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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-04-08

cepting sewer" The decision of tn
arbitrators has been expected for
weeks as the board has had the matter
under. consideration now for months
and months.
James II. Fuertes, consulting expert
for the Board of Public Works who
inspected. the various improvement
works yesterday afternoon approved
the plan recently adopted by the
board for closing the gap at Market
street. He considers this plan the
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-04-08

Japanese Mating Rugs, 6x9 size; $3.50 value
dl sp6SsUU
Tapestry Brussels Rugs, 6x9 size; $11OO
Fibre Rugs, 9x12 size; $3.50 value at $3.50
Grass Rugs 9x12 size; $3.50 value at $4.S5
Body Brussels Rugs, 27x54 size; $3.50 value
at .............. ................ S1.S9
Wool Rugs, 36x36 size; $1.0O value at >. Soc
Rubber Mats, 16x28 size; 75c value at -. 800
Linoleum Mats, 12x12 size; 25c value at 19c
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-04-08
New Spring Draperies

Now showing complete line of new
Curtain Goods, Rods, etc.
Double width Scrims, with alI-over
and border designs,
1Oc. 12L5c, 15c, lie, zoe and ESQ
New White Curtain Swiss. stripes.
figures and dots, 10c, 121s and 15c
Plain ScrIm with hcmstitched and
lace border, white and Arabian,
121Sc, 15c, lie, zoe and :5c
Lace Curtain Nets, all widths.
121Rc, 15c, Zoe and 25c
Fish Nets I'm white, Arabian and
green ...... 1Oc, 121sc, 15c, 17c
New Novelty Curtain Goods with
Double face Madras Cloth ..... 25c
Sunfast Draperies ............. 25c
New Novelty Curtain Goods, in
green and brown. Special Prices.
Lace Curtains, pair ........... 25c
Best Quality OIL Shades, all coIors,
complete .0c
Figured Cretonnes, Sc, 1Oc, 121Hc and
25c.
Plain and figured SiIkoIines,
Zoe and 125Rc
BurIap in plain cOIOrs ....... lie
Denim In green ...... 12Rc and 25c
Door Panels, white and Arab :. 25c
Brass finished Curtain Rods,
Be, &c, 1Oc, 121.c and 25c
Double Width Couch Covering, 25c
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-04-08

blgeIOW NNIIIIHSter Mugs, 9NIZ SIC; DeautlIuI
Oriental patterns; $4,000 value at =. $24.5O
small figured designs; $50 value at $3.50
Tapestry Brussels Rugs, size 9x12 and seam
less; Sl4 value at ............... $1,000
Wool and Fibre Rugs in green, blue and
brown, size 9x12; $3.50 value at go. $3.50
China Mating Rugs, 9x12 size; $500 value
at Observation-Disclosures. $3.50
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-08-04
Using Up a Yard of Ticket
COUPON 9.

The exposition may result in the
discovery of the exact location Of
the Golden Gate.
Evidently no well-regulated exhib-
itor thinks Of getting along without
moving picture outfit or a bas
relief map.
The unpushed roller-chair. styled
the electriquette. is a movie nov
city.
Another Is train of church
pews, placed dos-a-dos and drawn
by q baby motor No trouble to en-
train. Just sit down on II as It
passes.
Why go through the canal when
you can ride all around IL in NOV
ing gallery while the lecturer tells
you the story through the telephone
receivers attached TO your ears
touching upon every feature OF con-
struction and operation az you pass
II?
The distinguished foreign jour.
nalists who travelled many thou
sands of miles to address the In
ternational press congress. must
have been impressed with the in
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-08-04

adequacy of our auditory facilities
Sometimes there were as many as
100 present.
Berries canned without being
touched by the human hand. is hard,
ly sensational enough for a twenti
eth century horticultural exhibit
The hands-off idea originated long
ago with small boys who preferred
TO go fishing in the picking and can
ming season.
The yard of ticket is restored to
its original length by the valuation
slip. While IL Is being attached we
hear the clerk say. "WThere?" very
sharply. much 10 the confusion OF
the patriot who has indicated his
desire TO visit the ''alammer' on his
way home.
He Is finally routed via San An
tonic. Texas.
San Francisco bay has the mos,
dismal sirens In the known world
They sound like the prolonged bel
lowing OF cattle.
No wonder they bring down q dis
NAL fog upon the Jewel City every
time they let loose their mournfu
cadences.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-08-04
In Cardinal Gibbons's letter to Mr..

