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The Washington herald., 1908-02-09

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The Washington herald., 1908-02-09
LOOK FOR THE COUPONS.

1t IS our desire that all should derive the full
benefit Of this offer-hence we wish to enpha-
size the importance OF saving the coupons.
When YOU buy Golden Rod Sausage look at
once for the Coupon. Every package OF this
sausage contains a coupon.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1908-07-21

The people who don't think for them.
selves are like sheep. The ram jumps
over a certain stone in the wall, and
all the sheep jump over the same
stone. That may be the best place
to get over the wall, but whether it is
or not the sheep do 1t just the same.
Initiative is a rare quality. Sheep
haven't much initiative To have mi
tiative you must do your own think
ing. At the law school of a big uni
versity years ago there occurred a
striking example of initiative One
Of the professors devised a system for
improving the curriculum. He dem
BILE the efficiency of the instruction.
He went over his plans exhaustively
with his leading colleagues on the
faculty. They all agreed that it was
a great idea. Finally there was called
a mass meeting Of faculty and stu
dents for the purpose of presenting
and indorsing the new system. The
professor described before the meet
ing the many and great advantages of
his scheme. When he sat down, as a
matter of form the chairman called
for remarks before taking vote. A
first year man whom no one knew got
up and began very quietly to point
out objections serious objections. All
eyes were turned upon this presump-
tuous upstart What did he know
about it7 Not much, perhaps, but he
knew enough to do his own thinking
When he had finished speaking the
new system was voted down, never to
be heard of again.-Appleton's Maya
zine
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1908-07-21
Reauars on Horseback.

"'Whoa, thar he says, pullin' up his
boss, and then he whines:
i" For the love O. charity, kind gent,
would We be SO good as to gimme
crust O. bread for meself and handful
o. oats for the old mareY"
The sailor smiled thoughtfully and
stirred his ice cream soda with a long
spoon.
Eyes, Hail." he resumed, there's ac-
tual beggars on horseback in Roosia.
They travels from town to town In
caravans. They beg grub for them
selves and fodder for their nags, just
as been tellin' We.
90 course, In the Argentine. where
a boss don't cost song, it's only nat
ural We should see beggars on horse
back, and amt sayin' nothin' about
that. But in China they ride, too,
while there's a Maltese beggar down
Malta way what even drives spring
wagon an takes his gal along. Inter
rupts his canoodlin' to ask you for a
copper to stave of starvation, then
starts right in again where he left Off"
New Orleans Times Democrat
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1908-07-21
Readinn In Bad.

Reading in bed, like most luxuries,
can be overdone In fact, there seems
to be only one excuse fer this fas-
cinating way Of ending the day. Ger
tain people find that their worries ac-
cumulate In their brains after bed
time. Their nerves are at high tension,
and their minds are actively at work
trying to solve problems that should
have been left behind ia the city.
Going to bed with the brain In such
a state means that with nothing to dis
tract the thoughts, hearing nothing
and seeing nothing in the darkness,
Imagination has full sway and hours
Of wakefulness may be the result.
Such a man, we think, will find half
an hours reading in bed great help.
With careful attention paid to the
quality and position Of the light so
that without Pickering 1t shines over
the shoulder and directly ON to the
page the much maligned habit Of read
ing in bed has sometimes very bene-
fetal effect on a tired and overwake-
full brain.-Family Doctor.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1908-07-21

'The most considerate girl I ever
knew got married yesterday" said the
man. "She showed her thoughtfulness
in a most unusual way, The day be-
fore the wedding she called the atten-
ton of the rest of the family to row
of old shoes standing In downstairs
closet.
"T want you to throw these after
the carriage she said. They are all
mates. l collected them to throw
away. I learned some time ago that
certain poor souls who have hard work
to get clothes of any description keep
a lookout for big weddings. They
hang around the house at going away
time and pick up the good luck shoes.
Maybe they get fit, and maybe they
don't Anyway, I've done all l could
to accommodate them.
"'Here are six pairs Of decent shoes
to be fired after me. If somebody
doesn't get fitted in that collection II
isn't my fault New York Times.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1908-07-21
pIated Tin spoons.

