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The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1919-07-26

The Camp Fire Girls and Boy
Scouts will hold cake sales at the
Crawford and Pauley drug stores this
Saturday afternoon. Parents and
friends are urged to patronize them
either by contributions or purchases.
The Atlantic County Christian En-
deavor. Society will give their next
Moonlight Sail from the Inlet Wharf
on August 8th. President D. w. Mac
MILAN has been selected as delegate
to the International C. e. Convention
to be held in Buffalo August 5 to 10
inclusive. He will be accompanied by
his pastor, Rev. DR.. Henry E. Jones.
Coming out of Decatur avenue on
Main street Wednesday afternoon, a
Packard car with a Virginia license,
hit John Hance, a local man employed
at the Smiths Landing Hospital, who
was driving a new Maxwell car and
smashed his rear wheel, sending the
car with a crash into a nearby tele-
phone pole, damaging the radiator,
windshield and two front wheels. The
Pleasantville man had the right of way
and had as a passenger Tom Bozart,
who was cut about the face and chest,
but after treatment was able to pro-
coed to his home.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1919-07-26
ABSEcoN.
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the Mill Road crossing, at the home
of the child's parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
William H. Adkisson, last Friday af-
ternoon at $50 o'clock. Quite a num-
Der were present to extend sympathy.
Burial took place in the Presbyterian
Cemetery.
Sergeant Herman L. Madden return
ed home last Wednesday afternoon
from Camp Dix, having been mustered
out of Uncle Sans service. He was
stationed at the Wrightstown Canton
ment nearly a year and a half and is
very glad to be home for good.
Misses Catherine and Evelyn Mad
den expect to return to their home at
Collingswood the last of this week at
ter spending three weeks with their
aunt, Miss Hananh Madden, and other
relatives here. Their father, DR.. The
ophilus Madden, will come for them
in his Ford sedan.
DR.. Samuel Johnson is having e X
tensive alterations, additions and i'm
provements made to his home on New
Jersey avenue by Contractors Smith
& Rider at an approximate cost of
$4,000. The dwelling has been raised
up, a cellar is being dug and a solid
concrete foundation will support the
building. Three or four rooms and
bath are to be added and modern fix
lures will be installed.
Mr.. and Mrs. Hosea Kendall and
daughter, Mrs. John L. Shaw, enter
tanned Mr.. William Shaw, of Philadel-
phia, on Wednesday. Last Saturday
and Sunday their guests were: Mrs,
John Shaw, ST., Miss Dorothy and Earl
Shaw, all of the Quaker City. They
were the nearest of kin of Mrs. ]. L.
Shaw's deceased husband, who was &C
%cidentally killed last fall Swiss
dale. Pa.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1919-07-26
English Greek

Mrs. Josiah Smith left on Wednes
day for Wilkesbarre, Pa, where she
will spend some time. Rev. Smith will
join his wife there during his vaca
ton in August.
Miss Elizabeth and Master Hildreth
Steelman motored to Friendship, N. j.
on Sunday evening. Rev. F. A. Howell
and wife accompanied them home on
Monday and are spending a few days
with their daughters, Mrs. Mamie
Steelman and Mrs. ]. P. Smith.
Mr.. Isaac Albertson is still critically
i'll in the Atlantic City hospital.
Mrs. Mary Hannum and children,
Edward and Harold, are visiting Mrs,
Hannum's parents, Mr.. and Mrs. J.
w. Ingersoll.
Mrs. Arelda Smith and Miss Pearl
Smith were guests of Mrs. L. H. Smith
last Friday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter English enter
tanned their nephew, Mr.. Allen Assay,
over the weekend.
Miss Elizabeth Steelman recently
entertained in the evening: Misses
Fannie Minner, Lulua Lee, Marian
Steelman and Martha Frank.
A number of Atlantic City folks
were seen in the congregation at AS
bury Church on Sunday morning.
Come again and bring others with you.
John w. Ingersoll is the proud own
er of twin calves born about two weeks
ago. Both Jess and Dempsey" as
they have been named, are above nor
NAL size and promise to be ready for
the prize at the County Fair.
Mrs. Ebert Lee and infant daughter
are visiting Mrs. Lees parents, Mr..
and Mrs. Japhet Barrett, in Scullville.
. Mrs. Mamie Steelman, Mrs. Martin
Lee, and John Thompson and family
were Atlantic City visitors on Wednes-
day
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1919-07-26
HUBIN HAS GOOD LUCK.

