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Evenin Capital.
RATS OF AnyERTIsING

WM. NJ ABBOTT. Editor and Publisher
Mrs. EMMA ABBOTT-GAGE Local Editor
CHARLES u. ABBOTT, Business Manager
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FOR SALE.

FOR SALE-A frst-class ROAD CART very
little used. v i'll be offered al a ha1eain TO a
quick buyer. Address H A. r." Box 597. An
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9 AIFShft Xiv energetic men to sell a high
- erace artlCle Coed cor omission Ideal Mfg
Co. 1902 ~ Cumberland Street. Phila erphia.
Pa HI
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WANTED.

AGENT -csn n best reople. Fast seller net.
tins r-u 81 Is or every sale Send for parti-
e''lars hobsrt NJ Sturman Picadillv Street.
Potsyle, Pa dlI II
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FOR RENT.

EOR RENF--H0USE. also an UNPUBLISHED
FLAT with all M dern CONVEX ences UD-to-
date IN every particular. Apply c. A. FRIEnEL.
1881 West rect d. 4
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EOp RENT-7-Room HOUSE. all modern con-
veniences. Apply IS Cornhill ST. dow
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TTTANTED--A BOY TO learn The Barber bust
~ pess. Apply to John Aul. Maryland Hotel
Barber Shop dS W
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EOR. RRNT- HOUSE No. 2o2 Duke If GIouces-
I ST.. Apply J. L. HARRINGTON. Main
and Green Streets. nll-tf
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EOR SkLE-Feariess HORSE. vii sell cheap.
Appy II Capital Office Milf
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NTEN WOMEN or over wanted SIS o.
AZ month Cos eminent Jobs Thousands posi.
Tins obfainarle Wtite for iist Franklin Insti-
tu,e. Dept las K. Rochester, NY o6.m
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FOR Sal E-Two Horse COLLARS. In excel
lent cond Iton. VIII sell reasonably. Apply
at Capital Office. Phone co. uls.tf
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FOR SALE--Ahle bodied HORSE. Not afraid
OF electric cars or automobiles Gentle any
woman car drive him. vii sell vfry reasonably
Address II : BOX SGT Telerhoue 66 or SO. Horse
may be seen by calling at the Capital effice.
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FOR SALE.

COR SALE-MORTGAGE NOTES. in tablets
Of so Apply at Capital Office s2sff
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NOTICE To CREDITORS.

ANNIE L. QUAD.
EXeCutri'
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TOR SALT 200 H0kTNG PIGEONS: viii sell
creap to quick buyer. Inquire ll9 Market St
Teierhone SIN. si7tf
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ESOR saba good driving and saddle HORSE
VIII sell CHEAP Apply Capital Office.
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Application For Liquor License.

Collector and 7
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-09-01
TO DAN CUPID

Dear Dan-Where are you nowadays2
We used to like your sportive ways,
When with your darts and little bow
You took pot-shots at high and low!
We even took 1t in good part
now and then a flying dart
Struck singing home. Twas pleas
ant when
The tiny wound was healed again.
But now the arrows are so rare
That once seemed flying everywherei
you need to-day, my son.
A modern rapid-fire gun.
The times are changed. No longer slow
Our youth are never still, you know.
So IL you'd add hearts to your string
You'll have to hit them on the winEi
But whether bow or gun you WELD.
We hope to see you take the field.
For life is rather dull and gray
Without you and your sportive play.
When you your mother Venus see.
With kindly words remember me;
And while this mortal life endures.
I'll sign myself. sincerely yours.
Tudor Jenks In Judge.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-09-01

he told an assemblage of school teach
ers in Pittsburgh yesterday. Every
generation grows weaker" he says.
"and chronic ailments gain greater
headway."
Now we understand why in the
older days Atlas could hold the world
on his shoulders. why Hercules was
able to do his eight-hour stunt in the
Augean stables. why Sampson had no
difficulty in upsetting a more or less
hefty temple and how 1t is that we
poor mortals of these later degenerate
days find 1t irksome even to tote home
the family market basket or help run
the washing machine. We're not to
blame. It's all the fault of this awful
chronic degeneracy. Nobody can be
censured for lack OF energy or lazi-
ness If you are perpetually tired
blame only the processes of nature.
over which even science has no con-
troll. How comforting!
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-09-01
THE WET TOWN PASSES
[Atlantic (Ia.) News-Telegraph. ]

