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The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1898-06-07
HOW THEYWOULD sPENDIT.
Novel Experiment as to What Boys and
Girls Would Do With &5.

Novel Experiment as to What Boys and
Girls Would Do With @5.
A very interesting experiment with
school children was recently made in
Springfield, Mass, by DR.. George E.
Dawson. He persuaded 1907 of them,
nearly equally divided as to sex, to
write an answer to the query, "H you
had So, all your own, what would you
do with it?'' Nearly one half of them
(44 per cent? answered that they would
deposit the money in bank, 1873 per
cent would buy clothing, 90 per cent
would buy something to eat, 1873 per
/ cent would buy toys and other means
] of amusement, 2. per cent would buy
/ jewelry and finery. nine-tenths of per
cent would buy firearms, IL per cent
would spend it for travel, IA per cent
would spend it for others and 6 per cent
would buy books, etc.
The disposition to save shown by SO
many of the children is attributed by
DR.. Dawson largely to their susceptible
! ity to suggestion. While the children
/ do not realize the full significance Of
saving, the idea has been engrafted up
on their minds and is bound to have it's
I influence. In noting the percentage Of
I those who would buy clothing it should
be remembered, he says, 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 regard to trav-
ell, the figures show that as children
grow older the desire to go out into the
world increases rapidly, reaching its
height at about the beginning of Adde'S
cence.
The desire shown by the boys for fire.
arms is an expression of the hunting in
stinot that awakens when they are 10
or IL years of age. 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
mum bers more girls than boys, showing
that the greater generosity of women
is strikingly manifest even at an early
age.-New York Post.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1898-06-07
HAUNTED BY A NUMBER.
Figures Scrubbed by a schoolboy Finally
Brought Fortune.

Figures Scrubbed by Schoolboy FINAL,
Brought Fortune.
"My brother William, who died few
years ago." said Colonel Andrew Free
man the other night, from his boy
hood days had curious habit of scrib
bling on every piece of blank paper he
picked up.
"When he was first able to form fig
ures with pen or pencil, he would
trace the meaningless number '15, 174
on everything that had blank space Of
sufficient size. On the whitewasheG
walls of the little old red schoolhouse
down in my home county In the Penny
rile that boy wrote '15, 174' ten thou.
sand times or more.
''On the fly leaf of his textbooks, on
the margins of the newspapers my ia.
ther was a subscriber for, ON the en-.
velopes and on the unused bits of papers
in all of the letters that came to ou1
house he traced those figures in every
idle moment without being able to tell
why he did SO. My father gave the lad
some pretty severe furnishings and count
less reprlmands for indulging in the
senseless habit, but Will never stopped
it for day.
when was 81 and Will was 90,
told him one day that I was going to
play the numbers he was SO devoted to
i'll the Louisiana lottery and if l drew
anything l would divide up with him.
| had been throwing away a dollar in
the gift enterprise for five or six years
and had never drawn cent. l didn t
get the number I wanted that month,
but the next month l got two tenth
tickets, number l 5, ia. and struck the
$40, 900 capital prize. Will got one-half
of the cash, and till the day of his
death, eight years ago, never quit talk
ing about the luck his hobby brought
me, 1t was the most remarkable Incl
dent in my life and the most notable
occurrence in the history of our fam
lily. louisville Post.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1898-06-07
THE SHIPS RUDDER.
Its Two Parts and the Difference In the
Strain That Comes Upon Them.

