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The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1919-12-12
FRIDAY EVENING, DECEMBER ~, 1919.
THE AMERICAN'S GREED.

| believe in The United States of finer.
lea as government of thS people, BY
J. The people. for the people. phoss Just
8 popcrs are derived from lie consent of
The governed; a democracy in repub-
lie. sovereign Nation of many sovereign
STATES: ocrfcct Union. ole end inseb-
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1919-12-12
At District Meetlno,

Mrs Cora Manley and Mrs. Dora
Mauler have returned from attending
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1919-05-27
ALL FROM ONE TURKEY EGG
Here's Example of Taking Advantage
OF Opportunities Which Should
Teach Good Lesson.

An old farmer and his son were at
work in the field near the roadside
when HIS son discovered dead turkey.
which probably was discarded by an
other farmer who was on his way to
the market. Both were curious to learn
the cause of its death. They brought
the turkey to the barn, dissected the
fowls body and obtained an egg. The
boy set the egg and the result was a
fine turkey gobbler that was sold the
next summer for IS. With this money
the boy purchased pig. The next
summer the young capitalist sold his
sow and eight pigs for $50. He then
bought two thoroughbred heifers.
The ensuing fall he had two milch
cows and calves which he sold for
$500. His final investment was in two
one-year-old FLY colts.
After lapse of five years the lad
was the custodian of two good mares
and $1,000 In gold which he procured
In the sale of their colts. And today
this farmers son is studying agricul-
ture and animal husbandry in a state
university as the result of one turkey
egg.-Thrift Magazine.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1919-05-27
NO BEST" MONTH
Time of Birth Has Little to Do
With Genius.
Statistics Show That Nature Practical
ly Plays No Favorites in Her
Production of the Gifted
Ones Of the Earth.

Astrologers believe that the planets
"reigning'' at the time of birth gov
ern us throughout life, and that. from
a literary point Of view certain months
are more favorable than others in
which to be born.
Taking the hundred best British
writer's since the day of Chaucer. no
less than forty-eight were born in the
four months February, May, August
and November.
In February were born Charles Dick
ems. Pepys the diarist, and Thomas
Moore. while of more modern date
and fame are George Meredith, Israel
zangwill, Anthony Hope, Harrison
Ainsworth and Wilkie Collins.
Pope and Addison. were both born
In May, as also were Browning Ross
etti, Moore. Bulwer Lytton, Thomas
Hood, Jerome K. Jerome, and Sir
James NJ. Barrie.
August seems to be the birthmonth
of poets, for in that month were born
Dryden. Herrick, Scott, Shelley, South
ey and Tennyson.
Apparently November is an unlucky
month for literary people, for among
those who were born in November are
Thomas Chatterton. who, in disappoint-
ment and poverty, committed suicide
at eighteen William Cowper, who suf-
fered from melancholia and suicidal
mania, and finally died insane; Oliver
Goldsmith, continually in prison for
debt; John Bunyan, who spent u
years in prison, thereby giving us "Pil-
grim's Progress - Swift, subject to fits
of passion and ill-humor, died insane:
Robert Louis Stevenson suffered from
almost continual ill-health, and died
at forty-four.
So much for the favored months"
OF the others, January saw the birth
of Bobbie Burns. Byron and Lewis
Carol. author of "Alice in Wonder
land" who was also famous mathe.
matician.
March was the birthmonth of Smol-
lett and Steele, as also of Elizabeth
Barrett Browning.
In April was born the greatest
genius the English language has
known, William Shakespeare, while
among others born in this month were
Wordsworth, Keble, Heber, Swinburne
and Herbert. Charlotte Bronte and
Anthony Trollope were also born in
this month.
June is not a very good month,
Charles Reade and Charles Kingsley
being the only two writer's.
July gave us Thackeray and George
Bernard Shaw. and those interested
in astrology may find resemblance
between the two satiristS.
September and October we're both
poor months, Mrs. Hemans and q. G.
Wells being born in September and
Coleridge. Keats and Sheridan in Oc-
tOber
Finally Milton, Gray and Matthew
Arnold were born in December, as
were also Jane Austin and Carlyle.
So there is hope for most people as
far as birthmonths are concerned.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1919-05-27
ABOVE ROUND OF ROUTINE
Men Who Do Things Are Not Those
Who Have Their Nose Constantly
on Birthstone.

