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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-03-01
LETTERSTOTHE.ED!TOR


To The Editor of The Telegraph:
Dear Sir: The term brakeman
should be changed to 'trainman,
since the application of power brakes,
he seldom applies the hand brakes.
This duty is performed by the engine
man from the locomtive.
Prior to the application of the air
brakes, it was the duty of the train
men to get over the cars and apply
brakes on descending grades or at the
call of the whistle. 1t was also the
duty of the trainmen to couple the
cars together equipped with link and
pin drawbars, but since the applica-
ton of the automatic car couplers'
they couple automatic.
At the time of the hand braked cars
and link and pin couplers, the tram
men were obliged to hunt links and
pins for coupling cars together. They
were also compelled to ride out on the
trains between terminals, prepared TO
apply the brakes and have supply
of links and pins for recoupling cars,
should couplings break.
The railroads carefully and judi
ciously manned these trains sufficiently
to safeguard the public, employees and
property, and since the work of the
trainmen is exclusively performed by
automatic appliances from the loco
motive by the engineman, makes the
fair, considering the enormous cost OF
special appliances and the unnecessary
use of the unneeded extra man.
A thirty-five car beef train is valued
approximately as follows: One en-
CINE, $4,000; 35 refrigerator cars, ST.
500 each, $4,000; one cabin, $1,000;
%, 600 pounds of beef per car. 100000
pounds at 1Oc per pound, $9,SO0; total,
$171 500.
The above shows the value of spe-
cial freight, Altoona to Harrisburg and
the extra trainmen, which the rail-
roads consider unnecessary, is furnish
ed at $3.50. If the additional man
would add to the safety of the train
and it's contents, it would be cheap in
surance and same would be employed
without any hesitancy, regardless of a
full crew law, however, this is not the
case. The extra or full crew man does
not protect or even contribute in any
manner or form, but depletes the
earnings for handling such trains and
others, to the extent of millions of dol
lars, which money could be bettered
used in building more steel car equip
ment, electric signals, grade crossings
perfecting appliances already in use
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-03-01
THE SOUL THAT SMILES

4 WRITER in a recent issue of
"A Golfers Weekly dwells at
4 \ length on the gayety of France
in time of stress, and shows
that it is the gayety of a soul that
bravely smiles even when beset by
perils that threaten 'all it holds most
dear-a healthy soul, which shimmers
and rebounds
. He might find striking example in
Sara Bernhardt. The famous actress
is seventy years old. Because one of
her legs kept her from the joyful pur-
suit of happiness in her lifeworl< on
the stage she calmly requested the
surgeons to remove it, And now that
the troublesome limb has been ampu-
tated does she bemoan her fate and
fear for the future? Not she! She
smiles at those who extend pity and
spends her enforced idIeness in pleas
antly planning for her next appear
ance in the theater.
If the French soldiers smile is of
the quality of Bernhardts we can un-
derstand why Napoleon accomplished
what he did, why France has recover
ed almost over night from blows that
would have crushed a nation with less
spirit and why the Germans were
driven back from the very gates of
Paris.
The Japanese are said to mask
their souls with an eternal smile, but
the soul of the Frenchman itself
smiles and therein lies world of diff
ference.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-03-01

"HE usual bills regulating the sale
of oleomargarine have turned
= up in the Legislature this ses-
sion There are those who
would so surround with difficulties the
manufacture and sale of butter sub
stitutes as to make their production
Improbable and drive them from the
market. Needless to say, all such have
their own axes to grind and their
object is purely selfish.
Time was when oleomargarne was
rightfully looked upon with suspicion
by the public and the dairyman. Con-
stituents of obscure origin and of
doubtful food value entered into its
manufacture and 1t was sold in most
instances under deceptive titles. But
that time has long since passed. The
oleomargarine of to-day is pure in
quality and of high nutritive stand
ard. 1t is made under federal inspec-
tion and. in conformity to State and
national pure food laws. 1t is sold for
what it is and not for butter. and If it
were not for the large quantities OF
prices would have risen long since to
a figure that would have barred butter
from the tables of any but the very
wealthy.
1t will, therefore. not do to attempt
to put any barrier in the way of the
sale of this important food product,
no matter how much legislators may
desire TO protect the dairy interests
and to assess taxes upon the packers.
Every additional penny that is placed
upon the manufacturer of oleomar-
garine will be added in the end to the
living expenses of the poor man who
finds in oleo a substitute for the but
ter that he would prefer to have, but
which in many instances he cannot
afford.
The dairy interests are well guarded
under present laws and there would
seem to be little necessity for change.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-03-01
WHoLEsALE sELF-EsTEE,Nt

