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The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1911-03-28
KIND CAPTAIN KIDD.
His Wiekedness and Buried Treasurs
Both Said to Be Myths.

Eis Wiekecness and Buried Treasure
Both Said to Be Myths.
Doomed TO an infamy undeserved
his name Redeemed with crimes be
never committed and made wildly 70
mantle by tales of treasure which he
did not bury. Captain William Kidd Is
fairly entitled to the sympathy of pos
terity and the apologies of all the bal
lad makers and alleged historians who
have obscured the facts In a cloud of
fable.
Fate has played the strangest tricks
with the memory of this seventeenth
century seafarer. who never cut
plank. who was no more than an anna
teur pirate in an era when this inter
esting profession was in its heyday
and who was hanged at Execution dock
for the excessively unromantic crime
Of cracking the skull of his gunner
with a wooden bucket because, for
sooth. his majesty's officers were un
able to prove their charges of piracy.
As for the riches of Captain Kidd.
the original documents in his case, pre-
served among the state papers of the
public record office In London. relate
with much detail what booty he had
and what he did with it. Alas. they
reveal the futurity Of the searches aft
er the stout sea chest buried above
high water mark The only authen
tic Kidd treasure was dug up and in
yentoried more than 200 years ago. nor
has the slightest clew to any other
been found since then.-"Romances of
Buried Treasure" in Metropolitan Mag
aZfua
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1911-03-28
BEN BUTLER's BLUFF.

Il Was Well Worked and Completely
Fooled General Bingham.
General John A. Bingham was a
member Of the military tribunal that
tried Mrs Surratt and the Lincoln as
sassination conspirators.
After the trial In the subsequent de
bates in the house General b. r But
Ter frequently charged that the com
mission had arrived at an unjust YER
dict and had convicted an innocent
woman. In a memorable debate be
boldly proclaimed that II the contents
Of diary which had been found on
the dead body OF ]. Wilkes Booth were
ever made public 1t would disclose the
fact that It contained the proof of
Mrs. Surratt's innocence. which proof
had been UNANIMOUSLY suppressed by the
commission. When General Bingham
made movement as though he would
repel such an accusation. Butler dra-
matically drew a memorandum book
from bis breast pocket and held 1t
aloft. but did not utter word. Bing-
ham naturally supposed that Butler
had copy of diary such as be had
spoken Of AS matter of fact the
book contained nothing but blank
leaves. General Butler was just blufr-
ing.
The diary was in possession Of Sec
rotary Stanton. but President johnson
finally demanded it 1t was an inter
esting. book, but it threw no light upon
the great conspiracy.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1911-03-28
DOWN THE BACK OF HIS HEAD
A Parting of the Hair From Which
We've Partly Parted.

A Parting of the Hair From Which
We've Partly Parted.
What has become Of our well known
fellow townsman that used to brush
his hair two ways from a line extend
ing from crown to collar and swing
the ends over his ears? He was a
leading citizen. He sat in the next
pew in front at church and always at
tended the shows. He worked in
bank in st. Louis and was mate on
one of the Mississippi river steam
boats. He was a foorwalker in New
York dry goods store and kept saloon
just of the main street Usually he
wore a cluster of diamonds with a lit
tie chain attached in his shirt front.
He was a conductor on the day ex-
press, Mason and an Odd Fellow. He
practiced medicine and worked in the
boot and shoe store. He had been to
California and played cards for mon
ey.
Well, he's still In town, although
greatly changed. 1t was all the bar
ber's fault When he was in his prime
and known to everybody the barber
used to trim hair. Later he began to
cut it. 1t wasn't long before our well
known fellow citizen was nipped by
the shears. his locks curled on the cal
leo pinned around his neck and rolled
to the floor, and there wasn't anything
to part. When the BARRIERS ruthless
shears cut their way to the very scalp
they killed famous pomade customer,
for the man that parted his hair be-
hind always stood Tor sat- for the
things In the bottles which cost 10
cents extra.-St Louis Post Dispatch.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1911-03-28
The Snail and the Screw.

