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The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1918-10-29
Ono way to Get . pass.

Madam. II didn't know / would
tell you." said the polite commanding
general to the lady asking for infor-
nation to which she was not entitled.
The important thing in military CEN
sorship Is to know just where and
when to draw the line. In or Civil
war the colonel Of Pennsylvania reg
iment went to Secretary Stanton to
ask for pass for an old man to visit
his dying son after battle. The pass
was grufly refused. Whereupon the
applicant said to the secretary. my
name is Dwight, colonel Of the 149th
regiment, Pennsylvania volunteers.
You can dismiss me from the service
II you like, but / am going to tell you
here and now what / think Of you,"
which the colonel proceeded to do In
language not At to print.
He got the pass.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1918-10-29
Knowledge Unto himself.

A group of business men met on
street corner In a certain city and
were discussing the progress that has
been made by the allied forces on the
western front. During the conversa-
ton a fellow-citizen, who is fond of
expressing his opinion, but whose field
of information is so limited that he
doesn't appreciate how small it is,
Joined the crowd and listened to the
various expressions.
Unable to hold his silence, he de-
clared:
"There amt no doubt but that our
boys has thrown new life into the
alleys, but in my opinion the Huns
can't fight like the Germans did"
And then before anyone could get
in a word he added:
"And then we've done lots better
work since our merchant marines has
got into the front line action"
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1918-10-29
Sanitation Accorded snseza.

In France, in earlier days, a sneeze
was greeted by the removal Of the hat,
and when the paroxysm was over the
sneezer formally returned the salute
OF all present. In England, also, in
the seventeenth century, a sneeze was
saluted by the removal of the hat.
Joseph Hall, bishop of Exeter, in 1927,
wrote that man no longer reckoned
among his friends those who failed to
uncover when he sneezed. The Slamese
have peculiar idea of their own that
the gods are continually turning over
the pages of the judgment book, and
that when they come to the page re.
iating to any particular person that
individual invariably sneezes. Their
salutation is, MAY the judgment be
favorable to you"
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1918-10-29
Force d Compressed Air.

The effects Of air resistance are
well known In the twelve and one
half mile Simplon tunnel. where an
exceptionally high amount Of energy
IL required for running the electric
trains. The tunnel. which Is fifteen
feet wide and eighteen feet high,
with q sectional area of two hundred
and fifty square feet. has ventilat-
Ing current Of $3.50 cubic feet of air
per second, maintained by two large
blast fans at the Brig end and two
exhaust fans at Iselle. Trains going
with this current encounter less re-
sistance than In open air up to fifteen
and half miles an hour, but at
higher speeds or In the opposite direc-
ton the resistance is much greater
than outside. Coasting by gravity
down the seven per one thousand
maximum gradient, a train, even go
ing with the current, cannot exceed
thirty-fave miles per hour on account
Of the braking by the air.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1918-10-29
LIttIe.known Chinese Race.

Down in the extreme south of
China, in the eastern outposts Of the
Himalayas, lies the little-known
province of Yunan. The natives of
Yunan are exceptionally interesting,
writes Roy Chapman Andrews in Asia.
There are about thirty nom Chinese
tribes In the province, some of which,
such as the Shans, Mosos and Lolos,
represent the aboriginal inhabitants
of China.
The Mosos formerly ruled all Of
northern funan. AT present they are
scattered in remote districts where
white men seldom penetrate. They
are simple. honest and delightful
people, primitive and pastoral They
are looked down upon by tie Chinese
as barbarians. The invarlabIe Moso
costume is brown felt cloak and
close-f1tting cap.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1918-10-29
ALWAYS LAND OF TROUBLE
Barbaric Invasion and czarIsm Have
Nodded Russian History, to Peo-
pies Sorrow.

