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The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1907-07-30

One could hardly fancy an England
without the Thames. 1t is the source,
the inspiration, the participant, in SO
much that distinguishes England's syl-
van beauty. In the centuries that have
lived upon its banks it has been a po-
tent factor in the civilization of this
island kingdom. 1t cuts in twain and
laves the burliest city in all the world,
a dark mass of human structure i'm
penetrably profound. 1t rides a vast
commerce from London to the sea, and
along its jutting wharves nights are
often made darker with its tragedies.
Years agone kings and princes and the
fairest women in the land rode upon
its tide in functions of state or in the
idle pose of pleasure. Those were the
days of the garlanded barge or the
hooded galley foist, which, gliding
stealthily beneath the tower portcullis,
lost another noble to the world of poll
tics and intrigue.-From TN Thames
land"
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1907-07-30
Hard TO Determine.

give taken deposits over this same
counter for more years than I'd like
to own up to-" said the receiving teller
in downtown savings bank, "and I've
made quite a study of reading faces,
too, but just the same never can tell
by looking at man whether he's go
ing to deposit money or draw some out.
Sometimes the shabbiest man in the
line will pull out a big wad of bills
to deposit, while stylishly dressed wo-
man right behind him will want to
draw out couple of dollars 1t would
take clairvoyant to tell what was 60
ing to happen, and just for curiosity
sometimes cast an eye down the line
trying to size UP the different people,
but it never does any good 1 re-
member very ragged man coming in
once and depositing 5000 in coin and
small bills, and right behind him was
a fashionably dressed woman who de-
posted 81. always remember this
instance, as the persons were in such
direct contrast" New York Sun.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1907-07-30
ESTABLISH ED 1875

while Katie, the maid, brushed her
hair
Everything had gone wrong that day
in big things as well as in little. Even
the gown she had planned to wear that
evening had been left unfinished, and
she was forced to reprimand Katie
somewhat sharply.
Katie burst into tears. She had
meant to finish it, she confessed, but
that morning the child of her sister,
who lived on the road to the village,
slipped on the muddy stones of a ditch
and broke his arm, and Katie, instead
of sewing on the gown, had gone to see
how he Jared.
You can ask Mr.. Tellingford If it's
not so, ma'am," she concluded fearful
ly. "'Twas he that found Bobby and
carried him home and went for the doc
tor afterward"
OF the truth of this assertion Miss
Lauderdale questioned nothing.
do you know where Mr.. Telling
ford is now?" she demanded.
"Indeed l do ma'am. He's hidden
Jun aunt 5OOuDy anu 10 udA1 way W
the station
"Then tell James to saddle Dolly
Dumping instantly and bring her to
the side door"
Katie gasped and obeyed, while EN-
lily Lauderdale, throwing a scarf about
her shoulders, ran down the stairs to
the driveway, her silken dinner gown
swishing at every step.
Tellingford meantime rode toward
the station, his lips set In a thin hard
line. He found himself mentally re-
peating his mornings advice to Bobby,
Men never cry at a scratch" when
behind him came the flying gallop of
hoofs. Tellingford was blank with
at the vision of Emily
Lauderdale, hatless and coatless and
in evening dress, tearing down the
road. Straight alongside the cart she
came and held out her hand.
"If you can forgive and forget" she
painted, "and if you still care
"Carei" cried Tellingford, jerking Off
his overcoat and wrapping it about her
after she had impetuously slipped from
her horse and clambered into the cart.
"All l can say is, Heaven bless Bob
byv"
And the flaxen haired young person
in suit of white satin was page at a
wedding in the spring.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1907-07-30
You Could slim Of the EDGE.

There was time-centuries ago, of
when the learned men of the
world really thought that the world
was a sqlare-not merely fiat, but that
it was a cube. The primitive geogra-
piers Of Egypt, Assyria and China all
taught that the world was square
plane" One of the most curious dis
coveries ever made in Central America
concerning Toltec beliefs, symbols, etc,
Is that they also had a similar idea
concerning the form of what we now
speak of as the globe" writer on
the discoveries made among the monu-
mental ruins of that country says,
They (meaning the Peruvians, Toltecs
and duchess believed the world to be
a cube, suspended from the heavens
by cords of gold fastened to each of
it's corners"
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1907-07-30

