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The Mount Holly News.
10L.XXXXI. NO. 13
MOUNT HOLLY. BURLINGTON COUNTY. N. J.. TUESDAY. APRIL I, IDI9
ESTABLISHED 1879
Mount Holly Lodge Directory
Mount Holly Lodge No. 14, F. & A. M
Masonic Temple
Meets Mondays on or before fall moon
Josepb W. Colkltt, Secretary
Mount Holly Lodge No. 848, B. P. O. Elks
Kelsey A KUlle Building
Meats first and third Tuesday In eacb month
Harry L. Wallers, Secretary
Mt. Holly Lodge No. 737, L. O. O. Moose
Meets every Tuesday at Moose Home 00
Walter H. Mason, Secretary
Pocahontas T?ibe No. 18, Imp’d O. K. M.
Meats every Monday In Red Men's Hall
Jobn B. Dobbins, C.of K
N. J. Lodge No. 1, Knights of Pythias
Meats every Friday In Red Men’s Hall
Samuel C. Stanton, K of R. and S.
Marion Circle No. 9, Brotherhood of
America
Meets every Wednesday In Red Men’s Hall
Jobn Throckmorton, Jr., Secretary
Mount Holly Camp No. 78, Woodmen of
the World
Meats second and fourth Tuesday In Kelsev
A Killle Building
Irving 0. Gaskin, Secretary
Bright Star Lodge No. 15, Shepherds of
Bethlehem
Meets Mondays In Kelsey A Killle Building
Anna M. Rossell, Scribe
Mt. HolljfCourt No. 1, Imp 0.0, Foresters
Meets second and fourth Tuesday, Red Men's
Hall
Tllden Bldwell, Recording Secretary
Mt. Holly Temple No. 5, Masonic Tie
Maets every Tbursday In Red Men’s Hall
Mrs. M. I. Pearson, scroll keeper
Gen. A. E. Shiras Post No. 26, G. A. R
Meets every Friday In Dill’s Hall
Theodore Neely, Adjutant
Ladies’ Aid of the G. A. R.
Meets second and fourth Tuesday In Dlll'sHall
Miss Lorena Bates, Secretary
Washington Council No. 10,Sr. O. U. A. M.
Meets every Thursday In Odd Fellows hall
Gasklll building.
John N. Carty Secretary
Bants Maria Council, No. 1179 K. of C
Salat Mary’s Hall, West Washington St.
Meets first Sunday of the month at 2 p. m.
Tuesday after the third Sunday at 8 p. in.
Carlton F. Madden, Secretary
Waablngton Connell No. 5, Jr. O. U. A. M.
Meets every Tuesday In Red Men’s Hall
Herbert R. Smith, Secretary
Washington Camp No. 71, P. O. S. of A.
Thursdays In Kelsey A Killle Building
Samuel K. Holder, Secretary
Mt. Holly A Unity Dodge NO ID I. O. O. F.
Meets every Wednesday In Gasklll Building
Jobn B. Herbert Secretary
Camp M, Patriotic Order or America
meets every Wednesday evening In the
Kelsey A Killle building.
Lena Welde, Secretary
Professional Cards
Or. ATWOOD
DENTIST
25 Main Street, Mount Holly, N. J
Killing! of all kinds. Teeth with or without
platea, crown ar d bridge work. Teeth regu
lated. Plate! repaired. Nitrone oxide gas
administered. Teeth extracted In your own
noma.
Samuel A. Atkinson
Counsellor at Law, Solicitor and
Master in Chancery
No. 108 High St. Mount Holly, N J.
WILLIAM H. HEISLER, Jr.
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW
106 HIGH ST., MOUNT HOLLY, N. J.
Evenings at Pemberton, N. J.
IAMES LOGAN
CIVIL ENGINEER
OFFICE: Second Floor of Hawkins’
Insurance Rooms. Mount Holly
BSLL TELEPHONE
Dr. K. D. Prickltt
Office and Dispensary at
127 Main St., Mount Hotly
All prescriptions can be renewed and
his special preparations obtained
Robert Peacock
Attorney at Law t
117 Main Street 237 High Street
Mt. Holly, N. J. Burlington, N. J.
Both Phones
ROSS W. OUICKSALL, -
Diamonds, Watches, Jewelry.
Violin Strings.
14 MAIN STREET MOUNT HOLLY N.
George W. Vanderveer, M. D.
HOMOEOPATH 1ST,
Cnrden Street, oeer Buttonwood, Mount Holly, N. i
! Until 9 a. M.
1 to 2 p. M.
6 to 8 P. M.
