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The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1898-05-24
REPORTER AND cHINAMAN

The Newspaper Man Was Very Tired
When the Oriental Finished.
Numberless are the tricks which
newspaper reporters play upon one an
other to relieve the somber "grind'' of
their calling. Two young men employ
ed on morning paper in large city
were detailed one day to call upon the
resident Cinnamon and interview"
them respecting some immigration
measure then pending in congress. One
of the two reporters was a beginner,
and the other, an experienced man,
naturally assumed the management of
the assignment.
Billings" he said after they had
invaded several laundries without any
important result, "here is a tea store. I
wish you would go in and talk with
the proprietor. want to know what he
thinks about Cinnamon voting. I'll go
on and pull off an interview with the
man who runs this cigar shop next
door. Remember to use the very sim
plest English at your command"
The young reporter went inside the
tea store, took out his notebook, and
thus addressed the proprietor, who hap
pened to be alone at the moment:
John, how? Telegraph,
Johnl Newspape-savvy, John? News
pape-print things. Un'stan? Me want
know what John think about China
man vote, see? What John think-Chi-
naman-vote-all same Mclean man?
Savvy, John? Vote? What Think"
The Chinaman listened to him with
profound gravity until he had finished
and replied:
1.-The question of granting the right
of suffrage to Chinese citizens who have
come to the United States with the
avowed intention of making this coun-
try their permanent home is one that
has occupied the attention of thoughtful
men of all parties for years, and it may
become in time one Of paramount impor-
lance. At present, however, it seems to
me there is no exigency requiring an
expression of opinion from me upon this
subject. You will please excuse me. !"
The young reporter went outside and
leaned against lamppost to rest and
recover from a sudden faintness that
had taken possession Of him. His com
rade had purposely 'steered him
against one Of the best educated Chi
namen in the United States. Youths
Companion.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1898-05-24

There is no hay easier to cure than
that of the cowpea, if properly done, by
partly curing in the windrow and cock
for day, and then putting in a tight
NOV and keeping shut up tight till the
curing is completed. This method of
curing by storing when still green and
limp is becoming more and more COM
mon in the south. and it saves all the
leaves in the best manner, if the farmer
does not get scared when the mass
heats, for heat they will very hot, but
if let alone they will cure perfectly,
while if turned to cool they will mold
badly. Sow Canada peas and oats to-
gether, but do not waste time trying to
get a hot weather plant and cool
weather plant to grow together, for they
will not do it, writes W. f. Massey in
Country Gentleman.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1898-05-24
A cHILD's USE OF MONEY.
Various Answers Received From q Large
Number of Public School PuDfls

Various Answers Received From q Large
Number of Public School Pupils.
DR.. George E. Dawson of the Bible
Normal college has classified answers
received from 1907 pupils of the public
schools of this city, given in response to
the question, eff you had S., all your
own, what would you do with it?''
OF those who passed in answers 500
were boys and 638 were girls, their ages
ranging from to 16. The answers are
grouped under nine general heads: Al
per cent would deposit the money in
bank, 1873 per cent would buy cloth
ing, 30 per cent would buy something
to eat, 1913 per cent would buy toys
and other means of amusement, 3. per
cent would buy jewelry and fnery,
nine-tenths of per cent would buy fire.
arms, IL per cent would spend for
travel, IA per cent would spend for 9TH
ers and per cent would buy books, etc.
1t is interesting to note the large per
cent who express a disposition to save
DR.. Dawson attributes this largely to
the suggestability of the children. The
results In this respect resemble those
obtained in other fields of experiment
While the children do not realize the
full significance of saving, the idea has
been engrafted upon their minds and is
bound to have it's influence The fact
that this idea of saving has been thus
forcibly impressed Oh the minds of SO
many is very significant and gives us
hint of the immense influence of public
instruction.
In noting the per cent of those who
would buy clothing it should be remem-
bered that many of the children were
in urgent need Of something better to
wear. Those who voted for something
to eat were mostly under years of age
In the class who would prefer amuse-
ments the girls usually expressed
wish for dolls and doll carriages while
the boys mostly desired pigeons, rabbits
or other pets. In regard to travel, the
figures show that as children grow old
er the desire to go out into the world
increases rapidly, reaching its height at
about the beginning of adolescence. The
desire shown by the boys for firearms is
an expression of the hunting instinct
that awakens when they are 10 or 10.
At that age boys like to get hold of
books of hunting and adventure. The
tendency to buy books increases steadily
as the children grow older. This class
numbers about twice as many girls as
boys. The class which manifests feeling
of altruism also numbers more girls
than bows showing that the preater
generosity of women is strikingly man.
ifest even at an early age.-Springfeld
Republican.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1898-05-24
THE BEST SEED CORN.
One Cause of Poor Quality In Seed Corn
Selecting Seed From the Bin.

