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The Prescott daily news., 1918-05-16

saw mother. And her brown clad boy. And heard her sob. And "Goodby, son." And saw him. Kiss her tears away. And go. And hours passed. And in the darkness. Of my room. lay.
 And all the pictures. That the day had drawn. Came back. And She was there. And He was there. And then a picture. From across the seas. Was painted. On my shadow wall. And He was there. And all about him. There were shadow men. But nowhere. Could l find the face. Nor find the form. Of Her.
 And then.
 Another picture came. A great Red Cross. And wounded men. Looked up at It. And raised their arms. And smiled.
 And He was there. And as I gazed.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1918-12-31
THINK VAMPIRES KILL SHEEP
Macedonian Shepherds Have Firm Be-
lief In the Existence of Creatures
of a Lower World.

A Macedonian shepherd, tending his
tOcks In the high pastures, sets off
on his rounds In the morning, and finds
several of his sheep mangled about the
neck. dying or dead. He hastens to
the nearest village and spreads the aw-
full news-Vampires
Now, a vampire may only be seen
by certain gifted people, and these
make 1t their lfe's business to destroy
them. Their usual fee is about sixty
dollars. So the shepherd hastens to
q vampire killer, and this man takes
down his long musket, loads it, and
rams down holy wafer on top of
the charge. He puts on long sheep
skin coat and sets out for the hills.
Just before dawn he will be heard
to fire single shot. At daybreak he
shows the shepherd a pool of blood.
That Is the dead vampire, for vam-
pire Is all blood, and, being shot, of
course resolves into a pool of blood.
A vampire slayer is treated with
great Difference by his neighbors. He
is power in the land. But In all
villages there Is usually one scoffer
one man who can read, or, perhaps,
has travelled outside his native land.
He laughs when you mention vampires,
and talks Of wolves and dogs that have
run amuck. He even hints that 1t is
possible to hide bladder filed with
blood beneath the long sheepskln coat
the slayer wears. There is bad feeling
between the vampire slayer and this
scoffer. They pass each other without
speaking.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1918-12-31
Old VaIenciennes.

'The town of lace" wrote William
Of Orange to the Estates on the 18th
Of April. 1877, sis lost to us. We are
very sorry to be obliged to tell your
high mightinesses that 1t has not pleas
ed God to bless on this occasion the
arms of the state under our guidance"
But lace is no longer made in Valen-
.iennes, the capital of an arrondisse-
haent in the department of the Nord,
and fortress of the second class. But
It is nevertheless quaint town, with
sufficient seventeenth century houses
to give it medieval appearance. The
handsome Hotel de Vile is also largely
seventeenth century work, and before
The war contained large collection of
tapestries and of paintings, especially
Of the Flemish school. The city also
possessed ON academy of sculpture and
painting, museum Of natural his
tory, lycee and an arsenal.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1918-12-31
RACIAL BLENDINGS IN SYRIA
So Many Nations Have Overrun the
Country That No One Race Can
Claim Pre-eminence.

Syria, the region extending from the
Taurus mountains to Egypt and from
the desert to "the great sea-" Is the
land of the patriarchs and prophets
and apostles-"the Holy Land" Its
population numbers about three and
one-half million of Semitic origin,
speaking the Arabic language, and yet
with so many races intermingled
through the centuries of the various
conquests and occupations that the
people cannot claim any one race as
their own. Greek, Roman and Euro
pean crusader, all have blended with
the acient Semitic stock to produce the
Syrians Of today.
In Syria was the one green spot
of Turkey-the Lebanon mountains. In
1860, because of the massacres, the
European powers insisted that these
mountains be made autonomous. And
since that date this little district has
been a living demonstration OF what
the people Of the land are capable of
becoming.
The steep mountain sides have been
terraced to a height of 1000 feet and
planted to olives, figs and vines. Taxes
have been low, safety to person and
property secured good roads built and
kept in repair. The people have con-
structed more comfortable homes and
have sent their sons to schools and col
leges.
The story of the achievements of
the Lebanon. and It's sons during these
60 years of autonomy would be q thrill
ing narrative in itself.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1918-12-31
ExtraVa0ance.

