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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-08-22

FOR SAI.E-BY OWNER. AT BARGAIN. DE
tached frame house in good condition, contain
ing 10 rooms and bath. located lot 50xl $50
feet I'm section of the Heights where val
ties are gradually increasing; must be 10
be appreciated Address Box 155. Star office.
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-08-22

FOR SAIE-4 NEW HOUSES. 1892 TO 1888
trimmed in hardwood; tile bath and vestibule;
large yard; concrete ceiiar; iaundry and hot
water heat. OWNER 1924 East Cap. st.
au223ts
IDEAL HOMES. 3646 AND 364s nth ST. NV
Well arranged six-room houses: attractive
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well lighted bedrooms; cellar under entire
house; tiled bath: natural finish woodwork:
handsome cabinet mantels and gas fixtures;
cabinet range and gas heater; best construction.
Oper every day until dark.
ALEX. MILLAR, Owner and Builder.
1915 Ohio ave. NV, or 201S LIST at. NV
FOR SALE-TWO HOUSES AT NE COR. OF
18th and Lamont sts.; stories and cellar; all
modern conveniences. Apply Of OSCAR q.
vOGT. room 4O5. Coecoran bldg. au22-3t
FOR SALE-CORNER NORTHWEST.
will sell my 6-room house; side light; In
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feet condition; must have an Immediate buyer
with 81 600 cash. Address Box 103. Star once.
FOR SALE : THREE 4-ROOM BRICKS N
northwest; rent, $50 per month: price. 81, TOO
MORRISON REAL ESTATE CO. Qnc.).
au22-3t 1925 st. NV.
FOR SALE-COLUMBIA HEIGHTS BARGAIN
New: rooms on two floors: hot-water heat:
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The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1908-11-03

Sir John Charles Day, the Englisf
Judge who earned the title of the
"hooligans terror" died at the age O.
eighty-two. In the nineteen years Sil
John was a judge Of the high court
from 1882 to 1001-he was noted fol
his gift of solemn humor and for hi.
drastic flogging sentences. In fourteen
years he sentenced 1877 criminals tt
3,766 strokes of the cat. Once he SAID
to a gang of Liverpool ruffians: Il an
not going to give you men long terms
of Imprisonment, but when you go IL
you get twenty lashes of the cat; wher
you have been in nine months you ge
twenty lashes Of the cat; before yor
come out you get twenty lashes Of the
cat And then you can show what yor
have got to your friends" He was per
haps the only English judge who ever
did "hard labor" While on visit to 9
prison he tried the treadmill. but wher
he asked to be set free the guard pre-
tended not to hear his request. Tho
judge was perspiring freely by the
time he was permitted to abandon his
experiment
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1908-11-03

Great men have been guilty Of pun
ming, and some Of the most famous of
these saIlies have come down In his
tory. There Is something melancholy
about the pun Of DR.. Thomas Browne.
who having unsuccessfully courted a
lady and being challenged to drink to
her health, as had been his wont, re-
piled, 'I have toasted her many years,
but / cannot make her Browne. so
will toast her no longer"
Sydney Smiths jest at the expense
Of Mrs. Grote had the salt of malice
in 1t. She was famed for III taste
In dress, and as one day she swept by
in an extraordinary headdress Smith
pointed her out to a friend, saying.
THAT is the origin Of the word gro
fesque.'"
Mrs. Grote, however. had her re-
venge. Sydney Smiths daughter mar
ried a DR.. Holland. When the latter
was knighted some one mentioned his
wife as Lady Holland. "Do you mean
Lord Hollands wifeT' asked the lis
tener.
"No," replied Mrs. Grote. This new
Holland, whose capital is Sydney"
When the barrister Campbell mar
ried Miss Scarlet his friend explained
his absence from court by telling the
Judge that Campbell was suffering
from bad attack of Scarlet fever.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1908-11-03
=. Wa. Careful Of III. volea

Brignoli. the famous tenor, was
very susceptible to fiattery, and 1t is
said that once in New York when the
orchestra vigorously applauded one of
his favorite songs he was so touched
that he came down to the footlights
and invited them all to champagne
supper at the Everett House. The
supper cost him $500.
Brignoli was very careful Of his
voice and was terribly afraid Of drafts.
1t was once stated that during the
winter 1t always took him three-quar-
tiers of an hour to get from his room
to the street. First he would on
leaving his room pace the hall for ten
minutes to get acclimated. He then
descended to the lobby, where the tenn
perature was a little lower, and spent
twenty minutes there. He then ven
tured to the vestibule, from which the
door opened into the street He would
parade the vestibule for fifteen min
utes, occasionally opening the door to
let In a little cold air. Being now ac-
customed to a cool temperature, ne
would button up hts coat and sally
forth
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1908-11-03
Ancient Chains.

