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Oxford Democrat., 1914-08-11
The Reason,

"What are all these men doing
hereT asked the visitor to the jail.
Most OF them" answered the guild
Ing Official. "are doing time for doing
others. -Exchunge.
Oxford Democrat., 1914-08-11
Not Like Father.

DO you think Mr.. Skinnums oaDy
will take after Its fatherT
Not at all. The other day they per.
suaded It to cough up q nickel 1t nad
swallowed"
Oxford Democrat., 1914-08-11
,,,. .. Mako A, DaroaIn.

He-Be mine. and make me the hap
p(est man In the world! she-Sorry.
but I want to be happy myself.-Los'
don Opinion.
Oxford Democrat., 1914-08-11
AMONG THE FARMERS.
SPEED THE PLow."

Correspondence on practical agricultural topics
is solicited. Address all communications In
HAMMOND, Agricultural Editor Oxford rem
ocrst. Paris, Ne.
Oxford Democrat., 1914-08-11
Greatest
Short Stories
No. ii.
A LODGING FOR THE NIGHT
No. IL.
By Robert Louis Stevenson

Twsnty-four famous authors were
asked recently to name the best
short story in the English lam
fuafe. The choice Of Booth Tar
kinfton, Jack London, Alfred Henry
Lewis and Richard Harding Davis
was "A Lodsinf For the Night" by
Robert Louis Stevenson
Oxford Democrat., 1914-08-11
PART l.

= T was late in November, 1850.
The snow fell over Paris with
rigorous, relentless persistence.
= Sometimes the wind made a
Oxford Democrat., 1914-08-11

though don't prate about 1t all day
long as II 1t was Gods miracle to
have any. 1t seems quite natural to
me. keep 1t in its box till it's want
ed. Why. now. look you here. how
long have been In this room with you!
Did you not tell me you were alone In
the house? Look ut your gold plate!
You're strong. II you like, but you're
old and unarmed. and have my knife.
What did I want but jerk OF the
elbow and here would have been you
with the cold steel in your bowels, and
there would have been me. linking In
the streets. with IN armful OF golden
cups! Did you suppose hadn't Wit
enough to see that? And scorned
the action. There are your ID
goblets. us safe rs In church: there
are you, with your heart ticking as
good rs new. and here am !. ready to
20 out again as poor as ] came In,
with my one white that you threw In
my teeth. And you think | have no
sense Of hOnor-God strike me dead!'
The old man stretched out his right
arm. II will tell you what you are
he suid. "You are rogue. my man.
| an impudent and black hearted rogue
and yagabond. have passed an hour
with you. oh. believe me. | feel my
self disgraced. And you have eaten
/ and drunk ut my table. But now | am
sick at your presence. The day has
come and the night bird should be on
to his roost Will you 60 before Of
afterT
(which you please" returned th'
poet rising. 81 believe you to be strict
" honorable" He thoughtfully emp
tied his cup. II wish I could add yo'
were intelligent" he went on. knock
ing on his head with his knuckles
age, age: the brains stf and rheu
matter
Oxford Democrat., 1914-08-11
PART ii.

f|1HE house In question looked
dark mt first sight. but as Villon
made n preliminary inspection
I'm search of the handiest point
Oxford Democrat., 1914-08-11

"You are shrewd." began the old
man, tapping his forehead. very
shrewd. You have learning. You are
clerk, and yet you take small piece
of money off dead woman In the
street. Is It NOT kind Of theft?
ut Is Il kind Of theft much practice'i
in the wars. my lord"
"The wars are the field OF honor re-
turned the old man proudly. Ihere
man plays his life upon the cast. lie
fights in the name Of his lord the king
his Lord God. and all their lordships
the holy saints and angels"
PUT It," said villon. that were
really a thief. should i not play my
life also and against heavier odds"
"For gain, but not for honor"
"Gain? repeated villon. with q
shrug. Gain. The poor fellow wants
supper and takes 1t. So does the SOL
dier in IL campaign. Why, what nrt
nll these acquisitions we hear so mucl'
about
"These things are necessity Ut war
which the Iowborn must endure will
constancy. Look ut us two" said Ills
lordship. II am old. strong and non
ored. IL were turned from my house
tomorrow hundreds would bs-Proud te
shelter me. Poor people would 60 Out
and pass the night In the streets with
their children II merely hinted thai
I wished to be alone. And ] find you
up, wandering homeless and picking
farthings of dead women by the way
side! | fear no man and nothing.
have seen you tremble and lose coun
tenance ut a word. l wait Gods sum
mons contentedly in my own house. or
| II It please the king to call Inc ou
again. upon the field Of battle. 10!
look for the gallows-a rough, .swl1
death, without hope or honor. Is ther'
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1914-11-10

