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The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1918-06-25
DADDY OF ALL FISH STORIES
Here Is One That Will Make Any
Disciple of Izaak Walton Look
to His Laurels.

A reader has asked us to retell the
story of the sixty-five pound catfish,
which appeared original in the column
some six or seven years ago. We have
always considered it the best fish story
we know. We trust the community
will permit us to repeat 1t.
AS we used to tell it, the story ran
something like this: We were fishing
'or bass under the old mill dam in the
liver, south of Grigsby City. Some
hing took the bait and lunged away
With 1t despite our efforts to hold 1t.
We surmised, correctly, that it was
sood-sized catfish or drum, and began
working it backward and forward
across the stream in the deep water
lnder the dam. Eventually we headed
he leviathan down stream and finally
stranded 1t in the shallow cripple" be-
ow. 1t could get neither forward nor
back, and with the help of half a dozen
other fishermen. who were watching
he contest, we landed 1t. It proved
% be a monster cat of the yellow or
Mississippi variety, and weighed sixty
i've pounds on the scales uptown
New York Tribune.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1918-06-25
Meltlno Aluminium chIps.

Fine aluminium chips, such as are
produced in the machining of the alu-
minum alloys used in motercar con-
structiol are hard to remelt without
excessive loss, loss of 40 per cent
being common. According to the bu-
reau OF mines. the total loss from this
cause throughout the country amounts,
with aluminium at its present price, to
$780, 700. The bureau has recently pub
lished some valuable suggestions for
minimizing this loss. The main cause
e trouble seems to be the lack of ready
eoalescence Of the metallic globules,
and this means that the problem is
one Of colloid chemistry applied to
Notwithstanding American.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1918-06-25


of the weeds interfere with the root
development of the cultivated plants.
This Is thought by many to be the
principal factor involved, and undoubt-
edly 1t plays an important part. The
fact that weeds do harm In more ways
than has been supposed is all the more
reason why the farmer should make
strenuous efforts to subdue these in
vaders. Land that should produce go
bushels of corn may yield no more
than 20 bushels If weeds are not kept
down by adequate cultivation, and the
net profit to the farmer is relatively
much less for the resulting poor crop
than these figures on yield show.
Another loss results from the pres
ence of weed seeds in crop seeds.
This necessitates much labor In sep
arating or results in dockage by deal
ers If the separation is not made.
Wheat containing wild-onion bullets
is sometimes locked as much as so
per cent, and in some cases there is
no sale at all for such wheat. The
agricultural experiment station of
Minnesota estimates that In that state
alone the damage to wheat due to weed
seeds amounts to two and a half mil
lion dollars yearly.
There are other causes of damage
resulting from weeds, which in some
cases are important. The harvesting
and curing of crops are sometimes
made difficulty by the presence Of
weeds. Russian thistle. bindweed,
and Canada thistle usually are source
OF great annoyance at harvest time to
the growers of small grains. Again,
some weeds harbor fungi and insects
which attack nearby crops; the club
root of cabbage is fostered on the
wild-mustard tribe of weeds, and the
Colorado potato beetle lives also on
nightshade and henbane. Furthermore,
some weeds are poisonous or otherwise
Injurious to man, live stock, or live
stock products. Poison ivy, sumac,
Unison weed, and the seeds of corn
cookie are poisonous to man; wllc
onion and bitter-weed spoil dairy prod
ucts; cowbane, water parsnip and loco
weed are poisonous to stock; and the
barbed seeds of squirreltail grass and
procupine grass penetrate the noses
and mouths of live stock, causing pain
full sores.
1t is difficult to estimate the damage
of weeds, but 1t is probable that they
cost the American farmer several hun
dred million dollars every year.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1918-06-25

