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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-04-08
POLITICAL FABLES

urely new Constitution.
After taking the remedy, "LoI
Tariff" for some time his condttic|
grew rapidly more painful whereupe3
DR.. Democrat insisted that he wouI
feel much better IL he could add!
remedy New Currency" which ,w1
sure to invigorate him and restore hill
to his usual activity. New CurrencJ
medicine, after trial, did not eij
the relief promised, although it w}
agreed 1t was good medicine and nd
done no harm and might do ereI
good. Meanwhile Young Nations rel
trouble-"Gout'-w fast disappeal
ing for the reason that the conditio}
that caused his trouble, namely Hid
Living, had from necessity disappeaI
ed. Still he was PROSTATE and ~
Democrat, being both active and
perate, promised speedy recovery
Young Nation would take some .'TeI
Exemption" a few different table,
called Interstate Trade Commi|
sion. etc. Then it was that YourI
Nation longed to get back to his fol
mer plan of eating three good soua
meals each day and with increasi,I
frequency inquired about DR.. Repub}
can, where he was and what he wi
doing, wishing many times that he hs
not changed doctors for four years a h
anxiously waited the return of ID
Republican.
Moral: A doctors ability cannot !
judged by the amount of medicine !
gives.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-04-08
STANDARD BERRY BONES

vAMES SWEENEY. chief of the
State Bureau of Standards. has
received a letter from Pennsyl-
~ vania farmer complaining bitterly
against the order requiring all berry
boxes used by Pennsylvania producers
and dealers to be of full standard
quart size. This farmer says that he
is injured" by the new regulation.
Doubtless he is. Such a farmer
ought TO be injured But has he
ever thought how he has injured"
the public by selling berries in under
sized boxes? Doubtless not
The Bureau of Standards, acting
under a recent law of the Legislature,
will prosecute any person found SELL
ing from boxes that do not hold a full
quart There can be no hardship in
this. II it be necessary for the man
who has been selling from under sized
receptacles to advance his prices
slightly to meet the change, why no.
body will he injured and the con-
sumer will be benefited by knowing
absolutely just what he is getting for
his money.
There has been more misrepre-
sentation and petty cheating in the
sale of berries than possibly has been
connected with the marketing of any
other like commodity. The boxes have
been gradually dwindling in size until
now some of them hold little more
nj TO-
mean something more than the bland
assertion of the dealer that it is of
standard size"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-04-08
AGAINST THE PRESIDENT

SCAR w. UNDERWOOD, as the
Democratic leader of the House
~ at Washington, has just demon
strated in his campaign for the
United States Senate in Alabama,
where he has been elected over Con-
gresham Hobson. that the people of
the South are about as much out of
joint over the Wilson attitude on the
Panama Canal tolls proposition as are
those of other sections of the country.
1t was inconceivable that the voters
of the United States would approve
the course of the President in this
controversy. No Chief Magistrate of
the United States has ever been able
TO win out on a question involving
patriotism and the material interests
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-04-08
POLITICAL SIDEuCHTS

The news from that New JERSEY
congressional election does not appear
to have reached Market Square.
Apparently New Jersey voters
We're whacking Wilson about the time
Palmer was making his plea for sun
port of the President
AS Jersey has repudiated Wilson's
slate for Congress, wonder what Penn
sylvania Democrats will do about his
slate for State offices with which he
has no concern anyway?
Representative William j. McCaig.
of Pittsburgh, will run again.
Doc Dougherty is said to be will
ing to take the Mechanicsburg post
office, according to the Philadelphia
Record.
Patrick III. Lynch will run for
Congress on the Democratic ticket in
Philadelphia.
Numerous postmasterships are be-
ing filled, but the appointing of men
to revenue Jobs here is still hanging
fire. Wonder why?
Tho Philadelphia REORGANIZATION
bosses are scared and will have a re-
ception for Palmer and Mccormick
next week.
And the Jersey slate was turned
down right at home.
Palmer will turn his face home-
ward to fix up his fences next week.
-Pinchot is following Mccormick s
trail through Blair and Clearfield.
John Matt is said to plan to make
Congressman Warren Worth Bailey
look dizzy when he runs for renomi-
nation.
There Is something plaintive
about Jesse J. Lybarger's plea for a
Democratic Legislature to be elected
next time.
Bill McNair, formerly of Middle
town, appears to have discovered that
the reorganization machine is about
as bad as the old one.
Representative c. A. Shaffer will
run again in Columbia county.
The Dauphin County Democratic
League has declined to play dead and
is to be given series of morning
write-ups and rip-ups as a punish
ment.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-04-08
SHADE TREE COMMISSION

