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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-12-14
A DETERMINED WILL

There is no chance, no destiny, no fate
Can circumvent or hinder, or control
The firm resolve of determined soul.
Gifts count for nothing; will alone is
great.
All things give way before it, soon
or late.
What obstacles can stay the mighty
force
OF the sea-seeking river in its course,
Or cause the ascending orb Of day
to wait?
Each will-born soul will win what it
reserves.
Let the fool prate OF luck! The for
tunate
Is he whose earnest purpose never
swerVes;
Whose slightest action or inaction
serves
The one great aim.
Why even death stands still
And waits an hour sometimes on such
will. -Larcom.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-12-14
MONDAY EVENING, DECEMBER /
PAY FOR GUARDsNIEN

IT is suggested that the National
Guard could be considerably in
creased in efficiency if the men were
paid for their services. There is
good sense in this. The patriotism
that takes a man to the colors as a
volunteer when his country calls is one
thing, to laboriously drill week after
week, giving up evenings that might
be employed in gainful enterprise or
amusement is another.
National Guardsmen would form
part of the first line of defense if the
country be invaded. On their eff
cheney, both as to personal prepared
ness as we'll as equipment and sup
plies, would depend largely our ability
to halt the progress of an enemy until
we could fit for the field the millions
of men who would volunteer. If the
Guard is worth anything its value lies
in ability 10 respond to instant call.
No better way Of taking men into its
ranks could be found than by making
the service a means of increasing
their incomes.
Adjutant General Stewart has done
wonders with the Guard of PennsyNa-'
MIA under the difficulties and restric-
tions which hedge the organization
about, due to niggardly appropriations
and antiquated legislative ideas The
State Armory Boards activities have
been a step in the right direction, but
the nation and the State must Join
forces more effectively in the future
than they have in the past If the
standard of the organization in Penn
sylvania is to be materially raised.
For instance. there should lie about
Harrisburg, within an hours call, at
least one full regiment of infantry. in
Guiding machine gun companies aud
other compliments. This regiment
should be fully up to regular army
regulations in every feature. 1t should
be the flower of the organization, ready
to be swept into the ranks Of the ma
tion's defenders without n minutes de-
lay for preparation. And along the
new Capitol Park extension, with sid
ings leading into them, should. be a
series of armories and supply houses
well stored with arms. ammunition,
camp equipment and everything need
full for an army in the field in shape
to be loaded on the instant.
The United States will never be at
tackled by any nation if we are pre-
pared to resist. The only temptation
to invasion would be the hope of doing
in this country what Germany tried
for and almost accomplished in France
victory at the very start by over
whelming numbers in the face of weak
opposition.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-12-14
CHRIsTMAs FANCIEs

When Christmas bells are swinging
above the fields of snow,
We hear sweet voices ringing from
lands of long ago,
And etched on vacant places
Are half-forgotten faces
OF friends we used to cherish, and
loves we used to know
When Christmas bells are swinging
above the fields of snow.
Uprising from the ocean of the pre-
sent surging near
We see, with strange emotion that is
not free from fear,
That continent Elysian
Long vanished from our vision,
Youths lovely lost Atlantis, so mourn
ed for and so dear,
Uprising from the ocean of the pre-
sent surging near
When gloomy gray Decembers are
reused to Christmas mirth,
The dullest life remembers there once
was joys on earth,
And draws from youths recesses
Some memory it possesses,
And gazing through the lens of time,
eXaggerates its worth,
When gloomy gray December is
reused to Christmas mirth.
When hanging up the holly or mis-
tletoe, | wis
Each heart recalls some folly that lit
the world with bliss.
Not all the seers and sages
With wisdom of-the ages
Can give the mind such pleasure as
memories of that kiss
When hanging up the holly or mis-
teltoe, / wis.
For life was made for loving, and love
alone repays,
AS passing years are proving, for all
of Times sad ways.
There lies a sting in pleasure,
And fame gives shallow measure,
And wealth is but q phantom that
mocks the restless days.
For life was made for loving, and only
loving pays.
When Christmas bells are pelting the
air with silver chimes,
And silences are melting to soft, nelo-
dious rhymes,
Let Love- the worlds beginning,
End fear and hate and singing;
Let Love, the God Eternal, be wor-
shipped in all climes,
When Christmas bells are pelting the
air with silver chimes.
ELLA Wheeler Wilcox, in National
Magazine for December.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-12-14
MICHAEL NCARTY.

