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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-12-01
THE CHRISTMAS SPIRIT

iT<HE Christmas spirit lies latent IN
every mans heart. Even Old
Scrooge of Dickens incompar-
able Christmas tale had 1t. But some
times, as in the case of Scrooge, it re-
quires a blast of dynamite to waken it
into real Christmas activity. Ordi-
narily 1t hides behind such flimsy
barriers as too busy to think about
! it," Household cares" and too old
TO indulge in such -foolery."
Too busy to think about the finest
day in all the year? Too many house
hold cares for sharing the spirit of
Christmas with all you hold dear {?
Too old to admit that you are young
in heart? Out upon such nonsense!
If you are too busy to indulge in
Christmas planning, business has you
by the throat, and instead of being the
proud master of your own business,
il is master and you are the slave ana
only death will loosen its hold. If
you have too many household cares,
then mayhap you are devoting too
much time to making a house and too
little to making home. Christmas
keeping and the joyous prelude of
preparation are as important in home
making as any one of the duties that
good housekeepers give such an Inn
portant place in the days work; aye,
much more, indeed.
But to be too old to entertain the
Christmas spirit, ah, that is worst and
most hopeless of all. If your heart
refuses to warm up to the fun of
Christmas planning. then it is old
indeed. You know how a life in
surance company feels about an old
heart. Your friends feel the same
way, though they may try to hide it.
Don't be fooled into thinking you
are too busy or too old. Give the
Christmas spirit a chance, and watch
! II grow. Think Christmas. Talk
Christmas. Act Christmas. Mix it
we'll with your dinnertable conversa-
| tion and chat about it with the young
| folks in the family circle. Go shopping
with them. Don't wait Do it now.
The Christmas season ought 10 be the
happiest of the year Lengthen it from
day to a month, and you'll be sur
! prised at your own youthful zest for
planning and preparation.
Sorrow and poverty are the two
great enemies of the Christmas spirit.
To the sad of heart there is recourse
only to Him whose birth the day is
designed to celebrate. With poverty
| it is different. When plenty steps in
at the door, poverty leaps out of the
window. Harrisburg is enjoying a
period of almost unprecedented pros
perity There can be no reason why
Santa Claus should not find his way
into every home this year-no rea-
son why the Christmas spirit should
not hold full sway in every home. If
there be those in the city who look
| forward to the great holiday with mis-
giving; if there be mothers who have
not the wherewithal to make happy
the Christmas of their little ones, or
| fathers who can buy no holiday cheer
for the wife and babies if they will
write or apply in person to the edi-
! haps the need may be met. The editor
| believes he knows where Old Man
| Christmas Spirit himself has his head
quarters, and it is right across the
street from the wonderful home of
Santa Claus.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-12-01
HELPING THE SHIPPER
kansas City Star.J

"On a muddy earth road of level
Surface, the load one horse can pull
will vary from nothing to 500 pounds;
ION smooth, dry earth road, from 1000
ito 1000 pounds; or a gravel road, in
good condition, about $500 pounds;
ION a macadam road, from 1000 to
1000 pounds; and on a brick road,
5000 TO 5000"
The Southern Construction News, in
its Arkansas Road number, gives some
be seen from thn, lines just quoted
as to the direct economic or money
advantages that follow the permanent
improvement of public roads. That
is why the improvement of roads
brings a direct profit to the farmer
who is constantly in the shipping bust
ness-shipping his stuff first always
by road.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-12-01
CHRISTMAS TREES
By Frederic J. Haskin