NOTwITHsTANDING the tremendous
gains made by the Republicans on
Tuesday, the men who are close to Presi-
dent Wilson seem to see cause for re-
joicing and proclaim that they have won
great victory. The next House of
Representatives will be composed of 229
Democrats; 1856 Republicans; Progress
sives; Socialist; indie pendent. This
will give the Democrats plurality of 81
over the Republicans and ia majority of
"a over the combined opposition. The
Democrats who profess to get SO much
comfort out of the returns say they are
glad they were not wiped off the face of
the earth altogether. The Republicans
are well satisfied with their share of the
the victor v and feel that the rebuke to
President Wilson has been one which
will leave a sting for long time One
of the hardest blows given him was the
defeat of the candidate for Congress in
Mr.. Wilson's own county. The result in
New Jersey must be taken as knock
out for the President as the letters he
! wrote to candidates for Congress and the
speeches made in their behalf were all to
the effect that the election of those men
would mean approval of Wilson and his
policies, while defeat would mean Just
exactly. the opposite. This idea was
made to apply expressly to New Jersey.
You know the result. Eight out OF
twelve Congressman were elected by the
Republicans, and that tells the entire
story.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1914-11-10
Serious Forest Fires

The pines in the lower part of Rurling-
ton county were on fire last week and
thousands of dollars worth of property
were destroyed. The fire started in the
neighborhood of Quaker Bridge, in
Washington township, and it spread all
over the country. 1t ran close to the
road between Wading River and New
Gretna and it burned over the pines at
jenkins, old Washington and Harris
vile. At the latter place several I'M
tenanted houses were destroyed. The
fire wardens had men out fighting the
flames and after heroic work succeeded
in getting the fire backed so as to pre-
vent it getting into the larger towns
Sunday evening heavy shower aided in
quenching the flames.
The fire was one of the worst that has
visited that section for long time and
it was SO Threatening that it caused a
feeling OF terror in the minds of all the
residents IN the section where it ragged.
At Wading River the situation was
very serious and furniture was removed
rom houses to places of safety. Then
the wind shifted and the flames went in
another direction.
Hundreds of acres of the most valuable
timber has been destroyed. The extern
| sive boys of Wills q Evans have been
completely destroyed, at: loss of pro-
badly $4,000.
Gunners returning from the neighbor
hood of New Gretna were compelled to
run through volumes of smoke all the
way to Batsto. Two parties of gunners
from this neighborhood had this exper-
fence.
Timber worth $250,O06 on the Whar.
ton estate acquired by New Jersey as a
watershed, was destroyed by a forest fire
which ragged over a large area between
Wading River and Atsion all of Satur-
day and Sunday. The fire was brought
under control Sunday by an army of fire
fighters, led by State Fire Warden
Samuel Allen. Five thousand acres are
in the section damaged by the fire.
1t is believed the cranberry boys, val
ued at 100000 have been ruined. The
Bailey estate, below Old Washington,
is said to have been destroyed together
with 20 small buildings. Many families
fled to New Gretna for safety Sunday
night, believing their homes would be
| burned.
| The fire swept over a section Is miles
long and at some points four miles broad
Women from the villages aided the fire
fighters and supplied the army of men
with coffee and sandwiches. Several
houses in the pine belt have been de
stroyed and the occupants compelled to
| flee for their lives
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WHY THE YOUTHS COMPANION SHOULD
BE IN EVERY FAMILY,

