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The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1913-08-05
LIVING AND THE DEAD
BY JOHN M'FEE.

AS he bolted from the ferry and
flung himself into the cab, Lieutenant
Barker felt all the exhilaration of
heroism. He was just home from the,
Philippines and his mind was burden
ed with message from a dead COM
rade to his wife-and that wife Bark
er's old and lost sweetheart
His telegram had prepared the way
and he was admitted at once Mrs.
Moffat came to him almost as soon as
he reached the parlor She held out
her hand and threw back her head in
the manner SO characteristic of her
girlhood days that the young officer
was startled at the small change time
had made with her.
81 am very glad to see you." she
said simply. "And l am only sorry
that your visit must be so brief. Must
it be so7"
EYES," he replied. 'T must go to
Washington at once TOTO report. 1
am sorry, too, because l would like
TOTO renew old acquaintance. came
here first, even before 1 fulfilled my
duty to the government because 1
was charged with message from my
friend-your husband last message
given on his deathbed"
YES" was all she said, and her
expression was so imperturbable that
the officer paused and glanced at her
keenly.
The lieutenant took a packet Of pa
pers from his breast pocket
George asked me to give these pa
pers to you," he said, and as his
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS., l undertook
the commission. was with him when
he died and-you know-this COM
radeship is very close tie." He end
ed weakly and wiped his face
is there nothing else?" she asked.
did he leave no verbal messenger"
Barker went white to his fnger-tips.
There was something else, but how
could he tell this splendid woman,
whom he loved better-aye, a thou
sand times better-than the man who
had married her, that her husband
died with the name of another woman
on his lips? And she had asked him
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for the burning words which should
have come from her dying husbands
lips, but which had welled UP for an
other woman.
"a lie is always bad" he said to
himself, but this time the truth is
! impossible. / cannot will not
hurt both the living and the dead
the living woman whom I love and
the dead man who was my friend"
/ Mrs. Moffat-Ethel," he said,
gravely, taking her hand in his, your
name was last on Georges lips. He
said: Tell her, Phil, that my last
thought was of her and that she was,
the only woman in the world for me- y
The woman paled under her SPLEEN
did self-control and the tears came
into her eyes. She turned and walked
to the window and for a long time
loked into the street.
! Mrs. Moffat," he said, 81 must go.
My train leaves In half an hour. Good
by"
She turned and came slowly back
to him-so close that he could feel
llAO W al bAtA VI ACA OOQys L1CA OJC Go
were steady as they looked into his.
Phil" she said, you lied to me
just now. Oh, you men are wonder
full in your loyalty and devotion. I
know all about George and his rela-
lions with the Gordon woman. know
that he died with her name on his
! lips and not mine. No matter how
l know it. I do not blame you for
lying about it. You thought to pro-
tect his memory and save me pain.
honor you for it.
But, Phil, there is another lie that
was told-for different purpose. He
George, my husband, your friend
lied about you and, heaven help me,
l believed his lying tongue and mar
ried him. l knew he had lied before
we had been married a month, and he
knew that l knew 1t. could not
undo the past, but l could not help
hating and despising him-and he
knew 1t and he loved the Gordon
an-and-and-oh, God. can't you
see the living hell it has beenl"
Us it too later" he asked, holding
out his arms.
The color came to her face in
crimson flood and the tears welled to
her eyes as she swayed toward him
and he gathered her into his strong
embrace.
Pretty soon she looked up with q
roguish twinkle in her eye.
Are you not afraid you will miss
your train?" she asked.
He stopped to gather toll from the
red lips.
Il am not afraid of anything-nows''
he said.
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castle are supposed to be relatives of
mine. II you go there you must visit
the place. and tell me all about it. 1t
Is one Of the show seats Of the coun-
IT,"
They parted soon after, Miss Brown
went back to her school, and Caldwell
to his office. Next summer he sailed
for England, and in due time found
himself at Constable castle.
The castle was itself notable, but
more 80 the old Norman church. Eight
hundred years ago 1t had been found
ed by Sir Roger Browne. the Crusader,
who lay beneath the marble effgy Of
himself and his lady inside the build
ing.
The sexton, grumpy old fellow. ex-
patiated upon the history OF the statue
with shrewd calculation that the
American visitor would bestow
largess upon him.
That's the tomb of Sir Roger" he
croaked. He lays there-all but his
heart, which is buried In Jerusalem.
But his lady don't lie by him. She
went of with another knight while
he was away, and they say"-his
voice sank into q whisper calculated
to awe-"they say that after eight
hundred years has passed she'll come
back to him. and he'll rise up out of
them stones and forgive her"
Nov, John. you're telling the story
wrong" interrupted laughing voice.
and Caldwell turned to find himself
gazing into the eyes of a singularly
pretty girl Of twenty years or so.
you are Mr.. CALDWELL" she inquired.
I'VE heard about you in the castle,
and my father wants you to come up
to dinner and make our acquaintance.
He thinks you must be connected
with the Caldwells of High Ness"
Il was" said Merton, smiling. But
that was nearly two hundred years
ago."
THAT isn't much" said the girl,
laughing heartily. I'VE have long
memories in this part OF the country.
Won't you come and let US talk over
our ancestorsf You know, the Cald-
wells and the Brownies had a feud
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"l'm So Glad You Thought Of IL"
l wish I knew what the silly old ad-
dress really Is"
We'll, If you're not willing to take
my word, call up the Hayes or some
Of our other English friends and ask
them"
Mrs. Pollard adopted the suggestion
at once. and just as Pollard was light
ing his cigar in the hall, preparatory
for his departure for the day, she
Joined him with the letter in her
hand.
Violet says that Reg declares he
never heard of British Line bank in
London. nor q British London bank,
either"
Did you call up Tucker"
Eyes. and he says we must have
misread the address. as he is sure
there Is no bank In London with
either of those names. 1 wish l had
asked him If he knew whether there
was British Linen bank"
Il think, Jane, that as you are en-
deavoring to convert Tucker to the
suhragist's estimate of woman's abil-
ity. it's just as we'll that you refrained
from making that inquiry"
well, what shall dor l must get
my letter off tonight"
Il might take Adelaide's hieroglyph-
los down to our bank and ask the for
eign correspondent"
yes. do. I'm so glad you thought
of It."
Il can usually be trusted to find a
way out of difficulty" Pollard kissed
his wife complacently and left the
house
At six o'clock that evening, when he
returned. Mrs. Pollard looked at him
expectantly Did you find out about
the bank?" she asked.
Eyes, it was a severe case of much
ado about nothing. my DEAR" he re-
piled with elaborate carelessness.
well, what is the right manner"
why, it's the-the British Linen
bank. If you hadn't raised the Ques-
ton, Jane, we should never have
thought of its being anything else"
Mrs. Pollard opened her lips, then
closed them tight. only to open them
again for the escape of a hearty
laugh. Whereupon Pollard marched
away in dignifed silence to prepare
for dinner.-Ohicago Daily News.
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LITTLE MISS BROWN
She Made Atonement for Wrong
Committed Eight Hundred
Years Before.
av 4. M. EaRERr.