Having the old Fish property on
Shore Road and Park Avenue and the
adjoining lot a little i've a week, he
was offered $500 advance on the Fish
property and 5000 on the lot adjoin.
ing. making 500 advance on the two
properties. But Hubin does not de
sire to sell, as he purchased the prop
critics for a home site and will greatly
improve them. Hubin had an Offer
from a tenant to lease his theatre
property for a term of five years fol-
business purposes. 1t only goes tc
show how properties in Pleasantyille
are advancing in values. Now that
the boom is on, properties in Pleas
antville will be in great demand.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1919-07-26
ST. PETERS CATHOLIC CHURCH.
Chestnut st. and Verona Ave.
Rev. Gregory Moran, Rector.

Masses on Sundays at 8 a. m. and
10 a. m.
Evening Devotions Sundays and
First Fridays at 7.30 o'clock.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1919-07-26
SEVENTH DAY
ADVENTIST CHURCH.
Lake Place, P~leasantviIIe.

Sabbath School this Saturday morn
ing at 1915 o'clock, followed by
Church services at IL.
Prayer Meeting every Friday night
at 7.45 o'clock.
Everybody welcome.
Evening star., 1919-04-13

ed: Chrysale. Cameron Burton; Phil
aminte, Miss Davis: Armande. Miss
Rose Brill; Henriette. Miss Ethel
Densmore: Ariste. Hiram Ward; Bel
Use, Miss Elizabeth Humphries; Cli-
tandre. Grant Keener; Triscotin. ]. p
Earnest, jr.; vadius, Foster Hagan:
MARITIME, Elizabeth Earnest; LEpine
Ted Muir; Julien, 'Cupie" Bueler. ard
Le Notaire, TEX" Nall Jacob Leno-
vitz will be stage manager, and David
stephens will be property man.
Evening star., 1919-04-13

sickness so far as the rank and flle
of the democratic party IL concerned
are back in Washington with the
President and the cabinet As for the
republicans. they are almost strong
enough to get away with q condem-
nation Of a league of nations, though
not quite strong enough to be sure
that they would win in the end. and
therefore the leaders are trimming
sails already, and the round-robin
signers from this state will be found
ave" to the roll call with
Evening star., 1919-04-13

the rest Of the party.
This is not as much because the
people know wherein league is
going to benefit the world, but they
think It may delay the peace treaty
itself now, and they might even for
give Mr.. Wilson many Of his errors
II they thought it would bring the
troops back home sooner and busi-
ness back to normal.
Speaking of republicans, Therefore.
prospects are 80 good that they be-
lieve Indiana will contribute the next
Evening star., 1919-04-13

President or Vice President, though
they incline to an emphasis on the
latter job. Speaking of democrats.
one need only remark in closing that
it's a long. long way to another VIC
tory in Indiana.
Copyright, 1919. by N. Y. Evening Post. Inc }
Evening star., 1919-04-13

The champion woman trapshooter
of the world is Mrs. c. E. Groat Of
Los Angeles, whose record OF 1.474
out of 1900 targets is the best av-
erase ever achieved by one of her sex
Evening star., 1919-04-13
G. W. q. IN M0LIERE'S PLAY.
Students Will Present "Les Fem.
mes Savantes" June 16,

Moliere's comedy. Les Memmes Sa-
vantes," will be presented by George
Washington University students on
the night of June 18. probably at the
Central High School auditorium.
The following cast has been select
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1919-05-13
FEW CIRCUIT RIDERS LEFT
Picturesque Figures Of the Religious
Life Of the Rural Districts Are
Rapidly Passing.