The backwardness of the Russians
can be pretty adequately accounted for
by three historical factors. There is,
first, the Mongol yoke which rested
upon them for nearly two and a half
centuries. During the wonderful thir-
teenth and fourteenth centuries, while
England was establishing her parlia
ment and democratic models were be-
ing worked out in the free self-gOvern-
ing city states of Italy and the low
countries. the Russians lay flattened
under al alien Asiatic despotism. BY
the time they had rid themselves of
the MOngols all legal rights of individ-
uals, local communities and social
classes had disappeared, leaving the
power of the czars unlimited.
In the second place. for long time
after the Muscovites had freed them
selves from the Mongols, their settle
mehts In the rich treeless steppes to
the south of them-the famous ''black
soil" destined to become the granary
of Russia and, indeed, of Europe
were exposed to raids by the nomad
Tartars hemming them on the east
and south. Until the days of Peter
the Great the Russians were for the
most part confined to the less fertile
forested region of the North, where
they were safe from the incursions Of
the nomads. Let one imagine how our
economic development would have suf-
fered had our ancestors been confined
to the wooded region of the upper
Ohio and the Great Lakes because the
fertile prairies from Indiana to the
Rocky mountains lay open to the raids
of barbarian horsemen yelling up
from the great populated area I'm the
Southwest
Then there was the Romanoff autoc-
racy, which in Shakespeare's day
crushed the bulk of the people down
into serfdom-which later became sla-
very-and kept them there for two
and a half centuries.-Edward Ais
worth Ross in Asia Magazine.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1918-10-29
Old Trees BEARING.

A good deal is heard about the tenn
porary nature of fruit trees, and it has
been a large factor in preventing
planting in this region, says an Ellens-
burg, Ore, dispatch. There seems to be
an impression that in a dozen years or
so apple and pear trees are down and
out.
To those who hold such an idea a
visit to the orchard Of John Catlin, on
the west side of the river, will be an
eve opener. These trees are carrying
phenomenal load of fruit this year
and look as though they may be pro-
ducers for years to come, yet they
were planted in 1S78-forty years ago.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1918-10-29
Fawn Remarkably Tame.

While standing In the woods Warden
Otis c. Small of Hammonton, N. j.,
says young fawn approached and
after cycling him fer a short time
came up and rubbed his body with its
nose. The warden says he had no
trouble in making friends with the
deer. Warden Small expressed the
opinion that deer knew when the
closed season was on, but that this
was the first instance when one actual
ly held him up.in the woods.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1918-10-29
How the Herring Built the Navy.

We derive the idea of our defensive
British navy from King Alfred, the
real founder of our fleet, who believed
in having bigger, faster, better and
more ships than your enemy, which is
always sane policy to follow. But
Oliver Cromwell really gave us our
herring navy when he saw the neces-
sity of taking their sea-trade domi-
nance from the Dutch, which trade
was mostly concerned with the herring
fishery.-Tit-Bits.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1918-10-29
WIN Fish Do Not rraveI Ear.


Animals of both land and sea are
confined within rather narrow limits
of pressure. In his book on the North
sea fisheries, Neal Green shows that
the North sea fishes are isolat-
ed In their own little world,
for they cannot migrate to the At
lantic depths, and. with a few
such exceptions as the eel. deep
sea fishes cannot enter shallow wa
tiers. Foraging for food is the fish's
occupation. The North sea fishes will
not descend into the ocean because
there is no food to attract, their eyes
are not adapted to the darkness. and
the pressure of the water is greater
than ordinary fish can endure. In the
depths there are no seasonal changes,
no currents. Everything is uniform,
stagnant. black, and the only fishes
that can see are those specially en-
dowed with enormous eyes to per-
cefve the phosphorescent glow of 9TH
ers of their kind. If they could rise
to the conditions of the North sea,
these. deep sea jewellers would be
helpless. If not destroyed by the re-
lease from external pressure.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1918-10-29
Surely a HReaI Lidy.n

The cabby was brought before the
magistrate for using violent language
to lady.
But she amt no lidy," he protested
6ercely.
Indeed !" quoth his worship. "And
do you know a lady when you see
one?"
"Of course I dor Indignantly an
swered the man. "Why, only the other
day saw one; she give me a parnd
note for a shillen' fare and walked
away. 81. num- l calls, what abart
yer changer Don't be a blinkin' old
foolr ses she; keep 1t, and git drunk
enough to kiss yer mother-in-law.'
''Now, yer worship" he ended, tri-
umphantly. "that's what call a real
tidy. London Tit-Bits.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1918-10-29
rauobt EnoIIsh to Use ThImbIes.