Does Insurance Pay
Howell’s Afcency the Last
10 Months paid losses un
der 37 policies.;
Partial lists:
HA 111 RET D
C. C. Will! Eat.t 6.S0 48.40
O, c. Will! E!t . *24.00 . 900.68
R-H. Gravatt.46.06 187.60
freeholder.. 6.00 4C0 00
Uan’l a. logllng. 5.84 300 00
Ell. N. Tilton. 28.50 75.50
BenJ. H. Deacon, tornado,
2 losses. 40.00 87 50
J. Hume Carter, plate glaea 6.01 40 00
f. R. Howell & Co.,
* Main street, Mount Holly
Future of Flying.
“I’d sooner fly," was a colloqulH1
phrase of two decades ago that was.
often used to express the Impossible
The magic carpet of the Arablai
Nights seemed no less fanciful that,
the dreams of Langley and the Wright
brothers. In the light of those days
the workers on the heavler-than-itii
machines were looked upon ns the
foolish descendants of Darius Green
They were the same kind of "cranks’
as Jules Verne.
Today billions of dollars are Invest
ed In the manufacture of airplanes.—
LontSTlUa Courier-Journal.
JONATHAN H. KELSEY HERBERT S. KILLIE
Counsellor-at-Law Attorney-at-Law
Master it Chancery, Notary Public Commissioner of Deeds
55-57 Main Street, Mouru Holly, N. J., 16 S Main Street, Medford
also Pemberton, N. J. Tuesdays and Thursdays
FIRE PLATE GLASS ACCIDENT
LIFE AUTOMOBILE TORNADO
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BELL PHONE MOUNT HOLLY, N- J.
3SZB.A.1L. ESTATE
Properties Bought and Sold and Managed Rents Collected, Mortgages Negotiated
JOSEPH F. LYNCH
Eyesight Specialist and Optician
17 High Street
Mount Holly
New Jersey
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EVENING
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Start an account with the Union National Bank.
Three per cent, interest paid on savings accounts.
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MOUNT HOLLY, N. J.
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The Kitten and
the Lineman
*
By BARBARA KERR
(Copyright, 1919, by the McClure News
paper Syndicate.)
•Do be still 1” the trouble cleric
called out sharply to those around her
In the office. “I’m trying to get this
message. Some one is crying and I
can’t make It out.” Then to the person
at the other end of the line, “Now,
please repeat your message.”
The clerk listened and her alarm
gave way to an amused expression:
“Wait a moment. The superintendent
Is here. You may speak to him.” The
superintendent took the phone and the
girlish voice, now grown culmer, re
peated: “My kitten has been up In a
big high tree all yesterday and all
night—I just can’t stand It any
longer. Won’t you please send and
get him down? Mother will pay you
whatever you ask. We’re so afraid
he will fall and kill himself.”
“All right—all right, little girl, don’t
you worry any more; we’ll be right
along.” Then turning to the trouble
crew waiting^ for orders, he said:
“Tom, suppose you take one or two
men and go over to the Bradford place
on Bayview avenue and get that girl's
kitten out of the tree and don’t let
them pay for It—understand? We
don’t want to start anything like that.”
Stopped Near Her Seat.
And Tojn togged out In a flneman suit,
took two men and hastened over to the
Bradford place.
The kitten could be seen—-an Im
mense fellow he was, a terrified white
and yellow ball—In the very top of a
huge cottonwood tree, and his mistress
was vainly trying to coax him to come
down. Tom came forward politely and
sympathetically, expecting to find a
little school girl. Instead It was Chris
tie Bradford, the young lady of the
house. Her eyes were red, her beauti
ful brown hair was In a braid down
her back and she had slipped a big
coat over her morning dress. He
looked his astonishment; she smiled
apologetically and exclaimed: "I
haven’t slept all night; the poor thing
cried so. I thought I couldn’t stand
It another minute; I was so afraid i
he’d get so cold that he could not hold
on longer and would fall—poor old
Dominie.”
The ladder was soon In place and
Tom, talking reassuringly to Dominie,
was just ready to pick him up when
the kitten, encouraged by his presence,
turned and walked down the tree by
himself and was snuggled In Christie’s
arms. He was truly a beautiful kitten,
and of course Tom had to stop a mo
ment and talk about pets and assure
Miss Bradford that he could not accept
pay for getting Dominie out of trouble. |
Soon after this Miss Bradford was j
returning on the train to college, and
as she sat glancing through her maga
zines a young man stopped by her seat
and spoke to her. She didn't recognize,
him as he wns not In lineman garb,
and he had to remind her about the
kitten, asking If it had given up ex
ploring big trees.
Miss Bradford politely answered
him, thanking him for his Interest, but
she was not friendly; so he moved on.
