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The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1897-01-06
Some Insects Injurious to Stored Grain.

Some Insects Injurious to Stored Grain.
In publishing the bulletin entitled
SSome Insects Injurious to Stored
Grain,' by F. I'll. Chittenden, Assist
ant Entomologist Farmers Bulletin
No. 45), the Department of Agricul-
tlire has provided a popular account
of some of the pests which destroy
large amounts of valuable farm prod
ucts, with suggestions as to the best
means of preventing their access to
9'ranaries, mills, ETC., and of destroy
ing Those which have already found
shelter Within the grain, flour, or
meal.
The more important of the upward
of two score of species which occur
commonly in granaries are treated;
their life history, habits, and food
are described, and they are presented
as larva or worm pupa, and adult,
i'm eighteen figures, SO that one unac-
quainted with entomology might cas-
lily recognize them
The grain weevils, grain moths,
flour and meal moths, flour beetles,
meal worms, grain beetles, and ca
dele are MAIN headings of the sub
ject, underwhich are the granary wee
vii and the rice weevil; the Angoumois
grain moth and the wolf moth; the
Mediterranean flour moth, the In
diaIn-meal moth, meal-snout moth !;
the confused flour beetle, the rust
red flour beetle, the slender-horned
flour beetle, the brOad-horned flour
beetle, and the s1nall-eyed -four bee
tie; the yellow meal-worm and dark
meal-worm; and the saw-toothed
grain beetle, the red or square necked
grain beetle, and the foreign grain
beetle are, respectively, considered.
The parasitic and other enemies of
these grain destroyers are NOTED, and
under Methods of CONTROL both pre-
ventive and insecticidal measures are
recommended and described.
Among the first, early harvesting
and threshing are recommended, and
as a remedy the bisulphide of carbon
treatment is stated to be the simplest
most effective, and least expensive for
all insects that affect stored cereals
This bulletin can he secured by adj
dressing request for it to the Secre-
tary of Agriculture, Washington, D.
c., Or to a member of congress.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-01-05
NEW YEARS DAY.
Customs and Superstitions of Various
Countries-NotableE Events.

Customs and superstitions of Various
Countries-NotableE Events.
In Athens a new statue, either to a
god or a hero, was erected and conse-
Grated on the first day of every year.
On Jan. l, 1915, Louis XII of France
died. On the same day died Helvetius,
in 1772; Selvio Pellico, 1854.
In Silesia a peculiar kind of wine
made from grapes and seasoned with
honey and spices is used ON New Years
day.
In the south of France it is customary
for families Of means to give their serv-
ants new suits on New Years day.
The celebrated march of General Monk
to London for the purpose of seating
Charles II on the throne of England be-
gan Jan. 1, 1860.
In Norway there is superstition
that the kind of fish caught on New
Years day indicates the character Of
the fishing during the year.
The custom of watching out the old
year and waiting for the new to begin
prevails in many countries, if not in
most of the civilized world.
Suetonius and Tacitus allude to the
custom common in their time among
the Romans of sending and receiving
presents on New Years day.
A special feature of New Years day
in ancient Babylon was the procession
in honor of Baal. The king himself
marched in this procession.
The first day of January was made
the beginning Of the new year in Hol-
land, the Protestant districts of Ger
many and Russia, in the year 1900.
In Coventry, England, God cakes are
made for New Years day. They are
triangular i'll shape, made of paste, in
closing a portion of minoe meat.-Ex-
change.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-01-05
THE SONG OF THE OK WAGON.

