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The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1915-01-04
BIG INTERESTS
SWAY OPINION.
Residents Of Small Gonanunl-.
Ties Main Sufferers.
MAIL ORDERS PERHIGIous.

Ono Chicago Concern Did stoo,ooo,ooo
Worth of Business In Year Just
Closed and Paid II Per Cent pivi.
Small Consumers Should
[copyrishted, Ts1t. by Thomas ]. Sullivan
Commerce has made all winds her
messengers. all climes her. tributaries,
nll people her servants.
A statesman may do much for com.
merce-most by leaving 1t alone. a
river never flows SO smoothly as when
It follows Its own course without
either aid or check. Let 1t make Its
own bed: It will do so better than you
can. Perfect freedom is as necessary
to the healthy and vigor OF commerce
as 1t is to the health and vigor OF citi.
zenshlp.
For years the men who sway the
minds and mold the opinions of the
publlc-the magazine and newspaper
writers and political leaders-have
wiz, WIN uii lne power ana infectVe at
farious1 practice Of what they termed
''big business" and "the interests"
80 s..'es Mese oes.o"eu upon tnem
..s,ss ~ ass.sne,e .uetn as concerns
$50" se =. ,,,s.n ,nsn sapi,a' ~. .ie
~ pa.p 49, y. :. .'esa"s confirming e''ner
e'' .Aeas.'s " ano'uet
Writers should Look Further.
.. ae ..an VA. uispu.e the iaet that
,nnn,+ta. n.h.ra ,o. psspI.els so'.,
e.r.,sd ~ 40 -. ss sass ous.ness .
pdyantogos, ovo, the nss,,a m,.,aa -
cities yhers tho Sonn,o.,on IL eo -
eested
Rnt tho n,h,,o;s,. ,.,,, a.. ..,,,..
a. .,,.l ~. sen-.s w az .o's'tus'
.ne o.s in'esesu' ". 70 the seorh OF
human mlhd Should look further, as
there is a new big interest appearing
upon the financial horizon which
threatens to eclipse anything which
has yet appeared. We refer to the
catalogue md mail order retail traders
40 an eyomn,a NC ,,,,i toll. ono :,
.,a ,.raa ,,a,, -. -, So 80 s,s,. 80 -
.l 80 .. .1' o.us. ..o"sss =. S''easo'
anu q lits'e nlealtat'oh VIII SNOW @hat
Its business means TO the small town
1t is capitalized at the enormous
amount Of $50, 900, 00o.j sold ut 500 per
share; 100000 is preferred stock.
and $4,000. 600 Is common stock.
Paid ~ pa, Can't n;v;d,rd
We - ;o,o,,h,,.z tn,o.,,, - a.. ..,
a.. s,no ~ ,a ~ .ua. WI, .u,s
eoueesh aiu sioV'Vo9,""9 worm OF DUST
ness IN Tue year 1918 ana paid diTi-
dend OF u per cent. Wouldn't these
figures appnll you: Ought that not to
be material for the pen of the muck.
raker." or are the magazines silenced
by the counting receipts for adverhs-
Ing?
Where did this S100,00000O come
from? y 1t came from the consumer
everywhere between the waters Of the
Atlantic and the shores OF the Pacific.
from people who prefer buying cheap
goods" from a picture book rather than
good goods over the counters Of their
retail merchants.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1915-01-04

FOR RENT-Nine room house cor.
ner Fifth street and First avenue
Cons. phone IT'S. 1-l.5t
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1915-01-19
HAD ENOUGH OF NEW YORK
Dressmaker From indiana Formed
Mighty Poor Opinion OF the
Great Metropolis.

