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The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1915-01-19

A sharp, pointed something sprang
into intense, white heat, which re-
vealed every eager line Of Jimmy's set
face. He applied the electric drill to
the steel roof above him, and it ate
its way In with barely a sound, send
Ing out a shower Of heated steel.
He groaned in his eagerness and
satisfaction.
Good. goodl Oh, q winner-a win
ner-a winner! Now II the tide is
backin' up the river right-pshaw, of
course 1t is. I en- get away In the
boat before midnight. Then for Porto
Varez an the wide, wide worid-an'
the beauty parlors."
Half an hour later a square section
Of steel plate sagged down. snapped
of. and dropped to the bottom of the
tunnel. Jimmy Martins breath cana
in little excited gasps. He thrust him
self through the opening and emo. yed
on the floor Of the great vault.
He had no need to waste time in
investigation. The plans of the vault
had not been hard to get; he knew
them almost as we'll as the bank pres
ident himself. He stepped across to
n corner, worked for Eve minutes
with a lock. and drew open a large
drawer marked:
100 G. o.
1t was a grand sight.
The drawer was literally packed
with bundles Of gold certificates. One
hundred dollars each, one hundred in
a pack. and ten packs. It required no
mathematician to figure the value.
One hundred thousand dollars!
Jimmy's mouth worked and watered.
He stretched u his hand to lake
the money. He stretched out his hand
he tried to. He tried again. His
body was bathed In cold sweat while
he stood there and willed that his
hand reach into that drawer and re-
move a package of gold certificates.
But 1t hung inertly at his side. For
the first time in his life it refused to
perform its function.
How long he stood there he neyer
knew. His mind must have been in a
chaotic condition. In wild efforts to
retain it's eason 1t CROPPED blindly for
the solution of its strange helpless
ness. And in his goaded memory half
forgotten phrases used by the great
surgeon sprang again into promi-
hence.
THE motor nerve center concerned
with-unlawful acquisitiveness- Sud.
den release of abnormal pressure like
ly to paralyze the nerve center Con-
tinuance of predatory habits will be
impossible"
These words, uncompFehended when
they we're uttered. and but vaguely
explained by the warden, were now
plain as day. The instinct for theft
remained. but the nerve center that
carried the order to the muscles had
been destroyed.
Cursing all science and scientists,
Jimmy Martin left the vault-and the
town. The laboriously constructed
tunnel and the hole in the vault, both
apparently unused, remained to form
one Of the great unsolved mysteries
Of criminology.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1915-01-19
Snake Creates panic.

I A six-foot snake, full Of fight, defied
a squad of reserves for more than an
hour recently. The policemen were
ARMED with revolvers. ropes and
Persons scattered In every d.
when the snake wriggled down
the sidewalk. A man who was hurry
ing to catch a car neal stepped on the
reptile. He gave a cry of fright
when he saw the snake almost under
his feet. He darted in another direc-
.tion and lost his car. A rapid transit
company employee called up Sergeant
Morrison Of the reserves and in
him in excited accents that a
isnake had taken possession of a sec
ton of Market street. A squad of re-
serves were dispatched to the scene,
but the snake moved about in such a
vicious manner that none of the po-
licemen risked going very near the
reptile. Then a young man came
along and captured the snake. 1t had
just escaped from an animal store
Philadelphia North American.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1915-01-19
A Euture RnckefelIer

! TRUSTS, monopolies, have had their
iday. They did more harm than good.
Hence they must go. But, all the
same, we must admire the longheaded-
mess of the men who created these
vast enterprises
The speaker was Senator La Fol-
ilette. He went on
THE trust creator reminds me of
the little boy who entered the farmers
truck patch and said, touching a hand
some cucumber on a vine:
"tHow much for this?'
"'Ten cents the farmer answered.
81 don't want to pay more than
about 2 cents said the boy.
well, here's one for that price,
said the farmer. and he lifted up a
very small cucumber that grew beside
the big one.
LAR right. I'll take her, said the
boy. Bat don't cut her off now. I'll
call by her again in two weeks time
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1915-01-19