In Cardinal Gibbons's letter 10 Mr..
Nugent there IL only one class OF
women dealt with-the married or
to-be-married woman. For her there
is indeed glory enough" TO be found
In the opportunity to make a home.
raise a family. and use TO The full
that influence which sensible
matron exerts over her husband
and sons
But Cardinal Gibbons takes no
account OF the woman who has had
no chance 10 marry. whose respons-
Utilities In the parental home have
debarred her from seeking the
cloister, and who has had. there
fore, to work for living. yet who
would like to feel, IL only TO the ex-
tent OF one vote, she has the priv
lege OF using her inspired instinct"
on the side Of Justice and truth.
am not an advocate OF woman
suffrage. but this side OF the ques-
ton keeps me from opposing it
Letter TO the New York Times.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-08-04
Russian Bank Note Issues
Consul General snodsrass reports

Consul General Snodgrass reports
from Moscow that In Russia the
right OF emission by the govern
ment bank is limited Dy law. 1t
could issue bank notes without a
corresponding gold deposit for only
sl55,oo0 900: ordinarily bank notes
had TO be covered. ruble by ruble,
In gold. At the beginning OF the
war the council OF ministers passed
a law, which received imperial
sanction Aug. 8, 1914, and In ac-
cordance with which the amount OF
bank notes that could be issued by
the government bank without gold
deposit was raised to $4,000. 900
A Law has been passed, receiving
imperial confirmation March 30.
1915, by which the amount of bank
notes that may be issued lie in
creased by s515,000.000. This Is
meant as a temporary measure.
Thus. the bank is permitted to is.
sue notes for 31.2ss. 900. 900 besides
the amount OF bank notes that are
secured by gold, ruble for ruble. II
the bank Issues notes for the above
sum, the amount Of gold deposits
will be equal to 40 1-2 per cent of
the sum total OF bank notes issued.
-Bradstreet's.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-08-04
DANGERS OF EYE-STRAIN.
H.. ADpiNoToN BRUCE.


Just a few words OF warning.
friend. in case you are having any
trouble with your eyes.
Don't let II run along neglected,
thinking Il is only a small matter.
Go TO a good oculist. and IL he finds
1t necessary to equip you with
glasses. wear them.
Eye-strain is most insidious and
In some respects most dangerous
malady. 1t Is not dangerous in the
sense that 1t necessarily means loss
OF vision. Many people 60 through
life seeing we'll enough. yet afflicted
with eye-strain to degree that
makes existence q prolonged misery.
The trouble is that the symptoms
Of eye-strain are not always located
in or about the eyes. They often
are in the nature OF what is called
reflex neuroses." On the physical
side, unsupported eye-strain fire.
quently is the sole cause Of chronic
Indigestion. headache, and occa-
sional attacks OF dizziness.
On the mental side. IL may make
it's influence felt even more mis-
chievously.
In one typical case the parents OF
a small boy were greatly disturbed
by a teachers report to the effect
that their son was the LATEST boy
In school.
"He is so lazy" the teacher de
ciared. that whenever he has 10
read, he becomes sleepy In a very
few minutes"
Seedlings and whippings proving
of no avail. the boy was taken 10 a
doctor. The latter. TO the parents
surprise. passed him on 10 an ocu-
list. who found him much in need
Of glasses. AS soon as he began to
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-08-04
Fire Losses.

The total FIRE loss In the United
States and Canada. including fores,
fires, has averaged 1921. zoo. 900 dol.
lars year for the last five years.
Since the beginning OF this century
we have lost over $4,000. 000.o 00
worth Of property. Tho per capita
fire loss In the United States Is
s2.55. as compared with 81 cents
10 France. and 20 cents in Germany.
In 1914 the eleven largest fires in
chemical Industries showed a prop
erty loss OF $500, 900. As a result
OF this the industrial chemist has
now begun to study the causes OF
fires In order that he may remove
the source. IL possible. and he ia
studying such materials as rubber
lined fire hose 30 that. after fire
has once started. the fight against
n may be conducted more efficient
y.-Science.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-08-04
Stiff Necks and Eye
Strain From Zeppelins

