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The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1914-03-24
DEFIES EFFORTS OF CAMERA
Speed of Bullet on Its Mission Of
Death, Makes Photographinq
an Impossibility.

If photograph of speeding bullet
could be taken the print would prob
ably show a space like body of water
marked by what looked like speeding
water bugs, each leaving a ripple in
its wake. Photographs of projectiles
have been snapped IN time of peace,
but it Is doubtful If the camera ever
caught one as it sped on its mission of
death A bullet speeding at the rate
of 5000 feet a second, which is more
than 1000 miles an hour, makes a
great disturbance in the atmosphere
and creates air waves, which of course
are Invisible to the naked eye.
II you draw a stick through the
water 1t causes little eddies and waves
to trail behind It. The faster you draw
the stick the more waves and the
wider the angle will it leave. The
slower the stick is drawn the fewer
waves. Just SO the bullet. II it is
travelling slowly no waves can be
photographed, as apparently there are
none. 1t is only objects travelling at
terrific speed that create any appreci-
able air waves.
Photographs of bullet going at
rate Of speed less than 1900 feet a
second show no air waves at all. This
is an interesting scientific discovery.
But anything cutting through the air
at greater rate than this disturbs the
atmosphere to such great extent that
air waves are formed and can be pho-
tographed.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1914-03-24
NOTES A MYSTERY OF MONEY
Difference In Unit Of Values Between
Belgium and Holland Is Puzzle
to the Traveller.

There are good many mysteries of
money and tariffs, and the wayfarer
through life is often puzzled. Why is
it that in the little step from Belgian
to Holland your whole financial cut
look on life is altered? They live close
together, the Dutch and the Belgians.
But in coinage they are far apart Bel
GUM thinks in francs. Holland thinks
in forms. And when you step from
the one little country to the other you
find they are thinking the same thing
Goods in terms of money.
You have but to cross the frontier
between these small countries to find
the difference: Belgium lives on
francs, Holland reckons in forms, and
the amazing thing is that every one
across the frontier will pay about
twice as much for the mere luxury Of
taking the form as a unit instead of
a franc. Now I should like to know
what is the economical reason of this,
says writer in the London Chronicle
For Belgians and Hollanders appear
equally prosperous. And the Hollander
lives on the form, while the Belgian
lives on the franc The Englishman
who crosses the frontier finds the ex-
traordinary difference when he
changes his sovereign.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1914-03-24
Lord NorthIa Witty Renlv.

When he was i'll his doctor asked
him what he felt What / have not
felt for long time" said North; my
ribs" He was, indeed, what used to
be termed a man of full habit, and
could make jest of it. In the house
an angry opponent once rallied at him
as that thing, a minister" North
rose unperturbed. well, to be sure"
said he, patting his ample sides, Il am
an unwieldy thing; the honorable
member, therefore, when he called me
a thing said what was true, and can
not be angry with him. But when he
added that thing, a minister. he call
ed me that thing of all things he him
self wished most to be; and therefore
/ took it as a compliment" In his
blind age he met an old antagonist
who was similarly afflicted: "Ah, Col.
Barre" said he, Il am persuaded there
are not two men living who would be
more happy to see each other" Well
might Gibson say, IF they turned out
Lord North tomorrow they would still
leave him one Of the best companions
In the kingdom"
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1914-03-24
WHITE SERVANTS GOOD WORK
Did Much Toward Building Up the
South in the Days Before the
Revolution.

Socially the white servant was an
important factor in helping to build up
landed aristocracy in the south, be-
cause he made possible the cultivation
of extensive areas of land, declares a
writer in Harper's Magazine. But in
the course of few years he became
free citizen and owner of a small
estate. Thus was developed yeoman
class, a much needed democratic ele-
ment in the southern colonies, while
at the same time settlers were secured
for the black lands, where they were
needed to protect the frontier. Never
theless, they did not form a distinct
class after becoming freedmen. Some
were doubtless the progenitors of the
poor white trash" of the south, but 1t
is likely that environment rather than
birth was the main factor in producing
this class. While comparatively few
rose to prominence, yet there are some
notable examples to the contrary. Two
signers of the Declaration of hide
pendence, George Taylor and Mathew
Thornton; Charles Thompson, the sec
rotary of the continental congress, and
General Sullivan of revolutionary war
fame, had all been white servants. 1t
is certain also that many became sue
cessful planters, and perhaps the ma
jority respectable and desirable citi-
zens.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1914-03-24
ESTABLISHED 1875
WAS FIRST AMERICAN BANK
Boston Institution That Issued $780,
600 In Scrip In 1714 Is Accorded
That Honor.

