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The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1910-05-31
SAVAGE ATHLETICS.

Canary Islanders Who Would Have
Made Good Ball Players.
In this age of athletics one might
think that no people ever showed so
much interest in feats of muscular
might and skill as those who have per-
fected football, but modern games,
and even the games Of the Greeks at
Olympia, may have been more than
matched by the sports Of peoples now
held in light esteem. We have the ac-
counts of excellent authorities for the
contention that the athletic training of
Canary islanders makes even the col
lege giants of today seem weak and
effeminate
These islands came into subsection
to Spain about the time Columbus dis
covered America. The conquest was
due solely to the superiority of Euro
pean weapons and not to better skill
and prowess. Native soldiers were
trained athletes developed under a sys-
tenn that held athletic sports to be an
important business, like military drill.
Spanish chronicles have left accounts
Of sports of the islanders. From baby
hood they were trained to be brisk in
self defense. AS soon as they could
toddle the children were pelted with
mud balls that they might learn how
to protect themselves. When they were
boys stones and wooden darts were
substituted for bits Of clay.
In this rough school they acquired
the rudiments of warfare which en-,
abled them during their wars to catch
In their hands the arrows shot from
their enemies crossbows.
After the conquest of the Canaries a
native Of the islands was seen at Sc
vile who, for a silver piece. let man
throw at him as many stones as he
pleased from a distance of eight PAGES
Without moving his left foot he avoid
ed every stone.
Another native used to defy any one
to hurl an orange at him with SO great
rapidity that he could not catch it.
Three men tried this, each with dozen
oranges, and the islander caught every
orange. AS further test he hit his
antagonists with each Of the oranges
st. Louis Republic.
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THE SPEAKERS MACE.
Ancient Emblem Used In the House
of Represontatives.

Ancient Emblem Used In the House
of Representatives.
With all its dignity. its senatorial
courtesy and the forms and ceremo-
MES that always are observed, the sen.
ate is far behind the house of repre-
sentatives in the matter of one anti
quated piece of furniture. The senate
has no mace. Now, a mace is not
much in the way Of furniture 1t is a
silver eagle mounted upon a staff
around which are bands of silver.
This mace is always an emblem of
the house of representatives. 1t Is the
duty of one employee to look after It.
Just before a session of the house be-
gins he takes it from the office Of the
sergeant-at-arms into the house cham
Der, and as soon as the speakers gavel
falls he inserts 1t in a socket in q
stone pillar at the right of the speak
er's chair. The mace remains there
while the house is In session and is
taken out and stood beside its pedes-
tai when the house is in committee of
the WnOle. Wnen the mousse adJ0urn6
the mace is carried back to the Office
of the sergeant-at-arms.
This ancient emblem has not thing
to do with the order of business of the
house, save as one of the old time reg
ulations that are continued. When the
house is turbulent an officer seizes the
mace and walks through the aisles.
Only once or twice when the speaker
failed to preserve order have / seen an
officer seize the mace and walk
through the house, waving it back
ward and forward. Possibly the sight
of 1t brought members to their senses
and they retired to their seats At all
events. that is about the only real use
for the mace that | ever have observ-
ed.-Washington Cor. st. Louis Star.
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STRUCK A sNAe.
A Painful Jolt For the Good Roads
Ambassador.

