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The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1915-08-03

self out directly in my path. With a
smile he stopped before me, rubbing
both hands together.
1T is for Miss Elaine?" he asked.
l nodded.
BY this time several of the guests
who were fascinated with Long Sin
gathered about us. Long Sin fiuttered
open Chinese fan which he had used
in his tricks, passed 1t over my hand,
and in some incomprehensible way l
felt the plate with the Ice literally dis
appear from my grasp. My face must
have shown my surprise. A burst of
laughter from the other guests greeted
me. looked at Long Sin, half angry,
yet unable to say anything, for the
joke was plainly on me-. He smiled,
made another pass with the fan, and
instantly the plate with the ice was
back in my hand.
Meanwhile Kennedy had been NOV
ing from one to another of the guests
seeking Elaine. He had already taken
an ice from the waiter and was going
in the direction of the conservatory.
There he found her.
Wont you take this ice?" he asked.
handing 1t to her.
1T is very kind of you,'' she said,
''but l have already sent Walter for
one"
Kennedy. insisted and she took it.
She had already started to eat it
when appeared in the doorway.
Kennedy laughed, rather pleased at
having beaten me.
Never mind, Walter" he said with
a smile, 'I'll take it. And er-I don't
think that Elaine will object If you
play the host for little while with
Aunt Josephine" he limited.
Kennedy, however. was not alone.
Back in the palms In the conservatory
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saved vIctorIa,a Lie.

Lieut.. Col Gordon Wilson, who was
killed at the front near Ypres recent
ly, was, when he was a boy at Elton,
instrumental in saving the life of
Queen Victoria in March, 1882. When
a young man named Roderick Mac
lean attempted to fire pistol at the
queen on the platform Of Windsor sta
ton. Wilson, with his umbrella, struck
up the assailant's arm, for which act
he was summoned to Windsor castle
and personally thanked by the queen.
The boys act gave rise to a clever
pun. 1t was suggested that he re-
ceive a peerage, and Basil Young. the
engineer, remarked that If this were
done his coat-of-arms ought to be an
umbrella, with the motto; Pour la
Refine" AS a subaltern he rode in
famous midnight steeplechase at Mel
ton. He served with distinction in
the South African war, and was an
aide-de-camp of General Baden-Powell
throughout the siege of Mafeking,
being several times mentioned in dis
patches.
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Only sIIahtlx Esazed.

A party of New Workers were hunt
ing in the "piney woods Of Georgia,
and had as an attendant an old negro,
whose fondness for big words Is char
acteristic of the race. One of the
hunters, knowing the old Negroes bent.
remarked to him:
Uncle Nose. the indentations in
terra firma In this locality render trav-
cling In vehicular conveyance with
out springs decidedly Objectionable
and painful anatomically. Don't you
think SOP
Uncle Nose scratched his left ear a
moment and replied, with slow
shake of his woolly head:
s"Mistah Gawge, the exuberance OBJ
you words am beyon' nah iurydic-
tion."
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HAS FAMOUS PANTRY
MOST WOMEN WOULD ENVY
QUEEN MARYs TREASURES.
Besides Possessing Great Historic In
terest, Their Financial Value Is
Enormous-some Marvels OF
Workmanship There.