Some authorities" says an English
writer, 'sgive the Britons credit for
originating the cable chain because
Julius Caesar is recorded as having
been unable to cut the cables of the
Gaups vessels, as they were made of
iron.' This may have been chain In
the present acceptation Of the term,
but it Is doubtful, because the first pat
emit for eliminating was obtained in
England In 1884 by a blacksmith
named Philip White. The patent was
for fourteen years, and In considera-
ton of it White had to pay f5 In law
ful money yearly at the exchequer.
Westminster, att the Feast Of the
Blessed Virgin and Saint Michel the
Archange1 by even and eual process
His patent is described as follows:
"A way for the wearing Of ships with
iron chaynes by finding out the true
heating (pre)pareing and tempering Of
Iyron for that purpose and that he
hath nowe attayned to the true vse of
the said chaynes and that the same
WILDE for the great saveing Of cordage
and safety Of shippers and will re-
dound to good of our Comon Wealth"
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1908-11-03
Catching the "Tone."

He was a well meaning young man,
but as curate in a small village he had
never occasion to meet the class of
people who frequented the fashion
able parish to which he had just been
appointed.
His new rector, wishing to help him
on to success, had been liberal with
advice and had duly impressed him
with the Importance Of always taking
the ''tone" of the people with whom
he mingled. Being invited to take
dinner at the mansion Of one of the
members of the congregation and
knowing that he would have to say
grace, the young curate took his cue
from the conversation overheard be-
fore dinner, and when his hostess
nodded meaningly in his direction he
delivered himself of the following
which he considered quite in keeping
with the "tone" of the guests assem-
bled:
20 Lord, thanks awfully, jolly good
feed, wot?"-London Express.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1908-11-03

In far eastern Russia, in that region
which lies between the sea and the
river called Mssuri, the humidity of the
climate as well as of the soil is re-
markable. Vegetation is here distin-
guished for its wondrous exuberance,
to such an extent that the soil never
dries up. The result is that the inhab-
itants In order to prevent putrefaction
of the roots SOW their corn upon Sc
ries of layers Of the soil. Nevertheless
In certain districts the humidity is so
intense that there grows upon the ears
of corn a kind of fungous matter made
up of micro fungi. AS a result of this
sporadic excrescence the bread made
from the corn in question gives all the
results of an overdose of alcohol. In
very humid climates the phenomenon
is likewise known, though to nothing
like the extent of eastern Siberia,
where whole districts are affected by
this strange kind of "alcoholized
bread"
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1908-11-03
Power of Plants.

