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The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1919-02-18

Geraniums are among the house
plants which like a rather high tenn
perature and sun all day long. On the
other hand. they dislike overmuch wa
ter and thrive best in pots which are
rather small. 1t is important TO keep
them pinched back, too, so that they
will be short and stallSy. This kind
of plant blooms much better than one
which has been allowed to grow tall
and seggy, as the florists say.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1919-02-18

her. He was restless-and she remern-
bered of old that he had been. Her
thoughts went to Philip-to the sooth-
ing, Strengthening presence so well
come at the sick beds of the village:
and she heard again with sense of
pain his last broken, my dear! My
dear" But she was committed, for
her there was no turning back.
After reaching some conclusions
concerning marriage plans, Elmer rose
in his quick way. Nov I'm going to
the hotel and telegraph the folks
Then I'll come back. So long, honey.
Be back in jiffy"
After he had gone she sank back
into one of the big chairs, smiling as
she remembered ways Of his that the
years had made her forget Then
shadows that were not those of twi-
light came about her-back again to
New England and with Elmer-was it
real or just dream? Good-byt to Phil
ip, to-
Checking her thought, she rose and
went outside. The great western sky
unbroken by hills arched above her to
far horizons. The night had a calm
ness and peace she did not feel the
step before her meant happiness or
neglect. How oddly Elmer had acted
yet he had always been swift in ac-
ton and thought.
Tn tho midst oF bor +to-.o
was scampering on the walk, and
tow-headed youngster appeared He
thrust out his hand. Here's a note,
Miss Duncan. A fellow at the hotel
gave me quarter for bringin' it up"
Wondering, she took 1t and went in
side. The note was in Elmer's hand
writing:
Dear Old Chum-Just forgive me
for this. came out here because /
thought you would be waiting for me.
knew how true-blue you used to be.
But / simply can't go through with
1t. Someway, you've changed; and
have sneaking feeling that you
like somebody here, One of the Cos
sips put me wise in the hotel. And to
tell the truth, fell in love with one
of the girls at the hospital; and
feel as if l ought to marry her. SO.
being as it is. I'm going back tonight.
Don't feel hard against me. didn't
realize until got here. AS ever,
ELMER"
She crumpled the note and laughed,
a bit tearfully. "How near to regret
we werel / thought and he thought
but God knew!"
She stepped to the phone, and when
deep, pleasant voice answered, she
said: philip, it is-it is you, after
all!
It seemed to her that she had no
more than turned from the telephone,
although actually she had fingered
there, when she heard the sound of
quick, firm steps whose meaning al
most frightened her. The door opened
and she was lifted bodily, pinioned in
arms so strong they made her cry a
bit with pain.
my dear, was that your voice? Was
l dreaming?" Philip said, hoarsely.
She quieted him in the old immortal
way-with her lips.
TITS not dream, dear heart, but
the beginning of beautiful one for
you and me-" she whispered.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1919-02-18
Here's EIaplack Erxlnn Record

Here's the worlds flapjack frying
record: Eight thousand six hundred
and forty in 20 hours, all fried on one
hot cake plate, four feet square. at
the rate of SO every five minutes. The
big fiapjack fry started at 1880 o'clock
one morning up at the front and con-
tinued without intermission till $50
O'clock the next morning. Yanks just
out of the trenches ate the hot cakes,
swimming in rich strip. The frying
crew was made up of Salvation Army
men, led by Ensign Fred Huderson.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1919-02-18
HogtIIItIes Are at an End.

Jane had broken her second doll that
morning, and mother, very much pro-
voked, was putting the careless baby
through the third degree when from
the depths of the apron in which the
sweaty little face was buried came III
words: Mother, did you know l.
war was over7'
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1919-02-18
The verqer,s Attitude.

A clergyman was grieved to find his
services for men were poorly attend
ed. He expressed his regret to the
verger one evening when, as usual.
they were the only two at the meet
ing. 81 really think they ought to
come" he said sadly.
"That's jest what I've sed to 'em
over an over again, said the verger,
consolingly. 81 SEE to 'em: Look at
me- seq; look at me. goes to
oil them services SEE, am wot arm
does they do me-? "-Presbyteriah Adj
vance.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1919-02-18
ae Ready for Advancement.