The circuit rider, that most pic
turesque figure in the religious life Of
the country in the rural districts, Is
passing away almost as rapidly as is
the cowboy. In the earlier life of the
country, with his saddlebags, his
tracts and his Bible, travelling on
horseback through the wilderness, he
was vital factor in the life of the in
habitants along the frontiers and In
the sparsely settled districts. Without
him many a community would have
heard no preaching from years end to
years end unless 1t were from the lips
of lay exhorter; many bride would
have felt herself but half married with
no minister to perform the ceremony,
and the dead would have been laid to
rest without religions comfort to the
survivors.
The circuit rider Of the early days,
though his visits might be few and far
between, was nevertheless an integral
part in the religious and social life of
the communities on his circuit. His
coming was eagerly expected and the
pioneers In the wilderness were loath
to see him go.
The rapidity with which he is disap-
pearing may be gained from study
of the circuit system in rural Method
ism as shown by the annual conference
minutes, using the number of churches
per charge as a basis. OF the rural
charges $3.50, or 81 per cent, are sta
tons; 1924, or 20 per cent, are cir
cults having two churches; 1920 have
three churches to a circuit; 615 have
four; 2S2 have five, while but 1T cir
cults, or 1 per cent, have more than
five churches to a circuit. In other
words more than half of the rural
Methodist churches now have minis
ters who do not have to devote part
of their time to other churches. The
figures show that 1000 or more
charges included In this study have
not more than two points to a circuit.
The surviving circuit system is most
marked in Pennsylvania, Ohio, IRdi-
ana, Tennessee, southern Missouri, nli-
nois and West Virginia. The cente-
Episcopal church will doubtless have
the effect of fastening the departure
into oblivion of the circuit rider In
some sections of the country, as part
of the money derived from the joint
centenary drive for $S0,0O00O0 for
world upbuilding, mission and church
extension will be devoted to the rural
church. In other sections, however,
1t has been found that the efficiency
of the Methodist Episcopal church will
be materially increased by extending
the circuit system on the parish plan.
This applies, however, to the less
favored sections of the country; in
the more developed sections a pastor
with but two churches to care for has
more than he can look after If he con-
siders his task one Of community up
building as well as Of community ssrv-
ice
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1919-05-13
Twice Proven

If you suffer backache, sleepless
nights, tired. dull days and distressing
urinary disorders, don't experiment.
Read this twice-told testimony. It's
Mount Holly enthusiastically proven.
Mrs. George F. Kinsler, 70 Pine ST.,
says: From the time l was a little girl
hsd kidney trouble and it kept get
ting worse every year. was down in
bed rs many as ten weeks at time,
helpless and suffering with awful pains
across my back. couldn't move and
suffered everything with Inflammation
Of the bladder. My kidneys didn't acl
right and had headaches and dizzy
spells. / was nervous anddiscouraged
After taking several boxes of Doan's
Kidney Pills felt better in every way.
My back doesn't ache any more, my
kidneys and bladder are normal. and
my general health is good"
Statement given November IL. 1914.
On October 8. 1917, Mrs. Kinsler
said: 81 take Doan's Kidney Pills oc-
casionally as preventive and they
keep my kidneys in good condition
In that way 1 have avoided any ser
ious kidney trouble" .
Price zoe, at all dealers. Don't sim
ply ask for a kidney remedy-get
Doan's Kidney Pills-the same tina
Mrs. Kinsler had. Foster-M ilburn Co.,
Mfgrs., Buffalo, N. Y.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1919-05-13
HAD MADE ITS ACQUAINTANCE
Old Jed Knew Whereof He Spoke
When He Warned Converts OF
What Awaited Them.

He was one of the perpetual con-
verts to religion that are so common
In some country districts. Whenever
a minister wished to hold a revival
meeting in his church he was always
certain of obtaining one reliable con-
vert, old Jed, who'd got religion" so
often his friends had lost count of the
times. His custom was to be Convert
ed" at every convenient revival meeting
In proper season, and slide backward
every summer in order to have his sys-
tenn thoroughly prepared for the next
season of reviva1s.
Not long ago the pastor of coun-
try church near Jeds home was bap-
tizing in the river a number Of con-
verts, among them Jed, who was the
first to be led into the water.
As Jed was dragged bodily up from
the river after the ceremony he was
seen to be almost in q state of collapse,
and was taken to the bank with some
difficulty, where he reclined Imply as
the minister prepared to lead the next
convert into the river. However, a
great light dawned on the audience
gathered on shore as to what had hap
pened to Jed, when he raised up on one
elbow just as the minister reached the
waters edge with the second subject for
baptism, and shouted out, ENORMOUSLY:
"Hey. parson, look out There's
h Of big rock down there Pm
dianapolis News.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1919-05-13
SEEMINGLY IMMUNE TO PAIN
Australian AberisinaIs Suffer Little
Inconvenience From Even the
Most severe Injuries.