WHY THE YOUTHS COMPANION SHOULD
BE IN EVERY FAMILY.
IF could take only one paper" said
the late Mr.. Justice Brewer of the Su-
preme Court, ''it would be The Youths
Compdnion-a little of everything in a
nutshell, and unbiased. :" The C0npass-
ion is family paper in the completest
sense. 1t provides reading that, without
failing to interest the young, still
interests the mature. 1t unites young
and old through their common enjoy
ment of delightful fiction, agreeable
miscellany, and the clear exposition of
public questions.
So carefully is it edited, so varied are
its contents, that it would easily supply
family with entertaining fiction, up-to
date information and wholesome fun,
if no other periodical entered the house.
If you are not familiar with The Com
qd'aion as it is to-day, let us send you
sample copies and the Forecast for 1915.
New subscribers who send $500 for the
fifty-two issues of 1915 will receive free
all the remaining issues of 1914, besides
copy of The Companion Home Cal
endar for 1915.
THE YOUTHS COMPANION,
144 Berkeley Street, Boston, Mass.
New Subscriptions Received at this
Office
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Press Comments.

1AE htSULI In THE NATION
The Republicans achieved a notable
victory in the debatable States on Tues
day. and the Roosevelt Progressive
party disappeared as an important factor
in the national situation. These are the
outstanding results of the election.
Ohio returned to the Republican column.
as did New York, Wisconsin, New JERSEY.
Indiana, and even Connecticut the latter
usually Democratic State. Whitman
for Governor, and Wadsworth for Unit
ed States Senator. swept all before them
in New York, with overwhelming
majorities.
The result was not altogether unexpect-
ed. 1t is due to a large extent to dis
satisfaction with the Underwood tariff,
the levying of new taxes to cover treasury
deficits due to the insufficiency of the
revenue receipts under the pretext that
they were necessitated by the European
war, but this war was only contribut-
ing cause. The country has wearied of
the interminable tinkering with business
and the persistent attempt to charge
immutable economic currents by expert
mental, half-baked theories and i'm
practical transcendentai vagaries.
The Democratic majority misunder-
stood its message from the people. 1t
came into power by Republican faction
al division, created to a large extent
through disappointed ambitions. 1t in
terpreted its success-which it secured
bya minority vote in consequence of the
Republican split-as commission from
the people to execute program of radi-
cal Democratic legislation. This is
where it made its error. Had it been
content with revision Of the tariff on
more conservative lines, maintaining
the protective principle, but freeing the
tariff of its inequalities and Irregularities,
and the enactment of the new currency
law. the result might have been different.
But it was drunk with power.
1t proceeded to heckle business, de-
yeIop a system of centralized govern
ment before which even the extremist
Republican would have
faltered, played into the hands of the
most rapid labor fanatics and produced
! feeling of dismay among the most con- |
thoughtful elements OF our
population which could have had only
one conclusion unless all the traditions
Of our country were to be reversed.
Democracy has sowed the wind and reap |
I'd the wirlwind.-PubLic Ledger.
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Foot Ball.

On Saturday at the High street
grounds, Mount Holly lost to Riverside
by score of to 0. This is the second
defeat of the season for the local team,
out of seven games played. The game
was lost purely through over-confidence
on the part of our boys, who have had
the recent games won by such easy scores
that they have relaxed in their playing.
Riverside won by their successful forward
passing which bewildered our team, and
ragged defensive work by both lines Of
defense.
On the previous Saturday Burlington
lost to Mount Holly by II to score on
the local field in game so rough that it
marked the farewell appearance of Bur
lington's foot ball aggregation in Mount
Holly. 1t was necessary for the officials
to disqualify two of Burlington's players
for unnecessarily rough tactics.
On this Saturday, the 14th, the strong
Central High School team of Philadel-
phia plays here at 300 p. m. Central
and Northeast who played here early in
the season, are the two contenders for the
High School championship of Philadel-
phia, and as Northeast beat Mount
I Holly Is to 0, this is sure to be close,
clean interesting game, with plenty OF
open spectacular plays on both sides.
Due to the large guarantee that has to
be paid this team an admission fee of Is
cents will be charged, and a large at
tendance is requested
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A Bit of History for Mount Holly.