TIME United States Government is
probably the only one in the
- world that will give you a
Christmas tree for the asking. If you
happen to live on or near any one of
the national forests YOU have but to
ask the supervisor for a permit and so
out and select your own tree.
The procedure lis very different in
Germany, for example, where the
peasants are allowed to cut Christmas
trees in the Crown forests-after they
have obtained a permit and paid a
good price for the tree. One of the
hand-raised and carefully pruned
German forests is said to have paid for
itself out of the sale of Christmas trees
alone.
OF course. very few people are close
enough to the national forests to oh
tain their trees gratis, but a great
many of them are sold TO dealers, and
most of the western cities get their
Christmas trees in that way. 1t is
from these forests, too, that the splen-
did conifers. used as municipal Christ
mas trees in q great many western
towns, are obtained. They are pre-
scented to the cities by Uncle Sam who
does not, however, pay the freight. as
one supervisor found to his chagrin.
He had received a request from a
certain town for Christmas tree to be
be set up in its public square. He Sc
lected splendid fir as long as the
longest flat car. and shipped it to the
town with the compliments of the
United States government. He then
presented the freight bill to the WASH
ington office, with the usual voucher.
BY return mail. he got it back, to-
gether with a letter explaining that
Congress had never appropriated any
money for shipping municipal Christ
mas trees. So the accommodating of
flcer had to go into his own pocket to
pay the freight.
There are about twenty million fam
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-12-01
THE G. OF c. ACTIVITIES

TINE businessmen of Harrisburg
are quite familiar with the i'm
portant activities of the Cham
ber of Commerce. They realize that
this virile organization is doing great
good in many directions. Not only
are the occasional MONDAY luncheon
meetings sources of inspiration and
widespread benefit, but the less prom
inent activities of the Chamber are
attracting the attention of our busi-
ness community as never before
Just now attention is being given
by the officials of the Chamber to the
importance of a proper building code
for the city and to the adoption of every
provision which maylead to a reduction
of fire insurance costs. In a circular
TO the businessmen attention is called
to the necessity of fire protection
through the installation of sprinkler
equipment. Many of our manufacture
ers and merchants have already pro
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-12-01
PUNISH THE CONsPIRAToRs
1From New York Sun1

lfrom New ork Sun.
The subjoined statement is made by
Joseph l.. Baldwin, fire marshal of
Pennsylvania, after an official inquiry
into the origin of the fires that occur
red recently in the Bethlehem Steel
works, the Roebling plant at Trenton
and the Baldwin Locomotive works at
Eddystone:
Every one of the fires in plants
making munitions and other supplies
for the allies was of incendiary nature,
started by persons VINO nave not as
yet been discovered"
In this sentence the most alarming
Isuspicions aroused by the fires on
which the marshal reports are con-
firmed, the hopeful pretence that ac-
cidents accounted for them is de-
stroyed and the duty of the authorities
Is ineXorably set forth.
The conspiracy that wars on Amer
lea must be exposed. and the con-
spirators punished. If these things
are not done, our plans for prepared
ness should be abandoned, the army
disbanded. and the navy sent to the
scrap heap. If we cannot protect our
selves in peace we shall have no rea-
son to defend ourselves in war
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-12-01

lilies in the United States, and it is es-
eimated from transportation figures
that one in every four of them has a
Christmas tree, SO that at least five
million little evergreens are chopped
down every Yuletide
AS outlined by the foresters, Christ
mas tree farming is almost as attrac-
tive as raising mushrooms or incuba-
tor chickens. They point out that
seedlings may be purchased for 81 a
thousand and that 200 trees may be
raised upon every acre. Fifteen years
after planting these trees will he from
eight to fifteen feet high and will then
be ready for the market. They will
sell for an average of twenty-five cents
apiece on the stump or from fifty cents
to So in the retail market
IL YOU will figure this out, you will
find that the Christmas tree grower
VIII make n profit of $16.50 on every
acre every year from his Christmas
tree crop. Furthermore, Christmas
trees do not have to be plowed or wat
cred or sprayed. All you have to do
is to keep the chickens from eating
them when they are very young, and
they will reach a highly decorative
maturity without any further attention
on your part. ...-.
Thus you may make n very consider
able profit out of otherwise useless
lands, with very little effort and the
Christmas tree market is one that
never says or fiops. It is not greatly
affected by hard times or the stock
exchange or the war. Last Christmas
every family in Nuremberg. Germany,
had its Christmas tree despite the fact
that nearly every able bodied citizen
in Nuremberg was in the trenches So
the Christmas tree market ought to
be one worth cultivating, and, as Gif-
ford Pinchot said in putting a quietus
on the antiChristmas tree propaganda,
j. there can be no higher use for trees
than making little children happy.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-12-01
A MODEL OBITUARY FOUND
Texas County trimmer Praised tn
Late Bud Snason In Verse

