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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-02-07
OUR SUCCESSFUL LIBRARY

r YARRISBURG'S new Public Ii
- brary, because to all intents an6
L L purposes it is a new one, sc
completely has it changed from
the institution as we remember 1t, has
established it's place in the States
capital. While the new home was be-
ing erected there were people who ex-
pressed doubts whether it would meet
the popular support necessary to such
an enterprise and there were some
who had misgivings until they saw
1000 people stream through the doors
on the opening day.
AS d. Bailey Brandt pointed out last
evening in his short article upon the
functions of public library, it should
appeal to everyone, old and young,
folks Of leisure and those who toll, the
well-read and the person struggling
for the education essential to winning
the battle of life. 1t may be safely
said that in the less than forty days
in which the library has been at the
service of the people of Harrisburg
anu NiCihity 'he'I IL heiS HiS"Suieu w
to these requirements. A circulation
of 10000 books in twenty-five days of
January and over 1900 children reg
istered as desiring to use the privi-
leges placed within their reach by the
benefactions of a public spirited wo-
man demonstrate that the folks of our
community appreciate this newest
public institution.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-02-07
RULES FOR HUSBANDS

F you are an angel you may aspire
Owed one of the members of the
Chicago Bachelor Girls Club. The
girls are not bent on spinsterhood
just because they call themselves
bachelors. Oh, no indeed! Quite the
contrary. They want to be married
All they ask is that the male person
aspiring to wed one Of the members
of the club come up to the following
specifications:
Will you treat your wife as your
political and social equal?
Have you bad habits. such as
drinking or smoking to excess?
VIII you treat your mother-in-
law as you would your own mother?
VIII you start the fire in the
morning and carry out the ashes?
Do you intend to attain more
prominence each year?
Do, you attend church regularly,
and how much do you put in the
Will you promise to kiss your
wife good-by every morning not. as
an act of duty, but as one of the
rarest pleasures of life?
Will you promise to be cheerful
at home and not kick on your
wife'S cooking?
Do. you promise to spend your
eN6HlHS at
Will you promise to obey the Ten
Commandments?
And what do the girls promise in
return? Why how absurd of you to
ask! They expect prospective hus-
bands to take them just as they are,
of course. They make no promises of
looking we'll enough in the morning
to tempt a hurried husband to pause
for a lingering forewell kiss of the
mushey ante-nuptial variety. They do
not pledge themselves to provide a
variety of cooking above the reproach
of an occasional justified kick and they
do not lay claims to that high quality
of female sainthood that would of
necessity be required as meet COM
panion for a man who could measure
up to all their marriage requirements.
AS restraint against the holy state
of matrimony the Chicago Bachelor
Girls Club has the new Pennsylvania
eugenics law be ed off into an OBJ
scure corner and looking like a Nor
mon elder at a Shaker meeting-that
is If the girls live up to the rules.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-02-07
HE FOOLED ME!
BY Wing Dinger.

When old grounding saw his shadder,
Tother day, away 1 went,
Cause thought the rascaPs shadder
Some mean weather surely meant.
Went down South and calmly waited
For the news of weather bad,
But found folks up North were having
Fine Spring weather-all were glad
So I packed my bags up quickly,
To my home at once 1 came,
Thought was foolish spending money
In the South for days the same.
Landed Thursday night and off to
Bed l went and fell asleep
Woke up Friday, through the window
Saw the snow three inches deep.
Then came rain and slushy walking;
Gosh! it was an awful day.
You can bet your life the next time
For six weeks I'll stay away.
Thirteen. twenty three and other
Hoodoos give me no concern,
But this grounding and his shadder
Is no myth, I've come to learn.
Barefaced Junior Yes, I'm trying
to raise a mustache, and I'm wondering
what color it will be when it comes
out
Miss Green - Gray, Isshould say. at
the rate IT. appears to be growing
Yale Record.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-02-07
(WStEKnO KnOWn@peOpIe7

