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The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1911-04-25
WORKED TOO HARD.
Why David Graham Phillips Once Lost
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Why David Graham Phillips Once Lost
a Situation.
People who thought that the late
David Graham Phillips had a rapid,
fluent and even at times overhasty
pen were very far from the truth,
says a writer In the Bookman. Mr..
Phillips himself admitted freely that
from first to last he always found lit
erary composition a labor-a labor of
love that he could not have shirked
If he would. but none the less labor.
A story which he sometimes told at
his own expense illustrates this. 1t
was shortly after his graduation from
Princeton that he sought work as
reporter and finally by offering his
services for nothing obtained chance
to show what he could do on the lead
ing daily In a western city.
The weather was cold and the tenn
perature Of the office somewhere be-
low go degrees. yet hour after hour
Mr.. Phillips would sit at his desk with
the moisture rolling from his brow In
the anguish Of trying to make Htera-
ture from such material as "Yester
day afternoon John Jones fell of a
stepladder and dislocated his Shout
der"
One day-it was the tenth Of Mr..
Phillips services-the presiding genius
Of the paper happened to pass through
the city room and stood for some min
utes watching. him.
'sWho is that young manr he pres
emily asked the city editor.
The latter explained
"Get rid of himr' came the curt
edict.
But" expostulated the city editor.
I'VE are getting him for nothing"
IT don't care.' rejoined the higher
power. 81 don't care If he is paying
for the privilege. Get rid Of him at
once. can't bear to see any human
being work so hard"
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1911-04-25
TEcUMsEH,s MISSING BUST.
The Reason II Was Taken From lite
Niche In the Capitol.

The Reason IL Was Taken From lts
Niche In the Capitol.
Where is the bust of Tecumseh
that used to be in niche on the SEN
ate side Of the capitolT' Richard Liv-
ingston, a student of American his
tory, asked recently.
II know that years ago there was q
fine bronze bust OF an Indian, and the
name Tecumseh was on the pedestal,
and as Tecumseh was about the most
famous Indian chief Of our school his
tory books every American boy took
more interest In surveying his .fea-
lures than In looking over the faces Of
eminent white men In the big build
ing. / walked all over the building
and saw Indians enough In paintings
and statuary, also some i've ones. but
no Tecumseh. Then hunted up my
congressman. and he went through a
guidebook-no use. Then we ques-
toned the guides. They had not
heard of Tecumseh bust, and most
of them asked. What state was the
senator from7'
II was about to give 1t up. Then
somber sort Of chap with silk hat
and red flower in his buttonhole re-
neved my anxiety. He explained
what had not thought Of before. and
that was the fact that Tecumseh was
killed in battle wearing the Uniform
Of British general. He died fight
ing the American flag. Why should
he be honored with bust in the cap
itol7
"And then was told that the Te-
curnseh bust really had been in the
capitol for many years until one day
wise senator. familiar with the history
Of his country, made protest. That
sent the Tecumseh bust to the cellar
or to some museum here in town.
Washington Post.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1911-04-25
How He
Came Home
The Beginning and the End
Of His Sin
By CLARIssA MACKIE
Copyright by American Press Asso-
citation. 1911

The street lay in shadow, for heavy
clouds obscured the young moon. A
clock in the distance struck 2, and
down at the corner, where a broad
avenue intersected the quiet street,
policeman swung on his heels and
vanished down the lighted way.
Out of the darkness OF the street
there was evolved the shadow of
man that became substance when he
had slipped into dark areaway, skill
fully forced the door and entered
little hall. He locked the door behind
him and turned on the faantest glim-
mer of light from his pocket lamp.
With nod Of satisfaction he found
the stairs that led up to the first door.
He slipped black mask over his face
and mounted the steps. Under his
feet ran the soft, thick carpet of
long hall. He knew this type of
house-there should be a door front
and back leading to the street and
yard respectively-an calculated his
getaways.
The narrow beam Of his lamp found
the door of the dining room, and he
entered, closing it noiselessly behind
him. The sideboard showed an array
Of rather old fashioned silver. He
looked at it critically. weighing some
Of the pieces in his hand, all the time
conscious that there was certain
familiarity in their outlines. Their
recognition came as blow in the
face.
This was his mothers silverl What
was it doing here? What had he
done?
The stairs creaked ominously, and
he shut off the light and slipped into
the hall that he might be close to the
rear door.
He could hear the soft rustic of a
woman's gown and the light tread Of
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1911-04-25

