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The Penn's Grove record., 1909-01-29
New Jersey Legal Holidays

The complete list of legal holidays in
this State is;
New Years Day-January /.
Lincoln's Birthday-Febrnary II
Memorial Day-May
Independance-July 4.
Labor Day-First Monday in septem-
Der.
Thanksgiving Day-Last Thursday in
November.
General Election Day-First Tuesday
after first Monday in November.
Xmas Day-December %.
The Penn's Grove record., 1909-01-29
FULL DRESS

and Dress-up Suits; Tuxe-
do Suits. 500, $25. $50
and $50. Full Dress,
$25 to $40. Prince Albert
Suits, $50 to s35. all in
latest cut, cloth and make
up. and in all sizes 81 to
81. Regulars and Stouts.
Full Dress Vests, SO so
to Sc. Hats, S. to $40.
Everything in Shirts Neck
wear, Collars and Cuffs
and Shoes. We have a
new lot of Mems All
Worsted Suits in new
Browns, Blues and Modes
at 50. A Lot of neat
Black and White Silk
Mixed Suits at SIS less
Is per cent. now Sill Is
in large and stout sizes.
Mems Suits at SIS, IS and
$3.50 in our Special Sale.
/ off Regular Suits, Over
GOATS and Odd Trousersr.
I off Boys Clothing and
end Heavy Shoes. A
Special Shirt Sale at Csc,
3 tor $1.25. Linen Col
lars at 75c a dozen.
'ss..' MULLINS '''' a.,.
est 6thl& Market ST. Shoes
Wilmington Delaware
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Sheriff's Sale.

IN cHANCERY OF NEW JERSEY.
Between
John W. Trumbull, ex. of
Geo. L. Turnbull, dec.
Complainant, Fl. Fa.
David T. %Trmmbull, ct
Ut ct al, Defendant.
Returnable February Term. A. D.. 10 90
By virtue of the above writ of Fl. Fa. to me
directed and delivered, l will sell at public
sale on
SATURDAY, JANUARY 9Oth 1909
along sideof the Court House, in the CITY of
Salem, Nd, between the hours of IL and 5
at 3 O'Clock T. NJ, all that certain lot of land
SITUATED In the village Of Auburn. township of
OldmaES i'll the county of Salem and state of
New Jersey, and bounded as follows: Begin
tnrough Auburn. and runs u along line Of
OF late Elvey Watson (nOw Clement Poulson)
South MY and a half degrees East two chains
and twenty-five links to a corner of said Ponl-
sons land thence ~ South along Poulson's
land thirty-eight and a half degrees West one
chain to a lot late Samuel B. kudson's (now
owned by Joseph Roberts,; thence (3) along
said Roberts land north fifty and a half de
grees West two chains and Seventy-iye links
to the middle OF the aforesaid street thence a.
North thirty-eight and a half degrees East one
chain to the place of beginning. Containing
twenty-five hundredthS of an acre, more or
less. Being the same land and premises which
wilmer Pedrlck AUX conveyed to said David
mbu by deed dated October 2lSt, 1902,
which is recorded in Salem County Clerks
office in Book No. SO of Deeds, folio $50 sc.
ALBERT B.. BATTEN,
T. G. billiard, Solicitor.
Dated Dec. Is, 1908 list
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MuslinS

Here are IA yards of soft
finish, pure bleached Mus
lin, Sc inches wide, for
$1.O0, only.
Also An excellent Sheeting
muslin, bleached width "a
which; and reduced to
only Csc yard
Pillow Cases well made
Of good bleached muslin,
size 36x42, and specially
priced at 12ac each
Remnants OF Tickings, 2H,
5 and 10-yard lengths;
good quality, strong and
heavy, 3Oc to 1925 for the
piece.
Enurkh e4raot ,4o,o
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W. h. SMITH & CO..
SUCCESSOR TO
". B. Sharp & Co.,
and Market Streets
wilmington, DEL.
We Have
about "a Walking
Skirts
which would be suitable
for every day knockabout,
market or rainy-day wear.
And Reduced
before stack taking from
IS. SO and 81 to the one
Price Of
$3.50
each.
We Will
have these on sale in our
Suit Department on the
second floor.
Take elevator.
Fine White Bedspreads
Stock taking discovered a
few that are slightly soiled
from window display and
use as samples. These are
all reduced.
about one-third off the
regular price-the first
washing makes them good
as new.
Also Tor this week there's
a few more of those fine
/. fine table damasks reduc
ed. Beautiful patterns and
splendid damasks, both
bleached and unbleached.
Fourth street store.
Sturdy Pure Linen
Unbleached Table Dam
ask, satin finish and extra
heavy weight, both floral
and spot designs.
An excellent damask that
we've been unable to get
for a long time. The
regular worth and usual
price ofthis linen is SOC or
62ac a yard.
We shall sell these FIVE
pieces for only Acc a yard,
and you'd better come
early for it.
Fourth street store.
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Our White Goods