Texas County trimmer Praised the
Late Bud Snason I'm Verse
To the Texas County Trimmer we are
indebted for n model solution of one of
the confusing problems of journalism
which is even more acute in the coun-
try than in the less intimate relations
of city life. we suppose. 1t Is the en-
barrassment of the obituary to which
we allude. the difficulty of approxi-
mating the facts while at the same
time expressing a fiattering estimate
of a deceased subscriber, paid up or
otherwise, over whose mortal frailties
we should prefer to draw the veil.
To few of us is given the grace OF
Marc Antony in disposng of a delicate
subject who has friends in the neigh
borhood, but the Texas County Trim
mer we'll earns it's name in trimming
around the memory of the late Bud
Snason, with this post-mortem poetry;
"Old Bud Snason was a game old man.
Showed some speed in the race he ran
Never blushed for no disgrace.
But lived and died with the whiskers
on his face.
Peace to his bones. his race is run.
And we aim to forget all the things
he done"
The worst of us can ask no better
| treatment. Poetic license is a beautiful
sister of the charity which covers the
multitudes of sins, and virtues embalm-
cd in verse will survive alone in men,
orY.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-12-01
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

p. C. Knox is to speak in Pitts
burgh Saturday on southern countries
and their relation to the United
States.
w. /. Stineman, son of the for
mer Cambria senator, is figuring in
some big coal land deals.
The Rev. Samuel Semple, of IT,
tusville, has returned from an ex-
tended visit to eastern States.
d b. oliver, veteran head of the
Pittsburgh school board, is opposed to
any more bond issues unless absolute
Iy necessary.
Rodney Thayer. of Philadelphia,
has become head of one of the big
new munitions plants.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-12-01
NOT MUCH REQUIRED
By Wing DInger

To my desk there came this morning
From a hotel in the South
4 long letter, no doubt written
To bring water to ones mouth.
First it spoke of the location
In the belt where there Is grown
Oranges and grape fruit. brother,
Then it took different tone
Spoke of golf course. tennis, hunting,
Fishing with rod and reel.
Then about the glorious climate
That approaches the ideal.
other things just as delightful
This epistle spoke of, too.
Then wound up by saying: I'VE would
Much like to take care of you.'
please let us know your requirements
It wound up-that's going some
Think I'll wire: Require two hundred
Send It and III gladly come"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-12-01

in accomplishing union of the sew
eral towns and villages along the West
Shore for their own betterment and
Harrisburg. This city should stand in
the relation of the big brother to our
neighbors across the river.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-12-01

Wormleysburg wants it's name
changed. And why not? 4 rose by
any other name would smell as sweet
and Wormleysburg is entitled to the
best that it going in municipal nomen-
clature.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-12-01
DO YOU KNOW

That Harrisburg steel is used
i'm New York tunnels?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-12-01
Never Too Busy

Alert merchants are never too
busy to see travelling salesmen."
They may not buy, but they
want to take a minute to look.
There may be something they
need something they don't
want to overlook.
Newspaper advertising is like
the travelling salesman showing
his goods.
Perhaps you do not want the
goods. but 1t pays you to look.
Reading keeps you informed of
the market and what prices pre-
vail.
That knowledge is valuable
when the time does come to buy.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-12-01
WEDNESDAY EVENING, DEC. 4

Lose an hour in the morning, and
you toW be all day hunting for it
Archbishop Whdtely.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-12-01

Agents of the United Cigar Manu-
facturers are trying to buy up at least
half of the tobacco crop in lancaster
county. They have just bo. ght the
Henry Martin brick machine plant
for $4,000.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-12-01
rORTc uARRISRURG

HISTORIC HARRISBURG
From early days this was shipping
point for lumber from up the Sus-
auehanna and until 1910 it was the
big industry.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-12-01
THE STATE FROM DAY TO DAY

