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The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1919-03-25
ScotIand,s EmhIen,

Though historical records relating
to the thistle are vague, tradition is
glib. According to one story. the
Danes were stealing barefooted
through the darkness toward the Scot.
fish camp when one of the soldiers
suddenly trod upon a thistle. InvoL
UNFAIRLY, he uttered a cry of pain, and
the Scotsmen, being aroused, leaped
to their feet, hurled themselves upon
the Danes, and inflicted fearful slaugh-
ter upon their foes. Another legend
says writer in Toronto Globe-re-
lates how Queen Scotia, after a hard
fought battle in which she had proved
victorious, threw herself down upon
the ground to rest, only to be received
by the prickly spines of thistle. Up
she jumped in fury, and plucking up
the nettle by the roots, was about to
hurl it away, when for some reason I'M
explained, her heart suddenly soften
ed, and she decided that from that
time forward thistles should always
be for her the emblems of victory. So
she stuck the nettle in her helmet,
and Scotland has taken the thistle as
its emblem ever since.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1919-03-25
Britain and British.

1t was not until their occupation by
the Romans that the word Britannia
came into use as a name for the Brit
ish isles. The name Great Britain
was applied to England, Wales and
Scotland on the accession of James l
In 1903, when the king of Scotland
succeeded Queen Elizabeth, and the
crowns became united. The expression
had been used for some time before
that event to distinguish England,
Wales and Scotland from Little Bril-
tain-Britannia Mlnor-which was the
French province of Bretagne or Brit
tany, across the channel from Eng
land. On January /, 1901, when the leg
islative union of Great Britain and Ire
land took place, the name adopted was
the UNITED Kingdom of Great Britain
and Ireland" It is a mistake to refer
to the United Kingdom as England.
England is a part of the United
Kingdom, as Saskatchewan is a part
of the Dominion of Canada.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1919-03-25
OLIVES PLANTED BY C0NvICTS
Magnificent Plantations Result Of Work
Begun to Furnish Occupation for
Malefactors In Jail.

Olives have struck a climate they
approve of In South Australia. The
trees are the hardest possible grow
ers, require practically no attention,
ard seem imperviOuS to the disease
that affect fruit-trees. They have been
rather in disfavor In the towns, owing
to their slowness in coming to ma
turity, but owners of full-grown trees
have found them great money-pro-
Queer Of late years. The olive doesn't
produce berries until it's twelfth year.
Consequently landowners are shy of
planting for commercial purposes.
There Is movement on foot to get
the government to substitute growers
at so much an acre for the first ten
years. The oil has almost trebled in
price the last few years, and the ber-
ries are in demand at 500 ton. Fifty
seven years ago the then sheriff of the
Adelaide Jail, looking for a job for his
charges, put them on preparing the
ground and planting olive trees, and
the result today is a magnificent and
profitable plantation In the vicinity Of
the Jail. Hence the term "Gone
pickin' olives" when a sport refers to
a man who has been sent along for a
light sentence.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1919-03-25
Early Enxptlan HaIrdressInn.

The hairdressing of early Egyptian
times is interesting. Wigs were ex-
ceedingly popular, through many dy-
nasties, for both men and women. The
women, however. in various instances,
were rather more inclined to let their
own hair grow long. arranging it with
extreme simplicity by hanging fore
lock over each shoulder In front and
letting the rest hang straight down
the back. 1t appears, from some old
statues, that they occasionally inter-
wove beads or some sort Of pendant
with these front locks, which doubt
less helped keep them In place. Then,
too, they sometimes wore a sort Of
f1let, device perhaps borrowed from
the Greeks. More elaborate head
dresses were also INDUCED in. Some
statues show strange, almost conical
affairs upon the heads, which archaeol-
ogists say contained balls wet with
some fragrant oil which trickled slow
ly through the hair and over the neck
and shoulders. Perfumes were said
to be extremely popular among these
early people.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1919-03-25
LIVE ON ARTIFICIAL ISLAND
SAT- Water Natives Who Wage An AL
most Constant War on Solomon
Head Hunters.