She was a middle aged person from
the rural districts and evidenced
health in her appearance and perfect
digestion in her breakfast, which con-
sisted of ham and eggs with catchup
on them. The eatchup made even the
waitress vince. Her trouble was en-
tirely of the mind, but it was acute.
What I want to know" she said to
the waitress, according to a New York
correspondent of the Cincinnati Times
Star, sis how there's so many people
in New York when most of EN-, so fur
as see, could git away if they wanted
to. l come here to see tn fashions,
actin on the advice of friends, though
l run a dressmakin' establishment 20
years in Vevay, ~Indianny. without
never comm again. II I ever took
back tn fashions l seen here to Vevay,
I'd lose every customer I've got an
probably git put out o. the church.
New York amt nothin' but q regular
swindle anyway, from end to end an
from before breakfast to lockin' up
time. ! was supposed to git a quiet
room in a convenient n~eighborhood.
When ! got there 1t was.over a shootin'
gallery, an tn things that neighbor
hood was convenient fur amt nothin'
for you an me to speak of. l moved
quick an they wouldn't give me back
the deposit ! sent when l wrote to en-
gage tn room. But amt coma under
take to tell We about all tn little things
like that that happened to me. That's
New York. But / want to tell ye one
thing: When l git back to vevay-
and I'm a-goin' today-I'm gona put a
sign right in my winder that people
that want New York fashions kin go
to New York an git EN-. Veyay's
good enough for me-"
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1915-01-19
BAD EFFECT OF SMOKY AIR
Neither Animals Nor Vegetation Flour
lsh In the Vicinity Of Large
Manufacturing Plants.

Whether live stock Is likely to suf-
fer when living in the neighborhood
of railroad yards, industrial plants
and large manufacturing c~enters, was
the question that the Leeds (Eng.)
university proposed to Yorkshire
farmers, and the answers showed the
affirmative not only for animals but
also al concerns grass and other
plants. 1t appears that the growth of
young stock Is kept back under such
conditions, and in the case of old stock
or horses these are seen to require
much more care and food than those
which live in a pure air. Such effects
on animals are due partly to the direct
action of the vitiated air when taken
into the lungs and on the other hand
by the very poor quality of grass that
grows here, as it cannot develop I'M
der good conditions. Sheep raising is
found to be specially difficult in these
places, even impossible. Near Leeds,
this had to be discontinued, for the
wool was of very poor quality. besides
being full of impurities of various
kinds. Thus 1t appears that the same
general rules apply to animals as to
human beings under such circum-
stances.-Scientifc American.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1915-01-19
MANS TIME or CIRCULATION
Writer Who Evidently, HAS Had Ex-
perience Tells Of the Joys Of
Cleaning q Furnace.

A furnace is an ingenious and iend-
ish device used for heating purposes.
1t Is an asbestos-coyered boiler en-
tirely surrounded by pipes, and stu
ated In the darkest corner of the eel
lar. The idea of Sne man who puts 1t
In seems to be tsat q convenient light
In the vicinity of a furnace would be
detrimental to his interests, says the
Detroit Free Press. In that we be-
lieve he Is right. Further a furnace is
a device that has a hogs fondness for
dirt and a health crank's mania for
cleanliness. 1t won't heat If it is dirty,
and 1t won't help to keep itself clean.
Consequently the poor brute known as
husband of the home must be attend
ant, masseur and rubber to the fur
mace as well. And these duties he
must perform regularly in the dark or
aided merely by the faint glow of an
e~ight-candle power lamp that has only
one candle power left. To clean a fur
mace a man must divest himself Of all
raiment that he ever expects to wear
above ground. Then with an iron
brush he must attack the innermost
vitals Of the apparatus; cropping hither
and thither, now humping his head on
the steel upper jaw Of the open mouth,
now scraping his knuckles on the
lower jaw. Suddenly he is In the
dark! The light has gone outI No, It
Is merely a cloud of dust that he failed
to inhale quick enough to prevent its
obliterating the eight-candle power
lamp altogether. At last with the
dust in his lungs, hair, eyes, ears, nose
and vest pockets he staggers upstairs,
only to have the partner of his Joys
and sorrows exclaim: 1T seems to
me you could clean that furnace with
out scattering dirt all through the
house."
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1915-01-19
PASS UP ELABORATE TOYS
Children Invariably Prefer Something
That Calls for Exercise Of
the Imagination.

When you have put into a child's
hands an extremely elaborate model
1t cannot and does not satisfy his
imagination. He will play for a whole
day with a train made Of chairs, be-
imagination enters the game:
the armchair is an engine, the sofa
Is a sleeping car, another armchair
Is the baggage car.
But If you give him a perfect thing
his Imagination Is left out in the cold;
there is no part for it to take In the
game, there is nothing to be done
with the mechanical model except to
break it open and see how it works.
Indeed, more summary methods are
quite naturally attractive. l have
seen a little boy of four years old, to
whom an elaborate working model of
a motor car had been presented, after
watching it work for a few minutes.
take it up in his hand and hurl it to
the ground with a smile of satisfac-
ton. 1t was the only thing he could
think OF doing with 1t.
Thet is why the hoop or the train
OF chairs or the rough and grotesque
toy train will always give more real
pleasure than the most elaborate ma
chinery that can be conceived; that Is
why the rag doll or the woolly lamb
will always lie nearer the hearts af-
fections than the most wonderfully
equipped and elaborately-clothed
French poupee.-Exchange.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1915-01-19
GOOD QUALITIES OF MANURE
All Growing Plants Require Certain
Food Elements Which Must Be Sc
cured From the Soil.

