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The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1919-02-25
Field Water Service

The British had the best system of
piped-in water, though the system
along parts Of the Italian front was
admirable. One sanitary officer in
formed me with pardonable pride that
the supply for three army divisions
was piped from small lake a mile
or more within the German lines
This same officer was able to pipe wa
ter after a great battle to the new
ground won-three miles, farther for
werd-within five hours.
English sanitarians devised one of
the most perfect combinations of pump
Ing and purifying machines that could
be imagined Its crew could dip it's
intake pipe into a pond of scum-cov-
cred, pea soup-colored, stagnant wa
ter, start the engine, and out from
the discharge pipe would flow steady
stream of clear, sparkling, pure. we'll
tasting water, at the rate of 1000 gal
Ions an hour. To look at the pond
and at the water pouring into the
drinking tank Is said to have given
anyone positive shock.-Woods
Hutchinson in 1.-The Doctor in War;"
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1919-02-25
HOW KOREANS HONOR DEAD
the Departed One Described by
American Woman Traveller.

A little rOund-faced nun from the
monastery was giving a commemora-
tive service for her dead parents. We
went into the temple about eight
o'clock 1t was almost dark inside.
The one large standing Buddha was
dimly lit by four tapers set in high
IL copper plates piled high with diff
terent kinds of breads and above these
were heaped cakes and fruit between
the artificial flowers. To one side
were the nuns from the nearby nun
merry with shaver heads, and baggy
white trousers and long gray robes ex-
actly like the priests. The faces were
indistinct in the dimness. Hour after
hour we sat cross-legged ON mats. All
around us was the sound of ihtoning
"KwanZean Posal Kwanzean Posal.
Kwanzean Posal, Kwanzean Posal,"
with slow genufiections, till the head
touched the floor, slow risings, then
genufiectiOns, endlessly repeated. The
abbot struck on a wooden gong, faster
and faster came the calls to KwanZean
Posal; the incense from the censor
filled the room. The reiteration of the
liturgy grew almost hypnotizing-the
suddenly when l felt that l could bear
1t no longer, the neophytes carried in
numbers of little tables, one for each
priest, lighted candle on each,
spread out one of the holy books and
retired silently. The candles brought
the faces into sudden relief against
the darkness. At signal the BONES
opened their books; each chose what
ever passage he wished and began in
toning, each voice at a different key
and rhythm and words yet all blend
ing together into a twisted strand of
sound. And over the genufiecting
monks and the funny wrinkled round
faced nuns stood the one dim golden
Buddha with folded hands. At two
o'clock In the morning beneath a
westerning moon the priest, led by the
abbot, filed out and performed what
looked for all the world like a solemn
snake dance In the middle of the court
We were each presented with large
pink lotus, and then all marched to
lower terrace, where in the shadow of
the gateway they read for last time
the names of the dead, and then con-
signed the heaps of flowers to the fire,
that writhed like tortured dragon
splitting out sparks of burning petals
high in the air-Elizaheth 7 CoHtS-
worth. in Asia Magazine.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1919-02-25
Gull Gets Into Ashpit.

Its crying like baby and fighting
like devil" shouted Engineer James
McQuade of the state steam tug Gov
ernor Irwin, lying In the slip between
piers IS and 20. as he ran waving his
arms toward police officers, John NAL
colin and John Maloney. on duty at the
piers. writes San Francisco CORE
spondent.
Get Captain Symon on the phone
tell him something awful Is aboard the
Irwin" said McQuade as he came
alongside the officers, but the officers
thought 1t better to investigate before
communicating with Capt. James Sy-
mon, superintendent of the state tugs.
There's something In the ash re-
ceiver. right under the smokestack of
the Irwin" McQuade said.
The officers hurried back to the tug
with the engineer. Ash-pit doors were
thrown open and there, gasping for
breath. lay seagull that had flown
down the smokestack.
II started working its wings with NV
hands and blowing down its throat
and Maloney famed 1t with his head
gear, and In a few minutes It began to
breathe all right, and tapped Its wings
to be on. They were scorched badly
and II few little wobbly as II made
away toward Yerba Buena island. l
bet that bird will remember this day."
said Malcolm.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1919-02-25
Few Reminders Of Raids.