The first bank in America, located
on State street, Boston, loaned money
on real estate, personal property and
imperishable merchandise, though it
had not the privilege of issuing
money, then a prerogative of the Bay
State colony. After a few years Bos-
tons first branch discontinued bust
ness and was started in 1714, ten
years after the first newspaper was
printed in Boston. The new bank car
ried on business and issued 100000 in
scrip on the basis now sought by GER
tain financial promoters and leaders. 1t
was scrip and nothing but scrip, and
consequently the bank was short-lived.
In 1742 land bank was founded by
several hundred subscribers who gath
cred in Boston as the bankers are
meeting today and who attempted to
relieve the scarcity of specie by Is
suing scrip based on real estate hold
ings. A specie bank was also founded
about the same time, but both insti-
buttons found it as impossible to COM
pete with the bills of credit" issued
by nearly every colony as 1t would be
today to rival the government in mint
Ing money. All this paper money rap
Idly deprecated in value, owing to the
constant and heavy expenditure for
military movements of offense and de-
tense against the Canadian French
and their Indian allies.
In 1882, during the revolution, the
Bank of North America of Philadel-
phia received charter from congress,
and its operations in the Bay State in
spired the establishment of the Bank
of Massachusetts in March, 1884, an
institution which is still in operation
as the First National bank OF Boston.
National Magazine
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1914-03-24
TURNS RUBBISH INTO MONEY
Father Bans Of London, England, Has
Made Enough to Purchase Site
for Chlldren's Home.

Rubbish collected in London has
provided enough money to purchase a
site for a children's home. Father
Bans, employing two motor vans and
a horse cart for collecting things most
persons throw away, makes $4,000
q year for his Crusade of Rescue" In
q warehouse in Compton street, Kings
Cross, he has three sorters, whose
task It is to empty sacks containing
different kinds of refuse and to ar
range the material for sale. Among
the neglected articles which he has
found to have real value are old en-
velopes, pamphlets, bits of paper, bro
ken bottles, corks, electric bulbs, sar-
dine tins. old stockings, silver paper,
candle ends, cardboard. and medicine
bottles.
Medicine bottles can be sold to doc
tors for $3.50 gross, and other bot
ties are bought up by a dealer. Bro
ken plates are sold and broken up for
road foundations. Corks go to limo
leum manufacturers, and tin lids are
utilized by the British Electron COM
pany. The zinc and tin in bottle tops
fetch, respectively. 8 cents pound
and $3.50 a hundredweight.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1914-03-24
RELATIONSHIP WITH THE WILD
Something Hard to Define, but All
Lovers Of Nature viii Have knows-
edge Of What II Meana.

The Wild What Is that that 1t
should SO impress the heart of man;
that it should have lured me all the
days Of my life, like music, a solace
and an enchantment? 1t Is beautiful
in its way, as in very different way
cultivation is beautiful. but this alone
does not explain its influence. There
is spirit of the wild, with which the
spirit of man acknowledges relation
ship as old as the race; and If the con-
ditions of his evolution from primitive
man have, in the course Of ages, sep
arated him farther and farther from
that original affinity with nature and
made him wanderer from the father
land, that bond will never become
wholly a thing Of the past. 1t still
haunts and will haunt-a dim, mex
plicable, subconscious memory of a
long buried past. 1t Is natural, then,
that in the presence Of any bit of
wild landscape, or a patch Of virgin
forest, some minds should experience
with thrill a half return to an origi-
nal state-with thrill, indeed. There
is wilderness motif heard in an In
ner ear by these men, as Siegfried
heard the Valhalla motif. 1t rules
their stars, as might the wanderlust
or the passion for music or art
From North and South" by Stanton
Davis Kirkham
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1914-03-24
BABY LANGUAGE MADE STUDY
Declaration by Expert VIII Make Him
Unpopular With the Fond
Mother.