WV H1LE Harrisburg is hesitating
NJ about the creation of a shade
w tree commission, as provided
by an act of the Legislature
several years ago. other cities are
adopting this regulation so as to save
the shade trees and assure something
like uniformity in their treatment.
Much of the mutilation of fine trees
has resulted from their use by over
head wire companies, but now that
many of the wires are being placed
underground in this city these cor
porations are not SO likely to oppose
the shade tree regulation. Just now
the tree butcher is in his glory. He
goes about with his saw and ak and in
a day destroys the work of years. AS
suggested by critic, he knows no
more about trees or how they should
be trimmed, or whether they should
be trimmed at all. than a pig knows
about the Napoleonic wars. He is an
authorized vandal and the trees he
leaves bleeding and dying in his wake
are silent protests against his ignor-
ant policy.
Harrisburg has made such substan-
tial progress in every other direction
that there should be no hesitation on
the part of the authorities in adopting
the shade tree act. OF course. there
will be opposition, as there always is
to every suggestion looking to i'm
provement. But many fine shade trees
are now standing mutilated and un-
slightly and will always stand as a re-
Election upon the tree butcher.
1t ought to be apparent to every
thoughtful citizen that the product of
years of growth should be preserved
and protected against the ignorant
cutting and whacking of men who
seem to think that trimming is
simply the removal of the tree.
Real estate values are often fixed
by the number of shade trees and in
Harrisburg the owners of property
oughtsto realize that the planting of
the right Kind of shade trees is going
to enhance beyond measure the actual
market value of their holdings
1t is better to let shade trees alone
than to trim them in a careless or in
different way. If there must be trim
ming, let it be done by some person
who knows how to do it.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-04-08
Ii HUNG Changes VIEW

During several years l have given
quite careful study and thought to the
religion of the West. and I cannot see
that it is in conflict at all with our own
philosophy. On the contrary, the
teachings Of Confucius and the doc
trines of Jesus appear to be on one ex-
allied plane. conceived and promulgate-
''heathen" and Christion. l know this !:
that il my lot were cast in England
France, or America | should want to
call myself Christian, for that is the
who would order his life by his tenets
would keep out of trouble and be re-
spected.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-04-08

Joseph IS. Thompson should make
good as the first captain of police. His
record in former administrations justi-
fes the selection. There is also con.
siderable public approval of the reap
pointment of number of officers who
were dropped in the first flush of the
ripper era of the new commission form
of government.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-04-08

- nat into the ring IN the Seventh
i New Jersey congressional district
yesterday in a test of his per-
sonal popularity and the headpiece
was knocked into an indescribable
cooked hat before the sun went down,
The Republican who succeeds a DEM
ocr"t was elected by a majority OF
more than five thousand, a majority
larger for Congress than ever given
in the Paterson district.
President Wilson deliberately in
vited the issue on his policies and in
stead of an endorsement of his ad-
ministration, as he had hoped, the
result is crushing reputation OF
the theoretical combination now in
the saddle at Washington. All the
power of the national administration
was eXerted in favor of James j.
O'Bryne. the Democratic candidate,
but he was deluged by q tremendous
vote of protest in a special election.
Dow II. Drukker winning by more
than two to enc.
President Wilson must accept the
result as a definite and emphatic re-
pudiation of his policies in his own
State where the people should know
him bes. and in a district where one
of his supporters, the late Robert q.
Bremner, defeated the Republicans
heavily in 1912.
Drukker made his fight on plat
form opposed to the legislation
wrought by the Wilson Administra-
tion. while O'Bryne called upon the
voters of the district to send him to
Congress as a token OF their approval
of the Presidents policies.
Republicans are coming into their
own. 1t was inevitable.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-04-08
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