Built up artif1cially on reefs or
sandy pits, numbers of miniature is
lands Gos the tranquil waters of shell
tered coves among the Solomon is
lands, Gertrude Emerson writes In
Asia Magazine. Here live, separate
from the head hunters who inhabit the
unhealthful mangrove swamps and un-
dulating grasslands Of the interior or
the lofty spurs running down to the
sea, saltwater people more or less at
enmity with the bushmen. Yet these
salt water people are as fond of their
fruits and vegetables, for which there
Is no room on their narrow, crowded
island, as the junglefolk are of their
fish. Truce Is declared on regular BIZ
weekly market days and on neutral
territory along the coast the women of
both peoples meet and do their bar
gaining. The jewellers on the artificial
islands are skillful in all things per-
tanning to the sea, especially in the
building and handling of canoes. For
upon this slender thread their exist
ence hangs. The deliberately carved,
crescent-shaped canoes may always
be seen plying busily among the is,
lands. Frequently they are the only
sign of human habitation in world of
otherwise empty sea and rooted palms.
When the interminable circle of the
horizon softens and disappears and
the fever-laden evening mists creep in,
when the pale waters reflect as in a
mirror the burnt-out sky of day, the
canoes, silhouetted against the lumin-
GUS water, slide swiftly to the method
ical beating Of paddles, accompanied
by the low barbaric chanting Of dark
skinned men.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1919-03-25
FROM MINDS SECRET PLACES
Come the, Materials for Dreams Which
Sometimes One Finds So Hard
to Explain.
By Aa c.rtS

You read book and forget every
word of it. Years later scene from
the same book will come into your
mind as a dream; you will not recog-
nize 1t and will marvel where it came
from. Or you will see person casual,
ly on the street and be perfectly I'M
conscious of it. But every experience
is registered in the mind somewhere,
and some day you may see that same
person in a dream. Perhaps some of
the great store of impressions hidden
away in your unconscious mind will
come to the surface in dream In such
a way that you will feel that there is
something mysterious about it.
An old lady once told the writer Of
a dream she had, citing it as COM
plete justification of her belief in
spirits. While on shopping tour she
mislaid a valuable umbrella, and for
the life of her could not remember
what she had done with 1t. 1t worried
her considerably, and that night she
had dream in which she saw herself
go into q restaurant, hang up the UNI
brella, and after eating her lunch go
away, forgetting it.-New York World.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1919-03-25
Monarch,s Costly Whlm.

King Alfonso's ruined palace of San
Ildefonso at La Granja is one of the
freaks and one of the glories Of Spain.
1t was Bourbon monarch who invent
ed it-at the beginning of the eigh-
teenth century Philip V was out hunt
ing one day and rested at sunny farm
called the Grange, occupied by monks.
The monks had humored the noun
tain upon whose slopes the farmhouse
was built and had made their beautiful
gardens conform to the ways of the
giant.
But the king compelled the noun
tain to obey him. He blasted smooth
places on precipitous slopes, carry
ing away thousands Of tons of earth
and stones, and from the valley be-
low he brought up miles of fertile
earth to form new fields and gardens.
BY the time he had finished creating
a new landscape and filling the new
Versailles with the best pictures his
taste suggested, Philip was ready to
die in debt to the tune of 100000
pesetas. For that is the sum which
the monarch spent on San Ildefonso.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1919-03-25
The Hickory Tree

The hickory tree is said to have
derived its name from the Indian word
"Pawcohiccora." This was a kind Of
dressing eaten with hominy which the
squaws made by crushing hickory nuts
til 1t formed milky liquid. Early set
tiers are supposed to have shortened
the name of hickory. The Indians got
a large part of their winter food from
hickory nuts, some tribes in the South
gathering as much as hundred bus
els per family.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1919-03-25

Boards do not freeze except where
the moisture from the breath is con-
verified into snow; but the color
glands are rendered somewhat torpid
by the cold, and dark boards gradually
become lighter, until after a while
they seem entirely changed in color.
Another curious fact about the cold
CT the Arctic regions is that when a
person stops walking or working in
any way whereby the feet get exer-
else, the sole. of the foot loses all sense
of feeling.
In all extremely cold lands, the
moisture exhaled from the body con-
denses into small, hard crystals which
make quite bit Of noise as one walks
abOut
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1919-03-25
PAINTING the Salmon,