In the cities OF Europe that are
liable to be visited by Zeppelin air.
ships. the watchers on the lookout
for raiding craft have suffered from
stin necks, and also eye strain from
long continued gazing at the heav.
ems to detect hostile aircraft, and
TO meet this difficulty opticians have
devised a special form OF sky peri.
scope. This instrument is con.
structed on the same general prin.
ciples as those used by submarines.
and the type that has been so wide
ly adopted for use in the trenches
on land. The device IL a simple ar.
rangement OF mirrors that the
watcher can hold In his hand, and
which enables him TO scan the en-.
tire vault OF the sky while looking
down in a convenient and natural
position. II has been found so con.
venient that a much better and
more constant lookout ia main.
tanned.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-08-04

culties which Italy is encountering in the
south, and the stubborness of the Oar
danelles, they still feel their strength
superior, and rely on time as their
strongest supporter.
We shall therefore continue to see the
manhood of Europe and of her colonies
sacrificed at the rate of three-quarters
of million a month, with no assurance
that anything good will ever come Of
this awful ruin of irreplaceable wealth.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-08-04
The War Through
Eyes Of a Chinaman

Here is Chinese students sum.
mary OF the wars causes. as pub
Iished In a Shanghai paper: Now
there Is a great battle in Europe.
This began because the prince Aus
tria went to Serbia with his wife.
One man OF Serbia killed him. Aus
tria was angry, and so write Serbia.
Germany write a letter to Austria.
4 will help you Russia write a
letter to Serbia. 4 will help you
France did not want TO fight, but
they got ready their soldiers. Ger
many write a letter to France. You
don't get ready, or will fight you
In nine hours Germany. TO Tight
them. pass Belgium. Belgium say.
4 am q country: 7 am not a road
And Belgium write q letter to Eng
land about Germany" Who can do
better In the same space?
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-08-04

wear these he kept up easily with
his class.
This boys case is like the cases
OF many other children. and OF many
adults. also. They have no obvious
symptoms OF eyestrain. But they
find II hard TO concentrate their at
tention. Their head tires quickly
when they try 10 think. They are
nervous and irritable.
All this impairs their efficiency
sending their earning power far be.
low what II ought TO be. They be.
come dificult persons To get alons
with at home and In their business
dealings.
When, as sometimes happens. their
unsupported eye-strain makes them
so overweight that they cannot
sleep. their plight is miserable In
deed
II. then. you suspect that your
eyesight is not what II ought TO be,
II. no matter how good It seems
you suffer from the physical and
mental troubles mentioned above
play safe by consulting competent
eye specialist.
And. 10 help you guard against
eyestrain, here are a few don IL. -
for which am indebted to DR.. W. b
Lancaster. OF the Harvard Medical
school:
Don't read shiny paper.
Don't read any kind of paper In a
poor light.
Don't read in street cars. railway
trains, or other moving vehicles.
Don't sit with a strong light on
your book. while the rest OF the
room Is dark.
Don't face the light.
This Is the advice OF an expert,
and It will pay you TO heed IL.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-08-04
Pointed Paragraphs

Girls who marry for love often
get gold brick.
Among once seekers the proper.
ton OF the elect Is small.
The master key to wisdom lie
knowledge Of your ignorance.
A widow usually selects q differ.
ent sort OF man the next time.
Most married couples fool them.
selves longer than they do their
neighbors.
The man who judges his future
by HIS past Is apt to become dis.
couraged.
II might be well for q woman 70
remember that a frown begets more
wrinkles than 4 smile.
Marriage Is lottery-except for
the poverty stricken nobleman who
marries an American heiress.
A married man imagines he 10
having a good time when he does
anything he knows his wife wouldn' I
approve OF.
II sometimes happens that an old
bachelor loves little children. al.
though they probably worry him as
much as women do.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-08-04
From Another Point of Vieu
BY c. T. 9.

