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The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1915-10-05
SHY AT ALL INNOVATIONS
Humanity Slow to Recognize Even the
Things Of Life That Are
the Best.

Few good things get hearty well
come when they knock at the door.
Human nature SHES at innovation,
and can be persuaded to adopt it only
after pioneers have worn the blush of
newness of and stood firm until ridi-
Guile has crawled back into its hole.
We hope that the young men who
are wearing what the haberdashers
call sport shirts" viii prove worthy
pioneers. proof against laughter.
strong in the face of irrational preju-
dice. For. by their services, mankind
may escape the tyranny of the hard
boiled collar. The day may come
when the morning wrestling with but
tons and buttonholes which hate each
other like sin will be like the memory
Of boyhood nightmare. That sawmill
effect which collars occasionally get
and the clammy strangling that goes
with humid days will go down in the
books as evils conquered. All be-
cause few courageous young men in
every community place the good of
their fellows above the constituencies
Of their souls.-Toledo Blade.
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ReouIatlno Elec+rIc Ianra

The demand for regulating the de-
gree of light from an electric lamp
has resulted In lamp which has been
recently exploited, containing two
separate filaments of the lamp, which
may be operated separately or togeth-
or, giving the lamp rating OF 200
watts, with each filament taking 100
watts. A consumption of 0.6 watt per
candlepower is claimed for this lamp,
and it has life of 1000 hours If the
fiiaments are burned separately, or
1000 when they are burned together.
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children Who Are Afrald \ Mai.

Writing of Might Terrors,'' so COM
mon among children, Dr. AdoIph Stern
says in the New York Medical Jour-
nal that these have a deeper cause
than those given in the text boks,
which are: Adenoids and enlarged
tonsils, large or indigestible meals eat
en- shortly. before going to bed, and
the telling of narrowing or terrifying
stories-like ghost stories.
According to Doctor Stern, children
who sit up screaming Mother, moth
err" THE black mani" THE ghosts''
or even those who constantly cry for
a drink of water, are generally the off
spring of neurotic mothers who have
themselves been made neurotic by re-
ceiving too much attention, too much
emotional affection. by being kept too.
dependent, not leaning on themselves
but on others.
The cure for such children is to
make them play with other children,
to let them do things for themselves.
such as dressing and bathing them
selves and going to bed alone, Thus
they will acquire a spirit of indie
pendence.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1915-10-05

world. Mr. Crashaw was so very big,
and Miss Thatcher SO frail, that there
was one position toward which they
inevitably gravitated In fact, If any
Office boy had happened to enter at
that moment he would have seen Miss
Thatcher seated almost-not quite,
for the chairs edge did interpose q
tiny edge-wel, on the treasurers
knee.
my dear" faltered Crashaw, won
dering how such wonderful piece of
luck had come to him, and whether
he had blurted out anything which
might have been construed as a dec
laration.
That was the time when Miss
Thatcher altogether forgot the rest of
the day-dream. For she only raised
her eyes to Crashaw's and whispered:
Eyes. / will. OF course, ] will
And Crashaw found himself gladder
than he had ever been In his life.
Copyright. 1915, by w. @. Chapman.)
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1915-10-05
DREAMS COME TRUE
By ELEANOR ". ArwArER.