The BLACK Watch" an organization
founded In Scotland in the early part of
the 18th century for the protection of
that country against British invasion
and rule. This organization of killed
men grew with enormous rapidity as the
several clans throughout Scotland Joined
forgetting the feuds and indifferences
between themselves, which perhaps had
found their origin in the Medieval age
and were inherited by the generations
not unlike the feudal families of the
Aliens, etc., that reside in the south.
who have defeated their heritage by
arming themselves with education and
wedding into these families, thus alb
solutely preventing shot gun supremacy,
which had perhaps been an inheritance
for generations-after centuries it seems
that this organization had brought per-
feet harmony among the clans. When
speaking of this organization it must be
observed that the ''Black Watch was
not made up of men of every character
but of the chiefs and sub-chiefs OF the
clans, merchants, lawyers, princes, etc.,
from every part of Scotland.
Although Scotland was ruled by Eng
land, the organization would not recop-
nize it and remained independent of the
English crown. The king of England,
evidently recognized the peril Of this
rapidly growing order, whose ranks con-
tanned men who could bring the whole
population of Scotland into military ser
! vice and invade England before that
nation could gather sufficient number
to oppose the invasion and, who would
perhaps have pierced her vital parts, in
which case England would be defeated
and Scotland would re-establish its king
r,,Ia h. F.
evidently caused much uneasiness to the
crown-the king at that time had abso-
lutte rule-but at last the king saw a
faint glimmer of hope to save his king
dom from this ever accommodating peril
OF the Scottish organization, which had
undoubtedly not entertained the mere
thought of invasion which the king
feared would mRterialize. An invitation
was extended to the BLACK Watch"
to come to England in honor of the king
so as to be interviewed by his majesty
who had heard that such glorious or
ganization existed in his kingdom which
evidently was a society for the benefit Of
man, and that he craved to view said
organization on parade il they would
honor his personal invitation and ap-
pear in England. This piece of master
ly diplomacy found its acceptance by
the unsuspecting leaders Of the organi-
zation. The BLACK Watch" drilled and
started to march to London. About
half way between Scotland and London,
the secret news leaked out from some
source that the kings Intention was to
arrest the leaders on their appearance in
London. The leaders ordered the men to
march back to Scotland. But they were
too far into theinterior and British
horse guard overlook and arrested the
leaders before they reached their country.
The leaders protested they had enter
tanned no thought OF menacing England
and TO prove their honor, swore allegiance
to the crown, on which said organiza-
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Church Notices.
FIRST METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHuRcH
REV. THos. J. j. WRIGHT, Pastor.
Parsonage, No. IL Brainard street.
Next Sunday services

All are welcome.
9.46 a. IN. Brotherhood Bible class devotion
al meeting
1880 a. m. Morning worship. Sermon by
Rev Edmund Hewitt, former pastor
200 p. m. Bible School Howard E. Alcott
superintendent
6.45 p. m. Epworth League Devotional
meeting. Leader, Miss Lucille Perinchief
7.30 p. m. Evening worship. Billy sun.
days Trail Hitters' will conduct the Service
travelling salesman; S. S. Mcintyre, clerk;
William Templeton, merchant; s. A. Cole
photographer; and Henry Wood, engineer.
Don't fall to hear these men. They have
some interesting experiences to relate of Billy
sundays great revival mpaign.
Wednesday afternoon at $50. Boys and
girls meeting.
The next entertainment of the Lyceum
course Will be the Royal Male Quartette on
Tuesday night, November "a
Speclal attention is called to the Evange-
llstic services which are now in progress
Rev. Joseph Nankivel will be present ca ch
night ana play his violin and sing; IL VIII be
worth your while to hear him Make a
special enort to attend all these services
The speakers for this week will be as follows:
To-night-Rev. II. J. Root Beverly
Wednesday-Rev. Geo. Il. Harris 1IasSboro
Thursday-Rev. John Handley, Camden,
Frlday-Rey. Joseph Nankivel. Crosswfcks
The preachers for next week will be:
Monday-Rev. .. =. Duffield Philadelphia
Tuesday-Rev. Thomas $. Brock, Burlin gton
Wednesday-Union prayer meeting of the
Presbyterian, Baptist and Methodist
churches. A local minister will speak
Thursday-Rey. w. K. Zimmerman, Lum-
berton.
Friday-Rev. l.. f. Bausman, Camden.
Sunday, November 22-Morning, Rev. A.
special Thanksgiving sermon to the Junior
Mechanics.
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FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.

