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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-01-28
BATTLE OF THE FLAGS
BY GEO. M. PARDOE
Twelfth Pa. Reserve COrps

Ever since the Civil War, Pennsyl-
vania's flags,
Shot full of holes and torn with she'll
hanging in rags,
Have stood where placed on Capitol
Hill-standing in ranks
Faithfully guarding good old Susque-
hanna's banks.
Thus time passed on. Old soldiers view
ed them there one day,
And talked of Gettysburg before they
went away
That night, as sComrade Russell slept,
he heard crash,
And from a fancied signal gun there
came flash;
He heard the drums beat the long for
gotten long roll"
And "boots and saddle" sounded through
his very soul.
Then forth the flags all marched and
formed in battle line
The cavalry flags on either flank
drums beating time.
The hills of Gettysburg then came
within his view
A cheer went up as the band played
Red. White and Blue"
The battle at McPherson's farm where
Reynolds fell
Was hot and fierce, where flags fought
flags-a very hell.
The stars and bars were driven from
the Devils Den:
The cavalry flags drove Stuart far
away. and then
Came Picketts furious charge of brave
virginia men;
The flags rose up hurrahed, and hurled
them back again;
The battery flags in action went with
such a roar
That Comrade Russell fell from bed
upon the floor.
The battle ended. but not Comrade
RussePs fright
AS he lay sleeping on that dreadful
July night.
He sought the flag room at an early
hour next day,
There stood the flags. the brave old
flags as placed away.
Twas but a dream" he said and as
he turned to go
He seemed to hear voice which said
How can we know?"
These flags have souls, old soldiers
think, the same as men
Else why risk their lives to bring them
home again?
+Note: Comrade Russell is the mes
senger of the flag room
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-01-28

A SIDE from the fact that two
~ Harrisburgers had a large part
n in setting The Star Spangled
Banner" to music, PENNSYLVANIA
at large. from the very nature of
things, ought to take a deep interest
in the plans of Baltimore to celebrate
during next September the victories
of the American forces that were CO.
incident with the composition of Keys
famous ballad.
pennsylvania had a prominent part
in the War of 1912. When the States
of Massachusetts, Rhode Island and
Connecticut came out in opposition to
the war, the Legislature of Pennsyl-
vania rebuked the action of the three
New England governors and resolved
that THE Declaration of War was the
result of solemn deliberation. sound
wisdom and imperious necessity"
Moreover, Pennsylvania supplied
troops the following years.
When the British burned Washing
ton in 1914 and attacked Baltimore on
the route of their campaign toward
the North, troops from Southern
Pennsylvania were hurried to Balti-
more and they took a valiant part in
the victories that were won there, the
Battle of North Point and the de-
fense of Fort McHenry, events which
turned the tide of battle and led to the
Treaty of Ghent and n hundred yaors
of peace.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-01-28
The State College Is
to Be Much Enlarged

Over $500 students, all but 225
residents of Pennsylvania, were re-
ported as attending State College in
the annual report of President E. e.
Sparks, submitted to the board of
trustees last evening. The attendance
he reported, has doubled in four years
and with systematic aid from the
State, it's work can be extended and
a college developed that will take
front rank. DR.. Sparks said that he
did not favor the university idea.
At the meeting last night nineteen
bidders submitted figures for the con-
struction of the proposed liberal arts
building, which will cost 5000 but
no contract was awarded. Plans for
the $4,000 mining building and the
$4,000 chemistry building we're ap-
proved.
The election results as follows:
President Ex-Governor James A.
Beaver, Bellefonte; vice-president. Fl.
w. Mitchell, Pittsburgh; secretary, DR..
Edwin e. Sparks, State College, and
treasurer, John |. Thompson, State
College; executive committee, E. S.
Bayard, Pittsburgh: James A. Beaver.
j. e. Quigley, Pittsburgh: M. w. Low
ry. Scranton; Fl. w. Mitchell Pitts
burgh; Vance G. Mccormick, Harris
burg, and Fl. V. White. Bloomsbury.
The following donations for scholar
ships were announced: G. f. Barclay.
Sinnemahoning. $4,000; Federation of
Women's Club of Pennsylvania.
$4,000; Mrs. Thomas Rutherford
Hayes. Bellefonte, $4,000; Daughters
of the American Revolution of Penn
sylvania, $1,000.
Governor Tener was invited to de-
liver the commencement address next
June and it was decided that at the
annual delegate elections for trustees
no proxies should hereafter be al
lowed.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-01-28
'PO' lrICAE,SlOel-lGhTS