Little Miss Brown had one bright
spot in her otherwise drab life; that
was her friendship for Merton Cald-
well.
She was decidedly an old maid, as
New England reckoning goes. She
looked thirty; she was actually thirty
FIVE Caldwell was thirty-seven, but
then a man ages more slowly than a
woman. On her thirtieth birthday
Miss Brown had looked at her ref1ec-
ton in her mirror and said: Now
do not expect ever to marry
Caldwell was no hero; he was just
a New York business man. He spent
his summer vacation at Cape Cod, in
the village where the little schoolmis-
tress taught. The Browns were of an
old family, and had settled in Mas
sachusetts very soon after the Pill
grims landed The friendship which
sprang up between Miss Elizabeth
and the visitor was 80 spontaneous. so
naturally renewed each year for those
three weeks of Caldwelps vacation,
that 1t was accepted by both as the
most ordinary thing In the world.
Some of the neighbors gossiped, but
that was what neighbors always did.
Miss Brown reflected.
Il shall not be here next summer,
Miss Brown" said Caldwell one
bright afternoon In August. They
had been strolling together along the
shore. The wind had caught the
schoolmistress' hair and blown 1t
about her tanned cheeks. She looked
the picture of health and beauty-but
Caldwell did not see anything unusu-
al. He was a silent, interpretive
man; she might have assumed the con-
tour and aspect of Venus and he
would not have noticed.
Il am going to take six weeks and
visit England" he continued, not
knowing that Miss Brown was sudden
ly quiet. Il am going to take in all
the old Northumberland castles
and"
Northumberland" echoed Miss
Brown.
"Yes. My family came from there"
"But so did mine," said Miss Brown
quickly. THE Brownies of Constable
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Differs h the slowest payer In
town.
~fs her
Yep. II no owed man an apology
he'd pay 4 BIZ tnstallmeatsF
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Ono Hundred Dollars Fec.