There. are men who labor for dec
AIDES without advancing They are
good workmen, but they know nothing
beyond the narrow confines of the
work they are doing They have no
interest in the problems of their work,
no desire to Improve production
through the discovery Of better meth
DDS. And they wonder why others
pass them on the Upward climb. 1t Is
no mystery.
Prepare for the morrow, If you hope
that the morrow will be more rosy
than today. Preparation is the open
sesame to Observation-Disclosures
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1919-02-18
Not Romantic.

"Tried to get Flubdub to take a
walk in the country"
"NWhat for?"
"Just to see the frost on the pump
kin and all that sort of thing"
Hes not that sort. The only thing
about a pumpkin that would interest
him is the price."-Louisvills Courier
journal.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1919-02-18
THAR Revenne.

"The Yanks in Russia must be hav-
ing great fun"
"In what way7"
''In hearing the Russian correspond
ents worry over the English and Amer
lean names.a
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1919-02-18
His STANDING.

$50 that distinguished looking gem
tieman over there is one of your lead
ing citizens? Has he received many
degrees from the college?'
HAS hel Why, he has received so
many degrees we call him the human
thermometer
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-06-30
SUPPLICATION

ILouis Untermeyer in Yale Review1
Take away your soft hair and your
softer lips,
Loose me from your twining
fingers, turn away your eyes.
For loved this earth, and now a
greater passion slips
All its earthly ties.
I can wait for heaven, IL that is to
be;
Let me have these common days
and know their simple worth
Do not make the quiet colored mo-
ments dull to me
Let me keep the earth.
There is much I long to look at
much I long to taste.
You have Knocked a thousand
raptures with contemptuous
power.
Do not let your beauty lay all 9TH
er beauty waste;
Spare a casual hour.
Let old music thrill me to my
finger tips;
Bring me back the glamour oi
the things used to prize;
Lift this cloudy radiance where
only see your lips
Turn away your eyes!
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-06-30
No Wonder Germany Quit
NUMBER EIGHTEEN

lone of the queerest looking
things we saw in France" said Major
Frank C. Mahin, of the Army Re-
cruiting station, 325 Market street,
Harrisburg, were the elephants
Every few miles along the front
were big kite observation ballons
with funny looking bulges at the
tail, end. When one of these balloons
was pointed at you it was an exact
reproduction of an elephants head.
AS the wind would vary in speed,
Mr.. Elephant would nod his head,
wiggle his ears and then perhaps
turn his head a little to one side
or the other as though he were
/ trying to see something off to one
side and then decided it was of no
real interest any way so he looked
| back to the front. Underneath the
big bag was the observers basket,
| equipped with telephones, powerful
| telescopes. and couple of para
! chutes. What a change from the
| Mont golfer brothers balloon OF
| 1882, filled with hot air, made of
paper, and lifting a sheep, a rooster,
and a duck, three hundred feet into
the air. The elephant made of the
finest, most carefully woven cotton
cloth with a hundred and forty
! threads to the inch both ways, care
| fully rubberized and filled with hy-
drogen gas, lifts 1900 pounds instead
of sheep and two fowls, and lifts
! that weight a mile in the air. Com
fortably seated in his basket the bal
! loon observer was run up to a height
of three or four thousand feet
above the ground and there he sat
watching the Boche. Perhaps one OF
our batteries wanted to do some fir
ing; they notified the man in the
; elephant and he watched the burst
of their shells, told them how much
to correct their range so that event
ually the shells were bursting on
the exact spot that was desired. How
different this ease and comfort from
the aviator in an aeroplane. But
there is where you are wrong. II
the aviator didn't want to fight he
could run; if the Boche got to shell.
ing him he could duck off to one
side and beat it, but the poor bal
loon observer was hung on the enc
of steel cable and had to sit there
watching the flash of Boche gun:
that were shooting at him, waiting
twenty or thirty seconds after each
flash to see if he was going to be
hit or missed.
IF they didn't get the elephant
with shell fire an aeroplane would
come over to shoot him down with
incendiary bullets. If the observer
busy with other things, failed to SEE
the plane he was a goner. The in
cendiary bullets would ignite the
hydrogen in the gas bag, the bal
loon would explode and even il the
observer got clear and his parachut,
opened all right he wasn't through
yet, for the Boche, 'Kultured Sports
man(O' that he is, would circle
around that poor helpless devil slow
ly floating down in his parachute
and would shoot belt after belt o
cartridges at him in a last effort t
kill him. You don't mind seeing
man killed who has a fair chanc,
for his white alley, but that kind o
fighting was the thing that mad,
the Doughboy determined to crusl
such a race"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-06-30
PERIL IN FRENCHBIRTH RATE
Nine thousand Enough Keep Down
MARK Sullivan in Golfers Weekly. ]
By Briggs