The sight Of their own blood will
send Australian aboriginals into hys-
terics, writes a correspondent In the
Australian Bulletin, but I am con-
vinced they feel little or no pain from
even the ssverest Injury. On one oc-
casion, when dragging a young girl
from shark that had her foot in its
jaws, she looked up and remarked
casually, mime tink it dat shark been
tax 1t mine footl" The sight of the
blood upset her for while; but
few hours later she was playing
euchre with the rest Of the camp. The
wonder is that wounded blacks don't
more often bleed to death, for they
take no special means to prevent it..
The most approved method used to be
to cover the wound thickly with fine
mangrove ash, and over that layer
of damp clay, which was not removed
for several days. l never saw them
wash wound, their theory being that
the blood heals the wound. In later
years they all learned to go to doc
tor when injured, but thirty or forty
years ago one saw dreadful deformi-
ties resulting from accidents and
fights. On Fraser's island in the sew
entities there was a man whose leg had
been broken in two places below the
knee. Neither fracture had knitted,
and he was a most grotesque object
to meet. The doctors wanted to mend
him, but he kept out Of the way. An
other case was an old woman whose
arm had been broken between the
wrist and elbow. She used to pry
the bones one against the other and
she could give terrible blow with the
loose hand.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1919-05-13
LIGHT DERIVED FROM STARS
illumination Far Greater Than Superb
ciaI Observation Would Lead
One to Believe.

Most Of the light In the sky, even
at a station far removed from all
sources of artificial illumination, comes
from the multitude of telescope stars,
too faint for the eye to see, but so
numerous that, taken all together, they
send us far more light than those
which we can discern individually.
There is neutrality-suspicious. always
present in addition, some light origin
ating on the earth's atmosphere which,
from the presence In its spectrum Of
the bright line Characteristic of the au-
rora, betrays its place Of origin.
when we are out in the open on a
clear, starry night" explains Henry
Norris Russell, Phi. D., in Scientific
American, 1--WE hardly realize how
strong this illumination is-it is
quite enough to find ones way by
across, open country. But when once
we get glimpse Of the sky through
an opening between thick trees, we
see at once that, even on a brilliant,
moonless night, when the sky, as we
lOOh oulA u at II, oCClliO lint O1oNh Wei
vet powdered over with sparkling
points, the background is really any
thing but dark.
Nov, there can be no doubt that
the light-one might almost say the
glare-of this general illumination of
the sky browns out the fainter stars.
ITO give an illustration from COM
mon experience, whenever we see a
star through a little gap in the LEAKAGE
of tree, upon the dark background,
1t looks much brighter than ordinary
not because it has changed at all, but
on account of the greater contrast
with the blackness surrounding 1t.
''That the human eye can actually
detect exceedingly faint illumination
is confirmed by experiments upon the
visibility of little disks of white card
board mounted on a black background,
and observed in a dark room by the
light of single star CASUALLY Sirius)
shining through small opening in a
shutter"
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1919-05-13
PARSLEY POINTED A MORAL
Youngster Quick to See the Point
Which His Father Was Endeav-
orlno to Make.

In an Indiana town where crooked
ness in city affairs has beep reigning
for years, lucrative position was Of
fered to lawyer. 1t was not because
the salary itself was SO large, but the
possibilities the position offered were
many. But still string was attached
and the lawyer knew it. So he turned
down the job.
His high-school son was provoked be-
cause his father had not accepted. He
grumbled about 1t in subtle little ways
for several days and then one day his
father came to school after the boy to
accompany him TO a friends farm.
Once there he showed the delighted
youngster all over the farm. last visit
ing the pen In which the hogs were be-
ing fed for the market
The boy eyed them a few minutes
and then asked, 'What is that they're
eating so ravenously?"
The farmer answered: 'Why, that's
parsley. It's the best hog fattener l
know of. We Just turn them into
patch of parsley and they do the rest
themselves. It's too good picking for
them to resist. When I decide that
pig is almost ready for the market 1
just turn him into the parsley patch,
and soon he's just in the right condi-
ton to 60 to the slaughtering house."
TITS too bad they don't know what's
coming to them so that they stay away
from the parsley patch" laughed the
boy. "pm sure 1 would if were to
turn hog"
His father merely looked at him for
a minute and then he said: Parsley
always has looked like graft to me
very inviting, easy to get, and plenty
Of it while it lasts, and then at the
end inevitably the slaughtering pen"
This time the boy understood.-In
annapolis News.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1919-05-13
"oIory" OF Old Sailing Days.

