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The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1915-10-28

Clarksdale.-In the federal court
George Constan, Greek, was given a
fine of $500 and five years in the fed
eral prison. Constan was convicted
of having sent series of "black hand"
letters to E. P. Peacock, cashier of tho
Bank of Clarksdale, last June. Ben
Jackson, negro, was convicted of a
similar offense against Sell Jones OF
Glendora several months ago. Ernest
Moss, J. S. Brown and Will Crisp were
convicted of counterfeiting and each
sentenced to three years in prison and
given $50 fine.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1915-10-28
"oIder Boys" Conference.

Blake w. Godfrey, state secretary fol
the Y. M. C. A. in Mississippi, is ar
ranging for holding the fourth annual
conference of colder Boys" here on
Nov. 12-14. The conference is to be-
gin on Friday evening and will run
through tN Sunday night, thus afford
ing opportunity to the school boys to
attend. "A comprehensive program has
been prepared, with view to bringing
benefit to the boys Of the state.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1915-10-28
To Vote on Park Bonds.


A special election to vote on the
proposition to issue bonds in the SUM
of $4,000 for the purchase of the Liv-
ingston Park property, in West Jack
son, for municipal park, win be held
on December IL, next.
An ordinance calling for this elec-
ton was passed at a recent meeting
Of the city commissioners. and the de-
cision as to whether Jackson is te own
q large park will be left to the voters.
1t is proposed to issue the bonds in
amounts of 5000 each, two of which
will fall due every year for 20 years.
The proposal Of the owner of the park
is to sell the property to the city for
the sum of $4,000
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-10-09
\ SATURDAY SERMON

TT was a wise old farm philosopher
who wrote: while waiting for the
main chance do not neglect the
regular chores"
1t isn't the man who spends his
time waiting for this main chance"
who most often gets there. The world
was not built in a day; neither was
any mans fortune. For every ten
strike" that has stood out in history
as the exception to this rule million
mer have striven early and late to win
the prize they sought to attain, and
even the ''ten-strike" comes seldom to
the man who is not looking for it.
Michael Angelo observed that "trifies
make perfection and perfection is no
trifie." Success comes from attention
to detail; thought for little things; do
ing little things so we'll that out of the
many little things we'll done is sure to
come one great thing-character.
\ great painting is but the result OF
many little strokes; the great statue,
many little chips; the great building,
many little bricks put together with
care and precision, with the end
always in mind. While the artist sees
finished picture in every stroke, the
sculptor finished image in every chip,
and the architect completed building
in every line. each stroke and each
chip and each line must count or the
end Will be disappointment.
No man jumps into success at one
leap. No great invention has been a
sudden thing. The wrights worked
on flying machines years before they
flew. Henry Ford was a mechanic be-
fore he was an automobile wizard. He
did not dream Ford car; he worked
1t out. And 1t took years.
1t is all very we'll to keep your head
up. but watch your step or you will
stumble. Look out to sea once in a
while. but mind the compass near al
hand. Aim at the moon If you will
but there's barn door handy by to
practice on. Dream big things, but try
your hand at little ones first.
The man who wears expensive
clothes. high hat, diamond as big
as hens egg and watch chain that
would do honor to battleship may
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-10-09
CENSORSHIP RIFLES

CMALL fault can be found with the
y new standards laid down by the
State Board of Censors if they
are reasonably enforced. OF course,
the board could so construe them as
to make life not worth the living for
moving picture producer, but the
film maker who is really desirous OF
living up TO the best his profession
makes possible will comply with the
new standards without State regula-
ton, and the public will have small
sympathy for the few who would work
into their productions any of the OBJ
jectionable features upon which the
censors have placed the ban of their
disapproval.
1t is true, as many reputable photo
play producers hold, that censorship
works hardship on them and causes
them considerable expense. 1t is un-
fortunate that this is so, but the men
who have done much to make motion
pictures the popular attraction they
are to-day did not show themselves
able to control their less scrupulous
fellows. Censorship became inevitable
when the picture plays became so bad
that decent people were afraid to go
into even so-called respectable
theaters. And if censorship has work.
ed hardship it has also had the effect
of putting out of business the un-
scrupulous competitor of the legiti-
mate producer and in this way has
probably more than paid its way for
those who are striving to sell their
products on merit alone. Perhaps
some day censorship will be unneces-
sary, but the time is apparently not
Vet.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-10-09
John L. AND HIS BELT