Among the famous pantries of the
world is that of Queen Mary at Wind
sor. This pantry comprises two rooms
of no great dimensions, but it contains
treasures in the form of plate and
household articles that are valued at
more than a million pounds sterling
Many of these possess historic inter
est. For example, there is con-
spicuous exhibit in the form of a
table of solid silver. This is nearly a
yard in length, and its top, with an
area of several square feet, bears the
royal arms and exquisitely chased de-
signs of the symbolic rose, thistle,
harp, etc. Every reign since that of
Elizabeth has contributed to this
table a. design of some sort.
The most imposing of all the daz-
zling array of plate is the so-calied
gold dinner service for occasions Of
the highest state.
The walls of the two rooms of this
royal pantry, the larger of which is 30
square of Is feet, are lined with cases
of plate glass and mahogany, and in
these and similar cases, occupying
the center of each room, are some of
the most extraordinary examples of
art IN gold, silver and precious stones
that the world has ever seen.
There are tall, graceful epergnesg
each of which would tax the strength
of two men to lift it; there are dishes
in gold and silver, any one OF which
would be too heavy to run away with;
dainty toilet services in gold and sill
yer, candelabra, communion services,
1agons, vases. punch bowls, wine cool
wrought in designs of great beauty by
the most skiliful artists.
The most beautiful Of all these, it
is said, is the Nautilus vase, fash
toned, it is claimed, out of pearl. gold
and silver by the hands of Benveputo
Cellini, himself, although 1t bears the
name of an artist of Nuremberg, Mich
olas Schmidt. The shell, which is of
pearl, mounted in silver and gold of
the most delicate chasing, Is poised
on the shoulders of a superbly me mt
ed horseman, and above the pearl shell
another figure Is throned.
Another marvel of workmanship is
the rose water fountain, in silver, with
its dome supported by columns. around
which are grouped horses and hounds.
In point of interest it would be diff
cult to picture any article of the kind
more artistically perfect than the
silver-gilt fiagon, that was rescued
from the armada more than three hun
dred years ago. This fagon is yard
high and its value runs far into the
thousands.
One Of the historic bits that are
highly priced Is quaint pair of bel
lows. mounted In silver and gold. that
once belonged to Nell Gwynn. There
are ponderous silver "firedogs' of the
time of Charles II, and near by is an
enormous punch bowl. contributed by
George w as an example of the art of
Flaxman.
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taboret in the library"

taboret in the library
1t was only a matter of minutes
when they pulled up before the apart
ment house where WI had taken the
suite from which Long Sin had tele-
phoned the message in my name. To-
gether Elaine and Aunt Josephine
hurried in.
Kennedy went. directly from the
laboratory to- the Dodge house.
/ don't think ever saw such an
expression of surprise on anybodys
face as that on Jennings when he
opened the door and saw us. He was
aghast. Back of him we could see
Marie She looked as if she had seen
a ghost.
is Miss Elaine in?" asked Kennedy.
Jennings was even too dumfounded
to speak.
why. what's the matter?" demand
ed Kennedy.
"Then-er-you are not i'll again?"
he managed to blurt out.
Ill again?" repeated Kennedy.
why" explained Jennings, didn't
Mr.. jameson just now telephone that
you had had a relapse in the apart
ment of that Chinaman, and for Miss
Elaine to hurry over there right away
with that bottle of medicine?'
Kennedy waited to hear no more.
Selling me by the arm, he turned and
dashed down the stems and back again
into the taxicab in which we had
come.
In Wu's apartment Long Sin was
giving his secretary and another Chi
naman the most explicit instructions.
AS he finished each nodded and
showed him a Chinese dirk concealed
under his blouse.
Just then knock sounded at the
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pearl-FIahino Industry.

The world has at least one locality,
as it has at least one industry, in
which machinery, and even the sim
plest mechanical appliance. is not
permitted, through the agency OF pro-
hibitive rules. to obtain ascendancy
over hand work and primitive meth
DDS of labor. The locality is the
Tuamotu or Low Archipelago, com
posed of 81 coral atolls, about one
hundred miles eastward of Tahiti;
the industry is the pearl fisheries Of
the archipelago. the finest pearls in
the South Pacific being found In the
waters adjacent 20 these islands, as
well as considerable quantities of the
so-called black-edge mother-of-pearl
shell much used in commerce.
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Always consIserate.

When former President W. H. Taft
was in Kansas on a campaigning tour
few years ago, one of the members
of his party threw away a cigar just
as the presidents special passed some
section hands. "Begorra,' said one of
the section men, didn't Oh tell We Taft
is considerate of the common laborer?
He jist now threw me cigar and 1t
was already lit National Monthly.
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The New York police are mystified by a
series of murders and other crimes. The
principal clue to the criminal is the warn
ing letter which is sent to the victims,
signed with ''clutching hand" The lat
est victim of the mysterious assassin is
Taylor Dodge, the insurance president.
His daughter, Elaine, employs Craig Ken
try to unravel the mystery. What Ken
nedy accomplishes is told by his friend
Jameson, a newspaper man. After many
fruitless attempts TO put Elaine and Craig
Kennedy out of the way the Clutching
Hand is at last found to be none other
than Perry Bennett, Elaine's lawyer and
the man she is engaged to marry. Ben
nett fees to the den of one of his Chi
nese criminals The Chinaman forces
from Bennett the secret OF the where
abouts of 100000. Then he gives the
lawyer a potion which will suspend ami
nation for months. Kennedy reaches Ben
nett's side just after he has lost con-
seriousness and supposes him dead.
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Does Insurance Pay ?