It is no doubt true that nearly all hu
man inventions have been suggested
by natural objects. NJ. Charles Ere
mont of the French School of Mines
points out an interesting example
in the case Of the screw. the fun
damental idea of which, he believes
was suggested to primitive man by the
spiral shell of the edible snail. 1t was
not the shape of the shell that suggest
ed the screw. but the spiral motion
which it is necessary to give to the
body Of the snail In order to with
draw 1t from the shell. This at once
showed that an object OF a screw
shape embedded in solid powerfully
resisted attempts to withdraw it by a
straight pull The hint was enough,
and the screw became one Of the ear
lest of mans inventions. Youths
Companion.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1911-03-28
Milk and Popped Corn.

Because he knew his patient the doc
tor was not at all ruffied when she ex-
claimed:
"But can't, doctor; it is no use talk
ing. just can't hate milk | can't
drink it. ! will take any kind of med
icine you wish me to, but l cannot
swallow sweet milk"
every WE'LL" he said soothlngly.
Then he opened the door. and from the
kitchen there drifted In the smell of
popping corn.
"Who is popping corn7' she asked
your nurse" said the doctor.
Half an hour later he persuaded her
to taste a spoonful of milk
"Why. that's not so bad after ALL"
she said What did you do to TIP
Soaked that popped corn In 1t" said
he "Gives 1t an entirely different
taste. doesn't it? Sweet miIk's bitter
est enemy Is bound to say 1t is drink
able after 1t has soaked up the essence
of popped corn for ten or fifteen min
utes."-New York Sun.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1911-03-28
A cnmnIimsnt For Him.

She was eighteen and very shy, and
she never had been in the city before.
There was no one at Broad street STE
ton to meet her, and she looked about
timidly for a cab. Her mother had
told her to take a hanson. She did
not see any hanson, nor did she
know that the t'cebbies" wore livery
all their own. She did not see police
man either, so she approached youth
who was standing on the corner of
Fifteenth street with her bashful ques-
ton
please" she began, s'are you han
som man,
The youth raised his bend and
twirled his mustache ingratiatingly,
smiling with deprecating assumption
of modesty.
Il am so considered" he replied
Philadelphia Times.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1911-03-28
Dickens and His Wife.

Commenting on the unhappy rela-
lions between Dickens and bis wife,
Goodwin Smith wrote in one of his last
papers: 1T was common case. Dick
ems had married at low level. and his
wife had not risen with him; otherwise
there was no fault on her side. The
matrimonial history of writers Of
works Of Imagination has often been
unhappy. Their imagination turns the
woman into an angel, and then they
flnd that she is woman"
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1911-03-28
Real Accommodating.

Olga, Swedish maid of all work. had
curiousIy defined ideas regarding prop
erty rights. although she had no In
tention Of being at all dishonest On
one occasion when 1t was Olga's after
noon out her mistress said to her
when she was about to depart from
the house:
"Olga. can't find those handsome
silk stockings of mine. Have you seen
themT
Yes. ma'am. have them on.
know You stay home today and do not
need them. You can have a pair of
mine to wear yoost around bone If
you haf none."-Minneapolis Journal
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1911-03-28
Hunnar Ernn, tha Iiu.r

Hunger, appetite. does not start
from the stomach, as all believe and
as you all feel when hungered, but the
call for food really comes from the
fieshes Of the whole body, mostly from
the liver. it seems, for people who have
had to have their stomachs taken en-
tirely from their body still have the
absent old stomach growl and yell
three times day for meals, some
thing like people having finger pains
and pleasures In a hand that has been
cut off for years.-New York Press.
Taking Away From the Subject.
When Frederick Robertson Of Brigh-
ton, the great preacher who had writ
ten much about Tennyson's poems and
for whom the poet had high regard,
first called upon him, Il felt" said
Tennyson. "as II he had come TO pluck
out the heart Of my mystery, SO I talk-
ed to him about nothing but beer"
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Two Is Company.

''Have you ever losed before2" asked
the coy maid
'.Yes," yawned the worldly young
man, .'but-never before chaperon,
two small brothers and a pet bulldog
And then she suggested a trip a. wn
the old road to see the stars, p
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WHAT Did you let the examina-
lions go by again. CarlP'
am tell you. father. On the way to
the college | met an old woman. and
then turned back again.. - y
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1911-03-28
VOL. xxxvII. NO. Is
The Burlington and Bristol Steamboat
and Ferry Company

