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The Corpus Christi caller. [volume] (Corpus Christi, Tex.) 1918-1987, 1919-11-27
COTTON PlcKERs WON'T
RIDE IN WAGONS

MCKINNEY Texas Negro cotton
pockers hcre who ore earning go 20
SIS ID day for nine hours work refuse
to work at uli unless the farmers trans
port them 60 tho fields n the morning
rnd back 90 Mckinney 40 night in auto
mobiles
farmer who came hero 10 employ
negroes to pick his cotton told them hc
would take them to ana from the fields
in % wagon The negroea declined They
said it made their "hcads hurt 60 vide
ln wagons
Farmers. advertising for cotton pocl,-
ers. are offering 80 hundred pounds
and automobile transportation
New-York tribune., 1919-04-06

RighEKing Custaf of Sweden. the Crown Prince
and Prince Carl leave the stadium after witnessing
match of the famous Swedish sports. The King
is charming y democratic and is frequently seen on
streetcars among the straphangers. ph s
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1919-09-23
Hans Christian Andersen.

Hans Christian Andersen, styled the
ohildren's poet, was a celebrated Dan
ish writer, born at Odense in 1905 and
died at Copenhagen after a brief Ill
ness, August f. 1875 His last years
were embarrassed by criticism and at
tended by all the honor and love that
should accompany genius combined
with old age AS the child of poor,
shiftless parents, he had little instruc-
ton and few associates, but his dra-
matte instinct was developed by Fon-
tame and the Arabian Nights, and the
visit of a theatrical company to his
native city led him to seek his dra-
matte fortune In Copenhagen, where
for four years he worked diligently
but produced nothing of note In 1895
he essayed the FAIRY Tales" by which
he was to receive world wide recogni-
ton. The classic 'Tlnderbox" and big
Claus and Little Claus" are also of
this year. A short time afterwards
"Only Fiddler" gave him a European
reputation.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1919-09-23
FINDS DEAFNESS HELPS HIM
Edison'si Son Explains Why Electric
Wizard Has Not Tried to Improve
His Hearing.

The only reason Thomas A. Edison
ratus for improving his hearing is be-
cause he finds that his deafness aids
his work. So said Charles Edison, son
Of the electrical genius and general
manager of the Edison industries, at
the annual field day of the Edison en-
ployees the other day. according to the
New York World.
Father feels that he is better off
without his hearing, because If he
could hear well he would often be dis
tracted by what he heard" said the
son In answer to a question.
The Edison plant has ceased govern
ment work, Mr.. Edison said, since the
armistice, and his father is now giving
all his efforts to improving his prod
ucts. Much of his time is being devoted
to the improvement of the disc record.
William H. Meadowcroft, personal
and confidential assistant to Edison for
80 years, said that the Wizard of Men
10 Park, now seventy-two, is as ac-
tive mentally as 80 years ago. He
works day and night, averaging six
and one-half hours sleep, and eats
only about one pound of food a day.
A photograph improvement so perfect
that the reproduction cannot be dis
tinguished from the original sound will
soon be put upon the market, Mr.
Meadoweroft asserted
'Mr Edison has never given up his
old ambition, created when the phono-
graph was born 40 years ago. to make
1t the last word In the reproduction of
the human voice and of all kinds Of
musical sounds" said his assistant.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1919-09-23

"rm not much of a mixer, as the
boys say. and I've met no one but the
boys whom l can call friends. l am
girl shy, they say. Even in France
they twitted me about never having
a girl to chum with or dance with at
the canteens and recreation houses.
But-you seemed different. II won
dered if you had home and if you
would let me come to see you, per-
haps." 1t was a long and difficult
speech for Harold, but he felt that it
was vitality necessary, as the last few
stitches were being put into his bless
ed chevron.
Il not only have home, but have
dear little mother who will welcome
you and put you in front Of our big
wood fire and help you to get back to
strength, If you'll let her. We've had
a boy of our own before the war" she
added softly. "Come home with me
this afternoon and have dinner Moth
er will love to have you, and-and
don't mind if she cries little-the
sight of the uniform and your youth
may make her remember so poignant
~"
your brother was killed in battle?"
he asked gently.
Agnes nodded
And after awhile, when she had fin
ished sewing, she took the pale young
soldier home to her mother
1t may have been Providence, it may
have been propinquity, but in time the
soldier took the place of the boy who
had fallen In battle, and Agnes's moth
er tried to be a mother to Harold,
whose own had left him so suddenly
while he fought abroad
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1919-09-23
TOOK THE SCENE LITERALLY
But Not Many Movie Spectators Are
as Unsophsticated as Was
Uncle Ted Prouty.