LAtlantic (la.) News-Telegraph.1
The crowd in the city on a recent
public holiday came from all direc-
tions. They came from within twen-
ty miles of Des Moines; they came
from within fifteen miles of Council
Bluffs and Omaha. They came to see
the circus. Knowing that Atlantic
does not have open saloons, they
came, eight thousands of them, in
motor cars they have chosen to buy
for themselves and their families in
stead of buying whisky, and they had
good splendid show, decent and So
Der, and to-day they are on the job
again with a song on their lips and a
light in their eyes. imbued with the
joy of living.
Did anyone ever hear of such a
crowd during the saloon period here ?
Did anyone see as many we'll dressed
people, or as many expensive motor
cars drawn up along the curb, during
the time ten thirst parlors here helped
to make beasts of men and over their
polished bars took the money that be-
longed to their wives and children
Hardly.
If the wet town draws the people,
why was it that many people nearer
Des Moines than here, came to At
lantic, where there are no saloons, in
stead of going to Des Moines, where
there are saloons to-day? And, like
wise the people from near Council
Bluffs? Why did they leave wet
town to come to a dry one? Why?
Because, whether the booze adherents
want to admit 1t or not, the popular
ity of the wet town is passing.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-09-01
WAR ORDERS

WE have been so busy recording
wv the receipt of war orders of
gigantic proportions that we
have failed. almost. to note the declin-
alton of similar orders to the amount
of about $4,000. 900 by manufactur-
ers who could not make the produc-
ton and sale of death dealing instru-
ments harmonic with their views of
peace.
Never in the history OF the world
has business of such magnitude been
rejected for like reasons. 1t is a good
sign when much maligned big busi-
ness" representatives place their con-
sciences before dividends. Also it is
a refutation Of the old saying that a
corporation has no soul and that cap
ital worships only the dollar.
We may moralize as we will on the
much discussed sale of arms to bellig-
erents, but we cannot but admire the
men who have declined to enter into
what they regard as contracts of
doubtful nature in order to keep their
mills running during an unusually dull
year.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-09-01
THE GERMAN HOBBLE

TINE German Government isn't at
all afraid of the devastating ef-
feet of the hobble skirt on the
male portion of it's population, having
ordered dressmakers to stick to that
model as a means of conserving the
fast diminishing supply of garment
making material. But more than that,
it isn't afraid to trifle with feminine
fancy any more than 1t is with mas
culine morality. The new order in all
Likelihood will have the effect of max
ing every German woman worthy of
the name desire to wear hoop-skirts
and a hustle. 1t will be interesting to
note whether or not the Kaiser can
cope with the ladies at home as capa-
bly, as with his enemies abroad. If II
should turn out that the mandate can
be made effective we suggest that he
try shortening 'em up to the knees,
thus conserving longitudinely as well
as latitudinaily, as it were.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-09-01
The State From Day to Day