1t makes no difference who admins
ters the extravaganza or how high the
purpose is, extravaganza is an evil In
itself. There is somewhat in the very
fact that invites venality and corrup-
ton. The very sight Of a great pile
Of money excites desire that too often
finds some way for satisfying itself.
The papers are full of instances Of
this kind. In fact, we could write q
pretty good history of the country If
we limited our narrative to graft and
grabbing only, and yet much of it is
overlooked because 1t is usual and ex-
pected. Extravaganza has made many
an unearned fortune and 1t is doing as
much these days, especially In govern
ment contracts. This country should
hasten to apply the doctrine that an
overcharge Is a crime and that profit
eering Is treason. There is nothing
that so destroys the democratic level
of nation, whether 1t appears ON the
heights or in the depths.-Ohio State
Journal.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1918-12-31
HANGED FOR BURNING COAL
There Was Time When Job Of Look
ing After Production Would
Have Been Sinecure.

The present-day restrictions with re
gard to the use Of coal would have
seemed very mild to our ancestors, re
marks q writer in London Tit-Bits
There Is no doubt that the use of what
used to be called "sea coaP' to distin'
guish 1t from charcoal had Its draw
backs.
Many look forward to the time wher
there will be no more smoky chimneys
in Britain, when the atmosphere OF
London will be as clean as 1t must
have been in the days of Good Queer
Bess, and when new building viii moi
be begrimed with SCOT almost as soor
as it is built.
In the reign of Edward l the inhahi
tants of London petitioned the kinl
against the growing use of coal, declar
ing that 1t was "a public nuisance, cor
rupting the air with its stink ono
smoke, 10 the great detriment of theil
health" Whereupon the king prohib
tied its use, offenders to be punished
for first offense by fine and for {
second to have their kilns and fur
naces destroyed.
The practice of using coal was a
length made a capital offense and {
man was tried, condemned and hanged
for burning coal In London.
In those days the population of Eng
land probably did not exceed four o.
five million, and wood was plentiful
and cheap from the vast forests tina
covered tens Of thousands Of squar'
miles where now are great towns.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1918-12-31
HOW SARDINES ARE PACKED
Comparatively Simple Process, but the
Work Requires Expert Supervision
and Must Be Carefully Done.

The process Of preparing sardines is
very simple but requires experience
and great care. Upon the arrival of
the sardines at the factory they are
Immediately placed on large wooden
tables about forty feet long, where
they are cleaned. This process takes
only second and a fairly efficient
worker can clean from 300 to 400
pounds of fish per day. according to
writer in Fishing Gazette.
The fish are then placed in watts of
brine, where they are allowed to re-
main from one-half to two hours, ac-
cording to size. They are then placed
In wire trays equipped with prongs In
upright position, where they are al
lowed to dry for about an hour before
they are ready for cooking. This is
done by placing the trays in large steam
ovens, where the fish are subjected to
q pressure of about two pounds of
steam, twenty minutes being consumed
In properly cooking the small fish and
as much as thirty-five minutes in cook
Ing the larger sizes.
This cooking has to be carefully
watched; If the sardines are subjected
to too much steam they become some
what brittle and break when being
packed. Some sardines are cooked in
oil however, an extra charge is made
for this process, and comparatively
few are sold.
After the sardines have been prop
erly steamed the trays are placed on
long counters for sorting, which Is
done by carefully selected and we'll
paid girls. After sorting, the tins are
filed with oil and placed on shelves,
where they are allowed to remain for
about twelve hours in order to insure
the proper impregnation of the oil.
Pure olive oil is used in preparing
most sardines, especially the best
grades. but for some markets mix
ture of olive oil and high-grade pea
nut oil Is desired.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1918-12-31
WASTED HOT WATER
IS so MUCH COAL
THROWN OUTDOORS

Almost without exception domestic
water is provided In the cities of the
east by pumping plants which burn
coal.
Therefore. any Of the hundred ways
In which we habitually and commonly
waste water is direct waste of coal.
So far as cold water is concerned,
this is very small waste indeed, but
1t Is much more serious matter where
hot water is concerned, the United
States Fuel Administration points out,
A leaky tap on hot water pipe will
waste several gallons Of water-and
several pounds of coal-in an hour.
SEE THAT ALL YOUR WATER
PIPES AND FAUCETS ARE WITH
OUT LEAKS.
A little careful supervision In the
kitchen will often cut in half the
quantity Of hot water used, with an
obvious saving In coal.
Likewise, many Of US are spend.
thrifts when we get into a bathtub
and use two or three times as much
water as necessary for a perfectly
good bath.
Don't let the water run after you
have enough In the tub for bath.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1918-12-31
CROSSED BREEDS OF DUCKS
'surbanked" Type, In Louisiana, VIII
Not Migrate, as Is Customary
With the Species.