ITS Two Parts and the Difference In the
Strain That Comes Upon Them.
The rudder of a wooden ship is COM
posed of the stalk and the backing,
which are so joined together as to form
in effect single piece. The complete
rudder is coppered, to protect it from
worms, and then, besides being practi-
cally all in one piece, it has that ap-
pearance also.
The stalk is the part to which are at
tached the pintles, or pivots, by which
the rudder is suspended and held in
place, these going through eyes set in
the ships sternpost. The stalk runs up
through the stern of the ship, and to
its head is bolted cap to which are at
taohed the ropes by means of which the
rudder is controlled. The backing is the
blade part of the rudder.
By far the greater strain comes on
the stalk, and the greatest strain of all
comes ON the head of the stalk, the
rudder head. where it is held. The
stalk is made of the wood most likely
to stand the strain, carefully selected,
sound, we'll seasoned oak, while the
backing is made of spruce or hard pine.
The stalk is of a single, solid, massive
piece, stout as an oak tree and indeed
of the dimensions of a small oak,
something that a man can pin his faith
to, if he can have faith in any wood,
while the backing or blade rs, like
many modern wooden masts, built up.
1t would be difficult if not impossible
to find trees that would yield planks
big enough for the purpose in a single
piece, and the built up backing, made
of pieces of selected wood, can easily be
made of ample strength to Withstand
any strain that will be brought upon it,
As to the stalk, stout and solid as the
oak may be, the head may be twisted
by the force of tremendous blow from
a wave upon the rudder, or, under the
repeated strains of long use, the head
may split and SO make the stalk use
less. Then the rudder is taken out and
fitted with new stalk. A suitable stick
is selected and worked down to the
proper size and form, and very probably
the old backing is attached to it. The
life of rudder stalk would probably
be IL to IA years. The backing might
last as long as the ship. New York
Sun.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1898-06-07
FERTILIZER TALK.

Mixing Chemicals at Home-Compost For
Ordinary Crops.
By mixing the chemicals at home
farmer is supposed to save much of the
cost of handling and selling which the
manufacturers claim. This point The
Rural New Yorker considers as follows:
In theory the work can be done at
odd hours-on rainy days or at times
when nothing else is pressing. The
manufacturers are usually able to make
a more perfect mixture, since they have
powerful and complete machinery for
doing it, and can mix large lot ahead
SO that it may work over or blend in
the pile, and then be reground and
mixed. Farmers who use large lots of
fertilizer are able to make special ar
rangements, and thus prepare good
mixture A New Jersey farmer thus de-
scribes his method:
II put the different chemicals on the
floor, shovel them over twice, and then
put them through my mixer, which is
made of an old thrashing machine.
used an old undershot machine, put a
hopper ON top and made q short shaker
with four mesh wire sieve in the bot
tom. / run this machine by horsepower,
using one horse With two men and
myself can mix and bag ten tons of
fertilizer in a day. l am very careful in
weighing the different materials and
use care to have them evenly distributed
over the heap consequently l have had
very good success, as the actual analysis
has never varied more than one-fourth
of per cent from the calculated analysis
have been doing my own mixing for
the past six years, have had good sue
cess in the field and would not buy
mixed goods unless could get them for
about the same price as my fertilizer
now costs me"
In answer to query as to the value
of compost of leaf mold, COW, horse
and pig manure, and the best way to
use it, the journal mentioned advises:
All organic manures are one sided
that is, they contain too much nitrogen
in proportion to the potash and phos-
phoric acid. Like meat in human food,
they need to be "balanced" with other
substances Cottonseed meal and clover
hay come the nearest to being complete
manures, but even these are one sided
It would be impossible to give more
than guess at the value of your COM
post Do not use lime with it. You may
be sure that the compost is deficient in
phosphoric acid and potash. With ev-
cry load of the compost we would mix
70 pounds of muriate of potash and $50
pounds of dissolved phosphate rock.
Mix them thoroughly, working the COM
post over several times, if possible. This
will make mixture suitable for almost
any ordinary crop. 1t is the best way to
handle such compost
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1898-06-07
Aninoon,enient Parrot.

Young Hankinson (making a CALI
You have had that parrot long time,
Miss Laura?
Miss Laura Yes, we have had him
several years.
"Quite intelligent, is he not?"
Every. He can initiate almost any
thing"
They have remarkably clever par
rot over at the Casterlins, Miss Laura.
1t can initiate the sound of kiss to
perfection. Is that among the accom-
plishments Of our feathered friend here
in the corner?"
Miss Laura (indignantly)-No, sir.
He does not attempt an imitation Of a
sound he Is not accustomed to hear, Mr..
Hankinson.
The Parrot-Wait, George, dear, till
I take this bird ont of the room. Lon
don Tit-Bits
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1898-06-07
The Shilling Trick.