There appears to be no limit to sci
entific curiosity, especially In Ger
many. Not long ago a scientist of
Leipzig. wishing to ascertain whether
fish are warmer than the water they
live in, stuck a needle connected With
thermoelectric circuit into a living
fish in an aquarium. The needle formed
one element of the circuit. while the
other element was immersed in the
same water that contained the fish
The latter was not seriously injured by
the needle and quickly became indif-
ferent to it. Then as the fish swan
about, carrying the needle. the ingen-
ious savant closed the circuit and kept
watch of the galvanometer. 1t show
ed no detection whatever. from which
he concluded that the fish and the
water were precisely equal In tempera-
ture. for had either been warmer than
the other current would have been
generated in the circuit-Chicago Rec
ord-Herald.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1911-04-25
How ridiculous!"
MISSED THE KANGAROO.
The Hunter Was After Meat, but GOT
Instead n Sfona.

The Hunter Was After Meat, but Col
Instead Stone.
In 1889 a hunter la New South
Wales took fancy for some kangaroo
meat. so he made a trip through the
mulga with no companion but his gun.
He had no need of either guides or
dogs, as he was an experienced bush
man.
The first kangaroo sighted was
wounded by him, but not badly
enough to disable It. Before he could
get in another shot it made off through
the salt bush at terrific pace, but
leaving plain trail In drops of blood.
SO the hunter followed as fast as be
could.
The trail gradually grew fainter as
the wounded animal bled less freely
and its pursuer was often obliged to
stoop and examine the ground closely
for the telltale signs. After several
hundred yards had been covered with
out seeing any more crimson spots the
hunter began to think his quarry ha6
escaped, when he saw a single heek
Of red before him.
As he bent to look for more flecks
the red changed to an iridescent pale
green, and he say it was a gem stone
that lay before him. The kangaroo
was not bagged. but the White Cliffs
opal fields were discovered.-New York
Press.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1911-04-25
Matching
For a Dog
h Seemed the Only Way to
Determine Its Ownership
By F. A. Mitchell
Copyright by American Press Assoc
citation, 1911.

A boy of seven on being told to
write story about dog wrote it as
follows:
love shep, and shep loves me.
That was all there was of the COM
position.
Shep was collie dog. and very in
telligent one. The only other case l
have ever known Of equal love be-
tween human being and brute was
between my pointer Rex and myself
l used Rex for hunting woodcock
How l did love that dog, and how he
did love me, Why in the world he
couldn't speak to me l don't know.
He could talk with his eyes. though
not with his tongue. Many con-
versation have had with him,
speaking with my voice. he with his
eyes.
Rex was stolen from me, and didn't
see him again for several years.
One October l was hunting in an
other field had possessed other dogs
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1911-04-25
Tho Scream Of Ennui.

A dog bowls when he is lonely, cat
wauls (the word must be right, for 1t
comes from "caterwaup) because Of
some combative or amative impulse,
but a parrot screams through sheer
boredom. sometimes think it is the
only creature that shares with US that
secondary curse which followed our
election from Eden-ennui. And l
know that If Noah fed his animals
well and If they had plenty of room
for exercise the only creatures who
rebelled vocaIly against the dire tedi-
um of voyage and the creatures who
made the most noise. bar none. were
the two little papingoes, as our fore
fathers used to call them.-Atlantic,
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1911-04-25
The Furtive Look.

Here is something worth while for
bachelors to consider.
A Boston woman says she can detect
a bachelor as far as she can see him.
She always knows bachelor by his
furtive look. The furtive look, she ex-
plains, is something akin to that of a
hunted animal. always on the watch
for snares and pitfalls. OF course this
may apply only to Boston bachelors,
but 1t would be well for ali other sin
gle unfortunates to take good look
at themselves In the mirror and find
that telltale look. If they do there is
an easy way to efface it.-Cleveland
Plain Dealer.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1911-04-25
The suII Of PhaIarl..