This is the song of the straining span the tune
of the tattered tilt.
OF the slow essays in perilous ways of the wag.
stoutly built.
The song that was sung in the ancient tongue
when the days of the world dawned gray,
The creaking Groom of the disselboom, tho so1e
that is sung today.
East and west and south and north the firsi
born herdsmen spread,
From the waters clear of the high Pamir, from
the ancient Oxus bed.
On and ON to the plains of the Don their creal-
ing wagons ran,
And the disselboom showed out the doom that
has given the earth to man.
Over the sands of the thirsty lands, under a
brazen sky,
Where the only law men bow before is the law
of the assegai,
Forth and forth to the dim far north where the
broad Zambezi flows
Still today in the ancient way the rumbling
wagon goes.
Through the forest ways where the wild things
Craze, the dappled, the fawn the gray:
Where the tall "kameel'' at sunset steal like
ghosts to the silent vley;
Where the lions drink at the reedy brink Of the
slowly Swallowing pan,
The disselboom shows out the doom that has
given the earth to man.
Slow and slow the wagons go by thieket and
thorn and pool,
But their thin path traced on the homeless
waste is the road of the coming rule,
And in dread of that track the wild sinks
back, and the thief and the beast give
place
To the farm and field and the yearly yield of
the men OF the wiser race.
East and west and south and north from the
days of the dawn till now
Ere grass was burned or sod was turned by
the share of the furrowing pillow,
This was the tune of the tattered tilt, the song
of the straining span,
How the disselboom points out the doom that
has given the earth to man.
st. James Gazette.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-01-05
Truth Crushed to Earth.

Two fair young girls sat in dainty
boudoir gazing into each others eyes.
1--WE are such good friends, Marcia, F"
said one, land we can afford to say to
each other just what we think. Now, 1
have such splendid scheme. Suppose
we start out today by telling each other
the exact truth without regard to any
question of politeness.
''How perfectly lovely, Lobelia!"
cooed the younger girl Of the two.
"Let's begin right away. What do you
think Of me?"
II think, said Marcia, "that you are
almost as pretty as you think you are
and when you don't try to be you are
the most charming girl in the world. "
How awfully good of your rejoined
the other. And do you know that when
you came in l was thinking that you
looked just like one of those big feather
busters which had taken a notion TO
walk? Only your feet are so very large
that the illusion was not quite perfect. +"
Two disheveled young women, with
their faces cross lined by scratches, were
taken out of that aristocratic mansion
five minutes later and hurried in an am
bulance to the nearest hospital New
York Herald
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-01-05

ness. He was looking forward to a good
time coming when he would be able to
retire and live on his wealth. But he
knew in his heart that, under the train
ing he had given himself, he could not
live if he were not at the head of the
corporation he had built up and still
struggling fiereely to make more money
money for which he had no need
Perhaps, after all, the old man was as
happy as he, and if he set him free now
he would simply take from him the on
ly thing he was working for and look
ing forward to and make him end his
life in sordid inactivity. The old man
had something to live for, something to
hope for, something to look forward to,
and he bad as good a chance of realiz-
ing it as most people have in this world.
If he interfered, he would be what most
charitable people are-merely a med
der.
And he was right. While he was sit
ting in the woods old Sam was digging
away in the ditch, with his heart full
of happy anticipations Of the good time
he would have when he was 20 and his
old friend, Hiram Pratt, would come
back and go out hunting with him.
Truth
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-01-05
An old Orkney Custom.

In Deerness, in Orkney, it used to be
the custom for a large company of the
poorer people to go about from one
farmhouse to another and at each one to
sing a long song appropriate to the sea-
son. At each house a good supper was
provided for them, and it is said that
any farmer would feel deeply hurt if he
were not visited. The guisers also used
to go about in certain places in Scotland
on New Years eve to play crude sort
of drama at each house and to receive
some slight reward for their efforts.
The guisers were about the same as the
Christmas mummers, and their play
was about the same as that more COM
monty given at Christmas, which usu-
ally concerned St George and various
enemies whom he successfully oyercame,
the most entertaining naturally being
the dragon Exchange.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-01-05
COOKS ON A PILLOW.


