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Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1915-11-30

attack of typhoid fever with which he
became i'll in August last. Two of his
daughters also have just recovered
from the disease.
l ~ill be shipping on Friday. c. F. Wal
q, z. Wall has just gotten in some Young
cattle worth seeing and worth buying
Loose hay wanted at my farm also som e
short corn. @. F. Wall.
We are making special price on heating
range s and cooking stoves for tue next ten
days. Have large assortment to select
from, Jonn G, Bun n d Co.
Buy your Vaccination Shields OF Miller'e
Pharmacy.
New Holland gasoline engines at
Phillips 81 Moreland.
I represent only First-Class old time Fire
Insurance Companies.
Securi Bonds furnished.
A. G. WYNKooP,
International gasoline engines from /
horse power up, why not buy gaso me en-
CINE corn grinder and wood saw complete
See US we have the right goods and rig hi
prices, John g. Burns IL Co.
will take your order for fat hogs for
butchering purposes. Z. +, Wall.
Kream Krust Bread HI Brown Brothers
eaufort Ginger ale at Writings.
Parties having money to loan snould see
me. l can give them an attractive per
cent investment. W Norris.
Black Hawk manure spreaders, the kind
that make the wide spread. This spreader
has front stub axle and automobile break.
John {. Burns & Co.
All kinds of tin ware, stoves aud furnace
repairing win be done promptly by W.
Ralph Burns,
Call and See
Lily cream separators get all the c;ea m
aud are sold at re tsonable price. no dis
satisfied customers ask the ladies VIII are
u, ing them, John G. Burns & Co
The Thompson shoe at Kahn's.
See w. Ralph Burns about that heating
plant that :. on are going to put in this yea
Buy groceries OF Ronemus.
Writings coffee prices Is, IS, 20, SO, 35c,
Federal stock food for stock snd poultry
IN large and SIN al sizes, j, G. Burns &Co.
Bran, middlipgs. oats, corn aud lay. Ruy
your bran now as il will be higher.
John G. Burns & Co.
New Taylor Oil Cooke Stove at Phillips
& Moreiand.
See Callan for double heaters,
tuy your Shotgun Shells of Miller's
Pharmacy,
Ha, and soft coal all sizes in anthracite
and oc ahantss lump and nut, Georges
Creek, wood sawed and split in quantities
t. suit, John Z. Burns d Co.
Bargains at the Racket Stores make bus
mess in Dull Season.
New Gloves, underwear, aud Hosiery at
Pa mbaum'p.
High- maj ket price for ear corn and
ba ed hay, John 9. Burns d 60.
We will buy your eggs and butter and
pay you the cash fcr them. G ) Csllan.
Try Cats Paw Crsu:on Rubber Heels at
Wooddy's.
MONEY To LoAS-on approved real estate
security Apply to
john L PoRTERFIE Id.
Charles Town. W. Va
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1915-11-30
NoTiCE

NO z =.
We will clean press
and repair, and over
hall any suit you have to
ch ange at a small cost
for Ladies and Gents.
Johnson Il Brother,
2o7 w. Washington ST.
Charles Town, w. Va.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1915-11-30

Miss Armine Rely, daughter of Mr.
BENJAMIN c. Rely, of New York, was
married in New York on Thursday of
last week to Mr.. Charles Lawrence
Meade, of New York. The bride is
granddaughter of the late Col. ]. ].
RELY who formerly resided at Sum
nit Point.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1915-11-30

Mr., VIM. T. Elliott, of the Leetown
was in town on We'd
nesday He is recuperating from an
attack of typhoid fever with which he
became i'll in August last. Two of his
daughters also have just recovered
from the disease
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1915-11-30
Death Of {. N. KNrthingt0n.

