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The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1919-02-04
Leak
in the Dixie"
By R. RAY BAKER
1913, by Mcclure NJ
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By R. RAY BAKER

In his suit for Marian Benefits
heart and hand Matthew Earlwick had
several items on the credit side of the
ledger, but on the debit side was one
large one that counterbalanced all the
others.
In so far as Marian was concerned
the fact that Matthew had a genial
radiant, unselfish personality, was suf.
ficient. His curly light brown hair
and his expressive blue eyes were also
acceptable, although merely incidental
The high financial standing of his fam
lily had nothing to do with it, as far as
Marian was concerned.
The high financial standing did have
considerable to do with it, according
to Richard D. Benefits ideas. 1t was
the only item on the credit side that
he considered. OF course it was not
Richard D. Bennett that was going to
marry Matthew, but he was the girls
father and insisted on having a say in
the matter.
THAT girl isn't going to run off and
marry some boob, even if he has loads
of COIN" was the way Mr.. Bennett ex-
pressed it. Her old dad has a few
greenbaeks of his own; not anywhere
near as many as the Earlwicks, but
enough to keep her in a comfortable
home and prevent her starving"
The big item on the debit side was
the fact that Matthew Earlwick never
had done IAN honest days work in
his life."
Get out and earn some money of
your own he admonished the young
mar on the occasion of their inter-
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1919-02-04
GRANT REFUSED TO ANSWER
When President, He Declined to Tell
House Where He Had Been
During Absence.

During President Grants administra-
ton movement was started to call
Grant to account for having been alb
sent from Washington. The house
asked him by resolution to inform ii
what official acts he had performed
while away, says an exchange. The
hero of AppomattoX replied:
II freely inform the house that from
the time of my entrance upon my of
flee, have been in the habit, as were
all of my predecessors, of absenting
myself at times from the seat of gov
eminent, and that during such alb
sences / did not neglect or forego the
obligations or duties of my office, but
continued to discharge all of the ex-
ecutive offices, acts and duties which
were required of me as president OF
the United States. l am not aware
that failure occurred in any one in.
stance of my exercising the functions
and powers of my offices in every case
requiring their discharge, or of my ex.
ercising all necessary executive acts
in whatever part of the United States
/ may at the time have BEEN"
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1919-02-04
BIRD is WORTH PRESERVING
Writer DepIores the Threatened Elk
tinction of the Beautiful and
Useful Upland PIover.

The upland plover, one of the most
beneficial birds of all the winged host
that oRce abounded in North America,
has been hunted and shot to the verge
of determination, says Dumb Animals.
With the passing of the passenger
pigeons, which even now so many
friends of all birds find 1t hard to be-
lieve and of which a great many are
not convinced, the plovers were marked
for wholesale destruction They were
candidates for oblivion along with
more than a score of other useful and
beautiful species that could be Ill
spared from our vast and valuable ma
tive fauna.
There is a ray of hope that these
birds may not be pursued to complete
humiliation. The federal law for the
protection of migratory birds makes ii
possible for the plover species to re-
habilitate itself, provided the closed
season be fixed to continue throughout
the year. The upland plover is a mi
gratory bird and an insectiyorous bird
Its food consists Of 81 per cent of ami
NAL forms which are chiefly the worst
enemies to agriculture The federal
law fixes a closed season ON migra-
tory insectivorous birds to continue
throughout the year with the exception
of the bobolink or ricebird, but under
the law the plover is classed as mi
gratory game bird and so its fate is
precarious. These birds should not be
shot.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1919-02-04

The question of whether it would
ever be possible to shoot projectile
into space, that is to say entirely off
the earth, has long been the subject
of discussion. In a detailed scientific
paper on the German long-ranged gun
which bombarded Paris last spring.
Major ]. Naturalization, writing in
the Journal of the Royal Artillery,
says the requisite velocity of such a
gun is not SO very much higher than
what las already been achieved; viz,
a muzzle velocity of mile per second.
When we are able to increase this to
five miles per second, the projectile,
if fired at suitable angle, will travel
around the earth as grazing satellite,
completing its orbit between II and is
times daily. With velocity of about
seven miles a second, it will move off
into space, never to return.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1919-02-04
AFOrtunate
Fancy
@><D
BY INES MACDONALD
Copyright, 1918. by Mcclure Newspaper
Syndicate.)


