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The Mount Holly news., 1919-05-06
CAMERA DID EFFECTIVE WORK
FlashIight Photograph Surprised
Owner of Melon Patch Almost as
Much as 1t Did Thief.

One of the Companions subscribers
who was interested in our recent ar
ticle telling how the police had been
able to make arrests through the un-
expected revelations of the camera
tells of an incident in which the cam
era did very efficient detective duty
A farmer who owned a particularly
fine crop of melons was very much
disturbed because someone had been
stealing from his field. For several
evenings he watched but could not
gain any clue to the identity of the
culprit. More nights went by and
more melons disappeared. Finally, in
his evaporation. the farmer contrived
a trap. He selected the largest, most
attractive melon, tied one end of a
string to the stem and attached the
other to a flashlight apparatus and a
the edge of the garden. He set the
camera and fiashlight so that a slight
pull on the melon would fire the flash
light and snap the shutteG
The next morning he found that the
flashlight had been exploded and so
he Immediately developed the plate.
To his astonishment it revealed one of
his much-respected neighbors in the
act of cutting off the melon steml Al
loss to know just how to deal with
this delicate situation, he finally
evolved plan. He made 81 print of
the negative on a postcard and mailed
it to the neighbor in question. Need
less to say, all melon stealing ceased
at once, and the melon patch -four
ished for the rest of the season.
Youths Companion.
The Mount Holly news., 1919-05-06
"BlLLY" SUNDAYS
VICTORY SERMON

A "pocket size sermon" on the Vic
tory Liberty Loan by the Rev. William
A. Sunday, the noted evangelist, was
given by him to the Third Federal
Reserve District just before going
west on a Loan speaking tour.
"Uncle Sam has just cleaned up the
most Infamous, vile, heartless, God
forsaken bunch that ever outraged
womanhOod or trampled with dirty
bloody feet on the heart of weeping
world" Billy Sunday declared
'He has slain Pruss'an m'litarism
and he wants you TO help him pay the
funeral expenses.
eve belong to a nation whose flag
fights to the finish, a nation that is
known as the corncrib of the world
the wheat bin of the hemisphere, the
wardrobe of the nations and the pur-
veyOr of meat to all mankind.
Hundreds of thousands of our boys,
who fought so gloriously on land and
on the sea- when they kissed mother
and sweetheart goodbye, were one
hundred per cent mentally and physi-
cally fit. The horrors and hell of war
have sent them back crippled, MANNED,
handicapped for life.
'If there is heaven for fools the
fellow who haggles over the debt incur
red to silence the guns they faced, or
who refuses TO subscribe for Victory
noie will be there OF The front seat"
The Mount Holly news., 1919-05-06
TIME TO SEEK YOUR TRAIN
Preliminary Windup of Announcer
Should Be Signal for Intending
Traveller to Get Busy.

A train announcer is much miSun-
derstood individual. His is indeed a
much-abused calling-of stations.
But those uncouth, unintelligible, in
articulate mouthings which are his
wont when properly warmed up to his
work are, if you must know, merely an
evidence of your own abysmal ignor-
ance, says Henry H. Craigie in Judge.
What he is really reciting through
his megaphone, and which sounds to
your uneducated ear like a crosS-Sec-
tion of a buzZsaw and an asthmatic
phonograph, is probably poem from
the Sanskrit, or some delicate strophe
from the Syro-C Chaldaic poets. 1t goes
something like this:
"Bipxz-r-r-rzyz-nowre wreddyntrackfour, -
but it is not his fault if you need an in
terpreter to tell you what he is saying
Paraphrasing the immortal words of
contemporary think we may call
it the RRR of NG-"Your program is
Your Timetable" and about as useful
to you as a menu card a la Franchise
is to a deaf mute with an intensive ap-
petite for ham and eggs. For your
timetable is really your key to the
cryptic utterances of the train an
nouncer-and nobody is supposed to un-
derstand either.
Under the hypnotic spell of his
subtle eloquence you do not miss your
train-until it has pulled out, and
sometimes not then. If you are slight
ly deaf it adds to your enjoyment of
the occasion, or you can make a game
of it, as some do, by utilizing an opera
glass in an effort at lip reading.
But If you are wise, at the first
sound of his preliminary windup you
will hunt up that train of yours by
main force-and the devil take the
hindmost. Delays are dangerous.
The Mount Holly news., 1919-05-06
TREE ExUDES MILKY FLUID
Said to Be Highly Desirable as Food
Also Converted Into Substance
Resembling Cheese.