A farmer who thought the robins
we're pulling up his young cabbages
learned from student of bird life that
the birds were pulling up only those
plants which were dead; and this was
to get at the wire worms at the root,
which had caused the plants to die
and which would destroy other cab
oages If left alone. In another case a
group of farmers thought the meadow
larks were destroying their crops. An
ornithologist persuaded one farmer to
spare the larks on his place. The
other farmers shot them. The result
was that the man who spared the larks
was the only one for miles around who
had an oat crop. The birds killed the
Insects which destroyed the other
crops.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1918-06-25

II have seen no bird walk the ground
with just the same air the crow Does"
writes John Burroughs in "An Idyll of
the Honey Bee" at is not exactly
pride; there is no strut or swagger in
1t. though perhaps just. little con-
descension it is the contented and self
possessed gait of lord over his do
mains. All these acres are NINE he
says, and all these crops; men pillow
and SOW for me, and I stay here or go
there and find life sweet and good
wherever I am
'The hawk looks awkward and out
of place on the ground; the game birds
hurry and skulk, but the crow is at
home and treads the earth as if there
were none to modest or make him
afraid"
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1918-06-25
ONLY BIT OF RUINED WALL
All That Remains of Castle That Was
the Birthplace of Scotland's
Hero, Robert Bruce.

Turnberry castle, on the coast of
Ayrshire, Scotland, now but bit of
ruined wall near the lighthouse, was
the birthplace and early home of Rob-
ert Bruce, whose father and mother
combined in themselves the earldoms
of Annandale and Carrick or royal
lineage-the titles still being retained
by the present royal family of the
United Kingdom"
In ancient times this old castle was
large and strong. In the early part of
3ruce's career Turn5erry was held
by an English force. Bruce through
a mistaken signal, came to take the
old familiar place, though his men
were many too few for the task. Dis
daining to give 1t up, however, he kept
up an irregular war, sometimes being
driven to refuge in the mountains or
even in the wilds of distant loch.
At length he gathered together
enough men to take Turnberry castle,
which act was the beginning of his
triumphant progress through Ayrshire
and Stirlingshire, which finally ended
with Bannockburn's tremendous VIC
tory.
1t is hard to realize the oldtime i'm
portance of Turnberry, now that the
visitor must search long before he can
rome across its few battered remains.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1918-06-25
Be Rid of Tha t
Headache

uyou are a sufferer with lame back
backache, dizziness. nervousness and
kidney disorders. why dou't you try the
remedy that your own neig Ibis re :
commend2
Mrs. Margret Weldy, Church ST.,
Mt. Holly, says: Before / started
using Deans Kidney Pills, was trou-
bled . crest deal with my back. When
had been on my feet great deal or
when / had taken cold my kidneys al
ways became weak. My back would
bother me more then than at any 9TH
er time. i started using Doan's Kid
ney Pills and they soon gave me re-
lief. After that whenever / had any
pain In my back, Doan's relieved me
Of the misery" statement given
November II, 1914.
IN GOOD HEALTH.
On October 8, 1917, Mrs. Weldy said:
my health is good and my kidneys
have given me no trouble at all since
used Doan's Kidney Pills few year
ago. Doan's Kidney Pills deserve
g'eat deal OF praise.
Price Coo, at all dealers. Foster-Milburl
Co.. Mfgrs.. Buffalo. N. Y.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1918-06-25
Honey Of the Bible.


1t is interesting to note that the
wild honey named in the Bible may
not have been altogether the stores
packed away by the bee in the hol-
lows of trees and between the rocks.
There is q clear, sweet liquid called
honey dew found frequently on leaves
and comes from the aphids, the tiny
"cows" cared for and ''milked" by the
ants for their saccharine substance.
There was so much of it on the leaves
of the trees in oriental climes that it
dripped down in considerable quanti-
ties to the ground. This must have
been the kind named in the book Of
Samuel where it says: "And all they
Of the land came to wood and there
was honey upon the ground. And
when the people were come into the
wood behold the honey dropped"
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1918-06-25
History of the Sword.