A Painful Jolt For the Good Roads
Ambassador.
Pll never forget the night called on
the Widow Yarn. She owned forty
acres on the main road. which l hoped
to have improved. In practically every
house in the county l had been hos
pitably received because was hu-
man being. A pioneer citizen, member
of the Good Roads club, took me in
carriage to see the widow. IN watch
the horses" this wise old citizen said.
II don't know what would brighten
Them" l suggested, but he seemed to
expect brass band or some other I'M
usual sight, although it was o'clock
at night. l soon knew why he prefer
red to sit out there in the cold.
Mrs Yarn, 1 believer" l began in
gratiatingly when the door was open
ed.
'Well," the person who stood there
observed, 1--WE been here forty years.
You ought to believe it,"
"This,' thinks l to myself, sis a
strange place for curbstone humor."
And then aloud: Il have been talking
for good roads, madam. We have de-
cided to run a rock road by here, and
as"-
"Who has decided?" This in the
voice of conductor when he asks you
how old your little boy is.
why" 1 stammered, "the Good
Roads club, and
Il don't belong to it, do 1? They
wouldn't have woman member,
would they?'
"Pm sure don't know. 1 have been
chiefly
"Sure you don'tp' the Widow Yarn
snapped you're chiefly concerned
about taxing my forty acres into the
county treasury without letting me
vote on it. What right have you to
come over here to build roads? Are
| you a road builder? Did you ever
build a road or pay for oneT'
Madam" said, you really do have
| vote on this question if road dis
trict is organized You have forty
votes-one for every acre you own,
and"-
Her face lighted up with light that
never was seen before on human face
unless perhaps in riding on an old
transfer or getting rid Of bad nickel.
She opened the door wider-I had not
been admitted up to that moment-and
asked. me to enter
"You say 1 have forty votes?" she
inquired.
you have" l assured her, feeling
like the bearer Of good news.
well, glory beY' the Widow Yarn
sighed, rocking herself comfortably
"Glory be. say II I'll cast them all
against your old rock road. Now
must be getting ready for prayer meet
Charles Dillon in Harper's
| Weekly.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1910-05-31
PEARL DIVERS OF JAPAN.
Women and Young Girls Who Are Elk
mart CN,innraare

Women and Young Girls Who Are Elk
pert Swimmers.
The pearl divers of Japan are the
women. Along the coast of the bay
of Ago and the bay of Gokasho the
thirteen and fourteen year old girls,
after they have finished their primary
school work. go to sea and learn to
dive. They are in the water and learn
to swim almost from babyhood, and
they spend most of their time in the
water except in the coolest season.
from the end of December to the be-
ginning of February.
Even during the most inclement of
seasons they sometimes dive for pearls.
They wear special dress, white I'M
derwear and the hair twisted up into
a hard knot. The eyes are protected
by glasses to prevent the entrance of
water. Tubs are suspended from the
waist.
boat In command of man Is as
signed TO every five to ten women
divers TO carry them to and from the
fishing grounds When the divers ar
rive on the grounds they leap into the
water at once and begin to gather oys-
tiers at the bottom. The oysters are
dropped into the tubs suspended from
their waists.
When these vessels are filed the div
ers are raised to the surface and jump
into the boais. They dive to depth
of from five 10 thirty fathoms without
breath while remaining under water
from one TO three minutes. Their ages
vary from thirteen to forty years, and
between twenty-five and thirty-iye
they are at their prime.-New York
Sim
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Mark Twain In ParIiament

After visit to England once Mark
Twain said on his return to New York:
Among other honors heaped upon me
by Englishmen was that of being pho
tographed In parliament / am not a
member of parliament. But neither
am member of congress. Has any
fellow American suggested that
should be photographed in congress?
No. blush to say that they have not
And yet here is an honor that might
without risk be bestowed on any great
man. And yet it was not bestowed
upon Washington, Jefferson or Lin
coin. When ] saw that photograph,
with the mother of parliaments in the
background. and realized my advanc-
ing years l said to myself. Here are
two noble monuments Of antiquity
two shining examples Of the survival
Of the fttestP"
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FRICTION.
What Causes II and What Would Hap.
pen Without IL.