She was much surprised that a tele
phone lineman could look so handsome
and so dressed up In a business suit
but she did not want to encourage nny I
intimacy, so she pretended an absorb
ing Interest In her reading when he
was near.
Tom guessed that she did not know
him, but was piqued that she did not i
give him a chance to tell her who he
was. But when they changed cars at
Buffalo she saw that his luggage wns
marked’T. Carruthers. He was the son
of the president of the telephone com
pany.
Of course, on arriving at school she
wrote to her chum and casually re
marked that Mr. T. Carruthers had
gone East on the same train with her, j
and Immediately received a reply laud
ing Tom and wishing that she, the
chum, could have the opportunity to
travel In his company. So Christie was
quite prepared to be much more so
ciable when on entering a crowded
Pullman on her way home for Christ- i
mas holidays she was asked to share
the seat with Mr. Carruthers, who was
returning from New York where he
had been placing some telephone
bonds. She dimpled with pleasure and
held out her hand saying: “It Is good
of you to let me sit with you and I
will share my magazines and bon
bons with you in return.”
An ocean-going voyage speeds up ac
quaintance as does nothing else under
the sun, but a long ride In a Pullman
Is quite next, so before the end of the
journey Tom was asking her to attend
the Christmas hop with him. “Thank
you so much,” Christie replied cordial
ly, “but my big brother Jim is to be
home and I’ve promised to devote the
party to him. He’ll have my program."
“Oh, Jim Is an old friend of mine
and I’ll ask him to waive his rights
“No. no, you musn’t do that 1” de
clared Christie seriously. “Jim and I
are long-time pals. I couldn’t let him
think I’d go back on him, ever. I’ve
bought the kind of dress he likes and
we are planning to have a gay old
time."
Tom was secretly pleased that a girl
like Christie Brndford should put loy
alty to her brother first. “I'll bet they
are great pals,” he thought enviously;
“I’ll have to cultivate old Jim myself."
When he saw Chrjstie, a dream of
delight In a filmy, ruftly dancing frock,
talking animatedly to Jim, who was
proudly filling out her program in a
crowd of persistent youths, he hurried
forward an'1 Joined The throng, to pre
empt r few dances for himself.
“Oh, I say, Jim, don’t leave an old
friend ont—anyway. I’ve been prom
ised-”
Christie was pleased at the way Jim
received him. "Get a move, get n
move. Tommy, boy. But here; you
can’t take all that’s left. Do you think
I’m going to drop out of this 'long
about the middle?” And after much
argument Tom had to be content with
three dances.
After the first dance with Christie he
had no desire to dance with any other
girl, telling her that three dances with
the right one were more to be desired
than a dozen merely to be dancing.
“And,” finished Tom soberly, “I’m
coming tomorrow to call on you and
. Dominie and tell you why—may I? In
the meantime you can ask Jim nhout
me. Will you?”
“Oh, you musn’t talk so seriously at
a Christmas party. I’ll tell Dominie
you’re coming. Of course he might be
much more Interested if he thought
you would bring him a catnip mouse."
| But the next day when Tom called
. up to learn when she would be in he
1 was told that Miss Christie was en
gaged and could see no one. He hung
up the phone, out of sorts and out of
spirits, and getting Into his old line
man togs he determined to spend the
day Inspecting telephone lines.
He was out on a side street where
the snow and sleet had done much
damage and was just going up a pole
when the Bradford car drew up to the
curb in front of a veterinary office.
“Why, hello, Tom 1” called Jim
“Busy? Come over here." Tom was
amazed to see Christie In the back of
the car, In tears—a basket on her lap.
“Oh, Mr. Carruthers, don't think me
a perfect little cry bahy,” she Implored
“This Is the second time you’ve caught
me crying over Dominie. He is dread
fully hurt and we brought him to see
what the doctor could do for him.”
And she handed the basket out to Jim.
»**■!!, i ve got ms catnip mouse ror
him,” said Tom”; “he can have it while
the doctor makes his diagnosis.” And
gently Tom and Jim took the basket in.
But poor Dominie had been shot in the
shoulder by some miscreant and all the
doctor could do was to administer
chloroform.
“Now please don’t cry, sis,” begged
Jim, “Doc will be nice to him and he’ll
be out of his misery.” Tom hastened
to add, “And I’ll get you another kit
ten—but poor old Dominie was a good
soldier.”
Christie smiled appreciatively. “No,
Til not cry any more. It’s the suffer
ing that simply breaks me up, you
know.” She met a pair of eloquent
eyes that seemed to be asking "Well,
can’t you save a little sympathy for
poor Tom?” Indeed, that was what
he asked later.