Domestic Economy In Wong Seeks Tiny
Chinatown Home.
The smallest residence in San Fran
cisco is, of course, located in Chinatown.
1t is not, however, at the end of dark
alley in damp cellar. In many of these
are some very diminutive roosting
places, but they are elegant homes and
flats compared to Wong Seeks private
residence on the corner of Waverly place
and Clay street.
Wong's home is about as big as his
skin-a trife larger, Of course, to allow
for his wooden shoes that go to bed with
him, but the difference is not material.
Wong's home is box nailed to brick
wall over the fruit stand where Wong
makes a living that would not keep q
white baby fat.
Directly opposite-that is to say, on
the southeast corner Of Waverly place
and Clay street-there is another China
man who has residence similar to that
of Wong. But his is larger than Wong's
whether owing to larger wooden shoes
or to just what is not known. But it
measures fully q foot more in length and
is an inch or so more in thickness.
The dimensions Of Wong's private
residence-he lives in it all by himself
are 5 feet in length, 2 feet in width,
with ceiling height Of feet clear Of
the gas fixtures For a pillow Wong
has 80 cent oil stove, and in the morn
ing be cooks his breakfast on his pillow.
He uses a rope ladder to get into his
home, and when he has tucked himself
in for the night he pulls up his ladder
and is safe.
Wong is saving money and will some
day take the steamer for China and cart
off 200 or 800 American gold dollars to
the slums of Hongkong, where he will
live like prince. -San Francisco Gall.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-01-05
Utilizlnr His college Eaueatlon.

A tramp appeared at the house of ].
a. Barton, three miles south of Column
bia, No., one morning and asked for
cold victuals in Greek He stated that
he was a graduate of Princeton. Mr..
Barton, himself a Greek scholar, was
just about to start for Columbia, and
his horse was hitched in front Of the
house.
Jestingly he offered to give the tramp
the horse if he could recite the Greek
alphabet without mistake. The tramp
looked at the horse and then at Mr..
Barton, and then inquired if the bet In
oluded the saddle and bride. Mr.. Bar
ton said that it did, and then went into
the house to get Greek book.
Returning, he found the tramp mount
ed on the horse. As Mr.. Barton stepped
from the porch the tramp ratified off the
alphabet without mistake, and, turn
ing the horses head, disappeared in q
cloud of dust The animal on which the
Princeton pilgrim rode away was one Of
the best blooded horses in Boone county,
noted for its blooded stock. -Philadel-
phia Press
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-01-05
NEW YEARS CALLING.
Z Good Old Custom That Has Gone with
Bygone Years.

BygOne Years.
The old custom of New Years call
ing, which for many years has been fall
ing into disfavor, seems this year deader
than ever. Except in certain quarters
and among certain classes whose social
canons are neither new nor exacting,
there will be no calling. The doors
of society will be more tightly shut than
ever tomorrow, and even the daintily
ribboned basket at the doorbell will be
missing, for the whole custom of ex-
changing greetings on the advent of the
New Year is dead beyond the hope of
resuscitation.
And it is an end which no sensible
person regrets. What abuses it led to,
what disgraceful scenes it rendered pos
sible, what social outrages it sanctioned
or tolerated, and how silly and disgust
ing it all became before society resolved
to crush it outl The life of this deceased
social function may be said to be cock
istent with the life of the republic. As
it existed in the earlier days it was, no
doubt, both pleasurable and profitable
custom. 1t had its origin in France, but
the custom became fully migrated upon
the American social fabric during the
last years of the preceding century.
New York and the cities of the south
were where it was chung to most tena-
ciously. The Puritans of New England
paid little or no attention to the New
Years amenities. Thanksgiving day was
their day, and they had as little use for
New Years day as for Christmas. And
the same may be said of the Quakers in
Philadelphia. with whom the custom of
New Year s calling never did obtain gen.
eral or cordial recognition. But among
the descendants of the Dutch in New
York and New Jersey and the cavaliers
of Virginia the social functions of the
new year were never lost sight of, and
from them the custom spread to all por-
tions of the country. -Exchange
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-01-05
BOUNDING THE PARISH.
A Curious Old Time New Years Custom
of Great Britain.