iIy a gentleman to denounce the for.
gerry there. Pancho should answer to
him privately, first.
With Luis following, but not daring
to say a word, Miguel rode on down
Main street. Near the old Bella
Union, Miguel saw the now horseless
Pancho sauntering blithely along
ogling the passing senoritas.
Without a shade of embarrassment,
Pancho tremendously saluted the In.
dignant old gentleman.
Good day to you, my compadre,"
he said with a flourish. 1T gives me
ten thousand pleasures to see you so
we'll"
Old Miguel grimly dismounted and
threw the reins over the head of the
gray. Luis noticed that he kept well
in toward the side of the horse where
the saber was handy.
With a naughty and terrible look,
old Miguel brought the note out from
the pocket of his bolero. Pancho's
face lighted up as he recognized it.
"Oh, yes," he said cheerfully. that
is my note"
The old don's form grew straighter
and taller and his voice was very
stern.
"Dogl" he cried, do you mean you
have forged my manner"
Pancho looked injured.
"Why, compadre," he said plaintive-
ly, "how angry you get. Is this a way
to speak to your compadre?"
"Cohn says you have forged my
name. If he lies I shall kill him."
said old Miguel.
Eyes, certainly, l wrote your name"
said Pancho still in an injured voice.
What else could / do. I was playing
faro In the Pico House and ! lost my
money. Then l lost my horse. Elk
cited with the play, / then said. I give
the name Of my noble compadre,
Senior Miguel Garcia"
Pancho paused impressively.
What do you suppose the pig of an
American said?"
Old Miguel made. a gesture as one
who would say How should l known
HE said: TO hell with the Gar.
cias.'"
The old mans face darkened.
"Well?' he demanded.
WELL" said Pancho, launching up
his shoulders. you see, compadre,
how could l let the honor of the Gar
cias suffer? l went out and made a
note and got eight hundred pesos of
Cohn and took them and flung them
down before the dog of an American
pig to show him If the name of Garcia
should be laughed at"
Old Miguel impulsively put out his
hand and gripped earnestly the hand
Of Pancho.
MY friend and my compadre." ne
said, from the depths of my heart !
thank you. You have saved the honor
of the Garcias, and all that l have is
yours"
you see," said Jose, meditatively,
you see, senior, they didn't under
stand. Old Miguel. he die a pauper.'
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1915-01-19
OF POETRY AND POKER
IMPORTANT SUBJECTS DWELT ON
IN THIS NARRATIVE.
Razor Finally supplanted the Muse
When Full House That Looked
So Good Took Back Seat
for Four Queens.

When the fourth queen came into q.
Hlllary's hand on the draw, and the
sun was just about to appear after an
ali-night session, and one other man
in the party, whom he called "Pard-
ner," showed q disposition to be ag-
gressive In the betting, Mr.. Hillary,
thought the time had come to break
up the game, SO he bet every dollar
that he could muster for the attack.
"Pardner" had entered this excit-
ing period of the game with three
jacks In his hand, and he drew two
cards. To him were delivered a pair
Of tens.
"Heigh-ho," said "Pardner" with par
donable e~xhilaration. "Heigh-ho, the
sun is upeth, and iocund morn stand
eth tiptoe on o. misty mountain top"
He was feeling poetical. and what
ever Hillary bet, "Pardner' would re-
cite a bit Of appropriate verse, and in
crease the sum.
Every one else in the game dropped
out for the time. The pot was piled
in the center of the ring. In paper,
silver, and gold it represented $33,
rather a large sum for that neighbor-
hood, for it was in a bridge builders
camp on the San Gabriel river.
"Tll shoot my last FIVE" said Hill
larry.
"The roses are red, the yiolets are
blue. here's my five and I'll see you"
was the refrain with which the "PaFd-
ner'' deposited his last '1itneyp in the
pile, and the time for a showdown
came.
"Pardner" did it with much cere-
money. He quoted a bit, chortled a
bit, and sang a merry Tilt as he re
vealed his hand. the hand he thought
was magic with its three jacks and
two tens.
Crisply and with ~businesslike pre-
cision, Mr.. Hillary laid down his cards,
"Pardner" looked. Only three
queens he saw and then a five-spot
and then, by the black skill of ~
man who invented cards, he saw ar
other queen.
Mr.. Hillary dragged in the pot
"Pardner dragged Cd his razor. IAen
started proceedings that were nc
marked with Ioetry fom "Pardnery
or triumph froia Hilary. Hillary vas
In the lead, fgeigl ted with wealth
which he was i'm ing into his rccl.-
cts as he fed. "Pardner' was close
behind.
But a dollar bill spilled from the
pocket, Hillary stopped Just a second
too long to recover it, and Partner"
was upon him.
At the receiving hospital, several
hours later, Mr. Hillary had more than
twenty inches of cuts treated by the
surgeons, and he made a complaint to
the police regarding his assaiIant.
whom he knew only as "Pardner," the
man who quoted poetry.--Los Angeles
Times.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1915-01-19
skim MIX for Pigs on AlfaIfa.