A wandering sleight of hand man
was entertaining some loungers with
an exhibition of his tricks. After show,
ing good number of them, he said:
''But have one good trick that
call the shilling trick.
OF course they all wanted to see that,
SO he instructed good number of them
to give him shilling, after having
marked it and carefully noted the date.
About a dozen of the bystanders did so,
and he took them ALL shook them up,
and then showed each man another shill-
ing than the one he had marked, &C.
companying each shilling with the
question:
lis that yours?"
Each man. of course, said "No," and
he strolled away, saying:
"Then they must all be mine. -
London Globe
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1898-06-07
MYsTtF71;IiNe A CONDUCTOR

The Determined Woman Wanted Him to
Find Her Nephew.
She had a look of determination IN
her face as she stood on the corner OF
Main and Court streets in Auburn and
signaled for an electric car.
The car stopped and the woman ad-
vanced to the steps.
"Where be you goin?' said she.
Figure g." said the conductor.
"Ehp'
"Figure s."
cate what?' said she. "Who said
anything about eatin? Be you goin past
my nephew James Strout's house?"
Dunno said the conductor. "All
aboard"
"You hol' on, young man." said the
woman. "Don't you get excited. Don t
you know Jim Strout? He lives on Ru-
raj avenue, and he's expectin me today"
1--WE go College street, " said the con-
ductor
In the meantime the motorman was
stamping on the gong and passengers
We're getting interested.
"All aboard, " was the courteous sug-
gestion of the conductor. "If you are
going with me, madam, get aboard. We
don't keep a directory and we dom sell
stamps, and am not acquainted with
James Strout of Rural avenue, but If
you want to ride around the figure s.
all aboard. :"
"Well, 1 neverl" said the woman,
well, young man, there's one thing
you kin do. You can hold your horses
till git my gripsack.
And they did, and the conductor
helped her aboard with it, and ON Col
;ege street, near Skinner, she saw
family in team, and she gave a yell
that shut off the electricity quicker than
cat catches rat.
1t was her nephew.
Such are the tender ministrations Of
fate that watch over resolute women
Lewiston journal.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1898-06-07

eff good crops of any kind are to be
secured, begin with the pillow. If you
have only two days in which to prepare
your ground and put in crop of toma-
toes, by all means use a day and half
in preparing the soil Make it fine; pull
verize it. Keep the harrow going as
long as your conscience will let you,
and then harrow some more If the
dirt is lumpy, roll it, then harrow and
just before setting out the plants go
over the land with weeder-one Of the
most valuable machines yet invented.
1t leaves the land smooth and fine. Of
course in garden the hand rake an
swers the same purpose as the weeder. "
With this preface writer i'll The
Orange Judd Farmer presents some
ideas ON growing tomatoes, among them
the following:
If stable manure is to be used ON the
tomato field, let it be thoroughly rot
ted. Do not, under any circumstances,
use coarse, green manure. / would pre-
fer none at all. Whenever stable manure
is used it should be plowed under i'll
the fall. 1t is the practice Of a great
many people to dig hole and put in a
shovelful or two of stable manure, throw
ON little dirt and set the plant on top
of it. If rank growth of vine and lot
of green tomatoes are wanted, this
method will be sure to give perfect sat-
isfaction.
l cannot recommend too highly the
use of nitrate of soda in growing toma-
toes, especially where early ripening is
desired. When used at the rate of 100
to 175 pounds per acre and in connection
with wood ashes, the total yield of
early tomatoes will be very largely in
creased. A larger quantity of nitrate
will increase the yield of fruit, but at
the expense of the net profit on the crop.
However, great care must be exercised
in the application of nitrate of soda to
any plants and especially to the tomato.
1t should not come i'll direct contact
with either the stalk or roots.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1898-06-07
FISHING AMONG HEELS.
The Badly Embarrassed Youth Caught
Something at Each Dive.