Baby language Is the latest study.
The child first uses its voice, says an
expert, to express hunger, temper and
feelings of pleasure. Noises alone
suffice for such expression. Then the
baby utilizes its voice as a plaything,
and afterward as a recognized mode
of expression.
Trilling of lips takes place only at
teething time. Gradually there is less
variety of sounds, as the child learns
definite associations with definite
sounds. Some little people can hum
tunes perfectly. yet are too young to
pronounce the accompanying words.
On the other hand. they are often
credited with words they never say.
Mum" Is an instructive sound, not an
intentional call. Doubtless fond moth
ers will protest, but wise professor
laid it down that the child of any ma
tionality when in need cries Mum"
The mother comes. After time the
infant associates Mum" with the ar
rival of mother and the cessation of
distress. Then it expresses the word
intelligently, but not before this as
sociation has occurred.
Definite words, it was explained. are
comprehended between the twelfth
and fifteenth months. Often one word
forms the entire vocabulary for a
long time. Comprehension of words
takes place earlier than the power to
speak
There was great difference be-
tween boys and girls. The former
were slower than the latter.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1914-03-24
Lesson for Humanity.

A vanished frog dies, not because
bodily poisons accumulate in its skin,
but because of overheating. When the
air it breathes becomes warmer than
3S degrees Centigrade, DR.. Vittorio
Puntoni of the University of Bologna
reports that the frog must use its pores
to radiate the extra heat. The Lancet,
discussing his findings, remarks that
disease germs were discovered to
make short work of the vanished ba-
trachians, already weakened by swell
tering. The conclusions of Doctor
Puntoni have a practical interest in
their relation to the deleterious effects
of moist, warm climates and the use
of improper clothing, which act by
disturbing the eutaneous function.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1914-03-24
MADE UP OF LITTLE THINGS
Small Events Count for Much More In
Life Than Those We Consider
Of Importance.

We love little things, we hate little
things, we fear little things; our lives
are knit up with little things from the
time we are born to the day we die.
Big things draw us up to Heaven or
crush US down to hell Little things
live beside US on the earth, eat and
sleep with US, laugh and grumble with
us, catch the early train with us, or
make us miss it, irritate and appease
rs-never leave us alone for a min
ute
That is why they are so much more
important than the big things-the
things that only come once in a way,
at long intervals, and even then are
nearly always the result of hundred
and one little things combined.
To be crushed by a large misadvep-
ture is natural, but to fall a victim 20
a series of petty misfortunes is hui
initiating. There are many who would
prefer to break their necks once and
for all by falling off a mountain, than
to bruise their whole bodies and dis
locate their tempers by the daily
stumbling over a mole-hill 1t is the
little things that count-the satisfac-
ton of climbing Mount Olympus is
poor sort of attainment if the scores
and scores of pleasant details which
wait upon success be absent.-From
the Atlantic.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1914-03-24
ONE WHO DESERVES TRIBUTE
etenographar, HammerIng Out Do
tated Paragraphs, Times Her Eff
cheney to Our Limitations.

Who else knows US half so well?
She has heard all that we have said
and then made notes of It, She has,
read our incoming letters. She knows
who pleads with Us for help and what
we do about it. Do we write frankly
or eyasively, she fellows the straight
hewed line or the curve Of our devious,
ness. Are we courteous only to the,
powerful, or is our treatment even to.
all who come seeking? The woman
at our elbow, hammering out our para
graphs. Is a clear eyed witness. Over
the telephone voices drift in from the
world, and the tone of each ia caught
and judged before our presence is
acknowledged. She knows whether
our friends are worthy Is the home
happy? She knows It, She notes all
our tricks of person. Our good temper
our clean speech, fly further than we
guess. She is familiar with the stale
phrases we scatter over the thousand
routine letters, and Is gladdened when
we light up the languid page with an
unspoiled turn. She is aware when
we have tumbled out from q laden
desk to a worlds series ball game
She, too, would enjoy great players
versatility, but she wades through our
debris till twilight She could keep
our tardy correspondence up to the
minute. but she has to time her eff
cheney to our limitations. Never out
pacing US, she is as loyal in the back
ground as our shadow. - Golfers
Weekly.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1914-03-24