Interesting mention has recently.
been made of othe "cow tree" so
named from the milky fluid it pro-
duces.
For many weeks we had .heard a
great deal of a tree whose juice is
a nourishing milk. Incisions, made in
the trunk of the tree are followed
by a profuse flow of gluey and thick
ish milk, destitute of acridity and ex-
haling a very agreeable balsamic
odor. Though we drank large quanti-
ties of it, both at night before going
to bed, and again early in the morn
ing. we experienced no uncomfortable
effects. The negroes and free peo-
pie who work in the plantations use
it by soaking in it bread made from
maize. When exposed to the air, this
fluid displays on its surface, probably
by the absorption of the atmospheric
oxygen, membranes of highly animal
nature, yellowish and thready, like
those of cheese. The people give the
name of cheese to the curd which thus
separates when brought into contact
with the air. The milk itself, kept
in a small corked bottle, had deposit
ed a small portion of coagulum, and
far from being fetid. continued to ex-
hale balsamic scent"
The Mount Holly news., 1919-05-06

diling, ] must confess, was atrocious.
Isabelle was always an idealist. Five
years ago you occupied the pedestal.
How do matters stand .now?"
'''In the presence of my wife. such re-
marks are hardly in good TASTE" said,
fnwardly boiling.
He druramed the ground with his
foot and hummed a little tune.
by the by. you fulfilled the prom
Use you then gave? Have you become
the great artist?"
"When | married | found something
better in life"
'You mean something easier. You
thought you could rest on your laurels.
How do you suppose | spent the last
five years, l, who had no laurels to
rest on?'
81 understood you had gone no New
Guinea"
did you ever hear the purpose?"
"No; 1t was a queer place to go
to, whatever the reason"
"In every way I had been a fail
ure," he declared impressively. 81
was resolved to turn that failure into
triumph"
"To accomplish which you hurled
yourself in New Guinea swamp"
"Yes, went to the only real teacher,
nature herself. Among the deep
morasses and cane-brakes of a reell-
ing tropical swamp | sought for twelve
weary months, months of dirt priva-
ton and disease. till frem among the
acres of rushes had selected one per.
feet reed.
Look at 1t. Marius-examine IT
blow through it, For it represents
, the five years of life which you have
consumed in Incidence"
Willing 10 humor him, / picked il
un. 1t ned almost to yibrate In
The Mount Holly news., 1919-05-06
RAT PROBLEM LOOMS LARGE
Writer Gives Reasons Why Humanity
Must Take Steps to Exterminate
the Parasite.
Rr Ad Carrier

A strong, united effort should be
made in America now to exterminate
rats and mice.
These pests not only mean a loss or
hundreds of thousands of dollars an
nually, but they carry disease germs,
thus causing sickness and death.
II has been proved that they are the
chief means of perpetuating and trans
uniting bubonic plague.
1t will require vigorous measures to
rid the country of these loathsome ro-
dents. for their numbers are growing
rapidly.
One pair of common brown rats,
breeding uninterruptedly and without
deaths for three years, will be in
creased to. 359, 709.4S2 rats. Inasmuch
as one rat means loss of at least 81
wear in food alone, the serious pro-
portions of this menace become appa-
rent. One rat will consume from 40
10 so pounds of food year. In many
sarts of rural America there are ten
rats for every person and the rat pOpu-
Iation in our cities is quite equal to
the number of humans.
Sooner or later America will have TO
face a serious danger from rats and
mice, as a result of their rapid propa-
CATION, our public Indifference toward
their growing numbers and the ever
increasing depredations caused by
them.
They are parasites without one re-
| deeming characteristic and should be
completely annihilated. In these re-
construction days when thrift and .ef-
.fciency are so necessary to our pa-
tional welfare, let US take up the job
Of Kidding this country of its rats and
! mice with characteristic American
vigor and determination.-Thrift Mag
aZine.
The Mount Holly news., 1919-05-06
Samoan PoIiteness Costly

Conceptions of poEiteness run many
freakish gamuts but in the opinion of
Lieut.. Com. Stanley NJ. Mathes, a visit
or in Honolulu, the palm goes to the
Samoans. When a man rendered his
Samoan servant a pack of cigarettes
from which to extract a. smoke, Com
mander Mathes grinned broadly. you
can't do that with all Samoans," said
he. "Their conception of the proper
thing to dol is to take not one cigarette,
but to take FIVE" Frequently when
Samoan chiefs visit the naval officers
at Pago Pago they. demonstrate how
polite theyfcan be. For instance, when
box of 'cigars is placed on table,
the guest takes as many as he can get
into one handful. When he is about
to depart,he goes to the box and takes
another handful, token of politeness.
And be it said for the Samoan that
when visitor enters a. Samoan home
said, visitor is texpectedi to be lavish IN
helping himself
The Mount Holly news., 1919-05-06
A MOTHERS MEMORIAL
: BY MRS. n. F. WELDON