One Cause of Poor Quality In Seed Corn.
Selecting Seed From the Bin.
That the success or failure of the
corn crop is every year much more
largely dependent on the seed planted
than on any other one factor is affirmed
by The American Cultivator, which ex-
presses the following opinions in regard
to the best seed corn:
Last year was not reckoned a good
one for corn over large part of the
country. 1t has been found that in ev-
cry year of general corn failure is apt
to be followed by a second year of at
least partial failure on account of the
poor quality of seed corn, which the de-
ficient crop always produces. This is
more noticeable in the western states,
where the slow maturing Dent varieties
of corn are mostly grown. Dent, or
horse tooth corn, is slow to dry out, even
when its seed is matured Its seed is
apt to be still quite damp when the
freezing of winter opens the cells in the
germ of the grain and diminishes, if it
does not entirely destroy, it's vitality.
The Flint varieties of corn ripen earlier,
and as the grains are also much smaller,
they can dry out thoroughly before
freezing weather sets in.
Where Dent corn is grown in the east
farmers understand that its large ears
and thick cob take long time to dry
out, go they give it extra care, and this
corn here with such treatment is as sure
to grow as any. We grew western
Dent corn several years in northern
state, and never found season when
any of it failed to grow.
The best time to cut corn for seed is
as soon after all it's grain has glazed as
possible. All that the root will give to
the stalk or grain has then been stored
in one or the other If cut from the
root, the stalk will furnish the starch
to the ear quite as we'll as if it still
was on the root, and there is no danger
that an early frost will injure the leaves
and stalks, and thereby injure the grain.
After few days standing on the stalk
in stocks the ears may be stripped off
and hung up by the husks to dry. The
WdHlHSI 1Ilo dll up W LOU uoBISon lHdt
these partly husked ears are exposed to
the better and quicker the seed grain
will dry out. There is nothing better
than fruit evaporators for this purpose,
run at temperature of 100 to 1870 de-
grees and exposed to a free current of
air.
So far as possible seed corn should be
used which has been subjected to some
Of this treatment. Avoid corn that was
left in the field until winter, and there
exposed to much cold and wet. If you
are obliged to take seed corn from bin,
take some part where it has been dri-
est, and where the ears have not been
exposed to rains or to be covered by
SHOWS Even if well dried out, seed corn
when exposed to wet will absorb enough
to injure the seed if severe freezing
comes afterward.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1898-05-24
What Others Say.

Kerosene is an extremely penetrating
material, and single drop on an insect
will get into every body opening and
into the spiracles, causing almost i'm
mediate commissions and death. 1t acts
at once or not at all, says Entomologist
Smith of the New Jersey station.
The statement that timothy hay is
less digestible by horses than by cattle
will be a surprise to many. 1t is credit
ed to Professor Patterson of the Mary
land station
Country Gentleman tells that it is the
practice in Oswego county, N. Y, to
allow beds of strawberries to fruit but
one year.
At the New York experiment station
potassium sulphide treatment gave best
results as a remedy for gooseberry mil
dew, while formalin was found to be of
little avail.
Grapes should not be planted in a
neglected patch of sod, but the ground
about the roots should be kept cultivat-
cd. Bone fertilizers are said to be espe-
cially valuable for grapes.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1898-05-24
LINCOLN AND HIS CABINET.
The Unexpected Discovery He Made About
Their Appointments.

