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The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1919-02-11
OF ANCIENT EGYPT
Interesting Relics Coming to the
United States.
Expedition Under the Auspices of the
Pennsylvania University Museum
Has Been Highly Successful
In Its Explorations.

Despite handicaps caused by the
war, the Pennsylvania University mu
scum has acquired many relics un-
earthed at Memphis by its Egyptian
expedition. A vessel will be char
tered to transport the relics.
The expedition started on its trip
in March, 1915, and continued eXpior
atoms until last June, when the short
age of labor and the high prices OF
materials due to the war, caused u
cessation in the work.
A representative of the Roumanian
government had obtained the conces
sion of the whole site, but the war III
tervened and the Egyptian expedi-
ton offered the university party the
choice Of any portion. An area neaI
the colossi of Harnesses ii was select
ed, because OF the discoveries made IN
that region by an inspector of an
Equities for lower Egypt. He had re
vealed what was apparently the room
of Pharaohs palace.
Excavations by the party from the
university museum proved the build
ing to be the royal residence of Me
nenptah, who ruled from 1925 &. c. t.
1915 B. @. The explorers found tire,
layers of earth, representing the an
cient location of as many civilizations
A large Roman city had occupied thc
site of the topmost layer, underneath
which were large masses of masonry
belonging to the period estimated t,
have been 1920 b. c., and the loves
layer revealed ruins of the palace o.
Menenptah at a total distance of from
sixteen to eighteen feet below the sur
face level.
The palace, which had been unharm
ed by the natives, apparently had
been a magnificent structure. Lime
stone was the material used for the
columns and Trainings, while the outer
walls were of sun-dried brick. The
eastern wing Of the palace, which was
the first to be eXcayated, contained
magnificently decorated apartments
where the Pharaoh and his wife (or
wives) spent their time.
The section of the palace that
pleased the explorers most was the
throne room. Six columns supported
its roof, the best preserved having a
base of limestone with a horizontal
band of inscription laid In pale green
ish blue faience. The lower part OF
the column had q row of sepals il
relief springing from a broad band OF
gold. Between the tips of the sepals
were large lotus flowers inlaid- in IA
fence.
Panels, showing a procession OF
Nile gods, bearing vases of water to
the Pharaoh, and gilded relief figures
of Menenptah, were prominent fea-
lures of a massive doorway that was
unearthed.
Elaborate colored stucco pavements
| walls and small papyrus columns
red, yellow, and blue being the cocrs
of the principal patterns-formed some
of the striking interior relief features
Of the royal residence.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1919-02-11
Confession of an Aviator.

For myself, there is nowhere and
nobody l would rather be at present
than here and a pilot. No man in his
senses could say he enjoyed the war
but as it must be fought out l would
rather be in aviation than any other
branch. A pleasant life, good food
good sleep and two to four hours q
day in the air. After four hours Gn
two spells) over the lines. constantly
alert and craning to dodge scandal
ously accurate shells and suddenly
appearing Boches, painting in the thin
air at 10000 feet, the boys are,
think, justified calling it day
have noticed that the coolest men are
a good bit let down after a logged
machine fight far up in the rarefied
air. 1t may seem soft to an infantry
man-twenty hours of sleep, eating
and loafing-but in reality the airmen
should be given an easy time outside
of fying.-From the Atlantic.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1919-02-11
PLANNED KINGDOM IN DESERT
Adventurous Youths Had Great
Scheme to Make Fertile Region Of
the Waste Of Sahara.