George LeBoutellier, engineer OF
pennsylvania lines at Pittsburgh, has
oeen MADE superintendent at Rich
moni, Ind.
"A. r. Raymer, prominent rail-
roadman, has been elected president
OF the Engineers Society of Western
Pennsylvania.
attorney General John c. Bell
Will give reception to his men
friends at Philadelphia on st. Valen-
tines Day.
Judge j. A. McIlvaine, of Wash
ington, who declined Superior Court
judgeship, has been on the bench since
1885 and Is over 70.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-02-07
the party are for Lewis as the best
man to oppose Stuart in Philadelphia.

the party are for Lewis as the best
man to oppose Stuart in Philadelphia.
The Central Democratic Club last
night lined up behind the local bosses
in style. Local pride came to the front
with thirty men and
the candidates. of
Van Boosts Palmer, Mccormick,
Vance in Royal and Moeslein
Resolution were endorsed, the
Mayor being given a
fine send-off since he
has decided to run with someone to
finance the campaign safely clamped
on the slate ahead of him. The reso-
luton was endorsed in a rip-snorting
speech by Charles B. McConkey, who
was back in his old-time form, and
was very appropriately offered by T.
K. VanDyke. There were some other
patriots who had resolutions, but they
were put on sidings and the old re-
liable VanDyke was sent through with
a white block signal.
According to Washington dis
patch. Secretary of State william
Jennings Bryan is understood to be
very much annoyed
over a statement sent
out from here last Bryan Not
night indicating that to Fight
he would go into Mr.. Ryan
Pennsylvania during
the coming primary
contest and oppose the candidacy of
Michael j. Ryan for the Democratic
nomination for Governor, and espouse
the candidacy of Vance c. Mccormick
for the same nomination.
Mr.. Bryan's friends say he has no
intention of doing anything of the
kind. They point to the fact that
when Mr.. Bryan was first a candidate
for President on the Democratic
ticket to 1896, Mr.. Mccormick openly
opposed his election and contributed
to the campaign funds of his oppo
nents, while City Solicitor Ryan, of
Philadelphia, openly supported him
and contributed to his campaign fund,
not only in that campaign but in
every campaign in which he was a
candidate"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-02-07

say are infinitesimal quantities. The
storeroom in the home is rare thing.
Many families now make separate
purchases for every meal; they send
or telephone to the grocery a dozen
times a day. It costs the grocer al
most as much to sell and deliver each
ten-cent sale as a $500 one.
If the boys and girls in the public
schools could be taught the elemen-
tary facts in regard to marketing, as
well as the Importance Of saving and
depositing in the bank, it would be a
great national benefit.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-02-07
REPUBLICANS STAND FIRM

N ERHAPS the most d1Sconcert1ng
feature of the preliminary
L campaign this year so far as
the Democrats and Progressives
are concerned is the widespread har-
mony which prevails among the Re-
publicans.
While the Democratic party is rent
asunder by factional warfare such as
has not been known for a generation
and while the bosses of the Washing
ton party are striving in every pos
sible way to defeat the purposes of
one another the Republican leaders in
the various districts and sections of
the State are quietly perfecting their
organizations.
All that remains to assure Republi-
can success beyond even the perad-
venture Of doubt is good hard COM
mon sense in the making of the
ticket and the building of a platform
which will meet the views Of the
large Progressive element within the
party.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-02-07
Letters to the Editor
LIGHTS ON FEDERAL SQUARE

To the Editor of The Telegraph:
1t is matter of general regret that
the several clusters of electric lights
which formerly Illuminated Federal
square and vicinity are no longer In
service since the closing of the Fed
eral building. Cannot this be remedied?
1t is decidedly dark and gloomy as
compared with former conditions. The
cost is but comparatively small, and
postmaster Sites should be able to
grant this much wanted illumination.
PRO-BONO-PUBLICO.
February 3, 1914
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-02-07
Capture Pickets

Culpeper Court House, Va, Feb. e
p. m--The Army Of the Potomac
is again back at the winter quarters.
General Fitzpatrick crossed at Gull
peper Ford and secured the country
from Jacobs Ford to near Fredericks-
burg, finding nothing but cavalry
pickets of Hampton's division, nearly
all of whom they captured.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-02-07
DON'T BE NASTY