Stanley Clisby Arthur, ornithologist
of the conservation commission of
Louisiana, is authority for the state
ment that the state "Burbankedp the
wild duck, the cross Of which "set,"
and they produced a duck that will
remain in the state the year round.
Louisiana is visited by the green
head mallard, which leaves in the
spring for the North. Also by another
species known as the summer mallard,
or Florida duck, which spends it's
summer in Louisiana and winters In
Mexico and Central America. 1t leaves
Louisiana on the approach of cold
weather.
The experiment of crossing the
greenhead mallard, the winter visitor.
with the summer mallard, or Florida
duck, the summer visitor, was con-
Quoted by M. L. Alexander, conserva-
ton commissioner, and Edward A. Nc
Ilhenny at Avery island, state pre-
serve.
Species Of the two ducks were
trapped, mated and the eggs proved
fertile. The experiment proved sue
cess. The "Burbankedn ducks have
been termed the Louisiana mall
lard" The Louisiana malIard" has
produced its own young, and Mr.. Ar
thur says the cross has "setr
Hundreds of these Louisiana NAL
lards" were released on Marsh island,
q wild life sanctuary. SO that they
might perpetuate themselves.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1918-12-31
NOTED PORT OF WANDERERS
samara, on the VoIga, Long the Lure
of Nomadic PeopIe-Its
Past History.

Samara, the Volga port, seems to
offer peculiar significance for the
wanderers of the world. Through the
years, says The Villager, the district
has been an especial lure for nomadic
peoples; the fierce tribe of Bulgars
occupied it until the thirteenth CEN
fury and were followed by the Mon
gols, and when the power of the Col
den Horde had waned the Volga bank
was still ravaged by Bashkirs, Kali
mucks and Nogal Tartars; the insti-
tuition of the city of Samara itself was
for the protection of the Russian em-
pire's frontiers against the depreda-
lions of these nomadic marauders
from the steppes.
In the effort to stabilize this border
region and make it a solid bulwark,
Catherine II offered Germans of
Wuertemburg and Baden special priv
ileges for settlement here; today as
much German as Russian may be
heard In the streets of Samara.
Yet, after all the centuries of effort,
the city Is again swept by wanderers,
fighting hordes who know no military
base" gypsy warriors who have tray
ersed the Siberian expanse without
baggage and without plan of cam
paign, with no orders save their own
impulse, with no responsibilities save
their own purpose; their exploit will
go down into history with full as much
picturesqueness as that of Genghiz
Kahn's followers and with far more
honor.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1918-12-31
Merits of October Ale.

Not the fluid of that name. but the
elixir that is in this golden October
sunshine. Influenza germs are deadly
afraid Of clear, cool, snappy sunshine.
The whole outdoors is full of it, and
the invitation to enjoy it is so urgent
and cordial that the man or woman
who refuses to accept it is only add
ing to the risk that the doctors de-
clare everybody Is assuming these cpl
demic days. Nature is trying to add
compensation for the anxieties attend
ant upon contagious disease. In her
cornucopia she has stored remedies
that are not only effective but pleas
INK to take. Get out of doors into the
October sunshine that has been and
win be pouring its curative and stimu-
In dng forces over the country. The.
walking is fine and the landscape new
az Eore varied and beautiful. The
forests are CARRIED in brown, purple
and gold. The silences are eloquent
with the slumber song of nature. The
air Is tonic for tired, taut nerves and
bodies. Get out of doors and shake
or The fears as well as the germs Of
tnfiuenza.-Pittsburgh Gazette-Times.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1918-12-31