Special is a As inch French
Lawn at 22c a yard.
There'll be a few pieces of
that beautiful Persian
Lawn, 40 inches wide and
40c value, for
29c a yard.
Fine, sheer, perfectly
woven and finished. Just
the thing for evening
dresses, waists and chill
dren's wear.
White roods
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Children's Night Gowns

Good quality muslin
gowns, either high or
low neck, in sizes from
l to IA years.
The high necked gowns
have tucked yokes and
hemstitched ruffles on neck
ones are trimmed with
dainty beading around the
neck and sleeves 39c to 69c
Children's Muslin Drawers,
in both trimmed and plain
styles, in sizes from 2 to
to IA years.
12Hc to SOC a pair
Second floor. take ELEVATOR.
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Especial Correspondence

Mr.. Moore of Passaic thinks the ma
tional guard should be paid Is cents
for attending each drill, inspection or
rendezvous for target practice and in
troduced a bill to that effect in the
house.
Among the measures introduced in
the senate were:
A joint resolution carrying an allow
ance of $500 for educational meetings
to eliminate the white plague"
Mr.. Leavitt-Provides that county
boards Of equalization Of taxes IN de-
tesmtnins Yatahles ~ anhoal ane
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Several Measures introduced to Re-
Iieve the States Serious Financial
Condition = Governor Signs Two
Measures-New Public Utilities Bill
Said to Have the Executive Approval
and Is Considered More conserva-
tive Than "New Idea" Plan.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1909-01-26
DIFFERENT STYLES.
How Meredith and Browning Might
Describe the Same Incident.

How Meredith and Browning Nigh,
Describe the Same Incident.
If Browning and George Meredith
were describing the same act they
might both be obscure, but their OBJ
scurities would be entirely different.
Suppose, for instance, they were de-
scribing even so prosaic and material
an act as a man being knocked down
stairs by another man to whom he
had given the lie Meredith's descrip-
ton would refer to something which
an ordinary observer would not see or
at least could not describe. 1t might
be a sudden sense Of anarchy in the
brain Of the assaulter or a stupefac-
ton and stunned serenity in that of
the object of the assault.
He might write: "Wainwood's men
vary in veracity' brought the baronet's
arm up. He felt the doors of his brain
burst and Wainwood a swift rushing
of himself through air, accompanied
with a clarity as of the annihilated."
Meredith, in other words, would
speak queerly because he was describ-
ing queer mental experiences. But
Browning might simply be describing
the material incident Of the man being
knocked downstairs, and his descrip-
ton would run:
What then? "You lie" and doormat be-
low stairs
Takes bump from back
This is not subtlety, but merely a
kind of insane swiftness.-Gilbert K.
Chesterton.
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A MAN OF ACTION.
He Got Out Of His Tight Corner With
Flying coIors.

He Got Out Of His Tight Corner With
Flying coIors.
He was a husband who, when he left
home for week or so on a business
trip, invariably took with him photo
Of his wife, and in the letters that he
wrote to her he always made a great
point of this portrait and dwelt upon
the fact that the sight of it was the
only thing that kept his spirits up
when he was far away from her.
One day, however, be left the home
and forgot to take the portrait with
him. But he was not going to let a
little thing like that worry him.
Down he sat and penned his Gus
tomary amorous epistle, IN which the
portrait played its usual part. 1t was
not until the letter was posted that he
remembered that the portrait had been
left at home in a conspicuous place
where his wife could not fail to dis
cover it.
The fat was indeed in the fire, but
he was a man of action and deter
Ulueu W get Jul VI LIS l6Ae SoAAcA
somehow. He remembered the shop
where the photo had been taken and
promptly wired there for another
copy, which he had put into beauti-
full frame especially adapted for trav-
cling.
On his return home his wife "handed
out the freezing mixture" to begin
with and then dissolved In unquench-
able tears. When under cross exam
nation she admitted that the cause of
her grief was his cruel deception. he
produced the newly acquired photo
and then asked her. in a hurt voice,
how she could possibly have suspected
him of working off mere tarradiddle
on his little wife.-New- York Mail.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1909-01-26
AN ARAB SURGEON.
lpfls Own Story Of Wonderful Opera
ton He Performed.