FAITHFUL service is bound to win
recognition. No matter how
humble his station in life, he
who puts little more into his
job than is required, who works for the
love of it rather than for the wage,
will in the end reap his reward. We
have in mind at this minute one
Michael McCarty, a watchman for the
Pennsylvania Railroad.
Every child in Swarthmore knows
and loves Michael as man worthy of
respect and regard. For sixteen years
he has stood sentinel at the railroad
crossing. His solicitude for the chill
dren passing to and from school has
meant not a single accident in all these
years. With this in mind the Home
and School Association of that town
determined to express the community's
appreciation. so the members got to-
gether and presented Michael with a
beautiful loving cup.
On one side of the silver cup is an
engraved reproduction of the safety
gates behind which Michael has stood
through wind and rain, sunshine and
storm. Over it are the words Safety
First" On the other side appears this
inscription: "1S9S-19O4. To Michael
McCarty. for faithful service to the
children of Swarthmore, from the
Home School Association"
That is how it happens that McCarty
stands so we'll at headquarters that the
Pennsylvania Railroad Company has
put him on its roll of honor and given
him place in its monthly bulletin as an
ideal employe, with the assurance that
when it comes time to lay down his
flag Michael will be given comfort
able pension to see him through his
old age.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-12-14

with a period within the memory of
living men and deals with pregnant
problems that are still demanding
solution
The publishers have planned this
volume with the belief that there
should, at this time, be interest and
service in tracing the influences which
have brought the German Emperor
and his advisers, and so large a pro-
portion of the German people back of
the Imperial Government, to the state
of mind in which they entered upon
the present struggle for the domina-
ton of Europe and for the political
leadership of the civilized world.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-12-14
BOOKS AND MAGAZINES

The Putnams have in press for inn
mediate publication biographical
and critical study of the Life and
Work of Professor Heinrich Won
Treitchke. by Adolf Hausrath, to-
gether with nine of Treitschke's Es-
says; in which the scholarly author
sets forth the policy that Is to be pur-
$, ed by Germany for securing a domi-
mating influence in Europe and
throughout the world. Treitschke was
close friend of Bismark. and his
list of pupils included the political
and the military leaders of the pre-
sent generations. such. for instance,
as Bernhard. Bernhard. Bern
hardi's book makes constant refer
ence to Treitschke as the final auth
ority and guide for German national
action. Lord Acton said of Treit-
schke that "he was the one writer Of
history who is more brilliant and
more powerful than Droysen; he
writes with the force and lncisiveness
of Mommsen, but he concerns himself
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-12-14

their own flesh and blood. And yet,
when alcohol is poured into the sys-
tenn or those other dissipations indulg-
ed in that go to destroy manhood or
womanhood. a death blow is dealt the
health and happiness of the little ones
of the far-off future.
This is not a new truth 1t is as old
as the race. But have our people
been remembering it? have many not
been forgetting that the iniquity of
the fathers" is visited upon the chill
dren unto the third and fourth gene
ration?"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-12-14
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

The Rev. S. G.. Teagarden. the
chaplain of the State Grange, has held
that office for years.
DR. l.. e. Levy, an authority on
immigration at Philadelphia, says the
war has cut it down very much.
--Drs. II. G. Hartman and e. S.
Snyder are the presidents of Lancaster
councils and both would be willing to
succeed Mayor McClain.
Henry Houck will be one of the
speakers at the Brumbaugh dinner in
Philadelphia Wednesday.
DR.. Hamilton w. Mabie, of New
York, is to be one of the speakers at
Philadelphia lectures this week.
Congressman j. y. Langham OF
Indiana county, says he is glad to get
back to practicing law.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-12-14
Salesman Talk
For Manufacturers

No salesman approaches Two
customers in exactly the same
way.
Rather he guides his argument
to suit individual temperaments
and conditions.
One reason why newspaper ad-
vertising Is so effective is be-
cause of It's adaptahllity.
1t can be expanded or contract
ed to meet local conditions.
1t can meet competition with
the most effective welcome.
1t can take advantage of un.
expected opportunities.
Manufacturers who want TO
know how to use newspapers ara
invited to address the Bilreau of
Advertising, American Newspn-
per Publishers Association.
World Building. New York.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-12-14
SOWING AND REAPING

