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The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1908-06-09

Mrs. Billings, what If you should
hear that Ezra was dead?" asked the
deacon in solemn voice.
ooh. quit your foolingr'
"What if his dead body, mangled out
of shape by falling tree. should be
borne into this house within the next
ten minutes?"
Isis anything the matter with
Ezra ?"
you have called him names. You
have wished him dead. You have
tempted and defied Providence. oh.
woman
She didn't wait to hear anything fur
Their; but, hatless and with skirts fly
Ing, she took across the fields for the
woods Deacon Harrow, who had
Ezra to handle, had INDUCED in few
casual observations and then asked II
Martha was well.
"She was all right when left the
house." was the reply, but there's no
telling what an idiot Of woman may
do. She may have gone into the well
head first for all know"
Ezra Billings. you have been heard
to threaten to brain your wife"
That's just my way"
"You have been heard to wish that
she was dead"
"That was just joke, deacon"
"JokeI Man, if Martha is found dead
in the house with her head all batter
ed in, don't you know
But Ezra had dropped his ak and
started for the house on a run. Hus-
band and wife met halfway, with a
deacon behind either to point the moral
There was no moral to point.
You lop shouldered knockkneed
old camel, but what do you meanT'
band was all right
"And what do you meanT demanded
the husband as he looked her over
Say, Martha, you don't know huff to
lift them big feet of yours when wad-
ing through a mudhole."
Ezra, you are a gosh hanged liarr"
Martha, you deserve killingp
And as they turned their backs on
each other and walked away the two
deacons locked arms and headed for
the road Not a word was said until
they had climbed the fence, and then
Deacon Swift observed, Would you
call 1t failure, deacon-a failure on
our partY'
II certainly should. deacon, and. l
should further say that we hadn't bet
ter say anything about it."
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1908-06-09
Violet Ink the Cheapest.

Look here. you. a literary man
can't afford the extravaganza of violet
ink"
The literary man tore thoughtfully a
pendent piece Of leather from the sole
of his shoe.
81 know" he admitted, that viole'
ink costs thrice as much as black
but black corrodes a pen in a week
whereas violet is noncorrosive. and
with its use it is possible to make one
pen last six or seven months. The late
Russell Sage. who used violet ink ex
clusively in his Office. revealed this
great truth to me during my brief cler
zeal career In his Office, Exchange.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1908-06-09
MRS. VIxENHEAD.
The Story of Berlin Shrew and He
iLanaeS In Gfona

The Story of a Berlin Shrew and Her
Likeness In Stone.
This quaint equivalent Of the Ger
man term neidkopf is applied by trav-
elers to an effigy carved in stone and
liked in a niche in the second story
Of house in the NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
in Berlin not far from the emperors
palace. The neidkopf represents a
hideous, harpy faced woman with
snakelike curls and tongue protruding
In hooking derision.
One day some 200 years ago, the
legend runs, Frederick William of
Prussia, more Familiarity known as
Old Fritz. was walking about the
streets of the city in the unconvention-
al way he affected when he CHANGED
to look through a window and observed
a hunchbacked goldsmith hard at
work. The king entered the little shop
for a chat.
order for a gold table service for the
royal household, an order that made
the fortune of the hunchback. Later
his majesty made other visits to the
shop to see how the work was adyanc-
ing, and on one of these occasions he
observed woman in the window of
the opposite house comforting her face
in the most hideous grimaces and
pointing with derisive finger at the
crippled workman
To the kings query as to what allied
the old woman the goldsmith replied:
1T is envy, sire. She is the wife of
a rival goldsmith. and ever since your
majesty so graciously gave me this
order she and her daughter have re-
viled me-"
Frederick William, paternal in pun
ishment as well as in reward, at once
investigated as to the ownership of
the house in which the shrew lived.
He found that it belonged to her hus-
band and therefore reasoned that there
was little likelihood of the family
moving, an idea that seemed greatly to
please his majesty. His next move
was to consult sculptor, whom he
commanded to make the bust of a
woman with the most shrewish, Kan
tippe-like face he could imagine. The
king then bought and renovated the
house in which the hunchback had his
workshop, presented 1t to him and
caused the bust to be placed conspicu-
ously above the workroom window.
Thus whenever the envious woman
across the street looked forth from her
easement the first object on which her
eyes fell was this intended portrait of
her amiable self.
For more than a hundred years the
neidkopt-spiteful vixen head. as one
would say in English-stood in proud
prominence, a reproach to the envious
woman and her descendants 1t after
ward mysteriously disappeared, but
in 1910 or thereabouts it was found in
a forgotten collection of bric-a-brac.
Frederick William ~. bought the bust
for a large price and had it replaced
in its original niche. where 1t stands
today-New York Tribune.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1908-06-09