A Curious Old Time New Years Custom
of Great Britain.
Down to the present century a custom
prevailed in many parts of Great Brit
ain of bounding the parishes, - or
beating the bounds, on New Years
day. The custom was designed to keep
in memory the parochial limits, and as
maps had not come into use and surveys
of Great Britain had not been made this
primitive method Of preserving parish
boundaries was high in popular favor.
A procession was formed, headed by the
leading dignitaries Of the parish, in
Guiding the vestrymen and sometimes
the parson. Liberal rotations were in
dulged in, and a procession was formed
composed Of all who wanted to go and
including number Of boys who did not
want to 60, but were taken per force.
The procession then marched completely
around the parish, and at certain spe-
cifc points halt was made, and a boy
was whipped to make him remember
the place.
Other curious scenes often occurred
during the ''bound beating" In one
parish, near London, the line ran
through man rs kitchen, and the whole
procession every year came in at the
door and went out by the window. On
one occasion in London hackney coach
stood directly in the line of the process
sion, and the entire body of men and
boys went in at one door and out at the
other, volunteers holding the horse
while this novel performance went on
and hooking at the wrath of the I'M
lucky driver, who beheld his coach al
most ruined by the tread of hundreds Of
muddy feet. Exchange
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-01-05
A wonnan.s Palace.

st. Petersburg owes it's second great
palace, The Hermitage, to a fantasy Of.
Catherine II. Originally The Hermitage
was small pavilion attached to the
winter palace-a place of recreation,
where friendly causerie, as it was I'M
derstood in the last century. could be
carried on without court formalities.
The imperial hostess drew up series
Of rules for these parties and placed
them on table near the door. 'Leave
your rank outside as we'll as your hat, I"
says the first rule. fBe gay, but do not
spoil anything; do not break or gnaw
anything. - is a somewhat ominous ad-
monition, but those to argue without
anger and without excitement and
"neither to sigh nor to yawn, nor make
anybody dull or heavy" are rules
which should be enforced in every draw
ing room today. New York World.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-01-05
Riding Stang.

A strange custom in the north of
England ON New Years day slightly
resembles the game for Easter week
known as "heaving" It was called
riding stang" A stang is the same
thing as a cowl staff. A cowl staff is a
big staff for carrying oowl, and cowl
is water vessel with handle. through
which the staff is passed SO that it may
be carried by two men. Now, on New
Years day as many people as liked,
men and women, came together in a
crowd with stangs and baskets. Every
body who was not with the crowd was
against it-that is to say, was it's legiti-
mate victim. When the victim was
caught, if a man, he was mounted
astride the stang which was raised on
the shoulders of two or more men, and,
if woman, she was put in basket,
which was held by the stang thrust
through its handles. In either case the
victim was carried to the nearest public
house, where the price of release was
sixpence. New York Tribune.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-01-05

Ever since the reformation New Years
has absorbed the place Of Christmas;
but. strange to say, although the re-
formers in their zeal denounced Christ
mas as popish, they did not in any way
encourage or countenance any religious
services on New Years day. The Eng
lish peasant goes to church and returns
to eat his Christmas dinner. His brother,
the Scottish plowman, let's no thought
Of religious service enter into his enjoy
ment of the day. Most strange it is that
a most pagan observance of a pagan
feast has taken deepest root in Scotland,
the home of the coveDanters and cradle
Of theology, where the kirk still holds
sway over the masses, and that the
Scots, prominently religious above all
the nations, will have no church serv-
ices enter into the enjoyment of their
national feasts. Philadelphia Ledger.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-01-05
THE GREeoRIAN CALENDAR.
Why Csesar's System Was Corrected by
Pope Gregory XIII.