"HRoUGH careful investigation
and study of the city's schools
4 for defective children, a special
writer for the Telegraph has
come to the conclusion that alcohol
and vice are the two chief causes for
the many tragedies of childhood"
What does this mean to you ?
Father. mother. are you leading such
lives that your children may some day
reap what you are sowing? Young
man, young woman. are you doing the
things which some time will rebound
upon your children in weaknesses and
defects of body and mind?
There is hardly man or a woman
who willingly would do an injury to a
little child, let alone the children of
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-12-14
WHAT'S THE MATTER?

w HATS the matter with Kan
NA/ sas?
w According to figures given
by an investigator for 1.-THE
Outlook" here are few of the things
the matter with Kansas at the end OF
her thirty years prohibition of the
sale of alcoholic liquors:
No insane in eighty-seven of her
105 counties.
No feeble-minded in fiftyfour of
these counties.
No inebriates in ninety-six coun-
ties.
Poorhouses empty in thirty-eight
counties.
Fifty jails empty and sixty-ive
counties without a prisoner in the
State penitentiary.
Only 500 paupers in entire State.
Grand jury not called in some
counties in n decade.
Mortality rate drops from II to
per 1000.
Only per cent of Kansas popu-
lation illiterate.
Here's hoping something soon gets
wrong with the other States.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-12-14

City Council ought to consider seri-
ously the erection of a municipal isola-
ton hospital We force persons hav-
ing smallpox and other contagious dis
eases to accept the treatment provided
by the city. We compel them to va
cate their homes and enter the city's
own institution. 1t is our duty, then,
TO provide for them every comfort and
convenience possible. The structure
near the poorhouse is antiquated and
unnt for hospital uses. We doubt
whether.a court would compel any per-
son who set up his viii against that of
the Board of Health to accept treat
ment there under present conditions.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-12-14

We're not proud. but we would like
to call the attention of some nearby
towns, who are boasting of Christmas
Saving Club receipts amounting to
$4,000 or $4,000. to the fact that the
Telegraph Employees Association
saved almost $4,000 last year. This as
sociation Is run by the employees them
selves, for their own benefit, and the
fact that they were able to lay by
$4,000 In this way. aside from what they
save in other ways. is a tribute to their
thrift and enterprise.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-12-14

III
- to the call of the destitute both
i ! at home and abroad. Our peo-
pie have given generously, but
they have only begun. The approach
ing Christmas season will see our gifts
poured out more lavishly than ever be-
fore.
In the glow of the Christmas spirit,
the anniversary of the birth of Christ,
with its peace on earth, good will to-
ward men," we should hold no brief
for any of the warning nations. Our
thoughts should be with the suffer-
our minds all human prejudice and
realize that all the men of the fight
ing countries are equally our brothers
through Gods creative hand broth
ers in acknowledgment of a common
divinity, brothers in human love, hope
and aspiration. There are vacant
chairs and hungry families in Austria,
Germany and France, as well as In Bel
GUM. We should remember them all,
making our contributions applicable
to the situation that those in charge
of the great work of relief believe is
most in need of them.
And finally, let US think well upon
the fact that we in America are up
standing in the Masters work of
spreading the thought of peace and
good will over all the earth, while the
older nations who should have learned
long ago the lesson we are now trying
to teach, are tearing at each others
throats.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-12-14
1T SHOWED
BY Wing Dinger


don't feel quite so good to-day
CThe reason l well know;
It's all because of yesterdays
Prolific fall of snow.
The ground was scarcely covered Ger
With white, ere both my boys
A sled ride, with me at the rope,
Demanded with much noise.
tugged and pulled and pushed that
sled
Around three good sized blocks,
Ger pavements smooth, and unpaved
streets
Filled with big, Jutting rocks.
And then last night when into rain
The snow changed, wifey said:
Get out and shovel snow"-I did
Til time to go to bed.
I'm strong for all this sentiment
About a Christmas white.
But, gee, l hate to shovel snow
Upon a rainy night.
And il the blamed snow has to come
Why does 1t choose a day
When I'm at home to rest bit
And chase my rest away?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-12-14

tertainments to be held next week.
The Presbyterians will hold theirs on
Wednesday evening, December 23; the
Evangelicals, on Thursday evening.
December "a; the Methodists, on
Christmas evening, and the Lutherans.
who will have a cantata instead of an
entertainments have not decided upoA
q date.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-12-14

