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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-12-23
WARMING THE SKATERS

TINE skating accident at New
Cumberland this week, when
eight boys and girls narrowly
escaped death by the breaking of thin
ice, ought to be a warning to others.
Nearly every winter brings with it a
skating fatality or two in this local
ity. Almost always these accidents
could easily have been avoided.
Now skating is a delightful sport
and a healthful exercise. 1t should be
encouraged, but under restrictions.
For instance. nobody should be per-
mitted on Wildwood Lake until the
park commissioner pronounces it safe,
which could be signal that skating
is safe on all the ponds hereabout.
Skating on the river is always dan
gerous. and the parent who permits a
child to skate there takes frightful
chances.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-12-23
JENNY LINDs "INFLASINIATUs"

In September, 1850, Castle Garden
had opened its doors to the wonder of
the age-to Jenny Lind, the queen of
the realm of song. And shortly after
this engagement with Barnum had
ended, she cafe to Tripler Hall, the
beautiful concert hall on Broadway,
destroyed by fire a short time after its
erection.
A small chorus was selected from
the societies to accompany the I'm
fiammatus" from Rossini's "Stabat
Mater At the morning rehearsal for
this first concert, orchestra and chorus
were on the stage. when a very plain
little woman, in long dark cloak and
the least adorned of bonnets. walked
quickly up the aisle, ascended to the
stage and there took her place. At
the proper moment she raised her
head, opened her lips, and straight
way rang out the high G, clear, direct,
unerring in attack, sonorous and 'sus-
| tained:
Up scared the glorious voice through
| the scale. of trills, higher and higher,
until the empyrean was reached, the
c in alt, where the pure tone poised.
Jubilant and unwavering, then, in a
ma ajestic descent of the full chord,
back to the dominant, thence slowly
swelling and sinking to rest on the
Itonic-the whole phrase superbly ef-
fective, perfect and satisfying
Jenny Lind had sung and to those
who heard her in that "Infiammatus, -
her voice had made a shrine once and
forever in heart and memory
Bruno's Weekly.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-12-23
CHRISTMAS ON THE oFF-TRAIL

We thought we had forgotten all the
years that lie behind us;
And though no vision beckons through
the years that wait ahead.
The white and scarlet berries of the
season still remind US
That dreams were merely sleeping
which we thought forever dead.
For, vagabonds. it's Christmas,
And the clans are congregating;
Q, vagabonds. it's Christmas,
And we've come so far away;
And in the lonesome shadows
They are waiting, waiting, waiting
For those who've lost the road that
leads to home on Christmas
Day.
We met our mate, the tramping wind,
and so we let it lead US
From one with blood in her veins
and sunshine in her hair;
It called us from a mother who we
thought would never need us
Until the gray December winds
brought in her silent prayer.
For Christmas on the Off-trail
Isn't what we used to think it;
The little horns are calling
With the roll-beat of the drum;
And as we lift our mocking toast
And sullenly we drink it.,
A kid calls "Mother-mother''-
And we know how far we've come.
Gray ghosts across the drifting years
they come upon our dreaming,
The kids we used to know before eve
knew the rover's fate.
The little stockings by the hearth, the
mother love a-streaming
From weary eyes that look in vain
beyond an old-time gate.
o, vagabonds, tomorrow
We will start with rag and pack
again;
And leave merry song behind
without a parting word:
But now we'd give our souls to know
The Christmas highway back again.
To whisper "Mother-mother"-
And to know that she had heard.
-Grantland Rice. in the New York
Tribune.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-12-23
THE STATE FROM DAY TO DAY

Philadelphia produces thugs of a
humorous turn of mind, judging from
an incident which took place there
in Spruce street yesterday. A quiet
and respectable citizen was held up
at the point of a pistol by merry
thief who deprived him of his jew
elry and valuables and then told him
to count ten before looking around,
while he made a dignified getaway
Armed with brooms, rolling-pins
and hot water, a mob of 40 women
attacked and put TO flight 20 borough
workmen in Williamsburg the other
day, as the men were peacefully cut
ting down shade trees Which merely
proves that the female of the species
will have her deadly way.
Eleven thousand volts of the pow
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-12-23