O"ssfSessy
Schedule In effect $40 q. M, December IS, 1910.
subject to change. Daily except Sundays
LEAVE BRISTOL FOR BURLINGTON.
SO. 800, 500, 1000. ll.0O o. M, $780, lSO, $50,
5.S0s 4.S0, 5-25, p. m.
LEAVE BURLINGTON FOR BRISTOL.
e6o. $50, $50 1880, ll.so, q. m, 100, ZOO 500,
4.Uu, BOO. 5s55 p. m.
SUNDAYS
First boat leaves Bristol at 500 A. m. Last
boat leaves Bristol at $40 p. m.
First boat leaves Burlington at $50 a. m.
Last boat leaves Burlington at $50 p. m.
The $40 p. m. trip from Bristol and the $50
Trip from Burlington on Sundays will be with
drawn when there is ice in the river.
NoFEs-Read Carefully
The boat for the performances In the Audi
forum will leave Bristol at 7.40 D. m return
Ing Will leave Burlington twenty minutes
after the perfor mances No trips will be made
without there are 80 passengers
Inc above trips Will be run on schedule
time, unless prevented by ice-when there is
ice In the.river no trips will be guaranteed
No trips VIII be guaranteed In foegy
weather.
WILLIAM K DORON
secretary. Treasurer and General Manager
Call Independent Telephone, Burlin gton. N.
j., via Keystone; Nos. l69-D or l04-D Bristol,
and MID Burlington.
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CAMDEN AND SUBURBAN RAILWAY CO

Leave MOORESTOWN-from6 COS a. m. to
l2.W q. m. every half hour. after 12O8 a. M,
every hour all night.
Leave CAMDEN FERRY-from SOS a. M,
10 l.ss p. m every half hour After ll.0e p. m.
every hour all night
Leave MERCHANTvILLE every minute :
minutes until 4.27 D. M: then every minutes
until 6H p. M; then every 10 minutes until
il.1 p. m; then as per night car schedule.
Leave FERRY at sos and 5.ss a. M; then
every 10 minutes until 5.5S O. m; then every
minutes until 1858 a.. M; then every 10 min
utes until S5S p. M; then every minutes un-
til7.6S p. M; then every 10 minutes until 1908
midnight; then every hour as per night car
schedule.
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CLUB CARS
Leave MOORESrOWN-6.08 7so. 3d. sos
8.86s sos, sSs M, 3.Ss, 40s, 4SS sos 68S 60s
6.vS p. m.
Leave CAMDEN FERRY-8zo 100, 7.3O, 500.
$780, 900 q. M, $780, $50. 400, 4.S0. 6OO 49, 500
p. m.
On SATURDAYS additional Club Cars leave
Ferry at LOO. l.30. ECO, 230 p. m, leave Moores-
town at lbs, 0s, 2.38. S8s p. m.
Connect with Mount Holly cars at stanwick
avenue.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-08-31
RECALL OF JUDGE COKE.

VIC have referred heretofore to tho
preliminary steps that have been taken
in Judge Coke s district in Oregon to
get up n petition TO recall him because
of ruling which he made in the trial
of Roy MeCallen, charged with mur-
der. In that connection we stated that
we did not consider the proposition
a serious one. In this we followed the
opinion Of the Portland Oregonian,
which has been keeping tab on this
proposition, and which strongly op-
posed the idea of recalling the Judge
by reason of his ruling. In that same
paper we now find confirmation Of
the idea that the proposition is not a
serious one. and will probably result
in nothing;
The fact that tho Coke recall move
mcnt lauSuishes Tor lack OF funds car
rics with IL the condemnation OF the
system as Il Is now applied. When re-
call - mere question OF money, any
gang OF "sorchcads' with enough money
can hire signature -Scttcrs 80 recall the
most Efficient public official. The only
possible excuse for the recall is that II
should be spontaneous and that each
SlNUST %Nonig DC Suincicnty interested to
go 10 some public office and sign the
pctition-not wait 10 have II showed into
his hand with sign here" from a
scents -a-namc getter.
1t appears. therefore. that the re.
call movement as applied 10 Judge
Coke is got up by somebody who wants
90 carry personal spite and ''sore-
hcadncss' into the case The very
methods employed in furtherance of
this languishing recall of Judge Coke,
as described IN the Oregonian, are
enough TO condemn the whole move
ment; and we do not doubt but that
II will be condemned by the people Of
Oregon generally. and by the people of
Judge Cokc's district especially.
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administrative forces OF those roads are
10 be Mc1icans, may reasonably be
open TO doubt.
Evidently. also, the Maderist pro
gramme contcmplates opposition to the
influence OF the United States in the
Central American Republics. The United
States is now negotiatiug financial and
economic treaties with Honduras and
Nicaragua, as VIC have heretofore set
forth. The declaration in tho Maderist
platform for an extension of Mexico s
friendly relations with foreign coun.
tries, Especially those of Latin
America coupled with the promise
to "direct prudently the policy of the
Government toward bringing about a
union of the Central American Repub-
lics' all that looks very much liko a
declaration Of defiance of the United
States, and an effort TO thwart the ac.
tivities of this country in those re-
publics.
II has been well understood from the
first that considerable part of the
prejudice against former President Diaz
Of Mexico was because OF his friendh-
ness with American investors, and
his liberal concessions to them. This
has been denied from time 10 time in
various Mexican quarters, but there.
can be no mistake about the anti
American drift and bias Of this Ma
derist National Convention Its dec
laration in effect is clear defiance
Of the United States, and notice that
Mexico will resent and resist any fur
thor "encroachments' from the great
Republic of thc North or from its peo-
pie
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ONE ON BORAH.