IN sketch at one of the theaters
of the city one of the leading char
acters repeatedly says to those
about him: Don't be nawsty, don't
be nawsty."
While the remark is made in fun, ii
Is worthy of more than laughter. 1t
is deserving serious thought. For how
much i'll will. how much unhappiness,
how much inefficiency there is in the
world because we sometimes, or better
ofttimes, forget and are "nawsty!'
How often do you, Mr.. Business
Man. bark into the telephone instead
of talking courteously because you
were compelled to drop the thing you
were doing to answer? Do you think
you can bark and not cause i'll will +?
Not even dog can do that, and you
haven't the excuse of the dog.
How often do you, Mr.. Husband,
snap and snarl at your wife and chill
dren when as husband and father you
should have none but words of kind
ness for those who love you? Do you
think you can snap and snarl without
causing unhappiness in the home?
How often, Mr.. Boss. do you humili-
ate an employe by calling him pub
licly when you could just as easily In
private talk over the mistakes that
may be made? Does thfs lead to efii-
cheney? 1t most certainly does NOT.
If, then, you would have the re-
spect, the confidence, the love of those
about you. merit it by refusing to dc
anything that might have in it the
least suggestion OF nastiness
Don't be "nawsty,"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-02-07

have set the people of this community
In factional variance, and of which
am not informed, l shall dispassionately
view certain questions that are of com
munity interest My first will be pub
lie Schools as Social Centers"
Respectfully yours,
RABBI CHARLES j. FREUND.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-02-07
.lnhARalS BURG. FIFTY.
Years. A6O.rO~DAy.

[From the Telegraph, Feb. Z, 1861
Rob Store
A little store in State street was
robbed of several dollars on Satur-
day. A couple of boys were arrested,
one of whom was charged with the
theft The money was found in their
possession. Owing to the respectable
ity of their friends, the boys were dis
charged, the owner of the money de-
clining to prosecute.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-02-07
DSW8 ,DlSpaTcbeS>~
>-Of,The> >CNll>WAR
lFrom the Telegraph, Feb. z, 1856
Rebels Are Strong

Washington, Feb. 7. - Up to 12
o'clock to-day the government have
no intelligence from the Army of the
Potomac. The reports thus far re-
celved are very meagre. 1t is report
ed that the rebels are in considera BILE
force in our front.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-02-07
No Boys Would Take Any

IFrom the st. Paul Dispatch1
Philadelphia has q school in which
pupils are given shower baths as need
ed. The Montessori methods. which in
sist on permitting child to do what
he is interested in, evidently are not in
vogue at that school.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-02-07
Beaten and Robbed

John Murphy, of Middletown. was
knocked down and robbed in Market
street, this city, on Saturday night,
by a party of men who were clothed
in the United States uniform.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-02-07

"The war is over" said Villa when he
heard that President Wilson had lifted
the embargo on arms. Now we shall
be able to fight to successful con-
clusion," said he yesterday by way of
further comment. Take your choice
and stay away from Mexico.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-02-07
|eOlrORlAlsCON0MeMT
Had His Say Anyhow

IFrom the Brooklyn Eagle
A fellow feeling makes us wondrous
Kind. The suffragist United States
Senator, who deliberately preferred to
make his prepared speech rather than
have his suffrage bill passed, will never
be criticised by any normal woman,
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-02-07