What's the use of sad repining?
Sure, 1t Will not always rain,
All your signing, all your whining
Will not bring the sun again.
Though the August cloud-banks hover
And the skies dissolve in wet,
If we wait, we may discover
Christmas may be sunny yet.
Saginaw fremen demand day off in
four and threaten TO start something I'M
less the common council is quickly on the
scene.
We note that Milwaukee, also, is be-
ginning to get the telephone trusts num-
Der.
Word comes from Belle Isle that Park
Commissioner Dust is having his
troubles with the Phlegethontus Quin-
guemaculatus. II is said TO be an insect.
We thought at first it might be the name
of the ferry boat that caused the recent
rumpus.
A Detroit laundry has gone into bank
ruptcy. Failed to deliver.
The Weather.
For Detroit and vicinity: Generally
unfair.
The National Association of Chiropo-
dists will meet in Detroit next year.
Reserved, it will be noted, for foot
note
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-08-04
Fuller's Earth

Fullers earth was discovered In
Florida in 1899 through mere acct
dent. An effort was made to burn
brick near Quincy. The effort fall
ed. but an employe OF the company
called attention TO the close resem-
blsnce OF the clay used to the Ger.
man fuller's earth. Florida In now
the leading state In the production
OF fullcr's earth. having reported for
1914 more than rs per cent OF the
total quantity and value.--United
States Geological Survey.
British Columbia has 57.s0S stu.
dents In IT'S schools and colleges.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-08-04

BREAk.

Day had awakened all things that be,
The lark. and the thrush. and the
swallow free.
And the milkmaid's SONG. and the
mowers scythe.
And the matin bell and the mountain
bee.
Firefies were quenehed on the dewy
corn,
Glow worms went out. on the rivers
brim.
Like lamps which = student forgets
TO trim.
The beetle forgot TO wind his horn.
The crickets were stili In the meadow
and hill,
Percy Bysshe Shelley.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-08-04
Men and the Clothes They
Wear, According to Fashion

If a man wishes to indulge in little
fling in the matter of soulful color, now
is his time.
He would better snatch it quickly for
it will fade away and leave him in the old
drab desert which is charged only when
the blackness of night falls upon it.
He may wear green suit, quite belted
in so that we know he has waist line
and he may accompany this with cerise
tie of large dimensions.
The same way be seen in our most
fashionable emporiums which give all
their attention to the correctness of
these matters.
He may wear white, tan or almost any
kind of shoes with socks much in evil
dence and of the silkiest variety.
His hat may be of various shapes and
kinds with fetching little ribbons and
bows encircling it; and after he has in
dulged in these riotous forms of coloring,
he will be the same young man that he
was before, no inward change whatever
Why the custom came about to re-
strict man in his choice of clothing we do
not know.
In earlier times he had as gorgeous ap-
parel with as great variety as did wo-
men.
He wore ruffies, velvets and satins,
gold laces and fine furs and the styles
changed with the frequency of the needs
of the purveyors Of fashions.
In the most troublous times his cloth
ing was the gayest; only the Quakers
and Puritans put quietus upon the love
of finery, thinking it ungodly.
That it had little to do with his inner
life, We believe, for Charles /. and all
these unhappy gentlemen before him in
the time of good Queen Bess were attired
In beauteous raiment when they laid
their unlucky heads upon the block
What relation clothes bear to the spir-
itual side of the man would make an in
teresting study, though we are inclined
to think it is very slight.
The fact that newly bereaved woman
is frequently seen in mourning of the
very latest fashion would lead one to sup
pose that she took it along with her
breakfast as all in the days work.
Fashionable mourning" has a curious
sound which does not ring true.
The old monks who clad themselves in
sackcloth and put ashes on their heads to
show penitence or sorrow, came nearer
the mark.
Altogether we are coming to think that
the clothing of the body is superficial
matter which has not the significance i'm
puted to it.
It's greatest fault lies in spending for
it money that were more wisely used
elsewhere.
Every one may now be comfortably
and tastefully clothed on comparatively
small amount, and everyone would doubt
less be content with this were there not
such extravagant display at every turn.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-08-04

II girl declines your offer OF
marriage. young man. It's up to you
to give her another chance. They
seldom think twice alike.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-08-04
Sam Should "Ishka"

Having observed its success In sit
ting on Uncle Sam. we're placing a
few bits AT odds on the Beef trust
az against John Bull.
You've held up 314,000.00o worth
OF our meat cargoes destined for
Scandinavia. Pay up. or no more
meat for you and your allies, john"
say our gents with the large ham.
mutton and or interests. And all
Europe that's anti.German certainly
needs American meat.
Locke like a splendid albeit a cruel
hold-up. One OF Uncle Sans trusts
holding up John Bull! It's a horse
on John.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-08-04
And On the Credit Side of the
European War Ledger, What?