Fioweil's Agency the Last 10 Months
paid losses under z policies. Partial
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Motion pictures of the Exploits of
Elaine are shown at the Mount Holly
Theatre every Monday night
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l.. r. Howell s CO.,
70 Main Street, Mount Holly, n. y
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1915-11-09
Our Wonderful Reserve Power
Body Up Surplus Energy Emergencies

huddled together for warmth in the wet
clothing for six days, during which time
their only food was a portion Of a roast
chicken and some pieces of bread left
over in their dinner buckets, and a
few cookies" of composition of fish
oil and wax used in t1sir miners lamps
This strikes us as a remarkable feat OF
endurance. but. as q matter OF fact, 1t
was probably only a third or fourth OF
the endurance Of which those sturdy
miners would have been capable IL the
rescuers had been longer delayed in
reaching them. and was we'll within the
limits OF what any one Of US. even city
jewellers. in q state of reasonably vigor-
Gus health. would have been able to en-
dure and survive without permanent in
jury The only reason why It strikes us
as so remarkable and strange is on ac-
count OF the very fortunate rarity of in
stances of any sort of complete depriva-
ton OF food in this present day of civil
ization.
In this sense, BLESSED IL the nation
that has no history" as the shrewd old
French cynic remarked. But any one
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1915-11-09

who will turn to the records OF living en-
F, tombment of human being or animals in
mine accidents, earthquake, avalanches
or snowslides will find that instead of
being an exception it is. on the contrary
well within and Below the average of
survival endurance under these circum-
stances.
! In the frightful earthquake at Messina,
for instance, few years ago. there were
a score of instances In which not only
men and women, but ponies and dogs.
who had been buried alive, unintured.
! but with good air and moderate. in some
cases very small amounts of water, Just
the leakage along the moist upper sur
face of a ledge in one instance. survived
two, three and even four weeks and were
ultimately rescued without permanent
/ injury. In fact, surprising as II may
seem. there are comparatively few cases
on record OF death simply by deprivation
OF food In such circumstances under three
weeks. And life in human beings, horses
and dogs has been known to be pre-
served for, in some rare instances, as long
as six weeks without a particle of food.
| This extraordinary reserve power OF
ours is also shown by the feats of the
| professional fasters. OF whom DR.. Tan
ner. the Italian Succ and others are
! familiar recent examples. These men at
tanned a tremendous amount of notoriety
! by undertaking, usually for a bet or
/ wager, TO live a certain number OF weeks
without food.
Many Of us remember the excitement
and eager comment when DIR. Tanner
succeeded In reaching his fortieth day OF
total abstinence from food, winning his
wager and eXclaiming joyously: Now
for a good old watermelon" Disbelief
and sceptlcism were freely expressed on
all sides. The water OF which the doc
tor drank copiously during his fast was
alleged to have been heavily "stiffened'
with alcohol, TO contain large amounts
Of invisible meat essence, or not 10 be
| water at all, but some marvellous and
secret tropical elixir OF life a cup OF
which had the nutrtive power OF loaf
Of bread.
These suspicious. however, were improb-
able on the face Of them. for the sim
pie reason that repeated experiments
have shown that animals deprived OF
food lose strength much more rapidly and
starve quicker II given moderate amounts
OF alcohol or beef tea or any Of the So
called vegetable stimulants and endur-
ance givers, such as cocoa, mate OF tea,
than II they are given nothing but water
to drink. Besides. the tests in DR.. Tan
ners second fast were so carefully super
yised and controlled BY competent physi-
clans and scientists as TO leave little rea-
sonable doubt that his abstinence from
food was genuine and complete.
Indeed. what really happened was that
a score OF local imitators Of the great
I faster sprang up in different parts OF
the country and many Of them. in the
language OF the day, beat him 10 IT,"
equalling and few exceeding his fea'
SO that the edge and the distinction we're
quickly taken off his reputation; and
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1915-11-09
By Woods Hutchinson, A. NJ, Nj. d.