Perillus of Athens is said by the an
Gent authorities to have invented for
Phalaris. tyrant Of Agrigentum. B. G.
$40, brazen bull which opened on
the side to admit victims who were to
be roasted to death by the FIRE which
was built underneath. The dying
groans of the sufferers closely resem-
bled the roaring Of maddened bull;
hence the name that was given to the
invention. 1t is refreshing to know
that later on the populace rose against
Phalaris and burned the tyrant In the
bull that he had made to be the cause
Of death to so many others.-New YORK
Arnoysff7nn
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1911-04-25
Badly Handicapped.

"How did your show go on the road?"
bad We were fearfuIly handicap
ped by the plays we selected"
"Eh? Why. | thought the dramas In
your repertory were the finest you
could secure"
-'Yes; but we couldn't play EN-
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1911-04-25
A Roundabovt niv.r.

The Kentucky river at jackson is a
freak. 1t runs for Ave miles or more
to advance sixty feet The circuit Of
the water forms what is known as the
panhandle" Standing on the back
bone you can Zip stone into the river
on the north side and one into the river
on the south side. Eve miles below.
You are on the north side of the river
and on the south side OF the river and
going up the river and down the river
at the same time. - Winchester News.
Temporary Deafness.
Temporary deafness may often be
cured by mustard poultics applied to
the nape of the neck
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1911-04-25
The Harrington and Bristol Steamboat
and Ferry Company

Schedule In effect g. 40 a. M, March 18th. 1911
subject to change. Daily except Saturdays
and Sundays.
LEAVE BRISTOL FOR BURLINGTON.
no 500 800 1000. l04O Ills g. M, 3d. I3O, $50.
Sou' 4.SO, $50, $40, p. m.
LEAVE BURLINGTON FOR BRISTOL.
e50, $50, $50, 1920, LOO IL 80 g. m LOO ZOO 200,
4.O0s 6.O0, $50, $50, p. m.
SATURDAYS
Leave Bristol 840 800. 900, lc 100, l040 IL l5 a. M
lzg lS0 20, 300. $40. 40, 500, $40, $40, 720,
LOO DO, 100, zoo. 240, $40, 400, 44O, $40,
o.5e. $50, 7S0, p m.
SUNDAYS
Leave Bristol co. 800, 1000, 1910, Ills, q. m.
m. Leave Burlington $50, ESQ., 1910. lido, llSO,
g. m. Leo, zoo. 240. 80 400 4.40, $50, $50, $780,
7.30, p. m.
NOTES-Read Carefully
May S0th, 1911, the 10 O'Clock trip from Bris-
Bristol at $40 q m.
On Decoration Day the trips will be the same
~ Saturday time table,
The boat for the performances in the Audi
forum Will leave Bristol at 7.49 p. m /, return
Ing viii leave Burlington twenty minutes
after the perfor mances. No trips will be made
without there are so passengers
No trips VIII be guaranteed in foggy
weather.
WILLIAM DORON
Secretary, Treasurer and General Manager
Call independent Telephone, Burlington, N.
j., via Keystone; Nos. l69-D or lO4-D BristoI
and 2b7-D Burlington.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1911-04-25

"Are you a friend of the groom's
family?'' asked the usher at the
church wedding.
IT think not" replied the lady adj
dressed, "I'm the mother Of the
BRIDE onkers Statesman
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1911-04-25
Slipper Day In Holland.

There Is a curious festival called
Slipper day celebrated In Holland.
Slipper day in the Netherlands is the
one day in the year In which the Dutch
woman claims superiority over her
husband On that day she rules him
to her hearts content, and he gener-
ally obeys good humoredly enough
that is, unless she is one of those la
dies not unknown In Holland or In any
other country who aspire to compIete
rule over their unhappy partners
throughout the year.
Not a Bit Accommodating.
"Meanest folks ever saw in the
city" growled the man from the way
back district "Why, when you find q
Teller goin' right your way with one O
them big cars he won't give you a lift
without chargin' you nickel for it,
Exchange
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1911-04-25
CAKDEN AND SUBURBAN RAILWAY CO,