4 european war Ledger, Wnat!
The magnitude Of the war can be
family comprshended by it's statistics.
"A European estimate. recently pub
y xshed, gives the Casualties Of al the
helliserents - 2,228800 killed. 4,S37, $40
\ wounded and 1,705 900 missing.
& That i to say:
a population greater than that of the
Y ntate Of Alabama has been utterly wiped
ont.
n II every man, woman and child in
\ Ohio were maimed In some horrible way
svery person in the great cities of Gin
4 eincinnaH and Cleveland, everyone in Co
Imbus, Toledo, Akron, Canton, Spring
IN. youngstown, Dayton, Mansfield,
4 syeryone in the smaller cities and ham,
sslots, everyone in the farming districts
U fhair wrecked bodies would about equal
& the number Of those battered and twisted
ma torn BY this war.
II everybody In Kansas should sudden
~ rs annihilated, swallowed up, removed
Nm the face Of the earth, the total
Mould Be about the same as those re-
rogtsd missing in Europe.
Hut still the idea is not exact, for the
xa6ualty list includes only men.
Ihe total axceeds the entire male pop
g61n4ion. Of III ages, Of the four great
81 Skofee Of Michigan. Ohio, Indiana and II
Ana still the comparison is not COM
III -. Tor the men thus sacrificed to the
4 1lry Of national ideals are for the
q UT part men in the prime of life-men
sen 20 and 40 years old.
Add Kentucky to the four states al
n xS06y given; add Wisconsin, Iowa, Mis-
n Sori, and every state westward and
& Spkth Of the southern line of Kansas, un-
4 ID the total is 10 states, from Ohio and
1(ichigan to the Pacific coast; eliminate
4 IN men between the ages of 20 and 40,
md you win have accomplished less hav-
oc than has been done in the countries
a Europe.
Think Of it, try to conceive it, if you
can.
Every child in 10 great states father
less, or beholding in his father shatter-
~ man with only memory of his form
~ strength.
Every woman in 10 states weeping for
n TIE loss Of dear one, or anguished by
his wounds.
This is what the war has done.
And on the credit side of the ledger
what?
Nothing, apparently, so far.
This great investment of virility has
brought not single dividend, unless il
< ~ the half promise, half-hope that this
Wfu be the last great war.
y Unless it be fierce hatred for wa,
Nat win lead, at the end of the struggle
n ~ : limitation of ornaments, new un.
\ Ncrotanding of political economy,
q xonslation Of patriotism into brother
B kcod
Ks Some such happy agreement NIGH
~ secured II the war could be ended b,
utua1 consent while it is still dead
IA, befors the permanent scar of de
= 0k has ben engraved on the heart O.
~ nation. to rankle until new strength
- nsw hope Of vengeance.
e Gsrmany, II + rumored. is ready TO
1870 "a Tie basis Of the status quo ante
q xhls would mean the restoration of tn
- Witch abe occupies, in return fol
pfuEsd colonies.
~ = 4 hardly likely that the allie,
& eoneont = peacs on such, basis
M xo,iet1nee IN the west. tn,
~ g. - est the din
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-08-04

The Young womens Christian as.
sociation possesses q world mem.
bership Of $500
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1915-02-11
Red Land.

Tueseay, Feb. 9.-School is progress
ing nicely at present. Despite the fact
that one teacher is absent, the attend
ance is large. An organ has recently
been installed in the auditorium for use
in the school exercises, and much inter-
est is being manifested in school work.
Miss Elva Gibson spent the weekend
+ in Vivian with her parents.
Mrs. J. j. Robertson, who has been
quite ill for several days, is rapidly re-
covering.
Mrs. Lottie Norris entertained num-
Der of boys and girls very pleasantly
with little party Wednesday night.
Mrs. L. G. Keoun spent Saturday and
Sunday in Shreveport on business and
visiting her brother, Mr.. R. G. Keoun.
Mr.. and Mrs. Tom Garrett, who re-
sided in Plain Dealing during the past
year, have moved back to Red Land
and will make this their home.
Mr.. w. A. Fortson of Benton, Parish
Superintendent of Schools, is visiting
our school to-day and inspecting The
work. Also, a business meeting will
the board Of trustees is being held while
he is present.
4 Quite number OF the residents o
this community have been attending tn
services conducted by Rev. Willbank
at Bolinger this week and have yer,