Looking forward to a revival Of
American shipping under new condi-
lions. one can cheerfully enough accept
the opinion Of veteran seaman, talk
ing to a young reporter, that the
glory" of the old sailing days is much
overrated. The billowlng canvas was
impressive; but the facts of the case
confides this mariner, are that the
sailors had to live in quarters that
were badly ventilated, If ventilated at
all, badly lighted and. cramped almost
beyond endurance. A steady diet Of
bareback and salt horse" mitigated
the glory of the sea. while chanteys,
although they helped things along,
were often compulsory, and little joy
to the sailor man who was singing to
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1919-05-13
Novel Use For a parIsoope.

Turning the sword into a plowshare
ID figure Of speech. but using the
periscope to direct the players in q
pantomime has actually come to pass.
This peaceful adaptation Of the means
whereby the submarine commander
has watched the ocean, to the purposes
Of a musical director watching stage,
took place at the first performance Of
pantomime, in New York. The CON-
poser Of the music had come from
Chicago to direct the orchestra, and
found his seat In the orchestra pit so
far below the stage level that only a
neck like that of Alice In Wonderland,
after she had eaten the mushroom.
would have let him look over the foot
lights. So the management installed
a periscope. 1t was probably some lit
tie time before the whole audience had
guessed what the thing was, and that
a musical director down below was
periscoping the players on the stage
while he beat time for his orchestra.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1919-05-13
NEVER WASTEFUL IN SPEECH
One Thing at Least In Which the
American People Are Econon-
ical to a Degree.

The country as a whole has lost the
"hang" of speaking English. Some
people proudly state that America is
no longer a British colony, that she is
creating language of her own, and,
to prove their independence they
make practice of Incorporating into
our speech sounds without definite
edges, sounds trailing clouds of NUT
tered murmurs, sounds of such ele-
mental simplicity that they resemble
grunts, taken over from the speech of
persons who have come to us from all
non-English-speaking countries of the
world. And, in their love of equality
and fraternity, these people refuse to
exceed the speech of those whose
simple needs are satisfied with a fru-
gal vocabulary; in this way they have
succeeded In cutting down their own
vocabulistic rations to the famine
point. Lavish, generous, wasteful In
other matters, the country has learned
to economic in sentence and syllable,
till 1t has reached genuinely demo
cratic simplicity Of speech.-Henry
Dwight Sedgwick. In Yale Review.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1919-05-13
Sold Cir Walter SCOTS Table.

An ancient Sheraton table on which
Sir Walter Scott wrote his novels at
80 Castle street, Edinburgh, was sold
at London recently at auction. With
it went Sir Walters chair, his ink
stand, q penstand and portfolio, the
lot bringing $3.50. Among other
things which once belonged to the ia
nous novelist was a pair Of worsted
slippers, which so attracted one buyer
that he paid 10 guineas for them.
Tho bulletin boards Of the modern
newspapers had their precursors II
these white tablets ordered to be dis
played publicly by Caesar. In New
York there are men who haunt the bull
letin boards of the metropolitan dali
les, jot down the news displayed there
on, and later telegraph the items tC
the dailies In small cities which do not
support SO extensive news service a:
that furnished by the United or the
Associated Press. So In Rome, the
writer of news letters or circulars cop
fed the news published Sin albo" and
sent the most important items to his
subscriber out of the city. Scandal
was featured in "Acto Diurna," and
society news, In modern fashion, wa,
furnished by families concerned
From the Quill.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1919-05-13
A Rare Bird.

The white-headed stork, one of the
most interesting and valuable posses
sions Of the London Geological society,
is dead. 1t was a native of the Up
per or White Nile, and so far as Is
known the only living specimen of
this remarkable bird In Europe. AS
long ago as 1860 the then British vice
consul at Khartoum-Mr. Petherick,
himself an indefatigable naturalist
brought two specimens to London, and
these were the first ever seen alive
in Britain. After an interval of many
years the present sirdar-Sir Reginald
Wingate- represented to the society the
specimen which has Just died, and
which was a familiar object In the VI
c1nity Of his palace at Khartoum. Wis
itors to the garden in Regents park
will recall the rather Melancholy-
looking bird In the aviary adjoining
the southern entrance. For long pc
RODS /. remained almost motionless,
save for the twinkle Of an extra mo-
bile eye.