Red is the preferred color for sal
mon flesh. 1t is the dog" salmon's
misfortune to have meat of a dirty
grayish hue, so that it is almost un-
marketable.
Recently, however, a fish dealer in
Boston made a delightful discovery
1t was that some salmon-cOlored paint
(Which he happened to be using fol-
painting a truck) would transform q
dog salmon Offhand into a fish of the
most expensive variety.
The way it worked was really ~
markable 1t appears that the stuff
was a coal-tar product, and when
freely applied with a brush so satu
rated the meat with dye as to Civ
1t fine salmon-red tint clear through
Unfortunately, the local health au,
thorlties, lacking appreciation of the
fine arts, seized the fish and the paint
and shut up the studio
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1919-03-25


to the tender mercies of Charlie
Courtenay's man and started down the
broad staircase.
Just at the curve he met a rather
flushed, very pretty girl, still in her
wraps, who was coming breathlessIy
up. She bowed, to Arbuthnot's delight,
and hurried on.
Whereupon that young gentleman
sat down on a window seat and
watched for the girls temperance.
She came soon. AS she reached the
landing Arbuthnot rose, and she was
suddenly conscious of his presence.
"Marjorie"-his voice was very gem
tie, but even in the half light his face
was pale and drawn" won't keep you
long, and if you tell me that you really
care for that-that English fellow, I'll
let you go at once. But Marjorie. if
It's only the glitter of the title-I don't
want to hurt you dear, but such things
do happen-and I've been breaking my
heart for you these last days-Do you
love him. Marjorie?"
The girl looked up and down the
stairs. There was no one in sight,
From the lower floor came the sol
strains of waltz and the low murmul,
of many voices; but they were alone.
With little contented sigh she slipped
her hand into his and leaned over to
him.
Il detest him." she said softly.
You may kiss me if you like-you
look as though you are going to any
how" naively.
Il am" he said promptly, and did.
A moment later she raised her head
and laughed little.
Never, as long as live, will for
get the way you threw that little cad
into the mud"
You knew me?" gasped Arbuthnot.
= From the first minute" she said
calmly.
Later in the evening, Marjorie hav.
ing been claimed for dance, Arbuth.
not met Jimmy Garretson in the smok.
ing room.
THE Courtenays are growing anx.
ious," said the latter, with elaborate
carelessness. Lord Hyne isn't here
yet"
Abuthnot looked him squarely in the
eye.
ut was a long walk" he said.
Mr.. Garretson looked at him oddly
and mysteriously.
"You knew himp Upon my word,
Arbuthnot, 1 believe you arranged the
whole affair.""
II did," said Arbuthnot shamelessly.
Our gasoline tank was half full"
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1919-03-25
narnan Mnt Vet Civilized.

Although civilization has made ex-
cellent progress in some parts of the
East indies, barbarous practices by the
natives on the island of Borneo still
continue, according to 0. K. Hoey, a
merchant of Batavia, Java. He said
that traders who visit isolated sections
of Borneo found it necessary to re-
main constantly alert in order to guard
against attacks by Dyaks, who, how
ever, are gradually being driven farth-
er inland.
con the island of Bali the men still
load themselves up with many Jewels
md heavy chains as ornaments" he
declared. ''The natives make good in
comes from their rice fields and traf-
fic in pearls, but until short time
ago the sight of an automobile caused
great amazement."
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1919-03-25
Color blindness

MANY persons have the mistaken
idea that color blindness causes a con-
siderable number of the railroad acct
DENTS" said veteran of the line re-
Gently. During the early part of my
life, when I was in railroad work, a
physician who examined 700 appli-
cants for positions as railroad men
found only one who was color blind.
Several of the applicants. however,
did not know the proper names Ct
the colors. They We're able to group
and match test samples accurately
enough, but were uncertain when
asked to pick out certain colors and
name them"
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1919-03-25
Wauinu War on the Rahhlt.