Beside the mimeograph lay the ar
ticle from which the copies had been
made He read the heading: News
From Washington. Copyright by the
Standard Syndicate"
There was a soft rustic behind him,
but he did not turn.
''Mr Harringfordp She walked
around the table and stood opposite
him. "Mr Harringford" Her voice
trembled-
"You wrote this?" he asked coldly.
She nodded.
"You are the Washington correspond.
emit of the Standard syndicateY
"Yes."
"Are you II. W. CarletonT
Eyes. and-and I'm worse than that
I'm the whole Standard syndicate"
The congressman stared at her.
1.-THE whole Standard syndicateY he
repeated.
1.-The whole thing" she said miser.
ably. I'm the Washington correspond.
ent, the president I'm-Pm even the
printers"
A little of the hardness left his face.
"Why did you not tell me?" he asked.
"Oh. I couldn't At first 1t was great
fun to deceive you and to keep you
hunting H. W. Carleton And when !
knew you better couldn't tell you
was the person who had written those
contemplate things about you"
How have you done this-a girl like
your"
Il came here as correspondent for
western paper. but the pay was small.
wrote to a number of provincial pa
pers and asked them If they could use
a series of weekly letters from Wash
ington. signed myself The Standard
Syndicate. 81. W. Carleton. President
Several papers subscribed for the let
tiers. Every week ! wrote the News
From Washington made the copies on
the mimeograph and sent them to my
papers. All the correspondents were
putting you, and | thought you were
becoming little spectacular and very
conceited. After knew you was sor
ry and bitterly ashamed. | wanted to
ask your forgiveness, but was afraid
you wouldn't"-
do you think l care for what you
wrote about me?' he asked indignant
ly. rs my vanity as great as that?"
But | care readfully. | have not
written any more nasty things about
you. I've praised you as much as the
others have But couldn't tell you"
Her voice broke. and her eyes were
full of tears. Don't be angry with me-
Can't you forgive me?'
81 canon conditions"
What are they2"
1.-The Standard syndicate goes out of
business and Fl. W. Carleton devotes
her time to criticising me-but not on
paper"
Miss Carleton gathered up her en-
velopes and dropped them into the
open fire and laid the mimeograph on
them. Then she turned to Harringford
and held out her hands,
THE Standard syndicate has gone
out of business" she said.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1908-06-09

tits curious to reflect that there are
scattered about the world many scores
of places whose chief claim to dis
tinction consists in their association
with some famous ditty or other.
Take, for example. the village of Bray.
in Berkshire, always associated with
the world famous Vicar of Bray"
The most curious part of the business
is that though Fuller, In his "Worthies
Of England" asserts that the cleric
who is the hero of the song was one
Simon Alleyn. careful search of the
parish registers has failed to substan-
tate the story London Musical Home
Journal
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1908-06-09

"Oh," sobbed Mrs. Casey. "some wan
told me husband, Pat. that he cd have
his pants pressed be lettin' tn steam
roller run over them. an Pat troid
tn schemer
well. ply do We cryT asked the
friend, Mrs Clarity.
"Oh," walled the wife, "Pat forgot
t. take tn pants OF frst"-Judge.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1908-06-09
a Genuine Crouch.