And Christie confessed that she
couldn’t help loving a man who was so
tender hearted that he could sympa
thize with her over her pet kitten,
adding mischievously, “Even if he was
only a telephone lineman."
cnanemagne sees Norsemen.
The story Is told that while Charle
magne was sitting one day at dinner,
a fleet of long, narrow boats came
swiftly toward the land. “Those must
have come from Brittany.” some one
declared; and another said: “No, they
are surely Jewish merchantmen.” But
Charlemagne had noted the vesse's,
writes Eva March Tappan, In her “Old
World Hero Stories,” that they had
only one sail, that bow and stern were
shaped alike, and were guided and
carved to represent the head or tall
of a dragon, and that a row of shields
was ranged along the gunwale. “Those
bring nothing to sell,” he said. “They
are most cruel foes; they are North
men.” Then there was hurrying and
scurrying to put on armor, snatch up
swords and spears, and hasten down
to the shore to drive away the pi
rates. But the Northmen had heard
of the prowess of Charlemagne, and
as soon as they knew he was there
they rowed away as fast as their boats
could be made to carry them. The
Franks had much to say about these
enemies, but Charlemagne stood silent,
gazing at the sea.
Human Levels.
The rapidity with which a human
mind levels Itself jto the standard
around It gives us the mast pertinent
warning as to the company we keep.
•—Lowell.
Fear to Retouch Master’s Work.
"After the war of 1870,” writes a
correspondent of the Manchester
(England) Guardian, “Rodin was a
competitor among the sculptors who
desired to create the monument cele
brating France’s defense. Naturally,
his proposed design was rejected. To
day, however, the dead Rodin Is rec
ognized as the greatest master of the
century, and the old design has been
discovered. It Is suggested that It
might well be called ‘Verdun.’ The
trouble Is that his model Is not three
feet In height, and although by the
Colas process one can faithfully en
large a small piece of statuary, the
Idea of doing so without Rodin to di
rect the operation and to add the nec
essary retouches before the work is
finally cast does not commend Itself
to the majority of artists. Who will
make these necessary corrections? It
Is a grave responsibility to meddle
with the unfinished creation of a man
like Rodin. Some natural feeling has
been aroused, and although It Is a
pity to neglect a design which so per
fectly expresses the spirit of the he
roic defense, there would seem to be
grave artistic and sentimental objec
tions to the course proposed.”
Automatic Lightship.
The efficient lighting of the water
ways so that they can be safely navi
gated at night is an all-important mat
ter. It is effected by the ordinary sta
tionary lighthouse on shore, and also
by manned lightships and various
kinds of automatic light buoys. The
latest of these latter is an Ingenious
automatic lightship, requiring no at
tention whatever when once set in mo
tion, built by a British firm.
It is a very Ingeniously constructed
vessel and the very latest of its kind.
In its two steel tanks sufficient gas
can be stored to supply the vessel
for several months. Experiments have
shown that the light may be depended
upon to bum continuously for months
at a time without any attention what
ever. The approximate duration of
the light cnn always be predetermined,
and there is no danger whatever of
the light being extinguished either by
wind or spray. The light is visible nt
a distance of eight to twelve miles.
Paris Forts May Be Razed.
The question of the demolition of
the ring of antiquated fortifications
that surround Paris will be brought
before the municipal #>uncil. This
is not as a result of the armistice or
because of the league of notions, which
is expected to put an end to wars for
ever, or because of the fact that with
modern artillery the fortifications
would he useless. Louis Dausset, an
alderman, sponsor for the project, ar
gues that the benefits to be derived are
a closer, easier contact with the
Paris suburbs, elimination of the ne
cessity of entering or leaving Paris
through various gates and the free
ing of,valuable land for building pur
poses.
Fuel That Hungary Needs.
Through the utilization of natural
gas in Hungary and Siebenburgen, dis
covered shortly before the war, it is
hoped that certain Hungarian rowns
and industrial districts may be en
tirely independent of coal. The total
natural gas found in Siebenburgen
only Is estimated at about 216,000,000,
000 cubic meters (1 cubic meter
equaling 35.3 cubic feet).
(Copyright.)
One crime remained for No. 32—
mixed freight, west bound. Short
handed and overloaded (five In the
crew and eighty-three cars), she had
“broken’’ twice, stopped for hot box
four times, and had been forced to
double over every hill from Crews to
Stockton.