Out of all the expert advice regard
ing the traffic conditions in Harris
burg son citing practical ought to be
developed. OF course. the experts do
not always agree, but upon the general
features of Improvement they are of
one mind. Harrisburg has endured a
great deal from congestion and indif-
ference to ordinary traffic rules. but
the question is now uppermost in the
public mind and there should be little
difficulty in reaching a reasonable con-
clusion as to further regulations.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-12-23
WHAT THE NEWSPAPER IS TO Yo

lFrom the St Louis Post-Dispatch.1
Life in great city is like life in an
ehchanted forest, says a brilliant es-
sayist, John Cowper Powys "One never
knows what hideous ogre or what ex-
Qulslte hamauryad one may encounter.
ANA the little ways of all ones scrab-
bling and murrowing and chuckling
ana nodding and winking housemates!
10 go through the world expecting ad-
ventures is to find them sooner or later
But one need anly cross ones threshold
to find adventure"
The newspaper fetches adventure to
threshold out into the forest of enchant-
ment. The newspaper on your door
step brings company. strange people,
romance, wonderful living realities, alb
Sorbing interest, throbbing life; admits
you into the great, intimate, vital eX-
perience of the whole world of fellow
beings; makes you one in sharing their
trlumphs, tragedies, sorrows, joys, sym
pathies, eNcitements.
You regard the newspaper. as a COM
monplace matter Did you
stop to reflect that ii is the vein which
lmparts to you the life blood of human
lty at large? That ii is your principal
medium of intelligence and source of
information? That 1t alone feeds you
with the strength for keeping on with
your world and maintaining a footing
with men? That 1t supplies the most
slsnihcent data for your business, or
needed information for your household? =?
That II furnishes the topics OF much of
your conversation and most of your
gossip? That II caters to your pleasures,
bulletins your amusements, invites you
out OF yourself, plays to your fancy,
tickles your humor. provides most OF
your jokes, affords an unfailing COM
panionship that fills lonely hours and
nnaIly Keeps you yourself alive? That
TO you, and your fit only for the So
Ciety of the Dark Ages?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-12-23
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

Col. A. V. Crookston, of Pittsburgh.
who was here yesterday, is lieutenant
colonel of the Fourteenth Regiment.
james A. Gardner, the veteran
city solicitor of New Castle, was u
Harrisburg visitor yesterday.
Samuel Rea, president of the
Pennsylvania railroad, was given good
wishes by many friends on the occa
sion of his appearance at his office
yesterday.
Congressman G. p. Darrow, of
Philadelphia, is in favor of pay for
militiamen.
Speaker Ambler's bridge building
firm was low bidder for the now
county bridge over the Schuylkill near
Norristown.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-12-23
SWITZERLAND WAS READY

1t is hoped that Germany may heed
the request of Switzerland to give Mr.
Ford's peace party pass through Ger
many into Switzerland. 1t would be
both interesting and instructive. no
doubt, for the members of Mr.. Ford's
party to see why Swltzerland's neu-
trality was not violated in the present
war as was the neutrality of Belgium.
City Star.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-12-23
The Corner GrOcery's
Power

One billion five hundred mil
lion dollars.
Sounds like a lot of money yet
II is not large enough to cover
the sales of food products made
in one years time through cor
ner grocery stores.
Enough to keep warning
nation in munitions.
The corner grocery is firmly
entrenched ana S nSewspaper .d aaVer-
place.
over the counter to-day are
newspaper advertised.
The grocer without cost to
himself is able to take advant-
age of this newspaper advertis-
ing by showing the products in
his window.
He adds his push to the adver-
tising pull and reaps his share OF
the profits.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-12-23

