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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-08-07

a decision as to a slogan, all sorts of
combinations were suggested and pass
ed upon says Tom o. Jones. advertis-
i1g ing manager, man Of the Empire Company;
Growth was deemed the most favor
able. In five words it implies more
than any combination devised, but at
the same time it is a straight forward
statement of fact. 1t sums up the ad-
vance of the company, and to the buyer
or dealer reveals the fact that he is
dealing with a firmly established, sue
cessful firm and firm that has con-
sistently marketed good product, for
after all companys success must be
built on the quality of goods produced
and the satisfaction given customers.
1T is, of course, slogan that will be
changed from time to time in a manner
that we will be pleased to change. for
indeed on September 1, the beginning
of our new fiscal year. we will make It
read Seventh Year of Continued
Growth
And this seventh year is looked for
ward to as one of more marked ad-
vance than any previous season. Two
models, sturdy high powered Four
and a big lightweight Six make up the
line which as sales and buying PROPOSE
tions admittedly outdo any previous
models"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-08-07
Sixth Year of Growth
Features Empire Slogan

sixth Year of Continued Growth" is
the slogan now adopted by the Empire
Automobile Company. In every adver-
duced by the company, this slogan is
to be found. The story back of the
adoption of this phrase, differing as it
does from those In general use, is in
teresting.
when we were endeavoring to reach
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-08-07
AUTOMOBILE NOTES

Vast quantity of metals are used
in the manufacture of the modern
motor car. In Dodge Brothers foun-
dry, over 10000 pounds of gray iron
alone is cast daily to keep pace with
the big schedule of production. Ap-
proximately $50 cylinder castings are
turned out every twenty-four hours,
and hundreds of other smaller parts
used in the motor are being manufac-
tured simultaneously,
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-08-07
MIR. BENDER BUYS COLE EIGHT

Indianapolis, Ind, Aug. THE
man to own the first automobile in
Pennsylvania is Mr.. Bender, now of
Moorestown, n. ]. Mr.. Bender has
been close student of the automo-
bile since the beginning of the busi-
ness and just recently chose the Cole
eight-cylinder car as the one he de-
sired to sell. Officials of the Cole
Motor Car Company feel highly COM
plimented by Mr.. Bender's choice,
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-08-07
33 Points of Jeffery
Superiority

Standard seven-passenger body
Divided lounge-type front seats
Extra length springs
Weight, 2750 pounds
116 inch wheel base
"a x 4 Goodyear Fortified tires
All weather tread rear
Jeffery Chesterfield body
Rear seat, 48 inches wide
Easy-riding auxiliary seats
Extra wide doors
Deep real leather upholstery
Concealed door handles
Left drive-center control
Light Brewster green finish
Jeffery high-speed motor
Unit power plant
Extra large motor bearings
Bosch magnetic ignition
Stromberg high-eficiency car
buretor
Blur electric starting and light
ing
Smooth acting disc clutch
Jeffery silent gear shift
Jeffery easy-control stearing gear
Hotchkiss type flexible drive
Jeffery-built silent rear axle
Extra surface brakes
Emergency brake on propeller
shaft
Jeffery one-man top
Adjustable clear-vision wind
shield
Locking double DINNER lights
Van Sicklen speedometer
Automatic gasoline feed
Complete equipment
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1915-09-18
LuMINOswN. sEEN IN NATURE
Insects and Forms of Vegetation
Have Iight-Gning Power

Tho lightning bugs mystery ~
light without heat is now alleged TO
be solved a member of tnit earnest
headed colony Of scientists at Woods
Hole. Mass, has recently declared
that the bug does its interior and cN-
terror illumination uy eating certain
substances which supply IL with phos-
phorus.
1t is to be hoped that this is true
So we may quit worrying about why
the lightning bug is lit up.
Although the lightning bug is our
most popular and common pyrOtoch-
mic insect there are many other in
sects and many forms OF vegetable life
which share i'm light-givinE power Of
high and low degree. Under certain
conditions, nasturtiums. dahlias, tube
rascs and yellow lilies may he seen
TO glow with a bright radiance. vary
ing in color and intensity. only those
flowers that have an abundance Of
yellow or orange shades exhibit this
phosphorence. The best time to see
the light is after dark, when the at
mosphorc is clear and dry. The light
is sometimes steady but often inter-
mittent and flashing.
often in the early fall the ground
viii be illuminated by the glow from
the dead leaves The Australian poppy
is the most remarkable of all the
luminous plants. for II has been found
TO send out "A light Of its own OF quite
notable brlliancy.
Mushrooms growing on decayed
wood often have degree Of briliiancy
that. when they are placed on news
paper. will enable one to read the
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1915-09-18
Tho Prcsidcnt's Scotch Story.