Studious lovers of London will not
fail to notice how swiftly, true to her
marvellous gift of eternal youth, she is
oblIterating every trace of the air raid
period as If 1t had never been. Some
of the scars made by enemy bombs
still remain, as In the wholesale mar
ket In Covent Garden, but they might
pass as unnoticed as the effects of re-
cent fires which are always to be
found In the great city. Notices of the
air raid shelters are, however, already
hard to find; an odd one may be dis
covered on lamp post in Tottenham
Court road, or at Gresham college
which had not found leisure to tear
down the shabby poster about its use
as an air raid shelter; while in
Southampton row the New Zealand
record Office has not yet demolished its
sandbag revetment. Speaking general
ly, however, all signs of the reign OF
terror by night have vanished like
the baseless fabric of dream, leaving
not wrack behind. "-London Globe.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1919-02-25
CLIP YOUR COUPONS

The Saturday Evening Post
gives the following advice:
1t seems that many holders of
Liberty Bonds are not collecting
the Interest when it falls due. If
1t is a small bond the half-yearlv
interest Is a small sum. Perhaps
IL does not seem to the holder
worth bothering with. PERHAPS he
does not know how to do it.
Every six months an interest
coupon, attached to the bond. falls
Que. 1t is as good as money at
any respectable bank. Cut If off
and hand it in at the bank. Then
put the amount into War Savings
Stamps or into another Liberty
Bond subscription.
We have found bondholders who
failed to clip coupons with the
IDEA that by letting the government
keep the interest money they were
heiping on with the war. but that
Is not the way to do 1t. When in
terest falls due the Treasurer must
mold in readiness a sum sufficient
TO pay 1t all. BY collecting the in
terest and Investing the proceeds
IN stamps you take it off the
Ireasurer's hands and clean up the
books.
rake your Liberty Bond Invest
ment seriously. Clip the coupons
when they fall due.
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You didn't. Gladys" repeated

wire.
you didn't. Gladys" repeated
David.
81 thought I had told you.
shall have to report at once for phys
ical examination. Then come my
passports and then-sailing Won't
it be wonderfulT'
"Yes-oh, yes. 1t will be quite won
derful," said David, mechanically.
The world around him had gone
suddenly into the shadOw-the world
that had seemed so sunny, so well
worth living in. Of late. But-of
course he himself would be going if
the powers that be would have him
and"
You don't seem very glad for me-"
came Gladys voice across the wire,
wistfully.
"Oh, forgive me-of course I'm glad
more glad than can tell you, but"
''But whatY
'Good-by. I'm coming over to your
desk. / want to see you about some
bonds" David said, abruptly. Some
one had come into his office and he
had been forced TO speak quite cas-
ually. r.
Gladys understood.
When David approached her her
! hands were cold. Her cheeks were
prettily pink. Her breath came far
more quickly than she wanted 1t to.
want to buy bond?" SIZE asked
jokingly. Gladys had way of jest
ing when she was playing for time
YES; l want bond, the maturity
of which depends on fate, Gladys"
he said, sitting down across the desk
and trying to compel her to look at
! him. There were no others in the
room at the moment, butt the place
was as public as the whole out-of-
doors.
IL wonder If we have that sort, "
she demurred looking over her card
of instructions.
II want no other sort" David said,
firmly. GLADYS, love you. Do mar
ry mew
Gladys could not speak. She had
lost her power to resist him, and she
! knew not what to say in acquies-
cence.
! won't you. dear? Marry me be-
fore you 60"
| Gladys nodded series of little
mods, and when she finally looked at
him her eyes were full of shiny tears
that with difficulty she kept from turn-
bling foolishly down her cheeks.
Suddenly she brushed them away
She had seen some one coming. "Of
course, l WILL" she said. you knew
1t when you asked. didn't your"
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1919-02-25
ARE BROTHERS IN, TREACHERY
American Indian at His Worst, and
the Hun, Shown to Have Quail
tiles In Common.