VTTHEN old Demon Rum, rein
Wv forced by the strong right arm
of one Jim Corbett, snatched
the fistic championship of the world
away from John L. Sullivan, the eX-
champion took the Demon to his bos-
ON even more affectionately than ever
before and when he awoke to the fact
that it was either the water wagon
or an early journey into the long,
dark valley for him, his most cher
ished possession, the Diamond Belt
about which every school boy knows,
was in the hands of a pawnbroker and
the So. 600 it had brought him had been
invested in A. varieties of booze. Old
John L. wept and not few of his ad-
mirers felt very much that way them
selves: and then the old warhorse be-
gan to plan to win back his lost treas
ure
That was years ago, and yesterday
the newspapers announced that tho
Diamond Belt was once more in the
possession of its original owner. John
L. had won another battle. It took
years of training to do it, but he put
in the final knockout punch on the old
Demon when he paid over the $4,000
and interest necessary to redeem his
pledge. Many a prizefighter has won
a world championship. but mighty
few of them have ever gone up
against" Rum and won out. John
L. is deserving of his belt. 1t means
much more than the fact that in his
younger days he was the mightiest
bruiser the world ever saw.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-10-09
EDITORIAL. COMr1ENT

In the latest election of celebrities
to the Hall of Fame at New York Uni
versity, John Paul Jones and Roger
Williams were among those who failed
to receive the necessary number of
votes. But they can stand it; their
places in history are not dependent on
the erection of bronze tablets over the
Hudson's tide.-New York Sun.
Bulgaria says /. won't attack Servia
unless Austria does. Which must be 4
lot of consolation to the Serbs.-Kan-
sas City Star.
CarranZa says he will punish the
border bandits. He would do well to
hesitate; the bandits might get him
and cut off his whiskers.-Pittsburg
Sun.
Where is the fashioned man with
two seats for the series in his pocket
who used to say that his schooldayS
were the happiest of his life?-Phila.
dclphia Inquirer.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-10-09
The State From Day to Day

PunXsutawney is holding a series
Of minnie dances. We don't know
what nimmies are, which puts us IN
the same category with the youngster
who asked the question, Say, mother,
what are Yonkers?"
They say that the war in Europe is
going to do away with eyebrow
moustaches which one occasionally
sees even when Charlie Chaplin isn't
around. The war may yet do some
good, if this is so.
Speaking of moustaches. the Erie
Dispatch states that shaving was in
troduced by the Romans, and the first
shave was a ceremony of initiation to
manhood Thousands to-day regret
ever having Joined this ancient
whisker- removing society, 1t is safe 70
say.
The latest report from the Hershey
Fress announces that the Hershey zoo
is to be enlarged. This collection Is
the largest free private zoo in Central
Pennsylvania and is only one of the
features of the wonderful little town.
A case started in Carlisle thirty one
years ago has finally resulted in the
divorce of couple dwelling there.
Persistence is an admirable quality.
The sad incident is reported from
Johnstown of the death of the midget
baby recently born there. The little
chap weighed only ia pounds at birth
and lived but fourteen days.
The artillery battery which passed
| through this city yesterday on its way
to Fort Myer may perhaps be fore
runner of the battery which it is so
| heartily hoped will come to Harris
burg before long.
The Bellefonte papers are beginning
| to mix it up a little and the campaign,
for judge in that county is waxing
| denunciatory.
The South Bethlehem Globe de-
| serves credit for its big centennial and
get-together edition which appeared
| last week with a very complete and
mastery presentation, covering rs
pages. of history and illustration deal
J ing with the last fifty years of progress
ir South Bethlehem.
"Danville. with 25 saloons and $500
inhabitants. is the wettest town in
Pennsylvania in proportion to popu-
| lStion," was the statement which was
made there recently in an evangelistic
campaign. Nothing to be proud of!
A big black bear appeared on the
road near Mainville the other day and
stepped calmly in front of machine
that happened to be passing that way.
The driver in his excitement stalled
| the engine, but bruin was friendly,
and after examining the car. perhaps
to ascertain the make. retired to the
woods, apparently satisfied.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-10-09
THE PANAMA CANAL AT WORK
III.-Fighting the Slides
BY Frederic ]. Haskin