A certain vice president of great
railroad once remarked that he would
much rather have in his employ a train
dispatcher who had cigar in his
mouth and his feet cooked up on
the desk than one who kept his nose
too closely to the grindstone. As he
had come up through the ranks the
vice presidents opinion was seasoned
with accurate knowledge and expert
ence. His theory was that the dis
patcher with his feet cooked up had
his road in better shape than the grind
stone exponent, and could figure out
the moves on the transportation chess
board better.
An official of probably the largest
corporation In the world was reported
to the head of the corporation by
large stakeholder as continually loaf
Ing and looking out of his Office win
low. The president assured the stock
holder that the man was not loafing
but thinking, and that his plans had
saved in one year more than his salary
for twenty.
You can go through the Office of the
National City bank of New York, the
largest bank in America, and find men
sitting at glass-topped desks on which
there is not a scrap of paper. Yet the
daily business of this bank would keep
a dozen country banks busy TO Gu
pacity.
You can pick at random one hundred
Of the highest executives of the coun-
try and find more than 80 per cent sit
ting at desks absolutely bare.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1919-05-27
Famous Fleet Street.

A modern writer has called Fleet
street the "Street of Adventure" and
the name is a good one, writes A. A.
Methley, In "a Child's Guide to Lon
don,s for here all the news of the
world is gathered together, and the
strip of sky overhead is crisscrossed
with the telegraph and telephone wires
that bring tidings of warfare /.
victories. revolutions, and marvellous
Inventions and discoveries.
The road certainly deserves its pic
turesque title, but, in medieval times
when, as Froissart says, the Londoners
were the perilousest people in the
world, and the most outrageousest, the
name would have been even more ap-
propriate. Then the adventures them
selves actually took place here; and
again and again in history we find
wild stories of tumults fought
out on the rough cobblestones of old
"Flete Strete."
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1919-05-27
Dickens, Love Of Humanity.

Dickens love for humanity, his de-
sire to right wrong and relieve suffer
ing, were some of the reasons given
by Sheriff Lyell, talented member of
the Scottish bar, speaking before the
Glasgow Dickens society, for the admi-
ration that writer had won. 1.-THE Bar
risters Of Dickens" was the speakers
subject. He referred to Mr.. Voles,
Eugene Raeburn. Tommy Traddles,
Sidney Carton, Sergeant Ruzbuz and
other characters well known to Dick
ems readers.
Zone must leave behind the spirit
of criticism and give oneself up to a
whole-hearted enjoyment In reading
Dickens" he said. "There might, at
times, be exaggeration or forced SEN
timent. but there Is also genius. l
don't know why he made Tommy Trad
dies lawyer, unless 1t was to show
that we barristers are not all as black
as we are painted Dickens was at
his best in depicting deep and genuine
pathOs, free from sentimentalism.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1919-05-27
ENGLISH AS WORLD LANGUAGE
Writer Sees Strong indication of Its
Supremacy as One Result of
the Great War.

All the indications are that the uni
versal language will be English. The
formal draft of the treaty of Versailles
will be couched in the traditional Ian
guage of diplomacy, the language of
FOch and Clemenceau, but the discus
sions at Paris and Versailles were In
the tongue which President Wilson and
most of our peace delegates have best
at their disposal. Perhaps it is no
compliment to us that the European
peacemakers should be in a position
to meet us more than half way in the
matter of foreign tongues, but the fact
is there.
The French language will prosper
after the war. In more or less perfect
form it will be brought back to Amer
lea, to Australia, to Canada, to South
Africa by soldiers and auxiliary war
workers to the number of many tens
of thousands. But for every Anglo
Saxon whom the war has taught
French it is a safe guess that there are
a hundred mid-Europeans to whom as
a result of the war, emphasizing al
ready existing conditions, the English
tongue will be brought close to home.
Because the new Czecho- Slovakia must
be in intimate touch with a million
Czechs and Slovaks in the United
States, because there are several mil
lion Poles in this country, because
every one of the new natiOnalities In
central Europe looks in the first place
to these United States, the American
language will be familiar among all
foreign languages to these people. For
that matter, the numerous commits
sions and propagandas of mid Europe
which have been busy in the United
States will have brought back with
them the use, if not the idiom, Of our
anguage.-Exchange
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1919-05-27
PROVIDENCE NOT TO BLAME
Causes Of -Manklnd's Good or Bad For.
tune Traced by Philosopher 70
Human Qualities.

