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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-07-18
TRAINMEN WANT GAMES

The Railroad Trainmen want games
for July IS and 25. Prefer oNt-of-
town matches. Address E. D. Mar
tin, 327 Kelker street.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-07-18
LEMoYNE DEFEATS METHODIST

Lemoyne took the Methodists into
camp last evening on Lemoyne field
by a score of 16 to s. Every man on
the winning team had hit. Ruby
carried off batting honors with two
baeger and a homer.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-07-18
REGULARS WIN

Regulars defeated the Yanisans in
Al battle on the Lucknow Shop
League grounds yesterday at noon.
The game went five innings.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-07-18
WON WITH ONLY ONE HIT
.Sheeini to The TeIeernhh

OTttIuI 70 = ne tIeBFupH
Chicago, July 1S.-AIlen yesterday
held Chicago to one hit double by
Good, but lost the game because of
errors. The score was to 2.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-07-18
CURTIN VS.. DEMAREsT

Camp Curtin and Demarest Federal
will cross bats at Wildwood at
o'clock this afternoon.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-06-14

fcopyright. 1914. by Frank G. Car
 penter.)
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-06-14
First English Newspaper

From Popular Mechanlcs.
 2 he first newspaper printed in the Eng ush language. with it's old-Englsn .sps anu It's uu..lit account of events in for eign countries, was a pamphlet issued in 1921 Its title, "Corrant or Nevves from Italie, Germanie, France and other Places" is as curious as it's contents For many years 1t had been supposed that no copy of the Corrant was in existence, but recently a copy of this interesting document, which was the first step toward the modern newspaper, was discovered
 At the time the Corrant was published freedom of the press was a thing that did not exist The publication of domestic news in England was forbidden by royal decree at that time. and until 1641. and this accounts for the fact that all the news in the Corrant is from forelgn coun- tries. Even the privilege of printing for eign news was taken away by star cham- uer euict in 1882. But In 1641 the restric- tions against both domestic and foreign news were removed. Crude as the Cor rant may seem, 1t was the outgrowth of a long period of ''journalistic" progress. Early In the sixteenth century news let ters, each intended originally to keep some nobleman or member of the royal family informed. but later supplied to small lists of subscribers. came into vogue. These were written by hand. Then camc the printed news book, issued at irregu- lar intervals in numbered series hav- ing a common title. The next step was the Corrant, which was followed by other pamphlets of the same class.
 This copy of the Corrant Is owned by New York collector, who discovered it in volume of miscellaneous pamphlets which he had bought at an auction of old books without suspecting its value.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-06-14

Many or the balsas are so large that donkeys. llamas and mules are ferried in them from port to port about the lake, and even across the lake from one side to the other. The boats are pro- pelled by sails made of reeds They are also pushed through the water by poles from 10 to 20 feet long. When far out from the shore and there is no wind stir ring, the Indians use the poles as pad dies; but where the water is shallow they shove the beat along from the bot tom
 The balsa reeds have a pith full of cells like the stem of the banana. They are light when dry, but after they have been In use about six months' they become water soaked. Tn this casa the boats are no longer safe. They are torn to pieces and the reeds are dried and used for roofing the mud huts that form the homes of the people. The reeds are also used for ma king bridges, ropes and baskets. They are almost as Important to the Titicacans as the bamboo Is to the Chinese
 The boat on which I crossed Lake Titicaea Is named the Yavari It is :, the oldest steamer now in the sery- ice. It has only 150 tons. but 1t can make seven miles per hour. It has fair ly good accommodations for passen- gers, and it's little staterooms are well ventilated and comfortable
 There are two other passenger steamers on the lake. the largest of which is the Inca, ship of 800 tons. The vessels leave Puma at about o'clock in the evening. and arrive at Guaqui at g or 10 o'clock the next morning. The fare Is sS.2O gold. The captain and the purser are Preruvians. and the sailors are Indians.
 All of these little steamers were made in Europe. They were sent here knocked down, the parts being car- ried across the Atlantic and through the strait of Magellan into the Pacific. From the strait they were taken up the western side of that ocean to Mol lendo Peru. and thence across the Andes on the railroad to Puno, the Peruvian port on the lake. There the boats were rebuilt and put into the service.
 The first boat was put on Lake Titi- caca before the days of the railroad, being carried up the steep untains on the backs of men and mules. The Yavari uses English coal that is brought thousands of miles through the two oceans and lifted by the railroad over the Andes to Puno, costing, venture. something like $50 per ton.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-06-14
May We Educate Diplomats!