mo" said Dawson; you DIDN'T give
me chance to explain, and you didn't
give her chance, either. You see,
Mrs. Dawson"
Tom swallowed hard, and 1t seemed
as if the sun went into a temporary
eclipse. Il congratulate you on a rare
treasure" he gulped. "She is wonder
-ful."
"She has a high opinion of you, too"
said Mr.. Dawson, and somehow Tom
thought this was an especially inappro-
pirate remark. He didn't want to be
thought well of by the woman he had
loved in vain. He would rather have
her detest him, now that he knew she
was married.
WED like to have you come to din
ner some time-make up a little fam
fly party" said young Dawson, and
somehow the conversation closed here,
and Tom went back to his office to
talk chopping bowls to his dictaphOne,
! but the words would not come. In fact
for days and even weeks Tom lost his
power of CAB, and sales went down
and business began to slump. He was
working his ingenuity overtime trying
to think of a way to get the charming
Mrs. Dawson out of his Office Instead
of seeming like nice, straightfor-
ward, round, blue-eyed girl as she had
seemed, she was a vampire in dis
guise to him now, and every time she
beamed on him as he came and went
he imagined cruel thoughts lurking be-
meath the sweet charm of the smile.
BILLY wants me to get you to come
home for dinner some time with u.s."
she said to him one day. "You have
been so cross lately l wouldn't ask
you. Only we We're such good friends
to begin with before you knew / was
a Dawson, and l don't approve Of let
ting misunderstanding creep up be-
tween friends in that way"
And poor Tom accepted for dinner
that very night and the blue-eyed
young woman telephoned home to
some one named Nora-the cook, Of
course-that she would bring him
home for dinner and please have mush-
rooms and beefsteak, for she had heard
him say once that he liked them.
When 8 80 came and 1t was time to go
Tom waited for young Bill Dawson.
won't your husband call for US
hereT" he said, and then as the blue
eyes drew up In a pucker of question
ing-"Yes, Mr.. Bill Dawson, your hus-
band"
"Why. Bits my BROTHER" said the
girl, and though it was late on a dull
afternoon, the sun came out Of a cloud
and the whole world was suffused with
happiness for Tom.
"You see, you didn't give me O
chance to explain. Nora, Bills wife,
backed out, and took the Job instead.
l came that day to ask if I'd do, but
you didn't give me chance to say a
word" She looked him frankly out
of those round eyes. TON, you've
been so blue and miserable lately"
and she actually took his hand in her
two and he had to hold on to the desk
with the other to keep from floating
into the seventh heaven. tom, has IL
been because you thought l was mar
ried-has 1t been because you caredf"
And Tom, the man with the tongue
that was hung in the middle, couldn's
do more than gasp meager 'yes."
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1918-12-31
KEEP COOL AND KEEP WELL
Some Points Of Importance to Be Re-
membered When an Epidemic ls
Threatening Public Health.

At its worst any epidemic takes but
q relatively small toll of the pOpula-
ton, and as a rule the majority of
people are resistant to the assaults Of
the worst disease germs, including In
fluenza, If they but take ordinary care
of themselves. This Is important.
Whatever medical science may advise
as to prevention or as to treatment,
one simple fact that, outweighs every
thing else is that If every individual
will but follow the normal life he has
led, eat those things that are suited to
his system, things he has always eaten
with resulting good health, rest and
sleep as usual and avoid overfatigue
while carrying on his work, also as
usual, he will escape the pestilence.
There is no excuse for any panic.
Above all. the individual should re-
member that the first and last rule to
follow in this state Of things Is to keep
cool and keep well. For the man who
will keep cool will keep well, and the
man who keeps well and has all his
faculties about him will keep cool.
This is no time for official or individ-
ual or collective Observation-Disclosures
phia Public Ledger.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1918-12-31
OLDEST OF EARTH's CITIES
Damascus Has Seen the Rise and Fall
of Races Which Are Mere Shad-
oWs in History.


What times and changes such a
place as Damascus has seen, what
waves OF peoples, what rise and fall
Of kings, what increase and collapse
of greatness, what Kaleidoscope his
tory What the autochthonous popula-
ton of the place was is point prob
ably past historic decision. The ear
lest records find in control a race in
definitely related to the Mesopotami-
ans. Then the march of races and
peoples begins, and the rise and fall
of conquerors. Hittites, AmOrites,
Suit, Khabiri, Jews, Assyrians, CHM
merians, Egyptians, Armenians, Arabs,
Persians, Macedonians, Parthians, Ro-
mans, Seleucids, the Omayyads, the
Abbassides, Mongols, Tartars, modern
Egyptians, Ottomans, and the English,
have swept through this oldest dwell
ling place of gregarious humanity, and
still it fiourishes, to this day as popu-
lous as such places as Kansas City or
Denver or Indianapolis, Louisville, st.
Paul, or Rochester, and relatively far
more important.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1918-12-31
DOGS Ia RoumanIa