Thimbles seem to have beer intro
duced into England as articles Of COM
mon use by man named John Loft
ing, who came over from Holland at
the end of the seventeenth century and
established a thimble factory at Isling-
ton.
The word thimble Is said to be de-
rived from the Scotch tbummel or
thembbaH, sort of shield.-St. Louis
Globe-Democrat.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1918-10-29
Something Like a Reardl

Mistakes Of military signalers are
sometimes amusing. A German pris-
oner escaped from an internment camp.
and to facilitate recapture a descrip-
lion of the man was circulated. The
description contained a succession OF
sibilant sounds. which rendered its re-
ception by telephone somewhat diff
cult. One signaler, after struggling val
iantly with the prisoners name. APP
pearance, ETC., finished the message
with height foot 6 all beard and
moustache." The possibility of a s.
foot-6 beard wandering about on its
lonesome was questioned. with the re-
suit that the following correction was
Observation-Disclosures read small for
oil ~
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1918-10-29

BE careful that you do not make q
disagreeable impression on people at
your first meeting. If you ere unsocial
at first acquaintance. and finally decide
that those people will repay In smiles
and politeness. you will have to exert
yourself more than little to do away
with the first impression made by your
unresponsiveness. 1t win take many
months Of faithful work to counteract
In the mind Of your employer that first
unfortunate impression you made be-
fore you woke up to the fact that your
positio- 'eld promises for the future.
First smu, essions are tena Do
your BE- TO make them fave a.,
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1918-10-29
Differences In Coast Line.

The line of the Atlantic coast is
largely of mud and sand. and has very
little elevation. On the other hand,
the Pacific coast line Of Washington,
Oregon and California is almost entire
~ rocky and precipitous. While the
Atlantic and Gulf coasts are dotted
with numerous harbors where ships
may seek safety in time of storm. very
different conditions exist on the Paci-
fic, where there are few harbors, and
these at long intervals,
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1918-10-29
Old Church Deserted.

1t is Interesting to note flat In the
Old Lebanon Presbyterian church, near
Alma, 5. O., which church has gone
down, good church organ was al
lowed to remain IN the church build
ing and rot.
1t has been very many years since
any services were held in the building,
which in its day was one Of the best
church buildings in this entire section.
The carpet still remains on the floor,
the old Bible is still on the stand and
the organ was never claimed by any
one. The building is almost rotten, the
doors having rotted and fallen down.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1918-10-29
Heard on the Golf Course.

He had pulled his golf ball far to
the left.
"Well." he said by way of consol-
ing himself. 'T'd much rather have
pull than slice"
"That depends" replied the expert
enced player. I'm golf it may he bet
ter, but I've noticed in the game Of
Politics they frequently play for pull
In order to get Slice"
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1918-10-29
Raadu fnr Emernaneias

Cactus Cal I'm the Wild Wesb-
rhet there new minister Of our'n amt
40 tenderfoot. See, he's usin' his left
land ter shake hands with tn men,
)ers of his congregation.
Englishman-What does that action
dignity?
Cactus Cal-It don't signify nothin',
stranger, but it leaves his gun hand
tree.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1918-10-29

The lightning rod was Invented by
Benjamin Franklin; cotton gin, by Eli
Whitney; friction matches, by John
Walker; the revolver, by John Colt;
electric telegraph, by Samuel F. B
Morse; double cylinder printing press
by Richard Hoe; sewing machine, by
Elias Howe; Calling gun, by Richard
Calling; submarine cable, by Cyrus w.
Field; telephone, by Alexander Graham
Bell; talking machine, by Thomas A.
Edison; automatic airbrake, by George
Westinghouse; reaping machine, by
Cyrus Mccormick.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1918-10-29
Saved Her Fathers Life.