The sword came from ancient Egypt
and was used through Palestine, Syria
and Asia Minor, India and throughout
the western world. 1t was in Egypt
that the three shapes of the sword
blade originated, these being the
straight, the curved and the half
curved. The Roman sword was larger
than that of the Greeks and in the
days of the empire many of the sheaths
We're so covered With precious stones
as to be veritable art treasures. Among
the Moslems the highest title given to
q warrior of renown is "the sword of
Allah" The Chinese made swords Of
iron as early as 1879 B. G.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1918-06-25
opprobrlous Epithets.

A correspondent informs us that a
woman defendant in a Brittany police
court has been fined 80 francs for call
ing another woman 'an old tank" The
offense presumably lay in the unusual,
as In the case of the fishwife whom
O'Connell silenced by calling a "paral-
lelopiped." Psychology has never yet
solved the problem why a compara-
lively innocuous phrase may cause
more offense than the vilest abuse.
For instance, mort aux vaches'' does
not strike the Englishman as so very
terrible, yet, to tell French gendarme
Of your desire for an increase in the
mortality rate among cows is surer
way of asking for trouble than to SLAM
der the Pope in Home Rule strong
hold.-London Globe.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1918-06-25
Food Quotas.

The man who works hard needs in a
day IL ounces of one or of a combi-
nation Of the following: Meat, poul-
try, cheese, dried vegetables, fish or
eggs. To vary the above he may count
every glass of milk drunk equal to an
ounce of any one of the others. The
soldiers, either in home or military life,
must have four pounds of fresh fruit
and vegetables In order to keep the
bony structure in good condition. He
will need the three-quarters of a cup
full of fat (this includes butter, oil,
the fat of meat eaten or any other fat
in the daily diet) to keep him warm,
and to this group he must add one and
one-fourth pounds of bread or cereal
and finally, in order to complete the
necessary amount of driving power, he
must have two ounces of sugar or one
third Of cupful of strip.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1918-06-25
Insure Good Results.

If one is pressed cor time good
showing can be made by keeping cool
and quietly disposing Of one task be-
fore beginning another. Hurry and ex-
element will hinder any cause. But
the person who has mastered himself
or herself-who remains calm under
all circumstances-is the man or wom-
an who does splendid work.
Learning to concentrate ones mind
upon the duty at hand is, indeed, an
effort worth while. Therefore, the girl
or woman who would spare herself
hours of needless worry or excitement
should wisely keep her head-in other
words, give her best attention to what
ever task confronts her.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1918-06-25
WEEDS Detrimental
TO BIG CROP YIELD
May Be Due to Roots Giving OF
Poisonous Substances.
Fact That Noxious Plants Do Harm In
Many Ways Is Reason Why Farm.
er Should Make Efforts to Sub
due These Invaders.

Prepared by the United States Depart
ment of Agriculture.)
The full reason why weeds reduce
yields is not definitely known. 1t is
well recognized that weeds deprive
crops of moisture, plant food, and SUM-
light, and by these means cause de-
creased yields. Experiments have
shown. however, that even where
there is supply of moisture and plant
food sufficient for the needs of both
the weeds and the crop, weeds still ex-
ert detrimental effect. This may be
due In part to the wood roots giving
off substances which are poisonous to
crops. A more generally accepted ex-
PLANTATION, however, is that the roots
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1918-06-25
Confidence Has No EnxIes.

Ambition doesn't fear to admire
what 1t would like to have. Show big
ness In any guise to brave. bold man
and he'll prepare to parallel it. It's
the cowardly. double-swept weakling
with secretly accepted bounds who
always hates the strength and merit
beyond reach.
The fox didn't believe the grapes
sour until he had quit trying for them.
Scurrilous tongues are bitter with self
surrender. Stern, determined men re-
fuse to discount the future; no attain
ment Is beyond their hopes. They
never 'knock." 1t might be construed
as evidence of inability to prove equal
lty. Confidence has no envies.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1918-06-25
Know Them by Their Laughter.

