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The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1909-05-18
Death vaIIev.

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Inyo county, Cal, lying between the
Panamint range on the west and the
Funeral, Amargosa and Grapevine
ranges on the east. Much Of the val
ley is below sea level, and there are
only a few places where ordinary
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The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1909-05-18
TIL. To,Iehstone.

The Magnate-You win succeed, sir.
You are genius. The Inventor-No,
I'm not. If were real genius prac-
teal men like you would consider me
a darned fool.-Cleveland Leader.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1909-05-18

Understand me, Henry Peckl l
shall not lay another egg unless you
get an incubator. l simply cannot
neglect my social duties as I've been
doing."-Life.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1909-05-18
a PREVIOUS speeimen.

He-If I'd known how sarcastic you
were | never should have married you.
She-You had chance to notice 1t.
ridn't | say. ''This is so sudden"
when you proposed to me after four
years courtship ?-Boston Transcript.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1909-05-18
What RuIea Enc World.

When Napoleon caused the names Of
his dead soldiers to be inscribed on the
face of Pompey's pillar, some one crit
icised the act as "a mere bit Of imagi-
nation" ''That is true" replied Ma
poleon, but imagination rules the
world Atlantic
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1909-05-18
On Her Own Head.

Hubby-What! You paid $50 for that
haiti It's monstrous-it's a sin! Wife
(sweetly)-No matter. The sin will be
on my own headl-Lippincott's Mag
azipa.r
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1909-05-18
Knew Her Weakness.

Master-John! Servant-Yes, sir.
Master-Be sure you tell me when it
is 4 O'Clock. Servant Yes, sir. Master
Don't forget it. l promised to meet
my wife at 2:30. and she'll be pro-
voked If I'm not there when she ar
rives.-London Answers.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1909-05-18

Magistrate-Did you arrest the pris-
oner, McNutty? Officer McNutty-Oi
did, yer honor. Magistrate-Did he Of
fer any resistance? Officer McNutty-
Only 50. yer honor.-Chicago News.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1909-05-18

Objects of General Interest.
"Those flashy Van Punks have NOV
ed. Do you know where they went?"
"That's the very thing their unhap-
py landlord asked me."-Cleveland
Plain Dealer.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1909-05-18
Vain Regrets.

"That man Biftin lacks courage and
energy"
eyes, confound himw
"Why do you say that2"
Because he was counting my wife
long before ! met her. If he had had
a little more courage and energy But
what's the use Of talking about 1t
now T'-Cleveland Plain Dealer.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1909-05-18

Ella-Bella never passes a mirror
without looking in It. stella-Brave
girls-Harper'a Weekly.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1909-05-18
An Extinaul.hsd EIams.

MI INtIIISuIS''c1 '~'''S'
"John, found lock Of hair among
your old letters"
"Well2 p
81 never gave 1t to you"
"Dont worry. I don't remember
who ."-Houston Chronicle.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1909-05-18
On the Cars of New York.

The surface cars Of New York carry
on each line as different a nationality
as If each belonged to different coun-
try. On the Eighth avenue line there
are mostly colored people; on the Sixth
avenue they are largely Americans, If
there are any Americans in New York;
on the Broadway cars there are styl-
ishly dressed New Workers; on the
Third avenue Irish and Jewish people
predominant. on the Second avenue
Jewish, Italian, Hungarian. Swedish
and German. while on the surface cars
that run along Avenue A you see
every foreign nationality under the
sun, all Observation-Disclosures York Press.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1909-05-18
Compensation

A young cadet was complaining of
the tight fit of his uniform.
'eWhy, father" he declared, "the col
lar presses my Adams apple so hard
I can taste ciderr'-Harper's Weekly.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1909-05-18

Children who are delicate, feverish and
cross will get Immediate relief from Mother
Grays Sweet powders for Children. They
cleanse the stomach, act on the liver, making
sickly child strong and healthy. certain
cure for worms. Sold by all druggists, Csc.
LIE N. Y,
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1909-05-18

The motto Of chivalry is also the
motto of wisdom-to serve all. but love
only 0ue.-Balzac.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1909-05-18
An African and a Boa Constructor

An African and Boa Constructor.
At MGeta, German East Africa, a
native who, like all those belonging to
the tribe of the Waluguru, regarded
snake flesh as an especial delicacy
found huge boa constructor lying In
the middle of a field. He confded the
discovery to one or two others and ar
ranged with them to kill it during the
hours of darkness, so that they might
enjoy the delIcacy together. Toward
nightfall the man, armed with a stick,
attacked the huge serpent. The boa
constructor, aroused from its apparent
torpor, suddenly seized the unhappy
negro and slowly crushed him to pulp
and then gradually swallowed him.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1909-05-18
His Mild Resistance.

