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The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1916-01-25
GAVE THEM THE WRONG IDEA
Teachers Power over Children Evil
IDENTIFY Was Not as Great as She
Had Imagined.

An indianapolis young woman who
has been taking Normal course at
an institution for deaf children, told
on her return to the city for short
visit of her experience the first few
days. She knew little about the sign
language, but the children she was to
teach knew nothing about it. She
was expected to learn faster than
they. and to teach them through lip
reading.
The supervisor had instructed her
not to Sign to the children. She was
not to show what she wanted them
to do, but tell them and make it plain
that they were to read her lips. This
method was irkseme, and when the SUI
Dervisor was out of the room she
signed" with her hands what the
children were to do. She was NOV
ing her hands upward as she told the
children to stand, and the supervisor
entered the room. The children stood,
but the supervisor said that was not
the proper method of instructing the
children.
Watch me- she said The super
visor stood before the children and
said sit down" being careful to make
her lips show the words as clearly as
possible. The children were aston
ished, and we're slow to determine
what was being asked of them, but two
in the front row figured it. They be-
gan to run around the room. Two or
three others saw that the first two
were wrong, and they jumped up and
down, while several others turned so
as to face the rear of the room.
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Thu. FOOL
By !. curABERr SPENCE.

81 .4 ltss
There are queer kinks in the hu-
man brain, said Norris at the club.
What you were telling us about re-
minds me of fool, a young fool, !
used to think knew"
His voice grew meditative and
reminiscent. He looked from one to
another OF his audience. He seemed
to take us all in at a glance, except
the elderly man in the corner.
Norris was about thirty-five. Well
to do. occupying an important post In
the city government, he had never
married, never taken up anything in
particular. He was an inveterate at
tendant at the club. Sometimes he
told US "reminiscences. usually about
some friend, although we often sus-
pected 1t was about himself that he
spoke.
This young fool was young and
chivalrous," said Norris, with one of
his characteristic sneers. 1T was a
clazy act-the act of a typical fool.
But then the girl he loved had thrown
him oVer-a quarrel, gentlemen! I'M
agine a man of twenty-three quarrel
ing with so sweet girl as-well, of
course you wouldn't know her If
were to mention her name.
He was a reporter on a daily news
paper. and at that time he covered the
immigration department. When he
was there he used to gather what were
called human stories. Human
stories! How big story he could
have written about himself this fool!
"One day he was seated in the court
where they hear the cases of those
who have been put aside as undeserv-
ing Of admission to this country.
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Royhood Memories.

"The kids of today have better play
things than when was boy" said a
grizzled old fellow today who was
watching some boys flying kites.
take, for instance, kites. You see
these kites they are flying are made
of cloth, box shaped and without tails.
That's big change from the house,.
kites and Goldfish kites that made
when a kid. When / was boy every
boy made his own kites and mended
them, if they needed mending. He
whitfield out his own kite sticks to
make the form of the kite, and then
he covered the kite with paper. which
he pasted on. And he made the paste
himself he got some -four of his
mother and mixed it with water and
cooked it enough on the kitchen stove
to make it sticky. And when he had
the kite made he was ready for the
tail. He would go to mother and she
would cut out nice piece of old cot
ton cloth for the tail. What a change
these cloth-covered, box-shaped kites
are, and made to fly without a tail
My, what a change that is from the
old-time kites" And the old fellows
memories still fingered with his boy
hood days as he watched the kids
raising their kites.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1916-01-25
Art Of Being Liked.

How good thing it is that we need
not be great or learned in order to
be loved! How discouraging, If liking
only consorted with fame and power!
There are countless happy and well
loved people who will never set the
Charles on fire, but who will be sadly
missed in their quiet neighborhoods
people, in any careful estimate of the
spiritual forces, are the real salt of
the earth. 1t warns our hearts to
think of them. 1t comforts US to knew
that they are at hand In times OF
trouble and WEAKNESS. Do you re-
member Miss Bates, in Jane Aus
tens Emma" who enjoyed a most
uncommon degree of popularity for a
woman neither young, handsome, rich
nor married?'
Out of all the qualities which made
Miss Bates such a happy and well
loved creature, think we may pick
one which is Of the highest promise
both in our desire for the liking of
others and for our own Joy in life. 1t
is the quality of being interested. An
unaffected interest in others Ia the
most certain passport to popularity.
1t goes far deeper than the flattering
pretense of interest which is so soon
found out. It appeals to everyone,
selfish and self-forgetful alike.-Bos.
ton Transcript.
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THE PEAcE.MAKER
BY GEORGE MuNsoN.


