at your feet"
retorted the cabby as he whipped up
and went on.-London Graphic.
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Walked Him Up.
He HAD HIS DOSE.
An Incident of the Terrible Battle o,
MontmiraiI.


An Incident of the Terrible Battle oil
MontmraiI.
In February, 1914, the French army
made heroic stand against the allied
forces of Europe, and in one week re-
trieved for short but glorious period
its lost prestige. Though composed
largely of half raw recruits, it escaped
from the very center of $4,000 foes,
attacked an army of 10000 men, won
battles and captured IS cannon, 3
generals and $4,000 prisoners!
After the terrible fight at Montmirail
Major Bancel, staff surgeon to the
guard, was attending the wounded as
well as he could, close behind the col
umns still engaged. Looking up from
one unfortunate man whose wounds
he was dressing. he perceived within
a short distance an old mounted chas-
seur of the guard, who was TRANQUILITY
smoking his pipe and watching the
surgeon.
Bancel did not at first pay any at
tention to him. By and by he noticed
the man again, still In the same pos
ture, TRANQUILITY smoking his pipe.
What are you doing thereY cried
the surgeon.
Smoking" answered the man.
docs the major forbid me to smoker
"Whatr' returned the officer. aren't
you ashamed to be loafing around here
while your comrades are covering
themselves with gloryT'
The chasseur blew out a cloud of
smoke and, driving his right spur into
his steed, made him execute a half
turn. Then he said, taking his pipe
out of his mouth:
Look, major. Don't you think
have got my dose as 1t is? Can do
anything more?"
The major looked. The chasseur's
leg was shot off half way between the
knee and the ankle, so that his left foot
was hanging and dangling against his
horse. The veterans question required
no answer. But 1t may be surmised
what care and attention the surgeon
lavished on the imperturbable chas-
seur
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A aiu Fan.

A good deal of royal significance has
been given to fans. They were sym
bols of authority in Mexico before the
conquest. Queen Mary of England re-
ceived on New Years day in 1856 81
flames to keep the hete of the tyre"
Queen Elizabeth favored the custom
that fan -vas the only present SOW
ereign could receive from a subject
Fans have not always been dainty tri-
aes. Jean de Balzac, French writer
of the seventeenth century, wrote from
Italy during the reign Of Louis XIV.
of the enormous fans in use there sus-
pended from the ceiling and worked by
four servants. He says, IF have fan
that makes wind enough in my cham
Der to wreck a ship"
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The Danes and the Raven.

Perhaps the Danes selected the raven
for their standard out Of feelings Of
gratitude. for before the invention OF
the mariners compass they must have
found him extremely useful. The only
method of determining whether land
was near was to let loose a raven. II
the bird saw land he sailed away for
ever; if he did not he returned to the
ship.-London Chronicle.
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AS a word widow" is most inter
estlhg. Max Mueller traced 1t back
through thousands of years with hard.
ly any change Of form or meaning
The word at its original formation
meant simply woman left without a
man, just as it does today, and it has
remained all these ages materially I'M
changed both in sound and meaning"
A thousand years ago the Anglo Saxons
used the word In England and north
Germany. The Meso-Goths and. earlier
than they, the Latin people knew it
centuries before the Anglo-Saxons. and
the Sanskrit records show that thou
sand years before Latin was written
the same word was spoken on the
slopes OF the Himalayas.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1907-06-11

The man who applied at headquar-
ters for a little help" from the char
liable association set forth his case
with so much tact and moderation that
the secretary was beginning to be IA
vOrably impressed.
Il can't ask them to do too much"
the applicant said modestly. you
see" he continued, in an outburst Of
delicacy and righteousness, 'they
paid for my wedding last month, and
twas real swell one" Youths Com
panion.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1907-06-11

A stockbroker whose mind is always
full of business was asked few days
ago how old his father was
Well said he abstractedly, hes
quoted at eighty, but there is every
prospect that he will reach par and
possibly be at premium"
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1907-06-11

Summer coughs and colds yield at once
to Bees Laxative Cough Syrup, contains
honey and tar but no opiates Children
like it. Its laxative qualities recommend
it to mothers. Hoarseness, coughs, Group
yield quickly. Keep it on hand. Sold at
II. B. Aliens drug store, Mount Holly
N. J..
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Equally culpabIe.

81 can say for myself that l never
have been mean enough to get another
woman's cook away from her"
Neither have l, but must confess
that once or twice have tried to work
our cook off on some of my neighbors."
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ReethoVen.