The Chamber of Commerce Bulletin
for December ought to be read from
cover to cover by everybody having the
good of Harrisburg at heart 1t is full
of bright readable matter of particular
import to the businessman and is as
optimistic of the city's future as the
most enthusiastic booster could desire.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-12-14
REHEARsING PROGRAM

Sfcciol to The Telegraph
Dauphin, Pa, Dec. 1.-THE Sunday
schols OF the borough are busy prac-
ticing for the different Christmas en-
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-12-14

It's an ill-wind that blows nobody
good. Hundreds of men out of work
rejoiced that yesterdays snowstorm
gave them an opportunity to earn a
days wages.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-12-14
.D0Y KNOW
That Harrisburg Is quite n center
boxes?

There is no work of genius which
no word of genius to which the human
heart and soul have not, sooner or
later, responded. r. Lowell.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-12-14
MGss' AGO NeSoSTfo Tfo-bW

[From the telegraph, Dec. IA, 1891
Ncwspaperman Dead
S. ]. Rea, Harrisburg. correspond
ent to Philadelphia, died here to-day.
Teachers Meet
County teachers institute met at
Middletown.
Town Quiet
Local affairs are very dull. Getting
ready for Christmas is the only feature
Just now.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-12-14

Two men made a bet. One wagered
that while he could buy "Tipperary'
in a music store he could not get "Die
Wacht Am Rhein." They went to two
stores. At the first the clerk, scenting
some fun, gravely declared that all
they had in stock was the Star Span
gled Banner" and, managing to dig
up both of the foreign songs, made
three sales. In the second store they
said they were neutrals and had every
one of the national airs and those
made popular by the war.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-12-14
HELPING THE DESTITUTE

T HARRISBURG is responding nobly
r. to the call of the destitute both
i ! at home and abroad. Our peo-
The Ekalaka eagle. [volume] (Ekalaka, Mont.) 1909-1920, 1914-05-22
announcement

| hereby announce that | am a
candidate for the Progressive-Re-
publican nomination for State
Representative of l'allon county.
Mont.
If nominated and elected | will
favor reasonable propositions
lhat will htlk' to more fully de-
ve'op our county Az state.
| shall support laws that are to
the interest Of the farmers, and
any legislation to better our state
Institutions.
Your support is respectfully
solicited.
n. r. Noben. Carlyle. Mont.
Advertisement
The Ekalaka eagle. [volume] (Ekalaka, Mont.) 1909-1920, 1914-05-22
LOCAL NEWS

For Sale-Pure German millet
seeu. w. p. Minis. adv 3-27 4t
Town property for sale in acre
lots. Inquire of J. p. Hedges.
-adv.
Farm Loans at lowest rates of
interest. See Archie G. Parker
at Grant Il fuqua,s office. adv
Catholic services will he held
at Ekalalla on the following
dates: April 21st. May 21st. June
23rd and July 23rd. J. J, O'Car-
roll, Miles City.
Ladies, take your conbings to
Mrs. Longs milliner store and
get a good switch Of your own
hair for 81. 80. adv 4-24
$500. 600. 90 To loan On Farm
lands; Lowest Rates; Prompt
Service. Money advanced for
proof expenses. The Western
Guaranty Mortgage Company,
Bowman. No. Oak. S. S. Stokes.
President, NJ. II. Derby, Secre.
tarv. adv.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1914-10-14
Work for Science to DO.