President Wilson, speaking once i'm
Brooklyn, illustrated "a point with an
anecdote of two Scotchmen. one was
"a marketman. the other a purchaser
who came with his dog TO the market
TO buy a fish. Sandys dog nosing
about in the baskets came upon "A
catch OF live Holsters Soon one of
the Holsters had a hold on the dogs
tail and Sandy and the markctmau
watched the two disappear together
down the street toward home.
SANDY cried the markctman.
"Whustle to your dog. mon
Whustle."
NAY. nay" answered Sandy com
fortabiy. "I'll not. You whusllc o.
your lobster"
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1915-09-18
VIA STREET CAR
TO FAIRGROUNDS

For your convenience in attending
the County Fair by way uf the street
car liTc, use the path inside the fair
grounds TO the Exposition buildings
and thus avoid the possible dangers
of walking alonG the pilc.-AdN.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1915-09-18

west of section 3l-23-ll is good for
20 barrels
The Wolverine OH company has a
oooOO.toot slssor In the northwest
corner OF section l9-23-l3 iu the 2 2,Olj-
foot sand, which Is the deepest ever
found IN this locality
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1915-09-18
lmTIrnI l.NnnI.

school 80. usually began tho d,v
with q discussion of current cvents ny.
items Of word interest
DO YOU know any current events
tonay. asked the teacher brightly
oiiolly '' GA
teacher '"o
lhry shot lady in the c. &c 0.
F'lIe Yesterday for stealing coal."-
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-09-21
TEACHING THE FARMER HOW TO EAT.

From the Savannah News.
If any Nebraska farmer henceforth drinks coffee
from a saucer takes his soup by the vacuum pro-
cess uses his knife pea shovel, does any 9TH
table stunt that isn't done in best circles
it won't be the fault of the agricultural college of
the University of Nebraska for in its efforts up
lift the farmer it has issued a set of table rules
which, if he follows them to the letter. will start
him in at soup and bring him out at nuts with
perfect score. 1t even tells him that it isn't
sary to his legs around the rungs of his chair
as he worries the chicken gizZard attacks the
huge slab of pie, and it gently reminds him that a
napkin is not towel and neither is his shirt sleeve
a napkin.
He is informed that he will never be a sword
swallower in side show and hence it isn't proper
to slide his knife in and out of his mouth and fur
thermore no biscuit should ever be knife-stabbed
from the plate across the table from the stabber
With all these rules to learn the life of the average
Nebraska farmer may not be one grand sweet song
for while. Of course, that he has an auto
mobile, electric lights in his home sewing ma
chine, hot water on every floor and a son and
daughter off at college, he has to learn all the
tricks that are pracced by social lights in the big
meals in his shirt sleeves and WELD his knife and
fork without showing favOritism to either utensil
He is learning that prosperity and progress bring
their burdens. If he pleads that his father and his
grandfather cooled their coffee by blowing it he
will be told that they lived back in last century
and that the world has turned over many times
since they passed There will be no escape for
him. Mother and the girls will insist that he be
made tableWise by the quickest process. Daughter
Will want her college Chum to visit her and would
be Mortified if the old came to the dining table
IN his suspenders, took soup with noise, his gumbo
with audible gustO and used his knife as litter
Maybe it would be a good thing for the cities if
in exchange for their table tricks they received
more than the people of the cities have retained
For example, neighborliness.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-09-21
Who Owns the Railroads?