/ have always been Of the opinion
that the complaints against providence
have been ill-grounded, and that the
good or bad qualities of men are the
causes of their good or bad fortune
more than what is generally imagined.
There are no doubt instances to the
contrary, and pretty numerous ones.
too; but few In comparison to the in
stances we have Of right distribution
of prosperity and adversely; nor, in
deed could 1t be otherwise from the
common course Of human affairs. To
be endowed with benevolent DISPOSE
ton and to love others will almost in
fallibly procure love and esteem, which
Is the chief circumstance In life and
facilitates every enterprise and un-
dertaking besides the satisfaction that
Immediately results from it. The case
Is much the same with the other vir
tues. Prosperity Is naturally, though
not necessarily, attached to virtue and
merit; and adversely, in like manner,
to vice and folly.-David Hume.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1919-05-27
WY THAT LAME BACK 2

That morning lameness-those sharp
pains when bending or lifting, make
work a burden and rest impossible.
Don't be handicapped by bad back
look to your kidneys. You will make
no mistake by following this Mount
Holly residents example.
Mrs. Harry Simons. 10 Pine street,
says: II had been more or less troubled
with rheumatic twinges all my life. /
had such always pains in my back and
muscles that couldn't move at times
and my feet were sore. / could hard
ly lift anything as pains would come
over me Unexpectedly. My back ached
almost constantly, and sometimes |
got such awful, sharp pains across my
kidneys that couldn't straighten up.
finally used Doan's Kidney Pills
and they rid me of all signs of rheu-
matte pains and kidney trouble"
Mrs. Simons gave the above state
ment on November IL, 1914. and on
October 2, 1915 she added: "Doan's
Kidney Pills rid me of severe attack
of kidney trouble and rheumatic pains.
ann only to pleased to again recon-
mend them"
Price Coo at all dealers. Don't SIM
ply ask for a kidney remedy-get
Doan's Kidney Pills-the same that
Mrs. Simons had. Foster-Milburn
Co., Mfgrs., Buffalo, N. Y.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1919-05-27
Lost Diamond Mine?

A fabulous fortune awaits the man
who discovers the lost diamond mine
Of Arkansas.
There are indisputable indications
that such mine exists. according to
a statement by Capt. Frederick G.
Packer, an English diamond mining ex.
pert who has twice come to this coun-
try from Kimberly, South Africa. in
search Of the lost mine.
Due to the popularity Of the natural
process by which diamonds were
formed In the dim ages of the past,
Captain Packer said., the Indications
of diamond field may be found a
long distance from the field These
indications have been found in a GER
tain section Of Arkansas, but the mine
has not been discovered. 1t may b
near the Oklahoma line, he asserts.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1919-05-27
vooDoo WORSHIP IN HAITI
Strange Beliefs Which Christianity
and Civilization Have Been Un-
able TO Stamp Out.

Voodooism, or voodoo, that strange
tive customs Of West Africa, is still
practiced to a great extent in Haiti,
where they believe that the body has
two spirits-a good one that returns to
Africa, and a duppy, who remains in
the vicinity of the dead. These "dup-
pies" are considered to be very dan
gerous and in order to drive them
away from the house where a death
has occurred, all standing water Is
thrown out, and food and rum provid-
ed to prOpitiate the "duppy" and per-
suade 1t to accompany the good spirit
ON its Journey.
"Duppies" are supposed to have
solid bodies instead Of ghostly ones,
and SO the doors and windows, and
even cracks In the house are stuffed
up to keep them out.
VOodooism, unfortunately, goes much
farther than this belief, and the use
OF all kinds of charms, the worship
Of a certain sacred green snake. and
the melting and inflaming of the ne
groes to emotional heights by strange
ceremonies continues in Haiti even
now. At the close Of a voodoo meet
ing when the audience Is excited to a
wild hysteria a dance called the "loilo-
ichi" is performed which ends In a
wild orgy, an exchange states. In all
these wild ceremonies and dances, a
drum is the instrument used, its rhyth-
mic throbbing tending to excite those
who hear 1t. Indeed. from time Inn
memorial drums have been used for
this purpose, the nerves of even the
most civilized and self-contained per-
sons responding almost Immediately
to a steady drumming.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1919-05-27