From the New York Tribune.
 Such school would have to be of much more limited capacity than West Point or Annapolis, since if original appointments to the diplomatic corps and the consular service~yere to be made only in the low est grades not more than a couple of dozen places would be available annually. Sometime ago the George Washington university, in Washington, created
 school of diplomacy. number of whos9 graduates got into the foreign service in the happy days of Roosevelt and Taft.
 diplomatic school run by the govern ment may be reeded, but about the only way to Induce the present administration to open one would be to install our versa tile Secretary of State as rector. He would certainly be able to teach the young idea how to shoot and how not to shoot if he had sufficient sense of humor to use his experience with his own hand made diplomatic proteges as lecture mar teriab
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-06-14

 ally cost. At any rate, the state en- tertainments have cost King George a great deal more than $100.ooO, despite the fact that they are not as numerous as they were in his fathers time.
 In the late reign the expenses of one annual entertainment (the Windsor Gar den party, which is reckoned as state functiom was estimated regularly at 5000. which was figuring at but s2.50 head ! the actual cost was more like $48 a head, as Queen Mary discovered when their majesties were contemplating giv- ing the garden party the first year the court were out of mourning. In con- sequence the garden party was not given. and never has been, in the present reign. But it goes without saying that there is fair amount of entertaining that their majesties must do and of the kind that must be done luxuriously and elab- orately tS aas
 ;, There are the courts, the state balls. the big state dinner parties and the of ficial entertainments at Windsor in thu autumn. One way and another, cut the matter as finely as they can. the King and Queen cannot do the entertaining that is expected of their majesties much under a cost of $2Oo.ooO per annum. which is $1oo000 more than they get for doing 1t. The cost of lighting and the laundry charges have also, increased since the late reign. The s5o0po per annum allowed their majesties to cover both these charges actually is sbooO short of the actual expenditure. but in addition to the increase in these charges their majes- ties are experiencing, in common with many of their subjects. the burden in the increased cost of living. Notwithstanding innumerable economies the housekeeping bills at the royal residences have in- creased close on to IS per cent compared with what they were in the late reign. ! If the expenses of the royal household were to continue to increase at this rate the King would in few years time -bo compelled to ask for an increased allow ance. It is characteristic of Queen Mary that her majesty prefers to face this question. now.
 Her nlajesty's suggestion Is that the treasury should treble the grant made in respect of the money for state en-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-06-14

been entertained at the English court. It is true that the French President was entertained by the King last year, but the cost of entertaining the Pres ident of republic is much less than the expense involved py entertaining a sovereign like the Kaiser who comes accompanied by perfect army of household officials and servants. For instance, in the late reign the cost oi entertaining the Kaiser at Windsor
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-06-14
King George Vents Increase i,1 Pay

tertainments which would mean raising if to S30o. .OoO per annum instead of s1ooooo' bnt this the treasury is not likely to do The treasury, however. mas or fered to double the allowance made TOT state entertainments. and if the kins cannot get any further concessions ne will, of course, accept this offer and ny reducing as far as possible the cost of all royal entertaining win then be able ts avoid actual loss and the necessity of bringing the royal revenues under pariia-
 mentary review.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-06-14
BY FL. SCOTT

in 1906 was estimated at $35.000 whilst the cost of entertaining M. Lou bet, the French President three years later. was estimated at s12,0o0,
 But in reckoning the cost of state en- tertainments at slO0,oOo rather unfortu- nate mistake for King George was made owing to the fact, that the late King apparently only received as special all lowance for the purposes of; state enter tainments about half of what they actu-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-06-14
Exnlained.