Australia has spent millions in fight
ing pest Of rabbits, for which man
who turned loose three pairs of rab-
bits In New South Wales, in 1850, is
responsible, and which has made nee
essary a woven-wire fence 1900 miles
long, shutting off the fertile agricul-
tural regions from the central and
eastern semi-desert areas, where rab-
bits most abound. We have a few
rabbits in our own country west of the
Rockies. According to the biological
survey of the department of agricul-
ture, fully 200,000O0O wild rabbits are
annually killed in this country, yet
men touring across the continent In
variably speak of the number of rab-
bits seen.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1919-03-25
The Original skyscraper.

"What's the idea of this Tower of
Babel?" There are several ideas.
One of them is to provide something
really worth while for the folks who
come to town to look at the tall build
inuoU
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1919-03-25
Future of Flyinu.

Future of Flying.
saTd sooner fly" was colloquial
phrase of two decades ago that was
often used to express the impossible
The magic carpet of the Arabian
Nights seemed no less fanciful than
the dreams of Langley and the Wrigh'
brothers. In the light of those day.
the workers on the heavier-than-ai.
machines were looked upon as the
foolish descendants of Darius Green
They were the same kind OF "cranks
az Jules Verne.
Today billions Of dollars are invest
Cd In the manufacture Of airplanes.-
Louisville Courier-Journal.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1919-04-20

than year while the nation concentrated
all It's energies on the prosecution of the
war During that intensive period the
government discouraged e-buiIding,
while now the national administration is
calling upon people TO build. not only as a
patriotic duty. but as a ,sneans of provid-
ing additional employment for returning
soldiers and far artisans released from
war production activities. Secretary
Wilson of the department OF labor has
caused to be sent out from Washington
all over the country. large placards aSlvo-
eating immediate home-bui1ding. Dur
ing the war it was patriotic not to build.
now we can best show our patriotism by
building. reads one Of these placards.
Another reads, Own Home for Your
Chtldren's Sake" and a third says. Con-
struction adds to the wealth of the cosln-
try-build now There are others just
as urgent LAST but not least in the In
Huences tending to stimulate home build
ing throughout this country. are the ma
tion-Wide publicity campaigns being con-
Quoted by manufacturers Of. and dealers
In. building materials who are pointing
out the the public the advi8ability and
economy in building homes now One as
socfation Of manufacturers alone, the
Southern Pine Association Is expendins
more than $4,000 month in telling the
peoD1e Of the countr got the prospective
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1919-04-20

mobile Ginger Sheet" printed at Monte.
gomery and in the interests Of O1ds-
mobile statesmen. the following REFER
ence to local dealers and Representa-.
tives of the company appeared:
"Just about year ago Mr.. Peaks.
and Mr.. Quina, of Pensacola, Fla.s
formed the United Auto Sales Co.
and became the Olsmobile dealer sf
that place. They were on the job from
the very beginning, our only troub.S
being in supplying the mwith q sufS
ficient number OF Oldsmobiles to mec6
the demand they were having. ThnJ
are now going into their new garag&
and saIesroom, which is credit tf|
the town and a reflection of their pr0-l
g-essive business ability. Mr.. Quln$l
has a desire to put as many OldsuYo-|
biles in Pensacola there are ftet]
in Pensacola Bay-and that IL some
fish: but he is well on his way. II y6:f
visit Pensacola and do not cali 81
them you have missed one of the fhino
that make Pensacola famous" And 81
says there lis going to be a efna
shortage of Oldsmobiles. that hey hSS
an even dozen cars sold awaiting u
arrival
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1919-04-20

great foreign demand for American lum-
Der and pointing out the fact that the
price of lumber today Ia far less. by COM
paris0n. than that of other important
commodities. Manufacturers of paints
makers of patented building material and
other associated interests are conducting
similar ca mpaigns.
Undoubtedly the foremost factor in
American home building activity, how
ever. ID an intensified sentiment regard
ing home ownership The people of this
country never before realized to such a
degree what the home meant: certainly
American soldiers who went to the battle
fronts OF Europe and saw the thousands
of homes destroyed and the hundreds of
thousands of homeless people. are coming
home with new and more vivid appre-
citation of the comfort. contentment and
happiness that is found only I'm the home.
The hardshirs of war have quickened
their consciousness Of the attractions of
real home. and they are coming back
hungry for all the comforts of home
not for the cherries hospitality of a
boarding house the cramped and arti-
fetal environment of the apartment house.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1919-04-20
LOCAL AUTO MEN
HIGHLY PRAISED