The German is not the originator
of the ."Kamerad" ruse, according to
I'D Houston. a farmer living north of
junction City, Kan, who followed all
accounts Of battles in the big war
very closely.
Mr.. Houston, says that the Indian
was an adept at crying 'Kamerad,"
In his own tongue. Of course. long be-
fore the German empire was formed
and cites an experience of his own
to prove II.
Mr.. Houston was a member of
Troop G, Seventh cavalry, the regi-
ment commanded by the gallant Col
George Custer, for eight years. IN
der Captain Edgerly he went to the
scene Of the Pine Ridge troubles. The
troops lined up to disarm a band OF
Indians that had given themselves up.
They included the chief, Big Foot, and
large number of braves. as well as
women and children.
The captives were herded together
and soldiers formed hollow square
around them. Each Indian wore his
blanket draped over his shoulders.
and. with arms folded across the chest
In the customary Indian position.
maintained a stoical silence. II was
known that number Of the Indians
carried guns. but no treachery was
suspected.
Suddenly, apparently without a
given signal, one Indian opened fire
on the surprised troopers. Instantly
all of the other braves followed suit.
and even the squaws and older chill
dren Joined In the attack upon the
soldiers.
Little Indian boys with sawed-off
shOtguns fought until killed and the
battle was a bloody affair. 1t ended
when there were no more Indians, be-
cause the soldiers, angered at the
trickery that had been shown, gave
no quarter and the Indians asked for
none.
The following day the Seventh went
to Drexel Mission, where another bat
tie took place. After the Pine Ridge
trouble had been stamped out, the
regiment returned to it's station at
Fort Riley, where Mr.. Houston con-
tinued In service for q number of
years.
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Business Mans Lunch.

We hear good deal about the fore
sight and planning power of house
wives, but how about the humble office
husband? Take us. for instance. OBJ
serves a writer in the Philadelphia
Evening Ledger. Every Monday we
always scheme out our luncheon menus
for the whole week. This is the way
they look:
Monday-Hot mince pie with vanilla
ice cream on it. Coffee.
Tuesday-Vanilla ice cream with
hot mince pie under it. Coffee.
Coffee with vanilla ice
cream in 1t. Hot mince pie
Thursday-Vanilla ice cream with
coffee around it. Hot mince pie.
Friday-Hot mince pie with coffee
near 1t. Vanilla ice cream.
Saturday-Coffee with hot mince pie
adjoining it. Vanilla ice cream.
Sunduy-Indigsstio
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1919-02-25
TIE MOUNT HOLLY MEMS
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY -, 1919
$4,000
Voices!
And Many Are The Voices Of Mount
Holly People

Fifty thousand voices-What grand
chorus! And that's the number of
American men and women, who are
publicly praising Doan's Kidney Pills
for relief from backache, kidney and
bladder Ills. They say it to friends.
They tell Ia the home papers. Mount
Holly people are in this chorus.
Here's ! Mount Holly case.
T. Harry Bowker. 26 Bispham ST.,
says: "Doan's Kidney Pills have been
an old standby with me for several
years. always take them when / feel
sny kidney disorder coming on and
they do just as advertised. have FREE
quently lecommended Doan's to my
friends. ] used to suffer considerably
from lameness across my back. just
over my kidneys and it kept me from
bending over. My kidneys didn't act
regularly, sometimes too frequently,
then again, the secretions were scanty
and burned. Doan's Kidney Pills have
never failed to relieve that trouble.
For some time now, / have been feel
ing o. X. and haven't needed any
thing for my kidneys at all"
Price 6oc. at all dealers. Don't SIM
ply ask for kidney remedy-get
Doau's Kidney PIlls-the same that Mr..
1ewker had. Foster Milburn Co.
Mfxrs., Buffalo. N. Y.
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why American Publisher. Ar. LIk.s

Why American Publishers Are Liked.
Turn back to the magazines of 20 or
80 years ago and compare them with
what is thought good enough for US.
was looking through such maya
zine recently and found a poem by
Swinburne, a prose romance by VIII
liam Morris, and much else Of q quail
ity you would no more think Of looking
for In q current magazine than for
palm trees In Whitechapel. 1t is diff
ferent In America; In spite Of gross
business instincts, or because of them.
they do turn out magazines which are
good to look at. and very often good to
read; for American editors think moth
ing Of paying a sum for a short story
which, to mention TO London editor,
would make him feel as If something
snapped In his head He wouldn't I'M
derstand. The consequence Is the best
English writer's send their wares first
to the American market, where they
are better displayed and get a better
prtce.-L0ndon Nation.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1919-02-25
Her Liberty
Loaned
g>0
BY HARMONY WELLER