There have been many great must
clans, many first class masters OF mel
ody, but perhaps the majority of mu-
sicians would name Beethoven as the
master of masters, the Napoleon of
music.-New York American
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1907-06-11
CYPRESS KNEES.
How They Are Formed-Trees' Curious
Blunt Roots,

How They Are Formed-Trees' Curious
Blunt Roots.
The cypress knee is familiar object
In all the lowland forests of the south,
but there are thousands of northern
people who have never seen them, and
there are many southern people, too,
who have not seen them till they
stumbled over them some dark night.
The knee is of solid wood, has no limbs
or leaves, Is anywhere from six inches
to six feet in height, and its rounded
top and fiattened sides give it very
much the shape of human leg bent at
the knee till thigh and calf are brought
together; hence the appropriate name
of knee"
For number of years l was curious
as to what part the knees played in
the life of cypress tree, writes cor
respondent of Forest and Stream, for
they are part of its root system and do
not grow independently. They were
not sprouts, trying to grow into trees,
for they never developed branches, and
the final conclusion was that their only
use was for people to stumble over.
How and why such useless appendages
to the tree were formed was a mys-
| terry until one day when drifting down
a deep channel which had been washed
through a cypress swamp the secret
was exposed.
The earth had been washed away
( from the roots of some of the trees,
| and roots in all stages of growth were
| in sight None of these roots was less
| than two and onehalf inches thick and
| of uniform size clear to their tips or
rather clear to their blunt ends, for
| there was no tip.
Nature intended these roots to grow
| in soft mud, and they were all right
| for that purpose, but when the blunt
end of a root encountered something
too hard to push through it bent or
buckled in the line of least resistance,
and this was generally toward the top
| of the ground, and the continuing
| growth of the root pushing the bend
further upward made the bend closer,
until finally the two arms of the bend
were close together and they grew to-
| gether, with one sheet of bark inclos-
| ing both
| Walked Him Up.
"Farep'
The passenger gave no heed.
'Fare, pleasew
Still was the passenger oblivious.
by the ejaculatory term fare"
said the conductor, 81 imply no refer
ence to the state of the weather, the
complexion of the admirable blond
you observe in the contiguous seat, nor
even to the quality of service vouch-
safed by this philanthropic corpora
ton. l merely allude in a manner per-
haps lacking in delicacy, but not In
conciseness, to the monetary obligation
set up by your presence in this car and
suggest that, without Contemplating
your celebrity with cunctation, you
liquidate.''
At this point the passenger emerged
| from his trance.-Columbus Dispatch.
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Shut Him Off.

What are you taking for your cold r.
Nothing"
Nothing? But, my dear fellow
Nothing, | say, not even advice
Fine day, isn't itw-Illustrated Bits
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1907-06-11

Cholmondely-You and your sister
are twins, are you not? Marjoribanks
We were when we were children.
Now, however, she is five years young
er than I.--CleveIand. Leader.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1907-06-11

"Barney's wooden leg has been pain
ing i'm of late" said Scholes to his
Wife.
'How can that be?" asked Mrs
Scholes irritably.
Mrs. Barney has been thrashing i'm
with it" WAS the explanation.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1907-06-11

Man Ian Pile Remedy comes put up in
collapsible tube with nozzle. Easy to
apply right where the soreness and infiam-
nation exists 1t relieves at once blind
bleeding, itching or protruding piles,
Guaranteed. Sold at II. B. Aliens drug
store, Mount Holly N. ].
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cATARRH

Rings Little Liver Pills keep the system
clean, the stomach sweet. Prompt relief
for headache and biliousness Good for
all the family. Sold at H. B. Allen g drug
store, Mount Holly N. ].
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A Positive
CURE
EIy's Cream Balm

IS quickly ABSORBED.
Gives Relief at Once.
1t cleanses, soothes
heals and protects
the diseased mem
brane. It cures Ca
tarrh and drives
away a Cold in the
Head quickly. Re-
stores the Senses of
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Pineules are for the Kidneys and Blad
der. They bring quick relief to back
ache, rheumatism, lumbago, tired orn
out feeling. They produce natural
action3of the, kidneys. 80 days treatment
800. Money refunded if Pineules are
not satisfactory. Sold at H. B. Aliens
drug store. Mount Holly N
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1907-06-11

Here is Relief for Women
Mother Gray, a nurse in New York, discov-
cred an aromatic pleasant herb cure for
women $ ills called AUSTRALIAN-LEAF II
is the only certain monthly regulator. Cures
female weaknesses and Backache, Kidney,
Bladder and Urinary troubles At all Drug,
gist or by mail SO cts. Sample FREE. Ad-
dress, The Mother Gray Co., lie Roy, Y.
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The Stone Was Not Thrown.