Martin Brown was in no way a re
markable man except in the matter Of
elephants, and of elephants he had
what was in all probability the largest
single collection in the world. Please
do not mistake this assertion. His
elephants were not alive, not real ele-
plants, you know, but images, modelled
and carved.
His small studio apartment was full
of ivory elephants, some of them no
larger than watch charm, bronze ele-
plants, porcelain, plaster and wooden
elephants; some of which he himself
had carved, for Martin Brown was no
mean craftsman-a sort of jack-of-all-
trades person, with fancy for ele-
plants.
The elephant is large animal, even
so is the subject of the elephant. For
years he had studied them, their hab-
its, their relations their mental devel-
opment, their physical structure, their
evolution. He had a friendly init
macy with every elephant in New York,
and whenever he visited the ZOOS the
keepers allowed him the freedom Of
the place.
The affection of an elephant may
seem ludicrous thing but to see those
great beasts touching him caressingly
and feeling him over with their deli
cate trunks was not a funny thing at
all. 1t stirred one with wonder at
the man and the mysterious bond
which existed between them.
At the library the attendants called
Martin Brown "the Elephant Man."
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1919-02-04
PRAISE FOR AMERICAN POETS
English Critic DepIores the Fact That
His countrymen Have Fallen
Far Behind.

Inspiration here Tin poetry is n dead
and lifeless thing. America is produc-
ing book after book of fresh and ex-
ultant vision, young as any Elizabeth
an, just as definitely original. The
restless future is a willing captive in
its hands. While we, in England,
praise our immaturities, blind to out.
side loneliness, experiment with them
is at point to pass into achievement.
yivNness, vitality and concentration,
beauty and originality of expression, III
these are the essentials of moderni
poetry, and believe they are, look for
them in the work of Amy Lowell, H.
D., John Gould Fletcher, Sandburg,I
Frost, and many another writer. What
have we to put beside their strength,
the audacity of their richness, but an
apathy born Of outworn tradition. some
expression of a past we so imperfectlyi
explore?
1t is not an hour for laughter, for
indifference; the books are there, there
is no barrier of language. Truly the
time is ripe for rediscovery of Amer
ica.-W. Beyher, in London Saturday
Review
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1919-02-04
Farm
Administration-5o
By JANE OSBORN
By JANE OSBORN