A certain farmer noted for constant
complaining was met by friend one
morning,
Zine weather, James," said the lat
ter.
'For them as amt got to work."
was the response.
your farm looks in fine condition"
'@To them's as amt got to dig in it."
'Well, James. Pm glad your wife's
better"
'Them as don't have to live with her
may beP'-London Family Herald
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1908-06-09
CUBE ROOT.
Do You Know the Method Of Extract
ino II Without Pain2

Do You Know the Methoo OF EHtrAct-
ing 1t Without Pain7
Think of the inestimable value of
knowing how to extract cube rootl All,
there is the priceless boon! Knowing
that has saved us money many and
many time, to say nothing of the
social plumbers 1t has assisted US to
avoid. Do | know yet how it was
done? Certainly l know it just as
well as if 1t were yesterday that stud
led 1t. You take the number whose
cube root is paining it so that nothing
but extraction can relieve it, put 1t
down on a piece of paper or on your
slate and divide it off into periods Of
three figures each. Write 4-11-44 to
the left, multiply that by 300, divide it
by something, then pour some red ink
on your handkerchief, tell teacher you
have the nosebleed and go home.
That's the way l usually did it. No
doubt it Is done much the same way
by the ingenious youth Of the present
generation.
Is there a successful man living to-
day and holding up his head among
other successful men who cannot pain
Iessly extract the cube root without
giving the number an anaesthetic? II
SO. he should he ashamed of himself.
He is a freak, and he attained distinc-
ton by a fuke. Some day the muck
rakers will get to probing around. and
when they discover that he can't ex-
tract the cube root of anything his
career will be ended and his gray hairs
will sink in sorrow to a dishonored,
Unison grown grave. The jails and
asylums are filed with vacant faced
and craven hearted wretches who
never learned the way to remove a
cube root, no matter If the number con-
tanning 1t was threatened with blood
poison They don't know whether to
run a horsehair loop down its throat,
as in the case of gapes, or whether to
use tweezers.
Let us try to impress upon our chill
dren-bN precept-the Importance of
cube root extraction, but let US have
business elsewhere in case they ask
us to show them ow.-Strickland w.
sGillilan in Chicago News
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1908-06-09

The Rubicon was the small stream
separating ancient Italy from Cisalpine
Gaul, the province which had been
allotted to Caesar. When Caesar cross
ed this stream at the head of an armed
force he passed beyond the limits of
his own province and legally became
an invader Of Italy.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1908-06-09
A Strenuous Task.

"Your honor" said the witness,
cant you order a recessY
"A recess7"
Eyes. sir. I've stood on this stand
and told the whole truth two hours on
a stretch, and I'm teetotally wore out!
never told the truth that long before
mot In all my lifer-Atlanta Consti-
tuition
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1908-06-09
Shattered Homes

He nnxiously) - understand your
father speaks very highly of me? She
Yes, but he doesn't mean word Of
it. He-Are you sure of that? She
Certainly. He does it just to torment
mother.-Chicago News.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1908-06-09

'sMake anything on that deal?" Cob
sa Golde inquired
~Only a Million" Myduss gloomily
replied.
"WelI, every million counts. New
York Press.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1908-06-09
CAMDEN AND SUBURBAN RAILWAY co.

Leave MOORESTOWN every 10 mlnutss
from 5.42 until 1912 a. M; then every ~ MN
utes until Az D. No.; then every 10 minutes IN,
til 9.42 .. m. then every 30 minutes until liz
D. M; then every hour as per mgnt car
schedule. -,
Leave FERRY sos, 5.S8, sos, 6ss q. M; then =,
every 10 minutes until 9ss q m; tnen every y
minutes until 3.38 p. M; then every 10 minutes
until 1888 p. M; then every 30 minutes until
zoos p. M; then Hos and lZoS; tnen every
hour as per night car schedule.
Leave MERcHANTyILLE every very a manvte n
minutes until Az D. M; then every minutes
until s.z7 p, MI then every ~ minutes ahud,e nn'i
Leave FERRY at sos and 53S a. M; tnen
every 10 minutes until 55S q. M; then every
s minutes until 858 g. m; then every ~ min
utes until 3.58 p. M; then every minutes IN "a
til7.58 D. M; then every 10 minutes until lz.uo
midnight; then every hour as per night car
schedule.
NIGHT CAR-DAILY AND SUNDAY.
Leave Moorestown, l02 w. S2, Az q. m.
Leave Ferry. xl.06, 208 306, Aus q. M
*Iast trip on Saturday nigh
Connect with Mount Holly cars nj Stan"icA
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1908-06-09
An Eyewitness.

