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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-07-02
A RAINY NIGHT
BY Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Copyright, 1915, Star Company
When the fingers of rain on the window
pane
Tap, tap, tap,
And the feet of the Rain run over the
roof
In the dark of a summer night,
Then out of their graves old memories
creep
And they steal up into the house of
And they rap. rap. rap
On the door of the heart till 1t sets a
And opens the portal and spreads the
For the waiting horde.
Then the great wide world seems all
with the ghostly shapes of the things
that were.
A Pleasure that perished. a dead De-
An old Delight and vanished Care.
A Passion that builded it's funeral pyre
From the worthless timber of brief de-
sire,
A Hope that wandered and lost its way
In the dazzling beams of its own bright
With iong-gone Worries and long-last
Come steaithily creeping with never a
(For the things that have gone on the
road to God
When they turn, back earthward are
silence-shod)
And they enter the hearts great living
room
When the rain beats down from sky
Of gloom
In the dark of summer night.
And thev tell old tales and they sing
old songs
That are sweet, sweet. sweet;
While tho fingers of rain on the window
pane
Beat, beat, beat.
And they feast on the past and drink
its wine
And call it a brew divine.
But when in the east the darkness
pales
And the edge of the cloud shows light,
The ghosts go back with a silent tread,
And only the heart knows what they
said
In the dark of the summer night.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-07-02
THE ONE-TERM SCHISM

ly, to knife Mr.. Wilson in case of his
entertaining aspirations for q second
term. The President has never pub
licly subscribed to the one-term idea,
but has expressed himself sensibly
to the effect that the head of the
people is the chief servant of the
peope and is there to do their will
as long as they care to retain him
in his post. Hence the one-term
schism that is already rupturing the
Democratic party is not bred of brash
advance renunciations of ambition.
in which prior president indulged
The effect of this split in the party,
which has only minority rule, through
the grace of the Bull Moose defec-
ton from the Republican ranks, will
be to give further impetus to the
selection of a Republican for the high
office. The Republican party has
unity and when it comes to naming
It's candidates it will display unanim-
ity. 1t has credit for ability to deal
with great questions and to keep the
ship of State upon stable keel. The
people are fully prepared for a change
in the White House. They realize
that the domestic business of the
nation as we'll as it's International Sc
curity will be best cared for in the
hands of a party that can rally to
the support of its head, as the di-
vided and discredited Democracy can
not support the present Chief Exec
utive. Mr.. Wilson has proven too
resolute a man for his party associ-
ates and the split of Bryan will fur
nish center for defectants upon
other counts, to pull away from him.
Thus the Democrats will display their
old-time ability to do the wrong
thing at the wrong time and the Re
publicans will reap the benefit.
Mr.. Bryan is constitutional
wrecker. He wrecked his party when
he first sprung into the arena with
hiss absurd silver and Populist alli-
ance. Its nearest approach to re-
covery has been the present. Now
the same Bryan is preparing to
wreck the party once more. The dis
comfiture of the Democrats, however,
| insures to the good of the country
| through its reliance upon competent
Republicans. The list of Republican
availabes is large and imposing.
The country is prepared to make its
choice for the party of sanity and
ability.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-07-02
RUM AND WAR DO NOT MIX

CPECIAL correspondence just re-
y ceived in this country from Ber-
lin indicates that rum and war
do not mix we'll, even though there be
some who doubtless believe that one
is little worse than the other At a
conference Of German societies es-
tablished to deal with inebriates it
was reported that all but a few of a
large number of men treated by these
organizations and sent to the front
had to be dismissed from the ranks, as
neither their nerves nor their physical
condition enabled them to stand the
strain.
An important point brought out in
the discussions of the conference was
the deteriorating effects of even mod
crate drinking on military efficiency.
The investigations made by officers,
surgeons and chaplains went to show
that in the vast majority of cases the
moderate drinker was subject to col
lapse at a much earlier stage than the
man who had led a temperate life
Most of the speakers. supporting their
remarks by reports from the front
agreed that the very worst preparation
for doing his duty at the front which
young soldier could be subjected te
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-07-02
KAIsER's BIG WAR FOUNDRY
Krupp Works Divided Into Five