Experiments at the New Mexico sta
ton indicate that skim milk is a valu-
able feed in connection with alfalfa
pastures. being worth u cents per
hundred pounds when fed alone, and
when corn is worth Sc cents per bush
ell; and that it is worth rs cents per
hundred pounds when fed with corn
at the rate of two to three pounds of
skim milk to pound of corn. Com
pared with wheat. when fed alone.
seven to eight pounds of skim milk
eQualed one pound of wheat.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1915-01-19
Evolution In Professions.

George II in 1745 spilled the beans
for the surgery-barbery corporation.
Several obnoxious individuals who
had been doing surgical operations in
competition with the BARRIERS did some
new stunts with the surgeons knife
and got Georges ear. They knocked
the BARRIERS work, said their opera
tions for the removal OF corns were
crude stuff, and that George ought to
get hep to himself and start a new
profession of surgery in distinction to
barbery. George fell for it and dis
solved the combination. The surgeons
got 1t back on them for being so
fresh not so many years. ~afterward.
when fellows calling themselves CHR
opodists sprang into existence and
declared that no man should have his
corns removed by anybody except ex-
perts at the business.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1915-01-19
Hens Locate Golf Balls.

Arthur Bender, who lives near the
East Lake golf links and raises chick
ems, has about decided to move OF
go out of the poultry business. says
the Atlanta Constitution. Golf has
wrecked the chicken ranch.
Bender has some old hens with the
setting habit. They would set on
door knobs or anything that looked
like an egg. He hid everything OF
that kind on the place. Then the hens
climbed through the fence and got to
waiting around on No. IL green Every
time a good mashie shot sent a golf
ball to the green the hens would go
after it, and by the time the golfer
got there the hen would be industri-
ously trying to hatch 1t. 1t made the
balls easier to find, as each was
marked with a setting hen, but it in
terfered with Bender's business.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1915-01-19
Too Great a Risk.

Papa" queried the minister's small
son, "is 1t true that we must be born
again before we can go to heaven"
80 the Scriptures teach us, my
boy" was the reply.
well, / don't want to be born
again." said the little fellow. I'm
afraid / might be born a girl the next
time."-Kansas City Star.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1915-01-19
ONE OF TROUBLE
6ANK OF ENGLAND HAS HAD A
VARIED CAREER.
To Her Credit Must Be Placed the
Settlement of Many Crises In the
Nation's HIstory-Has Gone
Through Panics.

More than once in her history the
"old lady of T~hreadneedle street" has
held the fate of the British empire
in her hands. Just recently Britain
has had much to thank her for-espe-
cially the way she averted an econom-
ic panic at the outbreak of the war.
|, William III had not yet begun to
wear mourning for his consort. Mary.
when the most famous and the rich
est lady in the world" as the late
Lord Goschen styled the Bank of Eng
land, was modestly Graded at Mer-
icers' hall one July day in 1894, with
that canny S~cotchman, William Pater-
.son. for godfather.
She was well lowered as infants 20,
for the merchants of London city sub
scribed in ten days the comfortable
sum of $4,000, 900 for her birth dowry,
thus enabling her to begin life as a
'full-born m~illionairess.
But the child had not long to wait
for her first trouble.
ID When she was only two years old
the goldsmiths leagued themselves
against the interloper who was steal
ing their banking business from them.
A few years later the fears of an
invasion by the Pretender brought
her horde of enemies down on her
again, allied with the rival banks OF
.Hoare and Child, and she was only
saved from disaster when the dukes
of Marlborough and Newcastle and
many another noble hurried to her
help with coaches trimming with bags
OF boarded guineas. When she left
MERGERS hall-her original nursery
for the more spacious Grocers' hall
her staff numbered but "a all told;
and when her next migration took
her, in 1874, to the nucleus of her
present palatial home her capital still
fell short of a modest $50,000,000
Here, in 1880, she was compelled to
fight for her life.
Newgate had been sacked by a ri
otous mob, a large part of the city
was in flames and she herself was
-girdled by fierce thousands bent on
her destruction. But she had gal
liant defenders. Her roof was manned
by clerks, firing volleys of bullets
nodded from the pewter of their ink
stands. which they poured into the
enemy with such deadly effect that
they scattered and fed.
Four years later, "Old Patch" the
roguish son of an old clothes man,
robbed her of $1,000, 900 by means of
forged notes, and he had so many imi-
tators that a staff of 70 clerks was
kept busy In detecting them.
But the old lady's diary is crowded
with similar sensations and roman
tic happenings. When, for instance,
In the ass" Prince Charles rebel
army had struggled as far south as
Derby, such was the general panic
that the bank was mobbed by anxious
crowds demanding money for its
notes. Payment was not refused, we
are told. but the bank engaged a small
army Of agents to present notes for
which they were paid in ~sixpences,
the agents going out of doors with
their silver and bringing it back by
another, SO that bona fide holders of
notes could not get near enough to
present them.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1915-01-19
school chlIdren,a Health.