Farmers are well acquainted with
the fact that the roots of trees will
disrupt and sometimes overturn a
stone wall. but the lifting power Of
tender vegetables is equally surprising.
The one result which has perhaps
attracted the greatest attention is the
discovery that a weight of two and a
half tons can be lifted by the common
pumpkin in the course of its develop
ment.
DIR. Carpenter relates the story of
paving stone weighing eighty-three
pounds that was raised from its bed
when Joined by others on all four
Sides by such soft piece Of fungi as
the common mushroom. And still an
other and more remarkable story is
added to the above.
A man had cask of sweet wine and
placed 1t In an empty cellar to mature.
When examined several years later 1t
had risen from the floor of the cellar
to the ceiling, having been borne up
ward upon the tender shoots of vine
fungus with which the cellar was
filled.-London Home Notes.
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shall have been practicing attorneys in the
state for at least ten years. They shall hold
office for the term of seven years; shall, at
stated times, receive for their services COM
pensat1on which shall not be diminished
hold no other office under the Government
of the State, or of the United States, and shall
not engage in the practice of law during their
Justice of the Supreme Court, and the Vice
ChancellOrs and Associate Justices of the
Supreme Court, in office when this amend
ment takes effect. shall be Justices of the
supreme Court until the expiration of their
amendment takes effect shall be continued
in office with the powers of the Justices of
the Supreme Court at the Circuit until the
expiration OF their respective terms. They
may hold the County Courts, subject to
assignment by the Law Division OF the
2. The Governor, by and with the advice
and consent of the Senate, shall appoint one
Judge of the County Court in each county,
and such additional County Judge or Judges
In any county as may be authorized by law
The County Judges may hold court in any
county subject to the control OF the Supreme
Court. The County Judges shall not be less
than thirty years of age. and shall have been
pract1c1ng attorneys in this State for at least
five years. They shall hold office for the
term of five years; shall at stated times re-
ce1ve for their services such compensation,
which shall not be diminished during their
term of office, as the Legislature in its dis
erection shall fix for each county, and they shall
hold no office under the Government of the
State or of the United States, and shall not
engage in practice of the law in the courts of
the county where they hold court during their
term of office. The judges of the Common
Pleas. in office when this amendment takes
effect shall be the judges of the County Courts
until the expiration of their present terms
g. This amendment shall take effect on the
first Monday in February, in the year next
following its adoption by the people.
A. The Legislature shall pass al laws neces-
sary to carry into effect the provisions of the
constitution and this amendment thereof.
AMENDMENTS: PROPOSED TO THE CON
STtTUTION OF THE STATE OF NEW
JERSEY BY THE LEGISLATURE OF
1908.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1908-11-03
1rhe Good Old pays.p

How times have changed When we
were young, people had bad colds,
soaked their feet In hot water and got
well. Now they have grip. take quinine
and feel sick all over Then they had
sore throat, wrapped a piece of fat
pork in an old sock, tied it around the
neck at night and went to work the
next morning. Now they have ton
silitis, surgical operation and two
weeks in the house. Then they had
stomach ache and took castor oil and
recovered. Now they have appended
It's. week in the hospital and six feet
due east and west and six feet perpen-
dicular. They worked then; they labor
now In those days they wore under
clothes; now they wear lingerie. Then
they went to a restaurant; now they
go to a cafe Then they broke a leg;
now they fracture limb. People went
crazy then; they have a brain storm
now. Politicians then paid good hard
cash for support: now they send gov
eminent garden seeds. Yes, times
have changed, and we all change with
the times. That's progression.-Anci
Hatten in Westphalia (Kan.) Times.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1908-11-03


s@Goina out 10 see q man" was the
Invention Of Axtemus Ward. One night
In the winter Il 1866, when the humor
list was about half through his lecture
he paralyzed his audience with the an
nouncemeHt that they would have tc
take a recess of fifteen minutes 30 az
to enable him to go across the street te
'see man." 81. R. Tracey, the editor
of the Washington Republican, was II
the audience and, seeing an opportunt
ty to improve upon the joke. penciled
these lines and sent them to the plat
form:
Dear Artemus-If you Will place
yourself under my guidance, I'll take
you to see a man without crossing the
street"
Artemus accepted the invitation, and
while the great audience impatiently
but with much amusement awaited the
temperance of the humorist the lat
ter was making the acquaintance Of
Aman, a well known restaurant keeper
at that time, and luxuriating at wei
laden refreshment board. OF course
everybody caught on to" the phrase
and men became fond of getting up be
tween the acts and going out to SET
Aman." The restaurateur's business
from that time forward doomed. Mel
who would ordinarily sit quietly
through an entertainment and behave
themselves allowed themselves to b.
Influenced by the contagiOn.-Louis
vile Courier Journal.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1908-11-03
Eaas Barred.

One evening a solid looking citizen,
carrying q basket, bought ticket and
started to enter the opera house in a
Long Island town. Just as he was
going In the cover Of the basket un-
accountably slipped of, revealing two
dozen eggs
"Heyr' said the ticket taker. "This
isn't Easter. Where you going with
them eggsT
"None o. y'r business! Here's my
ticket, all paid for an reglr," declared
the citizen.
"Well, there don't any eggs go in
side while I'm here" said the ticket
taker, and then the other saw the rea-
son his burden was suspected and
roared with laughter.
He left the eggs In charge Of the
man at the box Office and entered, and
he enjoyed every moment Of the show.
When it was over, the manager re
turned the eggs to him and said:
81 was afraid you might put your
foot into the basket while you were
applauding."
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1908-11-03
The Miser,s Carpet.