We have long been accustomed to believe tbot
the railroads of the United States were chiefly own
ed by another by cliques of miilionaires and
independent rich. This theory has perhaps been
by the Examinations of demagogc politicians which
although they have ceased for a time have mot
been altogether forgotten
Although the facts somewhat shock and upset
this theory which was at time we'll inculcated
by those who used it as a step-ladder to political
preferment there comes refreshing information re-
garding the true conditions as to railroad owner.
ship, which ought to be of wide interest and which
may well become the subject of careful consider
alton.
The federal bureau of railway economics has Just
compiled some figures which indicate beyond ques-
ton that the railroads of the United States are
largely owned by the people rather than a small
group of Wall street mllionaires. These figures
relate to 1887 railroad companies with a total
outstanding capital stock of $8,685, 764,125. Prac
tcaly every railroad operated in the United States
is covered in these returns.
Indicating how the distribution of railroad Sc
curities among the people has increased in recent
years the report shows that in 1904 1882 rail-
road companies reported 327,785 stockholders;
while in 1914 twenty of the leading companies of
the United States far exceeded that number with
376,897 stockholders. These twenty railroad sys
TENS showed an increase in the number of their
stockholders of 1867 per cent in ten years. The
average amount of stock held by each stockholder
is approximately $4,000, while the average income
received by each investor in railway stocks was
$625.81, or about So per cent of their invest
ment
Among other interesting figures presented in the
report is the fact that insurance companies doing
business in the United States have investments Of
more than $500, 900 in railroad bonds These
investments are made directly with the money of
the people, and it is further pointed out that some
100000, 900 in actual savings is similarly invest
ed in railway securities.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-09-21
Prosperity Signals.

The prosperity outlook is Frightening The Sep
TENDER crop report foreshadows a half dozen new
production records. New records are indicated in
rye. barley, sweet potatoes, tobacco and hay The
apple crops are far above the average The fndi-
Gated yield of winter wheat is $50 90 600 Bushels,
and of spring wheat 1922 100000 or a total of
981,000000 bushels, which exceeds last years rec
ord crop by 100000. Corn is set down for
probable yield of 2,985, 100000 bushel, or no.
100000 bushels over last year. The forecast for
oats is 1,408 600 900 bushels 267 600 900 bush
els more than the yield of 1914. Potatoes are set
down for 406,O0O.O0O bushel, which. despite the
change for the worse in August is but 100000
bushels below the 1912 record crop.
The fruits of agriculture this year are usually
bountifu, and upon them in large measure depend
the prosperity of all other trades. They give high
promise of brisk home trade this fall and winter
In other important directions the outlook is
equally promising. The iron and steel industry is
known as the barometer of trade. When it is act
i've there is increasing activity throughout the in
'dustrial system; when it slumps general depres-
sion exists, may be expected. The rec
ord OF the August iron output backs up the Sep
TENDER crop report in splendid fashion. In no
other August in the history of the country
as much iron produced, and not since May, 1918,
mas the tonnage been so great.
Cotton is about the only serious spot on the
rising of prosperity. Production has been less
ened however, and the producers are in better
shape to meet the situation than they we're last
year. The cotton outlook is unsettled and uncer-
tain.
In view, however of the glowing picture of
health presented by agriculture and the steel trade
the nation has little cause for pessimism. Never
mas nature been bountiful and never has such
abundance conceded with so much hunger and
misery everywhere.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-09-21
COTTON.
Is indispensable to the Manufacture of H;ab
Explosives.

BY making cotton contraband the allies arc :
deavoring to limit Germanys resources of ANN Ou
milton, as it is Indispensable asset to high ~
plosives. Guncotton is used in enormous oneH
titles for charging torpedoes and mines It's b
is raw cotton or even cotton waste such as is D
in cleaning machinery. This is soaked for @
eral hours in baths of nitric and sulphuric anis
and it is then passed between massive steel ro1o'
These expel every trace of acid which has NOT has
absorbed by the cotton Through continual sooI
ings in water the acid-charged cotton is redTcos
to a mass resembling paper pulp, and it is tb
ready to be moulded into various shapes and siz zeu
Discs, cylinders, squares and tubes of guncottom
are produced according to the shape of the imnI
ments in which it is to be used.
Intense shock heat explodes guncotton ars
it's power can be gagged from the fact that If 10
the force which blows great holes in ships throuoI
the agency of mines and torpedoes. The advsHt
ages of guncotton for military purposes are tbat
it can stay for any length of time in water with
out injury; its explosions are unattended by SMOKE.
it gnites at temperature half that required ~
explode gunpOwder
peculiar characteristic of guncotton is that
brick of it, when wet, may be placed on a bed ~
hot Goals and the moisture dries out the cotton
will flake and burn quietly. If dry originate
however, the guncotton will explode with terrific
force at about 800 degrees of heat.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-09-21