~ FORGE S. POMEROY, of the
firm of Dives Pomeroy & Stew
~ art, gave lecture the other
day to a section of the employees
of the Reading store on the subject,
Get Stuck on Yourself"
Mr.. Pomeroy said that the difference
between self-confidence and conceit
is that the former is Il well established
faith in ones own personal abilities TO
do things properly and that concelt is
false confidence based on a fallacious
estimate of ones true worth.
Nobody ever succeeded in the world
without a wholesome respect for his
own ability to do things. Mr.. Pome-
roy has expressed in that one sentence
more truth than might be conveyed i'll
library of orations. A properly con-
trolled self-esteem, combined with ma
tural or cultivated good nature, will
take a man of even limited abilities
very far in the world. provided he
combines these qualities with persist
ence.
On the other hand, there is the
cock-sure, conceited, little fellow who
permits himself to imagine, without
good ground for the judgment, that he
can do anything that anybody else can
do, and none is so prone to err and to
fail of accomplishment as he.
Nobody will believe in you IL you dc
not believe in yourself, but it is also
true that nobody will take you seri-
ously if you persist in placing an un-
warranted valuation upon your owl
abilities, for your associates are otter
much more difficult to deceive in such
matters than you are yourself.
Every young man might well TAX
Mr.. Pomeroy's advice and Get Stuci
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-03-01
THE ELEVENTH HOUR RUSH

@ONGRESS, fguratively speaking,
has reached the eleventh hour
~ of it's session. Perhaps one
might be justified in saying the
twenty-third hour, il length. of con-
tinuous debate and enactment are to
be considered. At least billion dol
lars remain to. be appropriated. In
the brief time between now and March
4 bills carrying vast sums must be ap-
proved for the running of the national
government during the next two years.
The end of the session rush is on and
the pork barrel opportunists are the
busiest little persons in Washington.
Beyond question OF doubt millions
of dollars will be misappropriated in
the final hours of the session. 1t is
too late now to do anything but swing
the big bills through, eliminating
whatever OF slush may be detected in
the cursory examination that the brief
moment of consideration will permit.
Such a condition is more than to be
regretted at any time, but doubly so
just now when the National Treasury
is in need of every dollar that can be
saved to it. If the President had not
50 persistently pressed for the passage
of his impossible shipping bill, Con-
gress might have spent weeks very
proftably to the country at large in
proper consideration of these vastly
important appropriation bills. Regrets
will not help now and Congress itself
cannot be held responsible. The
blame should rest where it belongs
on the White House.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-03-01
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

FIX Mayor w. A. Magee, of Pitts
burgh, is on a trip to California.
Judge E. II. Gary. who was taken
i'll after making his speech at Pitts
burgh, has entirely recovered.
Hugh Steele is the new head of
the Chester county farm bureau.
j. 2. Harris. Pittsburgh theater
owner. is ill in Denver. where he was
taken sick while on a western trip.
Robert G.. Miller. former member
of the Legislature and well known
here. is a candidate for register of
wills of Montgomery county.
George c. Hetzel. member OF
the Industrial Accidents Commits
sion. was POSTMASTER at the banquet
of Ridley Park citizens.
Arthur j. Anderson. editor of the
Pennsylvania Farmer. says that Penn
sylvanians do not advertise their vege-
tables and other products enough.
IS. L. Gavin. Philadelphia lawyer
aged 63, walked from Allentown tc
Philadelphia and enjoyed it.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-03-01
Johnson In City
Rids Feet of COrns.
Removes Foot Lumps.
Sure and Painless.