The Unexpected Discovery He Made About
Their Appointments.
Mr.. f. "a prominent historical writer)
went to President Lincoln to get an ap-
pointment, and being asked of what de-
nomination he was answered that he
was Presbyterian "Well, said Pres
ident Lincoln, IT will have to look at
my book to see. y He further said: 81
am not sure but the Presbyterians are
full. have to do this. :"
Mr.. Lincoln then proceeded: "Bishop
Simpson was here the other day com
planning of my cabinets giving all the
appointments to Episcopalians. l did
not know anything about my cabinet
thought Blair good old Presbyterian
name, and as for Seward, didn't know
until went to church with him that
he was an Episoopalian. y
President Lincoln had said to Bishop
Simpson: 'tYou wait here. We are to
have a cabinet meeting here directly,
and will see to it. and when the cab
met came he said, "Here is Bishop
Simpson making complaint of our Civ
ing all the appointments to the Episco-
palians.
Said Seward: "That is not true of
my department.. l never give an APP
pointment to any man because of his
denomination, nor even know what he
is"
Said Bishop Simpsons: "There was
DR.. McClintock, appointed to go to
Paris, a good Methodist, and Bishop
Hughes was put in his place. l suppose
you didn't know, sir, who Bishop
Hughes was?" "Oh, | had forgotten
about him."
"Well, said Blair, you've got him
there, bishop, but there are not two in
my department that are Episcopalians. "
"Sir, said the bishop, "there are not
two that are not. " "Why, said Blair,
"that is not true, and you may come
tomorrow morning and look for your
self"
II will be there at such time" and
he was there. AS he went in Blair said,
"Ah, bishop, you got Seward splendid
ly yesterday" Bishop Simpson said, II
do not come to hear about him, but
about your department..
II haven't time to see about that"
'Sir, it is Of more importance than you
know. Yesterday you said there were
not two who were Episcopalians, and
said there were not two that were not
Episcopalians, and so he forced him
to look at it, and he found that the
bishop was correct, and that there were
not two that were not Episcopalians.
All this Mr.. Lincoln said to Mr.. f.,
who communicated it to one of the best
known citizens of this country, a man
of unimpeaohablev eracity and equal ac-
curacy, who communicated it to u.s.
Christian Advocate
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1898-05-24

Reading at breakfast is fatal to socia-
bility. In breakfasting alone it is per-
Missile, but not in company. Leigh
Hunt wrote in The Indicator: "When
we lived alone, we could not help read
ing at meals, and it is certainly deli
cious thing to resume an entertaining
book at particularly interesting pas
sage with hot cup of tea at ones ell
bow and piece of buttered toast in
ones hand. The first look at the page,
accompanied by coexistent bite of the
toast, comes under the head of intensi-
ties" A book at breakfast is no compli-
ment to the cook, but newspaper is
an insult. On the other hand news
paper at breakfast is a benefit to the
doctor, for it is when one is put off
ones guard by the struggle with the
folds and the search for items Of inter-
est that the way is made easy for the
approach of dyspepsia.
In the old days of The Spectator and
Tattler, when papers were of a reason
able size and reposeful to boot, they did
no harm. Now-well, now the largest
circulation in the world may produce
the poorest digestion. 1t has been re-
marked (by collector) that the only
literature suitable at breakfast is book
sellers catalogues, but since catalogues
lead always to kilograms or envy this is
doubtful. The line should probably be
drawn at private letters. -CornhilI Mag
aZine.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1898-05-24
The Bean Anthracnose.