ton He Performed.
Mr.. Walter B. Harris in his account
of a journey to Tablet tells the story
of a wonderful operation in surgery
as 1t was reported to him by a native
doctor who was travelling in his COM
pany:
II think the old man fancied that
doubted his skill At least, he was al
ways holding forth upon the subject
and continually repeating the story
that when in Algeria he had been Of
fered fabulous salary-the sum va
ried each time the tale was told-to re-
main in charge of the military hos
pital at Algiers, an honor which he
had declined.
He never tired of narrating the
facts and details of bis most success
full operation. There Is sect in No
rocco called Hamacha, who are fol-
lowers Of a certain saint buried near
Mekinez. These devotees amuse their
audience-and themselves, too. let us
hope-by throwing into the air heavy
cannon balls, which they allow to fall
upon their shaven crowns. On the &C.
CASTOR IN question q Hamdushi had
unfortunately been wanting IN reli'
gious power, for the cannon ball
crushed his skull.
my old shereef friend had been call
ed to the rescue. According to his ac-
count, he removed the broken patch
Of skull, replacing it with the rind of
a green pumpkin, and closed the skin
over it. In a months time. he said.
the patient was not only convalescent,
but was once more hard at work prac-
ticing his religio-acrobatic feats, with
not only remodeled and renovated
skull, but even a new crop of hair"
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1909-01-26
ANCIENT SURVEYORS.
Their Methods Depicted on the Old
Tombs of Egypt.

00it Wt~~tFS01 DSP'~~~N -''~ -
Tombs of Egypt.
In an address delivered before the
Royal Geographical society Captain
II. G. Lyons, director general of the
survey department of Egypt, told OF
the work of ancient Egyptian survey
ors. "At every period of ancient
Egyptian history" he said, ''the land
was measured and recorded with con-
siderable accuracy. Property was
dealt in regularly, and an elaborate
system Of registration was maintain
ed. No map of landed property In
ancient Egypt has come down to us,
but on the tomb walls we meet with
representations of land measurers at
work. Their methods Of land meas
urement are represented on the walls
of the tomb of one Menna at Sheik
Add ell Qurna, in Thebes, a land over
seer and inspector Of the boundary
stones of Anon.
"In the scene depicted are shown
two chainmen measuring a field Of
corn with a long cord, on which are
knots or marks at intervals which
seem to be about four or five cubits
In length. Each also carries spare
cord coiled upon his arm Beside them
walk three officials, who carry writ
ing materials and who are accompa-
MED by small boy carrying writing
materials and a bag In which are
probably documents and plans refer
ring to the property. An old man and
two boys also accompany the survey
ors, and a peasant brings a loaf OF
bread and bunch Of green corn.
"a similar scene is pictured on the
walls of a tomb belonging to a GER
tain Amenhotep, also at Sheik. Add Ell
Qurna. Here only one man accom-
panies the chainmen, each Of whom,
as usual, carries spare cord The
figures are larger than in the tomb Of
Menna, and, though they are now
much damaged, 1t is possible to see
clearly that the cord terminated In a
rams head"
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1909-01-26
Ladies' and Gents.

When 1 was younger kids were kids
in Kansas or in Cadiz. Now all the
boys are gentlemen and all the girls
ladies. Where are the kids who climb
ed the trees, the tousled young ca
rousers who got their faces black with
dirt and tore their little trousers?
Where are the lads who strapped by
rounds while other lads kept tallies,
the maids who made their pies of mud
and danced in dirty alleys? They're
making calf love somewhere now, ex-
changing cards and kisses. They're
all fixed up in Sunday toys, and they
are sirs and misses. Real kids have
vanished from the world, which fact
Is surely hades. and all the boys are
gentlemen. and all the girls are la
dies.-Walt Mason in Emporia Ga
zette.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1909-01-26
BEARDED LADIES.
A Partisan Snowman Says They Are
Quite Numerous.