Of what 1t contained making his heart
thump thickly. Sure enough: Miss
Belinda Maxwell, Greenville, Colo"
And this was Alabamal Unadulter-
| ated, blue labeled carelessness and
stupidity! If living in a place five
years could make one responsible for
an idiotic blunder of this sort, what
else had he not done? He walked out
of the postoffice in daze. All was
clear enough now. She had never
received his letter at all, only that
wretched, COMPOUNDED blank! No won
der she had frozen the very air about
him-no wonder! Out in the open air.
be quickened his footsteps. 1t was al
ready $40, only ten minutes before the
opening of school, but he turned d.
rectly into Oak street and forgot that
he had ever been such thing as prin-
cipal of the Greenville High school.
In the distance he caught sight Of a
familiar blue tailor made gown He
doubled his pace and was quite up
with Belinda before she realized his
nearness. TO her naughty glance, her
49, away
man paid no attention whatever but
thrust the letter into her hands in
determined. masterful way which she
could not resist
Hypnotized. she opened it and read
the lines through, the crimson moving
in her cheeks:
My Darling-I want you to give up
teaching and let me do It for both. am
not mistaken in thinking that you will
come to me? Just a line. giving me the
right TO speak, and I shall attempt to tell
you in different way, in thousand diff
ferent ways, how much worship you
Most earnestly. r. w H
Belinda caught her breath in some
thing between a sob and laugh as
she lifted her eyes shyly to his keen,
appealing, apologizing and at last COM
handing glance.
The professor was tardy, very tardy,
that morning, but he gave his excuse
of headache glibly and mendaciously
and dismissed pupils and teachers for
holiday.
This he spent with Belinda.
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Trv 70 NJ The

Take light chair and place it with
its back to the wall. Stand in front of
1t. facing the wall, with the toes about
a foot from the front feet of the chair,
and, placing one hand on each side Of
the chair. lean forward until the top of
your head touches the wall. The prob
lem is to lift the chair from the floor
and, without moving the feet, to take
the head away from the wall and
stand upright. Simple as this appears,
it is impossible. Very few people, as
you will find. would anticipate any diff
ficulty in doing this. Get them to try.
This trick is, of course, very like the
old one of standing against a wall
sidewise. with the shoulder and one
foot touching the wall 1t is then I'M
possible to raise the outside foot with
out losing ones balance and falling
away from the wall
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1907-07-30
The Burlington and Bristol &eamboa
Ferry Company.

Schedule in effect $40 a. M, June 18th, 1907
Subject to change.
LEAVE BRISTOL FOR BURLINGTON.
Daily-Except Sundays and Saturdays.
$40, $780, 800, 5000, 1000, *lll5 g. NJ, 1920
31.30, *2.30 1880. $3.50, $3.50, $40. 10 p. m.
LEAVE BURLINGTON FOR BRISTOL.
900, 1870, 400, 800, $50, $50, 100 p m.
LEAVE BRISTOL SATURDAYS.
$40, $500, $780, $1,000 .l0.4O, Ills a. M, l23O
$780, s2D 900, *3.40 #4.2O. $780, $40, s64O, *740
900, 1000, l1.O0 p. m.
LEAVE BURLINGTON SATURDAYS
$50, $780, 1880, 1920 ll.OO, *ll 80 a. M, tlOO
TO- k240, 30, no. f4.4O, $3.50, $50, $50 750
$50, 1870, lilo p m.
LEAVE BRISTOL SUNDAYS.
500, 1900 5000. *lO.4O, Ills a. M, sl2 30, $3.50
*22O, $780, +340, *42O, 800, $40, $40, 100. 500
800, 1000, 1l.OO p. M
LEAVE BURLINGTON SUNDAYS.
$3.50, 1880, 1000. sll.OO, ll30 a. m II 90, 900
*240, $40 *i0O, =4.4U, A5.2O, 5.5U, $50, TAO, $40
eau, 1920, lilo p. IN.
Notes-Read Carefully
Trips marked with a star will stop at Bur
ington Island Park, and when there are three
or more passengers for the Park the boat viii
stop on other trips. Passengers who desire IL
leave the Park Will notify the wharf tender
who will raise the signal flag for the boat
from Bristol.
trip the schedule will be same al sunday
schedule.
August q 1907, the 1000 o'clock morning trip
from Bristol viii be withdrawn and the boat
will leave Bristol at $40 a. m.
The boat for the performances in the Audi
forum will leave Bristol at 7.40 p. M, return
ing will leave Burlington twenty minutes
after the performances.
No trips will be guaranteed In fOggy weather
WILLIAM K. DORON,
3ec'y, Treas. and Gen'l Manager
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1907-07-30
COMEDY IN A CEMETERY.
Old Chestnut Seller of Genoa and Her
Fortune Huntino Spouse.