The discovery in Terrell county of what has been
pronounced by entomologsts to be the boil weevil
is cause for anxiety, of course, among the people
of this section But it is a significant fact that such
an announcement is generally met with a far less
degree of apprehension than it would undoubtedly
have been some time ago when the news of the
approach of this pest the signal for near panic
in many quarters.
Several things are responsible for this state of
mind. Chief among these perhaps is the knowl-
edge made manifest through the work Of federal
and state scientists, that the weevil be fought
with comparative success by the use of intensive
and scientific methods of preparation and culture.
Anticipating the advent of this parasite the farm
ers of this section have given much thought and
study to the propaganda of the farm experts and as
a rule are prepared to energetically follow the cam
paign for minimizing the destructive effect of the
weevil that has followed in the affected sections
At the same time the slogan of diversfcatiOn has
had it's effect and the policy of "hog and hominy
at home" is growing in favor
The present harvesting season unquestionably
sees more foodstufs raised in Terrell county than
ever before in its history This condition is at
tributab1e to the European and the disturb
ance in the cotton market, it is true but what
ever the the result is bound to prove highly
profitable and it does not seem likely that the
farmer will deliberately turn his face away from
what is a proved success and return to the short
sighted policy of the past, even if cotton values
should and the too optimistic planter should
believe that the weevil talk is exaggerated
1t would SEEM therefore, that this section finds
itself much better prepared to meet the weeviIs
coming than it was year or two years ago, and
will undertake the fight with confidence and good
spirit At the same time it will not do to under
rate the evil effect of the pest and go along effort
less, in "everythin g s-al-right' manner The
people must keep fully awake to the situation, and
use every advanced method of combating the pesky
little plant enemy.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-09-21

If horses could talk those of US who know them
best have no doubt as to of the things they
would say Mans inhumanity to them would be
their chief subject; at least, if they are half as
human as we think they are.
To require a locomotive to haul train of cars
over a track that wrecks it before half the days
of usefulness should be and then send it to
the scrap heap is an economic folly. To ask
horse to drag our heavy loads of all kinds over
streets and roads that it out even before
it has reached its prime is not only an eco
nomic folly but cruelty that not only horses but
all decent men must condemn.
To be jerked and pulled, now this way now
that, because the loaded wagon you striving to
drag to it's destination sinks into hollow here or
bangs into elevation there, to go home at night
with feet bruised and shoes torn off, with legs
aching in every muscle-if horses who
of US would not start a union for self-protection
and strike before the week was over?
But horses do talk Their language is not aud
ble; it is visible. You see it in that swollen joint
that sprained tendon, that limping gait, which
speak of the bad roads over which men have made
them travel with heavy loads.
We treating with positive cruelty every work
ing day of the year thousands of most faith
full servants without whom we would have pros
porous and happy rural life cities worthy of
the name
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-09-21
Horrible Death Valley.

Only one man ever spent more than a day IL
Death Valley and lived to tell the tale That man
is H. w Manton, of RhyoIte Cal. For more tlan
a week he was lost in the heart of the VaIV!
tramping over 80 miles of sand hot that 1t ouIn
ed through his heavy boots. IL,
His tongue was swollen to such a size tnaI ms
mouth could no longer contain it, and his eye
lids were cracked open. Finally he staggered W
to Cub Lees Furnace Creek ranch more dead Vlah
alive. At first he could not drink The tou.l
Rancbmen had to force the water into his mouth
through a straw. -
Why cannot human beings live in Death VAIN ipaq
According to records of the California m i4T
bureau men have gone into the valley with penn
of water, but have died of thirst-the arid all h p
ping the moisture from their bodies faster t tI[.
they could supply it. In summer the ar Is h
arid until it contains but per cent OF hhnlu ~.
and we'll shaded barometers soar to 125 degrees
Fahrenheit.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-09-21
HORSES TO EUROPE.