Heroic presence of mind exhibited
by his fifteen-year-old daughter, Kath-
ryn, saved the life of Harry B. Gregg,
a broker of San Francisco, when he
fell with his horse on the brink of a
cliff while pursuing deer, according
to his story.
Gregg was dangling over the side
of the cliff, clinging to the bride of his
frantically Juggling horse, when his
daughter hurled a lasso around him
and cinched it about a tree Gregg
says he scrambled back to the path
with difficulty, as his leg from the
ankle to knee had been bruised In the
fall from the horse.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1918-10-29
Conscientious Directors.

The most contemplate use to which
an outward profession of religion can
be put is cloak to hide cowardice by
Sinking. A most appropriate use to
which such men could be put would be
to send them into No Mans Land to
draw the enemy's fire, in order that
real American soldiers might locate the
guns.-Oregonian.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1918-10-29
Japanese Alrmen for isalx.

japanese military flyers accompa-
MED by mechanical workmen, will
soon be sent to Italy. The question
of sending japanese airmen to that
country has long been considered by
the war Office. All negotiations con-
corning the question with the Italian
government having recently been con-
cluded. the war Office has issued note
to the airmen and workmen who have
volunteered, assuring them of the de-
cision. At first twenty airmen were
expected to be sent. but the number
has been reduced to fourteen or if
teen.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1918-10-29
Family Of Fighting Men.

Nelson A. Miles was the first man
not a graduate of West Point who
ever held the position Of command
er Of the United States army since
the earliest days of the republic. An
ancestor, Rev. John Miles, who emf
grated to this country from Wales in
1868. commanded company in King
Philips war. and his house was known
as miles garrison"
Daniel. the great-grandfather of
Nelson A. Miles. and Daniels three
sons, of whom one was Joab. the gen.
erals grandfather, served in the Rev.
olutiOnary war.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1918-10-29

Combinations of the word 'lkuten-
ant" such as lieutenant colonel. mean
IN officer subordinate, an assistant to
the rank to which lieutenant is pre-
hxed. In European armies the lieu
tenant colonel is often the real COM
mander Of a regiment, Its colonel be-
Ing some royalty whose duties end with
having himself photographed in the
nnifor.-
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1918-10-29
GLORY OF TURKISH CAPITAL
Great Mosque Of Santa Sofia Marvel
In Beauty of Architecture and
Rich Decoration.

The great mosque of Santa Sofia
towers majestically over Constantine
pie, dominating its surroundings by
sheer thick-set ponderousness. Its
bulky dome and tacked-on minarets
are, however, only the shell which
covers vast cathedral justly famed for
beauty of line and rich ornament.
From the outer court you pass
through heavy bronze door and stand
within hall of such cavernous proper
tons that it seems impossible that
oFe7 the exterior, that seemed so mas
tain it. Above, the dome
...,,., -. =. -. ~ping curve. Once mosaic
figures of Christian saints adorned
these higher regions of the hall, but
the vandal Turks long ago covered the
saints with plaster through which in
certain places they still can be seen
smiling dimly but serenely.
The mosque has not always been a
Mohammedan temple. The origial
Santa Sofia, a Christian cathedral
erected by Constantine, was destroyed
by fire. 1t was Justinian who rebuilt it
In the sixth century, decorating it
with such lavish magnificence that he
was himself surprised at the result and
cried out Solomon, have surpassed
<boors
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1918-10-29
ENCOURAGEMENT.