Hiram Briggs. sir? He don't live
In Mosstown any more. No, we don't
know what's happened to him, and
we don't much care. You guessed
Mosstown wouldn't stand for his
cussedness much longer? It wasn't
that.
well. you remember Hi. Meanest
old cuss Mosstown ever knew,
reckon. Set his yellow dog on the
children IL they took the short cut
across his lawn. Prosecuted the boy
who threw a ball and accidentally
broke his window. Evicted Widow
Jones from her little house when she
was sick abed, because she couldn't
meet the mortgage interest. All these
things Mosstown stood for, and more.
A man like that gets folks accustomed
to his ways and they'll stand good
deal from him. Besides, Mosstown
took a sort of pride in him; there
wasn't a meaner man In the whole
county. you see.
What Mosstown couldn't stand for
was the change that came over Hi
after he got converted He started
In as a peace-maker. After he'd poked
his nose into everybody's business
for while he started the "Make-It-
Up Day" He appointed September
10 for "Make-It-Up- Day." All quar-
rels was to be settled on that day, he
announced. and he'd settle them. He
began by giving dollar to the boy
that had broken his window, which
was some going for Hi.
Nobody could believe 1t at first.
and after the news spread the crowds
used to come outside HIS window and
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1916-01-25
HOW ONE NOVELIST WROTE
Frank Norris Worked Only Three
Hours at a Stretch, but Claimed
He Worked Every Day.

Frank Norris, the welI-known author
of "The Pit, ? The Octopus and YAM
dover and the Brute" once sent a let
ter to Ward Macauley, the Detroit
book seller, in answer to certain gen
eral questions about Norris writing.
Don't believe fiction writer should
shut himself up in his profession the
letter says in part. Novels can't be
written from the closet or study.
You've got to live your stuff. Believe
novelists of all people should take in
terest in contemporary movements,
politics, international affairs, the big
things in the world.
I write with great difficulty. but
have managed somehow to accom-
plish forty short stories (all published
in fugitive fashion, and five novels
within the last three years, and a lot
OF special unsigned articles. Believe
my forte is the novel. Don't like to
write, but like having written.
Hate the effort of driving pen from
line to line, work only three hours a
day, but work every day. Believe in
blunt, crude Anglo-Saxon words. Some
times spend half an hour trying to get
the right combination of one-half doz-
en- words. Never rewrite stuff; do all
hard work at first writing, only revise
very lightly-in typewritten copy
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Treasure Shin Ready.

The staunch old whaler Jeanette is
receiving coat of paint and a power
full engine is being added to her equip
ment in the Pacific shipyard at Ala
media Point, Cal. The Jeanette, for a
long time, has lain idle, but now she is
going to sail again on a long expedi-
ton to the South seas. She will carry
adventurous to Cacos island to search
for fabulous treasures thought to have
been hidden by Red Jacinto," pirate
chieftain.
The party is to be headed by Capt.
James Brown of Portland, Me-, and is
composed of business men from
Springfield, Mo-, and Kansas City, who
have formed a syndicate to finance the
expedition. They will leave Oakland,
CAL. in a few days.
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thought as little of the ceremony with
him as her soi-disant husband did.
To them it had been ii pretext to en-
able her to beat the incomprehensible
law of America. That they were big
,amously married meant absolutely
nothing to either.
The young fool kept in touch with
them, for he felt that if ever the wom-
an died he could go to his sweetheart,
whom he saw only very rarely, and
claim her as his wife. But the years
passed and the children came, and
nothing developed Nothing! She
grew stronger and buxom, and after a
while the Madonna face had become
placid, stolid, motherly one That's
all. And that's how it is today. What
a young fool! What besotted fool"
] think our faces must have re-
Elected the horror we felt; and then
the voice Of the man in the corner
broke the silence.
you've got one fact wrong, Nor
ris." he said. The woman did not mar
ry the man after she came to Ameri-
ca, but before"
What's that? What do you say?''
Norris shouted, leaping out of his
chair.
She was already married to him.
The interpreter did not altogether
grasp her dialect. So she never mar
ried the young fool after all. You
see," ne added, Il was on the immi-
grafton board"
For a moment the silence was still
more complete Then we heard a chair
fall, and saw Norris walking toward
the door. He stopped there.
God bless you'll" he said gravely.
Tm-Pm going to tell the girl
Copyright. 1915, by w. G. Chapman.l
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1916-01-25
BURNING AFTER SIXTY YEARS
Now Ono Million Dollars Will Be Spent
In Endeavor to Put Out Coal
Mine Blaze.