Governmental authority, co-operat-
Ing with parental authority, has
thwarted romance of youthful adven-
ture at Denver which reads like a
Stevenson or Poe. Two boys, six
teen and fifteen years old, had planned
the establishment of the kingdom of
Sahara. They had studied maps and
devised engineering plans. delved into
finance and perused the military art,
until the fund of their information was
astonishing to those whose duty COM
PEELED them to step across the adven-
turers' path.
The Denver youths were planning
soon to invade the Sahara and set up
their kingdom, over which they were
to rule as joint kings. The natives
were to be organized into a powerful
army of 100000 men. This army was
to dig great artesian wells, water from
which was to form two lakes with an
area of 100000 square miles. The
Senegal and Nile were to be flooded,
shutting the new kingdom safely in
against hostile incursion. Portugal
was to be coerced into ceding Portu-
guese East Africa to the new kingdom |;
In return for which Portugal was to be
helped to take British and French
Guiana and the former German pos
sessions in Africa. Each of the joint
kings had figured out an income of
$14 100000 for himself.
A dream, born Of disordered fancyf
Sure, but
No more Of q dream than that of
the German military party which start
ed out four years ago to drive the Brit
ish lion to his den, to clip the wings
Of Liberty and tie America to their
chariot wheels. Building a powerful
kingdom in desert would be no great
er task than that assumed by the
Germans Of laying civilization by the
heels.
Henceforth, IL anyone proposes to
fly to tho moon or to build a spiral
stairway to the sarth's center, he may
cite the example Of the ruler of once
great people who assumed a task SIM
liar in its elements Of romantic adven-
ture and similarly impossible Of
achievement. A new standard for fool
tsh effort has been set for all time
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1919-02-11
FLED IN DISGUISE
Noted Men Who Escaped captivi-
ty by Subterfuge.
In Hours Of Grave Danger Soldiers Of
Proved Bravery Have Not Hest
tated to Save Lives by lg-
nominious Flight.

Gen. Ians Won Beseler of the Ger
man army is said to have escaped out
OF Poland in disguise as a stowaway
on board a ViStula river steamboat
In the fall of 1914 Won Beseler was
glorified as the conquerer of the city
of Antwerp, the chief stronghold of
Belgium and the chief port of conti-
mental Europe. Germany's conquer
ing heroes of 1914 have been van
pushed and Won Beseler is but one
OF a great company of notable fugl-
tives who have saved their lives by
fleeing in disguise. Judge Jeffries of
English history, whose name is asso-
ciated with the bloody assizes," tried
to hide himself and escape the ven
geance his savage cruelty merlted by
donning the garb of a coal miner
and hiding In tavern at Working, but
he was recognized, captured, impris
oned in the Tower of London, where
he soon died. Prince Charles Edward
Stuart, pretender to the throne of
Great Britain, escaped from Scotland
in petticoats, disguised as Betty
Burke, maid to Flora Macdonald
Louis Philippe, the 'citizen king" of
France, fled to the coast of Normandy
where he posed as Mr. Smith" Brit
ish subject, in order to secure passage
to England on steamboat. Napoleon
III, while a pretender to the throne
of France, was imprisoned in the
fortress of Ham. After several
months of confinement repairs were
begun on the fortress. Napoleon
bribed one of the carpenters to SNUG
gle in workman's garb fOr his dis
guise. He dressed himself in the
coarse overalls and blouse, shouldered
a short plank which he carried on
edge so as to conceal his face, and
walking past his guard he escaped to
Belgium and thence to England.
Porfrio Diaz was twice compelled to
flee from Mexico and seek safety in
the United States. He made one trip
from New Orleans to Vera Cruz dis
guised as stoker on board a steam
ship and was soon leading a new band
OF revolutionists. Empress Eugene,
disguised as servant woman, was
taken out of Paris by Doctor Evans,
an American dentist, in whose house
she had been hidden. Thus she es-
capped the blind fury of the French
mob and gained safe asylum in Eng
land, Jefferson Davis, fallen presi.
dent of the Southern Confederacy, is
said by his enemies to have tried to
escape out of the country and evade
his pursuers disguised in woman's
garb, but he was captured and i'm
prisoned until the passions of some
of the northern frs-eaters had cooled.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1919-02-11
FATHER OF THE PARAGRAPH
George D. Prentice, oIdtfme journal.
LIST, Once Wished to Use
Pistols, as Well.