1t does not seem possible that one
could run across a comedy in such
solemn place as a cemetery, yet there
is, so the optimist assures us, little
comedy in every situation. Surely in
the romance of the old chestnut seller
of Genoa and the chagrin of her for
tune hunting spouse, both of whom
figure in the local gossip and one of
whom is immortalized In marble in
the Campo Santo, one must admit that
the situation is not without It's lighter
side The most serious minded smile
as they read the inscription which the
shrewd old lady commanded the sculp-
tor to chisel on her tomb
Not so many years ago, so the story
runs, one of the best known figures in
the streets of Genoa was that of an old
woman who made a living selling
chestnuts. She was without beauty.
but was gifted with quality which no
doubt stood her in better stead-a ma
tive shrewdness which enabled her to
buy her wares prudently and to sell
them with a profit. 1t does not require
a large income to live in Genoa espe-
cially when one has not acquired eX-
travagant tastes, so gradually the for
tune of the worthy toiler grew and
finally became large enough to be talk
ed about A lad more noted for his
good looks than for principle or intel
lect caught the rumor of the fortune,
sought the chestnut merchant and
made straight for her heart, which was
not long In responding. The subse-
quent marriage of the pair caused the
knowing ones to smile.
After short honeymoon 1t was
brought to the notice of interested
neighbors that the young husband was
in search of work. His elderly bride
disclaimed all knowledge of the rumor-
ed fortune and said that, as she was
almost without penny, she expected
that he, too, would put his shoulder to
the wheel Between them a comforta-
BILE home might be supported and an
occasional evening at the theater might
be enjoyed. Not even yet having given
up hope that the fortune would one
day appear, the young husband led for
time an exemplary life, but finally
patience gave place to encouragement,
and loves young dream was shattered
Several years later the deserted wife
died, and, like a mushroom In the
night, sprang up in conspicuous place
in the Campo Santo a handsome monu-
ment representing aside from the plot
which it occupied, snug fortune. The
marble statue, of life size, represents
the old lady, dressed in full gathered
skirt, silk apron, fringed shawl and
rosary wound around her fingers. Lest
there should be doubt about the his
tory of the original and her romance
the entire story is set upon the pedes-
tai of the statue, explaining how the
lady had been wooed, not, as she knew
at the time, for her beauty or her vir-
tue, but for her fortune, and how she
had thwarted her mercenary lover by
the purchase of this lasting memorial,
which not only represented her hus-
bands disappointment, but might also
serve as a warning to others. The
statue is one of the most striking In
| the entire place.-Leslie's Weekly.
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Good In EVERYTHING.

The late Sir Wilfred Lawson, we'll
known as an English temperance re-
former as we'll as wit, invariably
took a cheerful view of life and con-
duct. In conversation with him one
day an ardent person rallied forcibly
against the practice Of christening
vessels with champagne before being
launched Sir Wilfred did not alto
gether agree and said good temper
ance lesson might be learned from the
practice.
SLOW can that be?" demanded the
other.
"Well," replied the baronet, latter
the first taste Of wine the ship takes
to water and sticks to it ever after"
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1907-07-30


abroad" said tourist agent, you
must call street cars trans and street
RAILWAYS YOU must call tramways. IL
Won sneak of trolleys over there, you
won't be understood. The word tram
must puzzle the average etymologist
1t derives from a mans name-Outram
Thomas Outram. Outram lived In
Derbyshire, and in the beginning OF
the last century he invented a peculiar
sort Of track that diminished the fric-
ton between wheels and roadDeds-
These tracks of Outram's, though MOTH
ing Ike a trolley track, We're called
first outramways, then tramways' ana
when street lines and street cars came
into existence they were dubbed re-
spectively tramways and trans"
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1907-07-30
The Rivals.

MY work" remarked the baldhead-
ed dentist 'is SO painless that my pa
tents often fall asleep in the chair
whse l am operating"
Hum! That's nothing" retorted his
rival. MY patients nearly all insist on
having their pictures taken while am
at work In order to catch the express
sion Of delight on their faces Lon
don Express.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1907-07-30
CAMDEN AND SUBURBAN RAILWAY co.