ing with all their might to pinch the
their masses of mud together.
slides you see on either hand a great
red cash on the mountainside reaching
up hundreds Of feet above, YOU. !m
aSlne that some Titan a mile tall has
plowed furrow across the earth, that
YOU are sailing across puddle of rain
water In the bottom Of it, and you have
ABOVE you can see where fresh slices of
earth are just cracking away from the
mountain carrying bits of the jungle
with them. You can see the abandoned
houses or the workmen, relics of con-
structlon days, tottering dizZily on the
edge before they fall to destruction.
scattered over the face of this great
red bruise on the mountainside are
groups OF men that look as flies on a
quarter of beef. They are the operators
holes in the. great mass of rock thar
the slides bring down with them. Each
Of these rocks must be dynamited into
dredge. The fact that it takes half a
dozen men and a steam drill to break
up a single crumb of the moving. mass
good idea of the immensity of this task.
Core of Solid Rock
To understand the action of the
Mountain. like every other continental
divide. has a core of solid igneous rock.
The deepest and most laborious part of
ti'e Fahdlhd Sandl is cut Ilsht through
this rock. Gold and Contractors Hills
are simply the two sides of this cut,
standing as sheer and sold as though
built by some Herculean mason. These
great masses of igneous rock have
never moved. 1t is presumed that they
will stand forever. Should they slip
and come together, the Panama Canal
would be literally squeezed out OF ex-
istence and the cut would have to be
done all over again.
On the shoulders of Culebra Noun
tain, however. this igneous rock has
been weathered; hence. there are great
CONTINUED on Page 14.l
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-10-09

understand that the revival is due to
the war in Europe and not to any
government policy.
He believes that the ordinary man
can see what has happened. and that
the rank and file are feeling the pres
sure of bad times almost as much as
before the onrush of war orders be-
gan. The Republicans will then &C
to the country with strong arraign-
ment of Democratic policies, which,
in the absence of the war in Europe
would have meant financial disaster to
the country.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-10-09
HIGH STANDARDS SACRIFICED

TIME demOrallZauon OF tne navy
under Josephus Daniels has been
constantly evident, and never
more so than now, as result OF the cy-
cIonic upheaval which has recently oc-
CURED at the Naval Academy.
Last June 1t was discovered that some
of the cadets at Annapolis had bur
glarized the desks of their instructors
and had secured copies OF the annual
examination papers An investigation
which was made by the academy au-
thorities implicated several young
men, among whom we're so!ne who
possessed that most inestimaSle treas
ure, according to tile Daniels stand
ard. political pun. Two Democratic
Congressmen-Hay and Carlin of Nir-
ginia-hot-footed to Annapolis and
took up the defense of their political
favorites who had been detected in
this serious breach Of honor.
Messrs. Hay and Carlin were unable
to convince the high-minded naval
officers whom they found at Annapolis
that the standards of a Virginia police
court were applicable to the United
States Navy; so they betook themselves
TO washington and laid their case be-
fore Josephus Daniels. Now it so hap
pened that the dragnet at Annapolis
seemed perilously near to sweeping
those North Carolina shoals where
Josephus lives, moves and has politi-
cal being; and he lent a ready ear TO
the Congressional advocates who were
trying to set up politics instead of
lean naval officers.
AS a result, the recommendations of
the Academy board were Whitfield
down to include only those cases
which were too fragrant for even Dan
iels to overlook, and thus the impress
sionable youth at Annapolis were given
TO understand that the rigid system
of honor which has been the standard
of the navy from its first days is not
10 be held operative when two Demo-
cratic Congressman can get the private
ear OF a Democratic Secretary of the
Navy.
This breaking down of the stand
ards was a bitter dose for the navy.
Admiral Fullam, the superintendent
at Annapolis, asked to be transferred
in order to show his resentment; and
he was sent to an inferior post OF
duty on the West Coast. The other
officers at Annapolis expressed their
feeling less vigorously, but to the same
tenor-and now every man of them
who occupies an important post at the
Naval Academy has been ordered
away.
The incident is regarded in naval
circles as a plain serving of notice
that politics rules the navy to-day
that honorable standards a century
old cannot resist the pressure of mod
ern political necessity. To add to the
injury which has been done, there is
a more or less direct charge of dou-
ble-dealing on Daniels part. II is said
that he told the officers at Annapolis
limit in their efforts to maintain the
honorable traditions of the navy and
that they would have the whole of the
next academic year to put their no
tions into practice. Now, out OF q
clear sky. comes a sweeping order in
reputation of all that these high
minded men have been trying to do
and the Naval Academy has been
made to serve as plaything for DEM
ocratic politicians.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-10-09
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