Leave MOORESTOWN-from sos g. m. to
lz0S a. m. every half hour, after 1208 q. M,
every hour all night.
Leave CAMDEN FERRY-from sos a. M,
to LBS p. m every half hour. After ll.O8 p. m.
every hour all night.
Leave MERCHANTvILLE every minute
nom 6-82 Q. M. until 9.27 O.. M; then every 10
minutes until AZ p. M; then every minutes
until S.Z7 p. M; then every 10 minutes until
li.47 p. M; then as per night car schedule.
Leave FERRY at SOB and 63S a. M; then
every 10 minutes until 6.58 O.. M; then every
minutes until 658 y. M; then every 10 min
utes until 1858 p. m; then every minutes un-
TIL 7.58 p. M; then every 10 minutes until l2O6
midnight; then every hour as per night car
schedule.
CLUB CARS
Leave MOORESTOWN-606 7.8O, Z IS, sos,
s,SS, Sos s.SS a. M. sSS 40S, Ss, Sos 5.Ss sos.
SIS p. m.
Leave CAMDEN FERRY-610, 100, 7.SO, 500.
$50, eco g. M 300. $50, 400, 40. 500, $50, 500,
p. m.
On SATU RDAY vs. additional Club Cars leave
Ferry at LOO l.30. 200, 230 .. M, leave Moores-
town at LBS, 2 o., 2.3S. 3.SS p. m.
Connect with Mount Holly cars at stanwick
avenue.
The Mena weekly star., 1911-04-13
HUMAN MACHINE PAYS WELL.
II Gives Big Profit on the Expense
OF Keeping Il In.

Prof. Jules Amra has submitted
to the Academy of Medicine in
Paris the results Of his study of the
man machine. He proceeded upon
the principle that a man who eats
literally ought to recuperate in
weight every twenty-four hours.
II his weight lessons he works TO
excess, if his weight increases he
has not expended the maximum
effort. Amar found that the human
machine gives a profit of 25 to IS
per cent on the expenditure: but
that the best artificial machine re-
turns only IA per cent.
IL would seem from these exper-
lments that man is indeed superior
TO all meehanisms; with the very
slight exception that he always
wastes energy during the first five
minutes OF work before regaining
his equilibrium.
1t would seem that Mondays hui
man labor is the most inferior and
tuesdays the most superior. ow-
ing to the curious action of Sunday
as q rest day; the Monday lassitudc
of the French workingman is pro-
verbal. And it is found that the
The Mena weekly star., 1911-04-13
Violence and Shedding OF Blood.

In all communities there are from
time to time deplorable homicides.
In two tragedies within f2 hours
man was shot to death in Little
Rock and another in Argenta. Feel
ing over the election in Argenta,
bad blood and the ready pistol seem
to have been responsible for the
killing of these two men and the
wounding of others.
There are reasons for such trag-
edies peculiar to each separate
case. But wider and deeper than
any special reasons is the habit Of
joining issues between man and
man with physical strength or guns
or knives, that elemental impulse
to appeal to actual conflict that has
come down in us even from those
early days when brute strength
ruled the world; and that still turks
in mankind. The records of the
criminal courts show that this
thing of settling matters by vio-
lence and by blood breaks out on
occasions among men Of good fam
lily and position, men of education
and good circumstances. For such
men have been taking the lives of
fellow-men all these years, over
business matters or family matters
or matters Of politics.
The laws and the courts must do
what they can in the breaking up
of unlawful pistol carrying and the
inflietion of punishment where pun
ishment is deserved. But blood will
not cease to be shed and commu-
mites will not cease to see terrible
tragedies until the public is ruled
with an iron hand by conviction
that troubles between man and
man must be settled by laws and
courts and that human rights are
not TO be adjudicated by pistol du-
els. When the whole body of So
ciety says that orderly processes
shall not give way for deadly weap-
ons men will not reach for the
knife or the pistol.
A disease that afflicts mankind is
not TO be mastered merely by medi-
cal attention to the persons that
have fallen i'll. II is to be mastered
by remedying the conditions that
continually cause II. So is society
to be saved from fights and homi-
cides not merely by the courts
dealing with this and that defend
ant, but by a regeneration, a cast
ing out of devils, the bad spirits of
temper and violence, whose terri
Bile work keeps the criminal courts
busy with their grind; and tears
jagged holes in the very fabric of
our Observation-Disclosures Gazette.
The Mena weekly star., 1911-04-13
May Save Your Cattle.
To the Editor of The Star.
Dear Sir.-If Won will allow