Your little child is your only true
democrat.-Stowe.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1909-05-18

The poets verse slides into the cur
rent of our blood We read 1T when
young, we remember 1t when DID,
Smiles.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1909-05-18
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The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1909-05-18
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OLD AND NEW STANLEY Savoyard

est of his battles and that proved de- cidedly the most fruitful of his victories His army was the bravest in the world, fashioned in the school of Gonsalvo al Cordova, El Gran Capitan. At Lepanto Spain overthrow the Turk in one of the greatest, perhaps the very greatest, sea fights between Actium and the destruc- tion of the invinoible Armada. Not only was the Spain of Charles reign first in arms, but she led in statecraft, in letters, and in art. Cervantes, the nearest to Shakespeare of all profane literary geniuses was stout combatant at Le- panto.
 Philip II inherited all his fathers do- minions and all his dignities, except the imperial crown of Germany. He had at command what was easily four-fifths of the wealth of the world. His armies were invincibe and led by the first captains of the age-Don John Farnese, and Emanual Phillibut, the princely Savoyard who brought France to defeat and humil- iation, but whose victory was subse- quently reduced to naught, and whose fame was subsequently eclipsed by Fran els of Guise. Not content with his in- herited power, Philip took for his wife the Queen of England. and upon her de- mise he had for consort daughter of France, sister of three several kings of that realm.
 At St. Quentin the power of Spain at tained to the zenith. It was now that her statesnianship became stolid and fatu-r ous. All the genius of all the world~con spring together could scarce have de- vsed a policy of government more harm ful and more degenerate than that which cursed Spain for more than three cen turtles. The King was absolute and as- sumed to be master of the persons, the
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France in numerous great battles, and the kingdom of Louis the Great was rended on the Rhine border; but grand son of Louis was maintained 7 on the throne at Madrid by the valor and the prowess of Spanish guerrillas, who came to the support of Berwick and Vendome, the commanders of the French armies in the peninsula, and lent them victory, re- sulting in the expulsion of the allied Eng fish and Austrians from Spain.
 Nor is it too much to say that Napo- leon got his fatal wound in Spain. He had put his brother on the throne just as Louis had given the Spanish crown to his grandson; but Spain would have none of Joseph. and so she welcomed Wellington. Had Spain accepted the king the Coraican gave her, the veterans un- der Soult. Junot, Massena, Marmont, Lannes and Ney. who found bloody grave in Spain, might have been children of victory again in Germany, and thus saved the empire of the modern Caesar. If Spain had not aided him Wellington could no more have expelled the French from the peninsula than Stanhope did 100 years earlier.
 It is a common belief that Napoleon's marshals were great generals, and so they were, under his eye. He said at St. Helena that of all the captains under his command Desaix and Kleber were the ablest Both died the same day the first in battle at Marengo and the second by the hands of an assassin in Egypt. Lannes and Massena were per haps the ablest of the others, but the first never had an independent command. Massena was victorious at Zurich and the defender at Genoa. Ney was fit for
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casion to contrast Bacon with certain ancient sages who found that divine phi- losophy would degrade itself by becoming useful. Seneca, for instance, said that in his day there had been inventions of transparent windows; tubes for diffusing warmth equally through all parts of a building short hand. which had been car ried to such perfection that writer could keep pace with the most rapid speaker. Seneca held such things in sovereign con- tempt, and said that such inventions were mere drudgery for the lowest slaves, and not at all fit employment for a philos- pher; that it was not the business of philosophy to teach men to use tlieir hands; that philosophy is no maker of tools for necessary uses" We shall next be told that the first shoemaker was a philosopher" To this last sally Macaulay replies: For our own part, if we are forced to make our choice between the first shoemaker and the author of the three books on Anger. we pronounce for the shoemaker. It may be worse to be angry than to be wet. But shoes have kept millions from being wet and we doubt whether Seneca ever kept anybody from being angry
 Virgil tells us of an archer who aimed at the stars:
 "Volans liquids in nubibus arsit arundo Signavitquo viam 1ammis, tenuisque re-
 eessit
 Consumpta in ventos'
 That is to say, "The flying shaft blazed in the floating clouds, and marked It's
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nothing but brilliant charge or a stub born retreat. and Napoleon declared he should never have risen above the rank of general of division. Murat was only a trooper superb for dash and enthu- siasm. Davoust was hero and victor in a battle where nothing told but stubborn courage That same day his master, only a few miles away. gained one of his great est battles by the exercise of his match less genius for war Macdonald might have saved the crown at Lutzen had the other marshals supported him. There are those who think Saint Cyr the ablest of the marshals; but he would not hatter, and the Emperor dstrusted him.