A Partisan Snowman Says They Ar,
Quite Numerous.
An Englishwoman who confesses tc
a mild mania for attending the street
fairs common in and around Paris
says that she is always impressed by
the extraordinary number of bearded
ladies among the attractions.
II was inclined to think that they
were fakes" she says in the London
Gentlewoman, "but when discovered
that they were quite genuine my sur
prise at this wonderful supply of
phenomena grew stronger. And when
a few days ago l saw at the fair in
the Avenue d'Orleans lady exhibited
with long flowing beard could no
longer withhold my curiosity.
II applied for Information to a gen.
tleman well known in the Snowman
world and who acts as kind Of agent
to the people owning shows, supply
ing them with the necessary goods,
human and otherwise. This gentle
man appeared surprised at my ques-
ton
Bearded ladiesY he exclaimed. i
can find as many as like. You have
no idea how many women, If they
liked, could rival men as regards
whiskers and mustaches. But they
are not anxious to enter into that
kind of competition
'-Going to the north pole is no pleas
ure trip" said the sympathetic friend
well" answered the arctic explorer.
1T reminds me somewhat of the aver
age pleasure trip. Everybody is so anx-
lous to start and so glad to get home"
Washington Star.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1909-01-26
Warned In a Dream.

On the occasion of a fatal accident
to lift in a Paris hotel some years
ago a lady who was just going up
In It started back, saying, "Oh, there
is that dreadful man again" and
tried to induce her husband to come
off IT, too, but he refused and was
among the killed. The dreadful man"
to whom she referred she had seen in
a dream, which the niece Of the friend
who told me the story had heard her
relate day or two before the acct
dent. 1t was of a funeral drawn up
at her door, so pompous as to produce
a great impression on her, presided
over by a big dark man in a strange
sombrero hat. This man she saw, or
believed she saw, In the lift, and the
coincidence terrified her from going
up in it.-London Notes and Queries.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1909-01-26
THE DEvILFISH.
He Is Not a Man Eater, but Gently
Reared Monster.

He Is Not Man Eater, but q Gently
Reared Monster.
Contrary to popular belief, the devil
fish is not a man eater, according to
an official publication issued by the
Smithsonian institution, Washington,
after an authoritative study Of the sub
Ject by DR.. Theodore GIL, associate in
zoology In the national museum. ''The
food Of the devilfishes," he says, 80
far from being large animals and &C.
casionally man or so, as has been al
legged, appears to be chiefly the small
crabs, shrimps and other crustaceans
and young or small fishes. Rarely does
one prey on large fishes"
DR.. GIL says that in number Of re-
spects the young devilfsh grows up
under nursing and training remarkably
like that Of human being. 1t is nour-
ished, for instance, from its mothers
milk. 1t is popularity of the devil
fish, he adds, that, instead of laying
many thousands or millions of eggs, it
normally has only single young one
at birth. A baby deyilfish Is some
times as broad as FIVE feet and weighs
twenty pounds or more.
Or. CHI adds that devilfishes move
about from place to place in a sort of
submarine flight, speeding themselves
along by flaps of the long winglike
fms.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1909-01-26
OLIVES

Just step in and look over the
olives we have now. Almost any
size olive in any size bottle yor
could possibly want; 10, IS, 20
rs and soc.
WHITE CHERRIES
The Silver Cord brand is known
the world over for its superior
qualities; the syrup is extra heavy
and thick, 25c can.
SWEET CIDER
This cider is made from York
State apples and is strictly pure
article, 3oc gallon.
SUNSET PEACHES
A great big yellow peach, cut in
halves, put up in good heavy
syrup, all ready for the table, 25c
can.
WYANDOTTE CLEANER
For the Dairy, Kitchen, Nursery
or Laundry take a bag home anc
try it if it don't suit return it anc
get your money back. Surely
that's fair enough. S pound bag
for 25c.
FRESH MEATS
Only the best grades find place
in our market. We make all OF
our pork products, and stump on
their purity and clea nliness.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1909-01-26