The far-seeing man with sense of
humor laughs in his throat in spas
modic little bursts. He looks before
he leaps. He takes a good survey of
a question before committing himself.
Neither laughter nor speech escapes
easily. He let's them out judiciousIy.
Those who laugh inside, shake their
shoulders and go red in the face are
generally good-tempered sort, gen.
erous and aboveboard. But look round
the corner when you see the man COM
Ing who swallows his laugh as though
1t would defile his lips. If he is your
master he will sweat you; if your par
ent, he will bully you; If your husband,
he will make you miserable.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1918-06-25
wrens Valuable in the Garden.

The examination of 88 stomachs of
house wrens showed that 80 per cent
Of their contents was composed of in
sects or their allies, and only 2 per
cent of vegetable matter, made up Of
bits of grass and other vegetation eyi
IDENTIFY taken in catching the insects.
AS the wren often raises in n seasol
u to 1G young, all of which becom'
mature enough to forage for them
selves very soon after they are able t.
leave the nest, 1t is evident that pair
Of these lively little birds are very de-
sirable tenants in garden or orchard
Peoples Home Journal.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1918-06-25
Small Request.

"Boss, would it hurt you much to
separate yourself from little coin?"
"Why, no. Here's a nickel. See?
l-give it to you cheerfully."
Thanks, boss. De good book says
It's more blessed to give than to re-
ceive. Judging from de way you look
an de way feel I guess de good book
Is right
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1918-06-25

grass, Canada thistle and milkweed,
cannot be destroyed In this manner af-
ter they have become well established.
Injury to the stand is averted by
slantfng the teeth Of the harrow back
ward about 30 degrees, although an
excessive slant is undesirable. When
weeder Is used the teeth directly
oyer the rows are often removed.
Either tool had best be used In the af-
ternoOn or on hot day, when the
plants are wilted and limp. The pc
Rod Of greatest danger to the stand
is just as the plants are coming
through the ground. at which time
and for few days thereafter, harrow
ing is inadvisable. A short trial will
demonstrate whether the injury Is
greater than the saving. although one
should not lose courage too quickly.
Harrow These Crops.
Crops which can be narrowed sue
cessfully include corn, cotton, potatoes,
field beans and peas, sugar beets, sor-
ghum, cane, peanuts, Sudan grass, al
falfa, sweet clover, wheat, barley, oats
and rye. The grain crops are har-
rowed more to remove wild mustard
and other weeds than for the sake of
cultivation. Special harrows are made
for broadcast alfalfa.
Tobacco, cabbage and other trans
planted crops. as well as young grass
and clover seedlings and most truck
crops, are too delicate for this method
Of cultivating.
Narrowing cannot be expected to
give good results unless the surface
soil is In good filth. The object Of
narrowing is to maintain, not to make,
a seed bed. For this reason the prac-
tice is most popular on the lighter
types Of soil. as these are easily pre-
pared and worked. Very good results
are secured. Aowever, on heavy clay
loan soils, and the practice is rapidly
extending as the requirements become
more generally understood.
Stiff clay soils, wet soil and soil on
which hard crust has formed should
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1918-06-25
searehIIoht from Batteries.

From the pocket fiashlamp operated
by two or three dry cells of minute
size the battery searchlight has been
steadily improved until today remark-
able results are obtained. A battery
searcflight has been introduced with
range of 1000 feet up to half mile,
operated on six volts. Equipped with
71A-inch adjustable focus, single-shell
reflector. on recent photometer test
one of these searchlights gave ASS, 00C
candlepower. The combination of
nitrogen-filled tungsten lamp and a
correctly designed reflector has worked;
wonders for the battery operated
searchlight.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1918-06-25
All Harmonious.