The Badly Embarrassed Youth Caught
Something at Each Dive.
A modest Cleveland youth, an Adel-
bert undergraduate, boarded south side
car few evenings ago, and when he
seated himself carelessly dropped his
small gripsack on the floor behind his
feet. Presently the car began to fill up.
Most of the new passengers were girls,
and as they came in one by one the
Adelbert man crowded along little and
SO got away from his gripsack. There
were at least half dozen girls at his
left, and it was in that direction that
his grip was located.
Pretty soon the car neared his stop
ping place, and the Adelbert man be-
thought himself of his baggage. He put
his hand to the floor-it wasn't there
that is, the grip wasn't there. He felt @
little way to the left; he COULDN'T
reach it.
Then he Strengthened up.
Pardon me, ;" he said, with a some
what infiamed countenance, "but / have
grip somewhere under here. +" And he
dove down again.
All he could feel was dainty boot
| heels, two of them badly run down. He
reached little farther. Another boot
heel The girls began to wriggle I'M
easily.
Up came the young man again.
! His countenance was still more in
famed. This time he arose to his feet
"It's here somewhere, he murmur
ed. "If you don't object, I'll try
again Down he went and clawet
along still farther to the left
"I've got it," he muttered.
He pulled, but it didn't come.
Zone moment, he said, there it is >
"No. it isn't, piped shrill soprano
There was brief struggle, and ther
the bashful youth realized that he hat
hold of the young woman's foot.
He stood up at this with despairinl
glare.
Perhaps the girls were moved to pity
by his hopeless look; perhaps they didn =
like the way the other passengers were
giggling. Anyway they shuffied around
and soon produced the missing bag
And the youth with the scarlet fac'
scooted from the car.-Cleveland Plair
/ DoaIar
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1898-06-07
Death Grin on a satohel.

James Whitcomb Riley, the great
Hoosier poet, never burdens himself
with much baggage while he is travel
ing. He once explained his views on
baggage by saying: II am continually
haunted by the fear that my trunk will
be lost, so go about the country with
a grip. 1 keep tenacious hold ON it all
day long and never feel quite safe about
it at night. In case there is ever fear
full railway accident, and among the
debris is valise with an arm attached
to it firmly, they may bury it without
further Identification as the fragments
Of the Hoosier poet.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1898-06-07
Log, Mo-, U. S. A.

On looking at a late map Of Missouri
one will find the name Log" as post
office at the extreme western end of
Newton county and about eight miles
southwest of Grand Falls. A few days
ago Deputy United States Marshal Short
had occasion to serve papers from the
Oklahoma federal court ON several per-
sons residing in that direction, and he
was given their postoffioe address as
Log. AS it was not familiar name in
this vicinity he wandered about the
hills until he came to the end of a log
house extending from the brush and
concluded that it was the place he was
searching for. He asked for the post
master, and woman replied that she
was the official, and upon inquiry as to
her name the officer also learned that
s6e was one of the parties to be subpu-
nsed. She was also asked why her Office
was called Log and stated that she
didn't know exactly, but that when the
office was first established it was called
"Loghouse, which the postoffice de-
partment considered too lengthy, SO it
dropped the "house. kansas City
Journal
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1898-06-07
Platinum and Gold.

A package of wire that weighs %
pounds and resembles ordinary fine pol
ished steel wire was entered at the ap-
praiser's department Of the custom
house some time ago and valued at So, :
900. This is almost as much as the same
weight of gold would be valued, and the
wire attracted good deal of attention.
1t was platinum wire, and for that rea-
son worth its weight in gold. A man
who viewed it said that the demand for
it had apparently increased greatly, as
much more platinum, crude and manu-
factured, was coming through the GUS
tom house now.-Duluth News Trib-
mo
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1898-06-07
A FIREsIDE PIECE.


Translated from de1ne.
Outside the blast is making riot,
And through the darkness the snowAakea
fall
Here in my little room all is quiet,
Warm and dry and so snug withal.
Musing, sit on my cushioned settle,
Facing the firelight's itful shine.
Sings on the hob the simmering kettle,
Songs that seem echoes of ''auld lang syne. "
And close beside me the cat sits purring,
Warming her paws at the CHEEKY CLEAN.
The flames keep fitting and Pickering and
whirring.
My mind is Tapped in a realm Of dream.
Many long, long forgotten summers
Rise up, wraithlike, before my view,
Some in the brightness ~ masking mummers
Some with their splendors bedimmed in hue
Lovely, serene faced women sweetly
Meanings divine in a glance convey.
Revelers, mingling among them heetlys
Caper and laugh and madly gay.
Marble gods in the distance tower.
Near them, dreamlike in beauty rare,
Is a fairy grove that has burst in flower
And sheds perfume on the moonlit air.
4! Castles full many of wizard story
Totter along with their crests awry
knights behind them, in full plumed glory,
| With troops of their squires, come riding by
I IT'S gonel The beautiful dream is overl
| Away like phantom the pageant drawsi
| Oh, dear, the kettle is boiling over,
! And pussy is yelling with scalded pawsl
Theodore Martin in Blackwood's Magazine.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1898-06-07