Engineers Of the Lehigh Coal and
Navigation company are making her.
culean efforts to extinguish the fire
which has been burning for so years
In a coal mine at Summit Hill, Pa.
Seven mine locomotives and three
steam shovels are in operation and a
large force of men is at work driving
deep holes into the earth, into which
culm and water are being sluiced.
Millions of gallons of water are be-
ing pumped daily into crevices and
holes, and the issuance of steam indi-
Gates that the fire is burning in spots
which had long been considered
burned out.
The gigantic effort the company is
making to extinguish the fire for all
time will probably cost 100000, but
that sum is insignificant when COM
pared with the damage the fire would
do II it should spread into the val
ley and ignite the mammoth veins run
ming throughout the Panther Creek
valley. The fire had it's origin direct
ly west Of Summit Hill, and was
caused, it is Believed, by forest fires
The flames have been gradually
spreading westward, and have de-
stroyed millions Of dollars worth Of
coal.
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erations were being suspended. There
wasn't any more charitable work, and
there wasn't any more fun anywhere.
And in the midst of it all stalked HI
Briggs, smiling to himself as if he'd
done us all service.
We'll, the outbreak came quite sud-
den like The first inkling we had of
1t was when we found Joe Wendell
holding Hi by the throat in the town
square.
"'You got me married. he yelled.
You broke up my happy bachelor
home What you got to say before ]
end your miserable life, you vermin!
"'You let that good old man alone!'
shouts Mr.. Bull.
go to it, Joe!' yells Henson, and
with that fight starts between them,
with all Mosstown looking on and
yelling for joy.
Soon the fight became free. Every.
body was calling each other names,
and the noise spread so that Miss
Rose Robertson tainted in her home,
three blocks away, to think she hadn't
had hand in the trouble.
However, Hi got away in time, be.
fore the crowd turned on him. No,
sir, he never came back. But sayi
Mosstown's the finest little place for
residential quarters you ever saw.
Rents are soaring, business is brisk,
Henson and Bull are at daggers
drawn, James talking of a divorce,
and Reverend Aloysius is expected to
resign next week. We're betting on
it."
Copyright. 1915. by W. G. Chapman.)
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1916-01-25
Give Home the nonee Over.

Now is not too late to look over the
house and see what is necessary to
repair the ravages of the summer
sun and dust. 1t is a good idea to
clean the glass over pictures with a
cloth wrung from hot water and
dipped in alcohol. Polish them imme-
diately until they are dry and glossy
with chamois or tissue paper.
Rub leather chairs with a little
fresh milk to prevent cracks in the
leather. Do this about once a week.
Whiting spread on q damp flannel
cloth will remove all spots from
painted wood without hurting the sur
face and without firing the arm which
applies it.
Often when a house has been closed
all summer the iron sink becomes
rusty. 1t can be cleaned with mutton
tallow. Cover the tallow with quick
lime and leave 1t on over night. The
lime and tallow should then be rubbed
off with an old sink broom and the
sink should then be washed with hot
soda water. The lime should not be
allowed to touch the hands.
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Modest Hero.