THE As6ury Pork Journal heartily sup.
ports the Post TsIsgrom's suggestion that
If there Is good ground for bringing
criminal action on account Of the alleged
Encouragement of the State Mutual
Building and Loan Association such action
should not be delayed, but instituted be.
fore the statute of limitations can be plead
ed. We do not say that such ground
exists, but the grave charges made at the
time the present receivers were appointed
cannot we'll be ignored. Several thousand
persons were induced to put their savings
Into this concern because they believed
those In control to be capable and honest
business men. Now If their interests were
deliberately betrayed and any of Their
money squandered, they have right not
only to know the facts, but to demand the
punishment of those responsible for this
condition of affairs. There may be some.
thing more than monetary speculation
in the buying up of the shares of the ia
solvent association by some one on the
outside. The fewer the number of share
holders the less clamor there will be fol
criminal proceedings.-Oanden Post zele
gram.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1909-01-26

SAYS the Palmyra Neaos: whether Mr..
Kingdom likes it or not, this paper and It's
editor is unalterably opposed to this Taxa
ton Board" There Is no doubt as to the
sincerity of this statement. The editor
has SO announced himself at other times,
not only editorially out by allowing others
to write communications on the subject.
But we never cared to the extent of bring
ing libel suit (which could have been
settled for $3.50, plus the lawyers fees.
But why does the editor of the Palmyra
Neses kick so hard against the County
Board2 OF course that body did make
him pay little more tax than he had
been accustomed to, but even then he did
not return to the county treasury anything
like what he got annually for advertising
In q paper printed sometimes In Camden,
sometimes elsewhere. AS has beenlstated
before. the Palmyra News Conferred at the
Palmyra post Office az second class matter)
is printed ct some Office outside OF the
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1909-01-26

The person who, on examining a
homemade henhouse, remarked that
ut looked as If some fellow had built
it himself has a kindred spirit IN a
delightfully."- simple old lady, noted for
her naive comments. In street car
not long ago she noticed man car
rying a shotgun and blanket roll.
Look at him." she whispered to her
companion. "He looks as If he were
going to spend the night somewhere. .
Youths Companion.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1909-01-26
The Eternal Feminine.

A photographer was called upon not
long ago to make some pictures Of an
old lady of seventy years or so, but OF
surprising agility and quickness of per-
ception. The picture man was there
fore somewhat surprised to find that
no words Of address could induce the
old lady to speak until after the opera
ton was completed. Then she put her
fingers into her mouth, whence she
withdrew several wads of paper.
"You wouldn't have me photograph
ed with my cheeks falling in, would
your" she asked the photographer. Il
just stuffed some paper in my mouth to
fill out. "-Harper's Weekly.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1909-01-26
HE MOUNT HOLLY NEWS
TUESDAY, JANUARY &c, 1909

BIZ RxAPPoIETIEe Rev. George B.
Wight as State Commissioner Of Char
tiles and Correction. Governor Fort did a
graceful act and recognized the ability and
worth Of the gentleman who has served In
that position for some time. 1t was
sought to make capital out Of the fact that
Mr.. Wight had advanced In years SO that
prior to the expiration Of his new term he
would be past three score years and ten, .
but there has not been single contention
that the has lost any of his yigor in body or
mind and his work In the past has been
such as to show that 1t will require extra
ordinary lapses to render him incapable OF
continuing his duties.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1909-01-26

THREE boys were indicted for murder In
Cumberland county. The man who met
his death was the grandfather Of one of
the lads. The first boy tried was found
guilty of murder In the first degree. In
the trial of the second boy the state did
not succeed In getting verdict for the
high crime. the jury rendering the decis
ion that the boy was guilty of murder of
the second degree. This was in the face
of the fact that Judge Trenchard charged
that the verdict must be for murder Of the
first degree or for acquittal. The jurors
evidently had the opinion that they knew
more about law than the Judge. This
sometimes happens and the question nat
urally arises whether 1t Is not useless to
deliver charge to a jury. as the find
ings of that body are often entirely diff
ferent from what ought to be rendered.
It seems entirely out Of place for a learned
Judge to waste time in attempting to tell
jury what is the correct thing to do.
Few people will agree that Judge should
tell jury that 1t must bring in certain
verdict when there Is reasonable doubt
on the subject. but when there is ques-
ton of law as In the Vineland case. where
the verdict must be one of two things, it
1t does seem presumption on the part of
jury to totally ignore the instructions Of
the court and act entirely upon their SYM
pathetic notions.