copyright, Mcclure Newspaper syndicate.)
There was more than one reason
why Gladys consented to act on the
woman's committee of the local Lib
erty Loan board. She tried cOnscien-
tiously to make her duty toward her
country the first and compelling rea-
son; deep in her heart she realized,
how ever, that there was rival motive.
And that motive was, by name, David
Stapleton, chairman of the committee
of men.
Gladys Moore was a girl well along
in her twenties. She was quiet and
pretty, with one of those sweet per-
sonallties that attracted old ladies and
very young men. She had never gone
out much in the village after she had
returned home from boarding school.
II seemed as If she had outgrOwn what
few of her old companions remained in
the home town.
And that was quite natural. Four
years away from home in that impor-
tant time of development in girls
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1919-02-25
Art TO Be Recovered.

One of the arts which must be re-
paired after the war is the art of con-
versation. A subcommittee in the min
istry of reconstruction might look into
1t. 1t will be to small purpose that we
have reclaimed thousands of acres,
achieved the citizenship of women.
improved the art of cooking and per-
formed many other unexpected feats,
il the genial reflection of all this. and
indeed the very stimulus to action, is
dried up or muddy. The link between
cookery and conversation is notorious
and not a freakish one. 1t is the
.hef's aim to set US free for ideal
pleasures. We must talk at meals,
but we need not talk about our food.
We have all been doing that too long.
London Times.
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May RexoIutIonIzs shlpbuiIdinn.

Remarkable claims, which may have
far-reaching consequences in the ship
building world If substantiated, are be-
ing made for a new concrete mixture
with which 1t is proposed to build yes
sells that are much lighter than those
now being built, and yet far more
durable. Its ingredients have not been
made known. The assertion is made
that vessels built of the new material
will be one-fifth lighter than those of
wood. and at the same time more dur
able than those of steel. 1t appears
that the discovery can also be made
use of in applying covering for con-
crete ships now under construction,
for the purpose of giving them greater
power to resist impact.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1919-02-25
Naturally They Would.

For the last half-hour the teacher
had been busy telling his pupils about
caverns and cliffs. saying, Waves
when they wash fiercely against rocks
or cliffs in time wear them away and
so form caverns and openings"
When he had finished the lecture he
asked this question of small boy in
the corner who had been very inatten-
tive:
Tommy, what happens when waves
wash fiercely against rocks?''
TomIay looked embarrassed, and al
length answered, triumphantly:
1.-The rocks get very wet SIR
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1919-02-25
WHEN PEACE CAME
Oppressive Silence Followed the
Great Crash.
Hard At First TO Realize That the
Carnage 81 Four Dreadful Years
Had Rnded-Auns Defeated
hut unrepentant.

With Z silence like that which fol-
lows the mighty crash Of great or
gan. the great war came suddenly to
IN end. No longer do the weary sol
disrs at listening posts strain their
ears through long night watches; star
shells hay&ceased to burst and fame
over No Mans land: cannons have
cooled; machine guns utter no sound
the exchange Of all manner Of deadly
missiles has stopped. At last peace.
which for four slow, dreadful years
has seemed afar of like mirage, has
come. The thousand and one activi-
ties OF battle, intense to the last ounce
Of possible human effort, are relaxed.
Ships now cross the ocean In safety
smoke from thousands of ammunition
plants no longer darkens the sky
tired workers return once more TO
their homes: armies are demObilizing
reconstruction Of devastated homes
and farms and factories is contem-
plated; the dreadful military debauch
has consumed itself; the world draws
. great sigh Of exhaustion and relief ;
the conflict Is ended.
In all history no message ever sped
20 gladly nor 20 fast as the few words
hashed through the air, and under
oceans, and over land wires, until
around the whole world and to Its ut
termcst accessible parts the news was
carried What wonder that all clviliza-
ton gave vent to frenzy of Joy al
most berbarie, that men shouted and
women wept; and little children wit
messed an event which threescore
years and ten hence they will relate to
other wide-eyed children. In our Joy
let vs. not forget those millions Of ia
theirs whose voices refused to cheer,
and those mothers and wives and
swssthearts whose eyes were dry. be-
cause their hearts were bowed dotn
with sorrow no victory can ever COM
pensate.
The Huns ceased only when physi-
sally exhausted; when their ammuni-
tion was spent: when the war had
reached their own borders; when they
- longer possessed the ability to MUIR
der the defenseiess. to gas the brave.
Their regret IL that they failed, but
not enc single word Of penitence for
The harm they have done. the sorrow
they have caused. Instead they think
only OF their bellies and demand, not
supplicate. the food they have 80 wan
tonly destroyed for years; they whine
lest the very cars they stole from
France and Belgium be returned to
their rightful owners. They have been
beaten in what was for nearly four
years an unequal struggle, but for any
word which has yet to come out Of
Germany, they are the same unregen-
crate Huns who. casting aside all the
obligations OF q civilized nation,
marched into Belgium In August, 1914.
Chicago Evening Post.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1919-02-25
euiIIotined Hioh Heels