Therefore, at Benton she had “laid
out” No. 17, east-bound passenger; at
Jefferson she had held up No. 35, the
fast freight of refrigerated perishables
rushing to Chicago; at Evans she had
delayed passenger No. 15 for half an
hour; at Brunswick she had held back
jassenger No. 24; and last, at Lavern
■♦he had laid out, for almost an hour,
r-e crack Transcontinental Express No.
.1, east bound.
In ten minutes No. 32 would com
plete the calendar by laying out No. 10
also, the twin Transcontinental rush
ing up from behind. The siding at
Stockton (which the freight had been
allowed fifty minutes to reach from
Lavern, ten miles back) was still eight
miles ahead, and forty of the fifty min
utes were gone.
The crew, out thirty-eight hours,
were exhausted, exasperated, humili
ated. They had freighted too long
to mind the mere thirty-eight hours’
exhaustion and exasperation, but tills
time the humiliation was overdone.
Their superiors had humiliated them
personally and pointedly at the larger
towns and by wire at the stops between.
Their equals on the other trains had
humbled them as they slunk Into the
sidings; but what was entirely intol
erable, their inferiors and worse, the
very hobos stealing rides on the train,
lmd mocked them and rubbed it In.
Thirty hobos had boarded the train
at the hill beyond Lavern, overborne
the weak crew, broken into a car of
foodstuffs, and, after eating what they
wanted, had scattered the rest along
the right of way till it had ceased to
amuse them.
The crew had found It best to sulk
very silently in the caboose at the end
of the train till the volley of stones
smashing through thewlndows told that
the tramps had departed. Then, as
one man, the crew of No. 32 sprang for
ward for revenge.
The object was still asleep fn the
“empty” at the middle of the train.
The crew had come upon him some
hours before; but that was before they
had learned the personal advantages
of enforcing the rule to eject tramps,
and before they had laid out the last
two passenger trains and the Trans
continental, and received the tele
graphic comments thereon.
Harring kicked the object to con
sciousness while Kalvert and Bender,
one on each side, picked him up. One
of the others opened wider the big door
of the box car.
“One,” Harring remarked, with an
other kick, as Kalvert and Bender
swung the hobo between them.
“Two,” Harring kicked again. No.
82, In a last spurt to reach the siding
before No. 10 could overtake it, put on
speed and Jumped ahead,' but the men
In the car did not heed It.
“Three 1” The hobo, at the touch of
Harriug’s foot, swung free from the
hands on either side and dove out
through the door In a low parabola. A
howl! and for an Instant a gray gap
appeared In the flying hedge beside the
track.
“He’s hit the road,” muttered Har
ring. “What do you want to hurt a
man for?” He blamed It upon the
others. “Why couldn’t you let him go
Into the bush?”
Kalvert spat upon the floor, but
turned his face away from the lantern.
“We’re hitting It up,” he observed
carelessly. “The damned hobo.”
Bender grunted gruffly.
The hobo drew himself up on his
hands. He felt stunned and deadened
all over, and was conscious more of a
battered dullness than of pain. He had
a numbed understanding that he must
have been quite senseless after he
struck—not for very long, but for a
few moments anyway.
Tet as he dragged himself around
and sat up, he saw that he could scarce
ly have lost consciousness. They had
thrown him off half-way around a
curve, and the red light of the caboose
was still visible at the farther horn of
the crescent.
He gazed at It stupidly and rubbed
his eyes with his swollen knuckles, but
still the red light persisted there, ant
It came to him slowly that the train
must have stopped.
The wagon road the tramp had beei
thrown upon might lead to a town, but
he couldn’t tell how far off It mlgh
be, or In which direction. The train
was there, and now that he was hurt
the hobo thought he might get the crew
to let him ride to the next station; If
not, he might hide himself somehow.
He was wondering only whether he
could catch them In time to ask them
to let him on again; and If they
wouldn’t, he was planning where he
might hide from them.
men ne saw tnat sometmng wa>
the matter with the train. The ear
were not straight on the track, bu
were lying across It In every direction
The roofs had slid down and the sides
bulged out: Big boards and barrels
and boxes were thrown about, and as
far as the tramp could see through the
darkness, the wavy line of cars *lg
aagged era illy over both sides of the
track. Some were rolled over on theli
rides.
But nowhere In the long line was
there a sound or sign of life, although
the little flaring wick In the red lamp
at The rear of the train still burned.
The tramp pulled the lamp from Its
fastening and walked along the wreck
age, until, from under a pile of boards
at his feet, he heard a groan.
The hobo kicked the boards and the
groan sounded again. He leaned over,
and, with a queer, silly feeling at his
weakness, tugged ineffectually at the
planking. His Ungers kept letting go
their hold and he sat back helplessly,
but he knew the man underneath was
conscious now, for the mutterlugs were
audible, though still incoherent.