Young Doctor-What are you doing
with that Latin dictionary?
Old Doctor-Mr. Gotrooks has q
cold and I'm looking for name.
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Naturally so

Il have found out the people nex4
hoor are living double life"
you don't say 80"
Yes; they've got twins"
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HIS GREAT KNOWLED GE
BY NELLIE MULHERN.

Mrs. Pollard looked up from the
closely written, transparent sheets she
was reading at the breakfast table.
Adelaide says that if l write her inn
mediately after getting this letter I'll
be able to catch her in London before
she sails. She says to address her in
care of the British Linen bank. Odd
name, isn't it?"
British Linenl" repeated Pollard.
That can't be right, Jane. That's
highly feminine name for a bank"
He laughed indulgently.
Feminine or not, that's what she's
written quite plainly"
Quite plainlyl" scoffed Pollard.
Adelaide was never known to write
plainly. And why in the name of all
that's legible does she use such dia-
phanous paper? I suppose she is try
ing to save enough on her postage to
pay the duty on the Paris outfit she's
bringing home 1t would take a Phila-
delphia lawyer to decipher that letter
of hers. No wonder you imagined
that absurd name for a bankl"
Imagined! It's perfectly plain.
Look at it yourself Perhaps with
your superior masculine intelligence
you can make something else out of
It besides British Linen bank"
Shouldn't wonder" replied Pollard,
entirely unperturbed by his wife's
good natured irony why, now, let's
see. British London bank-that's
what 1t is"
British Londoni Do you think
that's more reasonable name? Why,
British London Is perfectly ridiculous.
Everybody knows London is British.
Can you imagine a bank called the
United States Chicago?"
"Um-well that's different. Oh, /
see now It's British Line bank.
That's 1t. of course"
Mrs. Pollard took the letter back
into her own hand and scrutinized the
disputed address carefully. 1T doesn't
look like Line to me, Jim, and be-
sides, what possible meaning could
British Line have? That's not plau-
sible name at all"
It's vastly more plausible than
Linen my dear" Pollard rescued his
newspaper with the air of having said
the final word.
{. For few moments Mrs. Pollard
allowed the subject to rest Then she
said: Il should be dreadfully an
noyed If I misdirected my letter to
Adelaide, for she is counting on hear
ing from home before she sails.
wouldn't disappoint her for the world
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Collections at 6.l5 and 63O q. mi ana o5U
Deliveries at a. M. and 2 p. m.
Rural carriers leave office daily except
Sunday and holidays
Burlington and Bristol Steamboat
and Ferry Company
Schedule in effect $40 a. M, June q, 1913
Subject to change
Daily, except Saturdays and Sundays.
LEAVE BRISTOL FOR BURLINGTON.
$40. 500 $780, 1000. tlO.4O, Ills, m. sl2.sO.
1880 $3.50. 1880, t4.3O. $3.50. $40, 100, p M.
SATURDAYS
San 500 $500 1000 *lO.4O, Ills, g. m. $3.50,
$50, 20 $500, $780, $40. $780, 54O $40, TAO,
p. m.
SUNDAYS
$40, $500, $1,000 *I0.4O. II 10. a. m. $3.50 $3.50
20 300, s34O $40, $780, $40, $40 200, 7.4O'
$50. p m.
LEAVE BURLINGTON FOR BRISTOL.
$50, $3.50, $3.50, 1920, HOO, ll:sO. a. M. 100,
400. $500, AGO. 500, $50, $50. 7SO, p M
SATURDAYS
$50. $3.50, $3.50, 5000, ll.00, I.80, a. m. 500
200, s240, 1920. 400, $40, s62O ooO 0'oo 4oo'
p m.
$50 1890. 1920: ldoO. ilsO e; N. .l;So' 20 o
SAC p m.
See notes for extra trips on Saturdays and
Sundays during july and August
EXTRA TRIPS. During the months of July
and August on saturdays the boat will leave
Bristol at 1870 p. M, and Will leave Burning
ton at 10 40 p m.
NoTES-READ CAREFULLY
on the Fourth OF July after 1890 p. m. trip
the schedule will be the same as sunday.
Trips marked with a star ~ Will stop al
Burlington Island Park, and when there are
five or more passengers for the Park the boat
will stop on other trips Passengers VINO de-
sire to leave Burlington Island Park VIII
please notify the wharf tender who will raise
the signal flag for the boat to stop nom
Bristol
No trips guaranteed In foggy weather.
WILLIAM K DORON
Secretary, Treasurer and General Manager
Call Independent Telephone. Burlington. n.
j., via Keystone, Nos. l8s-D or lO4-D Bristol,
and 257-D Burlington.
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It's human to attempt shifting the
blame on environment" or "heredity.' p
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Mails arrive and ready for distribution:

Collections at els and $50 q. M, and $50
p. m.
Deliveries at 7 a. M, and p. m.
Rural carriers leave Office daily except
Sunday and holidays
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and Ferry Company


schedule In effect g. 40 q. M, June q. 1913.
Subject to change
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LEAVE BRISTOL FOR BURLINGTON.
$40 500, 500, 1000, *lO.40, ILLS, a. m. s12S0
slSOis2 so, $50, t43O. $3.50. *6.40, 100, p. M.
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WASHINGTON COUNCIL NO. 10, sR o. o. A. M.
Meets every Thursday in DIPS Hail
Walter W. Sherman, Secretary
The Yale expositor., 1913-05-29
Usinu Hedues Profitable.

The hedge is one of the most vall
able landscape assets that we have.
and at the same time one of the most
abused. Tremendously popular twenty
years ago, it fell rapidly into disuse
about the same time that the front
yard fence began to be abolished. The
ornamental hedge is beginning to
come back TO it's proper field now, and
we trust that it will be more generally
used, in its proper place.
The formal hedge, particularly the
evergreen hedge, has not place on the
small lot. 1t is as much out OF place
as six two-story Ionic pillars in front
of q portable bungalow. And that
means that hedges Of any kind are in
bad taste on most small lots.
II the house itself is not close to the
sidewalk, or it is desirable to use a
hedge on a small lot because Of I'M
usual conditions, use a low, informal
hedge such as barberry or Japanese
ounce.
The great field of the hedge is as
a beautiful boundary partition on large
grounds, or as a screen TO furnish pri-
vacy and shut out disagreeable views.
In such locations the evergreen
hedge cannot be surpassed, because 1t
is equally effective in winter and sum.
mer. it's life is from fifteen to twenty
years, and it forms an excellent back.
ground for deciduous planting.
Use American arborvitae for the
lower hedges and hemlock for the tree
hedges. The effect is somber and the
view from the house will be bright
ened by planting a few Colorado blue
spruce and line of red barked flow
ering dogwood against the hedge.
More graceful and cheering effects
can be secured by putting in Califor-
MIA privet, barberry or japanese
ounce, and they are fully as satisfac-
tory in their own way.
For screens nothing can surpass
hemlock or some OF our beautiful de-
ciduous shrubs, such as the hardy
lilacs and syringas.
In moist, cool regions, such as pre-
vail along the coast line of New Eng
land, the lockwood plant is almost uni
versally used, and it makes a hedge
as smooth and solid looking as bank
OF turf.
Planting directions vary with the
season, the soil and the plants used (;
hence we cannot cover them all in this
article.
Hedges may be planted successful
ly at any time of the year that the
ground can be worked, but spring and
fall are the best times. BE sure to
fertilize we'll and plant thickly enough.
About $15 worth of plants will make
an ordinary hedge 200 feet long.
The Yale expositor., 1913-05-29
Hogs on Alfalfa.