Crashaw was leaving Bryant & Co.
and little Miss Thatcher was In de
spair She had worked for the big,
blond treasurer for nearly six years
and she could not bear the thought OF
working for anyone else.
Crashaw was to leave because the
firm wanted cheaper man. Besides,
the new management was a little
crooked, at least, in comparison with
the rigid standards of the original Bry.
ant & Go. The name was to remain,
but the new blood" was not blue
blood. 1t was not good blood. Miss
Thatcher knew that as everyone did.
She knew, too, that her position was
shaky. The new people were drop.
ping the old staff. They had the new
blood" mania. Besides, they wanted
people with the crooked streak in
them. OF course, 1t does not matter
what plain stenographer's princi.
pies are, but the new people did not
like the "ladylike' atmosphere of the
correspondence department. 1t wanted
cheap. slangy girls who chewed gum
and made mistakes, thereby being
worth seven or eight dollars a week
only Miss Thatcher was getting
twenty-five.
Miss Thatcher was thirty She lived
alone in a boarding house, and had
lived there, in backwater of the city,
since she came to the metropolis, at
twenty-three. And, living alone, she
had INDUCED in day-dreams.
OF late months Crashaw had fig.
ured largely in these The big, sim
pie treasurer was bachelor. He was
the best man on earth, in Miss Thatch-
er's opinion. Because one is very
daring in day-dreams, even mouse
colored individuality like Miss
Thatcher's, her day-dreams had taken
this form:
Miss Thatcher, there is something
l want to tell you. Since you have
been here your work and your devo-
ton have inspired me with the great
est respect for you. Can / venture to
hope that some day you will honor me
by becoming Mrs Crashaw?"
why, Mr.. Crashaw. never dreamed
Of such a thing. Give me little
time to think it over OF course, l
utterly reciprocate your sentiments,
but am not sure whether l love
you"
Nothing like that had happened.
Crashaw's unfailing courtesy betrayed
no tender feeling And Miss Thatch-
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waye Of Petroorad poIIe..

Count Benckendorff, the Russian
ambassador, who is In mourning for
the loss Of his son, Count Peter, killed
in action, had among his predecessors
in the title one who told curious
story of the thoroughness of the
Petrograd police in the early nine
teenth century He had lost his peck
etbook contaielng considerable sum,
gave notice and had the money re-
stored to him within day or two,
without the pocketbook. Shortly aft
er he found that the pocketbook, still
containing the original notes, was not
lost, but had slipped into the lining of
his fur coat. Naturally. he asked
whence had come the restored money.
He discovered that the police. rather
than admit failure. had collected the
money among themselves Dundee
Advertiser.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1915-10-05
Might Need Them.

After de sarmint, t'mor' night
Brudder Simmons" said old Deacon
Whang, veal is gwine to have a
rousin' hazanner meetin', and burn UP
yo' paragraphs, bless de Lawdi"
Burn up which, sah?" returned
Goat Simmons, the recently convert
ed gambling man, in considerable as
constituent.
"Yo' gamblin' paragraphs, sab
When spo'tin' man gifts converted
and washed whittier dan snow dey al
ing burns up his kyahds and dice and
SIGH scan'lous stuff as dat midst loud
shouts o. praise. De Lawd is wild EN-
and de gamblin' brudder steps 10th
and filings his paragraphs on de fab
and stands with bowed heads whilst
mot me, sab! l amt gwine to dc
no sich-uh thingl"
But, muh goodness. brudder. 20 am
converted, isn't you, and"
"Yassahr! rs sho' converted, but
dat don't make me a blame fooll
mought backslide an need dat
stuff!"-Kansas City Star.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1915-10-05

Forest and Stream describes a new
kind Of whalebone whale that has re-
Gently been discovered in the South
Atlantic. It is nearly as large as the
finback, the more familiar whale of
those waters; but instead of subsist-
ing on minute crustaceans, it feeds on
small schooling fishes, such as young
herring and mackerel. The frayed
ends Of its baleen, or whalebone, are
not curled into woolly fringe, like
those Of the ffnback, which needs a
fringe in order to entrap its minute
food, but are straight and comblike
The new species has quite as much
commercial value as its better-known
relative.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1915-10-05
THE BOGY OF OLD AGE
SCARED AWAY BY FAMOUS MEN
OF 80 YEARS YOUNG.
They Testify That Right Living and
Sound Thinking infuse New Life
Constantly Into Every Part
Of the Body.