What any corn needs is the sooth-
ing influence of Putnam's Painless
Corn and Wart Extractor, which in
twenty-four hours lifts out every root
branch and stem of corns and warts
Just clean riddance to the old Offend
ers-that's the way Putnam's Painless
Corn and Wart Extractor acts. Re-
fuse a substitute preparation for put
nam's Extractor. Csc, druggists every
where. Sold by C. NJ. Forney.-Ad-
Vertisement
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-03-01
STORY RITEN'
BY the Messenger BOY

The other day | was downharted and
l met the preacher and he sed, what's
the matter, bub( jlst as il he knew all
about it. But L cudut jist lokate the
trouble as to tell him, and he took me
in his house and told me lots of things;
so l forgot the crouch and jollied up,
After his funny tales he said, when
you're grouchy and want to cuss every
thing, jist ask yourself what makes
you cranky. Mostly. you viii find It's
ina gina shun, or too much dinner or a
law streak, or too much glVin way to
the divil in ye Perhaps its a disap-,
pointment in love or some such trivtul
uncertainty in life that don't count and
shuldnt be remembered. If its any of
these causes its all your own fawlt; II
trick to We, jist laft at i'm and let i'm
know ye don't care a darn.
l went away feelin the preacher is
him. Most preachers is o. K. and some
aint, and all of EN- have a fine chance
to make good at their bisness, there
bein so many grouches and troubled
people in the world to pracktise on.
Some ministers can make you go to
sleep by preachin nothin but theeolojy
out of books; they can tell you how
much a gold-brick weighs in heaven or
how many pound pressure they have in
the superheted steem sistem in the
other place, jist as if they knowed all
Other preachers like mine I talked
to, don't bother about whats comm but
week and make you feel like shoutin
while you're here in Harrisburg They
can show you how to feel good so as
you whsle while at work, and raise
| your genral battin average. If you
! iarn to devillp your inner natchure so
as you stop swearin, and drinkin and
ehswin and chasin around, and get
shuns, thots and imaginashuns-its a
good job.
Some preachers preach like a mega
phone, some like a brass band with a
mule accompaniment and some like
school boys maxim a decklamashum or
| a gurl-but I cant lokate any of these
| i'm Hbg.-then there is others that talk
| like a founten that comes of big
| spring tnat never runs dry.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-03-01
.oup comes and

Group usually comes at night. The
.hiId wakes with q harsh. croaking,
choling cough and a struggle for
breath. Immediate action to loosen the
phlegm is necessary, as there is always
Cling. Goff's Cough Syrup acts at once;
cuts the thick, hard mucus, opens the
air passages and brings instant relief.
1t is most reliable remedy for Whoop-
ing Cough and common colds and
coughs. Every mother should have 1t
in the house. Contains no opiates; Get
a rs or so cent bottle from your Grocer
the night.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-03-01

as will engender within himself the
ambition TO impress upon others that
he is really as worth while as he pre-
tends he is.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-03-01

on locomotives and cars, all for the
benefit of the travelling public and its
employees.
1t is true that transportation is the
largest business proposition in theH
world, but 1t must declare a dividend
or become insolvent. There is mo-
other course. SHOPMEN.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-03-01
BREAD PRICES

"HE utter heartlessness of the
grain speculators who have been
= reaping millions of profits at
the expense of the bakers and
consumers of the country. is illustrat-
ed by this expression from the lips of
c. II. Candy, president of the Chicago
Board of Trade, the home of the grain
shark:
The poor will not stop eating
bread because 1t is raised n cent i'm
the price of loaf, but will simply
eat less of it, and in a country like
the United States. where millions
are spent for chewing gum and
hve-cent cigars, no disturbance.
should be caused by a penny rise in
foodstuffs.
Reduced to its last analysis, Mr..
Canby's argument is simply this-that
Americans must not complain if they
are called upon to hand over their
luxuries to a few fat and pompous
gentlemen of the Chicago Board OF
Trade. Eat less in order that we
spectators may eat more" says he.
Stop chewing gum that we may chew
it; stop smoking that we may have
your cigars. And yet we wonder some
times at the spread of socialism in
the land.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-03-01
WHEN BOTH KICK