1t is hardly conceivable that the
City Council will at this important
stage of the City Planning Commits
sion's work refuse to make the small
appropriation necessary to retain the
services of Warren II. Manning, the
distinguished landscape architect, who
has so admirably advised the park de-
pRrtment for several years. Is the
knocker whispering once more in mu-
ulcipal circles? Let us hope not.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-12-23

| erful current that is tied up in the
electrical portion of the Main Line of
| the p. r. r. down by Overlook, were
not enough to kill Harry Gerstley, a
4 signal construction man. His foot,
tipping piece of copper tubing,
formed a short circuit which had so
much force that it knocked his foot
away and saved his life. The serv-
ice on No. 3 and track wires was
put out of commission ror the time
being.
/ A touching example of mother love
was shown in Reynoldsville Tuesday
when the mother of four small chill
! dren saved them from her flaming
| household, but was too exhausted to
| escape herself and plunged down into
the heated furnace, where her body
| was later found. The rescue was ef-
| fected by dropping the children one
| by one from the second story into
| the arms of a young man below, but
Mrs. Addison, the mother, did not
have the strength to save herself.
Boy scouts in OIL City have made
arrangements to patrol two of the i'm
! portant thoroughfares that have been
set aside for coasters, and thus fit
| tingly maintain their reputation for
service and efficiency.
Former President Taft, owing to
sickness. was unable to dedicate the
100000 Nurses Home of the Allen
town Hospital to-day. Elaborate ar
Iangements had been made for the
dedication of this magnificent struc-
ture, and the absence of the guest Of
/ honor was keenly felt.
A Reading woman remarked TO her
husband as follows: II do not like
the Dutch: they are all beneath my
notice. and | can find no one my
equal to associate with IN this sec
ton" This was divulged to the court
in divorce case now up. Our good
opinion of the Pennsylvania Germans
must per Sc be increased by the very
remarks that seem to decry.
Twin sisters were wedding in Sun
burg 'tother day and each couple
acted as maid OF honor and best man
for the other. No. they couldn't do
that, could they? One must have
acted as matron of honor. At any
rate, it was very pleasing affair.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-12-23

Much of the progress of Harrisburg
during the last fifteen years has been
due to the Intelligent foresight and
counsel of Fuertes and Manning and
the other famous experts who have
been consulted by the several municipal
boards. City Council should not make
a false step now. We must not deceive
ourselves.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-12-23
FLETCHER's TASK IN MEXICO
Ilrnlnn the Nam Xnri- IHrn-fa L


The appointment of Henry p. Fletcher
as Ambassador to Mexico means more
than recognition of the fact that be-
Eond the Rio Grande a Government of
some sort has emerged from the fur
mace of revolution 1t introduces to
matte posts man of whom great things
are expected.
\ Rough Rider in Cuba in 1898. an
infantryman in the Philippines later,
Secretary of Legation in Cuba, China
and Portugal, and since 1910 Minister
to Chill, Mr.. Fletcher at the age of IL
IS lntrusted with mission that cannot
fail TO appeal to the best that is I'm him.
On the wisdom, patience, disinterested-
ness and tact that he may display in
his new service much will depend
Perhaps some time we shall know to
what extent American Interference. ac-
tual or potential. influenced the fiery
ordeal through which Mexico has pass
ed since 1911. We know in a general
way that exploiters and promoters from
throughout, and that no tyrant and no
patriot, no reactionary and no revolu-
zionist, has been without the support
OF powerful interests in the United
states. 1t has been charged. and to
some extent proved, that the former
Ambassador to Mexico, Henry Lane
Wilson, who was appointed by Presi-
dent Taft, became an active adherent
of Huerto as against Madero, and that
If it had not been for his partisanship D
and promises the history of that un-
happy country might have been differ
emily written.
Whatever the truth may be, DANGER
signals that no prudent man can over
look are blazing at every angle OF the
new Ambassadors pathway. He may
not always know what it is best to do,
but the things that he must not do are
imPressiVely revealed on all sides
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-12-23
BY Wing DinEer

Ever drop a family heirloom
On the floor and see it break?
Recollect how all the ginger
Out of you it seemed to take?
Then you know about how felt
When my one boy yesterday
Came and put his arms about me
And to me these words did say:
Tell me. daddy, honest, truly,
Cross your heart. now aren't you
Santa CLAUSE" Way down my chin
went,
Knew not what to say or do.
Seems to me the joys of Christmas
Are cut down half or more
When the kids belief In Santa
Shattered lies upon the floor
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-12-23

shows that the farmer of this state
has received more for his crops than
the average farmer in any part of the
country. And as for buckwheat the
good old State provides about one-third
of the crop of the country. and it's
good stun!
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-12-23
OuR HOME SONGS