the lament of a French statesman:
Our birth rate was miserably in
sufficient"
The figures which show the effect
of the war on Frances birth rate are
only available for seventy-seven out
of Frances eighty-seven depart
ments" what might be called
Frances counties. The other ten
departments are the ones which the
Germans invaded; in those the fig
ures, if ever they are available, will
undoubtedly be worse. But the fig
ures for the seventy seven districts
show a present birth rate of nine
per thousand.
With the very beginning of the
war, Frances birth rate began to
fall. During the years 1915 and
1916 it fell to barely more than half
of normal, to ten per thousand. BY
1918 the full effect of war made
itself felt and the birth rate had
fallen to less than half. to nine per
thousand. l do not know how vivid
this figure may be to those who have
not looked closely into such matters;
it can, perhaps, be made more vivid
by putting it this way: where only
nine babies are born in each thou
sand of the population, it would be
necessary for each of those nine
babies to live 112 years in order to
keep the population stationary.
At the present moment France is
on the downward path toward the
second class of nations, nations like
Spain. Whether the trend will ever
change, or how soon, is too large
subject to be treated adequately
here.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-06-30

and doctrines of their fathers be-
fore Germany can again become a
trusted member of the society of
civilized peoples.
So much for Germany and the
future of world peace insofar as
cerned. 1t is now for the American
people to seriously consider how
the treaty which President Wilson
proposes the Senate shall ratify af-
fects them. The President halls it
as 'a new charter of freedom" for
the world. His opponents hold it to
be IAN instrument for the enslave-
ment of the people of the United
States" Somewhere between these
two extremes. probably, lies the
truth. The Senate proposes to in
quire into it's effects upon the Mon
roe doctrine. our domestic relations
and as to the extent of the possible
use of American troops in Europe.
These are three vital points upon
which not only the Senate but the
people of the country are entitled
to more light than they have as yet
received. We should not plunge
ignorantly upon a policy of such
grave import simply at Mr.. wilson's
say so; he has made too many
blunders, has reversed himself too
often to accept his judgment at face
value upon a step beyond revocation
once taken. On the other hand we
must not permit personal dislike or
partisan prejudice to Interfere with
the formation of a calm, unbiased
national opinion that will so impress
itself upon the Senate as to insure
proper recording of concrete
thought when the final vote is taken
there.
The war is over, but the effects
of the war, the changes 1t mas
wrought. the wrongs it has exposed
the revolution of thought 1T has
developed are just beginning to
make themselves felt. If Germany
has come to a fork in the road, so'
too. has the United States. Before
we can continue our journey we
must make sure whittier the two
highways that now lie ahead OF US
lead. The lettering on the sign
posts is in a strange language. We
shall need wise and accurate inter-
prefers if we are to choose the right
way.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-06-30
The ID. C Fl. Mine Horror

[From the Springfield Republican,
The Engineering and Mining
Journal sees no excuse for the re-
cent coal mine horror in Pennsyl-
vania, which the American public,
with characteristic indifference to
accidents, has probably already for
gotten. The loss of life was due to
the sending of a large number of
men into the mines in the same
train of mine cars which was car
rying powder. In fact, there were
two cars of powder in the middle of
a train of fourteen cars. This care
lessness is said to persist throughout
the metal-mining industry. The
Engineering and Mining Journal
says: THE transportation of work.
ers and explosives in the same train
should be absolutely prohibited" 1t
is strange that mine managers and
engineers should not establish such
a rule of their own volition without
waiting for the law to do 1t for
them.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-06-30
THE SEASON OPENS