hIuiIOtu olOtlHu,
For Thrush X Slough
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-05-18
DIR. sTOUGH's COOK

lFrom the Reading News-Times.1
Outside of some deficiencies such
as gambling, drinking. Sabbath desecra-
ton and the like. DR.. Slough, who is at
present engaged in the task of reviving
readings spiritual affairs, finds this
city to be all right and breaches that
he is a booster for Reading. But until
ne discharges that cook he has brought
with him from Lancaster he cannot be
said to be a Reading or Berks county
noester in the full sense of the word.
Berbs yields to no other shire in
Pennsylvania or the whole country for
that matter, In the culinary art. Her
cooks are world-famous. Bons wants.
10 say ,nothing of connoisseurs, have
travelled from afar to taste of such
characteristic Berks dishes as our
delectable sauer kraut and our soul
satisfying schnitz and knepp. Yet DR..
Slough has. seen fit to reject Berks
county cooking and import a che from
Lancaster, where they waste their cab
bage in cigars instead of putting 1t to
the use that nature has intended il for
and where, d~oughballs are utterly un-
appreciated.
Here is a subject tina the executive
committee of the revival ought to con
slider lest the housewives of Berks be
~altenated from the tabernacle. Per-
maps city council or the Chamber of
Commerce should take 1t up At any
rate as FOR us. whatever else be the
fruits or the revival. we shall ever con-
slider 1t lacking in one thing and that
is its due Difference to the gentle art of
Berks h~ousewifery, and hold that while
DR.. Slough may be oratorical he can
never be really gustatoricaI. Unless, of
course he shall proceed to get up
cook.
the rub.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-05-18
A TIME FOR CALsfNEsS
LWilliamsport Sun. ]

W1ll1amSport SUM-.
These influences all make the task
of the President harder. Whether in
territorial or not, their tendency is
plainly to stampede the American peo-
pie into a participation in the war by
taking advantage of the feelings of
horror with which we contemplate the
nrst of our w dead slain by it.
Surely the step to be taken next is
serious enough to warrant due DELHI
GRAFTON and rnes reflection after
careful inquiry that an error be not
made in taking it. Strict account
ability" in so far as the parties con-
cerned are accountable, should cover
the case n be satisfactory even to the
fire eaters, If they can possibly restrain
themselves long enough to determine
n measure of that accountability.
How few these individuals really are is
never so apparent as when the time
comes for trench duty or submarine
service. At present they are as noisily
numerous as the frogs about the pond
from which the optimistic contractor
engaged to furnish a million legs. Are
they to be permitted to sweep the
nation off it's feet?
fortunately, the desires of the large
majority. who would endure much to
avoid being drawn into the conflict
that is ~disgracing civilization, will be
considered by the administration. Con-
hdence in it's desire for peace is suffi-
ciently well established to Justify the
belief that it will be maintained, if at
an In with honor; and if
the conclusion should eventuate In
participation, the prope reasons for
1t Mould be clear and indubitable. The
real issue is how far neutral nations
Will countenance the breaking of the
well settled international law.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-05-18
SOLDIERS OF ALL ma TONS LOOK
ONGINGLYFORD AW NOFPEACE

only rife-barrels. The terror of No
Mans Land fell away The sound of
happy voices filled the air. We were
all unhumanly happy for that one
glorious instant-English, Portuguese,
Americans and even Nadeem, the
Turk-and savages as we had been,
cavemen as we were, the awfulness
of war had not filled the corners OF
our hearts where love and Christmas
live. L think Nadeem was first to
sense what had happened. He sud
denly jumped out of the trench and
began waving his hands and cheering.
The hatred of war had been suddenly
withdrawn and it left a vacuum in
which we human beings rushed into
contact with each other. You felt
their MISUNDERSTANDING handshakes,
with both hands-in your heart.
And so a truce of an hour was ar
ranged. But at the end of the hour
the men failed to go back to their
trenches. There was talk, and there
were songs; more tina that:
Were to have a band in our
trenches tonight, and we want you to
hear it," said the Germans as they
babe us good-by and as we shook the
hands that might slay us on the NOR
row. After supper he heard a sudden
blast of music hat thrilled us. A
little German band had crept into the
German trenches and announced itself
with a grand chord. Then came the
unexpected strains of the "Marseil-
laise." The Frenchmen went almost
frantic with delight. Then came our
turn when the band played IT'S a
Long, Long Way to Tipperary.'
George Ullard, our negro cook, who
came from Galveston, got out a
mouthorgan and almost burst his
lungs playing "Die Wacht am Rheim."
The silence in the German trenches
was a thousand times more eloquent
than the blast of cheers that came
when George had finished. There was
no shooting all night until about 6
O'Clock in the morning, when the
sound of rifles was heard far down the
trench.
And then came the day after Christ"
mas:
Nadeem couldn't measure human
nature unerringly. He had been the
first to feel the holiday spirit of Christ
mas day, but, on this day after Christ
mas, he failed to sense the grimness
of var that had fallen over the trencno
es during the night. Early in the
morning he jumped out of the trench
and began waving his hands again;
John Street, an American, who had
been an evangelist in st. Louis, jump
ed out with him and began to shout n
morning greeting to a German he hau
made friends with the day before.
There was a sudden rattle of rifle
ire and Street fell dead, with a bullet
through his head. The sun was shin
ing down again on a world gone mao
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-05-18
Market Pointers