George ". Norris. the Philadel-
phia director who was here yesterday,
was for years a successful banker.
James V. McMasters, prominent
Pittsburgh magistrate, has given up
living in a hotel after forty years and
will live in suburbs.
Colonel Thomas f. Crago. who is
running for Congress, was an officer in
the Tenth Regiment in the Philippines.
Alvin Rupp is completing twelve
years as school superintendent of Le-
high county,
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-04-08

The Wilson administration has an
other hope. This time 1t is that the
wheat crop will be so large that food
prices will be lowered. Evidently 1t is
intended that man shall live by bread
alone"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-04-08

Alcohol Ike-I left home when a mere
boy. My father sent me away for paint
ing the front door black in a fit of
childish mischief
Slithery Sid - What did your father
say?
Alcohol Ike--Go. and never darken
my door again!
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-04-08

Harrisburg is now due for another
cleanup week. year ago tons and tons
of rubbish and refuse were carted away
from back yards and the premises of
Indifferent householders and in view of
what has been uncovered in a suburb
of Pleasant View, it would seem that
the cleanup should extend into ad-
jacent districts.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-04-08

Those noon-day 1uncheons of the
Chamber of Commerce are proving a
delightful feature of the new business
organization. Guests of the city find in
these luncheons a ffrst-class opportu-
nifty TO learn more of Harrisburg: and
the more they learn of the city. the
better they like it,
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-04-08
IANCASTER'S PURGING
Reading Herald1

[Reading Herald
In some respects Lancaster is a
quite progressive town. In her plan
for licensing dance halls and putting
them under proper chaperonage Lam
caster shows an aggressive spirit far
ahead of most other Pennsylvania
towns.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-04-08
To Rnisc Salaries

The appropriation bill now before the
Legislature contemplates an increase or
500 to the salaries of the judges OF the
Philadelphia courts, and of $500 to the
salaries of the law judges of this
county.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-04-08
AN EVENING THOUGHT

There is that maketh himself
rich, yet hath nothing;
There is that maketh himself
poor, yet hath great wealth.
-ProY. 1911
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-04-08
NEWGSf Is 4RAfR 4RA1ifRssTTSHt&SA t&SAR

[From the Telegraph OF April 8, 1871
Rebel Ram Sinks
Cairo, April 6. - New Orleans advices
of the 29th ult.. received here, state that
the rebel ram Tennessee was struck by
a squall while laying near Grants Pass,
near Mobile, causing her to keel over
and sink. Nothing but about two feet
of her smokestack remained visible.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-04-08
Enemy to Await Attack

Cairo, April 6. = The rebel force near
here is reported to be 10000 strong. 1t
was supposed that it was their intention
to fall back about fifty miles, and there
await an attack from our forces.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-04-08
YEARS AGO TO-DAY

From the Telegraph of April ., loo4.1
Watch Your Change!
Counterfeit 500 Treasury notes are
in circulation. on the counterfeit the
number of the note is larger and less
brilliant in color than the genuine.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-04-08

OF prosperity. We are convinced that
there are worse things than high
prices-no wages, for instance.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-04-08

This Irish dispute in England is get
ting real serious. We note now that 1t
has caused some of the members Of
Parliament to neglect their golf.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-04-08

The President asked those New Jer
sey Democrats ito pass Judgment on
the administration" They did. We
hope he is satisfied.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-04-08

Why not give the unemployed men
work in the cleaning up of your prem
ises, now that Spring is here and the
natural housecleaning microbe is busy !?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-04-08

Returns from Illinois indicate that the
women of that State have not become
addicted TO the cocktail habit
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-04-08

Cole Blease won't find the United
States Senate a comfortable place, We
fear. There will be no prisoners to
pardon.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-04-08

Naval officers lamenting over the dry
order should remember that the man
who most frequents the punchbowl
most frequently nasnt the punch
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-04-08
AN EVENING THOUGHT

He who has lost confidence can
lose nothing more.-Boiste.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-04-08
WILSON REPUDIATED

- RESIDENT WILSON threw his
- hat into the ring in the Seventh
i New Jersey congressional district
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-04-08