1t is important to know that the fruit
rot Of the melons is the same as the
bean pod spot-first for the treatment
that has proved effective in the one
case will be quite likely to check the
disease in the other; secondly, it may
be wise not to follow melons with beans
or vice versa when the first crop has
been quite badly infested. In other
words, while the two crops are very diff
ferent it may be we'll for the trucker to
so plan his system of rotation as to not
have two crops come in succession that
are victims to the same enemy. The
writer has sometimes noticed cucum-
bers badly anthracnosed that were
growing upon land previously in beans
and which were ruined by the pod
spot. AS remedy there is nothing
known that is better than bordeaux
mixture.-B. D. Halsted in American
Gardening.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1898-05-24
THE VOICE ABOVE.
Lost on the drift and where the full CLOUDS
flow

Lost on the drift, and where the full clouda
flow
The steep above him looms,
And strong winds out of distant regions blow
The snow IL streaming plumes,
And yawns the gulf of the crevasse below
In sapphire glows and glooms.
Along the precipice there is no way
That he may surely tread.
Slight is his foothold on the slippery stay
That trembles to his tread,
And chill and terrible the dying day
Falls fast about his head.
Could he but hear some lowing of the herd,
Some mountain bell ring clear,
If some familiar sound one moment stirred
To guide him lost in fear
He dares not move. Some beokoning leading
word,
Alas, could he but heart
In those waste places of the earth and dim
No star shines forth at all.
Through awful loneliness enshrouding him
He gives one shuddering call,
While horror of great darkness seems to swim
And fold him in its pail.
Then like blown breath of music In the height
A cry comes far and low.
He thrills, he springs, he gathers all his might
He feels new pulses glowi
His fathers voice-he needs not sense nor sight
He knows the way to gol
Harriet Prescott Spofford in Harper's Maya
Oil
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1898-05-24
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49, 1ND GAR DEN
THE PEACH BoRER.
Two Methods That Have Proved Effectua
In Protecting Trees.


In Protecting Trees.
]. B. Smith, entomologist of the New
Jersey station, has especially expert
mented and investigated in the matter
of preventing trouble from the borer by
protecting the trees, and considering
experiments made in 1897 and all the
records that have been published he ar
rives at the following conclusions, ex-
pressed in bulletin:
Newspapers and hydraulic cement
mixed with skimmilk come nearest to
filling all the requirements of economy
and durability, with the advantage, on
the whole, in favor of newspapers on
old or medium sized trees. Newspapers
are at least as effective as any other
kind of wrapping that have seen tried,
and in actual practice they have lasted
we'll Whatever the material employed,
some borers will start above the pro-
tected point and work into the bark, SO
that organizations must be made at
least once each year to prevent all
chance of injury. One paper will do for
the largest orchard tree and half of
most of the papers will answer for a
3-year- old or younger. The time of ap-
plication is almost the same for large
as for a small tree, and the paper is
soft, clean and easily handled.
The hydraulic cement in milk stands
next, in my opinion. 1t is by all odds
the most lasting of all the washes that
have been recommended, and has stood
the test of an unusually trying season
in several localities with complete sue
cess. On small trees it is cheaper than
the newspaper, because it can be applied
much more rapidly, the amount of ma
terial being Insignificant. On large
trees the paper is cheaper, because the
item and the time of application is Ion
ger. There is always here, too, the seri-
Gus danger that the application will not
be thorough. The larger and rougher
the trees the greater is this source of
danger. On small or smooth trees the
wash is excellent and has the advantage
over the newspapers that it can be cas-
lily brought up to protect much greater
part Of the trunk.
On the other hand, the trunk above
the newspaper may be easily protected
by two or three sprayings of bordeaux
mixture or by an application of lime
and paris green or any other of the
poisoned Washes
In fact, for trees over 3 years old l
would recommend newspapers, tied on
some time in early May and supple
mented by applications of bordeaux
mixture with half the usual quantity of
copper and the addition of an ounce of
paris green for every two gallons of the
mixture. The applications should begin
in June and should be made as often as
necessary to keep a good covering until
the end of August. The paper should
be in all cases removed about the be-
ginning Of October.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1898-05-24