Leave MoORESTOWN every 10 minutes
from 542 until lU.42 n. M; then every ~ min
aIes until Alp p NJ; then every 10 minutes un-
til 9.42 p. in then every 80 minutes until ll.l2
p. m; then every hour as per night car
schsdule
Leave FERRY sos, 5.3S, sos, 638 a. m; then
every 10 minutes until 9.3S a. H.; then every ~
minutes until 1913 p. M; then every 10 minutes
until S3S D. M; then every 80 minutes until
iu.0S p. m; then ll.US and l2.OS; then every
hour as per night car schedule.
Leave MERCHANTN LILLE every minutes
from 5.32 u. m. until 9N q. M; then every III
minutes until Az p. M; then every minutes
until S.z7 p. M; then every 10 minutes until
ll.47 p. NJ; then as per night car schedule.
Leave FERRY at 603 and 5.38 a. m; then
every 10 minutes until 5.5S a. M; then every
d minutes until sos u. M; then every 10 min
utes until So p. M; then every minutes UNI
Iil7.5 p. M; then every 10 minutes until l208
midnight; then every hour as per night car
schedule.
NIGHT CAR-DA1LY AND SUNDAY.
Leave Moorestown, l.02. ", 3U2, 4.O2 a, IN.
Leave Ferry, *i.OS, 20S, SO6, Aus a. m.
.Iast trip on Saturday nigh.
Connect with Mount Holly cars at Stanwick
avenue.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1907-07-30
Another Comparison.

"She has face like an incandescent
globe"
Mercy, what shapep'
Il wasn't referring to the shape"
"What thenT'
'@ro the fact that it lights up so beau
tifully Cleveland Plain Dealer.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1907-07-30
TROLLEY TIME TABLES.
BURLINGTON COUNTY RAILWAY co.
IN connection with Camden and Suburban
Railway Company.

In connection with Camden and Suburban
Railway Company.
In effect A prii 8. 1907.
Leave Fountain, Mount Holly, for Burling-
ton at $40 a. m, and every hour thereafter
to and including lilo p. M.
Leave Broad and High streets, Burlington.
for Mount Holly at Gus "a. and every hour
thereafter until and including II .05 p. M.
Last car lbs p. M
Leave fountain, Mount Holly. for MOores-
town and Camden at $40, 6.l4 a. m. and every
half hour thereafter until and including S.44,
d. M, then y.44 10 A, 1l.34 p. m
Leave Camden Ferry Tor Mount Holly al
5.U3 5.SS a. IN. and every half hour thereafter
until and including 8.OS p. m, every hour
thereafter until ana including ll.US.
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She Sidestepped.

He-Do you think your father will
object to my suit? She-I don't see
why he should. He himself wears one
almost as bad.-San Francisco Bulle-
tin
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1907-07-30

" Il 81 "
WEEKDAYS
For Philadelphia, 7.lO, $40 Ql.s5 Saturday and
Sunday only a. m. 30, 40. $40 (9.4O Satur
day and sunday only p. m.
A delightful twilight and moonlight trip
may be had by taking Steamer Columbia at
4.l0 p. IN. to Philadelphia and return, arriving
home 905 p. m.
Full orchestra on board.
Leave Philadelphia 500 $3.50 Saturday and
Sunday only a. M, LOO, 2OO 500, 800 p. m
Saturdays and Sundays.
500 p. m. boat will leave 7.30 p. m. on account
of moonlight.
Time table subject to change without notice
Freig hit shipments covered by full marine
insurance from the time they are received
until delivered to you.
SERVICE BETTER THAN EVER.
f. II. STETsER. Gen. Mgr.
e. II. FLAGG, JR.,
Freight and Passenger Agent.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1907-07-30

"Why is Jones growing a beardr
ooh believe his wife made him a
present of some ties.'-Punch.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1907-07-30

When there is no good within no good
comes out.-Dutch Proysrb.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1907-07-30

C Cars Leave Burlington-Broad High 5.42
6l2 AZ 7.12, 7.42, Sl2 S.42. 912 y42 1912. 1912
Ill2 Il42 1912, l242, liz, l42 2l2, 2s2, IL, 342
4l2 4.42, 5.l2. 542 6l2, 6.42, 7l2 742, SIP, S42
9.l2, Y.42, 1912, ll.42.
WHSTBOUND.
Leave Burlington, Broad and High-60S
6.SS 7OS TBS, sos, S.a8, 9OS 9S l0OS, 1888, ll0S
lsS l20S, lZ.5s, Us. l.5s, 2OS, 25S 3OS, 33S AUS
3D. bus, b3S tits, 3S, 7OS 7.5S sos, S.S, sOS y3S
l.0S HIS. l20S. Los.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-10-03