The town of Sharon, out Pittsburgh
way, blazed forth in all its glory last
evening when its new "Whlte Way"
was opened and the Christmas shop
ping inaugurated at one and the same
time. up. S. f." signs are posted all
over the buildings and streets, and
lest you rack your brain too greatly
for the answer, let us relieve YOU
they stand for please Shop Early"
\ fearful thing happened in Phil
adelphia early the other evening,
when "suds" began to gurgle and bub-
bic from u small grating in the pave
ment i'll front of the Manufacturers
Club. But 1t was not the soothing
stuff that comes in schooners $50
high" at a nickel per, but only the
soap suds from the laundry of the
building which had backed up and
overfiowed through the grating, be-
ing thus churned into a seething mass.
From bluecoat to actor" is the
melodramatic history of Ed Morton,
well known to many dwellers i'm the
"city of brotherly love" as a former
traffic officer. He has assumed the
role of public entertainer now and
has undertaken a job where the tables
are reversed and he may need pro-
lection from instead of offering 1t to
the public.
We read of Scranton man who
has been convicted of wrecking his
private bank and who has taken
refuge in Jail. fearing to face the
1000 or more of angry depositors
whom he is said to have cheated.
The Mennonite Brethren in Christ
baptized Earl Huber at the foot of
the bridge crossing the river at Lam
caster yesterday. The lad is only IL
years of age and displayed remarkable
courage when he was plunged beneath
the waves. He refused to admit he
was cold.
Twelve miles east of Kittanning, NJ.
A. Milliron, member of the Legisla-
| ture. had a fierce encounter the other
day with a wildcat which made vail
ant efforts to get at the lawmakers
/ face. After being considerably
scratched up, he managed to knock
the beast down with the butt of his
gun and fire a charge through its
heart.
| Ninety-one men now wear the star
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-12-01
TELEORAPH'S PERISCOPE

The rise and fall of Villa-bandit,
rebel, revolutionary leader. rebel. ban
dit
Just to show those that refused
that he is not going alone, Henry Ford
has chartered a second ship.
Mr.. Taft ought to speak from his
heart when he lectures in this city
he knows what it is to be caught by
"a powerful enemy "unprepared."
The game law is very strict about
shooting does but says nothing about
the number of hunters one may shoot.
If all the European soldiers had
followed the example of the German
who recently ran away to America
to escape fighting, there wouldn't have
been a war, but think what an immi-
grafton problem we would have been
called upon to face.
Mr.. Carnegie, according to reports,
has only s20.Oo0.0OO left. oh. well,
he needn't feel so bad. the charities
are combining to look after the poor
at Christmastime.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-12-01

If Britain is really spending $25, ,0O0.-
600 day on the war, somebody isn't
getting his moneys worth.-Columbia
State.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-12-01
DESTROYING OUR PLANTs
1.-THE Outlook

When will our Government at WASH
ington realize that this is a condition
not much longer to be endured?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-12-01
Our Daily Laugh
GETTING IT
STRAIGHT.

Hubby: Y o q
spend altogether
too much money.
Wifey: Not at
all! The trouble
is you don't make
enough.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-12-01

Ninety-one men now wear the star
and are prepared to tell the tourist
to the battle-ground at Gettysburg all
about the great fight. Under the new
arrangements of the commission,
guides are required to be licensed.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-12-01

The above figures are net. All re-
turned, unsOId and damaged copies de-
ducted.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-12-01

Published every evening Except Sum
day) at the Telegraph Building, 216
Federal Square. Both phones.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-12-01

Eastern omice. Fifth Avenue Building.
New York City. Hasbrook, Story &
Brooks.
Bisbee daily review., 1915-04-01
A MILITARY psAcEMAkER

