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The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1918-09-17
Spruce Used In AirpIanes.

Because the government needs all
the spruce for airplanes, the piano
manufacturers of the country are hay
Ing hard time to get sounding boards
for their instruments. Spruce is the
best wood the piano manufacturers can
get for this purpose and they have
used 1t in immense quantities for
many years.
But sounding boards and airplane
beams call for the same quality of
stock-clear, straight-grained, tough
fibered and free from blemishes. In
their desire to assist the government
in airplane construction the piano
manufacturers have agreed to curtail
their output 80 per cent during the
war. They can get along with the
spruce stock now on hand for some
time, they say. Meanwhile they will
try to find a substitute for spruce. Sew
eral of the big spruce producing mills
in the Grays Harbor district of Wash
ington and along the Columbia river
in Oregon that always have made
speciality of piano stock now are Civ
ing their attention to airplane mate
rial
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1918-09-17
Ambitious Small Girl.

sinister. please. mister, can I have
a job?"
"All the girls on our block are pick
ing fruit; the boys are working in
the shipyards, and I want to do some
thing for Uncle SAM" twelve-year-old
Alice told Charles Sjorberg, timekeep-
er at the Hanlon Dry Dock ard Ship
building plant, as she sought a ''po-
sition."
"Sure, / can do anything" she con-
tinued, as she explained that her name
was just Alice. "Td like to be heat
er, or rivet-passer," she added as
she said she would grow up and be
a riveter and break the record.
Tears welled as she set out in sea- 'ch
of an orchard where she could pick
fruit after Sjolberg told her she would
hardly do as a riveter.-San Francis
co Call.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1918-09-17

The projectile of the gun with
which the Germans have been Smelling
Paris from a distance of seventy-five
miles must rise in its trajectory to a
height of twenty-fOur miles above the
earth. The Scientific American says
1t is probable that at that height there
Is so little air that the sky loses its
blue appearance, because there is hard
ly enough of it to produce the refrac-
ton of light which gives 1t its luminos-
ity.
IF we could accompany this shell
on its course" continues the Scientific
American, Eve should probably find
the sky growing darker and darker.
until it becomes nearly black In the
black sky the sun would show as a
ball Of fire. while the stars which were
not obliterated by the suns light would
also be visible. Below us we should
have the reflection of sunlight from the
earth and from the denser strata Of
the atmosphere"
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1918-09-17
ONE CAUSE OF HIS SUCCESS
Letter Of Charles Dickens Reveals
Care Which Great Writer Gave
His Books and Readings.

In recent sale of Dickens auto
graphs in London this letter, written
while he was In the United States, ap-
pears:
Il should never have made any Sue
sess In life if l had been shy of taking
pains, or If / had not bestowed upon
the least thing have ever undertaken,
exactly the same attention and core
that have bestowed upon the great
est. Do everything at your best. 1t
was but last year that 1 set to and
learned every word of my Readings,
and from ten years ago till last night
l have never read to an audience but
have watched for an opportunity of
striking out or inserting some
where. Look at such of my manu-
scripts as are in the library at Gads'
and think of the patient hours devoted
year after year to single lines. :.
The weather is very severe here, and
the work is very hard. Dolby (his
manager) having been violently pitched
Into by the mayor of New Haven Ga
town at which am to read next week.
has gone off boldly this morning with
defiant written instructions from me
to inform the said mayor that If he fail
to make out his case he DOLBY has
to return all the money taken, and to
tell him that I will not set foot in his
jurisdiction, whereupon the New Haven
people will probably fall upon the
mayor in his turn and lead him a
pleasant life."
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1918-09-17
ESTABLISHED 1919
SHE WAS GRATsFu.-. AL
And the Young Ladye Err,
Quite Natural, Under thu
circumstances.