One hundred and sixteen years ago
on December 10, 1902, there was borr
at Preston, Conn.,, George D. Prentice
who became one of the most noted
newspaper men of his time, the father
OF the editorial paragraph, as the short
terse pointed comments he made on
men and matters were called, and who
narrowly missed an editorial career in
Ohio.
Prentice toured Ohio in 1880, after
he had already made a name for him.
self in eastern journalism, looking for
a location, but passed on into Ken
lucky, where at Lexington he began
work on his Life of Henry Clay
and ultimately became editor Of the
Louisville Journal. On his way through
Ohio he called on William D. Gala
CHER, who had already become well
known as an editor and who was then
publishing his unfortunate venture at
Aenia-"The Backwoodsman."
Gallagher was upstairs working
with the types that summer day in
1880 and helper from below an
nounced his caller. Gallagher stopped
to make himself a little more present
able, whereupon Prentice shouted up
stairs, Never mind inky fingers; I'm
used to them" The two men were In
hearty accord then, but 1t is interest
ing to note that they came to swords
points twenty years later-or rather to
pistol points.
Inc slavery question coming up. in
the early flfties, the two men found
themselves editors of the two princi-
pal newspapers of LouisviIle-Gal-
lagher of the Courier and Prentice of
the Journal, taking opposite sides.
Gallagher was strong for abolition and
Prentice defended slavery. Their ref
erences to each other soon descended
to the level of personal Journalism
Finally Prentice went to Cincinnati
where Gallagher had written much fol
the newspapers, digging up his aboli
ton sentiments for the purpose of re
failing them to proNslavery Louisville
This aroused the lion In Gallagher and
he applied opprobrious terms to Prem
tice.
The next day Colonel Churchill ar
rived at Gallagher's rural home with
challenge to him to fight duel. AT
ter reading the challenge Gallagher
tore 1t into bits and said to Churchill.
Tell Prentice that that is my answer
to his foolish challenge" Prentice
died in Louisville, January %. 1870.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1919-02-11
Was Taking No Chances.

One of Lucy's friends was giving a
little birthday party for the little
boys and girls of the neighborhood,
and of course the children were much
excited about 1t, particularly as it was
customary for each little boy to ask
to take the little girl he was most
proud of. Several days passed and
no one asked Lucy. And then one
afternoon she came home from school
in great glee.
Mother" she said, II have asked
Bobby to go to the party with me-"
Mother was shocked. you asked
Bobby to go with you'll Why, Lucy,
that wasn't very nice thing for you
to do. Bobby might prefer to take
some other little girl"
"Well, you know, mother" Lucy re-
piled, that's just what I was afraid
of"
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1919-02-11
Old Emblem Is White Hart.

The white hart is a very old emblem
Diomedes consecrated to Diana a
white hart which, after a thousand
years, was killed by Agathocles, king
of Sicily. Pliny records that Alexan-
der caught white stag and placed a
collar of gold about its neck; then
this was done by Julius Caesar, and
was handed down from hero to hero,
with the usual changes in story to
prevent anachronism. There was once
a white hart caught in Windsor for
est, one elsewhere in England, one In
France and one in Germany, the last
of which was killed by Charlemagne.
Then after three centuries, Richard
Occur de Lion slew it, the whole story
being inscribed in stone on the walls
Of the cathedral of Lubec.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1919-02-11
Cheerful Blinded Soldiers.

Cheerful news comes along from st.
Dunstan's allotment holders. Here, as
In other directions, the blinded soldiers
are making good. e. Clarke, a poultry
farmer at Edwinstowe, is winner of
the first prize for the best potatoes
and carrots at local show, we read
in the current number of St. Dunstan's
Review, and on another page of this
bright little record of the blinded SOL
diers' work and sport, we read: Zone
allotment holder, who is otherwise oc-
cupied during the day, contends that
he has the advantage over ordinary
sighted people, for he need not hurry
home to put In an hour before dark |;
he can get on with it while they are
in bed I"-London Mail.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1919-02-11
Famous Generals.

Admiral Reyes Of the Dover patrol,
who landed at Ostend not long ago,
was present at the siege of Picking in
1900. He was then lieutenant and
naval A. D. G. to Gen. Sir Alfred Case
lee, commandant of the British force,
and in that capacity took part in the
famous march to the relief of the lega-
tons. The British were the first to
effect an entrance to the Chinese capt.
tai, which they did by the water gate
under the city wall. Besides Admiral
Reyes there were present two naval
officers whose names have become
famous during the war just ended
Admirals Jellicoe and Beatty.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1919-02-11
More p.rtieuI.rs COMING.