Perhaps the most eminent woman physician the world Is the way
describes Ge "a perfect dynamo
world "A womanly
speaker crystal the striking
health elected
Bin throughout the
educator phanhropis, lecturer this versatile
people healthier lives her life given to
the much OF her
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call healthier life
individuals responsibility
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The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1919-05-27
Fewer Accidents Now, and Why.

War conditions, by bringing large
numbers of new and unskilled work.
ers into industry, had IN general the
effect Of increasing considerably the
number of industrial accidents, both
actually and relatively to the number
of persons engaged in certain indus
tries. Information recently received
by the inspection and investigation
service. department of labor, indicates.
however, than In general the number
Of such accidents has now returned to
approximately normal figures. In
comparatively short time before the
entrance of America into the war, the
effect of workmen's compensation laws
and safety work had reduced the num-
Der of Industrial accidents almost so
per cent. The temporary increase due
to the influx of war workers has now
misunderstanding American.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1919-05-27

smutted grain. specialists declare.
Smut Is borne on the seed. Clean
grain becomes contaminated in thrash
Ing. sacking, storing and drilling. The
preventive is to treat all seed wheat
before 1t is sown-either soak 1t in
or sprinkle 1t with formaldehyde So
tuition in the proportion of 1 pound
Of commercial formaldehyde to 40
gallons of water. That Is true, at
least. for practically all of the country.
In Oregon, Washington, Idaho and Cal
lfornia the soil is infested and abso-
lutte prevention cannot be attained by
seed treatment. But that is due to 10
cal climatic conditions and, apparently,
soil infestation does not occur through
out the rest Of the country, and seed
treatment is all that is necessary to
prevent smut.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1919-05-27
SAVING CEREALS
FROM SMUT LOSS
Simple Seed Treatment Will Pre-
vent Injury to Different Kinds
of Grain Crops.
FUNGUS PARASITE IS CAUSE
Wheat Crop Of 1918 Suffered to
Amount Of 25,5oo, 900 6usheIs-No
Justification for Growing
Smutted Grain.

prepared by the United States Depart
ment OF Agriculture)
There are a number of different
kinds of smuts which attack the differ
ent cereals-wheat, oats, barley, and
rye. The most striking feature Of
these diseases is the appearance of
fine, dark-colored dusty material which
replaces the seed or heads of the grain.
This dusty material is the spores or
seed of the fungous parasite which
causes the disease. Perhaps the most
serious of these grain smuts is the
shrinking smut or bunt of wheat. When
the wheat natures 1t Is found that the
grains are replaced by false kernels
or smut balls. These are easily broken
up In fine dusty material-the smut
spores. These have disagreeable odor,
hence the common name of this smut.
This odor can readily be detected on
the leeward side of ripening wheat
field. 1t is also very evident during
thrashing and on stored grain.
Estimated National Loss.
It is estimated that the national loss
due to wheat smuts-principally the
shrinking smut-in the 1918 crop
amounted to 25,5OO,OOO bushels. The
two states of Minnesota and Nebraska
lost 100000 bushels of wheat from
shrinking smut alone. The estimated
loss from oat smuts in 1918 Is 10000
600 bushels, and the estimated loss
from barley smuts is 100000 bushels
"a total of 141,5O0,0OO bushels of the
three grains.
Loss Is Preventable.
And practically all Of that loss could
have been prevented-easily prevented.
There is no justification for growing
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1919-05-27
SILKS OF GORGEOUS COLOR
Huguenot Collection Exhibited In New
York Declared to BE a Marvel
of Preservation.