m ItE IeleBrapn is III receipt OF
a letter, complaining of high
l. prices in the Harrisburg mar
kets. The writer says among
other things:
When ! was boy mother bought
enough for a family of five every
Saturday and she never took to
market more than dollar; Mother
was an economist and she knew
how to buy. Possibly she was in
part responsible for the small mar
ket bills. although, of course, I
than my father did, yet we don't
seem to live any better, SO far as
our table is concerned, and we save
less money. 1t is a hard matter to
make ends meet. 1 believe we need
more women like my mother, as
well ni,nso as lower 3V 1I, prices, If we are to
and make ends meet. Domestic
science ought to be taught in our
schools. with special reference as
10 how to live well with the small
est possible outlay.
Under present conditions, many
heads Of families like this correspon-
dent are finding it increasingly hard
to make ends meet, while as far as
making them lap a little, that seems
impossible, they say. But that is what
must be done If any progress or any
provision for the future is to be made.
Every man ought to know that if
he has good health but does not get
on in the world and accumulate some-
thing, he alone is to blame. The op-
portunity has been before him, despite
the increased cost Of living.
II 10 tr1,a thot tho ba.+ lo1oon L..
any mans life is a good wife. She
puts hope into the heart Of a man
and inspires him to do his best; she
assists him to save money and sets
the example herself, but she may not
know how to save wisely
Lack of thrift in household buying
is generally considered, as our cor
respondent points out, cause OF the
high cost of living. The old-time
grocer never expected to sell less than
whole ham or shoulder or a side
of bacon, bushel Of cornmeal, peck
to bushel of beans, a peck of dried
apples. A ten-gallon keg of molasses
was a common sale, almost never a
sale of less than a gallon and when
the smaller quantity was purchased
buyers always brought their own jugs
Now people buy ten cents worth
of corn syrup and must have it in
a tin can that costs three and one
half cents to make. In place of
bringing jug and getting gallon
of vinegar for twenty to thirty cents.
they buy the same sort of vinegar in
bottles SO 1t costs them eighty cents
to 81 a gallon. They must have their
ham and bacon cut in certain sort of
slices, regardless of the waste, buy
ers taking only enough for a single
meal say ten to twenty-five cents
worth
Another thing, people now buy the
hard staples of living in what we may
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-02-07

The Marysville Journal has been en-
larged. 1t is now a six-page news
paper, handsomely printed and well
made up. The management promises
new features shortly.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-02-07

"An effort is being made to guard
Mexico City from conspirators," says
a news dispatch. By putting everybody
to Jail we suppose.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-02-07
WILSON HAS NO SLATE!

philadelphia North Americana
"Wilson has no slate in state."-
Headline. Thus cometh a message of
cheer to those whose names are not
written on it.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-02-07

"Womens clothing" says the Phila-
delphia Records funny man, .'is made
to show Off" Wrong; it is made to
show everything.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-02-07

pretty woman is reported to have
shocked Pittsburgh banker by pull
ing $4,000 from her stocking to deposit
And Pittsburgh banker. too.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-02-07

We apologize for everything we said
in defense of Mrs. Hartje. A woman
who has the nerve to wed her sons
chum ought to be able to fight her own
battles
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-02-07

We arise to remark that we shall
poke no fun at the weather man II
that promised cold wave fails to arrive,
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-02-07
living EXPENSES

(" HE Telegraph is in receipt of
a letter, complaining of high
i prices in the Harrisburg mar
kets. The writer says among
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-02-07

T YARRISBURGS new Public Lii
- brary, because to all intents and
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-02-07

Clifford Pinchot, who spent yester-
day here to attend the meeting of the
conservation Association, admires the
River Front. He took a walk alone
1t yesterday and praised the manner
or treating 1t, considering Harrisburg
fortunate in being able to preserve It
from business uses. -
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1914-10-30
DAl4-o l.r,..-U Ia 4..n.n ...An
Thirteenth Annual Convention OF the
Association viii Be Held in Madi-
son, December 1919.

Madison. -Forty-seven counties viii
be represented at the thirteenth an.
nual convention and exposition of the
Wisconsin Agricultural Experiment
association to be he'd in Madison on
December is and 10. Ihe program
will include some Of the nations most
prominent seed growers and special
lists n plant breeding.
AS the samples of grain winning
prizes in this show will be exhibited
at the Panama-Pacifc exposition in
San Francisco next year it is expected
that this winters grain exhibit will
be better than any previously present
ed in Wisconsin.
Eight new branches of the Expert
ment association have been formed
since the last state convention. These
are in Kenosha, Ozaukee, Brown,
Oconto, Ashland, bayfield,, Lincoln and
Douglas counties.
AS the Wisconsin state horticultural
society holds it's annual meeting De-
cember 1917, it will be convenient
for farmers who are members of both
organizations to visit Madison at that
time.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1914-10-30
NJ GREAT DEMAND FOR BOYS
Male Children a Poor Second With
Those Who Would Become
Foster Parents.