Old age used to be regarded as an
incurable disease; time to be looked
forward to with horror; a period of
useless numbering of the earth.
That bogy is scared away by the
testimony of some of the living cele-
brities who have left the Biblical
'three-score-and-ten" landmark far be-
hind them.
Says John Burroughs, the great
naturalist, at seventy-seven:
Il am in better health and more able
to do my work at seventy-seven than
was at forty-seven or at fifty-seven.
have produced more manuscripts
during the last three years than dur
ing any other three years of my life.
and of kind that has made unusual
intellectual demands upon me.
"Old Age is not such a bugaboo after
all. He is, in many ways. better to
live with than Youth, because he
leaves you more at your ease; you are
In the calmer waters; the fret and
fever of life have greatly abated. Old
Age brings the philosophical mind; he
brings deeper, wider outlook upon
life; he brings more tolerance and
charity and good will. did not squan-
der my youth in excuses, and hence
l am not bankrupt In my old age"
A novelist, who is six years older
than Burroughs and who writes six
hours a day, gives this recipe for stay
ing young in the eighties:
II have constantly given my mind
plenty of new thoughts, and this men
tai diet has kept me young. 1t is rou-
tine that ages. Even in my sleep l
am often mentally busy. / think
know consciously that when l rest
darken. / have constantly proved
that intellectual activity infuses life
into every part of the body. AS far as
possible I avoid anger or worry, tor
one hour Of such facilitating mental
exercise destroys all personal mag
netism; and what passes between
them and the soul do not care to say.
Il keep my health because keep
my illusions. l will not believe that
everyone is false. / will not believe
that hope tells a flattering tale. or that
friendship is only a name, or that
true love has fed from earth and that
the fear of God has vanished. And,
above all other reasons for my good
health, place the vivifying power of
love. Love is life"
Cardinal Gibbons, eighty years old
and In the prime of his powers, says:
Il believe firmly that the critical
time of life for the making or mar
ring of sound constitution is the
period of youth. The seeds of weak
ness are sown in the system then; by
irregularity of life. particularly in the
hours allotted for sleep and rest: by
excess in eating and drinking; by
grosser excuses and by lack of proper
exercise
The rules of health from which
have never swerved from my youth
are: Regularity of life, moderation in
eating and drinking, exercise proper to
my age and profession, avoidance Of
worry and an overriding trust in
Gods providence. / have always been
avaricious in the matter of sleep.
Early to bed is the wisest of all saws
for him who has work to do and am
bition to do it well."-Los Angeles Elk
press.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1915-10-05
AS TO FALLING in LOVE
THERE ARE so MANY, MANY
WAYS OF DOING IT.
And So Great Number Find When
Too Late They Have Never Had
the True Experience, Having
Mistaken Symptoms.

Now OF course there is no difficulty
fnout falling IN love. Anyone can do
that. The difficulty is to know when
the symptoms are true OF false. says
Pittsburgh Post writer So many
people mistake the symptoms, and on
iy discover when it is too late that
they have never really had the true
| experience. Hence the Importance of
calf love-" which serves as a sort of
apprenticeship to the mystery and en-
ables you to discriminate between
the substance and the shadows.
People laugh at calf love-" but one
might as well laugh at the wonder Of
dawn or the coming of spring. When
David Copperfield fell in love with the
eldest Miss Larkins he was really in
love with the opening universe, and
the eldest Miss Larkins happened to
be the only available lightning con-
ductor for his emotion.
The important thing is that you
should contract "calf love- while you
are young. 1t is like the measles.
which is harmless enough in child
hood but apt to be dangerous when
you are grown up. The "calf love" of
an elderly man is always a disaster.
Hence the saying, There is no fool
like an old fool" An elderly man
should not fall in love. He should
walk right into it. He should survey
the ground carefully, as Mr.. Marks
did.
The mistake of "the northern farm
err was that he applied the same
middle aged caution to youth. 'Doan't
you marry for mummy, but goa wheer
mummy Is" he said to his son Sammy
who wanted to marry the poor par.
sons daughter.
There is no harm, of course. in mar
rying money George Borrow said that
there were worse ways OF making a
fortune than marrying one. And per
haps 1t is true, though don't think
Borrow's experience was very con-
yincing. / have known people who
have gone where money was and
have fallen honestly and rapturously
In love, but you have to be very sure
that money in such case is not the
motive. If it is. the penalty never
fails to follow.
Those who believe in love at first
sight" take the view that marriages
are made in Heaven and that we only
come to earth to fulfill our destiny.
Johnson, who was an excellent hus-
band to che elderly Mrs. Porter, spoke
with that view and held that love was
only the accidence Of circumstance,
but though that is a sensible view,
there are cases like those of Dante
and Beatrice and Abelard and Heloise,
in which the passion doesn't seem to
touch the skies. In those cases. how
ever, 1t rarely ends happily.
A more humdrum way of falling in
love seems better fitted for earthly
conditions. The method of Sir Thorn
as More was perhaps the most unro-
mantle on record. He preferred the
younger of two sisters and was about
to marry her when it occurred to him
that it would be very unpleasant for
the elder sister to see her junior mar
ried before herself Thereupon he
proposed to the elder and married her
and as far as / can remember the ex-
pertinent was thoroughly satisfactory.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1915-10-05
NATIVE LIFE IN NEW GUINEA
Magic, Marrying and Murder Seem
Closely Connected Practices Among
the innocent Aboriqlnes.