They had been married in Novem
Der.
did you see anything that particu
larry struck your fancy when you
were looking round the shops today
sweetheart he asked, on his wife's
return from a round Of Christmas
shopping.
WELL" she replied, II saw some.
thing extremely pretty In looking
glasses"
81 have no doubt you did," he OBJ
served, "h you looked into them"
They were married In November.
A further and more exciting Install
ment of this young couples adven-
lures will appear in our Christmas
number for 1919.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1919-02-11
THE MOUNT HOLLY NEWS
TUE DAY, FEBRUARY IL, 1919
Plain Questions
To Mount Holly
People
Every Mount Holly Reader Will
Admit the Scundness of the Logic.

Admit the Scundness of the Logic.
Would Mount Holly people recon-
mend Doan's Kidney Pills as they do
if the medicine::..were not sreliable?
Would they confirm their statements
after years had elapsed il their exper-
fences did not show the remedy to be
deserving of it2 Statements like the
following must carry conviction to the
mind of every reader.
Frank L. Hates, prop. blacksmith
shop, 20 Washington st., says: 81 use
Doan's Kidney Pills occasionally.
When my kidneys cause me any
trouble, it only takes few doses Of
Doan's to relieve me and l am not
bothered near SO much as was before
started using Doan's. Others in my
family have also been benefited by
them. ! am glad to recommend them
at every opportunity"
(Statement given February 6, 1914
On October 3, 1917 Mr.. Hates said
Il recommended Doan's Kidney Pills
in 1914. Since then. they have always
helped me when i needed them, al.
though it has been some time since
have had any kidney disorder. Doan's
deserve all the credit for my good
health.
Price DOC, at all dealers Don't sim.
ply ask for kidney remedy-ger
Doan's Kidney Pills-the same that Mr.
Hates had. Foster. Milburn Co
A.fgrs., Buffalo, N. Y.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1919-02-11
Mail by AirpIane.

All mails between Europe and the
United States eventually will be car
ried by airplane, according to Lord
Morris, who has championed a move
ment before parliamentary commit
tee for the establishment of port
of call for Atlantic liners on the west
coast of Ireland.
Already, he says, regular daily
mail service by airplane is maintained
between England and France without
interruption by the weather.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1919-02-11
RAISED OWN CORN
How American Boys in France
Got DeIicacy.
Turned From the Trenches to Truck
Farming and Were as Success
full on the Field as
at the Front.

You should have seen the soldiers
raising garden truck for Christmas.
The climate of France was strange to
them, as was the soil, and some Of
the vegetables that please the French
palate, according to Sterling Heilig in
an exchange.
But the American buddies took up
winter trucking with a will.
Nobody ever raised green corn down
there in winter. ''Nor in summer, very
much, either" answered the buddies.
A few natives used to raise 1t to sell
to Americans Of Paris, but they had
never tried to eat it, though they
raised much yellow corn for meal and
fodder. Last summer the doughboys
in certain hospital truck farm dis
tricts resolved to have the real thing.
At Bordeaux, where they were par
ticularly successful, roasting ears were
furnished to the private car of Secre-
tary Baker when he made his trip to
France. And it was from the secre-
tary of wars recommendations. they
say that the great American truck farm
movement in France quit Red Cross
swaddling clothes and became general
lied from fighting front to resting
rear.
In the south of France winter is a
good deal like summer, and they raise
almost anything. Heroes of st. Mi
hiel were betting that they would have
green corn for Christmas-and the
French natives bet against them.
Most of the gardeners were conva-
lescents, wounded at st. Mihiel, and
hungry for the fresh green things they
expected to eat presently. Only those
who nave been deprived of green stuff
so long that they shy at the sight of
a tin can are able to appreciate the
value of these real war gardens. For,
the fighting over, eating goes on, and,
when rutabagas that father used to
feed to the cows cost 40 cents pound,
| the food problem is clearly stated to
every man In the army.
The surgeons say the convalescent
heroes of Chateau Thierry and st. Mi
hiel need the garden work as much as
they need the garden truck. Get the
man out, even for half day, in the
light work of truck farming, and you
get him out of himself-and away from
sitting around hospitals, listening to
wounds being dressed and troubles
talked over. High British and Aus
tralian neurosis authorities agree, abb
solutely, that working the soil will
work more cures than any other treat
ment.
In the army farming in France many
see forerunner of what will happen
when Uncle Sam gives little govern
ment farms to his veterans on their re-
turn.
I'VE find that the American truck
farmer" says worker, latter he has
talked a little with French truckers
and has the lay of the land, turns out
better than the Frenchman-by up-to-
date methods. Side by side, the little
American truck farms in France are
superior to truck farms under French
gardeners In the suburbs of French
cities. 1t is absolutely demonstrated"
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1919-02-11
Winter Snake Story.