Here Is one way of making spoons,
the process described being used in
the manufacture Of one variety of tin
plated spoons.
In its original form the material
from which these spoons are made
comes in long thin strips Of steel rolled
to uniform thickness. The strips are
twelve or fifteen feet In length and
of width sufficient for the length of
the spoon to be made. These strips
are fed into a cutting machine, which
cuts off pieces, each of sufficient size
for making spoon, these being SIM
ply so many small. fat pieces Of sheet
steel.
Then these blanks are put through a
grader, a machine with powerful rolls,
which so works the metal as to make
it thinner in those parts of the blank
that are to form the bowl and the
handle of the spoon and thicker in the
middle Of the length Of the blank
from which the shank Of the spoon
will be made, so that it viii be the bet
ter able to bear the bending strain that
will be put upon the spoon In use.
From the grader the blank goes into
a drop press, which cuts 1t into the
outline form of a spoon, though from
this press it comes out still fat.
Then in another press the bowl of
the spoon is formed, and then in still
another the handle, and so at last
you have the spoon In its complete
spoon shape in steel, ready now to be
plated by dipping it in molten tin
New York Sun
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1908-07-21
The Burlington and Bristol Steamboat
and Ferry Company

Schedule in effect $40 q. M, June 10Th, lsOS
Subject to change.
LEAVE BRISTOL FOR BURLINGTON.
Daily-Except Saturdays and Sundays.
64O 800, $500. 1000. *10.40, Ills g. M, $3.50.
sl.S0, 1880 $3.50, 1870, $780, $40. TO, p. m.
LEAVE BURLINGTON FOR BRISTOL
$50, $780, $3.50, 1920 sl1.0s, $780, a. m. @l.OO
800, $500, $500. % 90, $50, $50. 730, p. m.
LEAVE BRISTOL SATURDAYS.
g. 40, 500, $500, sl0O0 1000, Ills, q. M 1920,
siso $40. $500. $40. *42o 800, $40. *e4O. TAO
p. m.
LEAVE BURLINGTON SATURDAYS.
$50, $3.50, *ssO slo.20. .llOO n;So e; M, 1e 80
LEAVE BRISTOL SUNDAYS.
800, 500, $1,000, *lO40 Ills, a. M, 1920, tl.s0,
40, 800, .S4O *4.2O, $780, $40, s64O 7zo 500, p m
LEAVE BURLINGTON SUNDAYS.
$50. $780, 1000, *lloo ll.S0, a. NJ sloO zoo, 24O,
$40, 400, $40. $40. $50, $50. 740, slO p. M.
NOTES.
EXTRA TRIPS-Duringt the months of July
and August on Saturdays and Sundays the
ferryboat will leave Bristol at $40, $50 ana
1890 %. M, and will leaYe Burlington al S.UO,
Trips marked with an will stop at Bur
lington Island Park. and when there are nve
or more passengers for the park the boat Will
stop on other trips. except the 20 and 800 p.
no. trips from Bristol, and Zoo 2.40 trips nom
Burlington. Passengers who desire 70 Iea aSs
wharf tender who win raise the signal flag for
the boat from Bristol.
on the Fourth of July, after the 1880 p. m.
trip, the schedule will be the same as on sun
day.
ing trip from Bristol will be withdrawn, and
The boat will leave at $40 q. m.
The boat for the Perfor mances In the Au0l-
TORN m 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.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1908-07-21
Composite Names.

s'One of the differences between the
east and the northwest" said Puget
sounder, SIS the names of places, and
the Skikemishes, the Snohomishes, the
Snoqualmies, the Wahkiakums and the
lot of them give a man funny feelings.
and when he runs across Bucoda, on
the Northern Pacific railroad in Pierce
county, Wash, he doesn't know wheth-
err it is Chinook or Siwash or what.
But it is none of them-like Kenoya. in
West Virginia, which is near the juno
ton of Kentucky, Ohio and Virginia,
or Delmar, where Delaware and Mary
land come together. Bucoda is com
posite name, and its story is simple
enough. When the Northern Pacific
came in a town sprang up, and it
must have a name. There were Indian
names in plenty, but something more
novel was wanted, so Messrs. Buckley,
Coulter and Davis. all Northern Pacific
officials, put their heads together first
and their names later, and the name
Bu-co-da was evolved, with an ety.
mology very apparent to any one who
is at all informed in Technology. Blu
coda it has remained, and it is not half
bad as names go in the Puget sound
country"
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1908-07-21