If women students took courses in
veterinary surgery and animal hus-
bandry there was no very good reason
why the men students at the short win
ter courses of the state agricultural
college should not select Prof. Lucy
Cummings course, known as farm adj
ministration-59. Still Prof. Lucy
Cummings was surprised, not to say
a little confused, when off to the left
side of the lecture room, contrasting
with the 80 or more young women's
faces, she saw the four men students
who had apparently elected to take
her course.
1t dealt, as the catalogue said in de-
scribing it. with "the psychological and
sociological problems of the farm
household" and considered in detail
the problems of making the farm
house a center of family recreation
and neighborhood social activity"
Three of the young men who had
elected 1t wore spectacles and took
notes copiously. Lucy discovered that
they were fitting themselves to be in
structors in agricultural subjects and
were apparently going straight through
the catalogue as part of their prepara-
tion.i
The fourth member took no notes
he was, in fact, not taking the course
for credit. He was among the dozen
or so attendants of the agricultural
college who apparently came to few
lectures merely as matter of diver.
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hard for an old bachelor like me to
get any of that fine spirit into farm
Ing. When my mother was with me
there we used sometimes to fix up a
little, but now all the company I have
in the winter is one hired man and
his wife to do the cooking, and lot
they know or care about the higher
psychological aspect"
Lucy flushed. She was afraid that
her student was laughing at her, but
when she looked at him she saw that
he was looking very serious.
I'm surprised, though, that you are
here for the holidays" he went on. Il
had an idea you were off having just
the kind of Christmas time you pic
tured to u.s.
NO" said Lucy simply. 81 was at
the boarding house. / had no place to
GO" And then. feeling that she had
perhaps been little too communica-
tive, she changed the subject.
Assuming her most professional air
and trying to talk as she would had
her companion been an eighteen-year-
old student, and not q stalwart man
of thirty-fve, she said: "You don't
know how pleased was to have you
boys elect my course. l was especially
surprised that you should have found
it worth while"
The brown eyes were leveled at her
and the professional air vanished.
Now you ask, I'll tell you,' he said
slowly. I'D have to tell you some
time. took that course because when
read in the catalogue all that hot air
about higher psychological aspects OF
farm life, l said to myself that any
one that could get up and talk that
kind Of thing would be funny enough
to listen to. 1t seemed to me that there
just wasn't any high aspect of farm
life. The women / knew never found
any in it. Even to my mother it was
killing drudgery.
$50 l went prepared to be amused
l thought I'd just listen time or two
and then-well, l might as well tell
you the rest-then l fell in love with
the teacher. l knew the only way
could ever hear her voice was to listen
to her lecture. l felt that she could
never have any other interest in a
crude farmer man like me-
Lucy was trembling in spite of her.
self. Hadn't we better turn back p
she faltered.
mo, we hadn't" came the decided
answer. I'm going to take you home
with me. You didn't have any Christ.
mas-you just told me you didn't, and
neither did l. There's fat turkey just
waiting to be cooked and popcorn and
spruce tree l chopped down and
the cranberries.
II thought I'd get some Of the high.
er psychological aspect in the old
farm but the hired man and his wife
were away and couldn't go about II
myself. I'm going to carry you home
with me if | have to do it by force
That's how loving the one woman in
the world strikes a crude farmer like
me-"
And that was the end of Prof. Lucy
Cummings career as professor.
When college opened after the holi-
days a more experienced, possibly
more practical, instructor had the
course. Lucy and the pair of brown
eyes were five miles away.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1919-02-04

and the dim electric light showed mimi
fountain squirting from the wall.
Grooming, chattering and shaking, he
attacked the stream head first, slipped,
almost lost his balance, and finally
managed to get his hand over the leak
in the pipe. He stopped the flow con-l
siderably, but could not entirely DAM
the torrent.
An hour later the plumber appeared
and found very badly drenched and
discouraged Papa Bennett up to hisl
knees in water, holding with freezing
fingers to the water pipe.
Quick Fix this some way. Get
this water out and repair the leak. Do
something quick, no matter what I'll
Isl" called the frantic man, dancing
up and down on his toes to keep his
submerged legs from freezing. The
plumber surveyed the situation.
There's two things to be DONE" he
asserted. zone is to open that door,
yonder and let this water out into the
back yard. The other is to turn off the
water outdoors where the branch pipe
from the main enters the house."
Papa Bennett glared at him, his
teeth clicking desperately.
"Why don't you do it, them" he
roared, getting respite between chat
tering spells.
The plumber stood on the stairs,
near the bottom of the flight, making
no move to carry out his own in
structions.
Its like this" said the plumber.
you once told me that l could have
Marian If proved that could hold a
job and that I could do the world some
good by my work. Now, the question:
is, does this plumbing job fill your ex-
pectations of an honest job, and do,
you figure that by stopping that flood
and letting it loose In the yard q
would be doing some good in the
world?"
Papa Bennett almost lost his hold on
the pipe, to which he was clinging now
more TO support himself than to stop
the leak. The ordeal had been severe
on him and he feared he would sink
to the floor from weakness and be-
drowned in the miniature flood
my dear young man" he managed
to gasp, ''if you will get me out of this.
predicament you will be performing
one of the noblest deeds in the history
of this planet; and you can have Mar
ian tomorrow. l consider plumber
godsend to humanity"
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1919-02-04
to be introduced Minerva dlsgraced