Who wrote our national home songs
"Way Down Upon the Swanee River,
"Afy Old Kentucky Home" "Old
Folks at Home? Do you know that
they were created and written by
Stephen Collins Foster in a dingy
Bowery grocery store?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-12-23

All credit to the Central and Tech
students who are giving entertain
ments this week for the children of the
charitable institutions Of the city,
That is true Christmas spirit and
those who give as we'll as those who
receive will have deserved the reward
of the promise that 'Inasmuch as ye
have done It unto one of the least OF
these, ye have done 1t unto Me"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-12-23
THURSDAY EVENING, DEC. 2S.

There is one body. and one Spirit
even as also ye icere called in one hope
Of your calling; one Lord, one faith
2He baptism. one God and Father OF
UH, tcho is oUer al, and through all
md in dH-Eph. 4: 4, 5, 6.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-12-23

To-day is a better day than to-mor-
row and tomorrow will be better day
than the one to follow for removing all
rubbish and infiammable materials from
your homes or business places. This is
the real Christmas spirit also.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-12-23

Governor Brumbaugh must have read
with keen interest and qualification the
report of the State upon the agricui-
ture of Pennsylvania. This imperial
has always been re-
garded as an Industrial and mineral
region by many outsiders. It's enor-
nous agricultural resources have never
been quite understood. As a matter of
fact. however, the report Of the year
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-12-23

That William Penn Highway confer
ence should be held as soon as pos
sible. Everybodys for 1t.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-12-23

Those Fordites better keep away
from the Black Forest. They've got
an awful lot of savage squirrels over
there.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-12-23

Good for Cunningham! Another toll
road has succumbed. And still there
are more to follow.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-12-23

Let us have light" is the insistent
demand OF Harrisburg consumers of
electricity in every quarter of the city.
Maybe the candles on Christmas eve
will be useful as we'll as ornamental.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-12-23
TELEORAPH'S PERISCOPE

Most of the evening dresses are cut
to suit the conservationists-th is
TO waist to them.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-12-23

While Pittsburgh savings bank was
closing its doors yesterday, the savings
Institutions of this city We're paying
out the coin to their depositors.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-12-23

That's some" tree being erected
for the municipal celebration to-mor-
row night. But, then. this is some
city"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-12-23

Happy arrangement this year
one day to get indigestion and another
to get over It,
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-12-23

And many of us got awake to-day
to find that it is too late to do our
Christmas shopping early.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-12-23

Some of the railroads have so much
freight to handle that they are now
dumping 1t into the back yards of
Harrisburg people in carload lots.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-12-23
If YE SEEK HIM

The Lord is with you, while We be
with him; and if ye seek him, he will
be found of you'll Chronicles 1872.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-12-23

Some of those who have been
trying to shake it off understand why
it is called grip"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-12-23
DO YOU KNOW

That Harrisburg pipe are used
TO drain mines in the Andes?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-12-23
Burn a Candle
on. Christmas Eve

You will want to observe this
city's latest custom for her
aiding the Coming of the
King. Burn candle in your
front window on Christmas
Eve.
The custom that is centuries
old, but IT has lately been re-
vived and will be observed in
this city this year.
Be sure that your window
has a burning candle.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-12-23
HISTORIC HARRISBURG
SHATTERED

The first borough offices were in
Market Square.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-12-23

Member American Newspaper Publish
ers' Association. Audit Bureau of
Circulation and Pennsylvania Associ-
ated Dailies.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-12-23

Published every evening (except Sun
day) at the Telegraph Building, 21e
Federal Square. Both phones.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-12-23

Eastern Ofice. Fifth Avenue Building,
New York City. Hasbrook. Story &
Brooks.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1915-08-11
FIRST BALE 1915
 CROP FROM CAIC07
Is Ten Days Later Than 1014 First Bale, Also
 Chicot County.