Some farmers used to have the no
ton that the only reason they had for
hauling manure onto the fields was
to get it out of their way. This class
of men would have thrown the fer
tilizer into a hole had one been handy.
OF late 1t is difficult to find a farmer
who does not believe in the fertilizing
qualities of manure. Manure is the
cheapest and most efficient fertilizer
which the farmer can use upon his
land.
Growing plants require certain food
elements which must be secured from
the soil. All plants require the same
ingredients; but the amounts vary in
different plants. The farmer who puts
his land in good shape during the fall
and winter by fertilizing it with ma
lure will raise the big grain crops the
following summer.
Live stock manure contains about
80 per cent of the plant food elements
contained in the food eaten by the
stock. This food was taken from the
soil; so it is only reasonable that If 1t
is not returned in some form the soil
will become depleted. Barnyard ma
nure is mixed with bedding, which
contains the plant food elements taken
from the ground that produced its
growth. Naturally this combination Is
not as strong in fertilizing elements
as pure manure; but it has immense
value as a fertilizer. The bedding alb
serbs the liquids, which would other
wise be a loss. The organic portion OF
a load of manure is just as valuable
for fertilizing purposes as the nitro
gen, potash. acid, etc, contained in
the n Before the organic por-
ton is of value as a fertilizer it must
pass through a process Of rotting,
This process turns it into humus-one
of the elements in which many soils
are most lacking.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1915-01-19

to roast eternally. Roman Catholics
provide a Second Chance for members
of their church. in Purgatory: and
many Protestants hold to a Second
Chance for the heathen who have new
err heard Of Christ. All the while.
however. the Bible declares for onE
one chance. but that a full one for ev
cry member of the human family.
The only chance offered during thin
Gospel Age Is the opportunity Of be
coming a member of the Church-a
true follower of Jesus. Such are to
get the Heavenly Inheritance, but not
until the Resurrection The remainder
Of the world will lie offered an earthly
future; and this offer viii begin with
the establishment OF Messiah's King
dom of a thousand years.
The Bible nowhere teaches that Ell
Their saints or sinners pass to a con
scious condition at death. The Bible
declares that they all sleep" and thai
the awakening time will be at the Sec
ond Coming of the Redeemer to estab
lish His Kingdom. The First Resur
I rection will he the Church, and sub
sequently every man in his own Or
der" When once the fact is graspe(
that the Bible He'll is the grave
Sheol. Hades-then all is plain.
The great Divinely arranged Purga
tory, to last a thousand years. will b.
glorious All the heather and the igno
rant. superstitious millions of Chris
tendon, who were taught to call them
selves Christians, but who knew tina
they were not. will have the opportu
nifty of coming to a knowledge OF tn,
true God and of His gracious provision
for them.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1915-01-19

yantages in having the ice supply
convenient to the dairy house or re-
%frigerator, but it is poor economy to
build the refrigerator or cold store in
side the ice storage. The arrange
ment suggested in figures 1 and 2 is
to be preferred.
Where an abundant supply OF
natural ice can be harvested annual
ly it will be a simple matter to main
tain high-class refrigeration by in
stalling a Understanding system.
The principle on which this patented
system works is the same as mechan-
lcal refrigeration, except that the cold
Is secured through a freezing mixture
of ice and salt in a tank in which the
primary coils are located, as shown at
B in figure 8. AS the brine in these
coils becomes chilled it passes out
through the bottom of the coils and
slowly flows through the coils marked
c, which are located in the cooling
room. The heat of this room is alb
sorbed by these chilled pipes, and as
the brine warns up it passes out and
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1915-01-19
EASY TO. TELL REAL GENIUS
Man With Capacity for Infinite Toll
10 the One So GlorlousIy
Endowed.