Nature can be economical to the verge
of penuriousness on occasion? but she
likes TO conduct her main operations upon
a liberal scale and a wide margin. She
believes with George Eliot that any in
telligent calculation Of the expected must
include a certain amount OF the unex-
pected In most of our transactions a
little too much Is Just enough, because
you never can tell what may happen.
For instance, In the important and en-
joyable matter OF food and work she bal
ances accounts like an expert bookkeeper:
many heat units (calories) eaten, on the
one side; on the other. so much work
done with arm and heart. so much heat
given off, SO much waste, so much
weight gained or growth made. Add up
the t~o columns and they balance TO an
ounce or a per cent OF kilowatt. To
keep ones self fit. in good working con-
dition. without loss of weight or strength,
we must eat just SO many pounds, so
many calories, or run into the red" in
our body bookkeeping and suffer the con-
sequences.
But when It comes to the broader and
far deeper question of keeping alive,
holding soul and body together, upon
scanty or insufficient rations, nature dis
plays unexpected resources and an as
tonishing power OF reserve.
We need, unquestionably, a liberal
amount Of food every day to keep up a
| good head of steam AM prevent deterio-
ration of the plant. But II we don't get
1t and obtain only three-quarters, or
half. or even a third Of that amount, we
do not Immediately fall III and die: on
the contrary, we pull ourselves together
do rather less work or poorer quality
I draw upon our internal reserves, live
on our fat, as the saying is, and make the
best we can Of the situation. And that
best We can may endure not merely
! for months. but even for years. other
wise, two-thirds Of us would not be here
! For, as one OF our best known econo-
mists bitterly and tersely puts IL, "Up
to seventy-five years ago three-fourths
OF the population of Europe never knew
what 1t was to have all they could eat
at any one time in the course OF their
lives. and were never comfortably warn
from November to May
We cannot only continue to live on
very insufficient amounts OF food, but
we can even live for a very considerable
| time without any food at all. providing
that we have plenty OF water To drink
and can remain at rest In moderate COM
fort and warmth.
This wonderful survival power Of ours
has Just been dramatically brought to
our attention by the reports which have
4 filled the neWEpaDera of the hanpv ras-
cue of a group OF Pennsylvania miners
who had been buried for nearly week
by a cavern. After they had narrowly
escaped drowning by the flood of water
which causSH the cavern. they remained
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1915-11-09
Making a Fuss
Over Nothing
by BEATRICE FAIRFAX.

Most women are potential heroines In
emergency, in danger. a woman who Is
worth tho name Is self-saorificing and
brave, Many woman who shrieks at
sight OF a mouse or beetle will climb
three flights Of stairs IN a fire to carry
out sick child
But after all, life isn't made up of
emergencies. Few of us ever have the
chance TO prove ourselves heroines. And
the Judgment OF the world Is based on
how we face the mice OF life rather than
on what we do when we meet It's lions
In keeping with the tendency to face
great dangers and shrink at little ones.
woman bears great sorrows and fright
full tragedies nobly and well and agitates
herself to the point OF a nervous break
down over negligible pains and trifling
sights.
My grandmother actually went out as
nurse during an epidemic Of cholera
in a little western city. And she fairly
made my youth a nightmare by her
Mysteries over the thunderstorms that so
frequently visit the middle west
Woman has a certain pioneer quality
that makes her face braveiy all tremen-
dous emergencies and fuss and fume over
things unworthy to take any of her en-
ergy.
How many women make their hus-
bands lives miserable by their insistence
that all sorts OF trifiing dates be remenn-
bered. have friend who has gone Ia
bed with a nervous headache for no more
overwhelming cause than the fact that
her husband forgot the anniversary OF
the first day he ever saw her.
She expected a man who had business
to swing and large affairs to manage &C
that he might give her LUXURY and ele.
gance, TO do all that with one lobe OF
his brain and with another TO remember
TO call her up every day at noon to tel
her what his whole life was proving
that he loved her, Because he couldn''
remember such things. she nagged hin
TO the point where everyone expected
separation or divorce to put a period e
their love story.
And then came crash. Mr.. Smith
lost practically his entire fortune ant
, with II most OF his credit And neuras
thenic. nervous Mary Smith rose from
her bed. put on gingham apron. went
into the kitchen she had not visited n
ten years and set 10 making jam.
The Smiths are on the high tide e
fortune again because Mary. who coulC
not bear TO have her highest wish neg
lected and her lightest within forgotten
could bear the loss of everything tina
had previously made the whole OF he
selfish life.
Women are like that And men vii
never fully understand Il. Without
whimper Eve bears things that woul'
almost Justify her in shrieking TO higl
heaven She either endures them with
tragic passiveness that commands re
spect. or she gets up and. with Anna
Eonian force, conquers them.
But no woman who ever lived failet
TO suffer when the man she loved prom
Used to telephone her at noon and hat
not summoned her by 1 o'clock.
Perhaps because so few OF US have any
thing better to think about. we thnl
about trifles. Perhaps. as we go GU
into a world OF larger interests. we will
conquer the selffove that makes us de
mand constant proof of fealty.
Until we do, until we learn not to max,
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1915-11-09
Pain Gone! Rub
Sore, Rheumatic
Aching Joints
Rub pain away with a small
trial bottle of old
"St. Jacobs OIL"
stop "doslng" rheumatism.