Boston Evening Transcript.
 Mary. you told me that the man I found in the kitchen with you last night Is your twin brother. and now s'ou say he is your stepbrother.
 Yes. mum; you zee we arc stepttwinp. mum. P '.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-06-14

II A King George Is in negotia- I1ifsssl. tion with the treasury for EsMY what is in euphemistic off, cial language termed "an adjustment of the royal revenues'' or, in plainer language, an increased allowance from the nations purse. It would, of course, De impossible in the present state of political feeling in England and with an advanced radical at the head of the treasury for his majesty to apply to Parliament for an increased allow ance and even if this were done the chances are that the application would be refused
 But 1t Is within the power of the treasury to grant the sovereign an in- crease in certain allowances made for special purposes and this is what King George and Queen Mary are now hop ing to get the treasury to do.
 King George. in regard to the rev. enues he receives from the state, is in rather peculiar position. In the late reign the annual charges for what Is called the royal civil list amounted to S2o00,000. but special supplementary grants were made every year to the sovereign to defray the expenses of entertaining royal foreign visitors or dinary state entertainments (but not private entertainments, such as shoot Ing parties at Sandringham, etc.) and lighting and laundry expenses.
 King George on his accession agreed to accept a special allowance of $225,- 900 per annum and discharge all these extra expenses himself. This sum was arrived at by taking the annual aver age allowance during the last three years of King Edwards reign of the expenses 1t was supposed to cover and 1t worked out as follows:
 For entertaining royal visi-
 For state entertainments. 100, ,000.0 % For laundry ...,........... 30,000.00 For light .................. 100000
 IOtdi tzZb,UO.UU
 With regard to the expenses in con- nection with the entertainment of for eign royal visitors King George by en- tering into this arrangement. appar- ently made an extraordinarily good bargain. for. since his accession, until the recent visit of the King of Den- mark. not . single crowned head had
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-06-14

have written much of the skies of the Andes seen from the pampas and des- ert. Those that cover Lake Titicaca have also other beauties that are peculiarly their own. The clouds rise up from the shores like walls. fitting into q vault of heavenly blue. so that you reem 70 De shut off from the rest of the world. The
 scenes change every moment, The neecy white masses are blown this way and that by the winds from the pampas. At
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-06-14

'NDON. June 13.-(Special.)
 King George is in negotia- ton with the treasury for what is in euphemistic off
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-02-21

priceless metal will probably prove
abortive
Thus has the government missed its
greatest opportunity OF the present
century TO preserve TO the people one
OF the country's most precious re-
sources. Future generations OF the
SICK viii probably have to pay tribute
TO private owners of this great cura-
tive.
While IL is a mistake to advertise
any cure as absolute until time has
proven it so. yet as nearly as science
can determine today radium is a cure
for certain forms-the external-can-
Ger. The same government experts
who rejected the Friedman tubercu-
losis serum, are about convinced that
the remarkable cases of DIR. Kelly or
Baltimore prove the curative power of
radium in the case of cancer.
Seventy-five thousand Americans die
annually of cancer. Radium is their
great hope. There is no reason for
disbelieving that future experiments
will show its curative power on all
cancers. DIR. Kelly. who has been
working with it for six years, has
been carried by enthusiasms out of
the usual reticent calm of the scien-
lists. His brother physicians are
calling him unethical for advertising
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-02-21
Capital Comment
BY CLYDE n. TAVENNER
conaoessman from che Fourteenth District.