“Number ten . . . ten . . .
ten . . . ten . . . damn . . .
ten ... ten . . . ten—” the
man underneath was saying as the
hobo tugged over him.
The tramp tore a board free and
the man below shuddered and twisted
his head in the ragged hole.
“Number ten, damn you,” he gasped
in pain from the weight of which his
lungs were relieved.
“Stop ten . . . ten . . . you
damned hobo,” he gasped as the pain
gripped him again, “stop ten—the ex
press train behind us," he explained
nmdly, "stop It . . . stop It . . .
lantern there . . . run . . . run
. . . run 1—”
The hobo understood at last, and
Harring sank back again unconscious.
The tramp was running mechanical
ly, automatically, at the trainman's ■
bidding. From.far away the whistle J
of No. 10 came to him, half startled him
from his automatism, and he raced on :
more consciously. His legs wobbled
queerly as he forced them and he
stumbled between the ties, sometimes
staggering two or three steps back
ward to save his balance before hi
could lunge madly forward again.
The second screech from No. in
echoed past him, and, as he looked
fearfully ahead and did not see th‘
engine, he suddenly recalled that he
was on the curve and spurred on more
desperately, throwing himself forward
now as he stumbled and pressing him
self up again with his free hand when
he fell. It was quite two hundrec
yards to the beginning of the straiglr
stretch which he must reach to signs
the train.
Again No. 10 whistled, but now tin
sound, Instead of coming around tin
crescent ahead, seemed to the tram]
to come through the woods at his side
and, as he glanced aside, it seemed t<
come directly through the opening
where a path ran through the trees
Spontaneously facing about to the di
rection of the shriek, the tramp racei
into the cut-off.
The pound of the train now came tc
him clearly as he ran; but the smootl
dirt of the path spread before him
Yet he lurched over it with high, strain
ed strides, and, still feeling for thi
treacherous ties when they were no
longer there to trip him, he slipped at
first. But his stride soon adapted it
self and he reeled on to beat the train
To beat the train! The exhaust ol
the Transcontinental’s great engine al
ready hissed through the trees about
him, yet J)6,had to beat the train. He
had to beat it, but he could hear it
coming so fast that his little steps
seemed nothing. He could f»et
I>aln of his muscles and the beat of his
feet upon the path, but compared with
the tremendous rush of the train, he
seemed held by a weight
In the opening ahead he saw the
track where it crossed his little path,
and he had to beat the train to that
track! Madly, thinking only to win
the race, and to lighten himself, he
hurled the signal lantern from him
and seemed to gain a little.
The track showed plainly before him,
almost at his feet, so plainly that he
knew the headlight of the engine was
almost over the spot where the path
crossed it To beat the train there—to
beat the train. He didn’t know where
his strength came from or that it came
at all till it stiffened his legs and
steadied him. He was ten feet from
the track, but the train was almost as
near the crossing.
To beat it now—to win at the finish!
The white glare of the headlight smote
his eyes 'but he shut them and threw
himself forward blindly, with his arms
thrown out.
It was the end of the face, and
wildly, madly now, the engine—the big,
pounding engine beaten by the little
man—roared to try to frighten him
away and win after all; but the little
man wouldn’t be frightened or cheated.
With the blind, reckless burst of his
triumph, he gathered himself, hurtled
forward—and beat the train to the
track.
“The crazy, damned hobo,” the en
gineer of No. 10 sputtered to the group
which gathered about the pilot. “Sui
cide ; suicide, that’s what It is. Jumped
right out of the bushes there and
threw himself under the wheels. Heard
me whistle, didn't you? But he was
bound to kill himself.
"Thought he might be crazy and I
gave her sand and reversed her; but
he was under the wheels as soon as
I saw him. Suicide; suicide . . .
love right under the wheels . . .
md I’ll get raked for killing him!
Killing him? Lord!”
A man — Bender — blood-spattered
nd winded, burst tbfOTigh the group
nd clung, panting, to the engineer.
“Thank God y* stopped. Thirty-two’s
all over the track 'round the curve and
. . . what stopped ye? Han over
man? . . . Lord! It's the crazy
hobo we swung off 'bout here. . . .
’ ucky fr you he got on the right o’
sy . . . and fr us, too—the poor,
■ iizy hobo—”
But the engineer of No. 10 was kneel
‘ft and fingering gently the rough
oth of the sleeve of the man lying
nder the pilot.
“Poor, crazy hobo,” he murmured
ory softly, “poor, crazy hobo.”
Chinese Foundling In Luck.