Edward Barrett, state geologirl uho
lives at Thirty-sixth and MuitiMn
streets, was on a Meridian Dcishts
ear ON his way home recently. At
Massachusetts avenue young couple
got on the car They appeared 10 be
very attentive and devoted to each.
other. There were only two vacant.
Barrett and the other on the opposite
side of the car. The young woman sat
down III one of the vacant seats and
the young man in the other, but too
far away to talk to the young woman.
The couple looked Mt each other with
together. The ear was rafting along
at noisy rate, which made it impos-
sible for one person to talk to another
any distance away. Mr. Barrett mo-
toned with his fingers to the young
man, and pointed to the seat he was
occupying, and also to the seat the
young man was' occupying, indicating
change of seats.
The young man gladly accepted the
proffered change of seats, and soon
the two were seated together and en-
joying each others talk The car
stopped at the next crossing and Mr..
Barrett was surprised and amused to
hear the young woman murmur to the
young man, as both looked at Mr.. Bar
rett with thanks in their eyes:
st was so kind of that deaf and
dumb man to give you his seat"
And the car jostled on.-Indianapo-
lis News.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1918-09-17
oBEDlENT TO OLD COMMAND
Palestine Farmers Still Remember
Biblical injunction In Refer.
ence 20 the Cleaners.

After the lentils and similar crops of
the bean family have been gathered in
by the Palestinian farmer, the barley
harvest comes next. and lastly the
wheat.
When harvesting, the men wear a
leather apron and sometimes large
padded glove. The women have none
of the protection provided for them,
says the Christian Herald. Sickles
are of two kinds, one, the kaloosh, is
small and with quite a dull edge and
is employed when the crops are short
and scanty. These do not cut the
straw, but rather help pull up the
grain by the roots or break off the
brittle stalks. The other, called man.
pal. is much larger and supplied with
short, slanting teeth, and is used on
the tall, well-grown grain fields.
Reaping with these simple imple.
ments and binding the sheaves with
their own straw, a considerable
amount is left behind and many Of the
ears drop off, but once the reapers
have advanced, they, actuated by al
most religious scruples, will not pick
up that which has been dropped, even
though they be severely poor them
selves, for they unwittingly follow a
command not given to them but to for
mer inhabitants, the tillers and. reap
ers of this land: "And when We reap
the harvest Of your land thou shalt
not make clean radiance of the cor
ners of thy field when thou reapest,
neither shalt thou gather any cleaning
of thy harvest"
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1918-09-17
HOW INDIANA LOST CITIZEN
Escapade That Caused Youth to Turn
His Thoughts Toward the wild
and WooIIy' Region.

Harry Coonse, ranchman and real
estate expert in the far Northwest, re-
turned to Indianapolis from his home
near Seattle after an absence of four
teen years. 1t is not widely known,
but Mr.. Coonse. when boy of IS,
started In business as helper on a
delivery wagon Of L. S. Ayres & Co..
started and ended his dry goods career
In an unusual and interesting manner
Harry, out Of his first months wages,
had bought rifle and a box of car
tridges. One evening in Park avenue
the delivery man went into house
with package. leaving Harry on the
drivers seat in charge of what was
common at that time-a Texas mus
tang-well broken, but still worth
watching. Instead of holding the lines
Harry spent the interim handling a
new rifle. As often happens, the gun
was discharged and the bullet struck
the mustang. Harry made one grab
for the lines, missed, tumbled off the
seat and the wagon disappeared down
the street, strewing packages in its
path.
At dawn the next morning the horse
and wagon were found in the Pleasant
run bottoms, near the place where the
furnaces Of the Citizens Gas company
now stand. Harry had already re-
signed.-Indianapolis News.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1918-09-17
CAUGHT SPIRIT OF OCCASION
coiored Porter Meant That Eagle
Should Shine In Celebration of
American Victory.

It happened after the news that the
allied forces were chasing the army
Of the crown prince. There was great
rejoicing on the steps Of the custom
house building. Everybody was shak-
ing the hand Of everybody else. The
man who had never before been known
to lose his dignity was pulling the hair
| of the office boy and whooping it up
generally.
All of which was at first rather in
comprehensive to the colored porter
of the building. He didn't know Just
what 1t was all about, but 1t looked
good to him, nevertheless. Finally, he
seemed to "get" It. With the agility
Of a cat he climbed one of the ped
estals at the front Of the building.
On the top is bronze globe, with a
spread eagle over it. Hanging pre-
cariously on the ledge, the negro pull
ed grimy cloth out of one pocket
and can of paste but Of another.
Then with a vim and vfgor that had
never before characterized any of his
actions he began polishing away at the
eagles head. While he polished he
talked:
"Oh, lady, lady, we're kgoin' make
you shinei Oh, lady, that shine'n take
the eyes out dem Germansl Oh, lady,
that head O. your'n is goin' a be some
bright"
And the other ceiebrants stopped to
cheer him.-New York TIMES.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1918-09-17
GOT THE PROMISED CHILD
How Chilcat Natives Kept Their Word
With the Missionaries, of Five
Years Standing.