Canada peas and oats are frequently
sown together for hay, but cowpeas and
oats never. 1t would be perfectly i'm
practicable to do so. These southern
peas are really very tender bean and
should not be sown till the ground is
hot in June. Then, if the oats are sown
afterward, the result would be no oats
at all, for the cowpeas would simply
smother whatever weak growth they
would make at that time. We are SC
often asked about sowing cowpeas and
oats together by those who have heard
of peas and oats for forage that we want
to call attention to this fact. We have
grown great many acres of cowpeas
and have seen many thousands of acres
growing and have never yet seen cow
peas and oats mixed, though we have
grown the Canada field peas and oats
successfully mixed, both being hardy
plants that can be sown at the same
time. If the cowpeas are sown at the
time when the oats would thrive, they
would simply rot in the ground, and if
sown when they should be there would,
as I have said, not be the slightest
chance for the oats sown after them.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1898-05-24
ASPARAGUS CULTURE.
A Vegetable Which Endures Neglect and
Highly Rewards Good Care.

A Vegetable Which Endures Neglect and
Highly Rewards Good Care.
Asparagus is one of our Oldest and
most reliable of vegetables, growing
modestly but persistently among grass
and weeds, enduring the neglect which
falls to it's share in the majority of gar
dens with patience and faithful re-
ward that is unmatched in all the vege-
table kingdom. Many cooks have like
wise fallen into the habit of neglecting
its toothsome possibilities and serving
it in only one or two ways at most,
when little study of the modes of pro-
fessional cooks would reveal a score or
more of different servings that would
make its daily appearance lin season.
upon the table series of epicurean de-
lights.
In its cultivation there is no vegeta-
BILE which yields larger return for
small outlay of labor and space than
asparagus 10 be sure, it requires some
time to start it, but after a bed is once
established it will yield crop every
year, the more abundant if given an
annual dressing of fertilizer.
The plants may be purchased at a
nursery or city seed store, or an ounce
of seed may be sown in drills in May.
termination may be hastened by week
if the seeds are soaked in tepid water
two or three days before planting.
When the plants first make their ap-
pearance, they resemble young ever
green's. They should be well cultivated
during the summer, and the next spring
they will be ready to transplant into a
bed. The ground should be made very
rich and either plowed or spaded deep
ly. Upon lifting the little plants they
should be immersed in pail of water
and the roots watered slightly when set
out Have burrows or trenches at least
six inches deep to receive the plants.
The trenches should be four feet apart
and the plants set Is inches apart in the
row. Cover well and mulch with straw
manure or bone dust, and the work of
making an asparagus bed is finished.
A little salt sprinkled on the bed in
the spring is beneficial, or throw the
old brine from the pork barrel upon it.
This also serves to exterminate the
grass. 1t is best not to remove the tops
in the fall, as they catch and hold the
snow thus protecting the roots and sup
plying needed moisture. But remove
them early in the spring and fork in a
thick top dressing. One should not ex-
pect to cut any shoots in the first year,
and only few the second, but after
that tho had will viald an abundance
for family use or several dollars worth
if marketed, writes correspondent in
the Ohio Farmer
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1898-05-24
Delicate Instruments.

Some of the delicate instruments in
the Toronto magnetic observatory in
tended to measure fluctuations in the
earth's magnetism have been greatly
disturbed by the electric currents flow
ing through the earth from the adjacent
trolley lines. Accordingly these instru-
ments are to be removed to point nine
miles from the city and two miles from
any possible trolley route. The records
of the Toronto observatory date back
more than half century and are the
most valuable of their kind ever obtain
I'd ON this continent.