pen Without 1t.
What is friction really caused BY?
Why will two things in contact not
slip over each other easily? 1t is be-
cause every substance known to science
has teeth; microscopic, it is true, but
still teeth. The result, then, is OBJ
vious. If we shove a book across a
table the teeth of the book interlock
with the teeth of the table just as cog
wheels do. and the push has to be
strong enough either to bend them
enough or to break them of for the
motion to continue
1t has actually been observed in a
microscope that If the push is only a
slight one and moves the book only a
short distance, on the pressure of the
hand being removed the book actually
jumps back to its former position.
This action is a slight bending of the
two sets of teeth, only not far enough
for them to lose their relative posi-
tons, and their elasticity on being re-
leased makes the book fly back.
1t has been shown that this friction
is not so much between different bod
les as between bodies Of the same ma
terial. One Industrial application of
this is the bearings for steel axles:
They are made of brass instead of
steel
In some things we want as much
friction as possible and in others as
lfffIo Tho forr,,or ie, sI1.,e+rat .d a.. +l,o
friction between an engine wheel and
the track, sand sometimes being pour
ed on the track to increase the friction.
The latter case is illustrated in all
bearings where rotating metal is in
contact with stationary metal, some
times ball bearings being substituted,
thus lessening the friction.
Many peculiar things would happen
If there was no friction. All screws in
wood would Immediately twist back
ward rapidly and shoot out into the
air; trains could not run save on cog
ged rails, which would probably be
necessary above as well as below, thus
having four rails instead of two; build
ings would tumble down, and new ones
could not be built unless nodded in
place like Edison's or else riveted to-
gether. People would have to wear
shoes with long spikes in them and
then have to be careful, for dirt grains
would slip over one another easily and
would act like deep sand. But one
great thing would happen-machines
would run at 100 per cent efficiency,
would give out as much energy as was
put into them.-Lawrence Hodges in
New York Tribune.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1910-05-31
The Praetorian Guard.

The PraetoriaD guard was select
body Of troops instituted by the EN-
peror Augustus to protect his person
and consisted Of ten cohorts, each OF
1000 men. chosen from Italy. They
had peculiar privileges and when they
had served sixteen years were retired
on pension of about $500. Each
member of the guard had the rank OF
a captain in the regular army. Like
the bodyguard of Louis XIV. they
were all gentlemen and formed grad
ually a great power. like the janizaries
at Constantinople. and frequently de
posed or elevated the very emperors
themselves
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1910-05-31
A Gentleman and Boots.

The first gentleman in Europe" got
the very worst definition Of a gentle
man from his Valet when driving down
to Brighton. The prince regent was
arguing about the gentleman and final
ly turned to his valet. And the valet
replied that gentleman was one who
did not clean his own boots. 1t was a
funky's reply. One likes better the
demand of the Duke Of Wellington.
"Give me men who can sleep in their
boots London Graphic.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1910-05-31

Liberia shares with Haiti the dis
tinction of being the only place in the
world where the negro rules not only
himself, but also such white men as
dwell there. Liberals history has
been one long record of intertribal and
civil wars, although its record in this
respect. it is only fair to say, is less
sanguinary than that of Haiti In
fact, so careful Is the Liberian of his
skin when fighting is in progress that
it has become a standing joke that a
Liberian battlefield is the safest place
on earth and that to become a soldier
IN Liberia Is to embrace the least dan.
gerous profession known to mankind.
-Pearson's Weekly.
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stonpinu hiecouuh.

Hiccough is a distressing and some
times a dangerous complaint Many
times swallow of water will stop It,
If simple measures fail the following
has been found very efficacious: The
nerves that produce hiccough are near
the surface of the neck. They may be
reached and compressed by placing
two fingers right in the center of the
top of the breastbone between the two
cords that run up either side of the
neck and pressing inward. downward
and outward A few minutes pressure
Of this kind will stop the most obsti-
nate hiccough.-Dr. Charles s. Moody
in Outing
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1910-05-31
TOWER OF LONDON.
The Picturesque Old Structure on the
Banks of the Thames.