In my intimate companionship with
Muir in Alaska I SOW many instances
of his wlrm human sympathy. S. Hall
Young NJ ties in World Outlook. One
occurred when in 1879 we were visit
ing the tribe of Chileats. These Chill
cats, recognized as the most warlike
md arrogant of the Thlinget tribes,
were nevertheless so interested in the
gospel message l had to bring them
that they crowded the house where we
lodged, filling it full and prying off
planks from its side SO that those with
out could hear.
The first night we spent in the vii
lage, after an all-day's palaver, we
were about to retire to our blankets
when woman brought a baby to us
which was almost skeleton from lack
of nourishment, and whose feeble cry
was most pitiful % hear. The woman
explained that the baby's mother had
died, and that they had no food for the
child-none of the other women being
In condition to nurse it. AT once Muir
and l set about preparing condensed
milk for the baby. We diluted it with
warm water until we thought it Of the
proper consistency, and fed it to the
starving baby. The child was almost
too weak to take this nourishment, and
1t required the utmost patience and
care to feed it. Muir worked with
that little papoose almost all night,
rocking it in his arms and soothing
its cries, and when at last 1t rested in
n healthful, refreshing sleep, he care
fully showed the woman how to pre-
pare its food, and insisted upon leav-
ing all of our remaining canned milk
for the baby. The natives voluntarily
told me when we We're about to leave
that If the baby lived it belonged to
me and they would bring it down to
Fort Wrangel. thought but little of
this promise, knowing how easily
people forget such things; but five
years after this occurrence was sur
prised to have some Chilcat natives
bring sturdy and healthy little boy,
and formally give him to me, saying
that this was the baby whose life we
bad saved, and he therefore belonged
to us. The child was taken into our
mission at Wrangel, and / baptized
him with the name of "John," after
my friend.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1918-09-17
WAY THIS WAR WILL BE WON
Not AlI Of Us Can Flight, but Surely
All Of us Can Give Our
Money.

It's no use saying, 1.-THE govern.
ment's slow" or ''if were Foch I'd do
so-and-sow You can talk and argue
and crouch all day, but the wars not
going to be won that way.
It's no use saying, "As I'm unfit I
can't be expected to do my bit. I'll do
nothing If can't slay." The wars not
going to be won that way.
It's no use saying I'm over age
I've got to the book-of-life's last page"
Your COLDS still gold If you are gray,
and the wars not going to be won that
way.
Z It's no use saying, II need not get
into khaki for another two years yet
Every penny's of military age today,
and the wars not going to be won that
way.
It's no use saying, eff were a man
-" If you want to help, though q
girl, you can. Don't buy frills and fur
bellows with your pay; the wars not
going to be won that way.
Whether young or old, weak, strong
or unfit, you can, nay, must, all do your
bit. If you can't fight you can pay,
pay, pay. The war is going to be won
that way.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1918-09-17
WOLF REAPPEARS IN FRANCE
Bold Because the Attention of the
Country Has Been Concentrated
on the War,