The expedition led last year up the
Fly river in British New Guinea by
Sir Robert Clarke resulted in the dis
covery Of some amusing customs for
the members of the party fell in with
many who had never seen a white man
before.
These natives practice magic which
they call kuri-kuri-which kills men
by suggestion. mo man among them"
says Sir Robert. lis supposed to die
naturally. The magic man tells him
he is going to die, and he promptly
does die. 1t may not be all hypnotism.
Supposing man is told that he is to
die from a snake bite, it is not diff
cut to make certain Of his death.
When a man is dead his relatives
must get head so that his spirit will
rest In peace They go out on muir
dering expedition and get their head
from the nearest tribe they can sur
prise. 1t doesn't matter to them
whether the head is that of a man,
woman or child.
THE girls will not marry man un-
less he has a certain number Of heads
and has killed man in personal COM
bat. When a new house is built there
must be more killing, because the
posts of the house have to be sprinkled
with human blood. The hideous war
fare never ceases, for a tribe which
has been attacked must seek revenge.
The continual fear OF surprise at
tacks is shown in the character of the
houses. These were built in the trees.
They were rested on scaffold poles
fifty to sixty feet from the ground.
were beautifully matched and we're
chiefly constructed Of palm leaves.
They we're loopholed In the sides for
arrows and holes had been left In the
floor through which stones could be
dropped on the heads Of an enemy.
Large quantities Of stones are kept
In the houses. These tree dwellers
also wear kind Of bamboo cuirass,
which is arrow-proof and would be
shot-proof The arrows used are about
i've feet long and are projected from
very powerful bows. | don't think a
white man could draw their bows. I
have known man to be pierced
through by an arrow from a distance
Of 200 yards. Pittsburgh Dispatch.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1915-10-05
DavIloht SAVING in Canada.

Considerable attention is being Civ
en- throughout Canada to a so-called
daylight-saving scheme. The move
ment in Halifax is in accord with an
effort all over the dominion to nave
the clock put back one hour on April
each year, continuing to some
autumn month. in order to give more
daylight for work and pleasure. Meet
ings are being held ali over Canada
with view to bringing the matter to
the attention of the federal parliament
at it's next session. The Halifax com
mittee is composed of representatives
of the city council, trades and labor
council and wholesale and retail mer-
chants Reports.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1915-10-05
EXPLAINS Delaware Boundary.

Why the northern boundary of Della
ware should have been circular in form
is often a source of wonderment. 1t
came about in this way: After William
Penn had obtained a grant Of Penn
sylvania he was DESTROYS Of owning
the land on the west bank of the Del
aware to the sea. He procured from
the duke of York, in 1852, a release
of all his title and claim to New Cas-
tie and IL miles around, and to the
land between this tract and the sea-
A line that was the arc of circle of
a 12-mile radius was then run with
New Castle as a center. When the
three lower counties" on the Della
ware became a state they retained
this boundary.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1915-10-05
tIse zinc as Nunoe4e.