The workman's compensation bill
Has drafted been, at last.
Into the legislative mill
1t shortly will be cast.
Its terms have been made known, and
folks
Who will affected be
Are harshly criticising it
Which much amuses me.
Employers kick they say. because
The penalty's too great,
And labor kicks because 1t Is
BY far too small, they state.
And since on this one point they both
Are ready now to fight
'Twould seem to me the form proposed
Is pretty nearly right.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-03-01
DENTIST VS.. UNDERTAKER

II am convinced" said Mrs. Twick-
embury. that we should save largely
on dentists bills if we should buy each
of the children one of those new pyro-
technic tooth-brushes." Christian
REGISTER,
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-03-01
The Well or the Steeple?

The chap who hollers down a well
About the goods he has to sell.
Will not reach near so many
people
As he, who hollers from the
steeple.
What is the use of making a
good article or running a good
store If people do not know it?
Proof of success lies in public
appreciation.
The public Is hungry for good
goods and good service-eager to
read about such things.
That is one reason why the
great majority or people are
newspaper readers.
And il is the reason why news
paper advertising is such an ef-
fective business builder.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-03-01
on HARRI SBURc FIFN
YEARS AGO TODAY

ltrom the Telegraph of March 1, 1866. ]
Reward offered
j. ID. Hoffman offers 500 reward for
the arrest of the incendiary who set
fire to his stable.
Johnson In City
Nlce-President Johnson passed
through the city this morning enroute
10 washington for the Inauguration.
Senntc Speaker Receives Gift
William j. Turrel, Speaker of the
Senate, was presented with an ebony
cane by the officers of the Senate.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-03-01

Washington, March /. - The Senate
passed the $500. .000. 900 loan bill. Presi-
dent Lincoln't signature is all that is
needed to make ii n law.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-03-01
NW5SE s REIFSTSFESAR

[From the Telegraph of March 1. 1861
Time Extension Fer Recruits
Washington, March i. - The time of
recruiting has been extended to March
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-03-01
AN EVENING THOUGHT

Life is not days and years:
Life is love and labor.-P. IL.
Newnham.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-03-01
OUR DAILY LAUGH
BELOW STAIRS.

BELOW STAIRS.
Parlor Maid
Mrs. Plane says
she's not to be
disturbed. She's
about to take her
beauty sleep.
Scullery Maid
Shi Tread softly.
Goodness knows,
she needs It
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-03-01
Await AfineE

Await Attack
Richmond. March 1. - The rebels in
this city expect an attack in a few
days by Grant.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-03-01
NOT SCARED
nv DTTG

NOT SCARED
BY BILLS.
It is said that
women are braver
than men. Do
you believe It?
Well, I think
more of them
would take a
chance at mar
riage.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-03-01

General r. c. dupont, who has re-
linquished the presidency of the big
powder manufacturing company, was
at one time interested in projects for
purchasing the trolley lines in this
vicinity. He later became interested
in the Johnstown system.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-03-01
OLEONIARGARINE

usual bills regulating the sale
of oleomargarine have turned
! up in the Legislature this ses-
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1915-03-03
Grain and Produce.
Corn and Oats up,

Corn was 1I$c higher, while May
oats were up &c. Corn was nervous
and price changes were wide. There
was big was big falling off in
primary receipts, while the shipments
were heavier and the. clearances from
the seaboard were big. Cash corn
showed the same improved difference
nndor May as on Monday, and the
total sales from here were $4,000
bushels, of which 100000 bushels we're
TO the seaboard. The stock OF corn
here is big and the visible supply Is
enormous:
There was heavy export buying OF
oats yesterday. which turned weak
and duh marketAjnto a strong and
active one. The country movement
of this grain was liberal and there Is
no promise OF any material reduction
In stocks this week. Cash sales OF
oats at the seaboard were 100000
bushels.
Considerable stubbornncss was dis.
played by the provision market, as
the ciosings were at a higher range
OF prices III the face of bearish stocks.
On the price recessions OF the morn.
Ing there was heavy covering BY In.
tiuential interests, which caused a
change In the market. The cash trade
In meats and lard was again salts.
factory.
Opening and closing quotations yes.
terday were as follows:
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Oilgaynld Gas