1t often happens that man, in his
enthusiasm, fervor, and dcvotedness TO
point he has in view, lays himself
open to attack or a gibe from quite a
different direction from that in which
he might expect attack. Thus Senator
Borah of Idaho, who is one Of the most
promising men in the Senate, and whom
We have taken occasion often TO ap-
prove and support. gave a little talk
recently, 1T appears, on abstemiousncss
from liquor, dwelling upon his own
habit and example in that respect
Commcndablc as his habit is in this,
and as the drift of his talk was, he
laid himself open to this little thrust
which is deftly and cleanly admins
tered by the Indianapolis Star:
Senator Borah who has always been
total abstinence man. says that when
ne began bis law practice fellow
lawyer, also beginner assured him that
II he was not a good fellow" who
would take a drink once In a while with
the boys. he would never get any busi
ness Ten years later says Senator
Borah. Il had become the attorney for
the principal liquor dealers In the State
and my young lawyer friend had be-
come an absolute physical wreck from
dissipation and had moved away to try
TO earn a living elsewhere" Moral: Be
a tetotallcr and you Will get tho
whisky practice \ nice question in
ethics here for debating societies con-
sIdcring the question, What Is Sue
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MEXICAN HOSTILITY.

The platform adopted by tho Ma
derist National Convention in Mexico
Is pointedly directed against hmeri-
cans and exploitation from tho United
states II declares in favor of com.
batting monopolics and special privi-
legcs; which. in general way, is well
enough; but when We consider that the
monopolies and special privileges
spoken Of are the concessions granted
10 Americans. these causing all the
complaint, and these being the object
aimed AZ by this Illumination. the
snti.American bias Of the declaration
is manifest. Emphasizing this same
view Is the declaration in favor OF the
MeSicani1iug Of the personnel OF the
National railways, this 10 bc fastened
Whether Americans will bc ready to
supply money for railway building in
Mexico, whether the roads arc nation.
allied or otherwise, on a proposition
that the personnel Of the operating and
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-08-31
SHOOTS SOUND RULE.