The white headed old darby approach
ed one of the northern congressman at
the foot of the capitol steps, removed
his hat and said: Size cum all de way
FUN Nottoway county, cap'n, to see
whut yo' kin do fur me. paid So, 700
fur my liberty, en- aim heerd nuthin
fun de promises o. de gubberment -
You mean to say, uncle, that you
bought your liberty" the congressman
asked in surprise, thinking to humor
the old man.
Its a fac, cap'n, en- twenty-seben
hundred wuz de price.
Il thought eternal vigilance was the
price of liberty, unele?''
Scratching his head for an under
standing, the ex-slave replied doubt
fully, WAL, oap'n, dat mout be de
case wild de white folks, but de pooh
niger has ter pay cash. Cincinnati
Commercial Tribune.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1898-06-07

The day is coming when the man who
gives little feels little
! Almost every man in America has some
digestive trouble. When men meet, the
greeting usually is, ''Well, how are you?'u
That develops health talk. The man who
has no bowel or stomach trouble is almost
curiosity. Trouble is men take no care
of themselves. They eat as though they
had copper stomachs and bowels of brass.
By and by, over-worked nature rebels
Then comes headaches, nervousness, bad
blood, liver and kidney troubles. DR..
Pierce's Pleasant Pellets furnish help for
i constipation and torpid liver, sick and
/ bilious headache, dizziness, sour stomach,
loss of appetite, indigestion, or dyspepsia,
windy belchings, heartburn" pain and
distress after eating, and kindred derange-
ments of the liver, stomach and bowels
Accept no substitute.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1898-06-07
He Had Travelled.

Now" said the intrepid explorer
after he had shown the guileness native
the inside workings of the brass watch
and had noted his naive wonder at the
mysteries of the mechanism, 81 will let
you have one of these for two tusks.
Then You can be the envy of the tribe. -
The native gentleman yawned. Then
he said:
81 exchanged secondhand war club
for bushel of those things when was
in London last summer, and there was
not one of them that went for more than
a week. Pearson Weekly.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1898-06-07
RespectabiIity Defined.

British responsibility has been defined
in London police court by prisoner
charged with begging, and the defni-
ton seems to have been accepted by the
magistrate, for he discharged her. She
said: ''I'm respectable woman, tai
loress. Why, make trousers for Mr..
Newton-Mr. Newton, the magistrate
/ mean. If Pm respectable enough to
make magistrates trousers, I'm good
enough for anything"
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1898-06-07

Mr.. Dapper is one Of that class Of
men who age scrupulously neat in their
personal appearance, but who never fail
to leave chaos behind them in the scene
of their preparations. A neighbor re-
Gently called on Mrs. Dapper and re-
marked
"One rarely sees more well kept
man than your husband. He always
looks as if he had just come out of a
band box"
Every true, returned Mrs Dapper,
"hut"-with a sigh-"you ought to
Zee the band box p'-Pearson' Weekly.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1898-06-07
Curious Policies.

Accident insurance policies have tax.
en- many curious shapes, ranging from
the penny in the slot to the coupon in
the weekly newspaper, but the limit
has been reached i'll London, where the
purchaser Of book of cigarette paper
is insured for $50 for a period of 70
days. The annual cost of this amount
of insurance is about 70 cents a year,
provided the holder of the novel policy
is not cigarette fiend. The amount Of
insurance is specifically set aside for
the defraying of funeral expenses in the
event of accidental death.-New York
Journal.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1898-06-07
Spanish Real Estate.

1t is Mark Twain who observes, in
one of his sketches of travel in foreign
parts, that the reason there is compare
lively little arabic land in Spain is be-
cause the great majority of the Spanish
people are in the habit of squandering
1t on their persons, aud when they die
II Is buried with them. SSRoston Herald.