"OEhS DlNlICu 1htO II tNt
Groups of Large Size
Five separate groups of works are
comprised in the Krupp organization.
The first of these is the Essen steel
works, with proving grounds at Mep-
pen, Tanger- -Huette and Essen, con-
sisting of some so departments and
covering an area of about 500 acres.
Here are housed 1900 machine tools,
II roll trains, 1877 hammers, 81 hy-
draulic presses, 397 steam boilers, $50
steam engines. more than 1900 cleo
trio motors and 900 cranes. The total
coal consumed in this entire estab-
lishment last year alone was 5000, 600
tons. In this group is included also
the Milhofener-H -Huette, with its four
blast furnaces; the Hermann-Huette.
with three blast furnaces, and the Say
ner-Huette, with coal and iron mines.
The second group consists of the
Friedrich-Alfredi iron works, at Rhein-
hausen, with six blast furnaces, Is
blowing engines, and Siemens-Martin
steel works.
The third group is the Amen steel
works, producing principally steel cast
ings up to % tons.
The fourth group is the Gruson ma
chine works at Magdenburg- -Buckau
made up of more than so different
shops. These cover an area of rs
acres and house 1850 machine tools
and nearly 500 cranes.
The fifth group is the naval section
of the Krupp works, the Germania
shipyards at Kiei. These works cover
so acres, containing eight building
slips (four of them roofed), the two
largest of which can accommodate
vessels up to 725 feet long and 13O
feet wide. Two acres are devoted to
forge shops. The main bay of the fit
ting shop is AIS by 78 feet, and the
boiler shop is 400 by 212 feet.-Re-
view of Reviews.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-07-02
BOOM IN sHIPBUILDING

TIME United States might as we'll
be without gun factories or car
fridge factories or powder works
as without ocean shipyards in this
fateful year of the Lord 1915.
Fifty steamships, ranging in capacity
from 1000 to 10000 TONS have been
contracted for by American shipyards
for salt water service since December
j, 1914. This is an unparalleled record
of activity in the merchant shipping
business. Several American coast yards
have all the work which they can
handle for two years to come. Others
can undertake more construction and
are busily negotiating for it, and every
week brings the announcement of i'm
portant new orders for large vessels
fer the coastwise, West India or other
ocean trades.
Since the New Year sudden change
has come over this particular Ameri-
Ean industry, which, up to the end of
1914, was sharing to the full the severe
depression that lay upon all of the
great productive industries of the
United States. 1t can be said of Amerl-
can ship plants as a whole that they
are busier and more prosperous than
any other industrial concerns in this
nation, except those devoted to the
1ay-and-night production of guns and
explosives for the belligerents of
Europe.
The American people are in a po-
Bition to realize as never before that
in their ocean shipyards they possess
a national asset of the very first magni-
tude. 1t is a strange fact, but true
one, that only three nations in the
world possess the skill and capacity to
construct at home all the ships re-
quired for their own merchant navies.
One of these nations is Great Britain
and the other is Germany-both alb
Borbed in a great and desperate war.
: The third is the United States.
The shipyards Of Germany are now
unavailable. and so, in another way,
are the shipyards of England, Scotland
and France. They are either occupied
in construction and repair work on
warships and transports or are build
ing merchant craft on home account
and cannot undertake any foreign or
ders. Moreover, the war and its dis
fractions have so abnormally forced
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-07-02
ANOTHER GHOST LAID

NNE of the periodic scares of the
financial community relates to
the sale of American securities
by European investors. The fear of
such selling on a wholesale scale was
the primary cause for the closing
down of the New York Stock Exchange
last summer and for the imposition
of minimum prices when trading in
securities was resumed.
Within the past few weeks reports
that heavy sales of this sort were to
begin shortly have been spread. Mean
while a committee of prominent rail-
road men has been at work trying to
determine how large the European
holdings of American securities really
are. The sum has been estimated
variously at six to eight billion dollars.
The inquiries of the committee, al
though confined to railway securities,
Indicate that the total sum that we
pwe to Europe is much less than this.
They found that the grand total Of
railway obligations held abroad was
about $2,500, ,000 900, or only two and
pne-half times the trade balance in
favor Of the United States during the
past year.
AS many of these securities are held
by estates. insurance companies and
persons of great wealth, the prospect
of a volume Of selling sufficient to
disturb the financial balance here is
not very serious.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-07-02
NAPoLEoN's sUPERsTITIoNs