"Dr. Quain, the eminent physician,
full Of Hibernian wit, would some
times tell unauthorized anecdotes of
his professional experiences" says Sir
Algernon West In Zone City and
Many Men" "Once he was attending
a well known man of miserly habits
in Mayfair. who when very LII asked
him TO honestly tell him if he would
ever again rise from his bed of sick
ness. The doctor thought he never
would. Please ring the bell, said the
patient, and when he had secured the
attendance of his housekeeper be. said:
Have the strip of carpet by my bed
side, which is a good one, wrapped
up and put away. l shall not want 1t
again. and If it is left here those I'M
dertaker's men VIII be sure to spoil
It with their dirty bootsH
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1908-11-03
PROPOSALS FOR IMPROVED STONE
M RIIRLINGTON CnIINrY. hi

IN BURLINGTON COUNTY, N J.
Bids for matchmaking the public road, known
as Bridge street, in the village of Crosswicks
Beginning at the end of the present stone road
leading from Crosswicks to Bordeutown, at the
top of the hill leading to Crosswicks Creek, and
opposite the Methodist Episcopal Church, in the
village of Crosswicks, and thence extending in a
northerly direction TO the south end of the new
bridge over Crosswicks Creek a distance of seven
hundred feet, will be received and opened at 10
O'Clock in the forenoon, on Monday, November 9,
1908, at Court House in Mount Holly, N. j.
Plans, specifications and profile be seen
and inspected at the Office of the County Solicit
tor, Charles EVAN Merritt, No. Fl High Street,
Mount Holly, N. j.. at the Office of John b.
Hutchinson, Farnsworth Avenue. Bordentown,
N. ]. Every bidder must accompany his bid
with certified check for ST. 900 payable to the
order of Joel Horuer, Director of the Board of
Chosen Freeholders of Burlington County as a
guarantee that If the contract shall be awarded
to him, he will when required by said Board, exc
cute contract in writing to perform the work
according to the specifications and give bond in
the penal sum of the estimated cost of the work,
with two sureties, freeholders of the
County, or Surety or Trust Company. created
by the State of New Jersey, authorized to
transact business therein. conditioned for the
faithful performance of said work in strict con-
formity with the plans and specifications
The Board of Chosen Freeholders reserves the
right to reject any or all bids.
JOEL HORNER, Director
Dated October 10. 1908.
Not to be copied by other newspapers, unless so
directed, loft
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1908-11-03

By THE time THE News reaches a ma
jority of It's subscribers the latter will
probably have deposited their ballots. AL
appeals that could have been made have
been offered and it is hoped the result will
be for the good of the country. TIL
News will have the complete returns II
next week and 1t confidently expects te
publish the election Of the entire Republi
can ticket = National, Congressional
Legislative, County and Township.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1908-11-03
shakesnsars,s Name.

It has often been puzzle to students
Of Shakespeare why his name is spelled
in so many different ways. Shake
speare himself is said to have signed
his name on different occasions "Shak-
speare" and Shakespeare" and learned
disuuisitions have been written to
prove which is the proper spelling.
None perhaps was more amusing than
the weather" reason given in 1851 by
Albert Smith, who averred that he had
found it In the Harleian manuscript.
It was as follows:
How dyd Shakespeare spell hys manner
Ye weatherre maybe We change. we save,
So write 1t as we please:
When We some shone he maybe hys A;
When wette he took hys E'es.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1908-11-03

BE IT RESOLVED (the Senate coneurring)
That the following amendment to the consti
tuition of this State be and the same is hereby
proposed, and when the same shall be agreed
TO by majority ofthe members elected to the
Senate and House of Assembly the said
amendment shall be entered on there journa
with the ayes and nays taken thireon, and
referred to the Legislature next to be chosen
and published for three months prior to the
first Tuesday after the first Monday of Move m
Der next, in at least one newspaper of eacE
county to be designated by the President OF the
Senate, the Speaker of the House of Assembly
and the Secretary of State:
Amend by striking out paragraph seven
section four, article four, and insert in place
thereof the following:
7. Members of the Senate shall receive
annually, the sum of one thousand dollars
and members of the General Assembly shall
receive annually the sum of ten hundred dol
lars during the time for which they shall have
been elected and while they shall hold their
office, and no other allowance or emolumen
directly or Indirectly, for any purpose what.
ever. The President of the Senate, and the
Speaker of the General Assembly shall, in
virtue of their offices, receive an additional
compensation, equal to one-third of their
allowance as members.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1908-11-03
cHER1FF.s SALE.