Wonder what the Democratic pro-
cedure would have been with Repub-
lican officials If the Democrats had
happened to control City Council
Firing Fritchey and Moeslein and
decapitating Republicans in federal
service are different things in the eyes
of the Market Square folks.
REORGANIZATION Democrats are not
cheering very much over the stating of
Vollmer and Hoffman.
State Chairman Morris has not
been heard from in the form of
break for several days.
-Pottsville's city troubles come up
in court tomorrow.
Just suppose the reorganization
Democrats had captured that Phila-
delphia municipal court The multi,
plication of jobs would have kept
adding machines busy.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-01-28
WEDNESDAY EVENING, JAN. 2s.
THE No-IICENsE LEAGUE

~ AUPH1N county has at last
Joined the ranks of communi-
- ties in which serious efforts are
being made to prevent the sale
Of fntoxicants. With the organiza-
don Of the Dauphin County No-Li-
cense League yesterday the fight was
begun. It will be continued, say those
back OF the movement-and they en-
brace ministers, lawyers, professional
men generally, women of the w. C.
T. U. and laboring men-untiI the
last saloon door in the county shall
have been closed.
The No-License League has under
taken a work that will require cour-
age, persistence and executive ability
of no mean order. That other leagues
of the kind have been successful has
been due to the predominance of
these qualities in their organizations,
together with an aroused public SEN
timent in favor of prohibition.
That the public in general and en-
ployers of men in particular are
thinking deeply on the temperance
problem is evident from the wide
spread anti-liquor movement that has
sprung up over the country. The
last Legislature would have needed
very little encouragement to have
passed a local option bill and it will
only be a short time before the States
will be called upon to cast their votes
%o
Big corporations like the Pennsyl-
vania railroad and the Hershey
Chocolate Company, in which the
highest state of individual efficiency
is required, have absolutely forbid
den their employees to drink, under
pain Of instant dismissal. More and
moro the economical side of the
drinking habit Is being emphasized.
So long as drinking was regarded
only from it's moral standpoint, COM
paratively little public attention was
paid to 1t, but since 1t has been found
to figure largely in the dollars and
Gents OF the earnings of industrial es-
Establishments hard-headed business
men have come to the conclusion
Ehat they have very material inter
est in the restriction of It's sale.
ePocket conscience" somebody has
Nery aptly termed this interest of
Nusiness I'm temperance, but however
n be termed it has come to be a. very
potent and growing influence in the
no-lirense movement and 1t will be
ono Of the most powerful weapons
the Dauphin County League will be
able to bring to its command.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-01-28
THE DoUBLE-FACED RECORD
BY Wing Dinger.

By Wing Dinger.
There's talking machine, Democratic,
That's been playing a record Of late.
And the song that 1t sings to the voters
Is entitled There isn't a slate"
Its words are most cleverly written,
To convey the impression to all,
That non-partisan doctrines must gov
And forever "Bossism" must fall
But it's lately cropped out that this
record
Is one of the double-faced style,
And some one unconsciously changed 1t.
Which the feelings of many did rile.
For when all of the workers assembled
To hear the sweet song once again,
There burst on their ears as they
listened,
The strains of a brand new refrain,
Which ran much like this: We've de-
On two for the revenue jobs,
And Hoffman and Vollmer will get
In spite of the kicks of the slobs"
The pessismist Fletcherizes his qui-
Record.
She - must leave you here. I'm
going to have tooth extracted.
He-Oh, | think I'll have one taken
out, too.-Fliegende Blatter.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-01-28