''Have you any witnesses of the acct
dent?' asked the Brentford county
court judge recently.
yes" was the reply. my uncle. He
is not here because he is blind Lon
don Telegraph
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1908-06-09

Grief should be like joy-majestic.
equable, sedate.-Aubrey 5e We're
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1908-06-09
DELAWARE RIVER TRANSPORTATION co

ssf' Stops only on signal or notice to Agent
or conductor to receive or discharge passeh-
gers
The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1908-03-18
BACK TO THE COUNTRY.

The glory of the world in
early spring, the mystic spell of
the plowed furrow, now lures
back to boyhood's country haunts
many and many a farm-bred
townsman whom the Great God
Success has not blinded to life's
purer joys. And happy indeed
is the man who comes back often
for such sweet communion with
old Mother Nature and who I'M
derstands the truth of Surgeons
beautiful paragraph:
''He who forgets the humming
of the bees among the heather,
the cooling of the wood pigeons
in the forest, the song of the
birds in the woods, the ripping
of rills among the rushes, and
the signing of the wind among
the pines, need not wonder if his
heart forgets to sing and his
soul grows heavy. A days
breathing of fresh air upon the
hills, or a few hours ramble in
the beech woods outrageous
calm, would sweep the cobwebs
out of the brains of scores Of
toiling men who are now but
half alive"
The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1908-03-18
LONGsTREET.

We have had a few days of
nice weather.
The health Of this neighborhood
is no better at this time.
The farmers have begun talk
ing of farming say they will
convert talk into practice if the
weather stays fair.
This week has been a record
breaker at our little place in the
business line.
Mr.. Charles Owens and wife,
were the guest of J. w. Bradley
and wife, one day last week.
Mr.. Donnie Owens and family,
were visiting w. w. Owens and
family Sunday.
The wife of Frank Foley, and
that of Mr.. Charlie Grain were
visiting at S. B. Wades one day
this week.
Mr.. D. S. Wade was here one
day this week on business.
Mr.. Vernon Holt of jamestown
was here one day this week buy
ing produce.
The Rev. A. E. Cooper and
wife, were here yesterday on
business.
Mr.. ]. O. Rexroat of this place
is building himself a good barn.
So thanking you for printing
our little items and wishing your
paper the best success, we close.
The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1908-03-18
EDUCATIONAL PROGRESS.

The House passed the Sullivan
educational bill, which changes
the whole system of school trus-
tees and establishes a high school
In every county in the State. The
bill provides that the county shall
be the governing unit in school
matters, and that a tax of not to
exceed twenty cents shall be
levied for school purposes in each
county. A county board of edu-
cation, shall consist of not less
than four nor more than eight
members, with the County School
Superintendent as a member ex-
Officio, is to be established. This
board is to be selected by the
election Of one school trustee in
each school district, and the
trustees Of these districts to
compose a division board of edu-
cation in each educational division
of the county, of which there
shall be not less than four MOI
more than eight. The teachers
are to be selected by the division
boards, and each trustee is re
quired to look after the needs OF
the schools in his district.
The main feature of the bill,
The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1908-03-18
PLAYED BOTH ENDS.

ParadoXical as it may seem,
the defeat of ex-Gov. Beckham
for the United States Senate was
due to the whisky interest and
to the prohibition forces. The
Republicans worked both sides,
and worked them to a finish. 1t
was a rare example of how both
ends could be played in favor of
the middle. It is another case
where temperance peaple per-
mitted themselves to be made
fools of where they were made
the tools for their own. undoing.
They jumped into politics and at
the last moment during the
campaign thew their strength to
the Republican ticket, electing in
this district alone both the Rep
ublican Representative and Sen
ator. Had they kept hands off
there would have been Democrats
and Beckham would have been
elected on the first ballot. AS it
is their pet measure, the county
unit bill, is almost certain OF
defeat by the Republicans, and
they have allowed the whisky
interests to send one of then
champions to the United States
Senate, where he will do theii
bidding for the next six years. :
Owensboro Inquirer.
The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1908-03-18

call a norther. Wind blew
hard and the snow fell to the
depth Of "a inches, the train was
snow bound and congested pas
sangers had to wait at little towns
while the snow was being cleared
ahead.
During this time two men Of
less than middle age seemed to
take notice of my fathers uneven
step and ministered unto him
with kindness. Father told me
of this and said one of the men
was from Illinois and named
Hamilton and the other from.
Jonesville Va, named Gibson.
Gibson said that he was a cousin
to Editor Harris of the Adair
County News.
Mrs. w. P. Boyd.
The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1908-03-18
HASKELL TEXAS.