TO be introduced Minerva disgraced
herself.
Sara was woman. Even Minerva
could see that-and she was instantly
Jealous. Her little eyes REDEEMED with
hate and suspicion as Sara stepped
fearlessly forward and stood there
talking softly as she gently patted Mi
nerva's swinging trunk with her soft
slim hand. But when Minerva slipped
her trunk about Saras shoulders much
as the others had done, she snorted
angrily and there was no flexible gen
tleness as the powerful grip of her
trunk became crushingly rigid.
Sara was a brave girl and she made
no sound but she glanced appealingly
at Martin Brown, only to see that he
was midway in his frantic leap TO her
rescue. Sternly he spoke to the infu-
rated beast which was just beginning
to swing the girl from the ground !;
swiftly with the mighty grip of his
left hand he caught hold of the sensi-
tive tip Of Minerals trunk, at the same
time plying the goad relentlessly be-
hind the great distended ear. For an
instant Minerva wavered, then yielded
to the pain of her punishment and the
fearless anger of Martin Brown, and
with little cowed whines she released
and relinquished her hold of Sara Bar
stow.
There was a strange look in the eyes
of Martin Brown that afternoon as
they were on their way back to Sara's
apartment, and Sara herself was
strangely silent.
'There was really no DANGER" he
tried to assure her as he was leav-
ing.
81 know BETTER" she contradicted,
and then shuddered little. "She
would have killed me horribly, Mar
tin. If you hadn't saved me-" Brown
would have laughed the matter off
and turned away, but her slim hands
were on his breast, and somehow he
found her in his arms. ut was worth
it, Elephant Man." she murmured,
"just to see that look in your eyes"
And Martin Brown smiled down into
her serious glance. "As an elephant
fancier seem to be a fortunate wife
hunter" he said.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1919-02-04
AvIators Must Be Good Shots

This fight gave me a new resolve
to devote more time to target practice
l should have destroyed this Hun, but
poor shooting had enabled him to es-
cape Going home | spent an hour
that day practicing at a square target
on the ground. Thereafter gave as
much time as possible to shooting
practice; and to the accuracy l ac-
quired in this way feel owe most Of
my success. Airplane target practice
is not without its dangers. The target
on the ground is just about the size
of the vital spots you aim at in fight
ing. You have to dive steeply at this,
and there is very little margin Of safe
ty.-William A. Bishop, V. c., p. S. o.,
M. c. In the Saturday Evening Post
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1919-02-04
OLD CUSTOMS IN UKRAINE
Wedding Celebrations of Country Pc
cuIiar; Horse Thieves SummariIy
Dealt With.

The Little Russian costume became
fashionable for women in the Ukraine
after the formation of the republics
red boots, short skirt, allowing the em-
broidery of the chemise to- be seen; a
pretty apron; jacket without sleeves.
Around the neck large beads of many
colored glass, always in great NUM-
bers. The married women wear on
their heads a kind of fichu arranged
as diadem, the unmarried girls a
simple Ukrainian kerchief, the be-
trothed, flowers.
They have an amusing custom: at
ter the marriage celebration the whole
procession goes to drive, adorned with
broad red ribbons; even the horses are
abundantly provided with them. That
is sign of the brides virtue. If the
contrary is the case, she has neither
ribbons nor music, not even white
veil, because the pope refuses to bless
the marriage.
The Little Russians are very super
stitious. At midsummer they light
large fire of ferns The young people
jump over the fire. Those who succeed
in not touching it will marry within
the year. If anybody puts it out, it Is
a sign of death. Everybody tells for
tunes with cards, predicts what will
happen In the future. On the eve Of
Saint Andrew somebody places mys-
teriously under the bed a pond and
bridge "a saucer filled with wafer and
a few pieces of wood). Without know
ing 1t one sleeps ION the bridge" Then
one may be sure that the dream of the
night viii come true If one wanted to
act according to the rules one ought TO
spend the night or bridge above
real pond and look at the water; there
you would be able to read your whole
4 future life.
In the country some of the old bar
barian customs are stih in force; the
! konokrades, or horse thieves, are con
demned to be quartered, or to be at
tached by rope to a horses tail and
dragged until death follows.
Influence of Good Books.
When you find child who loves
| good books, the noxious weeds OF
envy, hatred, jealousy and malice are
not so likely to grow in his mind and
choke out the exquisite blossoms OF
love, tenderness. unselfslfness, graft
tude and the desire to do unto others
as he would be done by. The love ol
good books is one foundation for good
character, observes writer in the
Oklahoman. 1t is the exception, moi
the rule, to encounter sordidness, greed
or insensibility in the man or woman
who knows and loves good books. Rob
ert Louis Stevenson once said that 81
long as a man had friend he hat
something to live for. Is it not tru'
so long as one can love a good anC
beautiful book that life never will b.
without hope?
my dear" said Mr.. X as he looked al
his wife's purchases, you remind me
of the Greek slave"
''How so?"
"You were sold at auction. Boston
Evening Transcript.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1919-02-04
Hidden Beauties.