Banks of the Thames.
most picturesque places in all Eng
land. 1t is located on the north bank
of the Thames and just east Of the
business district of London. 1t occu-
pies about twelve acres and is sur
rounded by broad and shallow moat.
In feudal days it was one of the
strongest fortresses in the country and
was deemed impregnable. 1t is now
a government storehouse and armory
and, above all, one of the sights of
London
The moat, which, with the battle
ment and towers, makes the stone
structure such a hoary antiquity, is
bordered within by lofty castellated
wall At frequent intervals of this
part of the structure there are massive
fanking towers.
Within This wall rises another of
similar construction. but of greater
height. Here are the various barracks
and armories In the center of all is
the lofty keep or donjon known as
the WnlCe lower. lnlS was efecIeu
in the days of William the Conqueror
and contains one of the most charm
ing little chapels of Norman design
which have remained till the present
day.
The White tower was the court of
the Plantagenet kings. In the north
west corner is st. Peters chapel, now
the garrison church. In another part
is the jewel office, containing crown
jewels of enormous value One set
which you see in the center of case
is said alone to be worth about $751;
100000.
Nearby is the horse armory, contain
ing a truly wonderful collection of an
cient and medieval arms and armor.
In the court just beyond is a slab
marking the spot where Anne Boleyn,
wife of Henry VIII, was beheaded.
Similar fates befell many other ia
nous personages in English history
within the great walls of the Tower
of London BOSTON Herald
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Wshv He Smiled.

Magistrate Ito prisoner)-You are
charged with having beaten your wife
Prisoner (smiling,-Quite right, your
worship. The charge is correct.
Magistrate-Then what are you smil
ing at?
Prisoner may we'll smile. We
have been married FIVE years. and in
all the fights we've had this Is the first
time she hasn't been able to give me a
jolly good hiding. Have cigar, Judge
London ScraDS.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1910-05-31
The Dead in India,

Three distinct methods Of disposing
Of the dead are In vogue In India
While the Mohammedans inter the
dead, the Hindoos prefer to throw the
bodies into the purifying waters of the
Ganges, and even now there are con
slant attractions of the severe regula-
lions framed to suppress this danger
GUS practice. The form of funeral
adopted by the Parsees is that of sim
ply exposing their dead at great alti-
tude to the scavenging services OF
crows and vultures.
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Picture Foroeriea.

There are three or four times as
many Corots In existence as the French
painter produced in his lifetime. He
lived to be pearly eighty, but at Mont
martre his posthumous canvases are
still being turned out to meet the de-
mands of the market. The old mas
tiers never die They are still working
overtime In the back rooms Of Flor
ence and Rome At Cologne the man.
ufacture of genuine medieval metal
work and antique carving Is a thriving
industry These foreign forgers may
be scamps. but their tireless energy
also testifies to the reverence In which
posterity holds the great names Of by
gone periods If they are not so high
ly priced, what inducements would
there be for anybody to waste time
paint and muscle In creating fraudu-
lent copies and limitations and pass
ing them off under false pretenses?
Our millionaire collectors are not con-
stantly exposed to the risk Of buying
high priced forgeries where the origi-
mails have no value.-New York World
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1910-05-31

Nasal Catarrh, an Inflammation of the
delicate membrane lining the air-passages,
is not cured by any mixtures taken into
Take Ely's Cream Balm through the nos
trils, so that the fevered, swollen tissues
are reached at once. Never mind how
long you have suffered nor how often you
have been disappointed, we know Ely's
Cream Balm is the remedy you should
use. All druggists, so. Mailed by Ely
Bros, Sc Warren Street, New York.
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The rerrors of Eranknsas.

There is no worse vice than frank
ness" said playwright. How should
/ feel, for example, if l asked you for
your opinion of my plays and you an
swered me frankly, quite frankly?
Why, should feel like the poor lady
at the bridge drive who said to her
hostess little daughter:
Your eyes are such a heavenly
blue. And what color are my eyes,
darling?'
"The child's high treble Travelled
easily to the farthest corner of the
quiet room as she replied, looking
earnestly up into her questiener's face:
"'Dwab middles, yellow whites and
wed Wimsr ''-Exchange
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1910-05-31
The pra+t;as+ Feet

A Swiss professor named Redorta
states that not one woman in a score
has perfect foot owing to the wear
ing Of high heeled boots and pointed
toe shoes. Russian. German, Ameri-
can, Austrian and Dutch women, he
Englishwomen are too narrow to fulfill
classical and healthy conditions The
women Of the Latin races, excluding
Frenchwomen, have the best formed
and therefore the prettiest feet, the
professor says.
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sensitivensss of th. pbon.-

Preece has calculated that an audi
Bile sound is produced in telephone
by current of 6 to 1913 amperes, and
Pellat has calculated that a sound is
produced by a difference of potential
between the two stations amounting
to only one two-thousandth volt. These
statements give some idea Of the great
sensitiveness of the modern telephone,
but the sensitiveness Of the human
ear, which perceives the invisible vi
bration Of the telephone diaphragm, is
no less Washington Star.
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SnitefuI.