Patriotism is still vital force, in
spite of the contrary belief of glooms
Witness the recent canoe carnival held
near Lancaster in which various
martial scenes were represented. Co.
lumbia, Betsy Ross and the Goddess of
Liberty all received prominence, and
were enthusiastically received. accord
ing to the Lancaster Examiner
Charles NJ. Schwab. the steel king.
receives CREDIT in the Johnstown
erection of new chapel at Mt. Aloysius
Academy. This recalls a little incl
dent den which happened back in 1901, with
the the same Mr.. schwab as hero; At that
time he paid of a large portion of the
debt on certain church, leaving only
$4,000 unpaid. His generosity so stirred
the emotions of the female contingent
held mass meeting and determined to
repay the dear man with kisses. Mr..
Schwab was so elated with his recep-
ton that he Immediately wrote out a
check for the remainder of the debt.
The Erie Dispatch, whose veracity we
lively athlete, 100 years old. who who turns tut s
smokes and drinks at will. T amt
natcheral. that's. all!
Likewise from Erie, this time from
the Times, comes the information that
FIVE. sweet. girl graduates of Geneva
high school will accept positions as let
ter carriers. Merely another indication
of the truth that women can have any
thing she wants.
Howard Aughinbaugh, of Rouzer-
Vile, caught the shaved and creased
pig at the fortieth anniversary cele-
bration of Pen Mar Park after a whirl-
wind chase of fifteen minutes. Cham
bersburg Valley Spirit
Hagerstown is very much disturbed
by the probable presence of a leper in
its midst. A wild man, believed to be
Cradle, an escaped leper was captured
and held in custody, says the Daily
Mail. Harrisburg's most recent expert
ence with lepers occurred several years
ago, when a Chinese leper, incarcerated
in an isolated house outside the city,
the efforts of a Christian worker in the
city
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-09-01
w1PING OUT ARMY POSTS

TT required a hurricane down Texas
way to wipe out one of the 176
little army posts in which our tiny
Regular Army is stationed over the
land. We timidly suggest that few
more such storms might not be un-
profitable to the nation at large, how
ever disastrous they might be to the
localities Immediately adjacent to the
military stations.
In the early Indian days these far
flung posts with their little detach-
ments of armed men were necessities
to the safety of the settlers. But that
day is long since gone. The scattered
posts now merely appeal to local
pride and local business. They are
detrimental to the efficiency and disci-
pline of the army as a whole and
they could be for the most part
abolished at a great saving of money
to the country and with proportional
improvement to all branches Of the
service. But IL will take a bigger
hurricane in Congress than that
which recently demolished the Texas
post to bring about the very desirable
change.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-09-01
GOOD PUBLICITY MATERIAL

WHENEVER a public speaker
wv lacks a genuinely instructive
topic or desires little news
paper publicity he solemnly tells his
audience that the human race is de-
generating" thereby making timid
ones among his hearers gasp and
examine themselves for symptoms"
and at the same time setting the pen
ellis of sensation hunting reporters to
scribbling. 1t is a fine old standby;
never-failing life-preserver when
the ship of oratoriCal ability busts a
shaft and goes careening towards the
rocks,
Some times it is cancer that is to
carry the race to destruction. Again
it is intemperance. At another time
it is insanity. Almost any old ailment
that the human race is heir to makes
a fine little boogaboo when logged out
in picturesque rhetorical garb and
applied to all mankind. 1t has fallen
to DIR. e. Edwin Lee, professor of
chemistry of Allegheny college, to
combine 'em all in one grand shocker
designed to blow us all into early
graves and leave the earth to the more
fortunate and less afflicted lower
animals.
The human race is fast degener-
ating due to chronic diseases with
which science Is unable to combat" Z"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-09-01
COTTON AND POWDER
By Frederic J. Haskir

That snowy lint of the southern cot,
ton fields has been busy of late in
the precipitation of International
complications because, innocent as it
appears, 1t has but to be treated with
a little nitrate when 1t becomes the
best gunpowder that the world can
produce.
While the early stages of the war
in Europe threatened to bring calam-
ity upon the growers of cotton be-
cause it interfered with its manufac-
ture into cloth, its use in explosives
has largely counteracted the falling
off of sales and the experts now state
that the growers of the great staple
are to-day better off than they would
have been If there had been peace.
Cotton Very Vital
In which connection IL becomes in
teresting to point out just how vital
cotton is in the making of modern
war and just what have been the cir
cumstances back of it's continued posi-
ton in the limelight. For, despite the
quantities of argument pro and con
with relation to placing 1t on the con-
traband list, there seems to have
been no authoritative pronouncement
as to just the part it plays in the
manufacture of powder.
But these facts are obtainable, hav-
ing been furnished by no less author
tiles than the official powder-makers
of the United States. For many years
it has been the practice of those COM
mittees of Congress having to do
with the military branches of the gov
ernment to call before them repre-
sentatives of the Dupont Powder
Company, which makes most of the
smokeless for the United States, and
the experts of the Navy Department
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-09-01
CHASIN' BR'ER FOX