A French statistician wrote to the
vail of Aleppo and asked these four
questions: What are your imports?
What is the water supply? What is
the birth rate? The death rate?" The
vail replied: 1T is impossible for any
one to know the number of camels
that kneel in the markets of Aleppo.
The water supply is sufficient No
one ever died of thirst in Aleppo. The
mind of Allah alone knows how many
children shall be born in this vast
city in any given time. AS to the
death rate, who would venture to as
certain this, for it is revealed only to
the angels Of death who shall be
taken and who shall be left o son
OF the west, cease your idle and pre-
sumptuous questionings, and know
that things are not revealed to the
children of men!'
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1914-03-24
Right to Accept Reward.

The right of a public officer to &C.
cept a reward was involved in the
case Of Hartley vs.. Inhabitants of
Granville, before the supreme judicial
court of Massachusetts,, in which the
court ruled that while ordinary peace
officers cannot collect additional COM
pensation for services rendered in per-
Torrance of their regular duties, yet a
contract made to pay an officer for
services rendered outside and not in
consistent with his duties is valid.
The court holds that a constable who
ferreted out offenders, relying on re-
ward offered by the town, may recover,
because detective duties are not with
in the scope of constable's official
obligation
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1914-03-24
Cora Bellies Team.

Cora Bellies team would bring a
smile to the soberest face alive. Sheba
is tall, lanky old mare. Once she
was bay in color, but the years have.
added gray hair until now she Is
roam. Being SO long-legged she strides
along at an amazing pace which her
mate, Balaam, a little donkey, finds it
hard to keep up with. Balaam, like
Sheba, is full of years. Once his
glossy brown coat was the pride of
some Mexicans heart, but time has
added to his color also, and now he
is blue. His eyes are sunken and dim,
his ears no longer stand up in true
donkey style, but droop dejectedly. He
has to trot his best to keep up with
Sheba's slowest stride. About every
three miles he balks, but little Cora
Belle doesn't call it baking, she says
Balaam has stopped to rest. and they
sit and wait till he is ready to trot
along again. That is the kind of lay
out which drew up before our door
that evening Atlantic.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1914-03-24
HER RIGHTS IN THE HOME
Woman Contends That Wife's Services
Are Worth More Than Food and
Ralment-Her Remedy.

Is a woman's life worth only her
food and clothing? In every position
on earth, except that of wife, per
son is entitled to wages. A Wsfe gem
orally does all that servant would do,
and a great deal more, works more
hours day than man and goes
through ordeals that are almost beyond
human endurance, yet many wives do
endure this for half century with
only enough to eat and keep them
warm, never having an extra dollar to
spend. They even have to ask for
money to buy postage stamps.
/ think woman should have abso-
lutte control of all household affairs.
She should watch corners and know
how to deal wisely. She should be al
lowed to manage her house in what
ever way seems best to her. She
should have enough of an allowance to
cover necessary expenses, and spe-
cial allowance for her individual needs,
and should never have to ask for it.
Extract from a letter written by
woman on the subject of a wife's ex-
penditures, in Farm and Fireside.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1914-03-24
FOR ATTAINMENT OF OLD AGE
Avoidance of Worry and Moderation Of
Diet the Main Things, says
DR.. Desc.

These comments on how to attain
old age are made by a writer in the
Journal Of the American Medical Asso-
citation:
The chances of attaining old age
are much greater if we live much of
our life in fresh country air. Stats
tics go to show, according to DIR. Dez-
so of Budapest, that the fourth gen
Grafton of the town dweller is un-
known; but enough is currently report.
ed to make the conclusion inevitable
that the sine qua non of longevity is
certain amount of time spent in the
country.
THE city child is subject to num-
Der of disturbing conditions other than
mere absence Of creature comforts,
which undermine the constitution by
throwing too heavy a burden on the
sense organs, through which exhaus-
ton of the central nervous system fol-
lows; among these conditions are
noises. perpetual round of hurry,
and unending sequences of incidents
exhausting the attention to which are
superadded the physical discomforts
of vitiated air affiuvia from human be-
ings and waste organic products, be-
sides offensive gases and Infection
laden dust.
ITO attain old age we have to re-
lieve ourselves from worry, strains and
anxieties, withdraw periodically from
the whirl Of effortful existence, modify
our diet, omit the use of stimulants
and narcotics, and spend reasonably
long periods of time under pleasant
conditions in practical retirement.
Above all, amusement should be SIM
plitied and accepted rather than
sought after. Only vegetable and
semi-animal foods should be eaten.'
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1914-03-24