Genius is always nine parts gift
of God. A gifted person may learn
something at school, but he becomes
great. as Ruskin says. only when he
develops that peculiar capacity within
himself which he can learn from no
body.
How Is one to know whether he is a
genius or not, whether those strivings
within him are the ferment of medi-
ocrity or the first push of superior
talent? The woods are full of young
people who think they can write
stories or poems, or paint, or sing, or
perform upon musical instruments, or
act. How are they to know If they
be real natural-born geniuses?
Perhaps the best test is this. A
real genius usually has such a passion
for his work that no power on earth
can keep him from it. In other words,
Carlyle's dictum holds true, that gen.
Jus is the capacity for infinite toll. If
you are a God-endowed one, therefore,
you will know 1t by your unconquer-
able Joy and courage. II you are a
second-rater you will give up, and be
easily turned away into money-mak-
ing
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1915-01-19
Pig. s-Diasram showing a Combined Ice House and coId+storase Plant.

up into the primary coils, and in this
way a continuous circulation is main
tanned between the two pipe systems.
For convenience, the ice house can
be made a part of the structure, SO
that the ice can be elevated above the
storage chamber and directly into the
crusher, which can be located In the
attic above the primary coils indi-
Gated at B. AS the drawing shows, the
space above the cooling room might
be utilized as a farm shop or for a
c~ooperage, IL one were to be installed
In connection with an apple orchard.
It would not be advisable to attempt
to install this system without having
an experienced engineer calculate the
piping necessary for any given storage
room as well as the cooling tank. The
question of installation is also a very
important one, and should be carefully
specified.
This construction Is adapted to
small or to very extensive plants. The
department of agriculture used this
system in a plant which has been In
stalled at the Arlington experimental
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1915-01-19

farm. The cooling room in this case
is % by 80 feet with eight-foot cell
ings. Sufficient space is thereby pro-
vided to store 800 barrels OF apples.
Detailed information regarding the
storage of butter and cheese may be
had by those interested in two bulle-
tins of the United States department
of agriculture. Bulletin 83, bureau of
animal industry, gives information on
cheese, and Bulletin "a, bureau of ami
NAL industry, on butter. These pamph-
let's will be sent free of charge as long
as the supply lasts, after which they
may be purchased for a small price
of the superintendent of documents.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1915-01-19

prepared by the u. 8. Department OF
Agriculture.)
Even where for convenience and
economy 1t is desirable to have the
dairy under the same roof as the ice
house it is not satisfactory to attempt
to combine the ice storage with a cold
store. When it is necessary to use
ice for chilling milk and other dairy
products it is better to remove the ice
from the ice house or compartment and
place it In a specially constructed ice
box or refrigerator, rather than to at
tempt to maintain a cold room by stor-
ing the ice about and in contact with
it. The chief argument against the
combined arrangement Is that it pre-
vents the storage of ice in a solid
mass. AS a result the waste is much
greater. Again, the requirements of
the storage room and the refrigerator
vary from time to time. Advantage
can be taken of these fluctuations to
husband the ice supply when the two
are separate. There are decided ad-
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1915-01-19
Fault In Education.

One regrettable fact about the adj
vanced education of many young per
sons is that they have been alienated
from their homes and families and the
"~old-fashined" ways Of the latter. The
tragedy of this gulf which school and
college have created between students
and their parents is known only to the
mothers and fathers who have endured
it. Usually. also. the explanation is
that the children have not won to even
the beginnings of wisdom, else they
would value the real worth of the
parents whose greatness Of loyalty and
service and sacrifice is beyond the
power of the schools to bestow. Any
education which makes a boy ashamed
of his mother and father is a bad edu-
cation.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1915-01-19