the radium cure. But DR.. Kelly has
seen miracles unfolded before his
eyes. and the ethics OF the situation do
not appeal to him. Nor do they ap-
peal to the government scientists who
have witnessed some of the radium
cures
I'VE will have to wait five years to
see IL the cancers reappear." say the
conservative physicians. IF they DO
we will treat them with radium again,
replies Kelly. who calls radium var
fously the invisible surgeons knife
and the light from heaven"
All of the American radium supply
is in the carnotite ore lands OF the
Paradox valley in Colorado and Utah,
so called because the river crosses the
valley instead of running down the
middle OF II. Here are 100000 acres
o. radium land. 1t is the greatest
supply in the world All of the
worlds radium produced in 1911 and
1912 came from this valley. There are
in this country today only two grams
os pure radium. one gram of which is
owned by DR.. Kelly. 1t is estimated
that it will be possible TO take 900
grams of radium from the Paradox val
ley, enough to treat every case OF can
Ger in the United States.
It was planned by Secretary Lane
and others to preserve this supply as
monopoly, distributing 1t
among the various hospitals of the
public health service, where cancer
cases should be treated free. Bnt
while the agitation for this plan was
IN progress, there was a rush of pros !
pectors from Denver and Salt Lake |
City to the Paradox valley. and in a
little while all OF the 100000 acres had |
been staked off in mining claims. |
Since registration of these claims is
lone in state Offices. it will be. three /
-ears before the government can know
,ficially that the land Is gone, since
he prospectors have three years In
which to file claims for patents on
he land.
Senator Thomas bill intends to undo
he evil. 1t provides that all claims
or radium land taken after Jan. 10.
914, must be sold to the government.
BUT this constitutes what is known as
retroactive law, a thing which has
,een declared unconstitutional by the
upreme court.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-02-21
A STRANGE CRITICISM.

In a recent issue of his magazine
Senator La Toilette criticises Presi-
dent Wilson's suggestion OF a law
authorizing and directing the inter
state commerce commission to super
intend and regulate railway finance.
And" says the senator. he wants IL
at once: and the railroads want il,
and want II at once. too. After the
packers were caught with the goods
and were proved 10 have been selling
diseased meats, they were eager TO
have government inspection and
branding. So the railroads want a
mass OF rotten. lumpy-jaw securities
prInkled with formaldehyde and bap-
tzsd In benzoate OF soda. Then. smell
ing sweet and clean. and marked in
-pected and passed by the govern
ment.' we shall have railway finance
ready for Joy ride"
What would Senator La Follette
have the government do? Remain
inert and inactive and permit the
Morgans. the Harrimans and the Yoak-
ums 20 food the country with securi-
y issues having no value but that
represented by water back OF them?
Permit these securities 10 pass at
fictitious and high values into the
hands OF innocent purchasers paying
for them In good faith. and let the
>Morgans. the Harrimans and the
Yoakums continue 10 pile up great
profits from watered stocks and
bonds2 The people must take one or
the other horn OF the dilemma. They
rust either permit -frenzied finance"
20 10 on unchecked. or establish regu-
fation over f. They must permit ex-
pIoitation OF the investor or assist the
investor in protecting himself. They
must be either individualistic or pa
ternaIistic. They have been indiyid-
ualistic and on every side Is evidence
OF the folly OF leaving human greed
unleashed, as we would behold sad evi-
dence OF folly should we repeal the
statutes penalizing theft in other
forms. burglary. and bank Vrecking. |
u my be that government regula- |
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-02-21
The Genius and the Poor stick.


Once there was a man who had two
sons. One of them was a genius. All
the neighbors said he was. The other
was totally different He never got
into any kind of trouble. He would
sometimes work in the garden. He
was known to refrain from doing fool
ish things because he knew his par
ents would not wish him to do them,
and he grew up without getting either
OF his legs broken or even losing a
finger or an eye. He attracted very
little attention. and nobody laughed
at ordinary things that were said by
him.
Did the boy who was not q genius
become the president of a bank or
the head of a railway system? We
are compelled to admit that he did
not. But it can be truthfully said that
he is decently supporting a good-sized
family and occasionally furnishing
bail for his brother.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-02-21
The Cabal.

The term "cabal" as applied to Sc
cret factions of any kind had its rise
in England about 1867, being first ap-
piled to the cabinet OF Charles ii. and
formed from the initials OF the cabI-
net members names-Lord Clifford,
Lord Ashley, the Duke OF Bucking-
ham. Lord Arlington and the Duke
OF Lauderdale-C, A, p. A. l. Since
that day IL has been customary. in all
English speaking lands at least. to APP
ply the name to any secret conclavs,
especially I'm politics.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-02-21
ALASKAN RAILROAD
EXPERIMENT.