At an English county station a lit.
tie child, owing to the rush of a
crowd Of trippers, was pushed over
in front of an outgoing train. Quick
as flash workingman jumped on to
the track, threw the child on to the
platform and scrambled up himself,
but scarcely quick enough, as the en-
CINE in passing rolled him over on the
platform.
Several people fastened to his sue
cor, but he rose uninjured, and with
a face expressive of extreme concern
drew out of his pocket colored hand
kerchief containing his days victuals,
which he cursorily examined, and then
ruefully exclaimed: "Confound ii!
Just my luck!"
What is the matter?"
Why, I've broken two eggs and
rhubarb tart, and it's all mixed up
with my tea and sugar."
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1916-01-25
LANDRY's SCOOP
BY RACHEL MORTON PRINCE.


Burr Landry was caught red
handed in crime, proved guilty and
sentenced to one year in the house
of correction. But for the fact that
he was scarcely twenty-one, and
looked even younger, the stern Judge
would have made the term an indie
terminate imprisonment in the peni-
Tertiary, for the crime was a serious
one-burglary.
Burr looked grave when the SEN
tence was passed. Then, in his airy
free-and-easy way, he soliloQuized:
Let 'er go! If tell the facts in
the case it may involve Rolfe Merrill
and his newspaper. And, say!" Burr
continued to felicitate himself, its
all experience Why, l will be able
to write whole volume on crime and
criminals when l come outl"
To explain: Burr was a cub re-
porter" scout for the liveliest space
writer on the Evening Spectator. He
had always felt a keen desire ito
make his mark in literature" as he
termed it. Rolfe Merrill had encour-
aged him and given him tips and
points. Burr had brought in one or
two stories that had passed muster.
He had been paid for them and told
to try again.
Which he did, and in a far more
pretentious and important way than
previously. 1t seemed that Merrill
had been working on big SCOOP"
There had been an investigation of
the payrolls of certain department
at the city hall. The exposure depend
ed on verification of stuffed pay
rolls. When the cases supposed to
contain the tally books and papers
were brought into court, they were
found empty.
Merrill had started the investiga-
ton. 1t was bad failure of his hopes
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! find that l can write all day with
out pain in my fingers IL / hold the
pen loosely. If should grasp it
tightly, it would be only few hours
before the strain made writing almost
impossible.
Do we not often hold too tight a
rein on ourselves and our families
for comfort? Habit has made us
"bossy' and domineering. When a
member of the family goes, we want
to know where he is going and how
long he intends to be gone; we keep
q string on him and are ready to drag
him home that we may feel that all
are sheltered and under our watchful
eyes,
This is selfish care. 1t fences the
individual in. 1t hampers him and
makes his field of pleasure and activ-
tty cramped and rasping.
When one knows that another is
trustworthy, why hold so tight rein ?
Some of us have got into the habit of
depressing and suppressing ourselves
for the sake Of peace and the absence
of anxiety. Freedom is necessary for
the development of individuality and
the best that is in each one of u.s.
The Gagged bird never sings so joyous
ly as the bird in the field or Forest
Shirley, in Farm Life.
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guessed rightly that his newspaper
friend had acted promptly in the prem

guessed rightly that his newspaper
friend had acted promptly in the prem
Uses.
Burr was speedily robed in his own
personal apparel and, hot-footed, made
for the nearest police station. He
knew the reporting ropes thoroughly
enough to promptly locate the one
where Joe" had been initially i'm
prisoned. He learned that his former
cellmate had been Jailed for deadly
assault upon pal and from the rec
ords secured his living address.
Time, he realized, was the essence
of the occasion, "Joe" might find an
opportunity at once to dispatch his
note to 'Mollie." There was no time
to lose. Burr reached the address
obtained from the police record to
find the gangster's home to be
wretched two-story house in a state
of general dilapidation. He saw a
woman moving about, formed speedy
plan and went into near drug store.
Cutting the sheet of paper nearly
in two that bore the impress of the
note "Joe" had written to "Mollie,"
he proceeded to trace the pencil point
marks direct, so that in the hand
writing of the delectable Joe" 1t
read:
- go to Lawyer Marcus Tell
him If I'm not out OF here inside of a
week I'll blow the whole game and
give up the papers to the investigat-
ing committee"
Burr proceeded to deliver the note.
He was assured from the manner of
"Mollie" that the real letter had not
yet arrived. He lurked about the place
till the woman went away on her
mission, forced a window. got into
the house, investigated the mattress,
found the papers and fastened to his
friend, Merrill.
The Evening Spectator made Burr
Landry handsome cash present for
securing the biggest scoop Of the
year, besides proving up the charges
it had made against the gangsters 1t
meant the promotion of Burr to real
reporting position. At which the am
bilious young fellow rejoiced; pretty,
loving Rose sharing his happiness.
Copyright. 1915. by w. G. Chapman.)
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1916-01-25
AnaIvzInu an Adaoe.