In the FIRST number of the Odds
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-08-23
Baby in Summer
DAILY BATH ESSENTIAL.
BY BItICE BELDEN, NJ. ID.

Babies do not tolerate great heat
wei, ana II is necessary to resort to
various expedients In order to supple
lncnt or safeguard their resisting pow
ers during the heated term.
Among the most important measures
helping n baby to withstand summer
heat is the daily Sath. This not only
keeps the body safely balanced, but it
promotes healthy condition OF the
skin: skin secretions. If not removed:
fgure in the causation OF eczema. and
a child who develops eczema in hot
weather is sure to have d pretty miser-
able time of It,
as catarrh OF the skin, in which To-
cal irritation always plays promi-
nent part. In addition to other possible
factors.
For powdering. baby after bath
stearate OF zine is the best powder to
use. DO not use powder pufrs and do
way irritation of the skin is favored.
Zach time the baby is powdered use
fresh piece of soft cloth or absor-
bent cotton.
Breast-fed babies are fairly safe
against summer complaint, but bottle
fed babies must he handled with the
greatest care. The certified or pas
teuriZed milk must be kept upon ice
and bottles and nipples sterilized Nip
pies when not in use should be kept
in solution OF boric acid. Pacificrs
are unhygienic.
II is wise 10 dilute the milk mixture
a little on very hot days by using less
milk. All milk must be promptly
stopped for twcnty-four hours or long
or upon the appearance of stomach or
bowel trouble. Substitute barley water
for the milk. Castor oil serves val
liable purpose in these cases After
recovery restore the milk feelings
gradually.
The house must be screened against
flies. which have much to DO with the
spread of intestinal trouble among
babies.
ven,ilate the sleeping room thor
oughly, keep the baby in a cool place
dress him in light and loose garments
and in very hot weather let him dis
port himself in his birthday suit.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-08-23
MANY PAY LAST TRIBUTE TO
MAJOR STANLEY w. MARTIN
Funeral mt LynchburE Is Attended by
High Masonic
Officials

LYNCHBURG. VA. August o2-The
funeral of Major Stanley w. Martin
here this afternoon was one OF the
by military and Masonic friends. The
service was hold from the residence
and burial was at Spring Hill Cemetery
with Masonic honors in charge or
Thomas y. Davis, OF LynchburE. past
grand commander. Virginia Masons
SISTED by DR.. J. Cleveland Hall OF
Danville, prelate of the Grand Com
mandery. knights Templars, officially
represe ntinE the grand commander
Rev. f. NJ. Delaney, pastor of the
Rivermont Presbyterian Church, as
sisted by Rev. William McgEinson Off
ciated. The minister. just back from
Y service in France and the active pail
bearers. wore khaki There was no
other suggestion Of military at the
funeral.
The active pal-bearers we're Colonel
r. L. Craighill. Major A. B. Percy.
Major G.. NJ. Alexander. Major'P. T.
Winfree. Major :. n. Williams. Captain
9. j. Hammer and Lieutenant A. IS
Carter. the latter formerly being Major
Martins adjutant al Camp Mcclellan.
:, Honorary pail bearers were John l..
Hasan, Danviile; William V. Wilson.
DR.. A w. Terrell. A. 3. Darlington, l.
l.. Peasants, g. II. Lumsden, w. r.
Martin. !: III. Adams, John ID. Oglesby
and a. j. Evans. Lynchburg: DR. j.
Cleveland Hall. Danville: T. G. Burch
Martinsville: w. NJ. Oakley. Roanoke,
and John Cochran. The Plains.