No one could be at his best with
out a minimum of four or five miles
walk day, or some other form Of
open-air exercise, said DR.. TRULY King
lately at the National Health society.
Before women could take reasonable
exercise they would have to give up
absurd high-heeled boots, he added In
the mental hospital to which he was
attached, the first thing done on the
arrival of Il woman patient was to
guillotine her boot heels.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1919-02-25
Believe 1t or Noti

Friends Of 8. r. Lockbridge, former
state senator. and James /. Nelson,
both Of Greencastle. are telling story
regarding the strange actions Of hogs
On their farms last summer. Mr.. Lock-
bridge went to his farm west of Green
castle and on arriving at a field In
which were some fat hogs he saw
the animals jumping into the air. He
Investigated and found them after big,
ysllow-striped yrasshoppers.
The same story Is told Of Mr.. Nelson.
sxcspt that his hogs were SO wild over
de urasshoppers that he had to re-
move them to another deld where the
provsndsr was not so plentiful, In or
Ger to prevent the hogs from running
81 the fat faster than he could put 1t
q By heavy feeding.
! The. grasshoppers were as large as
. mans thumb and were in such guam
uties that the hogs by exerting them
solves could catch enough to make
their efforts worth Indian
Apolis News.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1919-02-25
Paper undercIothinu.

An excellent and durable quality OF
underclothing has been made of a fine
grained paper by Japanese manufac-
turers. After the paper has been cui
to pattern the different parts are
sewn together and hemmed. and the
places where the buttonholes are to
be formed are strengthened with calico
or linen. The paper is very strong and
at the same time very flexible. After
a garment has been worn few hours
1t will interfere with the perspiration
Of the body no more than do garments
made of cotton fabric. The paper is
not sized. nor is it impermeable. After
becoming wet the paper is difficult to
tear. When an endeavor is made to
tear 1t by hand 1t presents almost as
much resistance as the thin skin used
for making gloves.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1919-02-25
The World Does Move.

The war has made many changes In
world conditions. None perhaps is
more picturesque than what has hap
pened In Mesopotamla, the land over
which Nsbuchadnezzar once ruled
This years harvest tells the story.
/ While not busy fighting the Turk
and his Teutonie associates. the Brit
ish found time to dig out a hundred
ancient irrigation bitches and to bring
into cultivation $4,000 acres. The,
have also given to Bagdad electri,
lights paved streets. waterworks, sew
sraee, a IRE department and a polio.
force.
Ths natives must be rubbing thei
|eyes In astonishment and wonder
Modern DsUtherheed.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1919-02-25
Use for War Materials.

The British ministry of reconstruc,
ton. according to the Daily Mail, is
embarking upon scheme of rural de
yelopment by the construction of a
large number of light railways to con
meet the country districts with the
main railways. The cost will be shared
by county authorities and the govern
ment. The lines will be leased to OPP
Grating companies under adequate
guarantees. Enormous quantities of
material used by the British army In
France win be utilized.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1919-02-25
~FIrss Families" Win.

Seven out Of ten first prizes in the
bird puzzle contest, conducted last
spring by the albuquerque Game Pro
tective association. were carried away
by Pueblo and Navajo Indian children.
The contest was open to all schoolgirl.
dren In New Mexico, of which the ma
tive Indians form but a small fraction,
but the superior first-hand knowledge
Of the young redmen made them easy
winners over all other contestants. The
contest consisted Of 20 questions on
native New Mexico birds. arranged to
bring out knowledge of their habits
and an understanding of their value to
agriculture.