A Kansas farmer, who raises be
tween 500 and 600 hogs ever year.
says that his hogs have turned into
pork by running on alfalfa pasture
with an average of about one ear of
corn per day until the last six weeks
when they are given all the corn they
will eat in addition to the alfalfa This
farmer who seems to know his bust
ness, says he does not pasture so
closely but that he is able to get two
and sometimes three cuttings per
annum from them and these VIII
average from three-quarters to a little
over ton per cutting. Some brains
in this plan.
The Yale expositor., 1913-05-29
FOR THE WARM DAYS
NOW IS A GOOD TIME TO FIX UP
PORCH FURNITURE.
Demands q Little Time and Trouble,
But Effect Is Well Worth while
Best Method Of Staining
Now Articles.

Il Ia time TO get out the porch furni-
ture. This sounds like task easily
accomplished, but in reality it entails
good deal of work. The furniture
cannot be just lugged down from the
attic or up from the cellar and de-
posted as il is on the veranda. it
must be cleaned and freshened up.
Some OF it needs a new coat OF stain
or enamel, some of it needs new
cushions. Perhaps II must be replen-
ished, and that means careful shop
ping.
To begin with the cleaning, this
can best be done out OF doors, with a
garden hose and plenty of hot water.
For each chair have a pailful of hot
suds, softened with borax. Apply this
to the seat Of the chair with a stiff
whisk broom, and scrub it about Wig
orously. Then scrub the back, sides
and under part of the chair in the
same manner. Dash whatever suds
remain over the chair, and then rinse
it with plenty of fresh, clean water
from the hose Clean tables and all
other pieces of furniture in the same
way, and let them dry out of doors
in the sunshine, or else near fire.
The cleaning process described may
brighten the furniture sufficiently so
that no additional stain or paint IS
needed. If the furniture does need a
fresh dressing apply the finish decid-
ed on without scraping off the old
paint. The result will not, of course,
be perfect, but it will be sufficiently
good to make the time saved seem
worth while. Most porch furniture
is hardly valuable enough to spend
hours over with sandpaper and paint
removers.
New furniture should be carefully
stained or enameled. II can be bought,
of course, already colored, but as the
price OF most articles is a dollar less
when they are uncolored. and the
work is easy to do and pleasant any
cheap, it can advantageously be done
at home Enough varnish, enamel or
stain for a chair or moderately large
table costs from Is to % cents.
Many decorators now give willow
furniture a dull instead of shiny
finish. To accomplish this apply a
fat finish oil stain. Put it on evenly,
and allow the first coat to dry before
putting on a second.
If the stain is not dark enough when
it has dried a second coat can then
be put on without danger of cloudi-
ness. sickness or thickness.
Another way to get a dull finish is
to put on a varnish stain and rub it
in as you put it on with a cotton cloth.
This method makes the stain dry dull.
The Yale expositor., 1913-05-29
The Town Cow.

1t is a surprising fact to many to
learn that there are a very consider
able number OF COWS kept within
the limits of every great city. Cows
are familiar sight on the streets of
many small towns, but in our vast
congested urban centers the sight of
one is very unusual. OF course the
number of COWS here is much small
er in proprtion to the population, and
II is very unfortunate in many ways
that there are not more COWS dwelling
in our midst, so to speak.
The city COW, when owned and man.
aged by a professional mllkman, has
proved to be a considerable menace
TO health in the past, entirely due to
the way in which such animals have
been handled. We do not wish to be
understood as advocating the opera
ton of commercial dairy herds under
urban conditions, but we do believe
firmly that il would be a great agent
for the better health of city children
If there were more city COWS owned
by their parents.
Census figures show that the infant
mortality rate In large cities is much
higher than among children of the
same class, age, and mode of life in
smaller towns or in the country.
While a number of factors combine
to bring about the early passing away
of comparatively large proportion Of
the little children who are unfortunate
enough to be born in large city, the
scientists who give their time and
thought to these serious problems are
almost unanimously agreed that the
greatest single factor behind these
atrociously high infant death rates is
that of impure milk.
Impure milk has. and still does. reap
terrible harvest and among those
who are least able 10 help themselves.