Gen. Hugh l.. Scott, chief of stan Of the United States Army a pacfst of the first rank His latest exploit the peaceful rounding up 2 bad" Piute ln dians at Mexican Hat. Col, is another proof of his genius for both command and concliaton
 In 1908 Gen. Scott left West Point where he was superintendent the time, and quieted the ebclIous Nayajos and Kickapoos in New Mexico and Arizona. In 1911 he paciaed the Hopi Indians Arizona Last year he headed Navajo uprising and later, when Mexican forces endangering the peace of the country by firing over Che border Naco brought them to their senses.
 Here is a mihtary who evidently believes that the first duty cf soldier fight but to preserve order and who proves that it usually possible k,cr order without boodshed He succeeds not by force threats but by treating the hostile disconteued wC respect, meeting them man Co
 "lu all my past worl, among Indians The says. "it has been necessary for go over the ground twice and in no instance have they broken their pro mises."
 What quantity of hate suspicion money and blood might have been save our past dealings with tbc Indians if had had such diplomat to handle the crises! And what a different situation would exist h Europe today if Gen scotts ideals and methods pre- vailed there
Bisbee daily review., 1915-04-01

put roughly strike both the familiar and the emphatic noe when those are the required, with felicity beyond either the comma the semicolon though i'm deed fine sense for the semicolon, like sort Of sense at all the pluperect tense and the subuncye mood, on which the whole perspective in sentenoo may depend, seems anything but common"
 But punctuation really wasn't what the interview was about; 80 Mir James finally swung around to his real theme and made this inspiring appeal:
 "we welcome any lapse of logic that may connec. inward vagueness with outward zeal if it be the zeal of subscribers prcsenters drivers of both at once stretcherbearers filters headers, consolers handy AngloFreneh interpreters tbese extremely pre- cious) smoothcrs Of the way short after whatever fashion"
 Do you get him? He wants money men and doctors
 Somehow, we cant help wondering how long the great novelist and few other supercious highbrowa who scorn the journalistic profession-woud hold io in newspaper office Or Cto permit ourselves the slight ephemera satisfaction of glancng--for the sake of pungent variance of expressionat the obyersc aspect of the thouehD how long would reporter hold his iob if he wrote like great novelist?
Bisbee daily review., 1915-04-01
LITERARY CUFF

Henry James, the novelist, was interviewed the oth- or day for the first time in his verbose and snalyti ife not as an author but Chairman Of the AmercaA Volunteer Motor Ambulance Corps now at work tn France He was willing step off his pedestal for the benefit of the corps It publicity stunt if we mal be pardoned the lapse into phraseoogy so amentabl inelegant Of dicon and commercial in connotaton- we'll anyhow. here's the way Henry started out;
 "I cant put my devotion and sympathy for the ause of our corps more strongly than in permitting h thus to overcome my dread of the assault o the Inter viewer whom have deprecated all these years. vita an the force of my preference for saying myself an without superhuous aid without interference in the ruise of announcement cheer anything may thne worth my saying It may be iatuous of me- but beier ing myself possessed of some means of expression feel as if were sadly giving when, with the us of it urgent don't gratefully employ it. but appeal in stead to the art of somebody else"
 Lest the cursory reader may have fumbled t. we hasten to interpret: "1d rather say things m my own words than have Reporters say them for me
 Mir James then asked the reporter to quote~him a' curately punctuation and a-eyeu the dashes.
 "Dashea." he proceeded to elueidate' "dashes' Il seems almost plahudinous to say have their paricula represen,atpe virtue, their quckening lofce and u
Bisbee daily review., 1915-04-01
NOTE TO BRITAIN

WASHINGTON Mar 31.-The re- ply of the United States government to the British order in council de- creeing virtual blockade against commerce to and from Germany was cabled to American Ambassador Page at London tonight for presentation Go the British foreign office. As soon as the communication is delivered it will be made public here and in Lon don under an agreement between the two governments. In the meantime, officials decline to give any mtima' ton of its contents
 Beyond the fact that the United States stands firmly for its rights to carry on legitimate trade with neu- ual countries, even though they are contingent to benigerents, little was known of the administrations posi- ton in view of developments since tbe last note was despatched inQuir- ing how Great Britain and her allies intended to enforce the prohibition against trade of enemy origin, own ership or destination"