After some common diScourses had
passed between us he (Alilton) called
for a manuscript Of his, which, being
brought, he delivered to me, bidding
me take it home with me and read 1t
at my leisure and when had done SO
return it to him with my judgment.
When l came home and had set myself
to read it l found it was that excellent
poem which he entitled Paradise
Lost"
After l had, with the best attention,
read it through l made him another
visit and returned to him his book.
He asked me how I liked 1t and what
l thought Of 1t, which l modestly but
freely told him, and after some fur
Their discourse about 1t I pleasantly
said to him, Thou hast said much here
of paradise lost, but what hast thou to
say of paradise foundY'
He made no answer, but sat some
time In a muse, then broke off that
discourse and fell upon another sub
ject, so when Paradise Regained"
was written Milton said In a pleasant
tone, ''That is owing to you, for you
put 1t into my head by the question
you put to me at Chalfont, which be
fore had not thought of. History
Of Thomas Ellwood.r
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1908-07-21
ESTABLISHED 1875
Africans and the Loeomotivs.

The children of the desert were filed
with awe when first the silence of the
primeval solitude was broken by the
putting of the steam engine. Down at
the other end of the Cape to Cairo line
the simple Matabele, when first con-
fronted by locomotive, were certain
that the strange machine was worked
by the labor of an indefinite number Of
oxen, which they assumed were shut
up inside; hence, when the engine stop
ped, they gathered In curious crowds,
waiting to see the door open and the
oxen come out, nor could they for many
days be persuaded that the power of
the locomotive could come from other
than the strength of the OK.
The Arabs of the Sudan, more mag
native than the Matabele, saw in the
fire horses of the railway one Of the
Djinns of the arabian Nights" har-
messed by the magic of the infidel to
the long train of cars. The steam en-
CINE was to them a living, sentient
being, of which belief there is Curl
GUS evidence in the fact that on one
occasion q sheik made an impassioned
remonstrance against the cruelty OF
making so small an engine draw so
huge train.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1908-07-21

play the piano. and we will applaud
and-well, I know that Darnton here
will like your brand of lemonade"
The audacity of the plan swept all
objections aside Sometimes Sander
son rang the bell and sometimes Darn
ton. The little maid ran up and down
the hall, and the glasses clicked, and
Miss Morton played, and Darnton sang
rollicking German student songs that
none had ever dreamed he knew, and
Mrs. Brainard laughed until the tears
threatened to fall on her fine old laces.
And when 1t was all over and not an
other soul had put in appearance Darn
ton carried Miss Morton off In a cab
and Mrs. Brainard retired to lay away
the dear old pearl silk gown. The lit
tie maid went downstairs to where her
young man was waiting to take her
home, and Judith and Dick stood alone
in the flower banked room. Then upon
the sudden quiet fell sound Of muf-
fed tapping. Judith ran to the door.
There was a whispered conversation,
and very soon Dick saw her hand out
something on tray. She came back
with eyes shining.
at was Mrs. Drake. She said she
heard us having such good time. and
though she and Mr.. Drake did not dare
leave their guests now that every one
had gone she just simply had to beg
some of the lemonade. She had heard
those Olassas clicking and thn music
through the WALL
Dicks eyes were dancing, but Ju-
dith's were dewy with a new and ten
der light
ooh, Dick, you are simply wonder
full She thinks it was huge success
-and-and-well, you know what
promised this afternoon. You cam
Dick gripped her hands.
"Will you, Judith-will you, dear?"
Eyes, Dick. and Wen announce it at
my next evening at home
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1908-07-21
Nat THAR Match.