All human nature holds within it.
self superstition in some greater or
less degree. Perhaps no two persons
have ever held the exact same fatalis-
tic thought. With Napoleon there was
a dread of the poor, harmless letter
M He imagined all persons, places,
events that came within the scope of
his life beginning with this letter had
a wonderful effect in shaping his ca
reer.
Looking this up. we cannot fail to
see that this otherwise harmless let
ter followed him always, playing the
game of life with him. 1t was Mar
boeuf who was the first man to sus-
lpect his genius and to shove him
ahead; it was Moreau who betrayed
him; Marseilles was the place where
he encountered the greatest Difficult
| ties at the beginning of his wonderful
career. He had six marshals, whose
names were Mortier, Money, Mar
mont, Murat. Massena, Macdonald
Among his most famous battles
were: Montenette, Millesimo, Man
terra, Malta, Marengo, Mondovi, Mont
Thabor, Montmirvil, Merry, Mormans,
Montereau, Montmartre and Mont St.
Jean (the last named at Waterloo).
At the siege of Toulon his first at
tack was Fort Malbousquet, and there
he fought Muiron; Milan was the cap
ital of his new kingdom; Moscow was
the last capital that he took; it was
Menon that made him lose Egypt;
Malet conspired against him; Meter
Mich beat him in diplomacy; Maret
was his secretary; Monalivet was his
minister; Montesquin was first cham
berlain; in March, 1896, he married
Josephine; in March, 1910, he married
Marie Louise; in March, 1911, the
King of Rome was born; Malmaison
was the unlucky house that was his
last residence in France; he surren-
dered to Capt. Maitland; Montholon
was his companion and Marchaud
May, 1S21.-Chicago Journal
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-07-02
A SUBMARINE TORPEDO

1 am the sea DEVILS daughterS
Spawned where the dead men dwell,
l snoot through the kissing water,
A lance from the prince of hell!
And ever l come to slaughter
AS mermaids ring a knell!
The pride of the seas of Britain
Is the wreck of a huckster's cart
Sniitten as whales are smitten
When the swordtish dares to dart.
The little gray shark has bitten
A hole in the kraken's heart!
I am the eel of lightning.
blast whatever / strike,
The sea top fishes frightening
AS the shark affrights the pike!
Oh. but the bones are whitening
OF things did not like!
l am the babe OF the devil!
Deep hidden / skulk and lie,
Till a liner laughs in revel
And then 1 dart on high
And kiss with the kiss of evil,
And what kiss must die!
John O'Keefe in Onconta Star.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-07-02
tFrom the Baltimore Americanl.
IUTHETHER Woodrow Wilson will
WV succeed hinnself as rrasident of


TXTHETHER Woodrow Wilson will
w succeed himself as president of
the United States is matter of
doubt. 1t is more than probable that
a Republican will occupy the place
now filled by him. But there is no
doubt whatever that William Jennings
Bryan will not achieve his ancient
ambitions to be President, nor will he
have the naming of the next Demo-
cratic candidate for the presidency.
The retirement of the Secretary of
State from the cabinet upon an al
legged point of principle is now seen
to have been in reality upon low
point of personal politics. But as
principle is the one gauge of his
lofty activities, he will in due time
announce that the platform of the
Baltimore convention drawn up by
himself and for himself declares in
favor of single term occupancy of
the presidency. He will then unctu-
ously point to this Democratic prin-
ciple-in reality a Bryan self-seeking
device-and call upon his party the
country over to hold the impeccable
doctrine by which the present incum-
bent of the White House would be
made ineligible for another term.
AS jackson sat upon the inaugural
stand when his successor Van Buren,
"dS lIluuCISu lilIO lu0 ana
remarked with low satisfaction that
he had made Van Buren president,
so William Jennings Bryan has acted
in manner to give the impression
that Wilson was Bryan's man. 1t
has so turned out that despite the
regrettable evidences of radical and
fantastic viewpoint of some domestic
policies, that could be directly trace
able to the solicitude of the Presi-
dent to be decent to Mr.. Bryan, Mr..
Wilson has in fact been no mans
man. When matters came to the is
sue of a deep underlying principle of
action affecting the honor and infiu-
ence of the nation in the affairs of
the world, the President set his face
as a flint in a direction antipodal to
that of his Secretary of State This
in the mind of a man of the type of
Mr.. Bryan, constitutes a mortal Of
fense. Hence while the smooth pala-
Yer of high regard for the President
trickles from his lips he has set about
in a business-like manner apparent
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-07-02
DO YOU KNOW
That Harrisburg people have
a great reputation as library
patrons.
BUFFALO CROSS ROADS