-R. DEMAIN, weather man Tor
MI Central Pennsylvania, kindly
AVA took the curse off the open
ing day of the bass season for those
who couldn't get away to enjoy the
occasion along their favorite streams
hv handing out so much rain that
it would be an insult to the intelll-
gence of any bass to offer MIN d
bait in the muddy waters of the
nearby creeks. So it isn't so pad
for the stay-at homes as it might
have been. But what a disappoint-
ment to the chap who has been saw
ing I'D a days vacation for the open
ing day. who has oiled up his reels
vanished his rods and debated long
and earnestly with himself as to
whether it should be "catties," he'll
granite, sinners or artificial lure'
whether it should be waders and
casting rod, or the long, llmoer ar
fair that some of the live-balt
anglers know so well how to handle.
All doubts are resolved in his mind.
To-day he is going grumblingly to
the backward for earthworms and
instead of bass he has a lingering
suspicion that if he gets anything
to-morrow it will be catfish.
But cheer up, fellows, the fewer
caught tomorrow the more there
will be to be taken in the dewey
early mornings of July or the long'
sunlit evenings of early August. The
trees will be just as green then, the
waters will be clear or just cloudy
enough to make the bait attractive;
the bugs will be on the water and
YOU may try out that new-fangled
hv II YOU have a mind.
We have many fine fishing places
in the vicinity of Harrisburg, but one
there is that could be transformed
into the best and most popular OF
all-wildwood Lake. The proposal
has been made that the water be
drawn off and the German carp that
infest the lake all killed. These fish
4
eat all the others and keep the lake
constantly stirred up and always
muddy. The plan as outlined would
he to take out the carp and have
the State restock the lake with sun
fish. perch, catfish and plymouth
bass. This would provide ample
food for the bass which would tnd
perfect habitat in the lake and
the other FISH would give good spor'
for boys and men who find the
carney bass too swift for them.
It is a good idea and ought to be
taken up seriously with the city
authorities. The carp are worth
nothing to anybody, not even as food
hut the catfish. sunfish and bass
would provide food and sport alike
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-06-30
JUSTICE TO TEACHERS

ENNsYIVANIA teachers de-
- serve every cent the new sal
i ary bill will give them They
made a gallant fight for what every
bodv recognized as their right the
onlv point of controversy being the
exact ratio of distribution and how
the money should be raised. The
bill as drawn will not give some of
tho Instructors as much as they
think they deserve, but in the long
RIM il will work out equitably, Civ
ing most to those who most need 1T.
Pennsylvania school system has
been tagging for a number of years,
despite the progressive program of
the State Board of Education and
other agencies, but with the new
salary law in effect and the reor-
ganization of the Department of
Public instruction completed along
lines that promise the utmost of ef-
ficiency, our schools should enter
upon a now era of growth and de-
velopment, and it is important that
they should, for never in the his
tory of the Nation has greater
responsibility been placed upon our
educational system than rests there
at present as > result OF the war
and the problems arising from #
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-06-30
Hot Weather Manners
[From the Detroit Newsl

When the mercury climbs the
steep incline above the SOS is the
time we shed our coats and drop
such other encumbrances as a lib
eral minded and sympathetic society
| approves. 1t is just as well, never
| theless, that we do not permit the
heat to make us doff our manners.
To those whose duty carries them
to and fro on the streaming streets
there comes the tendency to sullen
snappishness, born of wilted nerves
andand the trickle of perspiration
which sears the skin.
The traffic officer, for example,
| frayed by his duties, is inclined to
regard all passing motorists as po-
tential law breakers; his voice grows
harsh, and he edges past the strict
| letter of his duty into the region of
the Bawl Out, where are found the
bloomless meadows of sarcasm and
the arid wastes of abuse. This Is
not as it should be. Similarly, the
motorist, fretted by suspicion, lets
the heat toast his replies, and goes
on his way resentful, and, of course,
hotter.
There is much difficulty with slow
moving persons at congested cross
| Ah6SB llSIC again lIHpdLltnCc WIFI LHe
| tired mother plotting a baby across
the street leads more frequently than
it should to a snarl from the guard
| ian of the roadway; and the tired
mother, nervous and affronted,
seethes helplessly as she stumbles
on her way through the painting
crowd.
Manners maketh man." is a very
good old proverb. But manners,
| Implying restraint, also make for
GOODNESS. There is something close
ly akin between temper and tenn
perature. The heated street and the
busy crossing are good places to ex-
experiment with mental refrigeration.
Keep the tongue cool, and the mouth
won't get hot.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-06-30
TT is the exact truth, as a distin-
] guished French economist said,