"The French are receiving in their
homes refugees from Belgium and
northern France The Germans are
doing the same as regards the refu-
gees from oriental Prussia"
The speaker was a returned tourist.
He went on:
Many French and German house
holds have neither room enough nor
means enough to take in a whole fam
lily. They must confine themselves to
one child Well, they invariably bid
then for little girl. They never want
boy.
Il have seen in my travels several
hundred of these offers to take in
children-and every blessed offer was
for girls. What is the cause of this?
The cause must evidently be that
girls are better behaved, more amiable
and nicer all around than boys
"The war, besides teaching me ge-
ography, has taught me that female
children stand miles higher in popular
esteem than male children. What's
the trouble with us males? We'd bet
ter look to ourselves"
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1914-10-30
NEARLY CRAZY WITH ECZEMA

SS4 Plum ST., Youngstown, Ohio
''Blotches like ringworms started to
come out all over my face and neck.
Later it took the form of white fakes
and when would rub they came off in
little white scales. The eczema so
disdgUred me that | was ashamed
to go out anywhere. 1t itched all the
time and whenever I perspired or got
my face the least bit wet, 1t would
burn until / very nearly went crazy.
The more rubbed or scratched the
more it spread and it made me SO
restless could not sleep at night.
zone day a friend prevailed upon
me to get q sample of Cuticura Soap
and Ointment. They caused the Itch
ing to stop instantly and in very few
days my face and neck began to show
@ marked improvement. ! used three
cakes OF Cuticura Soap and one box
OF Cuticura Ointment and my face
and neck are completely cured"
(Slgned, Newton d. w. Chapman,
Feb. 27, 1914.
Cuticura Soap and Ointment sold
throughout the world. Sample Of each
free, with 32-p. Skin Book. Address post
card "Cuticura. Dept. l., Boston" ADV.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1914-10-30

Compound to me and [ tried it at once
and found much relief. After that /
had no pains at all and could do my
housework and shopping the same
as always. For years / have praised
Lydia f. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound for what it has done for me,
end shall always recommend it as wo-
mans friend. You are at liberty to use
my letter in any way. Mrs, THOMSON,
Gao W. Russell St, Philadelphia, Pa.
Change Of Life is one OF the most
critical periods of woman's existence.
Women everywhere should remember
that there 10 no other remedy known to
carry women so successfully through
this trying period as Lydia K. Pinkham' $
Vegetable Compound.
If you want special advice
write to Lydia Y. Pinkham Med
aciae Go. (cenfidentiaDp Lynn,
Mass. Your letter will be opened
read ANA answered by n woman
aggd held ia strict confidence
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1914-10-30
OFFICIALS MAY USE CAMERA
Within Authority in inspection of
Property, Says Attorney GEN
erai Owens.

MadisOn.-That the board of health
and it's deputy health officers are with
IN their lawful rights and authority in
photographing premises which they
are authorized by law to inspect, and
that such photographs are part Of
the information obtained by the board
upon such inspections and investiga-
tons which the board is, by statute,
in its discretion authorized to diffuse
or publish, is held by Atty.-Gen. Owen
in an opinion to C. A. Harper, state
health officer. 1t is pointed out, how
ever, by the attorney general that
such publication must be for the pub
lie purposes as contemplated by the
law, and, further must not be in any
respect either false or malicious.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1914-10-30
DYNAMITE PESHTlGO HOTEL
TWO Sticks of Explosive Placed Under
Building in Attempt to
Wreck 1t.

Peshtigo.-LiV0s Of twenty people
were endangered when two sticks Of
dynamite were exploded under the
Exchange hotel in an attempt to
wreck the building and get" the pro-
prietor, Henry Delgolf. The man who
tried to blow up the building is being
sought by the police and the sheriff S
office.
Just previous to the explosion,
which blew out all the windows and
doors and did considerable damage, a
man was seen crawling away en- his
hands and knees. In the excitement
he escaped. He was shabbily dressed.
Outside Of this there is no clew to
his identity. 1t is thought to have
been spite work.