Dey so many folks 'magin' dey's all
In wen all dey needs is a lii courage
ment. Nah folks turnt a ole mule
loose in de wood lot t. die en- she
got'n hawnet's mes 'en to- down TO-
panels O. fence Louisville Courier
Journal. .i IS .xiAufl
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1918-10-29
a oA,Ino,,en. c,.,zan

"Can you direct me to these officesT
inquired the man with a slip of paper
In his hand.
mo. have lived In Washington all
my life. You had better ask some one
who has made a study of the town
since all these new buildings went
mr.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1918-10-29
Slept on and Under Feathers.

The Dutch colonists In America
managed to fight the cold more sue
cessfully than any of the other colo
nists, and 1t was their custom to have
a feather mattress to sleep upon and
anothe- Sleep under.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1918-10-29
st.nde - r..son

more money? Do you think I'm
made Of money!
NO" replied his wife quietly. "If
you were made Of money you'd be apt
to shed little now and then"
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1918-10-29
FIrst AutomobIIe Patent.

The first application for patent for
IN automobile was fled in the United
States patent Office by George B. Sell
den, 80 years ago. Selden was a
patent lawyer In Rochester, N. Y,
when he first began to experiment with
the idea Of vehicle propelled by q
gasoline engine. Considering that his
road engine" was not yet perfected
and that the times were not ripe for
Il, he secured delay after delay, and
the patent was not definitely issued
until 1895. From the first, doubts
were cast on the validity of the Sell
den patent. but 1t earned a fortune
Tor the astute inventorattorney and
for long time dominated the motor
car industry Of the United States.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1918-10-29
Fear to Leave Boats In Sea.

Along the troubled shores Of the
North sea the fishermen take anxious
care Of the boats In which they earn
their livelihood.
When the boats return from a fish
ing trip-which may be all night or
one of many days, according to the
luck Of the catch-there are men and
horses waiting to draw the boats safe
ly upon the land. For the sweep of
the winds across the seas are strong
enough In winter, and even during the
most favorable summer season. to con-
stitute a menace to even the best
anchored boats If they were permit
ted to lie on the coast.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1918-10-29
IS day the new temple
Ie Aladdin'S cave. It's

walls anu columns were of marble
brought from foreign quarries and
from other temples. Famous shrines of
Diana, Apollo and even the Temple Of
the Sun at Baalbek contributed their
statues and jewels, willingly or not, to
the glory of Justinian's cathedral.
Into this treasure vault in 1463 burst
the conquering Turks, wrecking, plum
dering and claiming possession. From
that time on Santa Sofia, Church of the
Divine Wisdom. has been a Turkish
mosque, with minarets added and the
crescent over all.-Chicago Daily
News.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-12-13
ONE AMERICAN D0UGHBoY
GETS ROYAL RECEPTION
Met as if He Had Been Regiment.
Brings Gen. Bundy's Horse
Home on oregonian.

NEW YORK, December: 13.-One
solitary doughboy, being the only SOL
dier aboard the transport Oregonfan.
which arrived from France today. re-
ceived as royal welcome home as If
he had been an entire regiment. The
Orgeonian was met down the bay by
the police boat Patrol. with the mayors 8
welcoming committee aboard. the po-
lice glee club and woman police re-
serves, as in the case Of other trans
ports. 8,
Over the rail leaned the one Ameri-
can soldier. He appeared startled
when the police boats siren let out q
mighty blast, the waved his hat and
danced ecstatically when he found out
what It was ALI about. :.
He bowed appreciatively when the
glee club rendered Home. Sweet
Home" and proved an adept At catch
ing cigarettes, with which he waa
pelted by the woman police reserves.
all Of which was according to the
usual program Of welcome.
The lone soldier was Sergt. Leland
A. Kaufman. Headquarters Troop. Sec
ond Division. who was bringing home
Joe" the favorite charger of Mai
Gen. Omar Bundy, whose troops stop
ped the Germans on the Marne. The
war horse carried the general In this
and other engagements In which his
troops participated. and will be do
|, Kaufman. detached ut Chateau
Thierry N q platoon leader IN the s4i
Naa 8nneed and yuund111z u
~ 3nGs IN &3u31Ezza 80 4 S s sssssi