NHAsING the Russian army across
" plains of Muscovy," observes the
Baltimore American, Seems al
most as easy as chasin' Br'er Fox
down the long stretch of the East'n
Sho'"
And, the American might have
added, well nigh as fruitless. Chas-
ing fox and catching one are quite
two different things. as any hunter
who rides 10 hounds will tell you.
The Russian hosts appear quite as
elusive as the Maryland fox. If the
fox be captured at the end of long
run. all we'll and good, tbut if he es-
capes then the chase has been in vain
and the burden Of bootless effort has
been placed on the hunter. This applies
to the campaign in Russia quite as
much as to fox chasing along the
aforementioned East'n Sho'.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-09-01
TOO MANY RoBBERIEs

T~HERE have been entirely too
= many robberies in Harrisburg
in recent months and entirely
too few convictions of the guilty per-
sons.
There Is a fault in our police system
somewhere. Probably 1t is in the
lack of patrolmen. Chief Hutchison
repeatedly has reported to council the
inadequacy of his present force. 1t
is true, as he has said. that the city
is growing much more rapidly than the
membership of the police department.
II there is any other defect of which
the Colonel knows he need not fear
to speak out. The people in general
look upon him as doing his best with the
force at hand, but this best will not
do If robberies and assaults are to
continue.
We must have a safe city. II the in
struments with which the city govern
ment has provided the chief are not
sufficient TO produce that result then
it is up to the chief to clear his skirts
by putting the matter up to council.
Colonel Hutchison in the past has
demonstrated his ability to act vigor-
ously and courageously. He ought to
feel it his duty to speak freely now.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-09-01
BETTER NATIONAL DEFENSE
From Farm Life.l

We are naturally and instinctively
against militarism. We are opposed to
having our sons taught the trade of
soldering. We do not like the endless
and inevitable expense of a big stand
ing army. We are for peace, not at
ANY price," but at any reasonable
price.
Yet-and but-and however-the les
son of this European war has been
plain, and easy to read. The unpre-
pared countries have not made a good
showing in the field. National valor
cannot stand up successfully against
machine guns.
The United States at present would
be pitifully helpless to make war
against a first class military power. In
the event of such a war we would be
shamed and Inundated before we could
get our fighting forces equipped and
In the field.
We should make some preparation
for the future. We should have a
nucleus for an army. We should have
more and better submarines and aero
planes-more extensive coast defenses.
We don't want to fight. but a rich
country like this cannot afford to re-
main permanently helpless.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-09-01

, which operates a plant at Indian
Head, down the river from the city
of Washington, and to quiz those
gentlemen as to the facts OF powder
manufacture.
Smokeless 90 Per Cent Cotton
The president of the DUPONT Com
pany always talked very freely. Ac-
cording to his statements smokeless
powder is nearly 80 per cent. cotton
There is little in 1t but cotton. and a
small amount of nitrate. This forms
mixture that Is of such a nature
that when 1t burns the two substances
unite, each using the other up so
completely that nothing remains.
There is not even a sufficient residue
to make bit of smoke
The Navy experts give facts with
relation to powder manufacture that
substantiate other authorities. They
say that powder is made of cotton and
nitrate They state that, during the
years that preceded the outbreak of
the present war, the government was
using 100000 pounds of cotton an
nually in the manufacture of smoke
less powder. Cotton was the basis of
all government smokeless.
How Powders Made
The facts with relation to the
method of manufacture are interest
ing. The first step in the process is
| to break up the fibrous condition of
the cotton. The fiber is treated with
ether and alcohol to accomplish that
purpose. Under the influence of these
| 1t assumes a jelly-like consistency
The ether and alcohol have no place
| in the ultimate product and are
evaporated off after they have served
CONTINUED on Page 81
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-09-01
THE CONQUEST OF TETANUs