The Hidden beauties Of standard au-
thors break upon the mind by sur
prise. 1t is like discovering the hid
den spring in an old jewel. You take
PUP the book in an idle moment, as you
may have doEe thousand times be-
fore, perhaps wondering as you turn
over the leaves what the world finds
in 1t to admire; when suddenly as you
read your fingers press closely upon
the covers, your frame thrills, and
the passage you have lighted on chains
you like spell, 1t is so wildly true
and beautiful. Millions "Comus'
flashed upon me In this way.-N. P
Willis.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1919-02-04
Easy Money.

"You have grown rich as a stock
promoter"
''Yes," replied the man who wore
a diamond scarf pin.
How did you get into that line of
businessf'
Il realized early In life that it is
human nature for people to count
their chickens before they are
Matched"
"Well?"
"That makes 1t easy to sell them
phony eggs."-Birmingham Age-Her-
aid.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1919-02-04
RIobteous INDIGNATION.

James was delighted with his baby
sister. When Helen was three weeks
old James carried his toys up to the
nursery and his mother saw him hold
ing q bright red ball over the baby,
who was not paying the least atten-
ton. Suddenly he threw the ball on
the floor and angrily exclaimed: II
might have knowed girl wouldn't
'preciate nv piayfings %
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1919-02-04
nninn Nicely

81 hear you have new lady clerk"
"Yep."
"How is she doing in the officer
'Doing very well. Half the clerks
seem to be willing to do her work for
her."-Louisville Courier-Journai.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1919-02-04
It's Effect.

~There is one thing about the air
Of society"
"What Is thatf"
at has tendency to make green
man turn red"
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1919-02-04

Imports of almost 200,000.0O0 gall
Ions year are required to meet
China's demand for kerosene.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1919-02-04

AS bone of contention, the kaiser
is pretty poor picking, even to be 'ir
the SOM"
Norwich bulletin., 1919-04-16
N. F, A. BASEBALL SQUAD HAVE STRENUOUS PRACTICE

Strenuous practice is going on daily at the Academy campus and the work of rounding out a team is progressing rapidly. All appearances now point to a victory over Stanley's team on Sat urday of this week, the opening game of the season
 On Tuesday Coach Mckay gave his crew stiff practice on sliding and stealing bases, and the results are far beyond expectations Although the campus was somewhat muddy, the in field practice was very promising. Ringland at short showed his. skill in the art of scooping up any kind of grounders and also covering a lot of ground in a very short time. Hull did good work on second in covering the bag and forms a good pair with Couni- han as catch. Brassill, the first base wonder, showed the team that he is there waiting for any ball in his vicin- ity Mckay is in doubt as to who will play third. Whitney and Smerchansky, both new recruits, showing that they know the game like a book. Clabby, another unheard of wonder, is covering right field in a creditabe manner, while Mulcahy pulls off some star catches in center Meek and Tanning are fighting hard for left field, both showing good judgment in catching flies.
 Meek, Keenan and McNally are to be the star twirlers and are undergoing severe tryouts every day. McNally although somewhat green, is expected to hold his own in the game on Satur- day, which will probably be one of the best in the season. Stanley intends to get couple of semi-pro men for his team, to be sure Of giving the Acade- l.my good battle.