A prominent movie director, said
at luncheon In Los Angeles:
Movie audiences are very sophisti-
Gated nowadays They insist on ac-
curacy. If you are inaccurate in the
smallest detail they write you hun
dreds of jeering letters 1t wasn't so
in the past
The movie audiences of the past
were as naive as Uncle Ted Prouty
Uncle Ted came TO town one evening
and went to the theater with his
wife. In the first act a woman was
shot, and when the curtain went down
a good many men left their seats and
went out
Uncle Ted fidgeted a while and
then he took his hat and started out
in his turn.
Where be you goin'T his wife
asked
LOOK here, Hannah said Uncle
Ted, I've stood this thing jest as
long as I can, and now I'm goin' out
like the rest to see how that pore
woman Is gettin' along that was shot.
The unfort'nit wretch may be dead
by this time. and if she is this amt
no place for US.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1919-09-23
DAY OF POLISH REJOICING
For the First Time In Century the
Feast Of the VistuIa Had spe-
cial Significance.

Toward the end of June Poland
celebrated the great fete of the Wis
tula. No man knows when the Gus
tom began, but 1t is old, as old as the
ancient rites of the sun worshipers,
who hailed the passing Of the sum-
mer solstlce. In those ancient days
there lived queen In Poland Of the
name of Wanda. Legend has woven
romance around her name and on this
day of the vistula Polish girls and
boys throw flowers into the stream in
her memory. The fete In these mod
ern days begins at the setting of the
sun, when Warsaw assumes the aspect
Of Venice. Torches, fireworks and
illuminations effect the transforma-
tion while the townsfolk crowd the
banks watching the lanterned skiffs
dart through the waters. This year
the day conceded with the expiration
of the delay granted the Germans to
accede to the allied peace terms. The
decision of the Weimar assembly be-
came known In the morning and War
saw threw up its cap and gave itself
up to merrymaking. The boys and
girls threw their garlands into the
Vistula, as they have done for CEN
turtles, but for the first time In over
one hundred years they floated all
the way to the sea through Polish ter
ritOry.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1919-09-23

the signs, it appeared. He had or
dered twice as many rose varieties
put in, and the south end Of the house
was being fixed over with a view to
feminine occupancy.
Nancy walked slowly down the path
that morning, her lavender bingham
dress brushing the marigolds lightly,
and her eyes were full of young,
poignant misery. She had not dreamed
she could miss him so, and that all
the dear companionship of the past
weeks had been only a summer ac,
quaintance. And suddenly she
stopped, for there by the tall hedge
that separated the two grounds she
caught the sound of his voice talking
to Rodney.
I'D put in the Jacks and brides
mostly. Plenty of them, Rod, and
run some climbers up to those SOUTH
end windows. Do you think I've got
any chance to winy'
The old man chuckled audibly.
Better be about it, Mr.. Randy" he
said. "She's blooming fast, .and she'd
be beauty. I'd make sure pretty
soon."
He ambled on toward the green
houses, and Moore came over to the
hedge with eager, teasing eyes.
Speaking of angels" he said
You remember how / heard you talk
ing about me that first day? Turn
abodt's fair play, isn'tl it? Do you
think I've got any chance to win
Nancy?"
Nancy gasped and backed away
from his outstretched arms.
"Irma1l blame me awfully," she fal-
tered.
well, life must hand out some
compensation to me-" he said. Tell
her that"
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1919-09-23
Speaking Of
Angels
II
BY FREDERICK CLARK