Elder Reed Smoot sometimes Apos-
tie and sometimes Apostle-Scnator, but
always ecclesiastical servitor) ad-
dressed the Saints in the Provo tabor
nacle on Sunday last: and he took oc-
casion 10 express a very sound senti-
mcnt embracing the duty of good citi-
zenship. Referring 10 tho prohibition
law. and 10 the fact that the majority
in Provo had voted for prohibition. FL
der Smoot said he hoped that prohibi-
tion would he strictly enforced. ''and
that no one who knew of a violation Of
the law would hesitate 10 complain
against the lawbrcakers - And he
stated the proper aim in the matter
to be ''In this way prohibition would
be a Success
We find this report in tho Provo
Herald Of Tuesday, and. in the language
of the tabernacle, we "feel to sustain
it, That is the broad basis of sound
citizenship Every one, especially
every citizen in a republican govern.
ment. should feel it his duty. aud a
task obligatory upon him, to see that
the laws are enforced. It is well
enough in despotic government for
the people TO leave the enforcement OF
the laws TO the agencies of dcspotism
and to the officials provided by the
despot for that purpose. But, in
free country, in popular government,
every citizen is imbued with the right
and charged with the duty of seeing
that the laws are duly enforced Tn.
less every citizen does this, there is
laxity. license. and the laws fall into
contempt.
The rule SO clearly and soundly set
forth by Elder Smoot in his address
to the Saints in Provo, is one that
should not stop with the prohibition
law; it is equally binding as to all
the laws. Applying the matter specifi-
cally as we desire to do, it is the duty
of Elder Smoot, and of every other
good Saint, To make like complaint
TO proper authorities of any case of
or polygamus living (known
to the law as unlawful cohabitation)
that he Is aware Of, either by we'll
founded repute or by personal know
ledge. We can hardly say that we
hope that Elder Smoot and Others of
the Saints will conform to this duty
Of citizenship so universally neglected
by them in the case Of polygamy and
polygamous living; but we can say
that it is clearly their duty to do it,
and that in so far as they fail in this
matter. they fail in good citizenship.
Elder Smoot has laid down the prop
or rule alike of law, of conscience, and
Of civic obligation. We call upon him
and others of the SANITY fold who are
aware of the infractions of the law
than in tho matter of pro-
hibitlon to apply the same rule there
TO. and especially to cases violative
of the laws against polygamy and po-
lygamous living known in the law
as unlawful cohabitatiou) that he set
forth in his tabernacle address on Sun
day at Provo with respect to the pro-
hibitory law.
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when he refers to Mr.. Taft s denuncia.
tion Of the wool schedule as inde
fensible. and his refusal to approve the
effort to correct it and make it dc.
fensible. The Inconsistency of Mr..
Taft in this has been evident ever
since his acquiescence in the passage
of the bunko tariff law of 1909; and il
is entirely appropriate for Speaker
Clark to call him to account for this
weakness and contradiction of position
on tariff schedule X, which deals with
Mnnl
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That trickery with the voting ma.
chine Is possible has been suspected
here ever since the election of 1905. and
here Is current item giving way for
doing Il: Even the voting machine.
It appears, can be beaten hy the dew
iiish ingenuity Of the politician. They
have found in Chicago that a voter
can be prevented from casting a ballot
for given candidate by putting rub
beF band on the key opposite his
name
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All tho old-timcrs in the West win
regret the passage of the Bear So.
ciety. tho 'Forty-nincrs, the "West-
crn Association of California Pic.
neers.' Not enough Of them remain
TO keep up their society, since they
are 80 widely scattered and now so
few But they were glorious com.
pany in their prime.
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dom one), the first surgical operation
ever performed on him. He did not,
however, behave very gallantly on the
occasion, for the surgeon who officiated
was obliged to have him pinioned down
on the floor before he could extract it.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-08-31

Secretary Fisher hasteus TO an
uouncc- after but few days in Alaska.
his adherence to the leasing idea for
coal lands there. IL is 10 be hoped
that he has been able to ind sufficient
altruistic philanthrophy with the
requisite capital. to make leases with,
and is able to draw fraud.tight leases
that VIII not require more govern.
mental supervision than tho coal is
worth
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crp man

The prisoner in an Indiana Jail who
gave his food 10 his wife TO keep her
from starving is made of heroic stuff.
And, as he was being held as n witness,
his case directs attention once more TO
the bard lot of a man held in Jail as
witness. compared with that of q
man held in Jail for crime.
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The great Napoleon was extremely
nervous whenever anything affected
him personally, an instance OF which is
given IN letter recently sold with
other autographs in London. n was
written by his surgeon at 81 Helena.
who says IN II; "He (NapoIeon) has
lost one Of his teeth lately "a wis
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-08-31
Yellowstone Park Excursion

Via Oregon Short Line, stage and hotel
route. leaving Salt Lake Saturday, Sep.
tembcr g Only Si5.25 for complete
five days tour, including all rail, stage
and hotel expenses. Make early reser-
vatioDs. City Ticket Office. Hotel
Utah Proportionately low rates from
Ogden and other points.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-08-31

Missouri has s3.5O0,OOo to build
new state capitol with; and the big
question with the politicians is how
much Of this to allow to be actually
spent on construction before calling
for "more mud
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-08-31

Army surgeons urge greater facility
in the discharge of disabled men; and
they should be needed But won Z this.
with the heavy list Of dcserters, and
the difficulty of getting new recruits,
depletc the army!