 But every one of them was incapable except under the eye of this master. It is sekening to read in the pages of Marbot the petty jealouses of these heroes in Spain, where they would have overthrown Wellington had they acted in concert. If Massena had caused platoon to shoot Ney he might have saved Spain for Napoleon. The trouble was that every devil of them thought that he and he only, was next best general to the Elm peror Napoleon was never well served by his generals except when he himself was present or near by.
 But there are indications that Spain 'is putting out green leaves The gov ernment is beginning to be efficient, and what is better to the purpose, it is be- come honest. Having lost her patri- mony, Spain has gone to work for liv- ing. II is said the capital is to be changed from Madrid to Barcelona and that the Escurial is to be abandoned, an acropolts and memory of the Spain that began to die with its erection and was centuries
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lard for master. Farnese was on the oth- CT shore, at the head of the finest army then on the planet, waiting for the Ar mada to convoy his transports to the Brit ish Isles; but the young navy of Eng land, under Howard, Drake, and Fro bisher, met the enemy, defeated him, and the storm of ocean did the rest Had Farnese landed tbe last half of the six teenth century, 6r had Napoleon landed the first half of the eighteenth century on English soil, the history of the world would have radically differed from what 1t Is.
 After the death of Phillip. Spain went from bad to worse. There appeared to remain nothing but her pride and her and of the people is found in the chap ters of that delightfully."- fascinating TO- nance, "Gil Blas." There misrule is de- scribed in all it's gloom, impotent in everything except courage and corruption. And yet Spain was grand, even in her degradation. Even Riehelieu dreaded her, as did his successor, Mazarin England sought her alliance, and the mighty spirit of Spain survived to tame the great na- tions that supplanted her long after her power was undermined, just as the moth CT of the East -quieted her child with "A Richard of England will get you" long after Richard had served as supper for worms.
 And yet Spain was formidable, even in her decrepitude and her prostration. In two great wars she was prominent and in one she saved Europe. The easiest of all countries to overrun, she was never subdued. In the great war of the sue cession, Marlborough and Eugene defeated
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preacher that he has not read Darwin, and l would not advise the average pas tor 10 spend his time upon that very ab- struse book, the Origin of Species
 But there are some preachers to whom I should be glad of a.good opportunity to say: For decencys sake, brethren. do take the trouble to know what you are talking about, if you must preach against Darwinism. If you can not let Darwin alone (which I strongly adyise) then, in the name of common sense. do study him more or abuse him less"
 But supposng that a preacher has the aptitude, the ability and the taste for discussing great and profound subjects, shall he banish such subjects from his pulpit? By no means. But he need not leave the New Testament. and run wild over biological problems in order to find great and profound subjects. Does the would contain a more sublime compost ton than the 10th chapter of First Corin- thians? And the thoughts are as pro- found as the style is sublime. Rev A. B. Brown was one of the acutest and profoundest thinkers l ever knew; and ms preaching was notably and uniformly Biblical. He found his Bible "metaphysi- cal" enough to satisfy even his extra ordinary taste, and to exercise even his marvellous capacity for metaphysical reasoning
 A modern writer on the resurrection, after referring to the scene in the "Odys- sey," where Homer introduces Ulysses to hades, during that heros lifetime, and
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after quoting the memorable words to AehIllis: Assgonld rather be on earth, the slave of a7Seedy master than to be monarch of all the kingdoms of the dead, proceeds thus:
 But the resurrection is not a mere dogma of a future life. It carries with 1t, not simply the idea of an existence be- gond the grave. but a grand and solid hope of a glorious. holy and joyful im- mortality. And this belief has immensely added to the worth and dignity of hu- man life here. Indeed the doctrine of the immortality of the soul, in that form of it which emerges with the doctrine of the resurrection, has revoluionized civil governments all over Christendom. If a man is regarded as having no future life, or none that is worth living t is natural and logical enough, that, under any form of government, he should be regarded existing only as a part of a great machine called the State And so under the Roman republic. no less than under the empire, the citizen was born, reared and educated for the state. But when man regards himself as an immortal being, and is filled with hopes and aspirations that wander through eternity he becomes a being of such value, and such dignity, that the state must exist for him, and not he for the state. And so logically, and historically, the modern doctrines of civil liberty are really born of the doctrine of the resurrection. This thought would well bear a careful elaboration; but our space allows us only to suggest it. Still 1t is
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estates, the minds, and the consciences of his subjects and yet this was Spain, the inventor of the very soul of mod ern parliamentary government. Descended from the Visigoths, who wrought so de- structively for the overthrow of Roman civilization, there was a liberty in that land that even the crafty and the con scfenceless Ferdinand himself could not subdue and even Charles V was necessi- tated to humiliate himself and beg sup plies from the Cortez the first of mod ern parliaments.