TT is the exact truth, as a distin-
guished French economist said,
that the dead are but the smaller
part of our loss" The worst effect
that the war has had on the human
race does not appear in the figures
of the killed or in the figures of
the dead and wounded. The worst
effect of the war, the greatest loss
it has inflicted, is, it's effect on the
birth rate.
Before the war, in normal times,
France had a birth rate of about
eighteen per thousand. Eighteen
babies born per year in each thou
sand of the population is low birth
rate. 1t was just barely enough to
match the number of deaths per
year, to keep Frances population
stationary. To keep population
stationary is not enough. A ma
ton, like an individual, must grow
or go backward.
AS a matter of fact, the one larg-
est element in the recent war had
nothing to do with the glorious part
that France played on the battle
field after the war started. 1t was
this fact: that before the war France
had a stationary population, while
Germany had growing one. Any
discriminating historian of the Great
War will dwell long on this most sig
nif1cant of facts: in nS7O-71 France
and Germany fought a war; each ma
ton had about 40 million people;
forty-two years later they fought
again; this time Germany had 70
million people-France still had 40!
There is both truth and pathos in
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-06-30
RETROSPECTTON

When we all lived together
In the farm among the hills.
And the early summer weather
Had flushed the little rills;
And Jack and Tom were plavinp
Beside the open door,
And little Jane was maying
On the slanting meadow floor:
And mother clipped the trellis,
And father read his book
BY the little attic window
So close above the brook;
How little did we reckon
or ghosts that fit and pass.
OF fates that nod and beckon
In the shadows on the grass;
OF beauty soon defiowered,
Engulfed, and borne away
And youth that sinks devoured
In the chasm of a day!
Courageous and undaunted.
AS in a golden haze,
We lived a life enchanted,
Nor stopped to count the days.
We that were in the story
Saw not the magic light,
The pathos, and the glory
That shines on me tonight
John Jay Chapman: SONGS an,
Poems" (Scribner's)s
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-06-30
SAILOR TOWN
[C. Fox Smith, Doran.1

[C. Fox Smith, Doran.1
Along the wharves in sailor town a
singing whisper goes
or the wind among the anchored
ships, the wind that blows
Off broad brimming water, where
the summer day has died
Like wounded whale astounding
in the sunset tide.
There's a big China liner cleaning
like a gull,
And her lit ports flashing; there's
the long gaunt hull
OF Blue Funnel freighter with her
derricks dark and still:
And a tall barque loading at the
lumber mill.
And in the shops of sailor town is
every kind of thing
That the sailormen buy there, or
the ships crews bring;
Shackles for a sea-chest and pink
cockatoos,
Fifty-cent alarum clocks and dead
mems shoes.
You can hear the gulls crying, and
the cheerful noise
OF a concertina going, and a sing
er's voice
And the winds song and the tides
song, grooming soft and low
Rum old tunes in sailor town that
seamen know.
l dreamed a dream in sailor town,
a foolish dream and vain,
OF ships and men departed, of old
days come again
And an old song in sailor town, an
old song to sing
When shipmate meets with ship
mate in the evening.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-06-30
Doughboy SpeedSters

tFrom the Los Angeles TimesJ
A company of American engineers
threw pontoon bridge across the
Rhine in forty-one minutes. It was
1900 feet in length and staunch
enough for the passage of a fleet
of motor trucks. This was in less
than one-quarter of the best time
the Germans were ever able to ac-
complish the same task. The more
airholes they let in Prussian eff
cheney the more flimsy it becomes.
In order to make a complete clean
up, the enterprising Americans
made all sorts of wagers on them
selves and their time and gathered
in about $4,000 in real money.