Remember" said the ready-made
philosopher, that penny saved Is a
penny earned"
That replied Mr.. Dustin Stax, "is
another Of those fallacious maxims
The penny earned is the one that the
other fellow is willing to let go Of.
The penny saved is likely to mean a
trifiing expense avoided for the pres
emit and heavy wear and tear account
later on. Those adage builders sound
first-rate; but as d rule they're not re-
liable as business doctors"
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1916-01-25
FOUGHT DUEL IN THE AIR
German and British Aviators Engage
In Struggle Which Results In De-
structlon Of One Participant.

A thrilling spectacle took place the
other day on the French frontier when
a German aeroplane passed overhead
spying out the land. First there was
rapid fire of the antiair-craft guns,
and though the white puffs of the
shells seemed to encircle it, they ap-
peared to be doing no harm. Then
the German airman caught sight of
British aeroplane and Immediately
started in hot pursuit of it.
Another British aeroplane which
was returning from a scouting tour
over the German lines, dropped out
of the white clouds, as If by magic.
But being above the German plane, its
presence was not perceived until it
was quite close. Then began sensa-
tional battle. For fear of injuring
their own machines, the soldiers
stopped the fire from the antiaircraft
guns. Left to themselves, the two
crafts circled and recircled round each
other, the British aeroplane rushing
in sometimes and then darting away
again, while the machine guns kept
up rapid firing. Suddenly the Ger
man plane dropped with an abrupt,
twisting drive. For a thousand feet or
more it fell, helplessly. Then, as if
the aeronaut had made frantic effort
to adjust his levers, the machine
Strengthened out for a second or two.
The British plane followed the Ger
man in it's fall, in graceful spiral
curves, and when it righted, opened
renewed fire upon it. A burst of white
smoke from the German aeroplane an
nounced the explosion of the petrol
tank. The body of the German ma
chine crashed to the earth. It's heavy
four-cylinder engine embedded itself
in the ground, its wings and body
shattered into splinters, and it's steel
stays bent and twisted, lay scattered
about.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1916-01-25
Origin of Soldiers, Caters.

The origin of the white CATERS worn
by the Highland regiments is an inter.
esting story. They are worn in mem
DRY Of some of the trials that the regi-
ments underwent in the peninsular
war. During the retreat of the forces
under Sir John Moore at Coruna the
soldiers suffered great hsrdships, and
their boots became sadly worn, owing
to the rocky nature of the ground on
the Portuguese coast. The Highland
ers thereupon took the shirts from
their backs tore them into strips and
bound them round their feet for pro-
lection. The white spats or CATERS
were introduced as part of the regular
uniform in memory of those trying
times,
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Why Men Eat More Than Women.

Why Men Eat More Than Women.
That men eat 5 per cent or per
cent more than women-not because
they are gluttons, but because they
actually require that much more
nourishment-appe as the result
of an Investigation made in the nu-
triton laboratory of the Carnegie
institute at Washington, D. G. The
reason for the discrepancy seems to
be that women have smaller proper
ton of active tissue than men of the
same weight, and more inactive ma
terial, such as fat. The investigation
disclosed that the average woman
generates only 1855 heat units in the
"a hours, as against 1858 produced
by the man. or about 2 per cent more
for the latter per pound Of body
weight When groups were compared,
after careful selection of individuals
of nearly the same height and weight,
the men were found to produce about
IL per cent more heat than the wom-
en-. The Investigators vigorously ex-
Guided athletes from their compare
sons, dealing only with ncnathletic
men and women of the same height
and same weight.