Provision has been made for the
constructlon OF a government rail-
road or railroads I'm Alaska at an
authorized cost OF $4,000. 900. TO be
raised by an issue OF three per cent
3O-year bonds.
The chief purpose OF this Is TO open
the coal fields OF the interior. The
railroad measure TO be followed by
the introduction in both the house
and the senate OF a bill framed by
Secretary OF the Interior Lane for
the development OF the coal lands
which are TO be retained in govern
ment possession. This provides for a
survey OF all coal lands in the terri
tory and for the reservation OF 5,12O
acres in the Boring river field and
1850 acres in the Natanuska field to
be worked by the government itself.
to be used in the construction and
operation OF its railroads, for the re-
quirements of the navy. for natioDal
protection. or for the relief OF oppres-
sive conditions brought about through
the monopoly of coal.
The Journal OF Commerce. from
which is CLEANED these facts, says:
The rest of the coal fields, I'M
would be leased to individuals or
corporations. TO be worked in
blocks OF 40 acres or multiples
thereof up to not more than
$3.50 acres, or 81 times the unit
The terms of the lease would in
clude a royalty OF 2 cents a ton
OF coal mined. payable monthly,
and an annual rental of % cents
an acre for the first year. so cents
for each OF the next four years,
and 81 an acre thereafter up to
the limit of 90 years, when a re-
adjustment of terms and condi-
tons would be made by congress.
The income from rentals and
royalties would be paid into a
special fund for Alaskan develop
ment and for helping TO pay the
cost OF the government railroads.
The bill providing for the con-
struction and operation of the
railroads. create an Alaskan Rail-
way Redemption Fund" into
which is to be paid 75 per cent
of "all moneys derived from the
lease, sale or disposal OF any of
the public lands in Alaska, or
any of the coal or mineral con-
tents thereof or the timber there
on" as well as the met earnings
OF said railroad or railroads above
maintenance charges and operat-
ing expenses"
The railroad bill having already
been passed. and chiefly for the ,
purpose OF opening up communi- ,
cation with the coal fields, IT is to
be presumed that this measure
for developing those fields will I
follow, II not at this session, in I
due time thereafter.
This will begin the experiment OF
overnment ownership OF railroads
nd natural resources by the govern :
lent, to be operated in its own and 4
le peoples interests. II may prove 2
he advantage OF government owner /
hip OF lines OF transportation and the &
OF such ownership and OPP .
ration to the people. II will take ! q
me to establish the effect this will I
ave upon the country. But whether I
ie experiment shall prove a success f.
r not, IL will be well worth the cost. q
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-02-21
Resented Caress.

Jennie kissed me when We met.
Jumping from the spot she sat In:
Jennie's kiss was cold and wet:
With the hand I held my hat in
1 repulsed her-pushcd her back
II you like. you MAJ put that in;
Jennie did not mini my lack
or enthusiasm. Twist me
On the wheel il IL was folly
! exhibited. / jolly
Well defy you TO. by gollyi
Jennie was an eager collie
Jennie kissed me.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-02-21

ton OF securities would by indirection
give value not now inherent in them
20 railroad issues. II Il should do so.
that would be a regrettable circum-
stance. But water gone over the
wheel can't be called back. At best
the people can merely control the
water in the dam in protection OF in
vestcrs for the future. not merely. but
iR protection also OF shippers and. in
&c erd. consumers, who pay the
freight
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-02-21

: A cop is going 10 censor the
street garb OF Elkhart. Ind. young
women. Abraham Borisof was ar
rested while fixing his baby's buggy
on Sunday for performing manual
labor on the Sabbath in New York.
The police OF Montclair. New Jer-
sey closed a suffragette meeting
Sunday because the chief OF police
thought IL was like vaudeville. Who
dares say we don't live in "the land
OF the free?"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-02-21
FARMERS STAND BY JAMES.

- The Illinois Farmers Institute this
week. after hearing an address by
Governor Eberhsrdt OF Minnesota,
took a flyer in the realm OF school
education. by adopting a resolution OBJ
1ecting to any curtailment Of the pow
ers OF President James in the matter Of
the appointment OF teachers at the IL
linois University.
IL Is said that the farmers are not
mad At President James because he is
not a mirror OF fashion.