mo tetanus this Fourth Of July" is
the slogan of the United States Public
Health Service. 1t is within the power
desirable condition to pass. In 1908
there were All Fourth of July victims
of tetanus or lockjaw By 1909 the
year there were only three fatalities
from this cause. The blank cartridge
popularity considered harmless, is de-
clared by experts to be the chief cause
the wadding carries into the tissues a
multitude of bacilli which give off pol
sonous products. These bacilli thrive
only where there is oxygen. The value
of antttetanic serum has been demon
strated. but to be effective Ii must be
administered as soon as possible after
the receipt OF the injury. Government
health authorities urge parents to see
that all blank cartridge wounds are
given prompt attention. None is too
trivial for treatment. The efficacy of
scientific treatment is shown by the
fact that whereas in 1903 one case of
tetanus developed to every four wounds
reported from blank cartridges. in 1914
injuries of the kind. A dozen years
ago the preventive serum was not gem
orally utilized. To-day ample supplies
reaus for free distribution and patients
are attended to without delay.
Warnings for the prevention of
lished Immediately before the day we
celebrate are apt to receive scant at
tention. The time to, plan for safety
deserves the unenviable distinction as
much as ever. The caps which form ITS
ammunition as we'll as the blank car
sdeS Sar9 fGF BY arff afpE hps sDrpa gsy their
tanus. A Fourth Of July without a
single case of the dreaded disease
which we have come to associate with
achievement.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-09-01
DEMOCRATIC JANGLING
THE sweet bells of Democratic
J. harmony are jangling sadly out

TIME sweet bells of Democratic
l. harmony are jangling sadly out
of tune. The announcement that
F. B. Lynch, Democratic national
committeeman from Minnesota, is the
Wilson choice for national chairman
is Immediately followed by the posi-
tive declaration OF Chairman W. F.
McCombs and his friends that he
will decline to give up the job. De-
velopments will be watched with in
terest by Republicans who have seen
this split between the President and
his erstwhile campaign manager
growing wider with the passing of the
months.
The trouble between McCombs and
the President is said to be due to the
latter's failure to include McCombs in
the cabinet list. McCombs managed
President Wilson's preconvention
campaign in 1911 and 1912. Largely
on the strength of the victory at Bal
timore, where he was in personal
charge of the Wilson forces. he was
unanimously chosen chairman of the
Democratic national committee to sue
ceed Norman E. Mack. of Buffalo.
Efforts OF the Presidents group Of
personal advisers, headed by Sec
retary Tumulty, to elevate National
Committeeman Lynch, of Minnesota,
TO the craftsmanship in place of Nc
Combs may be met with a hot fight
in Minnesota.
McCombs has not been in favor at
the White House for some time and
IL he chooses TO use his abilities as a
campaigner against the administration
with the same force and intelligence
he displayed in bringing about the
nomination and election of President
Wilson the effect will be of far
reaching importance in the next Presi-
Dental election.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-09-01
INTEREST IN PREPAREDNESS
nENNsYLVANIA mustered a total
of 1O,5OO officers and enlisted

nENNSYLVANIA mustered a total
of 10,500 officers and enlisted
men at the annual encampments
this year, the largest number in the
history of the State Guard. This dis
proves the old idea that the National
Guard was designed for fair weather
only and would shrink in mem
bership with the prospect of actual
service. With the country for half
the summer on the brink of hostilities
with a very powerful nation abroad
or facing a possible invasion of Mex
leo, the Guardsmen turned out in rec
rd-breaking numbers in their desire
TO be prepared so far as they were
able for whatever might be required
of them.
This spirit has pervaded the whole
country, radiating from that great
center of volunteer activity at PIatts
burg, and it is extending into every
walk of life.
The announcement through the
Public Ledger that the PENNSYLVANIA
Railroad Is maturing plan whereby
100000 of its employees may become
trained soldiers ready to step into the
ranks of the United States army
should foreign foe invade these
shores is an evidence of the earnest
ness with which the new idea has
been received by those in high places
and the Willingness of this great cor
poration to give each of Its men a
months vacation to be spent at Platts-
burg or at one of the other camps
sure to be established ought to be
copied by business organizations large