~AP1TAL is very much abused
word. Say capital" and we are
~ apt to conJure up visions of a
Money Trust or the lifetime
accumulations of Standard Oil mag
nate. But for YOU, Mr.. Wage Garner,
capital is no such thing. 1t is your
savings from your daily and your
weekly wage.
A Pennsylvania girl has won the
prize that the American Society for
Thrift recently offered for the best
definition of Thrift. Thrift" she
wrote, 'is management of your af
fairs in such a manner that the value
of your possessions is constantly being
increased"
The girl has come pretty close to
hitting the nail on the head, and in
simple language she has told the Sc
cret of how to create personal capital.
This would be a discouraging world
for the man compelled to start life
without financial resources if it were
not possible for him to create capital
for himself.
Every man has the glorious privi-
lege of work, and not the least of the
rewards of labor is the satisfaction of
producing something, and turning part
of ones earnings into capital
Don't misunderstood the meaning
of the word capital. 1t isn't neces-
sarily big sum acquired at one stroke
of fortune. In most cases it is the
big aggregate of little sums, saved by
slow degrees.
Money begets money, but those
without 1t sometimes complain against
those who have it. forgetting that
Avsry great fortune was born of hard.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-01-28
lWekEKnOWn~peOpIe e.

Bishop Thomas F, Kennedy, who
is at Philadelphia on a visit from
Rome, is native of this State.
ID. Webster Dougherty, the new
judge in Philadelphia, is a son of
the famous Daniel Dougherty.
Senator George It. Oliver, of
Pittsburgh, announces that his news
papers will no longer accept liquor
advertising.
George Westinghouse, the in
Ventor, is seriously i'll in New York.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-01-28
.ln.hARRlSBuRG-fl
YEARS. AGO. TODAY.

[From the Telegraph of Jan. %, 1864. ]
Soldiers Come Home
In the return of the Fifty-fifth Penn
sylvania Regiment of infantry, COM
manded by Colonel Richard White,
brings to their homes many that will
give joy to fathers, mothers, sisters,
brothers and sweethearts. We notice
among our immediate acquaintances,
Captain Isaac S. Waterbury and Private
Charles VanHorn.
Sell Government Horses
Three hundred condemned Govern
ment horses will be sold at Carlisle to-
morrow (Friday).
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-01-28

The President of Haiti has been COM
PEELED to flee from his capital but that's
not so bad. for he will in all likelihood
be able to earn a larger salary as
waiter in some New York hotel.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-01-28

BY this time President Wilson must
have awakened to the fact that Colonel
Goethals is himself some politician"
Anybody that can get Democratic
without any strings to
1t is
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-01-28
EDITORIAL, ,Q!L AZ, Z,.,Sc %
EN&&.eG q
Willis Moore Was

[From the Milwaukee Journal.l
The Japanese. official who predicted
Kagoshima committed harakiri, but
over here forecasters are not even sub
ject to the recall
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-01-28
GROWTH OF THE CITY
THAT the growth of the city is
proceeding at substantial rate
= is evident from the report of

proceeding at a substantial rate
= is evident from the report of
the Building Inspector, sub
mitted to Council yesterday
During the nine months immedi-
ately preceding January /, 1914, the
new buildings erected were valued in
the permits issued at $1,467,040, which
is naturally considerably less than
their actual value on the real estate
market. Nearly 800 brick, frame or
stucco residences were erected during
that time, which means that there are
nearly that number more families re-
siding in Harrisburg now than last
year this time.
The suburbs that should be a part
of the city proper have grown even
more rapidly, which leads to the
thought that If we are to reach the
100000 mark by the time the new
census Is taken it must be by annexa-
ton as well as by natural expansion.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-01-28
Scientific Note

GFrom the Washington Star.l
1t is usually assumed by scientists
that a substance of which little is
known will cure a disease about which
nothing is known.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-01-28
neW6.DlSpaTCbeS>~
~-Of.rhc> >CNlL>WAR
lFrom the Telegraph OF Jan. 2S. 1854. ]
Bringu Men and Goods

Cairo. Jan. 81. - The steamer Belle
of Memphis. with 292 bales of cotton
and Memphis dates Of the 25th, has ar
rived. She also brought $50 re-enlisted
men of the Kansa Cavalry. with about
the same number of furloughed men
from various other regiments. all en-
route home.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-01-28
STATE COLLEGE