with. Stevens ordered the whisky
man" to close up. AS the saloon was
not on railroad land he had no real
authority and the man laughed at his
orders.
"When are you going to leave"
Stevens demanded on his first visit to
the saloon.
when l get good and ready" was
the answer.
"Well, I'm going nOw," cried the en-
gineer, as he lighted short fuse to a
huge dynamite cartridge and threw it
back of the bar.
He left ON run with the saloon
man at his heels. In few seconds
the shack and its contents were spread
over several acres.
Then came a man with a tin pack
on his back. The pack was filled with
whisky, which was retailed to the
men. Stevens heard of it and when
the travelling saloon came near his
tent put two rifle bullets through the
tin pack. The whisky gurgled out and
the man fed. convinced that at last he
was "up against" real prohibition
law.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-10-03

Attorney General Bonaparte
will recommend in his next an
nual report some changes in the
law which he believes will make
the Sherman antitrust law more
ineligible and less difficult of
enforcement. The President will
doubtless embody the Attorney
Generals recommendations in
the next annual message to Con-
gress. 1t is an abstruse subject
and one that puzzles the best
lawyers, so that if the Attorney
General has solved the chief diff
ficulties he will have done his
country and his party an incal-
culable service.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-10-03

The governments prosecution
of the Standard Oil Company is
progressing steadily. 1t has thus
far revealed the fact that the
Standard Oil Company has made
profits of $500, 600, 600 in the last
twenty-five years; that it has fire.
quentIy violated the law and the
mandates of the state supreme
courts; that John D. Rockefeller
owns one-fourth of the stock and
that his holdings are worth $lO9,
OOO, 900; that his income amounts
to over $21 a minute; that the
Standard Oil Company of lndl-
ana, sort of legal fiction but
actually part of the real Stand
ard Oil Company, which q Judge
Lands fined $29,OOO,0OO, has
been making a profit of 1000 per
cent year. The governments
suit prays the dissolution of the
Standard Oil Company of New
Jersey, the real company which
owns all the little companies; lit
tie by comparison. The suit is
being conducted under the Sher-
man antitrust law, which was a
law when Grover Cleveland was
last president. But then, it is
always the custom of the Demo
cratic party to talk about things,
not to do them. 1t remained for
Theodore Roosevelt, acting on
the legal advice of William H.
Taft and Charles J. Bonaparte,
to undertake to break up by le-
gal process this great law-break-
ing monopoly. The Democrats
are remarkable 'trust-busters'
but it is only during their cam
paigns.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-10-03
A LITTLE NONSENSE.
Hs Was Not the Only Husband In the
Same Fix.

When an old lawyer who has had
no end of experiences meets with
one that he declares unique it is
sure to be something very much out
of the common.
81 had man come to my office
the other day." relates an attorney
who has long done business on
Griswold street, "to have me make
out a deed for a niceApiece of real
estate that he had just purchased
for his wife as a birthday present.
He is a bright business man, had
made a good deal in this instance
and wanted the papers just as soon
as they could be prepared. Full de-
scription was afforded by the alb
stract, and all went swimmingly till
l turned to him anI asked his wife's
name.
"Oh, yes, of codrse.-wifc's name
very necessary, to be sure" and
it was plain to be seen that he was
sparring for time, while making
every effort to bring his memory
into play. He had a rush of blood
to the face, looked sorely troubled
and finally turned his back on me
while he looked out of the window
as though relief were to be found
there.
"Wouldn't that bea: yoG!" he ex-
claimed, as he turned slowly back.
'1'll be blowed if | can recall her
name. You see they used to call
her pet when she was a girl at
home, and that was her name with
me up to two years after our mar
riage, when I began calling her
Mamma | couldn't tell you her
name if it were a capital offense not
to know it. S'pose it wouldn't do
to just call her pet in the deed?"
It wouldn't, so he hurried away
and in an hour was back, with his
wife's full name on a slip of paper
Detroit Free Press.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-10-03

In a recent poll of prominent
Republicans all over the country
on their choice for Republican
presidential candidate, Secretary
Taft received 2,512 votes. Pres
ident Roosevelt was second, with
$50 votes; GovernorHughes third,
with ego votes; Cannon fourth,
with 281; Fairbanks fifth, with
26O, and Cortelyou last, with AZ
votes. If the Taft boom contin-
ues to grow at it's present rate
everything will be "cut and
dried' before the next Republi-
can convention meets, just as 1t
was three years ago.