Patience hear you're engaged to
be married
Patrice- Where in the world did you
hear that?
MY maid told me-"
How did she hear it?'
"a policeman told her,"
More mystery. How came police
man to know it?"
why. the man you're engaged to
told him when the officer was taking
him homer'-Yonkers Statesman.
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The Judges Joke.

Sheriff Guy is responsible for court
of session story. Once when the pres
ent lord justice, Clerk. was conduct
ing jury trial he made small jest.
The audience thought it its duty TO
laugh. "Silencer' shouted the macer
In measured tones. There's nothing
to laugh atI''-Westminster Gazette.
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Mourning In Janan.

The Japanese code of mourning is
very elaborate and complicated. As
followed by the well to do classes 1t
involves the wearing of special gar
ments and abstinence from animal
food. At the death of a husband or
real or adopted parents the custom de-
mands thirteen months Of mourning
apparel and fifty days abstinence
from meat. Grandparents are honored
by $50 days If they are on the paternal
side; If only common. Insignificant,
maternal grandparents, they have to
put up with ninety. The same rule
applies to maternal uncles and aunts.
1t is one way of introducing the orien-
tai contempt for women.
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A Deduction.

Little Willie Withers is the bright
est and best behaved boy in the neigh
borhood"
"Allow me to deduce."
go ahead"
"You don't know little Willie, and
you've recently been chatting with his
mother. Birmingham Age-Herald.
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superior Wisdom.

"Why do you consider women supe-
rior to men in intelligenceT
"a bald headed man buys hair re-
storer by the quart, doesn't heT'
"Er-yes."
"Well, a woman doesn't waste time
on a hair restorer She buys hair."-
Houston Post
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kith and Kin.

every interesting conversation in
here?' asked papa, suddenly thrusting
his head through the conservatory
window, where Ethel, Mr. Tomkins
and little Eva sat very quietly.
Eyes, indeed" said Ethel, ready on
the instant with a reply. "Mr. Tom
kins and / were discussing our kith
and kin, weren't we, Eva?'
"Yeth, you wath," replied little Eva.
"Mr. Tomkins said, May 1 have a
kithY and Ethel said, You kim
London Tit Bits.
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Classified.

The suggestion has been made that
goats meat prices should be taken
away from the provisions list and quot
ed in the butter market.-New York
Tribune.
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Procrastinate.

Teacher-What is the meaning of the
word "procrastinate? Pupil-To put
of. Teacher-Right. Illustrate it in
sentence. Pupil tried to steal ride
on a street car yesterday. but l was
procrastinated.- Blade.
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Not Eussv.

The Missus-No; tell you 1 object
to giving money at the door!
The Tramp-Well, marin, perhaps
you'll hand it out Of the window. I'm
not pertikler.-Ladies' Home Journal.
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SnubbAd.

Hamm-Do you recognize the profess
sion? Ticket Man-Yes, but If you'll
stand out of the line quietly won't
give you away.ACleveland Leader.
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sioni6e.nt Aet;v;t;...

"That young fellow seems to have
made hit at your home"
Eyes; judge be has. Mas investi-
eating his family tree, and pas look
ing up his commercial standing
Washington Herald.
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How are Brown and his suffragette
wife getting along?"
mot at all. She insists on reading
the sporting page before he does
Detroit Free Press.
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A Natural Causa-

DO you norice that most dog stories
are funny ones?"
why not? A dog story ought natu
rally to be something Of a waggish
tale."-New York Journal.