Published every evening (except sun
day). at the Telegraph Building, 21e
Federal Square.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-04-08

w H1LE Harrisburg is hesitating
NJ about the creation of a shade
w tree commission, as provided
by an act of the Legislature
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1914-09-12

Thirty thousand employees
of one kind and another will
be furloughed on October l,
if the River and Harbor ap.
preparation bill fails to pass
by that date. That is the
toll the government exacts
from those who have nothing
to say as to the merits or de.
merits of a bill which has
the unqualified endorsement
of the Corps of Engineers Of
the U. s. Army, ninety,nine
per cent Of the items in the
bill having been passed upon
originally by this same eff,
cient body of men who know
no politics, no favoritism,
only duty to the country, the
flag and the Corps to which
they belong. Senator Sim
mons, of North Carolina, who
is in charge Of the River and
Harbor bill in the Senate,
has announced publicly that
the bill will pass by October
1st, Notwithstanding the oh.
structive tactics of Senator
Burton, of Ohio, aided and
abetted by several other
LEGISLATORS from the western
states.
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1914-09-12

peace, peace and there is
no peace!' On a balmy day
in April Of last year Con-
gressman Richard Bartholdt,
of st. Louis, the most out
spoken advocate Of peace in
either house of Congress,
planted an oak tree along
one Of the sheltered pathways
between the Capitol and the
House Office building and
dedicated it to the Hague
tribunal and to world peace.
The tree grew apace, spread.
ing it's branches around and
seeming to sing hosannas to
the statue that caps the capi-
tol, looking forever toward
the east. Lately, however,
the leaves of this sturdy
young oak have begun to
turn yellow and sere, the
branches have commenced to
droop and now only one of
it's 1.-the young arms remains
green. The tree is dying as
the war RACES, and there is
no peace!
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1914-09-12

was we'll educated. He is a
good engineer, an efficient
amateur aviator, writes ex.
cellently and has been q
corking good newspaper re.
porter in both Brussels and
Antwerp. He worked at the
business just as seriously as
young men who don't hap.
pen to be princes, did police
and ship news" and, after
a time, got the idea that he
wanted to see the world a bit
before settling down. And
so he came to America, visit.
ing New York, Washington
and Chicago, and for a mum.
Der of months lived in st.
Paul. When he went home
he wrote a ''bully good"
book about America, making
it clear that our democratic
sort Of government was just
about what the people need.
ed. Then he came to rule
over the Belgians, and now
he qualities as Tolstoi's strik.
ing figure in this awful war
of the nations. Perhaps
others may outshine him
later, but up to now he is
easily the first in the worlds
thought.
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1914-09-12
STATE OF LOUISIANA.
23rd judicial District Court-Par.
ish of st. Mary.
William Schwan vs.. George G
Walker. No. 13,819.

By virtue of an order of seizure anG
sale issued out of the Honorable 23rd
Judicial District Court in and for the
Parish Of St. Mary, State of Louisiana,
and to me directed, in the above number.
I'll and entitled suit, I have seized and
will offer for sale, for cash, without
appraisement, to the last and highest
bidder, at the front door of the Court
House in the Town of Franklin, Parish
of ST. Mary, Louisiana, on
SATURDAY, THE 10TH DAY OF
OCTOBER, A. D., 1914.
between the hours of IL o'clock a. m.
and 4 o'clock p. m., the following des-
cribed property, to-wit:
1st: An undivided one half interest in
and to that certain tract or parcel of
land lying and being situated in the
village of Verdunville, Parish of St.
Mary, known, designated and described
as lot No. Is on map made by W. W.
Johnson, Parish Surveyor, and contain
ing superficial area of twenty two
acres: and bounded on the North by the
Bayou Teche IN part and in part by lot
of Valsin Hernandez and in part by lot
of Frank Ballansaw, South by land of
J. B. Luke, East by land of Cora Gill
more and b. F. Ballansaw, South by
land of ]. B. Luke, aud west by lands
of the Estate of j. B. Verdun, with
buildings and improvements thereon
situated.
End: That certain tract or parcel of
land, lying and being situated at Ver-
dunville, in the Parish of St. Mary, on
the west side of the Public Road leading
from franklin to Berwick's Bay, hav-
ing front of 102 feet, more or less, on
said road by depth of 326 feet, more
or less. bounded north by said Public
Road. South by land of Joseph Senette,
East by lane left open and given by
Oscar Vining fifteen feet in width for
the benefit of this and other property
sold him, and West by land of En-
ma Verdun, with the buildings and i'm.
provements thereon situated.
3rd. That certain tIact or parcel of
land, lying and being situated at Yer
dunville, in the Parish of st. Mary,
having a superficial area of Eleven and
one quarter acres. more or less, and
bounded north by lands of Oscar Vim
ing, south by land of J. B. Luke, east
by land of Martha Emerson and west by
land of Cora Gilmore.
W. T. PETERMAN, Sheriff.
Sheriff's Office, Parish of st, Mary, La,
August 10th, 1914.
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1914-09-12
THE MEN BEHIND THE PLOW.