so you are getting good results
rom juries Of ladiesY
YES" said the judge; ''they don't
want us men to have chance to
ay they couldn't agree."-Louisville
Jourier-Journal.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1918-06-25
slEEDER REDUCES
COST OF LABOR
Use of Spike-Tooth Harrow Is
Practice Not Generally En-
ployed on Farms.
WORK DONE IN SHORT TIME
Crops Can Be Cultivated Twice 40
Often During First Part of Season
Weeds Killed by Wholesale
During Month Of May.

prepared by the United States Depart.
ment Of Agriculture.)
A farm practice not generally em-
ployed Is the use of the weeder or the
spike-tooth harrow instead of the usu-
al one-row cultivator In cultivating
crops like corn, cotton and potatoes.
This practice does not involve buying
new implements. 1t means only diff
ferent use of those already on many
farms, yet 1t reduces labor cost 40 per
cent and does the job In one-third the
time.
On well-prepared ground which is
free from stones. clods and trash, a
two-section harrow or 12-foot weeder
can be used for all but the heaviest
cultivating until the crops are s to 6
inches high, and will do the work
In one-third the time required by a
two-horse cultivator. By using the
larger implements the cost of cultiva-
ton is reduced from 35 per cent to
about 20 per cent of the cost of grow
ing the crop, besides releasing valu-
able farm labor for other work dur
ing the busy season. If desired, the
crops can be cultivated twice as often
during the first part of the season, In
which case there will be little hoeing
and cultivating to do during haying.
In either event the weeds are killed
wholesale in May, instead of row at
at time In June.
Not a Severe Treatment.
Driving a weeder or even harrow
over young growing crop is not as Sc
we're treatment as would appear. Most
/, crop plants are tough and heavily
! rooted and are not damaged perma-
nently. either by the harrow or the
horses. A few plants are uprooted
and there is some tearing Of the
larger leaves, but this can be entirely
! Offset by seeding little more heavily
than usual. Weeds, on the other hand,
are mostly shallow-rooted, and are
nearly all destroyed. However. the
harrow or weeder must be used be-
fore the weeds exceed an inch in
height in order to be effective. Per-
ennial weeds. of course, like quack
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1918-06-25
Not ALWAYS

The young fellow who's calling on
'our daughter, Smith, has a lot of
go in him.
Not any to notice when he's calling
n my daughter"
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1918-06-25

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The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1918-06-25
Had Good Reason.

Mother-Why, Bobby, you don't gen.
orally keep on crying like this after
your father has given you a spanking.
Bobby-I-I know it. ma; but he
says I've got to sit down and think 1t
over, and-and before I've always
stood up and forgot it-Boston Tran
ecript, ..s...ss..
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-03-20
WOMEN ARE NEEDED
TO HELP IN WAR

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in nursing the wounded, in making
up the soldiers kits, and thousand
other ways. Many American women
are weak, pale or anemic from wom-
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The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-03-20
PACKERS AGREED TO
DIVISION, IN ALLEGATION
Had Arrangement for Distribution
of Receipts.

Omaha, Neb., March 20.-LetterS
to show an agreement between the
big five packers to divide the
livestock receipts at Omaha and
other points on i percentage basis
were read by Francis ]. Hcnery,
head of the counsel for the federal
trade commission at the reSunp-
tion OF the investigation OF the pack
ing industry in Omaha yesterday
No representatives of the packers
were called as witnesses, most OF the
evidence consisting of documents
taken from the files of Omaha and
Sioux City packing firms, ard the
testimony of Nebraska and iowa
producers.
A. +. Stryker, secretary and traf-
hc manager of the South Omaha
Livestock Exchange, the first wit
ness, said that the general under
standing among cattle producers
was that Armour & Co., domino ted
the Omaha stock yards; Swift &
Co., Sioux City; Swift & Co., St
Paul; Morris & Co., Oklahoma
City; Swift < Co., Armour & Co..
Fort Worth; Swift and Armour
Denver; Morris & Co., Kansas City
Armour Chicago, and Morris, St
Louis.
The earnings of the Omaha yards
last year were given as 8 per cent