u suppose life must hand out some
compensation" Irma said thoughtful-
ly. You see he hasn't brains or looks,
so he had to have money"
Il don't think he's terribly bad
looking He's interesting. like one
of those lean keen-eyed kind of des-
perate looking persons much better
than the curly-haired hero ones"
Irma picked stra 1,erries, delicate
ly, selecting only the choicest and
ripest The June sunlight shone
warmly down on the patch of garden
on the southern hill slope. Rows of
raspberry and currant bushes
stretched in long even lines behind the
girls, and still past the bushes, rose
sentinel rows of fruit trees, each
bearing fragrant load of promise.
Meadowbright had never seemed so
attractive. This year they had left
the city full month earlier than
usual, because of Irma's GONZALES
cence. Sunlight and air had been or
dered for her, and a new interest
There aren't any new interests in
the country Irma had said indig-
nantly when her father had announced
his plan Of shipping Nancy and her
off early. But after the first few days
at the big white house she seemed to
grow new point of view" as Nam
cy said. 1t was beautiful there by the
sound. Everything was growing rich
ly about them. The garden fairly
called out of It's abundance for some
body to pick its berries and salad
material. The peas perked up eager
lines of green, the radishes fairly
pushed through the brown earth as If
eager to be pulled.
The only drawback had been the
loneliness. All Of the other summer
homes opened in July and August.
The shattered windows baffied and de-
pressed Nancy until one morning she
discovered that there were signs of
habitation at the Lyons place. 1t was
the next shore property to theirs,
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1919-09-23
Sewing Chevrons
4.
By DOROTHY DOUGLAS

MY fingers are positively calloused
from sewing" remarked Agnes Hope,
as she piled her needle over brilliant
red and green division emblem for a
waiting soldier.
And mine," supplemented her sis
ter worker. Il thought we were done
with this sort of work two years ago"
"Oh-no. dear, peace is fully as ex-
citing as war nowadays, and provides
even more work for the Red Cross, l
should say" Agnes said, wisely, nod
ding her prettily capped head.
The two girls with half-dOzen 9TH
ers were dressed in the soft gray uni
form worn by the guides in the big
base hospital on Long Island They
came through the Red Cross organiza-
ton to act as guides for visitors who
might wish to visit their boys in the
many wards Of the great institution.
But the work of sewing on chevrons
for the discharged patients as they
came into possession of the complete
new uniforms the government provid-
C0 Ava lACh WHICH, lucy were dUlc "
leave became too heavy for the regu-
lar workers and the guides were press
ed into this service.
1T seems to me 1t must have taken
all the creative energy of young staff
Of swivel-chair officers to design all
these emblems, Agnes" Louise VEN
tured, as she picked up bizarre sym
Dol which had white streaks dashing
from 1t In every direction. Just look
at this one, for instancep'
Agnes smiled. 1T must be some ra-
dto division" she replied
There was line OF soldiers waiting
30 tie girfs kept on sewing busiIy.
Each girl was engrossed in her own
musings as she sewed ON these en-
blens as the last duty she could per-
form for the lads who had suffered In
battle for them and theirs. Some Of
the discharged patients were pale and
unsteady; others seemed entirely well.
The Red Cross workers had learned
to feel an especial interest in each and
every one Of them and babe them all
good-by with a smile and a good wish
Agnes could not take her mind en-
tirefy away from the memory of sol
der who had smiled at her two days
before when she handed him his over
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1919-09-23
Beautiful Marine Organisms

A beautiful marine organism which
floats in tropical seas is not a single
creature. but a colony of many indi-
viduals, connected with each other like
Siamese twins, and of several differ
ent kinds. The largest and most bril-
liantly colored is inflated with gas and
floats on the water surface All the
other members of the colony hang from
its under side. Some are small and
trumpet-shaped and do the feeding for
the entire community. Others are fin
gerlike and are ''feelers" Still others
resemble punches of grapes. These
are egg layers. Another kind are like
long streamers and extend down into
the water to act as drag anchors"
They are also armed with sitting cells
to STAY young fishes. which they after
ward draw up to the hungry mouths
above.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1919-09-23
New Breed of Cattle.

India's sacred cattle, the Brahmin,
closely related to the zebu. promise to
become money makers for south Mis-
sissippi, according to E. e. Elliott, beef
specialist of the department of agri-
culture for that section of the state.
Crossed with American beef breeds,
such as the Hereford, Angus and
ShOrthorn, the Brahmins produce
hardy specimens able to maintain
themselves without much more care
than is required by goats.
Several herds are owned In the
southern counties, and live stock men
believe there is future for them. The
original stock were brought to the
United States during the Roosevelt adj
ministration.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1919-09-23
English Lenses Superior.