A shoveler in one of the Joplin zinc
mines who had seen in the movies hcw
the gold miners bought what they
needed with gold nuggets, recently
laid a small chunk of zinc ore on a
bar counter and called for beer.
The bartender served the drink to
him and laid down 20 cents in change,
and of course the crowd laughed and
cheered.
Such is the spirit of the Joplin zinc
boom, with crude zinc ore now worth
seven cents a pound, which is about
SO per cent higher than the refined
product spelter has averaged for many
years-Wall Street Journal.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1915-10-05

Charles M. Schwab, at dinner in
Bethlehem. told story from the
trenches.
Some of the soldiers in those
trenches" he said, don't get chance
to wash for weeks at a time. They
eat like bears, they never take cold,
their health is superb-but, dear me,
how they must look, with never a
washi
"A humorist of the Coldstream
Guards was singing in second-line
trench parody of 'Tipperary.' 1t was
funny parody, and in the midst Of
it young sergeant shouted to the
singer:
Yer maxim me laugh till l cry,
Bill! Won't yer stop it! The tears
are maxim me face all muddy. -
Cincinnati Enquirer.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1915-10-05

One of the favorite mascots OF deep
sea fishermen, to which they attach
great Importance, is a tiny fiat stone.
or bone, found in the ears Of plaice
and other fish. The wearer of one Of
these stones is supposed to be i'm
mune from the danger Of drowning.
1t is easy to find these stones In
the ears of fish, although they are
no bigger than a split lentil. Anybody
who cares to look for one and to ex-
anime it will see on its surface light
and dark rings, similar to those found
on a larger scale In tree trunks. The
number Of rings tells the age of the
fish, as a new ring appears eacn
year.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1915-10-05

They have canned" the singing
master and stopped the singing les
sons at the United States naval
training station on the great lakes,
substituting Swedish athletic exer-
cises. Because" explains the COM
mandant, this is no Pinafore. We
haven't time for musical comedy sail
oring."
But you might as well cut the crow
out of a rooster as the song out of a
sailor. Singing, moreover, is about
the largest asset of patriotism. 1t is
one of the sweetest commentaries on
our sweet state of civilization that
fighting must be set to music.
Let us hail the blessed day when
war shall be carried on exclusively
with our vocal cords.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1915-10-05

Prince Henry of Prussia, brother of
the German emperor, has just received
a patent for an apparatus for cleaning
the wind shields of automobiles. 1t
has wipers on both sides of the glass
which by one stroke of the chauffeur's
hand may be moved over the glass to
remove dust and water.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1915-10-05

"Tm terribly disappointed in my
boy"
What's the matterH Did he fail
in school?''
mo. He's bright enough in his
studies, but he wants me to buy him
a canoe. Detroit Free Press.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1915-10-05

Il have tried all sorts of happi-
ness. and it never lasts said a
spoiled. petulant, cynical woman.
did you ever try forgetting your
self for six months?" said a shrewd
listener. The question went to the
heart of the trouble. To paraphrase
an old proverb, when self comes in at
the door, happiness flies out of the
window.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1915-10-05
A PhlIosonher,s Nlahtcan.

Many years ago was in a northern
country house in which Herbert Spen-
Ger was staying. At that time he suf-
fered from sleeplessness. and one night
on going to bed he said to me: q am
about to drink some hot brandy and
water in order to restore the perio-
deity of my somniferous functions. p
London Spectator.
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Naturally.

81 saw Mabel buying rouge the
other day"
"That gives color to the report that
she paints"
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-10-28
BRITISH BLOCKADE WORKS
German Traffic I'm Baltic Sea EfTec-
lively Stopped.

LONDON. oct est is learned
here from a high authority that the
British submarine blockade of Ger
man Baltic ports is most effective.
German steamers at Lulea and other
ports have been ordered not to sail.
Lulea is a Swedish port from which
large shipments of ore have been
made TO Germany. These exports re-
Gently were reported to be increasing.
The submarines. il is believed here,
are extending their operations to this
area in an effort further to cripple the
German industries. Russian undersea
boats are cooperating with the British
in the blockade.
Information reaching here from
Berlin states that officials there admit
that the situation is serious. Count
ReventlOw, the naval writer, discuss
ing the situation in the Deutsche Tages
Zeitung. says:
The blocking of the Baltic against
British submarines undoubtedly is a
tough problem. They are able to get
through the great belt, notwithstand-
ing the Danish mines.
when the Baltic is frozen il will
be possible to discover the British
submarine bases"