~ r. EDWIN E. SPARKS, presi
dent of State College, has out
IL lined an ambitious program fol
that institution, but one thai
should have the hearty support of the
people of the State and of the Cover.
nor and the Legislature in it's enact.
ment.
THE biggest college in the United
States" is his aim. Here is the plat
form of his administration:
Not to aspire to the much abused
title of University" since the To-
cation precludes professional and
graduate schools; but to aspire to
be the most thorough and, perhaps,
largest college" in the United
States.
To use every effort to foster
State pride in the college and not
to be content until a permanent
means of income is provided by the
State.
To search for every channel of
usefulness to the people of Penn
sylvania: to benefit in some way
every taxpayer; and to make the
college the vital center of radiation
for information and resulting pro-
gress of the Commonwealth.
To continue the policy of uniform
support for, all schools and depart
consideration the number of stu
dents and consequent needs.
TO modify and adjust the courses
of study to the shifting demands of
pubic lire and occupation; at the
same time not to lose sight of the
cultural and the higher ideals of
life.
State college is the only educational
institution of it's kind in the Common
wealth justly entitled to aid from the
State government. When the Legis.
lature is brought to full understand
Ing of this, with courage enough to act
accordingly, State College will be as
sured of that permanent and adequate
income DR.. Sparks sees as one of the
prime necessities for its development
and growth. Western States are max
ing much of their colleges and uni
Versities. Pennsylvania, with all OF
Its vast agricultural interests and in
dustries demanding expert engineering
and technical knowledge. should be
able to train her own sons to her
needs.
The fact that more than 200 bows
were turned away from State last
tall because the college had not ac-
commodations for them demonstrates
the necessity of extension. The Legis-
lature has the remedy and friends of
the school have it in their power to
bring the matter before the next ses-
sion in a way that will win 1t the
recognition it merits.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-01-28
Johnston Falls Back

Cincinnati. Jan. 28.-The Commercial
Chattanooga special says:
Johnston's army has fallen back
from Dalton. Colonel Burke. Tenth
OHIO, with a flag of truce, went out
forty-five miles. and could find no
enemy. The rebel advance pickets are
near Kingston, forty miles south of
Dalton, probably to cover the retreat
where Cheathams division went on
Wednesday. Several unimportant cav
airy raids have been made to cover
their movements
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-01-28

We hate to dissipate false hopes of
an early Spring, but the weather man
believes this is merely the annual
January thaw
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-01-28

The United Fruit Company eners to
provide tango teachers for patrons OF
its steamship line IL they desire. Doesn't t
the company know what usually hap
pens when one rocks the boat7
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-01-28

'rFederals showing FORM" says a
newspaper headline. Baseball or Mexi-
cant
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-01-28
CAPITAL

~APITAL is very much abused
4 word. Say capital" and we are
~ apt to conJure up visions of a
Money Trust or the lifetime
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-01-28
PENNSYLVANIA'S PART

A SIDE from the fact that two
n Harrisburgers had a large part
a in setting THE Star Spangled
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-01-28

Everett L. Marshall, manager of
the Newport furnace and who some
time ago Incorporated a company for
the manufacture of manganese iron,
is at the head of the new corporation
of f. f. Marshall e. Co, which will
mine and manufacture iron and also
handle various products. The new
company has its offices in Philadel-
phia.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1914-12-09

New York City. Miss Hardy halls
from Spokane, Wash, and is only Is
years old. She first conceived the
idea of riding across the continent
last June, so mounted on her per-
forming horse, "Goldie," and escort
ed by her two dogs, one an Alaskan
huskie and the other pedigreed
Russian wolfhound, she rode leisure
ly down the coast to San Francisco
without having any exciting adYen-
lures until her arrival in the Golden
Gate city, where her horse was
frightened by the flash of the electric
signs and the din of the traffic and
ran away. After an exciting chase
he was finally captured by two
mounted policemen. Miss Hardy will
start on her trans-continental trip
Immediately.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1914-12-09

London, ,-EngIand.-The voice Of
Keir Hardie, famous labor leader, is
heard no more in the land-or at
least only rarely compared to his
former frequency of eloquent Grafton.
Keir Hardie has retired to state
of semi-seclusion for in these unset
tied times his anti belligerant tenn
permanent is sorely tried by contact
with the world. Hafdie was one of
those who argued most strongly
against war, and the participation in
war of the laboring man.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1914-12-09
FOR IRONING DAY