Buffalo Cross Roads, village four
and half miles from Lewisburg, in
Union county, is so named, according
to historians, because the last buffalo
killed in the great Buffalo valley of
Union county was shot near the place.
The skull of this beast, a large BULL
was hung on a pole at point where
public highways crossed, hence the
name. This buffalo was killed, it is
asserted, in the early part of 1900.
This village of Buffalo Cross Roads
was the home of a tanner by the name
of Chamberlain, who is said to have
been the first person in the United
States to start the canning of fruits
for commercial purposes. Mr.. Cham
berlain began this fruit preserving as
an experiment for his own use. The
products were pleasing to the taste,
and he made shipments of goods to
New York city, where demand soon
arose for all the surplus fruits he was
able to upply.-Philadelph Record.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-07-02
sPoOFTNG HIM

Recruiting is responsible for a good
story from Carmarthenshire. One of
the latest accessio ons to Kitchener 8
army is a stalwart man feet inches
in height, from the heart of the coun-
try, and on joining he expanded his
chest with pride and calculated, Now
for the Germans"
The following day he received from
London a telegram: "Heartiest con-
gratulatiohs.-Kitch
This was duly shown xound, but
next morning his pride was bound
less on receiving the royal message:
THE empire is proud of you.-
George"
1t was not until the third day. when
he received a wire, For heaven s
sake, keep eutral.-Wilhelm," that
he realized waggish friend had been
pulling his laE.-Tit-Rita.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-07-02
THE oLD-FAsmoNED FOURTH

THE ODD-FASHIONED FOURTH
EXERCISES designed to welcome
IL newly enfranchised citizens of
foreign birth will be the feature
of Fourth of July celebrations in a
large number of towns throughout the
country this year, but, as has been
the case with many another idea that
literally swept the country at it's incep-
tion. it is a question If Americanization
day in its present form will be adopted
permanently. An annual ceremony to
welcome aliens who have come to
make this country their future home
would commend itself to all patriotic
and intelligent Americans, but there is
a fundamental flaw in the proposition
to have it occur on the Fourth.
That day Is for all Americans, and
anything that has a tendency to mar
row or obscure its basic meaning
should be discouraged. A feeling that
this is so is certain to make itself
apparent as soon as the first. en-
thusiasm over Americanization day
has spent its force.
Yet nothing could be more charac-
teristic than the way in which this
novelty has made a hit with the public.
We are the great TRY anything once"
people, restlessly seeking for some
thing new. And when it comes to
patriotism we are apt to make our
outward display of it take the form of
wicrd and impracticable legislation re-
garding desecration of the flag or the
adoption of State flowers and en-
blems. On the great national holiday
a majority seem to prefer watching
eighteen or more paid performers swat
a ball around lot to attending any
formal observance of the day.
Nevertheless, we are a profoundly
patriotic people. Plenty of men who
would not go across the street to hear
a Fourth of July Grafton remove their
hats when the national ensign is car
ried by, and in countless other unob-
trusive ways attest the faith that is in
them. That is the kind of patriotism
that really counts. 1t Is neither hol-
low form nor mere emotionalism, but
deep-seated and essentially intelligent
reverence for America and the ma
tional ideals and aspirations. 1t is
because Americans have this kind of
patriotism that we say Americanization
day, while highly desirable in itself,
may be found to come in conflict with
the national idea of Fourth of July
celebration. Assimilating foreigners is
one of Americas important duties, but
after all it is but detail of the ma
tional labors.
Fourth of July programs should
make no distinctions. They should be
SO drawn that they will be inspirational
in the highest degree to citizens of all
classes; to the great army of young
men who become of age and assume
the responsibilities of citizenship each
year; to mothers and sisters; to mem
bers of families that have been here
for many generations as we'll as to the
lately arrived. After all, the Old
Fashioned Fourth. minus the noise
and the tetanus hazard. is the best
Fourth.
At most the Amerlcanization day
idea should be no more than an Incl
dent in any Fourth of July celebration.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-07-02