 As if fate was bent on his destruction, Philip must~needs drive the Netherlands to revolt, the most opulent, and the day of his coronation, the most loyal of his subjects. Of that Batavian race that Julius Caesar himself absorbed because he could not conquer 1t, for more than 40 years the Netherlands strove for their liberties against the bravest armies, cap tained by the most consummate generals of that heroic age. Our revolutionary struggle was a May day festival in com parison to that William the Silent main- tained against Philip II.
 England Huguenot France, and thou sands in Germany lent aid to heroic little Holland. and finally Phillip put the world as stake and sent his armada against Englanda whose sovereignty he claimed as the heir of his first queen. What man with Anglo-Saxon for race but his blood stirs when reading of that scene where Elizabeth mustered her nobility her gen. try, and her yeomanry at Tilbury, and re- viewed them mounted on her palfrey like another Semiramisi Catholics were as sternly determined and as eager for the issue as Protestants, and all England was resolved to die rather than own the Span
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\ T was a popular and discerning Amer
 ican author who made the remark A You may dwarf a man to the mere stump of what he ought to be and yet he will put out green leaves;" and so with nations, and Spain for example. More than four centuries ago when the heroic Moor had been expelled from An dalusia before the shining lance and trenchant blade of Castilian chivalry, Spain rose to be the first power not only of Christendom, but of the entire world, and the grandson of Ferdinand and Isa- bella became the most powerful monarch with whom history has dealt between Charlemagne and Napoleon. In addition to the peninsular, the most puissant of the then nations, he was dominant in Italy and sovereign of a great part of what is now France All the Netherlands owned him for master, nearly all the Americans, then subdued to the Cauca- sian, were his. He had possessions in the far East also and fortune, with both hands running over, put upon. his brow the diadem of the modern Caesars.
 Charles V was the first personality of an age prodigal in the production of ex- traordinary men-FTancis l, Henry VIII, Solymon) the Magnificent, the Constable Bourbon, Cardinal Wolsey, Martin Du- ther, Julius II, Leo x, Clement VII, Will liam the Silent, Andrea Doria, and many others Don John of Autsria was his son with the bar sinister and Alexander Farnese was the son of his daughter with the bar sinister. Ava was his captain, though Bourbon, driven from France by a fatuous king and voluptuous dowager, commanded for him in one of the great
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course with flames; and then lightly sank self-consumed into the winds The famous archer aimed too high.
 1 hope that there are somewhere in the world few women who can do good plain sewing; but the manufacturers of ready-made clothing seem somehow ul- ways to miss them. Seldom indeed does one buy and wear a ready-made gar ment that does not need to have buttons sewed on and seams sewed up. The cities towns and villages swarm with fashion able" dress makers: but-where is the practical dressmaker who can and will make a plain dress that will fit and will hold together? This kind of seamstress seems to be abdut as extinct as the nam moth. It would do oae's heart good to see a sign reading thus: Plain sewing carefully done here'; and especially if one could believe that the sign told the truth.
 The following paragraph is here in point:
 Tn one of our new states, we are in- formed, there are already 12 universities. and they are cutting the poles to build the thirteenth What are such univer- sities? Have they any law department; any medical department; any professional department of any kind? Could a bright man, after graduating on a good college curriculum, enter one of these univer- stles and find the appliances, facilities and libraries necessary for profitably talk ing postgraduate course of special study in any department? If these, -or any one of these questions is to be an
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swered in the negative, then these schools should be ashamed to call themselves universities They are putting on airs. They are aiming, or rather they are pre- tending to aim. too high. Some of them are turning out graduates of whom any decent high school or academy would be ashamed
 Preachers now and then aim at the stars" A famous orator once preached in my pulpit; and asplain but not stupid woman of my congregation said: "I did not understand a single word that he said from the beginaing to the end" In deed, after the sermon, I found it .neces- sary to turn over the leaves of my Greek lexicon to learn the meaning of some of the words used in that eloquent dis eoures. Did not the. hungry sheep look up and find no food?
 Some of the social problems now per pleXing the minds of statesmen and phil anthropists are really very intricate and abstruse. They cannot be sett1ed-nay, they cannot be intelllgently discussed without a profound and accurate knowl- edge of the principles of constitutional government, of political economy and of ethics. And yet preachers, who have never mastered any standard work on any one of these great sciences are filled with sort of mania for preaching ser mons on these great social problems of the day. Men, who have never read, and could not be made to understand the "Origin of Species will declaim for endless hours against the enormities of "Darwinism." It is not reproach to