II we science teachers wish to avert
humiliating catastrophe, there is but
one thing to do; go to work and de-
Velop an efficient industrial science in
the schools. This is the only thing
tnat will satisfy the present demand
OF the public and convert the schools
OF machineless age into educational
institutions that will turn out pupils
competent to understand and to cope
WIN this age of machines. For ma
chines are one of the products of sci
ehce; and II they have caused misery
anu slavery among workmen and have
,euuced human beings to machines, it
10 because they have been owned and
manipulated by men who did not pos
sess the scientific spirit. Machines
arc pound to master and to control
men VINO try to manage them with
worus or with the ideals of the past
.naohiheless age, Only men with the
iue scientific spirit are able to I'M
aoi'eand the real meaning of machines
aau 10 use their power for the uplift
~ humanity Only men with the
saoleu faith can ever hope to master
10 control them permanently
Frof- c. R. Mann. Ii scien,s.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1914-10-14
GHETTO AT night
BY GEORGE ELMER COBB.

A shot, a cry, a general commotion
an excited group. 1t was among the
most sordid homes of the Italian dis
trict of the great city, and after dark
A week previous he had come into
the section, primarily appointed by a
commons commission to ascertain the
prospects of founding a community
house. In addition to this, a daily
newspaper had engaged him to write
"a series of articles on life in the ghet-
to-like district.
Durand had rented the suite of
rooms over cheap store. He was on
his way home, when suddenly loud
report startled him. A hail of large
shot showered past him He ran to
the spot where he had seen the flash
the mouth of an alley. No one was
visible down it's dim length, but near
the street himself and the crowd
quickly gathered found a sawed-off
shotgun, abandoned by the would-be
assassin or excitement agitator, as
the case might be.
1T Is the Vendetta" was the sur
mise of an aged man.
Against whcm?" it was challenged.
"Ah, that is so-whom, indeed?"
muttered the old man. Then, amid
the babel of many Italian voices dis
GUESSING the sensational episode, Du-
rand quietly drew to the edge of the
crowd.
His arm was touched gently as he
started once more in the direction of
home. He turned to see a man past
middle age on crutches. Beside him
was a girl of about eighteen
Your hand is bleeding" he ad-
vised Durand.
why, so it isl" exclaimed the lat
ter, for the first time noticing where
one of the scattered leadeu missiles
had grazed the back of his fingers.
1T is nothing, for feel no pain" add
ed Durand, carelessly.
ut should be attended to, neverthe-
less,' returned the other seriously. Il
am something of surgeon, Mr.. Du-
rand. My little home is near by"
why, you know me?" observed
Durand wonderingly.
by name and sight-oh, yes" was
answered with friendly smlfe I'm
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1914-10-14
Use and Abuse of Cocoa

Cocoa, the wonder plant o; the
Andes known also as the divine
plant" should not be COMPOUNDED with
the seeds of the palm. Theobroma Ca
Gao, which are cocoa or chocolate
beans. The latest bulletin of the Pan.
American union describes the nlanta.
tons on which the leaves Of tbis
shrub, resembling the blackthorn hush
ofathe United States, are grown to
iced the cocaine factories of Peru and
Bolivia. Whether the chewing "a
the leaves by the natives is harmful
seems stills debatable, for the article
quotes DR.. w. Golden Mortimer who
spent four years investigating cocoa
and its influences, as follows:
AS to the value of cocoa thoro
cannot be the slightest doubt
Inc evils from cocaine have arison
from its pernicious use, In unguana
ed doses. where used hypodermicallr
OF locally for anesthesia, when an av
cesslve dose has often been admits
tered. without estimating the amour
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1914-10-14

Springing to his feet Durand rushed
to the window to see shed structure
in the next yard blown to atoms.
"Dynamite!" he breathed and
dashed down the stairs to the street.
"Leila!" burst unrestrainedly from his
lips as he saw, shrinking to the front
of the building, the professors daugh-
ter.
She was pale as death, her hands
were clasped in pain. Then, just as
he noticed that they were all black
ened and burned, she tainted away in
his arms.
Those beautiful hands, all scared
and scored for his dear sake-how he
caressed them, when she lay, smiling
proudly, fondly, under the care of her
father.
She had followed two suspicious
looking trailers of Durand after he had
left her that evening She had
reached the building just as they had
set lighted bomb in the hallway that
might have blown the house to atoms.
She had rushed at the missile of de-
struction and flung it into the next
lot. The spluttering fuse had rained
a deluge of cruel sparks across her
fair, delicate hands.
What had come OF it all was love.
pure and lasting. What came after
wards was the chime of merry wed