A Chinese baby named Anna MI
chaelson became Anna Lee Chin
Wore, legally adopted daughter of
Chin H. Wore, wealthy proprietor of
e New York restaurant, by order of
Justice Cohalan in the supreme court.
Incidentally the story of how the child
was saved from death In Infancy and
acquired the surname by which she
has been known, was disclosed. Ten
years-ago Patrolman Michael son was
walking his beat In Chinatown when
his attention was attracted by the
piercing wall of an Infant. In an al
ley ash barrel he found the Chinese
child, In no suit of clothing, and blue
with cold. The policeman wrapped
the waif In his overcoat and took her
to the police station, whence she was
later taken to the New York Found
lings’ home. At about the same time
the childless Chin H. Wore, who la
prospering In business, and his white
wife visited the Institution In search
of an Infant for adoption. Their
hearts went out to Anna Michaelson,
and they took the child home—the
first Chinese girl legally adopted In
New York county.
Sewer Swallowed Auto.
During a recent heavy rain a con
siderable area of a well-paved Phlla-'
delphla street suddenly caved In, swal
lowing a heavy touring car which had
just stopped at the curb. The owner
of the car stepped from It only a few
seconds before It dropped Into a hole
30 feet deep. The collapse of a 14
foot brick sewer, flooded beyond its
capacity, was the cause of the failure
Of the pavement. A second heavy
storm Immediately following brought
another rush of water through the
broken drain. Although a guard was
promptly thrown about the opening,
the car, which was lying on Its side In
the crushed sewer, entirely disappear
ed without leaving a trace either In
the sewer or in the creek which re
ceives Its outflow.—Popular Mechanics
Magazine.
May Be Life on Venus.
From what we know of the surface
conditions and climates of the various
members of the solar system, Prof.
Svante Arrhenius concludes that
Venus Is the only planet besides the
earth where life Is possible. Venus
hns a dense, warm atmosphere of high
humidity. With everything dripping
wet, life near the equator should be
luxuriant, though of low order on ac
count of the uniform climate and lack
of need for specialization; but nearer
the poles the climatic diversity is
greater, suggesting a more varied de
velopment. Absence of any at
mosphere makes life on Mercury and
the moon Impossible. Mars, too, must
be uninhabitable with a temperature
averaging about 37 degrees C. below
zero and scarcely rising to freezing
point even at noon on the equator,
and Its water supply Is small.
Yank Forces Made Candy.
Ten candy factories were transfer
red by the Y. M. C. A. to cne United
States expeditionary forces recently.
Thirty others have been taken over by
the quartermaster’s corps recently.
The array will continue to manufac
ture jam, cookies and candies at the 1
i40 factories.
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FOREIGN-BORN LEAD IN LOAN DRIVE
Seciiou of t Group of Foreign-Langua ge Representatives Who Met In Phila
delphia to Boost the Victory Liberty Loan.
Foreign-born citizens of the Third
Federal Reserve District won the dis
tinction of beirfg the first group of the
aew Victory Liberty Loan organiza
tion to start work when they launched
their campaign in Philadelphia on
Tuesday, March 4.
Representatives of nineteen differ
ent nationalities, comprising the sub
committee chairmen of the Foreign
Language Division, attended and made
suggestions for the conduct of the Vic
tory Liberty Loan campaign. In line
with the plans of the general commit
tee, this is to be handled on a more
Intensive scale than any of the four
previous loans. In the absence of
Judge Joseph Buffington, Chairman,
Cassimir A. Sierikiewicz, Executive
Secretary, presided.
An outline of the new organization
was given by A. E. Berry, associate
director of the War Loan Organization
for the Third Federal Reserve Dis
trict.
“In the security ta be offered in the
Victory Liberty Loan,” he said, “the
chief difference from other loans is
that instead of offering bonds that ma
ture in fifteen years, the government
will offer notes which it will agree
to repay in one, two, three, four or
five years.”
To illustrate his point, Mr. Berry
said the securities about to be offered
are more like currency, whicli is pay
able on demand. He also emphasized
that one never dreams of selling a dol
lar at less than its face value.
“Security men ■who know what they
are talking about say there are hardly
any securities on the market that give
a better net return than government
bonds,” he said. “The notes, because
of the new tax conditions under which
they will be sold, will give a better
neit return than anything else.”
He likened the members of the
Foreign Language Division to trustees
for the government in their mission
Of explaining the Victor}' Liberty Loan
to foreign-born peoples.
E. McLain Watters, Chairman of the
Advisory Committee for Pennsylvania
of the WTar Loan Organization, said '
that foreign-bom people of the Third j
Federal Reserve District made envi
able records in the four preceding
Liberty Loan campaigns. He pre
dicted that ithey will do even better la
the Victory Liberty Loan.