Each nation looks upon the dog in
a different way, but the dogs of war
and the dogs, Of peace (of pastoral
and agricultural people like the Rou-
manians) are beyond doubt the intel.
ligentsia of their kind. A little far
Their east he was sometimes held in
fear, and an old Babylonian prayer
runs thus: 'From the dog, the snake
the scorpion, and whatever is baleful
may Merodach preserve u.s." -. On
the other hand, on some of the won
derful bas-reliefs of that period, cur
four-footed friends have been CRATE
fully immortalized, and their names
remain written thereon to this day
"He who ran and barked." 1.-THE bitter
of his foes" 1.-THE seller of his enc,
mics" But here in Roumania slayer
Of the wolf" 'the friend of sheep" be.
tokens a less disinterested path IN
life.-Exchange.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1918-12-31
nHousea Roefsd wlth eold.p

Houses rooted with gold" of which
Marco Polo wrote from rumor, were
not mythical. On first arriving in Ja-
pan l made journey to Otoko Yama,
in central Japan, January q, 1871, to
test the story.
For centuries gold had little more
value In japan than In South America
when Balboa sought the Pacific Even
until 1859 gold was worth only four
times as much as silver. I found at
the Shinto temple, erected $50 A. D.
a gilded rain conduit which once en-
circled the whole of the caves of the
roof, but after the long wars only &c
feet or so was left.
Even at the Vienna exposition the
solid gold plates on the dolphin from
the Nakoya castle attracted attention
1t is historically true that In early ia
pan there were roofs of gold.-W. Il
Griffis Ia New York Tribune.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1918-12-31
Rupert Rrooke..in ELL.

Fiji in moonlight is like nothing
else in this world. <. It's all dim
colors and all scents. And here, where
it's high up, the most Enthusiastically
shaped mountains in the world tower
up all round, and little silver. clonds
and wisps of mist run bleatipg, uR1and
down the valleys and hAlsides. like
lambs looking for their mother,
There's only one thing on earth as
beautiful; and that's Samoa by moon
light That's utterly different, merely
heaven, sheer loneliness. You lie on
a mat in cool Samoan hut, and look
out on the white sand under the high
palms, and a gentle sea, and the black
line Of the reef mile out and moon
light over everything, floods and floods
of it, not sticky, like Honolulu moon
light. not to be eaten with spoon, but
fiat and abundant. such that you could
slice thin golden-white shavings off
1t, as off cheese. From COLLECTED
Poems of Rupert Brooke: With.
Memoir"
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1918-12-31
Strike That Failed.

Labor strikes were frequent even
in the earliest recorded days. An
important strike occurred in Egypt
during the reign Of Cheops, several
thousand years before the Christian
era. While the great pyramid
erected in honor of that monarch was
in course of construction it is stated
that $4,000 workmen refused to con-
tinue their labors. They were dis
satisfied with the food furnished to
them, which was insufficient In guam
tity and poor in quality. Argument
proving useless on the part of the
contractors, soldiers were ordered to
drive the strikers back to work, and
many thousands of them were cut to
pieces, while those who could escape
fed. The others were compelled to re-
sumo their labor.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1918-12-31
MarriaQe.

Marriage is the nursery of heaven.
The virgin sends prayers to God, but
she carries but one soul to him; but
the state OF marriage fills up the num-
Der of the elect and hath in 1t the la
Dor of love and the delicaeies of friend
ship, the blessing of society and the
union Of hands and hearts. 1t hath in
1t less of beauty. but more of safety
than the single life; 1t hath more ease,
but less danger; it is more merry and
more sad; Is fuller of sorrows and
fuller of joys; it lies under more bur
dens, but is supported by all the
strengths of love and charity, and
those burdens are delightful. Jeremy
Taylor.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1918-12-31
A Worlds Record

What is said to be the worlds rec
ord production of marketable pota-
toes on one acre-49,531 pounds, or
B25 bushels-has been made on an acre
of land near Kanab, in the southeast
ern section Of Utah, few miles from
the Arizona state line. The record
yield was made in response to a COM
petition fostered by the Mormon
church, and the church authorities
drew check for $1,000 payable to
representative of Kanab ward of the
Kanab stake of the church, which is
responsible for the production. This
yield is certified to by more than so
farmers.