Manse No. 2l3 Broad street.
Divine worship Lords Day morning and
evening with preaching by the minister.
1880 a. M. Morning worship. Subject, "The
PARALLELS and Teachings of Christ Concerning
the Coming Judgment. IL. The Wise and
the Foolish" The second in the series.
200 p. m. Bible School. Robert A. Semple
Jr., superintendent Lesson topic Jesus
and Peter You are cordially invited 10
unite with one or the other of our four or
sanized Bible classes. We have a bright at
tractive Bible school with truth for every
need. Won't you come and unite with us?
GAS % M. Christian Endeavor. Topic
magnify the Christian Endeavor Pledge
Feel S. II. Leader, Miss Celeste Crippen.
1902. m. Evening worship. subject Sane
hored" The companion sermon to the one OF
last sunday night. You are earnestly urged
TO give this theme your undivided attention.
Wednesday evening, 7.45 O'Clock, the service
for prayer and praise in the chapel Topic.
.Raising of Jairus' Daughter" Scripture
reference. Matt. Q. 1925, Theme, "The Blessing
Jfnon Young Womanhood." What a delight
,nfly comforting thing it is to be assured that
The great Master, OF men has kindly heart
90 YES and in all the circumstances OF life. He
can render unto each at the right moment
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1914-11-10

TO-DAY change wifi take place in the
Office of Sheriff of Burlington county
and William T. Stecher will succeed the
man who defeated him three years ago.
Andrew j. Jordan went into the Sheriff S
Office with clean record and he gives up
his trust with that record unimpeached
He has made a good official and he
leaves the Office with the respect of the
people of Burlington county in general
regardless of political affiliations. When
other Sneriffs were being criticised for
the juries they were selecting, Sheriff
Jordan was being praised at the high
type of men that he was calling for
public duty. When the law requiring
jurors to be drawn by commissioners
went into effect there was general ex-
preston that the statute was not needed
in Burlington county, that we were do
ing well enough. Sheriff Jordan has
reason to feel proud of the expressions of
commentator that will follow him to
private life.
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Pemberton.

w. Harry Hartman ran his automobile
into pine tree near the old Lebanon
glass works, last Monday, while out
hunting deer. The machine was badly
damaged.
Joseph Emmons was quite painfully
injured about the body last week when
struck and knocked down by an auto
mobile owned by Walter Joyce, of
Browns Mills.
Special services are in progress in the
Pemberton M. +. church. The speakers
for this week are as follows: Wednesday
night, Otis b. Read; Thursday, Rev. L.
L. Bausman; Friday, Rev. Alfred Wagg;
Sunday, Rev. Percy Perinchief.
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Florence.

Unwilling to see the Florence Station
Baptlst Chapel, of which he was pastor
Tor thirty years, close its doors because il
was unable to find successor, the Rev.
Daniel w. Bishop has agreed to again
take up the ministry at the little church,
Tor which during his long service he
would never accept cent in salary. Mr.,
Bishop is foreman in the Wood Iron
Foundries here. He resigned the pastor.
ate year ago. He will again preach
without charge.
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TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1914

No RESULT in Tuesdays contest gave
more general satisfaction than the cleo
ton of "Uncle Joe''.Cannon to Congress
When he was left at home in prior
election he simply gave an extra angle
to his cigar and said he would come back
later. And he did.