Three students at one of the leading
colleges determined to play trick on
one of the professors.
For a week they collected all kinds
Of bugs and finally had gathered
large number of them. Selecting half
dozen Of the most uniformly sized.
they took them apart; then they glued
a leg of one, head of another, BODY
Of a third, ETC., until they had a per
fectly made body of bug, and a very
funny one.
Next day when the bug was dry they
took it to the professor.
1--WE found it an hour ago." said the
spokesman, Sin the back field. 1t Is
very queer, and we thought you could
tell us the name of it."
$50 l can," said the professor after
he had looked at it. 1T is species OF
Observation-Disclosures Ledger.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1908-07-21

A literary worker who wished to dc
a large amount Of reading by proxy
advertised for an assistant capable Of
digesting the contents of tremendous
quantity of books in a very short
while While weighing each appli
cant's qualifications for rapid assimi
lative reading he inquired carefully
into his mathematical requirements
He finally chose the man who was
most skillful at untangling arithmetica
problems. "On the surface that seems
IN unnecessary accomplishment in thii
case" he said, "but experience has
taught me that anybody who is expert
in figures can read any kind of litera
ture put before him with greater ac-
curacy and speed than the person lack
ing in mathematical acumen." - New
York Times
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1908-07-21
Wink a. Soma THINGS.

"When you have mastered the gentle
art Of winking," said Lord Beacons-
field, syou hold the key to success In
your hands,"
Every ones personality is made up
of trivial failings and trivial talents.
Foster the good qualities in your
friends and subordinates and wink at
those failings so dear to their possess
ors. Not to see everything is a rule
which will strengthen friendships and
help you to get the best results from
your fellow workers
HE is no good" said the great Ma
poleon Of one of his officers. He is
continually looking into the privates'
stew pot?'
81 want a man who can keep his eye
on the ultimate result and ignore little
failings, never mind how aggravating.
said Nelson. And General Gordon once
remarked that the man who lost his
temper because a private's boot lace
was tied loosely on the day of battle
did more to lose the day than all the
enemy's guns.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1908-07-21
Ear Family Use

Harold" Mrs. Thomson began very
thoughtfully, I've been thinking a
lot about you lately"
Something nicer? questioned Mr..
Thomson, with hopeful infection.
do you know" Mrs. Thomson went
on, quite ignoring her husbands bid
for flattery, that since we have lived
here In the country and you have
gone back and forth to the city every
day you have seen absolutely nothing
Of the children?"
81 don't see how that can be helped
replied Mr. Thomson. when / leave
in the morning they are not up, and
when l come back In the evening they
are In bed"
EYES," assented Mrs. Thomson, "that
is so, but you might at least send them
souvenir post card now and them
Youths Companion.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1908-07-21
An unaceountahIe Ealing.

It was a severe trial to Mr.. Harding
that his only sons memory was not all
that could be desired. Where in the
world he got such a forgetful streak
from is beyond me-" said the exasper-
ated father to his wife on one occasion
'What has he forgotten now? asked
Mrs. Harding, with eyes downcast and
a demure expression.
''The figures of the last return from
the election on the bulletin board"
And Mr.. Harding inserted finger in
his collar as if to loosen 1t and shook
his head vehemently. Looked at 'em
as he came past not half an hour ago.
and now can't tell me.
"As said to him, II you're so stu
pid you can't keep a few simple figures
In your head. why don't you write 'em
down on a piece of paper, as | do, and
have done all my life, long before !
was your ageY"
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1908-07-21
A Rin Snowfall.

The heaviest fall Of snow that ever
took place in England occurred in 1918.
The snow commenced falling on the
10th of January, 1915, and continued
every day until the 18th Of March fol-
lowing. 1t covered the earth to SUCH
a depth that passengers, both horse
and foot, passed over gates, hedges and
walls, which had been obliterated by
the white sheet. On the 18th of March
it began to decrease and SO by little
and little consumed and wasted away
till the 2Sth of May.
A heavy fall occurred in Scotland in
1920, the snow falling thirteen days
and nights with little or no intermis-
sion
One of the heaviest falls on single
day occurred on the Dist of February,
1902, the snow in some places being
from ten to twelve feet deep.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1908-07-21
A Candle Trick.