When aero-photography commenced
to play its great part In the war. 1t was
found that the German-made lenses
would do the work of picturing from
above far better than British-made
lenses. But the English opticians set
to work, and in short time they pro
duced lenses that beat the German
product fair and square. Captured
aero-photographic apparatus during
the latter part Of the war showed that
the lenses were inferior in quality to
those made in Britain. No German
made lens has yet been found that
would picture barbed wire entangle-
ment from height Of three miles, but
the British product would, and very
often did.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1919-09-23
Advertise in "The News"
Chinese RalIways BUSY.

Latest reports indicate that the 5000
miles of government railways carry
annually more than 25,000,000 passen-
gers a total of 1,000,000,0O0 miles
Thirty-seven per cent of the receipts
of the government railways come from
the passenger service. On FIVE of the
lines the passenger revenues exceed
those from transportation of goods.
Ninety-five per cent of the passenger
traffic Is third-class at an average fare
of one cent mile, which means a
large amount Of travel by the poorer
classes.
Wide macadamized highways are
being constructed in the suburbs of
many cities. The coming Of the auto
mobile will hasten this development.
An automobile service across the Cobb
desert connecting Picking with Urga
and the Russian railway has been in
augurated.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1919-09-23
MAKING The MOST OF PEACE
Treasury Savings Division Speakers
Tell State Fair Crowds How
to Insure Prosperity.

The public speakers Job of keeping
the nation on edge for the successful
prosecution of the war has been sue
ceeded by the job of inducing the
American people to make the utmost
out of peace
Public speakers are cooperating ex-
tensively for this purpose with the
Savings Division Of the United States
Treasury Department The Savings
Division has adopted as its slogan
Work and Save" emphasizing the
pursuits through which the nation
will secure maximum peace time re-
turns In progress and prosperity.
State fairs in New Jersey, Della
ware and Pennsylvania have been pro
viding good publicity opportunities
for the national thrift movement.
About fifty big fairs are included In
the schedule beginning in August and
running up to October Thrift post
ers, placards and leaflets have been
and are being displayed and distribut-
ed at all fairs. Speakers have adj
dressed large crowds and will con-
tinue to urge the Work and Save"
idea throughout the fair season.
When attending a fair, If you no.
tice a Thrift speaker in action, give
him few minutes of your time. He
will have something worthy of your
attention and for your benefit Ac-
cept all thrift literature rendered you
and read it thoughtfully.
The thrift movement is not merely,
as presumed by many people, cam
paign for the raising of funds for the
government. 1t is bigger and broader
than that 1t Is for the present and
future welfare of the American peo-
pie. The fundamental principles are
maximum production In industry, reg
uiar saving of money, wise spending
and safe investment The Investment
feature viii provide the capital to
finance business expansion which
brings individual as well as national
prosperity.
More than $SS,OO0,000 will be col
lected as interest, this month, by in
vestors in the Third Liberty Loan.
If those who receive this money
squander it, the effect will be felt in
higher cost of living Save your Lib
erty Loan interest and make it earn
more interest Invest it in govern
ment Savings Stamps
The safest investments are govern
ment securities such as Thrift and
Savings Stamps and Treasury Savings
Certificates. They are being largely
purchased for their investment worth
by persons who acquired the saving
habit during the war. and by an in
creasing number Of investors con
WINGED by the governments thrift
propaganda
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1919-09-23
Il Didn't Work.

Attractive visitor you had just
now"
YES" said the impressionable bust
ness man. "She's book agent and the
best-looking person who has been
about these premises in many day."
whats she sellingf"
"a Life of Cleopatra. thought 1
might lead up to suggesting a little
dinner for two by saying l liked the
modern 'vamps' much better, but she
merely fixed me with cold stare took
my order for copy of Cleopatra and
swept out"
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1919-09-23
Making Crime Fit Fine.