J. K. Campbell of VandaIia, Ind.
vonches for this December snake
story:
ION December % my daughter and
started across a piece of timber land
to a neighbours home. Our dog went
into d hole where a tree had blown
over, and was routed by a fve-foot
black snake, which was hanging on
some berry briers. | killed the snake
with a club. The snake had the ap-
pearance of having swallowed rab-
bit but investigation disclosed that
the snake had robbed a hens nest.
and had swallowed a china nest egg.
We missed the china egg last july
indianapolis News.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1919-02-11
Considerable Kicking.

My brother, who was a private at
Camp Hancock, was told to harness a
team of mules and go several miles
out Of camp for some hay for the
horses. He had never had any expert
ence in doing farm work, but he sa-
luted and went about the task. We
knew not how he succeeded, excepting
In his next letter he Informed us that
by night the mules had kicked a per-
fectly good government harness to
leathery ribbons.-Exchange
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1919-02-11
FABLES THAT POINT MORAL
Vienna Journals Amusing Story Of
Imaginary Conversation Taking
Place Between Two Horses.

Even while the world war was rag.
ing horse races were held as usual in
the suburbs of Vienna, and the sport
attracted large crowds, though the bet.
ing was not as brisk and as active as
IN times Of peace. One of the news.
papers of VIENNA publication enti.
tied Peace-often made sarcastic com.
ments on this, and in an issue of re-
cent date, which has reached this coun-
try, 1t contains an amusing article on
what horses would say of the matter
II they could talk. The imaginary con-
versati01 between a mare and a stall
lion. both participants in the races.
follow:
Say, mare, how is 1t you stand for
round-shouldered colored monkey
riding on your neck, digging sharp
steel into your TANKS, at the same time
whipping you viciouslyY
Don't ask such stupid question.
1t simply has to be-"
"Why?"
Because. We must suffer all and
give up all-lungs. heart, muscles,
nerves and even life to battle and win
That's horses privilege"
But why should we battle and
VIM"
First, to win the prize, and, sec
Ond, for the sake of honor"
"But we do not get the prize nor
the honor, either"
mo, but when we win our master
gives us kindly tap and strokes our
name, perhaps"
"Ah. but In the heat of the race.
when your breath is almost gone and
you feel you can run no further and
you are about to drop, what are your
thoughts then?"
"Then | simply say to myself: You
must hold out; you must not give up,
and the whip and the spurs keep me
going"
did you never think of throwing
your rider?
Never. How can you ask such
question? ] am for him with hear
and soul"
"Oh. you old four-Iegged beast. Ii
you there lives human soul. It's dis
gusting. York Tribune.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1919-02-11
Preserving French Treasures.

Lille is no exception to the rule that
every French center Of population has
its museum and every such museum
has in it something of unique interest.
The Palais des Beaux Arts there con-
tanned before the war the well-known
'Tete de Cire," or rather, head of a
girl, in terra Gotta and wax, which ira
dition had ascribed to many artists
but without any assurance as to the
attributions. The wax head was re-
moved from the museum to a place
Of safety before the Teutonic invaders
entered the city early in the war.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1919-02-11
The AirpIane Runabout.

At last there is being produced In
England small airplane, with wings
extending only Is feet, or actually
less than the wing extension of real
bird, the albatross. This, to be sure,
would be large albatross, but cases
have been known of these birds meas
uring II and IS feet from tip to tip.
There is evident advance toward the
day when anybody who can afford the
price will be able to own an airplane,
without the need Of special landing
place for 1t. The one referred to can,
it is claimed, come down In the street
without blocking traffic any more than
would hay wagon on its way to mar
ket.