Boston's health authorities have
started another vigorous campaign
against giving communicable diseases
Of children a foothold in that city.
School physicians are urged to in
quire at the homes of children the
cause of their absence, and IN an
open letter to parents the authorities
advise that physicians be consulted
in every case where the child COM
plains Of throat affection.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1915-01-19
NappIeon,s Pen-WIper.

According to the biographers OF
Napoleon, his breeches were always
Of white cashmere. 1t often happened
that two hours after leaving his cham
Der the breeches were spotted with ink
by reason of the Corsican's habit OF
wiping his pen On them and Of shak.
ing Ink all around him. 1t was a favor.
lite trick of his to strike his per
against the edge of a table and, Of
course the breeches suffered.
Furthermore, 1t appears that. how
ever the great man dressed in the
morning. that was his dress for the
whole day, since he would not change
his toilet until nightfall. The inside
OF his boots was lined with white fus.
tfan.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1915-01-19
DANDRUFF,.FA[[|NG
HAIR STOPPED
Harmless, Old-Fashloned Rem
edy Brings Back Color to Gray
Hair and Makes It Grow.

How many old-fashioned remedies are
being used, which goes to show that It
is hard to improve some OF our grand
mothers old-time, tried remedies. For IN,
stance, for keeping the hair dark, soft and
glossy nothing equals u grandmothers
"sage tea" Although, by the addition 0
sulphur and other ingredients, this old
fashioned brew has beer made more Ell
fectiye as a scalp tonic and color re-
storer.
Nowadays, when our hair comes out Dr.
gets faded or gray, instead of going 70
the garden or garnet for herbs ana
making the "tea" ourselves, VIZ simplr
go to the nearest drug store and ask fol
q bottle Of Wyeth's Sage and Sulphur
Hair Remedy.
Druggists are authorized to sell it
under guarantee that the one will be
refunded IL 1t fails to do exactly as rep
resented.
This preparation Is offered to .he
public at fifty cents a bottle, and is
recommended and sold by all druggists
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1915-01-19
coataklns scarce in Mexico.

There is to be a shortage of goat
skins from central Mexico for at least
two years to come, because of the fact
that breeding stock and young goats
have been taken for food.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1915-01-19
The Fatal WARNING.

"1our dog seems fond Of YOU"
"Too fond. l slipped into a highball
emporium to see a friend yesterday.
and left the dog outside"
yes"
"He barked to warn me"
"Well?"
"And my wife happened to come
round the corner and knew the bark"
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1915-01-19

Julian has saved my life nine
times this year."
$50 that is what he meant when he
called you q cat!"-Puck
The Yale expositor., 1915-08-12
PUREBRED SHEEP
BEST FOR MUTTON
Animals of Medium Grade Lack
Condition and Quality Neces-
sary for Best Prices.

Why are purebred sheep the best
for mutton? Because both lambs and
sheep of the medium grades lack the
condition and quality necessary to
bring the best prices on the market.
Medium grade sheep as a rule have
long, loosely coupled bodies with little
spring OF rib and rough outline and
coarse and often paunchy. Animals of
this class are not desirable and mar
ket buyers make the most OF their bad
points.
A good thing to remember when
Landing time comes on. A lamb that
is so badly chilled It appears to be
dead may be revived by pouring down
its throat half pint Of warm milk
into which a tablespoonful of gin has
been poured.
II there is no gin In the house dip
the lamb in a tubful OF warm water,
dry 1t off with rough cloth and place
IL near the stove. Get some warm
milk into its stomach II possible and
In few minutes it will be as frisky
as ever.
The Yale expositor., 1915-08-12
PRACTICAL STORAGE HOUSE FOR APPLES
Floor and Foundation Of Storage Plant.