In the current issue of Farm and Fireside ap-
pears the following statement of interesting facts
about the sale of American horses and mules since
the broke out:
We have been selling horses abroad to the num-
Der of $4,000 annually, Their average has been
$149 Mules have been exported to the number
of 5000 year, valued at $3.50 each
Since the war broke out We have sold abroad
215,759 horses at an average price of 1920 and
1929 mules valued at $3.50 the head. That
is, we shipped away in months nearly as many
horses and mules as in the past eight years.
The man who has a breeding mare may we'll
study these figures.
There may be no present scarcity of horses and
mules in this country, but if the war continues
there will be- 1t will pay to raise colts. And
for the man who has salable horses and wishes to
equip himself with tractors or motor-driven car
riages the present time would be to be favor
able for making the shift
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-09-21
But Do You Play Fair?

If you conduct a Dawson establishment of any
kind whatever which offers something for sale 1t
is a foregone conclusion that you do not look with
an approving eye at the spectacle of a Dawsonian
who orders from eastern mail order house the
very article or articles which he could have pur-
chased from you here at home.
And your attitude is eminently the correct and
sensible
But
Do you yourself order from an eastern mail or
der house or one of the larger Georgia cities ar
ticles which you could purchase in Dawson?
If so you are absurdly inconsistent.
You are not playing fair.
You are fair neither to yourself nor your city.
Think it over!
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-09-21
Why Have Typhoid Fever !?

Always present is the danger of typhoid fever;
always present the possibility that it may bring
death, or one or of the numerous after eff
fects which it is so prone to leave behind.
Did we say always? No, not always.
Medical science four or five years ago isolated
the typhoid germ, and found to conquer
it, Any drug store will sell you for Is cents the
essential bacteria treatment; any physician will for
a nominal fee administer it,
That means that henceforth for a period of two
and half to three years your chance for having
typhoid is about in a thousand. Results have
shown the bacteria invariably effective except in
cases so rare as not to be worth mentioning.
This isn't any boost for the druggists and doc
tors. 1t is merely expressing wonder why any one
should consent to have typhoid fever.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-09-21

From the New York Press.

To the searching eye of science nothing is Sa-
cred. Now the department of agriculture is under
taking to prove that even the flea is not the all
round athlete he is usually considered.
The story of our youth, that if a flea were as
big man he could go from New York to San
Francisco in three jumps, is of piece with the
grounding day story, the authorities would have
us believe. The longest jump which a pulex rr-
tans, which is department of agriculture for 'hu-
man" flea, has ever been known to make is thr-
teen inches. If the flea big man he
could jump from the Battery to Wall street, or
thereabout, but farther. Moreover, in making
this jump he would barely clear the top of the
Whitehall building. For the highest vertical jump
pulex irritans has male is eight anG One-half
inches. So fall the fairy taie: of youth? So does
inexorable science tear the rosy veil from life and
expose it in its naked drab.
One may ask why the department of agriculture
should take this sudden interest in heas. Because
The department is interested in the ability OF me
flea to carry the germs of plague. The moral
that if you keep fourteen inches away from the
plague-infested human his ieas won't be able u
reach you.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-09-21
Morning Comes Back.

Morning comes back in the dreams of the night,
Morning with laughter and love and delight.
Morning comes back, morning comes back
Morning comes back through the year;
Shadows and spirits of trouble, and change.
Music and roses and tears.
Morning comes back in that hour when we lean
Above sweet mem'ry that comes to us green.
Morning comes back, morning comes back,
glory across the miles,
Fragrant and vagrant and tender and true
Dancing and singing and smiles
Morning comes back with its light and its love-
Morning comes back to the dreams by our door,
Morning comes back, morning comes back,
Neither persisted, nor lost astray;
Beaming and dreaming to light with its
cleaning,
The darkness and shadows and gray.