DR.. J. S. Neff has been elected
president of the Child Federation to
succeed Edward w. Box.
e. T. Stotesbury. the banker. has
agreed to help raise S500,000 for q
children's hospital.
Wilbur Zimmerman is the new
president of the Tioga businessmen's
organization.
&C. S. Salin, prominent Delaware
countian. is head of the Delaware
County F'iremen's Association.
Colonel E. c. Shannon, of Colum-
bia, commanded the Fourth Regiment
in the South Bethlehem military
demonstration.
Emerson Collins. the new Deputy
Attorney General. made Republican
speeches in the West in the Mckinley
campaign.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-10-09

look prosperous and cut wide swath,
but if he neglects the razor. the nail
file and the toothbrush he can't break
into good society. nor make good
impression at his bank. The banker
Wants consisteney-attention to little
things.
In the effort to get rich (and who
doesn't aspire 10 wealthy it is better
to lay a foundation. as the mason lays
bricks. saving little by little. laying by
each week or each month a few dol.
lars. which. when they get together
will form a foundation for n great
structure when the time comes te
build.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-10-09

Every now and again the Attorney
General reminds the public OF his ex-
istence by putting out an opinion on
some law passed by the last Congress.
The gist of this Democrats judgment
on most of these Democratic statutes
is that they are imperative. Time was
when 1t was the function of the courts
10 pass on questions Of this sort. but
nowadays q ministerial officer sup
plants the courts and. instead of a
Government by construed law, we have
Government by opinion.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-10-09
LINCOLN HIGHWAY FEEpERs
tFrom the American Motorist. ]

IFrom the American Motorist,l
In its efforts to put its home town as
nearly on the Lincoln Highway as cir
Of Harrisburg, Pa, is doing a commend
able work.
In designing the transcontinental
roadway. the towns of Lancaster, York
Gettysburg and Chambersburg, lying a
few miles to the south. by east and
west of Harrisburg, were included. but
not the State Capital
Instead of bemoaning the fact that
the Lincoln Highway wouldn't come TO
Harrisburg. the Motor Club assisted by
the Patriot and Telegraph, proceeded
to take Harrisburg to the Lincoln
Highway. In this the Motor Club If
blazing away in excellent fashion and
1T Is expected that the next road man
Of Pennsylvania will show in heavy
black lines. three splendid sign-mark-
ed feeder roads between Lancaster
Gettysburg and Chambersburg and
Harrisburg
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-10-09
Forgetting

A large percentage of people
use their memories to forget
with"
Is your business or your prod
uct one that you can chance haV-
ing put out of mind?
Don't you need the reminder
of newspaper Advertising?
Don't you need the same ad-
vertising to tell new people your
story?
Don't you want your business
to march forward instead of
backward?
Arc you not taking too much
for granted when your advertis-
ing does not appear in this news
paper.
The time to advertise is now.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-10-09

One of the most striking examples of
our unpreparedness for warfare is the
present lack of aeroplanes in the army
and navy. The navy has five aeroplanes
and the army twelve. The number of
men in either branch of the service
who have been trained to operate them
is lamentably small These few army
aeroplanes are at San Diego. Cal, and
the navy aeroplanes at Pensacola, Fla.
They are housed in flimsy hangers.
which IL destroyed by fire. would con-
sumo the machines and leave us with
out aerial scouts.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-10-09