Let candle burn until it has a good
long snuff, then blow it out with a
sudden puff. A bright wreath Of white
smoke will curl up from the hot wick
Now, If fame be applied to this
smoke, even at a distance of two or
three inches from the candle, the fame
Will run down the smoke and rekindle
the wick in a very fantastic manner.
To perform this ceremony nicely there
must be no draft or banging" doors
while the mystic spell is rising.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1908-07-21
II. Mv.+.r;o,,. c.oensehien.

There is visible in the night sky, I'M
der favorable circumstances, faint
light, rounded in outline and situated
always exactly opposite to the place
Of the sun 1t is called the "gegen-
schien" and is one Of the most mex
plicable objects known to astronomers
According to a scientist, 1t may be
sort of cometary or meteoric satellite
attending the earth. He supposes 1t
to be composed of cloud Of meteors,
situated about 100000 miles from
the earth and revolving around 1t In
period Of just one year, so that the
sun and the meteors are always on OPP
posIte sides of the earth. He estimates
that the size of this ghostly satellite
may be nearly the same as that of the
planet Jupiter-viz, about $4,000 miles
In diameter.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1908-07-21

Fate in the green dress was coming
toward them, and Patricia saw that
her eyes were very kind. She threw
down a shell and, passing them, went
up the steps and through the casino.
''Get it for me, please. Ernest" she
said.
And when he had given her the shell,
iridescent and Of pleasing form, but
having a cruel break in its fiuted edge,
she touched 1t lightly to her lips and
raised her happy face to her lover.
Dear, blessed, discarded little shellr'
she cried.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1908-07-21
Hindno Confectionery.

Like the American girls, Hlndoo
girls are passionately fond Of sweet
things. One of their candies, sadu, Is
very much like our plain sugar candy.
It is made of sugar and milk and fla
vored with altar Of roses. Buddhika-
bal, or hair Of Buddha, is one of their
most popular sweetmeats. 1t is SO
called because it is in fine, long strings
like vermicelh This is made of sugar
and cream from buffalo's milk, which
is exceedingly rich.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1908-07-21

A famous animal trainer was talking
to a reporter In New York. He said:
"The secret of animal training Is gen.
tleness. Nothing sudden or brusque
must be done. An unexpected caress
may anger an animal more than kick
in the ribs. Sudden, brusque, unex-
pected things never go, no matter how
well they are meant Once was
showing in Scotland We trainers sup
ped one night with a Scotch admirer.
The old man was the soul of hospital
ity. but admit l was rather startled
when he leaned toward me and said
"'Stick in, man Conklin. stick In.
Yer frien' Coot's twa mullins aheid o
va'"
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1908-07-21

The race Of consequential yergers is
not yet extinct. Dean Pigoc has story
about one of them, who, when bish-
op asked him at what point he was to
make his appearance, replied:
''First take the choir people to their
places, and then, after they are seated.
/ return for you, my lord, and conduct
you to the halter. "-London Telegraph.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1908-07-21
a.sn s.unnmel Reprimanded.

Beau Brummel once. iasolently re-
piled to an invitation to take tea by
remarking that he never took" any
thing but physic.
Eyes, you do" frowned his hostess;
s'you take liberties"
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1908-07-21

The late Bishop T. U. Dudley Of
Kentucky declared that be was indebt-
ed to a mountaineer Of that state for
the most ungrammatical sentence he
ever heard This is it:
Them three Miss Blake are three Of
as pretty a gal as ever see"
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1908-07-21

Offers are the most playful Of sll
the animals, romping, wrestling, play
ing tug Of war with stick instead of
a rope and sliding downhill on slip
perry incline of mud which they maze
themselves.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1908-07-21
siIenoed.

Dad (severely)-And look here. Ethel,
you mustn't encourage that young man
to stay so late every night. It's dis
graceful. What does your mother say
about 1t? Ethel-She says men haven't
altered a bit dad.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1908-07-21
Expected Reduction.

Grandpa Macpherson How many
do two and two make, Donald? Don
ald-Six. Grandpa are you talk
ing about? Two and two make four.
Donald-Yes, 1 know, but l thought
you'd ''beat me down" a bitl-London
puuoh