A brick, preferably a new and solid
one from the brickyard, makes an ex-
cellent ironstand. It's a non-conduc-
tor of heat and for that reason is
more satisfactory than a stand
bought in the store. --'---','.'--7, <. T.
Irons that are heated on the top
of the range or fire should be stood
upon a piece of polished tin. They
heat more quickly and are kept quite
clean. The lid of biscuit tin does
admirably for this. !!
If you blacklead and polish very
thoroughly the base and handle of
your iron it will keep hot much long
er, for the polish keeps the heat from
radiating off. ,.3t.
The ironing board should be COW
cred with a cloth on which there
are no seams or patches, as these
would mark fine linen, etc. The best
board covering is flannel, tackled
down and then a removable cotton
cover.
If your elbow when ironing is bent
away from your body at an upward
and outward angle, that shows that
the table is too high and nothing is
more firing. Have a little platform
made and notice the difference.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1914-12-09

After washing oiIcIoth and limo
leum, be sure to dry it properly. If
left damp it will speedily rot and
finally become totally spoiled. 1t is
a great mistake to use too much wa
ter for washing it. The cloth should
merely be wFung out land passed over
the surfal j. '.'
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1914-12-09
AcLEVER WOMAN

Mrs. Chink has hit on a plan to
keep her husband from smoking in
the parloT p,
what did she do?"
"She hung the portraits of her
three former husbands there"
Bisbee daily review., 1914-11-29
WAR SPARES RUBENS
 HOME IN BELGIUM
But VandaI Cut Faces Out of Some Pictures in
 the House.

THE HAGUE, Nov 2S The fam. ous sixteenth century mansion of Eubena. the great Flemish painter standing in the line of the great Cor man sweep through Belgium. be- tween Brussels and Antwerp. has sui fered littc from the depredations of war although an unknown vandal has defaced some of the paintings tat cover its walls For weeks t had been impossible to approach the pace and there was much anxiety as to its fate
 The Germans had converted this shrine .ol art levers to the service of war. but neither The house nor the fine old garden suffered much Tre house is now used as a pay station fer Che German roof= Tn the garden sre many roughly marked graves of Belaan and C0,man soldiers one stlay bullet found i,s way into the house which is surrounded by heaps of rubbish and broken bottles. No dcubt thorough house cleaning will .vnsform the place Go tie quaint wansion which Rubcus built for his youug wife thc woman who appears in nearly ail cf the paintings Of his later years. aud fhe mother or Che toy whose baby face smiles out from |eo many Of his cauraasos. Some civilian aouvonr.amter is deciared 10 be responsible for the only ntau- tio1al act of vandalism committed on t.e Croper,y which now owned by tho Belgian senator be Becker Womy The yandal cue the faces cut Of some Of the pictures that hung in the house.
 ru-ius the German advance tC Autworp, a German detachment oI fiy soldiers occupied the mansion A Bolai5n peasant managed to suu through tho German lines and notify thc Belgian troops. That night strong detachment or Belgian sol dius surrounded the house and atef a desperate fight killed al the 5ccu pants The Germans were buried 1. the old garden Later the Belgian were forced To abandon the place.
Bisbee daily review., 1914-11-29
BELGIUM HERO WAS
 AFIGHTING MARVEL

PARIS, Nov 2S-No Belgian sol- dier is receiving more acclaim fin Che French press than Emile Spain. who, at the age Of 22, has received the decoration of the Order of Leo bold and the cross of the Legion of Honor Le Matin confesses it could not believe all the brilliant exploits attributed to this young man, who was a private when war was declar- ed and who was made a corporal on- ly a month ago, but that 1t has inves- tigated through inquiries not only Of Sapin himself who is now in a Cherbourg hospital, but also of many others and it cheerfully recognized the following achievements.
 First during the siege of Liege, sapiu was in the fort of Loncln Climbing a tree and concealed by its leaves he killed am entire battery Of leaYy artillery said Co number forty