Development work in the Eastern
fields Is tagging, few competitions be.
Ing reported from any district. Bet.
ter than average producers are few
and far between. While operations
are In d state OF lethargy, Operators
are not losing sight OF now districts
that present possibilities. The first
intimation reyiyes the desire to again
take up development work, oven
though the chances for finding new
producing territory or getting better
than light producers in the old dis
tricts are very small.
Operators are anxiously awaiting
further developments in the Berea
grit develop in Cabin Creek dis.
trict, Kanawha county, W. Va. In u
way IL iss the most important in tho
Eastern fields. The size Of tho initial
well and its long distance from any
previous production makes 1t Of great.
eriinterest than if located in proximity
70 some old development. Since the
drilling in OF the well on the Williams
Coal Gompanyis tract, there has been
0 marked increase in experimental
work in LINCOLN county. While tho
producing limits OF tho old field has
not been extended TO any appreciable
degree it3 has been demonstrate that
Lincoln county has still a large amount
Of territory capable of supplying ii
large number Of small producers.
Town lot operators in Spencer,
Roane county are not in the leust
daunted by the recent competitions In
that development coming in light and
are going ahead starting now work
with seemingly as much confidence as
though they expected to get as good
or better producers as tho first three
wells completed. There are Is strings
81 tools running at Spencer and quito
q number OF rigs building.
Mayhem e. Hnrshbarger are due in
the sand IA test on the T. l.. Liuger
farm and the Hersman Oil Company
has started to drill test on part
of the same farm. Baker &, Nichols
will be due in the sand this weeli at
q test on the p. S. Cflss farm. God.
frey y, Cabot is drilling a test on the
Margaret j. Crislip lot and has the
rig completed for No. .. Tho Fisher
oil Company viii be due In tho sand
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Finance, Oil and Real Estate

NEW YORK, March s.son the sur.
face, at least tpday's stock Inarket
appeared 20 ignore the latest turn ID
European eyents and its possible es,
feet on the foreign trad % o. this coun:
try. Trading was very Hight, but
prices were we'll maintained in the
better Known issues, GONE Of the East.
ern railways gaining q 20 2. points,
with recessious In the later dealings,
Speciaittes were increasingly Spromi.
nent, especially motor shares, but the
utter absence of investment demand
was again d striking feature.
There was a rerewnl, on a moder.
ate acnle, Of tie recent selling for for.
eign account. Chiefly in the bond al.
vision, and quoted values in soms
high grade issues showed concessions.
Exchange markets were more steady,
except on Germany and Italy, the
better tone being due, It was believed,
to the German.Austrin embargo.
IN the final hour OF the session
there was @ recipitate decline in the
stock md four per cent bonds OF Dis
tiners securit ties, each breaking about
8 points This was preceded by great
ef heaginess in the grain markets,
which rallied slightly at the close
The uncertain state OF the copper
industry was shown by the varying
altitude adopted by some Of the pro.
ducing companies In their dividend
policies, one of which restored It's
regular rate Of disbursement, while
others deferred action or made re.
ducttons. In the steel trade prices OF
certain specialties were advanced.
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FIRST THINGS.
The States.

The States.
Today marks the anniversary OF the
organization OF the District Of Colum.
bia in 1891 and of a number Of State
and Territorial governments. On
March 3, 1919, the Territory OF Ala.
hama was formed out Of the country
east OF what Is now Mississippi, and
two years later Alabama became a
State OF the Union. On tho third Of
March in 1916 Florida took It's place
III the sisterhood OF States, the coun.
try having been coded to tho United
States by Spain in 1919, for which
Spain received s5,0o0,000. On March
3, 1S49. Minnesota Territory was es.
tablished, its western boundaries be.
ing the Missouri and White Earth
rivers. Minnesota had previously.
been a part of the territories OF In.
diana, Upper Louisiana, Michigan,
Illinois, Iowa and Wisconsin. On
March 3, 1868. Idaho Territory was
constituted. having been set apart
from Washington Territory. This
date Is also the anniversarys OF the
recognition ofSthe Independence OF!
Texas from Mexico by the United.
States In 1881