Genevieve's father occupied the pull
pit. Let him who is without sin
among you be first to cast stone" he
chose for a text. Genevieye listened
earnestly to the ensuing discourse. At
the close Of the service her mother
tried In vain to dislodge her from the
ministerial pew Genevieye stood her
ground till the rest of the congregation
had passed out, then she looked up
with sigh of relief. We'll" she said,
81 guess they've all sinned Anyhow,
nobody threw it"-New York Globe.
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ASK for Aliens Foot-Ease

ARK TOT Ailen's FOOt-Ease.
powder for swollen, tired, hot smart1ng
feet sample sent FREE. Also FIR e Sample
of the FooT-EAsE SANITARY CoRN-PAD, q
new invention. Address, Allen S. Olmsted
lie Roy, N. Y,
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1t seems a pity no record is preserved
of what happened at the dance follow
ing this supper party.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-01-04
LABOR OF CHILDREN.
Senator Beveridge Proposed His Bill
as Amendment of Local Measure,

Senator Beverage in the Senate yester-
day proposed his national child labor bill as
an amendment to the District of Columbia
child labor bill. This was a tactical move
on the part Of Senator Beverdge in order
to get his bill before the Senate. The local
child labor bill is now unfinished business
and unless he had proposed his national
measure as an amendment he would prob
ably not have been able to get considera-
ton during this session. He gave notice
that he would speak on this bill on the 10th
instant.
Senator Piles gave notice of an amend
ment to the bill regulating child labor in
the District of Columbia providing as fol-
lows:
THAT no child under fourteen years of
age shall be employed in the District of
Columbia In any factory, mill, department
store, telegraph office, restaurants, hotels,
apartment house, theater, bowling alley, eli
gar store or as a public messenger. No
such child shall be employed In any work
performed for wages or other compensa-
ton during the hours when the public
schools Of the District Of Columbia are
in session or before I'm. and after pm,
unless one of the judges of the Supreme
Court Of the District of Columbia shall is
sue a permit for the employment of any
child between the ages of twelve and four
teen years at any occupation or employ
ment that is not in his judgment dangerous
or injurious to life or morals of such child
up evidence satisfactory to him, and that
the labor of such child is necessary for
it's support, or for the assistance of an in
valid father or mother or for the support
of younger brother sister or widowed
mother. Such permit shall be issued for
a definite time, but shall be revoked at
the discretion of the judge by whom they
are issued or by his successor in office
Hearings for the granting and the revok-
ing of permits shall be held under such no.
tice and under such rules and regulations
as the judges of such courts shall pre-
scribe"
Senator Gallinger also introduced an
amendment to the child labor bill provid-
ing that no child under fourteen years Of
age shall be employed, permitted or suffer-
ed to work in the District of Columbia in
any factory, workshop, mercantile estab-
lishment, store, business office telegraph
office, saloon, restaurant, hotel apartment
house, pool room, bowling alley, during
school hours in the distribution or transmits
sion of merchandise or messages, sale of
( newspapers or doing other light outdoor
work, nor shall such child be employed be-
| fore G am. nor after Z pm, provided that
| the provisions of this act shall not apply
to children between twelve and sixteen
years of age employed in the Senate and
| House of Representatives nor to children
between such ages who are regularly en-
gagged in learning a trade.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-01-04
ROBERT GRAU MISSING.
Brother of Maurice Grau Disappear
ed Two Weeks Ago.

NEW YORK, January 4.-Mystery sur
rounds the disappearance of Robert Grau,
brother of Maurice Grau, who was sue
ceeded by Heinrich Conried as impresaro
of the Metropolitan Opera House, and since
two weeks have passed without any trace
of him his friends fear that he has met
with foul play.
Two weeks ago Mr.. Grau, whose financial
circumstances had become much reduced in
the last two years, following his manage
ment Of the tour of Adelina Patti in Amer
lea, walked out Of the Office of Freeman
Bernstein, at seth street and Broadway,
leaving his overcoat and without a word of
farewell. 1t was there he had had his
desk room for the last few months.
Mr.. Grau had been melancholy over his
depleted fortunes. At ore time he was q
successful manager and was wealthy, own
ing a splendid home at New Rochelle. He
managed Pauline Hall, Thomas @. Sea-
brooke, May Ward, Nine. Modjeska and
other well-known artists in the theatrical
world. :.
His wife and two daughters-Eva aged
twenty years, and Jeanette, fifteen years
do not know where he is.
They were in financial straits a week ago
at their apartment in SD street, when Mr..
Bernstein and others came to their relief
and ensconced them in fiat in East 153d
street A benefit is being talked of among
theatrical persons for them.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-01-04
YOUNG Trapper is Missing.

YORK, Pa. January 4.-Sydney McPher-
son, the eighteen-year- son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Samuel Mcpherson of Muddy Creek
Forks, York county, has been missing from
his home for several days. He is trapper
and went out to look after some of his
traps 1t is feared he fell into dam apd
was drowned.