The first bale of cotton of the 1915 growing season arrived in Pine Bluff yesterday morning from Lake Village, 'chicot county. It was consigned to the cotton department of the Ham, melt Grocer company by Dr. J. C.. Norton, and will be sold at auction at g O clock this morning in front of the Citizens bank building by Secre- tary E. B. Bloom of the chamber of commerce.
 The first bale of cotton was re- ceived last year here on August l, and was sold at auction also. bring ing 40 cents per pound, the purchaser being Ben B. Well, who shipped it to Memphis. A bonus fund of $121 was given c. B. Owen, also of Lake Village, who raised last years first bale, and already bonus fund is be- ing raised among the local cotton ant business men, to be presented Dr Norton. The first $10 of this funt was donated by the chamber oi commerce.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1915-08-11
HA|TIEN REBELS
 P|LLAGING FARMS
 IN THE INTERIOR

Washington. Aug. 10.-The navy department made public late tonight both encouraging and disturbing ad- vices from Admiral Caperton, in charge of the American forces in Haiti. < fyl
 Rebels pillaged Grande Riviere and raided number of plantations in the interior on August 8. Fear is ex- pressed that it will be difficult to persuade them to disarm, and they are said to believe that General Bobo has abandonned them and to resent it.
 The capital of the island is re- ported comparatively quiet, although there are mutterings against the seiz- ure of the customhouse by the United States authorities.
 Admiral Caperton reported he had sent the gunboat Castine to St. Marc, where new troubles were reported Details were not given.
 The Haitien gunboat returned to Cape Haitien to get more soldiers who have laid down their arms.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1915-08-11
HENRY SEEKING
 GOVERNMENT AID
 FOR COTTON MEN
Wants Federal Reserve Banks to Loan Farmers
 Money at 4 Per Cent.

Washington, Aug. 10.-Congress- man R. l.. Henry of Texas today ap- peared before the federal reserve board in regard to the cotton situa- tion in the South. He urged that the board issue an order permitting the federal reserve bank to loan money to the cotton planters at 4 per cent, the board to deposit funds in the Southern banks to the amount of about s25O,OOO,O0O for this purpose, and upon which the banks would be allowed an interest of percent. MT. Henry submitted 9 second proposition to the acting secretary of the treasury. that in the event the federal reserve board did not meet the situation by loaning the federal reserve banks money at ? per cent, that the secretary deposit $25O,O00,- 900 in the banks of the cotton section for moving purposes as was done q year ago.
 "The cotton crop of the South will not exceed 13,O0O,OOO bales this year, " said MT. Henry. "There has been a great reduction in the acreage, and widespread diversification of crops The cotton is fairly good and the planters are encouraged over the outlook for marketing it."
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1915-08-11
TWO BATTLESA!PS 0F BRITAIN SUNK
 BY THE GERMANS
Several Russian Battleships Reported Trapped in Gulf
 of Riga.

London, Aug. 10.-A sudden renew al of naval activity, both in the North sea and the Baltic, has resulted In the sinking of two British battleships both small. and the reported trap hing of several Russian battleships ln the gulf of Riga.
 Five merchantmen today were re- ported sunk by German submarines and q submarine belonging to the al- lied powers is said to have been sunk bv a Turkish sea plane off Gallipoll.
 The first news of a new loss to the British navy was recelved here III a wireless dispatch from Berlin which reported the torpedoing Of the auxiliary cruiser Inda. a converted Peninsula & Oriental liner of 7,9oC tons. by a German submarine, as she was entering the port of Restf1ord Sweden. in neutral waters. Elght oi her crew were saved The admlfaity has made no statement as to the number of men aboard her.
 Later an official statement was is- sued by the admiralty announcing the sinking of the torpedo boat destroy' CT Lynn by mine in the North sea Four of her officers and 22 of hel crew were rescued. This class o' vessel usually carries a crew O between 70 and 100.
 Several German Warshlps are re- ported damaged in their operat,ons before the gulf of Riga, in whicf they are cooperating with land forces nroceeding against the town. Thell object is believed to be to Dottie ul the Russian war vessels III the haf bor. What ships are there IS no known. The whereabouts or th' Russian dreadnaughts even IS no known here.
 The German ships damaged are re ported to have suffered by mines.