The eleventh annual meet
ing of the National Farmers
Union was in session fol
three days at Fort Worth
last week. The delegates at
tending the meeting came
from more than two.thirds
of the States in the Union
and every branch of agricul.
tural endeavor was repre-.
sented. The wheat farmer
from the northwest, the corn
farmer from the middle west,
the tobacco farmer from the
Virginias and the cotton
farmer from the sunny south
all held counsel together
and were united in their eff.
fort to solve the grave prob.
lem which now cOnfrOnts the
American farmer. Coming,
as they did, direct from the
soil, with their hands brown
from exposure and their
minds attuned to the needs
of the hour, there was no
chance for dissention among
their ranks and there was a
complete harmony and unity
of thought and action, such
as befit the class which feeds
and clothes the world.
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1914-09-12

It was Tolstoi who prom.
ised the Armageddon, but in
1913 instead of 1914, and
that out of it would come a
man from the north, little
known, who as a newspaper
man, journalist and states
man would be the great CEN
trail, dominating figure until
1925 when conditions would
sweep him off the world s
stage, and in the place of
monarchies, principalities and
powers would rise republics
to welcome the birth Of the
twenty-first century. And
who is this man that Tolstoi
forecast in the now famous
prophecy which the great
teacher wrote for Gar Nicho'
las more than five years ago
Albert Of Belgium seems at
this moment to fit into the
prophecy like a glove upon a
lady's hand, for Albert was
not born to the expectation
Of kingship, he just ''growed'
into his present plans of the
king of the Belgians and {
mighty good king he is too
Albert was born in 1875 an6
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1914-09-12

The Crop Reporting Board
of the United States Depart.
ment of Agriculture recently
gave out the following esti.
mates Of Louisiana crops for
1918:
Corn: 1900, 900 acres, A..
800, 900 bushels, $32, 186, 600
farm value.
Hay: 100, 900 acres, 240,'
900 tons, So, 900, 900 farm
value.
Oats: As, 900 acres, 900, 600
bushels, 1854, 600 farm value.
Irish Potatoes: 25, 900 acres
1850, 600 bushels, 81, $50, 600
farm value.
Cotton (lint): 1925, 600
acres, 400, 900 bales, $22, 389.
900 farm value.
Tobacco: 900 acres, 27O, 600
pounds, S68, 600 farm value.
Rice: 4O5, 500 acres, IL, 760-
900 bushels, 50, 1878, 900 farm
value.
Sweet Potatoes: so, 900
Iacres, 100000 bushels,
l$3, $1,000 farm value.
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1914-09-12

We endeavor to give more real
value for a dollar than dollar
buys elsewhere at the 5 and 1O
cents store. NEIL MCNEIL.
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1914-09-12

L. Davis has put in a nice line
of groceries and promises all GUS
TONERS to cut prices that will save
them from 5 to 80 per cent. regard
less of amount purchased.
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1914-09-12

Z. Davis offers three pool tables
complete for a sacrifice. II you
can't pay cash, if you have any
thing to trade, come and see me.
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1914-09-12

Delivery wagons aud carts
made to order at G. S. Brenn
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1914-09-12

just received a fine line of Vic.
trolas and also a fine selection Of
Victor records. Come in and hear
them.
/. POPKIN,
Franklin, La,
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1914-09-12

Blacksmith, wheelwrighting and
horseshoeing at G. s. Brenn.