To the Editor OF Inc star.
Dear Sir:--If you will allow me
space in your paper | will give a
remedy for a sickness in cattle that
may save some poor widows COW
or some poor family that is not
able to buy again. 1t is coming
spring, the time of year when you
may notice your COW or calf act
ing so weak that you can hardly get
them over rail. They seem to be
crazy and will run at chickens, etc.
Don't kill them for mad unless you
know they have been bitten. Just
throw rope on them and pull
their tongues out and with a sharp
knife scrape and shave the tongue
and you will find worms with their
brown heads sticking up in the an
imal's tongue. Shave them off and
rub a handful of salt on them.
That is all that is necessary to do
for them. | have never known it
to fail. A COW will almost go dry
in three days when sick with these
worms. Try this remedy and you
will not regret it.
Mrs. N. f. Townsend.
Quito, Ark, April 4.
The Mena weekly star., 1911-04-13
LONG CONTEST ENDED RIGHT


The peoples business is being
better looked after than in years
past.
In Polk county, for example, up
until few months ago, the people
received not a cent for the use of
the money that was in the hands of
the collector and treasurer. There
were times when many thousands
Of dollars were ON hand, and at 9TH
en- times more than any business
man could eomplacently see lying
idle-earning no interest. When
there was but one bank in the coun-
ty, that money was deposited with
II for safe-keeping. 1t furnished a
nice capital on which to do bust
ness-was great lift to the bank
but the people got no benefit.
When second bank began doing
business, and a third this rich bit
Of pie" became source of more
or less contention. Each one want
ed It, and, generally speaking, want
ed it badly.
Then politics began to take on a
new interest in Polk county. When
a man came out for the office Of
collector or treasurer, it was a sure
thing that before he got warmed up
N the race he was known, on the
inside at least. as a friend to one
bank or the other. There generally
were two real and one or more bo-
gus candidates in the field before
the end of the race. The two banks
that did not have the pie usually
united on one man against the in
stltution that did, and then as a
part Of the game of politics, extra
men were often put in the race to
draw votes from the "other fell
low"
IhesS campaigns were hot, all
right.
This condition, and the various
phases that We're brought into it at
The succeeding campaigns, started
muss. of course. The people soon
began to find out that there was
something of value at stake, and
that they We're the ones that were
getting nothing out Of it. They be-
gan to realize that the plum that
about which all the serapping was
taking place was their money. or
who should get the use of it with
out paying anything to the real
owners. The condition might have
existed for years. and few would
have given it a thought, but the
side that was tout" began to tell
how much that plum was worth
and the fact thai both sides spent
more or less energy in trying 10 get
The Mena weekly star., 1911-04-13
Eczema Cure a Beauty Wash.

Although d. D. ID. Prescrip-
ton has been recognized for years
as the one remedy for Eczema,
Psoriasis, and all other forms of
skin diseases, IT is now known
that there is no other wash, even
those used by the beauty special
lists, that can comrare with this
mild liquid for cleansing the Skin
of pimples, blackheads, rash, and
all similar skin affections.
For this reason alone. a bottle
of d. D. D. should be kept OF
hand in every household. A tria
z5c bottle will show you til
merits of this great remedy as a
complexion wash.
ID. d. ID. seems TO remove tn,
cause. whatever the trouble may
be, cleansing the skin, leaving i
as soft, as smooth, aud as clear
as that of a healthy child.
Get a 25c bottle today and keep
it in the house.
Davis Drug Co.
The Mena weekly star., 1911-04-13

bers Of dogs still are at large, any
one OF which may have been Bit
ten by the dog known to have been
afflicted with rabies, or by some
one of his many victims.
Just as an indication Of how seri-
Gus this mad dog" question is this
year in Kansas City every dog has
been ordered muzzled or confined
for ninety days on pain of being
killed on sight.
In New Jersey condition even
worse seems TO prevail, as indicat-
ed by the following:
Rabies has become so widely
epidemic in northern New Jersey
that a quarantine of dogs through
out the state for a whole year is
the only way in which the disease
can be stamped out, according to
Or. w. w. Curry, state veterinary
surgeon of Hackensack. He advises
that every dog be kept in close
confinement for year, prevent
their presence on the streets, even
on a leash, and in that way the
dread disease is bound to spend it
self"
With such conditions existing
over the country, and two Mena
citizens undergoing the severe Pas
tour treatment to save them from
the horrible death from hydropho-
bia, dogs are likely to become less
popular in this vicinity.