The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1911-02-28


bowls on the bowling green at the
lower end of Manhattan Island and
owned bowerie in what is now the
middle of New York city That was
200 years ago, and two centuries is
quite enough to produce a gentleman
out of almost any human material
Ned still owned enough of the farm
to make him very rich and was a gen
tleman through and through. But dur
ing the first years of the twentieth
century he found himself in a swim
principally occupied by those whose
fortunes were as much larger than his
as their ownership had been shorter
Ned was sportsman He. had hunt
ed in every land where there was
game, and travel had made him cos
mopolitan. Next to hunting his favor
lite sport was yachting. One summer
as soon as the season opened. be put
his yacht in commission and made uI
a party OF men and women for cruise
Now. it so happened that when the
list of those who had accepted was
complete nearly all the guests turned
out to be of the muddy branch oil
the social stream. In other words
they were Of the commercial aristoc
racy. II Ned had had wife to ''blut
pencil'' his lists she might have insist
ed on making this one over, but ht
was democratic and used to associate
especially when hunting or travelling
with any one he happened TO fall in
with Therefore be failed to notice
that his party was made up principal
ly of snobs.
There was one guest. German
whom Ned had picked up somewhere
In the west In fact, be had just ar
rived from the land Of cattle and wore
costume not much better than that
of a cowpuncher. A man is always
at a disadvantage as foreigner. and
Carl Schmitt would have received the
cold shoulder from Van Amsterda III s
guests on this account if on no other
Besides, so fresh an Importation was
he that be could speak no great
amount of English Ned lent him a
yachting suit, and in this he looked as
refined as any of the party. but this
did not help him with them. AS in
days of yore people were used to in.
quiring as to ones pedigree, so did
these ignore any one who was not
known to possess a big income and
who had not been permitted TO buy a
ticket of admission into the gilded cir
Gle.
There was one young lady in the par
ty. Miss Ten Brock. poor, but respecta.
BILE, who was considered to have re-
ceived her invitation from being dis
tant connection of the host Every
one felt obliged to treat her civilly on
account of this relationship, but nc
one wished to take the trouble to dc
SO. 1t happened that Miss Ten Brock
was preparing herself to go to Dresden
to study music and was giving part
OF her time to making herself prof
Gent in the German language. Great
relief was experienced by the guests
when Miss Ten Brock availed herself
Of Mr.. Schmitt's presence to practice
conversing In German. Since the two
occupied each others time and atten.
ton. there was no necessity for any
Of the party to expend any effort on
either of them.
Van Amsterdam was much disgrun-
tied at the treatment of his German
friend. In speaking to his guests OF
Schmitt he said:
II met him out in the wilderness and
asked him to go with me on a hunt
for grizzlies | had killed all sorts OF
game, including bear. but never a griz.
ely, and was quite anxious tc shoot
one. They are the worst game to tao
kle we have in our country. and that's
what makes hunting them fascinating.
Schmitt agreed to go with me. and
it was lucky he did. We found the
grizzly. and poured lead into him.
But my bullets had no more effect
than hailstones. l had wasted all the
ammunition in my gun and had no
time to put in any more. for the bear
was on me. Schmitt sprang at him
with his knife and saved me-"
That was very brave, Ned said
one Of the party, land | don't wonder
you feel under obligations to do some
thing for the fellow But. really,
wouldn't it have been better for you
to write him check for thousand or
so-you could afford it-than to put
him in with people with whom he
can't assimilate?"
Ned looked at the speaker through
a pair of honest eyes that bespake in
dignant disagreement, but he was too
much of gentleman to reprove a
guest on his own yacht so without a
word he arose and walked away.
The incident was repeated among
the party, but 1t did not improve Mr..
Schmitt's position with them jot
What had they to do with the repay
ment of their hosts obligations? Be-
cause an ordinary fellow-a German at
that-who had probably come over In
the steerage had helped Ned out Of a
scrape was that any reason why he
should inflict the man on them7
Meanwhile Mr.. Schmitt and Miss
Ten Brock chatted in the German Ian
guage. the latter deriving much bene-
tit therefrom. She discovered that
whatever station be might have occu-
pied in his own country he was very
intelligent But education in Germany
is breathed in with the air. Miss Ten
Rrnnk fold aonas If the Marty that