directed, issued out of the Court of Chancery
OF New Jersey, will sell at public sale on
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1908
between the hours of II and 8 o'clock in the
Richard Lambs hotel, Mount Holly, N. j.
All that certain plantation or tract of land
situate to the westward of the Oxmead road
OF Burlington and state of New Jersey,
bounded as follows, viz:
Beginning at stone in the line of Henry
G. Deacon and corner to late Dilwyn Smith
and runs by late Smiths north stxty-one de-
grees and forty five minutes east twenty-three
line of late John Cox, now of Charles Clifford,
by whom it runs south thirty five degrees
and forty-five minutes east eighteen chains
and seventy-five links to q stake corner to
land conveyed by the executors of Samuel
Norcross. deceased, to the said George d..
Parrish; thence by the said late Norcross.
now Parrish, south forty-ntne degrees and
twenty-five minutes west three chains and
twenty links to a stone corner thereof; thence
by the same south thirty-five degrees and
seven minutes east two chains and seventy
links to a stone in the line of said Parrish,
also corner of Joseph s. Antrim, thence by
his land south sixty-eight degrees west
twenty three chains and seventy links 10
stone in the line Of Henry c. Deacon; thence
along his line north twenty-five degrees and
forty-five minutes west nineteen chains and
ninety-ive links to the place OF beginning.
Containing dfty-two acres and hfty-one hun
dredths of an acre, be the same m ore or less.
Being the same premises which George j.
NandegrlIt ana Henry .. PrlcKetts surviving
executors of Joseph Sholl, deceased, by deed
bearing date the thirteenth day of October,
A. ID. 1906 and recorded in the Office of the
Clerk of the County of Burlington, in Book
of Deeds, page &c, granted and
conveyed unto the said James Bedford Sholl,
in fee.
Seized as the property of James B. ShoIl, ct
ais, defendants, taken in execution at the
suit of Franklin S. Carter, complainant, and
to be sold by
JOHN j. NORCROSS,
REGINALD BRANCH, SoPr. Sheriff.
Dated Oct. 20 1908. Prs adv. fee, SllS0
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1908-11-03
Comparisons are OdiOuS

But it pays to compare the quality
and incidentally the prices OF
the food you are paying good
money for. The goods you get
from us are of the highest pos
sib1e grade and the price as low
as possible for a frst-class article.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1908-11-03
IrstaIIments All Around.

Patient (gloomily)-I don't seem to
be gaining very fast doctor.
Doctor (cheerfully)-Yo can't expect
to get well at one jump. You will have
to regain your health gradually day by
day-sort OF on the installment plan, as
it were.
Patient Frightening up)-Well, doc
tor, If this thing keeps on much longer
I'm afraid that you VIII have to collect
your bill In the same way Judges
Library.
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The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1908-11-03


At a political convention held In ILL
nois the importance of nominating a
popular man for certain close district
was thoroughly recognized. A speaker
had Just renominated personal friend
for the position and in an elaborate
eulogy had presented In glowing terms
his manifold merits, especially empha-
sizing his great services on the field OF
battle as well as In the pursuits OF
peace.
After he had finished a voice was
heard in the rear of the room, What
we want is the man that will run the
best"
In an instant the orator was again
on his feet.
"If you think" he yelled, "that this
convention can find anybody that can
run better than the gentleman l have
nominated, point once more to his
well known war record."-Lippincott's.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1908-11-03
Gray and the ElanY

Thomas Gray kept the elegy by him
for nine years before he gave 1t to the
world. He polished away at it all those
years as lapidary polishes gem, and
the result was he made 1t a gem. In
his whole life he wrote comparatively
little, and when asked why he had
written so little he replied, Because
Of the exertion 1t costs In the labor of
composition"