Country Judge-Ten dollars.
Motorist-Can you change a TWEEN
ty-dollar bill?
Judge-No, but / can change the
fine Twenty dollars Mass. Tech. Woo
boo.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1919-09-23
The Only Wau

Jill-The man marry must be able
to keep a cook.
Jack-Brlght and early tomorrow
morning I'm going to enter school
Of hypnotism Buffalo Express.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1919-09-23

Always going upI = Government
Savings Stamps.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1919-09-23

For the children's future--Ruy say
ines Stamps.
The Elbert County tribune., 1919-04-04
American Lieutenant on Outpost
Duty at stepping Off"
Place.
Has Quarters In Great Castle at
cobIenz, and Under Anti-Frater-
mixing Order He Cannot Visit
With Other Inhabitants.

Coblenz.-In great castle on a hill
and with count and countess and
their four daughters as his nearest
neighbors dwells today the lonesomest
American in all the occupied territory
of Germany. He is Lieut.. John w.
Scott of Detroit, commanding Com
pany X, Twenty-eigbth infantry, on
outpost duty at the stepping OFF,
place of the Coblenz bridgehead where
it skirts beautiful valley stretching
away toward Berlin.
Just across the hallway from the
quarters of the lieutenant on the sec
ond floor of the castle, Count and
Countess Won Walderdorf have been
allowed to remain by courtesy of army
officers. But the Germans keep to
themselves, looking upon the Ameri-
cans as invaders, and an army anti
fraternization order prohibits Lieuten-
ant Scott from visiting them.
Spends Evenings Alone.
On the first floor of She castle 80
American soldiers have their beds and
mess and large living room where
they play cards and enjoy each others
company during the long winter eve
nings and tell of their war experiences,
and of all the wonderful things they in
tend to do when they get home again.
Lieutenant Scott spends his evenings,
alone, devouring book after book.
Visitors are few Mt this Furthermore
outpost across the Rhine twenty miles
from Coblenz. During the day the lfeu-
tenant makes his rounds, visiting one
sentinel after another, always alone.
At the foot of the hill crowned by the
castle of Molsberg Is the village of
Molsberg, of which Lieutenant Scott is
military commander, but he talks to
the townspeople only on questions of
business. And so, day after day, the
lieutenant meets no one excepting his
soldiers and the civilians on routine
matters of duty.
The meals of this loneliest of Amer
leans are served in his quarters, where
he dimes. alone, with giddy green war
rior tapestry figures gazing down upon
him from their places on the walls.
just where they We're hung something
like 300 years ago. The figures of one
panel picture gay and jolly party and
all the others suggest companionship
in some form.
Phone for Business Only.
The officer has a telephone which
reaches TO Montabaur, the 1st division
headquarters, but its use is restricted
The Elbert County tribune., 1919-04-04
BUILD 100000 BRITISH HOMES
Government Adopts Plans to Settle tho
Housing Problem and Aboi-
ish the Siums.

London.-This country needs imme-
diately at least 100000 dwellings for
its working classes according to DIR.
Christopher Addison, president of the
local government board, whose housing
scheme has just been approved by the
British war cabinet. bill outlining
his ideas is TO he presented soon to
the house of commons.
State assistance will be given only
within the next IL months to schemes
submitted to the local government
board and must be carried out within
the next two years.
Housing commissioners are being ap-
pointed to help the various authorities.
each commissioner to have staff,
including an architect and a surveyor.
Fittings are to be standardized, but
this does not menn." Doctor Addlson's
statement says, that houses are to
be built on one pattern. The govern
ment Is anxious to avoid any such ca
lamity."
In order to do away with "slums' 1t
is proposed the same financial aid be
given for clearing and improving in
sanitary areas as for building new
houses on new sites.
The Elbert County tribune., 1919-04-04
Is IOneSOmeSt
Man In Germany

to business only. There are other CON
veniences, too, including electric lights
and running water, and wonderful
stove reaching halfway to the ceiling
and at the bottom the old German
makers name and the date, 1T64. But
to the lonely lieutenant even the fire
in the stove sometimes seems almost
cold.
Lieutenant Scott's nearest American
officer neighbor is five or six miles
away out across the 5000 acres owned
by the count After dark visits are out
of the question. And so, when over
come by lonesomeness and WEAKNESS
from reading, the lieutenant tumbles
into n seventeenth century bed which
stands in the same position it has been
all these years. And within easy reach
is the telephone, by which he knows
eventually will come the welcome news
for which so long he has been longing
-"We've been ordered home"