NNCE in awhile you read a small
~ Slides have blocked the Panama
Canal. This is tiny echo from a
ghtg battle gives no Ides 9r hf
Encouragement of the struggle with
Culebra Mountain.
Putting the ships across the Isthmus
of Panama is a striking example of a
For twenty-five hours every days the
dredges crowd into the cut, digging
out of its bottom. For two hours, If
the work is lucky, they back out, and
with infinite care the long procession
of waiting vessels is towed through a
them.
once the canal lifted its bottom two
smd the rst sreat
tered the cut. The steamer Arizonan
of the American Hawaiian Company.
toppedF dead as Trough great hand
had reached up through the waters
and clutched her keel. It took FIVE tug
boats to pull the vessel off the mud and
The best thin~ that can be said for
the slides is that they work in turns:
II all of them began pushing mud and
rock into the canal at once all the
dredges that could find room to work
could not possibly keep a channel.
Cuearaeha which started wsy back IN
notch in the backbone of stubborn old
Culebra. is the most famous of the
slides. but it is about dead. Its last
strenuous activity occurred about six
months ago. But just as Cucaracha
slowed down and Colonel Comber. who
commands the fight against the slides,
began to shake hands with himself,
the east and west Culebra slides came
to life one night and pitched several
thousand cubic yards of earth and
rock into the canal on the other side
of the mountain.
Two Causing Trouble
1t is these two slides on either bank
of the canal, on the Atlantic side of
the continental divide, that are causing
all of the trouble now. They are try
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-10-09
HE'D FORGOTTEN. TOO
BY Wing Dinger

Tuesday last I got a message
From a chap who said to me:
'Tve some business to talk over
Meet me Friday-half-past three"
After I'd made the appointment
Suddenly 1t dawned on me.
That was when the first Worlds Series
Baseball game I'd hoped to see.
Tried to figure out some method
or postponement of the date.
But 1 couldn't. and resolved to
Bow resignedly to fate.
Friday. though. I got message
From the chap. who'd called before:
I'D forgotten an appointment
Change our date to half-past four"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-10-09
A RUSSIAN HEROINE

IFrom the sprlngheId Republican.J
A Russian Sister of Charity, Mrs.
Ivanovna, serving as nurse. rallied
the demoralized troops in a recent bat
tie. charged the oncoming Germans,
captured a trench and fell mortaIly
wounded. But before she did all this
she was a hero. Sublime courage
neither In war nor in peace Is the pre-
ToRative OF one sex only
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-10-09
THE VOTERS KNOW

TINE Chicago correspondent of the
Public Ledger" of Philadelphia
reports the results of survey of
national politics made by a Republi-
can leader, and which sets forth that
no Republican need worry about the
effect OF the present business activi-
ties in the mind of the voter, for all
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-10-09
Our Daily Laugh
DOMESTIC
ECONOMY.

So you think
Svery wife should
have an allow
ance.
Certainly: 9TH
erwise there isn't
anything to bor.
row.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-10-09
EcIipse Thursday Visible Hero

An eclipse of the sun Will occur
Thursday which will be visible here.
The next eclipse of the sun visible in
&his country will be in 1863.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-10-09

With South Carolina voting out
liquids. the liquid interests are learn
ing what the Solid South" means
Kansas City Star.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-10-09
SATURDAY EVENING, OCT. Q.

Take life as you ind it. but don't
IedUe it So-4Ron.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-10-09
IN HARRISBURG FIFTY YEARS
AGO TO-DAY
GFrom the Telegraph of Oct. .. 1865. ]
Catholic Jubilee Festival

The Jubilee festival of the Catholic
Church is being held and will be con-
tinued until the end of this month.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-10-09

The Harrisburg Commercial College
was awarded three first prizes for ex-
hibits at the York Fair this week.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-10-09

IN A RESTAU-
RANT.
Angry Diner
Waiter, you are
not ft to serve a
pig.
Waiter-I am
doing my best,
sir.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-10-09
DO YOU KNOW

That Harrisburg is making steel
for cars for Siberian railroads?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-10-09
HIsTORIC HARRIsRURG


This city was one of the first Cen
trail Pennsylvania towns to undertake
cotton manufacture.