What is perhaps the most wonder
full exhibition of old French silks In the
world is to be seen In the library of
the international Buyers club at 100
West Forty-second street, New York,
says Scientific American. The col
lection comprises more than 700 specf-
mems of silk manufactured by the de-
scendants Of the Huguenots who set
tied In Spitalf1elds and Bethnal Green,
London, after the revocation of the
edict of Nantes in 1885. II has lately
come into possession of the Interna-
tional Buyers club and Is said to be
the most valuable of its kind In the
world.
The fabrics of the collection are as
durable and the colors as brilliant as tf
they were turned from the looms yes
terday. The disintegration of the silk
fabric that one sometimes sees In Chi
nese mandarin coats has not taken
place. Indeed. the old French silk
workers did not develop their art from
the ancient Chinese. who jealously
guarded the secrets Of their craft.
The silk industry was originated In
the western world by two Persian
monks who had resided In China and
who In about $50 brought to Constan-
tinople the eggs of the silk worm In
hollow bamboo tube. From these
contents developed the silk Industry of
Europe.
There is an elusive delicacy about
the French silks that quite defies de-
scription. Many of the French pat
terms are quite up to date and are said
to be In line for any revival Of styles.
This is particularly true Of the tiny
patterns In checks. blue, red. green and
brown in fields of white silk, all Of
which are adapted to cravats. The
gorgeous colors are shown in the silks
of upholsteries; the most delicate and
evanescent in those evidently intend
ed for women's apparel or draperies.
Wonderful dyes the French weavers
used, vegetable dyes that increase In
their beauty as the years go by. Gold,
rure yellow, brilliant gold, Is shown
white. ivory, flesh, coral, turquoise, ap-
ricot. ocean sgreen. ashes Of rose,
chartreuse. honey. maple. geranium.
scarlet. cardinal. garnet and a thou
sand other tints that would be hard
TO match today even when we have
1913 shades of navy blue alone.
The strength and durability of the
silks in this collection. some Of which
are hundreds of years old. suggest that
with reasonable care they are proof
against disintegration Of the ages
There is not cracked, worn or thir
sample among them. The brilliance OF
their dyes. some Of whose formulas
are at present lost to the world, Il
evidence that the world may never
be forced to be completely dependent
upon any one nation for Its dyes and
that the forgotten lore in the art OF
dyeing fabrics reveals the varied flu
ture that may be revived under the
spur of necessity.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1919-05-27
One of the Last Of oId-tlme ~Reds..

One Of the Last Of old-time "Reds."
Tom-o-Wah-Teet, who remembered
the first coming Of the white man to
the Klickitat valley, Washington
state, has gone to the happy hunting
grounds at the age of at least one
hundred and ten. He was known and
liked by everyone in the region, and
would tell wildly Of the events Of
days when white people invaded the
territory Of the Yakimas and Klicki-
tats. He was present at the council
OF Walla Walla plains in 1855, and
was warrior under Kamiakin in the
Yakima Indian war that followed. He
took part In the block house battle
and massacre of white settlers at the
Cascades. where Lieut.. Philip 81. Sher-
idan was in command Of the troops
sent from Fort Vancouver to defend
the garrison. After the revolt was
crushed Tom-o-Wah-Teet was always
friendly to the whites, and his many
services have been repaid, for since
he became nearly blind about FIVE
years ago and could no longer support
himself and his aged squaw by work
ing on farms. those he once aided have
looked after his wants.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1919-05-27
Chinese Music.

Chinese music has always been be-
yond the grasp of the occidental
mind. appearing to have neither rhyme
nor reason to 1t. AS a matter of fact.
a Chinese musician must be very
skilled, indeed. in his profession to
hold a position in an oriental orches-
ira. Chinese music is not written. The
words of some Of the favorite songs
have been preserved, but the music has
been handed down from father to son
for generations that go far back before
the day Of the troubadours. When
music is played it is played according
to the memory Of the musician and his
Ideas of Interpretation. A musician va
ries the performance as his best judg-
ment dictates. and the strings, reeds
or brass may break In at any time.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1919-05-27
HOME WOODLAND

prepared by the United States De-
partment of Agricultural
In case of fire you will find
homegrown barn is very con-
venient means of replacing the
loss and a great saving In
money. Keep the home wood
land growing.
When there is a strike in the
coal mines you will find it very
comfortable to have plenty of
homegrown wood. Keep the
home fires burning.
When you need extra money
to pay off a mortgage. a doc
tors bin. or for a college edu-
cation for the children, you viii
find reserve fund In the wood
land handy. Keep the home
folks protected.