Germany, Belgium, etc., are Christians;
and that the total number Of Chris
tians thus reckoned is nearly five hun
dred millions. Surely it is time that
intelligent people realize that some
great mistake has been made, and that
more than ninety-nine per cent of these
christians" make no pretense Of being
followers of Jesus.
The error arose in the now long ago.
When Pope Leo Ill. recognized a KING
as a Christian king and his kingdom
as a Christian kingdom, be recognized
that kings subjects as Christian. There
we have the matter in a nutshell tne
whole thing was a mistake. The k11g
was not a Christian. did not know the
meaning of Christianity and was not
taught it. His kingdom was not a
Christian Kingdom, and his people were
not Christians.
Meantime, here and there, obscured
to the world. there have been true
followers of the Lord Jesus Christ in
every denomination. They have been
out of accord generally with the great
leaders of the church systems as well
as with the political leaders Of the
world. 1t has been true Of them as the
Apostle wrote: The world knoweth
US not. even as it knew Him not"
q John BIZ The world does not yet
know, understand or appreciate that
the Church Of Christ is lot to be found
In any one of the professed churches
Of various names-Roman, English.
Lutheran, Presbyterian, Methodist,
Baptist. etc. The Church Of Christ is
composed exclusively of those who
have made a covenant with the Lord
through faith in the precious blood.
who have been accepted Of the Lord
by the begetting of the Holy Spirit,
and who are seeking to walk to the
best Of their ability in the footsteps
of Jesus.-1 Peter 2:21.
Heaven, He'll and Purgatory.
The theory that CHRISTIANS only are
saved from eternal torture has had
much to do with the error of counting
all civilized people Christians. The
creeds save Christians ~only-Jews. Mo-
hammedans. heather. all go to He'll
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1915-01-19
FIERCE FIGHT WITH NATURE
Lighthouse Builders Had to Face Diff
ficultles That Seemed Almost
insurmountabIe.

Right down to the time of John
Smeaton, who invented the stone
tower, lighthouses were built of wood.
1t was Smeaton's success in placing
a stone edifice on the dreaded Eddy
stone rocks, in the eighteenth century,
which really gave an impetus to light
house building, and since then the
sea-builder has achieved many notable
conquests in all parts of the globe.
The first erected was that built by
MI. r. Stevenson on the Bell rock, on
the famous Inchcape reef, off the
coast of Scotland, The construction
of this lighthouse was one long, ter
rfble battle with the angry sea. The
securing of the foundations, naturally
the most hazardous part Of the whole
undertaking. proved exceedingly diff
ficult.
1t is recorded that the men worked
with desperation. Only two could re-
main on the rock at a time, but they
stuck there with the ~tenacity OF
leeches. the cold waters of the North
sea bearing down every few minutes
and sweeping entirely over them.
When the first stone was at last
swung into position the men, ragged,
chilled and worn with the awful strug-
gle, chung to the iron rods which they
had erected upon the roof and cheered
madly, like soldiers just over the ram
parts of an enemy's forts. Again and
again they were absolutely driven
from the rock. When the tower be-
gan to appear well above the sea, ter
rible storms arose and swamped the
works. On several occasions blocks
weighing as much as two tons were
ruthlessly torn out Of their places and
swept into the sea, despite do
tailed joints and Portland cemer Cliffo
the end the sea-Auilder p~rovedent.
%torious, as he alTsays does; b
cost four years-hAhr and the expp."
ture Of 5000, 900 befofethe lighths kno
stood complete.-Wide World Maa =
zfnQ
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1915-01-19
FARMING In Norway.

The hill farmers of the Norwegian
fjords have a curious way of drying
the grass, or making the hay. They
erect th~ree-barred fences, the bars be-
ing about a foot apart, at intervals in
the fields, and hang The grass on the
bars, where it is quickly dried by the
sun and wind. These districts are for
the most part very sparsely populated,
and in many cases the farms are as
much as two days journey from the
nearest village.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1915-01-19
To Keep sIIaoe.

A good way to make the ensilage
keep at the top of a silo when it is
niled' Is to put part Of a load Of straw
through the silo filler just before 1t is
through the Job. Then SOW a pail or
two OF oats on the straw covering and
dampen them. This covering does
away with about half OF the spoiled
ensilage. to be thrown out after tae
ensilage settles.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1915-01-19

into cash are produced, unless a large
portion Of the food and feed be also
grown most of the cash must be used
to buy the necessaries which doubt
less could have been raised cheaper
than the cash crops. 1t is not the
amount of cash we handle that gives
us profit, but the amount above the
cost Of production and marketing. We
enjoy that which gives US the great
est comfort and convenience.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1915-01-19
WHAT Is 4 CHRISTIAN
WHAT his STANDARDS!
The World knOWeth Us Not,
Even as Il Knew Him Not

sPuttina on christ"-4The Very Elect"
Their Citizenship In Heaven-"chris-
tian World" a Observation-Disclosures
Not OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Of This
WorId"-Basis Of Membership In the
Church Of christ-covenant Relation
ship With God Through the Precious
6Iood-charaoter-L Likeness to Christ
= Necessary Requirement.