Editor News:
My father, James Paxton at
tended the Home coming" at
Louisville KY, and visited Adair
county, after an absence of &c
years and he has given me many
"reminiscences of his boyhood and
of the old time people that then
lived there many of them his
bloodkin and their names being
kept up by succeeding genera
tiOnS.
I at once became interested.
/ was born in Texas and know
but little of this good old ances-
trel county.
My father sent me the Adair
County News while there. l enjoy
it the more when he visits me
and see him take up the News
and go through it so intently.
Father visits his children a
good deal and is with me, two O,
three months at a time. After
he returned from the Home
coming" his thoughts turned tx
his brother John Paxton of Pierce
city Mo, whom he has not met
for Is years, so he determined te
visit him and started late in the
fall, and remained until colo
weather. He made it point tt
return by Tulia on the high
plains where / then lived. We
had just at this time what WE
The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1908-03-18

aside from the alteration in the
methods of managing school. is
that each county in the State
shall have a high school. The
bill now goes to the Senate, and
is practically certain to pass
there, both the Democrats and
Republicans favoring it. The bill
does not effect a graded high
school or graded city school which
now exists.
The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1908-03-18

The young man who says he
cannot succeed in such a country
at this, with all it's magnificent
opportunities, is the poorest kind
of a stick. Why, there are men
today who, when they see that a
young man has the right kind of
pluck, are willing to advance
him money to build up his bust
ness and give him a start. These
are the young men, however,
who stick, dig and save. What
others have done can be perform
ed today by our young men.
They are in a great measure the
architects of their own fortunes.
Upon themselves alone rests the
responsibility. They have it in
their power to either make or
unmake, and every young man
should earnestly and seriously
ask himself which it shall be.
The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1908-03-18
No Use To Die.

81 have found out that there is no use
to die of lung trouble as long as you
can get DR.. Kings New Discovery, F"
says Mrs. j. P. White, of Rushboro, Pa.
Il would not be alive to-day only for
that wonderful medicine. 1t loosens up
a cough quicker than anything else, and
cures lung disease even after the case
is pronounced hopeless. +" This most reli-
able remedy for coughs and colds, la
grippe, asthma, bronchitis and hoarse-
ness, is sold under guarantee at T. E.
Paull's drug store. SOC and $1.0O. Trial
bottle free.
The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1908-03-18
A DISGRACE TO ETERNITY.

The election of Bradley was a
vindication of nobody, and made
no progress in allaying the pro-
tracted heart-burning on the
clark and bloody ground" 1t
was not in Bradley's time as Gov
ernor of Kentucky that the cruel
assassination took place in the
grounds of the Kentucky State
house. He was the candidate of
those who adhered persistently
to the fortunes, or misfortunes,
of Caleb Powers. The blot made
on Kentucky is still there, and
Powers may have to stand an
other trial If he does there are
other men of note who will have
to fall into line for investigation
of their connection with the
crime.
The influence of such a man
as Bradley being elected to the
United States Senate will tend to
soften some Of the asperities that
have been rampant ever since
the killing of Goebel from am
buscade; but it can not wipe out
the revengeful attitude that has
been assumed all these years.
The actual trouble is not disposed
of yet; and the dreadful memory
Of the cowardly killing will be
current while stories can be
transmitted from one generation
to the next.
A good deal has been done to-
ward the Encouragement of the
Populists and Anarchists, who
want to make the Republicans
form a machine depending on
force; but the Goebel murder
will stand as a disgrace to eterni-
ty.
The Kentuckians, however,
still have their constitutional
rights. The State is now, at
least for a time, on strict con-
struction" ground; and it may
be back some day to it's old posi-
ton as a good commonwealth,
numbering among it's public men,
as it used to, many of the most
brilliant and commanding men of
our Union of States. Cincinnati
Enquirer.
The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1908-03-18

The railroad surveying corps
has reached Liberty and viii
level up their grades from there
to their starting point on their
return this week. Col Allen is
in Cincinnati comforting with
contractors, to whom the com
pleted survey will be submitted
and to get bids on same. The
othes survey will be made i'm
mediately.