“Loan .subscribers are scattered in
some states,” said Mr. Watters, “hut
in Pennsylvania about every third per
son, whether man, woman or child, is
a holder of Liberty Bonds.”
Former Governor Edwin S. Stuart
paid a tribute to the foreign-bora
when he said that the people who.
helped to build America were those
who came as immigrants and became
good American citizens.
“We are called upon now to pay for
what victory is to do for all of us in
the years to come,” be said. “We aVe
to pay our debt not only for ourselves,
but also to make all the peoples of
the earth free to live and worship G04
according to the dictates of their con
sciences.”
In introducing the chairmen of the
various racial sub-committees, Mr.
Sienkiewicz asked all the committee
men to begin at once an active cam
paign against swindlers who are cir-1
dilating among small bond holders ‘
reports that the bonds are worthless. '
“This condition is particularly had t
in the mining regions," said Mr.Slen
kiewicz, “and, of course, the men who .
are growing rich out of it find a fer- f
tile field for their work among the .
foreign-born', chiefly those who can-J
not speak English. Tiiey are buying I
at tremendous discounts not only ]
bonds of the first four loans, but alsoJ
War Savings and Thrift Stamps. Wey
can do a great deal to block this ifg
we will write and urge all our friends!
of foreign birth to write to their rela-|l
fives and friends in other parts of the^
state, advising them that government’
bonds are as good as money in the
bank and warning them against the
swindlers.”
Races represented In the Foreign
Language Division are Albanian, Ar
menian, Chinese, Czecho-Slovak,
French, German, Greek, Hungarian,
Italian, Japanese, Lettish, Lithuanian,
Polish, Roumanian, Russian, Scandi
navian, Serbian, Syrian, Ukrainian.
[HOLD
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Your government asks you very ear
nestly not to sell your Liberty Bonds
unless you have to. To part with your
Liberty Bonds means giving up your
pledge of patriotism and citizenship,
and handing your responsibilties and
privileges over to some one else. Lib
erty Bonds will be worth much more
money presently and it is good busi
ness to hold them.
If you must sell, get the full market
price. Go to a responsible banker
and let him give you Information and
advice. Do not sell to just anyone,
who may not treat you fairly.
The Mule.
To our mind the one breathing thing
In creation that has been the most
cruelly maligned is the mule. No more
hard-working creature walks the
earth ; none' with a more faithful past
record; none now more In demand In
the world’s service. What would we
do In this war without the mule? What
can we do without him after the war
Is over? Still he is despised and kick
ed around worse than though he were
a hound dog. It Is a shame. In the
readjustment of things, let us right
this wrong and, If we have anything to
say to the mule, let us say It* to his
face, which Is wiser than saying it to
his heels.—Los Angeles Times.
A Drawback.
“An automobile has a big advantage
over a horse, as It never gets fatigued."
“Perhaps not, but Its wheels an
always tired.” , . ;
China’s Mineral Wealth.
In the light of the constantly pre
dicted exhaustion of the world’s coal
supply the following note from the
'United States commerce reports Is of
Interest:
‘ For the past 20 years the world
has heard marvelous stories of
Chlna.’s vast wealth of coal, yet China
Imports more than It exports. The
figures for ?917 show 1,000,000 tons ex
ported and 1,400,000 tons Imported,
yet, according to V. K. Ting, director
of the geological survey of China, a
minimum estimate of China’s wealth
In coal Indicates that It Is sufficient to
supply the world’s consumption, at Its
present rate of 1,000,000,000 tons a
year, for a period of 1,000 years, l’rob
ably no other statement made concern
ing China would demonstrate more
forcibly than this the backwardness of
the country In modern Industrial de
velopment. Coni Is known to occur
In every province In China.
Paper From Dead Leaves.
Owing to the scarcity of other ma
terials, paper was made in France
during the war from dead leaves.
The leaves are crushed, then the
powdered portion is carefully separat
ed and the fibrous ribs and veifts
turned Into pulp. These are mnde
ready for use by simply treating with
lye, washing and blenching. For cat
le food purposes the leaf powder may
be mixed with molasses and mnde
Into cake. For fuel, the powder may
be compressed Into briquets, or it may
be converted Into comparatively pure
porous carbon by destructive distilla
tion. . <
Characterlatlc.
A Kansas City street car motormao,
newly married, took his bride out on
his run '.villi him. He drove !-,■ two
blocks, and then she took the con
troller. That’s about the .'istauee
most bridegrooms get before the con
trol is taken away from them, and
then all they do the rest of their lives.
Is to open and close the front door.—*
Kansas City Star.