Why Caesars System Was Corrected by
Pope Gregory XIII.
The present time measurement that
is now used by nearly all nations is the
remodeled system adopted by Julius
Caesar in the year As B. G. There were
354, $50 and 365 days in the Greek year
at different times Under Numa the
Roman year had 355 days, and there
was SO much variance between the civil
and the astronomical year that the au-
tumn feasts were celebrated in the
spring, and those of harvest in midwin-
ter. Every second year an extra month,
called Mercedonius, was added. This
month had no certain length, but was
arranged by the pontiffs as they saw
fit, which naturally gave rise to corrup-
ton and fraud, interfering with the du-
ration of Office and the collection of
debts. In order to restore the seasons to
their proper months it was necessary
for Caesar to make the year in which he
inaugurated the change contain 445
days. On the hypothesis that the as
Economical year consisted of 365A days,
he had each fourth year contain 500
days and the others 365. The extra day
was added to the gath Of February,
which was called Sexto- calendas, being
the sixth before the calendo, or 1st of
March, celebrated in honor of the ex-
pulsion of the kings. The additional
day was placed next to this feast and
known as Observation-Disclosures.
But this year of Caesar was too long
by II minutes and 10. 90 seconds, or
about three days in 400 years, SO that
by A. D. 1852 the error amounted to
ten days at least. To correct this mis-
calculation, Pope Gregory XIII ordered
that Oct. 5, 1882, should be known as
Oct. 10, 1852, and to prevent a recur-
renee of the error it was arranged that
three intercalary days should be omitted
in four centuries-that is, one in each
centenary year except the fourth. Thus
1900 was leap year; 1900 and 1900
were not. The passing year 1896 was a
leap year, and, under ordinary circum-
stances 1900 would be, but it will not
be, in order to come under the rule of
the Gregorian calendar. Therefore the
years which have 966 days are, first,
those that are exactly divisible by 4 and
not Of 100; second, those that are exactly
divisible by 400 and not by 4, 900; hence
the year 1000 A. D. will be leap year,
and the only one in the series of the
four centenary years.
All the Catholic countries adopted the
Gregorian calendar as soon as the papal
bull was issued, but it was not intro
duced into England and her colonies
till 1852, the error then being IL days.
The dates previous to that change are
referred to as old style, and sometimes
given both ways - as Washington s
birthday, Feb, 1922. Chicago Tribune.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-01-05
A ToothIess Emperor.

Jaroslaf | of Russia had no teeth,
having lost these valuable adjuncts to
happiness by a blow from Turkish
mace. An English traveller in his coun-
try says it was commonly reported that
the kings chewing was done by the
queen, who masticated ali the royal
food and transferred it from her mouth
to his maiesty's with SPOON.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-01-05

Everybody knows how easy it is to
make good resolutions ON the LIST Of
January and how easy it is to break
them on the I'd, provided they last till
then. Making resolutions which are
only to be broken is bad custom. 1t is
better that none should be made. But
people of olden time used at the mid
night between the two years to unbar the
doors of their houses to let the old year
out and the new year in. And SO, with
out the undertaking of vows too easily
broken, bar might here or there be
taken down for the passing away Of
come old evil habit or purpose or thought.
Selected.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-01-05
Papa,s whistling Powers.

"Georgie, George, mind-your hat will
be blown off if you lean so far out of the
sarriagep' Paterfamilias Quickly snatch
ing the hat from the head of the refractory
youngster and hiding it behind his back:
"There, now, the hat has goner George
set up howl. After awhile his father re-
marks: Come, be quiet. If l whistle,
your hat will come back again." Whistles
and replaces hat on boys head. There,
it's back again, you seel" While the par
ents are engaged in conversation George
throws his hat out Of the carriage and
cries, "Pa, whistle againp'-New York
Tribune
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-01-05

"Chaste moon" sang the poet.
At that the moon hid her face behind
a cloud.
"Alas, that l am unworthy of his
praisep' she sighed.
She doubtless had in mind the notori-
GUS fact that once month she got full
and staid out all night Detroit Trib-
une.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-01-05

In Scotland "first footing" was for
merry universal. 1t was the Scottish
name for New Years calling. At a lit
tie before IL O'Clock young fellows
would start out from home to first
FOOT their sweethearts, and to be the
first caller ON New Years day was
deemed good sign of success in court
shin -Selected
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-01-05

In the old missals the month Of JAN
uary was pictorially represented by a
white haired man clad in furs, bent
with the cold and blowing ON his fin
gers to warm them. He is standing al
most knee deep in the snow, and billet
of wood, and sometimes an ak, is by his
side. -Exchange