In the nights dark watch, as search
my soul,
AS gaze at the even ng star
is it true, l breathe, a look beyond
Has my boys soul crossed the bar!
L am wrapped about with Il wonder
love
Inspiration from none knows where
Can stop to grieve? | must carry
on,
Till I meet him over There,
MY heart is cheered! Osher mothers
sons
Must fill my life with ioyi
I'll give a monumental love
For one who is still my boyl
AS the yellow poppies of Flandera
fields
Ger our boys their leaves unfold
May glow of love pour from our
hearts
Thro' rain of American gold.
Our pact withsthe living and with the
dead
Let us make it widely known
Let a promise fulfilled be our answer
true
In this Victory Liberty Loan!
The Mount Holly news., 1919-05-06
told the markets history.

tolu tne HdFkeIS history.
Always he had the telephone at his
elbow. Always he persisted. against
all indications, all seeming certain.
ties that his course was folly.
Strass had succumbed long since to
the strain and had been sent home a
raying thing. But Orm sat in his tiny
office, commanding campaign that
to others seemed that of a madman.
and to himself so simple, so certain,
that 1t was as mere child'S play, a me-
chanical following out of set FORMS
It had begun with the Hunterton
crowd throwing Inter-County in blocks
upon a questioning, uncertain, palpi.
tating market. Naturally the price
fell like a thermometer thrust into
an ice-box.
1t was not until this fall had oc-
Cured and the stock was dropping out
of sight, at the mad moment when it
was being avoided as a pestilential
thing. that Orm's men began quietly,
industriously buying.
Throughout the day they bought.
Orm, in his office, commanded by tele-
phone. The outer office was besieged
by wild-eyed beings who thought the
young broker suddenly gone mad.
Once he threw open his door and
stood before them, his hair wildly dis.
arrayed, his great figure towering ma
jestically, his face suffused, the dark
frown of an angered Odin clouding his
brow. and cursed them for pack of
fools.
A man sat at desk in a room on
the sixth floor of an office building, a
room upon the door of which no sign
appeared, and read a newspaper.
He read hungrily, not because >the
story he was reading was news, but
because 1t was so strikingly akin to a
story that Jimmie Orm told the day be-
fore, the story that Orm had declared
was as plain to him as though he had
read it in the mornings paper. The
thing had come to pass.
The confidence that, in a saner mo-
ment. had struck him as the trust of an
idiot in the maunderings of mailman
was now justified. 1t had all hap
pened. The man laid down the paper
and looked out of the window.
His money, the money that in his
hypnotized state he had conflded to
the hands of mad Jimmie Orm, had
made two millionaires.
1t was a fortnight later when DIR.
Edouard Enz received a night letter
from Chicago. 1t read:
"The girl from Milwaukee and l
were married tonight Our love for
you. Thank heaven this blanked fore
sight is wearing off. Never again."
Enz smiled as he slipped the square
back into its envelope. He stood for a
moment before the open bed of GOALS
holding the telegram in his hand.
ut will be all right" he said to him.
self, turning to the table with it's un-
opened mail.
"The effect will wear off entirely in
about three weeks.
Il fancy it's deuced uncomfortable.
though, while 1t lasts"
The Mount Holly news., 1919-05-06
Mount Holly Lodge Directory