Now and then, as we walked down
the slope among the scattered trees,
we heard the low kr-krump of distant
guns which had come to my ears be-
fore dawn, writes William Beebe in
Atlantic Monthly. 1t was a little more
distinct and sometimes double; krum-
kr-krump, but even now q big frog at
the bottom of the hill would have
been more effective.
But all other thoughts slipped away
as new sound arose in the darkness,
sound which held for me thrill, as
vital as the hint Of distant battle, and
incomparably more aIlurlng. 1t rose
slowly, a rich, mellow, undulation
which stirred every fiber, and then
quavered, descended, and broke off.
We stood motionless, listening with
all our ears, and again it came, I'M
mistakably. from the depths of the
misty woods.
My companion smiled at me. We
could see In Imagination the dropped
tail, the hollow-cheeked muzzle raised
skyward-a wolf uttering that cry
which of all sounds is most symbolic
Of the northern wilderness-unh
ment plaintiff ct lugubre. could not
believe my ears, that here in the heart
of France, within, sound of the guns
at the front, / had heard the voice Of
a wild wolf. The peasants had report
ed wolves at several places, the cold
and pinch Of hunger driving them from
distant Businesses where their race
was making its last stand. And
now they had become holder, finding
little to oppose them in this depleted
country.
Lacking accurate knowledge, had
always assumed that in Euorpe, In
these modern times, wolves were re-
stricted to the farthest wilds of Rus
STA and Siberia. To think of them In
France was in Imagination to repic-
ture medieval times again,
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1918-09-17
YANKEE SOLDIERS WE'LL FED
1t Cannot Be Said That in Any Way
Uncle Sam Stints His Fight
ing Men.

More than billion pounds Of meat
year and an equal amount of pure
wheat flour are required for the Amer
lean army bill of fare. That impos-
ing toll will increase rapidly as the
United States enlarges its fighting
forces in France and the divisions in
training on this side of the Atlantic.
Uncle Sam does not stint the quality
or quantity Of food for his husky fight
ing men. There is a bountiful supply
of every essential foodstuff on a care
fully balanced menu that provides
more calories than the rations of any
other army in the world Twenty
seven standard articles figure in the
list from which mess sergeants select
material for the daily meals. They
are beef, bacon, flour, baking powder,
beans, rice, potatoes, onions, tomatoes,
prunes, jams, apples, peaches, coffee.
tea, sugar, milk, vinegar, pickles, salt,
pepper, cinnamon, lard and lard sub
stitutes, butter and oleomargarine,
strip and flavoring extracts. Even
with this elaborate selection, and not
withstandlng the mounting cost of
food, the government finds it possible
to give the boys in khaki all they can
eat for the modest sum of Al and a
fraction cents a day. The soldiers get
many articles Of food, however, that
are not included in the STANDARD" list.
Supply sergeants are instructed to
vary the diet by purchasing eggs,
chickens, green vegetables and fresh
fruits. This plan is followed in
France as well as in the United
States. Under favorable circumstances
poultry and fresh vegetables and fruit
are served in the front-line trenches.
Uncle Sam believes that Napoleon was
right when he said that IAN army
fights on its belly."-Thomas T. Logan
In Leslie's.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1918-09-17
Use Cinnamon OIL for influenza.

OIL Of cinnamon has very favor
able effect on the temperature and
shortens the convalescence period, says
Medical press. Patients who usually
suffer from marked weakness for
several days after an attack of
influenza regain their strength very
rapidly when treated with cinnamon
oil, and are able to take up their oc-
equations on the second or third day.
Twelve drops of the oil are given in
half tumblerful of water. and the dose
is repeated in one hour, then ten
drops given regularly every two hours
until the temperature has dropped to
normal. When the fever has gone
ten drops should be given three times
day during the following twenty
four or forty-eight hours. When in
fiuenza is thus treated from the very
outset-that is, within the first three
or four hours-the temperature be-
comes normal within twelve hours; if
the treatment is begun later 1t may
require twenty-four or thirty-six hours
to obtain this result.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1918-09-17
To Teach Fruit RaIaInn.

Vice Consul Richard p. Momsen re-
ports that the Brazilian government
has authorized the establishment of a
pomicultural station in Deodoro. The
work of the station will comprise the
production of domestic fruit trees and
those foreign types already selected
and acclimated, the Introduction of in
digenous fruit trees, the study of in
sect pests and methods of combating
them, the study of better methods of
packing and transporting plants and
fruits, experiments to determine the
most successful methods of conserv-
ing fruits and the question of distribute
ing fruits to dealers. The school will
be open to students who wish to pur-
sue this branch of agriculture and to
farmers who wish to observe practical
demonstrations of modern pomicultural
methods.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1918-09-17
swore Just Like a Native.