The storage OF fruit on the farm
Is a problem which confronts many
growers. The delay in getting fruit
into storage after picking is the cause
Of much loss through rapid deteriora-
ton. The experiment station at Ur-
bana, ILL.,, undertook work along this
line some time ago, and one OF the
experiments conducted on the farm of
L. r. Bryant, near Princeton, has
proved successful in every way.
This storage room is in the north
end OF the basement OF a barn, hav-
Ing inside dimensions of feet high.
16 feet inches wide, and "a feet 4
inches long. The ice chamber Is at
the east end and occupies an add
tional width Of feet inches. The
floor foundation is made OF six inches
Of gravel and cinders, on which is
laid 2x4 inch scantling. layer of tar
paper, matched flooring, a layer of
building paper. Turing strips, another
layer OF building paper, and one-inch
boards. the latter forming the surface
Of the floor.
The east, north and west walls are
constructed of foot of brick outside.
a layer of tar paper, 2x4 uprights 16
inches apart, building paper and a
final inside layer Of inch boards on
joists, then a layer of paper, one inch
The Yale expositor., 1915-08-12
NO IDEA
What Caused the Trouble.

81 always drank coffee with the rest
OF the family, for It seemed as II there
was nothing for breakfast II we did
not have It on the table.
II had been troubled for some time
with my heart, which did not feel
right. This trouble grew worse
steadily.
Sometimes It would beat fast, and
ut other times very slowly, so that
would, hardly be able to do work for
an hour or two after breakfast, and IL
walked up hill, It gave me severe
pain.
II had no idea OF what the trouble
was until friend suggested that per-
haps II might be coffee drinking. I
tried leaving of the coffee and began
drinking Postum. The change came
quickly. I am glad to say that / am
now entirely free from heart trouble
and attribute the relief to leaving of
coffee and the use OF Postum.
"A number Of my friends have aban-
doned coffee and have taken up Post
um, which they are using steadily.
There are some people that make
Postum very weak and tasteless, but
II made according to directions, II Is
a very delicious beverage" Name
given by Postum Co., Battle Creek,
Mich.
Postum comes In two forms:
Postum Ceresl-the original form
must be well boiled. 15c and Csc pack
ages.
instant Postum soluble powder
dissolves quickly In a cup OF hot wa
ter, and. with cream and sugar, makes
a delicious beverage Instantly. SOC
md SOC tins.
Both kinds are equally delicious and
ost about the same per cup.
There's a Reason" for Postum.
sold by Grocers.
The Yale expositor., 1915-08-12
Sleep.

For do but consider what an excel
lent thing sleep is! 1t is so inestima-
BILE a jewel that, If tyrant would give
his crown for an hours slumber, it
cannot be bought; of so beautiful q
shape is it that. though man live
with an empress, his heart cannot be
at quiet till he leaves her embrace
ments to be at rest with the other:
yea, so greatly are we indebted to
this kinsman Of death, that we owe
the better tributary half of our life
to him; and there is good cause why
we should do so; for sleep is that
golden chain that ties health and our
bodies together. Who complains OF
want, of wounds, OF cares, of great
mems expressions, of captivity, whilst
he leepeth?-Thomas Decker.
The Yale expositor., 1915-08-12
Construction Of Walls.

2x16 joists 16 inches apart. Upon the
top Of these tin is nailed, slanting
down three inches on each side. Be-
low these tins another shallow "
shaped tin forms gutter which runs
the water to the side of the chamber
where a drain carries it off. The ice
rests on 2x2 Stats nailed in 2x4 up
rights.
The ice chamber holds six tons,
and requires replenishing from four
to six times in the fall. More ice Is
needed again in the spring, though
not so much as in the fall.
Apples are placed in storage as
soon as ripe, the outside temperature
at this tine being around 70 degrees.
The temperature in the storage may
run from so to So degrees at this time
due to the high temperature outside
and to the frequent opening of the
door and temperature of the apples
when picked. Later when the cool
fall weather comes the temperature
will register around 35 degrees. When
the temperature outside falls below
that in the storage the windows are
opened. Should the temperature fall
much below zero for any length OF
time in the winter, a stove is used
to keep the storage at a reasonable
temperature.
For the season ice is needed, 20
tons is about the average required
for the room described.