Mount Holly Lodge No. "a. F. AN
Masonic Temple
Meets Mondays on or before full moon
Joseph W. Colkitt, Secretary
Mount Holly Lodge No 84S, B. P. o. Elks
Kelsey & Killie Building
M sets first and third Tuesday in each month
Harry b. Walters Secretary
Mt. holly Lodge No. 737, L. o. o. Moose
Meets every Tuesday at Moose Home u
Walter ii. Mason, Secretary
,cahontas Tribe No. IS, Imp'd o. r. M.
Meets every Monday In Red Mems Hall
John b. Dobbins. G. of K
u. Lodge No. 1, Knights of Pythias
Meets every Friday in Red Mems Hall
Samuel c. Stanton, Of X. and 8.
Marion Circle No. 9, Brotherhood of
America
Neets every Wednesday in Red Mems Hall
John Throckmorton. Jr., Secretary
Mount Holly Camp No. IS, Woodmen of
the World
Meets second and fourth Tuesday in Kelsey
Killie Building
Irving G. Gaskill. Secretary
Bright Star Lodge No IS, Shepherds of
Bethlehem
Meets Mondays in Kelsey q Killie Building
Anna M. Rossell, Scribe
Mt. Holly Court No I, Imp o o Foresters
Meets second and fourth Tuesday Red Mems
Hall
Tiiden Bidweh. Recording Secretary
Mt. Holly Temple No. S, Masonic Tie
Meets every Thursday in Red Mems Hall
Mrs. IA. 1. Pearson, scroll keeper ]
Gen. A. E. Shiras Post No. 26, G. Ar
Meets every Friday In Dills Hall
Theodore Nicely, Adjutant
Ladies' Aid of the G. A.. r.
Meets second and fourth Tuesday in DiIIs Hall
Miss Lorena Bates, Secretary
Washington Council No. 10, ,Sr. o. u. A. Nj.
Meets every Thursday in Odd Fellows hall
John n. Carly Secretary
Santa Maria Council, No. 1l79 X. ofC
Saint Mary's Hall, w. st Washington St
Meets first Sunday of the mont h at D. m
Iuefday after the third Sunday at %. M.
Carlton +. Madden, Secretary
Washington Council No. S, Jr. ~. A. NJ.
Meets every Tuesday in Red Mems Hall
Herbert r. Smith, Secretary
Washington Camp No. n, p. o. $. of A.
Thursdays in Kelsey Klllie Building
Samuel K. Colder Secretary
Mt Holly & Unity Lodge N0l9 .O.O.F.
Meets every Wednesday In Gaskill Building
John b. Herbert Secretary
meets every Wednesday evening in the
Kelsey kille building.
Lena Welde, Secretary
The Mount Holly news., 1919-05-06
Simplifying Labor Problem

They tell of a young woman who
wrote to her fiance in France that
she had succeeded to his job; that she
liked it and was making good, and
she intends to keep 1t even If he does
come back-and what is he going to
do about it? He replied that he was
glad of it; that all he wanted when
he got home was to marry her. and he
would only be too happy to have her
to do the work and let him rest. And
didn't she think she ought to be enti-
tied to raise in salary about July,
for 1t takes more to keep two than one?
The real heroes are not going to be
hard to take care Of after the war
If the women are patriotic and will do
the work.-Howard (Kan) Courant.
The Mount Holly news., 1919-05-06
Wanted Realities This lin.

Dearest" he said to the little wild.
ow, "become my wife and I promise
you shall have every luxury your heart
desires"
Before / consent, want to know
chat you are able, to afford the lux
uries shall want" she replied. "What
is your income?"
would you speak of income at such
a time"
Yes, indeed. My first husband fed
me ON nrOmiSasn
The Mount Holly news., 1919-05-06
Future Of Flying.

.Td sooner fly" was a colloquiai
nhrase of two decades ago that was
often used to express the impossible
The magic carpet of the Arabian
Nights seemed no less fanciful than
the dreams of Langley and the Wright
hrothers. In the light OF those days
the workers on the heavier-tnan-aif
machines were looked upon as the
foolish descendants of Darius Green.
Thev were the same kind Of "cranks
as Jules Verne.
Today billions of dollars are invest
"a In the manufacture Of airplanes.-
ro,,tsv,fis Courier Journal
The Mount Holly news., 1919-05-06
lGreat Deal Like Playing Game With
out Determining Winner-keep
Track of Things.

You wouldn't play game of any
kind without determining who was the
winner when it was finished, would
YOU? Farming without keeping rec
ords is the same thing, except that
YOU are liable to wake up some morn
ing and find that you have lost tho
game when you had thought you were
winning.
Tombstone epitaph., 1919-08-03
A WISE LAW

Congress is be commended the passage of the bill requiring all foreign language newspapers submit III advance of publication complete transaaiioS of tine pro posed issue and making offeSe to print distribute such issue until the translation has been approved.
 If this Jaw Is thoroughly carried o will do mitch prevent the dissemination of prOernan and radical propaganda. which has been of the chief functions of the foreign language papers for many years
 We want i'll this country absolutely free press just as absolutely free speech. but let for get that liberty does not include treason The American people have walked up i'll the last four years the fact that have been all too careless in these matters. We have allowed papers printed in foreign languages to their doctrines completely subversive of American ideals The editors of these papers have preached pro- GeImanism. bOshevism l. w. w. ism and every other treme ism that the fanatics could think up and the great. lawabiding American public haS paid attention to them.
 An improvement the proposed law would be to appoint board of ingsts able to ;c every such paper ill tie original and of whom would have certify Ger oath the postmaster general that the qreS tlon contained nothing subvcrsive of American prAcp les ot the constitution of the Cn,tCdStatcS Ten dozen such cord attend to tlc entire matter and their salaries would be money well spent. Jerome News
Tombstone epitaph., 1919-08-03