A young girl who lived in MISSISSIPPI
pi asked her brother to give her the
money to go to college. He told her he
could not afford 1t, and tossing her
nickel. added. Unless you can go on
that"
The plucky girl took the fivecent
piece and bought some calico, from
which she made bonnet that she sold
for 25 cents. With this money she
bought more calico. and made more
bonnets. After she had made several
dollars In this way, she determined to
raise potatoes. She did all the work
in the field except the blowing. The
venture was success, and she had
enough money to start at school. She
did not stop work, however, and it is
not surprising that a girl of so much
determination was able to borrow
enough money to supplement what she
made.
She was graduated with honor from
The state college for women, attended
a medical school. still earning all her
expenses. got her degree, and is now
a successful practicing physician In a
large town in the south, and 1t all be-
gan with a nickell-Youth's Compan-
ion.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1914-03-24
FIRST TO WIN RECOGNITION
Earliest of American Authors to Gain
the Coveted Praise Of Europe
Was Washington Irving.

The first American author to win
general recognition of his genius in
Great Britain was Washington Irving,
who died in his seventy-seventh year
at Sunnyside, N. Y. The immortal
humorist, historian and essayist was
born in New York, the son of native
of Scotland. He was educated for
the law, but his tastes were all in the
direction of literature, and his legal
career was brief and almost brief
less one. At eighteen he wrote Let
tiers of Johnathan Oldstyle." which
were published in the New York
Morning Chronicle, newspaper
owned by his elder brother, Dr. Peter
Irving. He was only twenty-five when
he wrote the celebrated History of
New York, by Diedrich Knickerbock-
err" From 1915 until 1882 Irving re-
sided in England, where his genius
was fully recognized. Later he re-
turned to Europe as United States
minister to Spain, and spent several
years in Madrid. In the opinion of
both American and English critics,
Irving has few equals for grace of
style and purity and elegance of die
ton and his works seem destined to
take their place among the great clas-
sizes Of the English language.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1914-03-24
In the Nursery.

1t does not mean that woman can
not take charge of her own children's
bringing-up simply because she puts
them in nursery. She can take
charge of them as well in a nursery as
out of one. If they are in charge of
a governess, however, she should be
a woman who can be thoroughly trust
ed. In these days of mothers help
ers the young woman who fills that po-
sition would have the supervision of
the nursery in a house where she was
employed, and she should be chosen
with the greatest care. For the whole
value of the nursery idea is that the
children who are brought up in
nursery lead quieter, more untram-
meled life than they do when they
live out of the MISUNDERSTANDING
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1914-03-24
AND Mr.. SNUCKLES DEPARTED
Experience Had Taught Him It Was
Not Wise to Be the Refugee In
Family Quarrel.

''Twuz dis-uh-way, Brudder Snuck-
les" heatedly declared Mr. Mauley,
who bore somewhat the appearance of
having recently met a bear. dis
yuh am puhsizely de way it stahted:
Muh wife, dar-dag-kawn her!-she
said"
Never said no sich-uh-thing!"
wrathfully interrupted the militant
wife of Mr.. Mauley's mussed-up bos-
ON. "Dess tell yo' how it burgun:
Dat varmint, he took and"
We'll, yo' done flung de-"
Didn't hit yo', did it? Den, what
20
Il lodged in time, bless goodness,
or 'twould-uh busted muh head!
But"
Now, now, Brudder Mauley, and
Sistah Mauley," interjected square
headed old Brother Snuckles, 'uh-
whilst loves trouble as much as any
body-and mo- dan good many, may
be-when yo'all axes me to be de
refugee in a quart uh-twixt man and
his awful welded wife, rs 'bleeged to
retaliate, mo- in sorrer dan in anger,
'Uh-goodby, sab! Uh-goodby, nom!
I'm gwine fun yo'! "-Kansas City
Star.