was indulgence in alcohol. The more
closely he approached total abstinence.
especially in the period before en-
gaging in active operations. the better
soldier he became.
All this is not very new. Every
man admits down in his heart, If not
openly, that alcohol is debilitating and
that he who INDUCES in 1t must
lack in physical fitness and. there
fore, in efficiency. The remark
able thing is that the fact is admitted
in Berlin, the home of efficiency and
also the fountainhead of German army
orders which specifically permit Ger
man soldiers to indulge in limited
quantities of alcoholic beverages.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-07-02
NOT "A THRILLING MATTER

DR. ALBERT A. sNOwDEN, of
- the National Association of
Manufacturers, has collected
data showing that 100000 persons
depend directly for their livelihood
on the manufacturing industries of
the United States. This includes the
100000 employees of the various
establishments and the members of
their families.
The total investment in the indus
trial plants of this country is $24,-
000,000.000 and their normal yearly
output aggregates $4,000, 900, 900,
exceeding largely the amount of
Great Britain and Germany combin-
ed.
This is the great structure of in
dustrialism the foundations of which
have been sapped by Democratic ex-
perimentation.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-07-02
THE DUMP
BY Wing Dinger

by Wing DinRer
I see that some prizes are offered
To those VINO perform best the feat
OF writing an essay describing
The public dump way up Thiro
street.
1 live just about block from it;
I see it and smell it each day.
And 1 think could write few verses
That would send the first prize up
my way.
But ere describe it in poetry.
on this point will some one advise?
VIII essays in such form submitted,
Be given a chance at the prize?
And also. in speech how much freedom
Will one be allowed? Let me know,
And II they will give me full leeway
After one Of the prizes I'll go.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-07-02
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

John McFadden, of Philadelphia,
will visit Holland this month.
ELIAS B. Johns has been elected
head of the Colonial Trust Company,
of Philadelphia.
Charles L. Huston, of Coates
Vile, will take an active part in the
national conference against the LIQUOR
traffic.
John F. Whalen, of Pottsville. is
the new head of the Schuylkill Bar
Association.
William Finn says he thinks
woman suffrage is going to win.
John M. Freeman, prominent In
Pittsburgh affairs, is at the seashore.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-07-02
BRYAN AND THE PRESIDENT

"A any rate, President Wilson Is
n not in position to pass any ad-
verse criticism upon Mr.. Bryan.
1t was Bryan alone who took Wilson
from a minority place in the Balti-
more convention. and won the nomi-
nation for him over Champ Clark,
the majority candidate.
In each of his three campaigns
for the presidency, Bryan polled
more votes than did President Will
son, though the population of the
United States was much less when
Bryan ran.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-07-02

Mrs. Lansing. wife of the new sec
retary of State, is well equipped for
the leadership of the cabinet circles in
social affairs. The social duties are
not new to her, for her father. John
w. Foster. was Secretary of State dur
ing the Harrison administration.
Mrs. Lansing is a striking and pop
ular woman. Much of her husbands s
success is attributed to her helpful
ness and rare tact.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-07-02
Buttons on
Stockings

Button. button, who has got
the button?"
why of all things-this time
it is the stockings.
Fashion evidently found her
self at a loss for any more
vagariess in women's shoes so she
turned her attention to hosiery.
And she has evolved some nov
elites that are certainly inter-
esting.
Have you kept posted on the
changes? Do you know what the
stores are showing?
The. advertising in the TeIe-
graph is always a barometer OF
the ever changing modes.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-07-02

DO you remember how you counted
the yellow and green firecrackers that
were mixed with the red? The yellows,
you know. were queens" and the green
ones kings
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-07-02

If we remember rightly there used
to be more fun and excitement landing
a fourinch sunny" than there now is
in catching a two-pound bass--and 1t
was much less expensive.