The silver stocks are being neglected at time when they should be considered among the keles investment possibilities of the maret. says trade paper.
 We do not hesitate predict that there will be very of the typical hyserca Wall Street furres the silver that has characterized the market i'll years.
 abilities of the silver group has been ignored This be in part because of the big silver producers also per producers and the coppers have been spng owing to congeSed copper market. We beleve that both the and silver stocks will be much the public eye and that of the most exciting spec ulaton nduyed i'll the stock exchange and surb mark will be centered around the silver group.
 Silver is becoming important a money standard gold. Many of the foreign countries strictly on silver basis right The tremendous flow of silver to India the snk of the precious metals has already ed silver Sh0rage that reflected III the high prceS for the white metal.
 The silvers have already moved up" are moving and will continue to move.
 It is old tradition of the that the metals Hast to up and last down They living up to the first part of this tradition The indications are that the upward start has been launched and that the s verS soon going to enjoy the same kind of boom that the oils have been passing through It is substantial value behind these issues not only m silver but in copper and silver production of majority of the silver prOd The coppers going to be rehabtated. of that there Is longer doubt. and when the combined sil and copper producers come to their antci- pate advances ill market prices that will make fat profits for those who farSghted enough accept this opportunity.
 Copper is world necessity we have pointed out before, and while the market has been guted with the red metal owing to the extremely heavy production and the of copper piled by the various governments the surplus is being absorbed and it be long before copper selling again price that will big earnings for the copper producers. Add to this the large profits from silver at its present high and you have potential earners of great interest
 Tn Tombstone mining district is bound to come i'll for it's share of prosperity with the continued high paid for silver and judging from the above trade report 1t will last for years
Tombstone epitaph., 1919-08-03
TOMBSTONE EPITAPH
WHAT'S THE REASON

We wonder why the Associated Press. ''the greatest gathering association in the wOrd failed to send it's wires the story of Senator Mark Smith B speech in the Senate July 2th when the Arizona spoke favor of the League of Nations in the strong denunciaOn of the leagues opponents yet heard the floor of the and severely denounced the ionaries who oppose the League Ts strange that the Associated Press missed story of this character especially when it has been reporting every other speech of tine opinion that the Associated Press non pol- itica nonprofitabe and noncontrolled organization. but it seems something has gone awry.
 Following is the story sent out the wires of the L. P which shows that the A. P either ''scooped to death or either Intentionally suppressed the story:
 WASHINGTON. D. C.. July 25-Senator Mark Smith of Arizona told the senate in speech this af terloon that it would be "a shameful betrayal of civ ilization the greatest crisis in history to refuse to ratiy the leagne of nations treaty. He declared that league of nations opponents trying to frghten the country with ''spectres and goblns for partisan purposes.
 May God have mercy on the who would wlfully place party above the peace. pros perity of his country Senator Smith said. He de- nounced the argument that the league of nations would create Superstate nothing more than that the so-called superstate would be without citizen a subject, with no local habta- tiOn names. geography. navy. no treaSurery. power to make declare 1t. or to make peace to levy taxes"
 The Arizona senator's speech is the strongest de- nunciaOn of the leagues opponents vet heard on the floor of the
Tombstone epitaph., 1919-08-03

The draft of the American army took the age Of greatest strength. Yet disease and other physical de- fleets caused the rejection of 30 per of the examined for the army. Almost all of this weakness due sickness abuse of the health that might have been prevented. In almost all failure to acquire good health habits ill childhood was responsible
 It is evident from this that reconstruction of our health ideas and habits must with reconstruction of the world during peace. America and the Allies still have tremendous task to complete their victory. We must make good opportunities arising from the
 first disclosed by the and continued after peace To do this, the utmost efficiency of health must be built up and maintained. The quality of health Ofthe workers of the future depends health habits taught the children of today. In the ultimate anal the victory depends the gains of the battleelds than it does the quality of the and who shall carry the work of the nation after conflict has ceased
 In Arizona elsewhere throughout the United States. the Modern Health Crusader is being intro dced into the schools and homes teach the children habits of health and hygiene Do you know what this is If not, the Arizona Tuberculosis Association will tell you.