Stop dosing" Rheumatism.
It's pain only; not one case in fifty
requires internal treatment. Rub sooth-
ing, penetrating st. Jacobs OIL" right
on the tender spot" and by the time
you say Jack Robinson--out comes the
rheumatic pain and distress. "st. Jacobs
or Is a harmless rheumatism liniment
which never disappoints and doesn't burn
the skin. II takes pain, soreness and
stiffness from aching joints. muscles and
bones; stops scistics, lumbego, beckeche
and neuralgia
Lumber upl Get a small trial bottle OF
old-time. honest st. Jacobs on from
any drug store. and In moment. you'll
be free from pains, aches and stiffness.
Don't suffer- Rub rheumatism away
Advertisement.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1915-11-09

Velveteen is well suited to this
simple suit; four yards forty
inches wide are required ($14);
three and one-half yards of
satin to line the coat ($4.38);
findings, ST.. Total, $19.3S.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1915-11-09
Advice to LOvelorn

y BnATRIcN FARFAK


Dear Miss Fairfax: | was in love with
a young man and had a row with him
about year ago. He then became en-
gagged to a young woman and gave her
a nice ring, which she said was too small
so he broke the engagement. After a
while he asked me II 1 would go back to
him again. l said l would. because
know ] loved him. We are soon going to
be engaged. | suppose he is going to give
me the ring he gave the other girl.
like him too much to hurt his feelings.
don't care II the stone was very small, or
that he gave me none at ALL What makes
me feel bad is to think that the ring was
not got for me; she got 1t before me.
y. w.
Don't make yourself miserable over
such a trifle as this. There is no reason
why you should not be perfectly con
tented with the engagement ring that was
bought for someone else Nor, on the
other hand. is there any reason why you
should not suggest your fiance that for
sentimental reasons you would be hap
pier with a ring he had bought specially
for you. and that II it wont cause him
any Inconvenience or extra expense you
would be much happier II he would ex-
change this ring for another one which
you would feel was purchased with you
in mind.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1915-11-09

when succi actually succeeding in accom-
plishing the astounding boa-constrictor
like feat Of going sixty days without It
particle Of food all mere thirty or forty
day fasters we're out of the running en-
tirely and could hardly draw a crowd
at county fair sideshow.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1915-11-09
| The Bees Home Magazine page

fuss over trifles. we are bound TO suf-
fer needlessly. Loyalty. friendship. love
itself are all proven in large ways. No
failure in trifles undermines or disproves
the beauty OF any large devotion. And
until we learn not to demand constant
proof or affection, not TO fuss over tri-
fling omissions in attention and thoughts
fulness we must indeed be "the weaker
sex"
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1915-11-09
Listen 10 Your Mother.

Dear Miss Fairfax am 16 / met
a man three years my senior. He askei
me TO make an appointment W IN HIM
Kindly let me know whether ! am old
enough 20 make appointments, as my
mother objects TO my going out H. e.
OF course you are too young 70 so out
with boys. and the fact that your mother
objects ought to settle the matter for
you. Don't dream OF making appoint
ments without your mothers consent
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1915-11-09
Why We QuarreIed

No. 1O-The Mans Side
The Husband Who Objected
TO Hair Dye and Rouge Tells
His Story.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1915-11-09
TIme for His Luck to Change.

He-Was your father very angry when
you told him Of our engagement?-
She-Not particularly lie said he had
been rather fortunate in the stock mar
ket OF late figured II was about time
for his luck TO turn.-Richmond Times
Dispatch.