Lieut.-Col Oliver Dockery, in charge
of trimming of the 160th Depot brigade,
at Camp Custer, Mich. is from the
South and has something of the char
acteristic Southern accent. The other
day when 1000 negro recruits arrived
from Alabama Colonel Dockery ran
across negro sergeant who was
marching a group of the new men
along in the rain and reproyed the
sergeant for taking his men out in
such weather and ordered them back
in the barracks. Just as they disap-
peared in the doorway one of the shiv-
ering little negroes from the South
turned around and said. "Dat sholy
am kind-hearted man. He cusses like
he come from down home. Dat boss
make me so homesick dat l believe /
is goin' to cry" Boo-hoo! Boo-hoo!
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1918-09-17
WHY DO MEN WEAR HATS?
Really, When You Come to Think of
It, They Are of Little Use and
Not Ornamental.

Men themselves do not know why
they wear hats. Hats aren't ornamen
tai. They do not keep off the rain. A
mans hat is legacy of tradition, bru-
talized in It's descent from the age of
adornment. Straw hats are the least
awful.
The derby, the iron lid Of common
phraseology, is tragedy, and the silk
hat Is useful only to lend dignity to
men who otherwise might be undigni-
fed. This dignity is traditional rather
than real. Bridegrooms, undertakers
and members Of congress need all the
dignity they can command. So they
keep the silk hat handy.
Spring. which brings the straw hat,
is welcomed by men, since it removes
the hideous necessity of wearing other
sorts Of hats. The straw hat rouses a
dim memory in the blood of the days
Of garlands. 1t may be worn with a
bright band. On the whole, 1t makes
life little easier for those who
haven't the courage to go without hats
at all.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1918-09-17
Gives sImpllfed Premium.

"John, the Oysterman" everyone
who sells bivalves here is known as
John), has hit upon a unique scheme
to make his customers eat oysters out
Of season. To each customer who
comes into his place he hands them an
envelope, pay slze,N with an enclosure.
Printed on the envelope is the fol-
lowing: "Simplifed Coat Hanger. The
most universally used coat hanger in
the world Made Of the finest drawn
steel wire by automatic machinery.
Easy to attach wherever and when
ever needed Warranted for five years
with ordinary usage" And when one
opens the envelope they naturally ex-
pect to find something new to hang a
coat thereon. They are not disappoint-
ed, but 1t is a surprise. Wrapped In
small piece of paper is "the simpli-
fed coat hanger" 1t is nothing more
or less than new one-inch wire nail.
New York Sun.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1918-09-17
Leonardo da vIncI Amazes SURGEONS.

Though written four hundred years
ago, Leonardo da Vinci's book OIL anat-
omy has only recently been published,
and surgeons are only now discovering
the marvels it contains.
Lecturing recently on it in London,
Prof. William Wright pointed out that
when 1t was written the circulation Of
the blood, osmosis, oxygen and the
microscope were all unknown. All doc
tors believed that the arteries were
full Of free air and that the blood was
aerated in the heart. The interior ar
rangement of the heart was also mis-
understood.
But Leonardo denied that air entered
the heart, and wrote that the blood
was refreshed" in the lungs; he de-
scrihed accurately the anatomy of the
heart and large blood vessels and the
action of the muscles of the chest and
abdomen in respiration.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1918-09-17
eunners Making Glorious Record.

The gunners of the armed guards on
merchantmen have made record of
which we may be justly proud. The
contests Of the Silver Shell, which sent
down the submarine which attacked
1t; of the Moreni, on which the men
stayed at their guns until the flames
fiared up to the top of the smokestacks
on the burning ship; of the Campana,
whose gunners fought for hours until
their ammunition was exhausted; of
the J. L. Luckenbach, which, though
under rain of shells, hit nine times
and temporarily disabled, fought
submarine for four hours, before aid
arrived, and later managed to reach
port under her own steam; of the Ar
menia, which, though torpedoed, was
saved through the courage and re-
sources of its captain, crew and armed
guard; Of the Navajo, the Mongolia,
the Petrolite and dozen others are
notable enough to be recorded in the
naval history of the time.-Josephus
Daniels in America Review of Re-
views.