Don't handle or taste foods belong
ing to other people-it frequently
snoils the sale of the article.
Note the following in buying fresh
fish:
They should sink In water
Scales should be firmly atSached
and free from slime.
Eyes should be prominent-stand-
ing out.
ellis should be bright red-bloody.
Mouth and gill lids should be closed.
Body-solid, does not bend when
placed horizontally on hand.
Meat-Firm and elastic, tight on
bones.
From DR.. Rauniek's Harrisburg
Health Bulletin
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-05-18
POT AND KETTLE CHARGES

NERMANY complained bitterly
NJ when the Allies dragged into the
war against them thousands OF
Turcos, Algerians and troops from In
dia, and resented the alignment of the
Russian "barbarians' on the side of
what the foes of the Fatherland chose
to call civilization" But these allied
~"savages'' have been guilty of no such
crimes as are charged in yesterdays
dispatches to the Turks and the Kurds
who are lined up on the side of Ger
many. Apparently it was a case of
the pot calling the kettle black, II no
worse.
Thousands of Armenians have fallen
beneath the sword and rifle of these
their guns on the Armenians at home
than to venture forth in search of
armed Russians. The pushing of these
human beasts out of Europe will be
a no more desirable result of this war
than the crushing, of militarism.
The m~assacres, while dreadful to
read about, were not unexpected to
those who have been following the
situation in the East. They are simply
history repeating itself. For some
time the position of the Armenians in
Turkey, as we'll as in northwestern
Persia, las been one of grave danger.
but no message mas conveyed any in
dication of such extensive massacres
as does the report to London. If it is
true, the Armenian situation has en-
tered upon a period which threatens
to rival the conditions of 1895.
Kurds and Turks have been perse-
cutting the Armenian residents of these
localities for several months.
Many have been killed, while large
numbers have been driven away as
slaves. The city of Van has normally
5000 inhabitants. 1t is the seat of an
important American mission and the
missionaries have taken an active part
in the protection of Armenians from
Turkish and Kurdish attacks.
Terrible massacres of Armenians in
1896 resulted in international
action for enforcement of the reforms.
Something like 5000 persons were
killed in two months. Apparently the
tragedy is being re-enacted.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-05-18

Phil RAIDER has been painting some
wonderful word pictures of the Euro
pea war for the Detroit News. After
actual service, and after the effort
to depict his experiences so that they
would be appreciated by the reader
at home, Phil RAIDER wrote, conclud-
ing his articles:
When the word runs along the
lines some happy day that the war
is ended, 1 don't want to have to
write the story of how the men
feel. Only God will be able to
measure the joy; no human be-
ing will be able to tell 1t.
The Chicago Post remarks:
None of the war correspondents
has told the story of wal as Phil
RAIDER has told it. This San Fran
cisco boy who enlisted in h
French Foreign Legion hoping to
be employed al an aviator, only
to find himself in a trench on h
firing line, lived so close to death
that he learned the futility of adj
jectives.
The Foreign Legion, or part OF it,
had q Thanksgiving dinner last year.
There were three Americans in Ra-
der's machine-gun squad of sixteen
men and one South American who
said he knew what Thanksgiving day
was and invited himself. The other
twelve men / N the squad didn't know
what the day was but knew chicken
when they smelled it and so were all
invited.
These same three Americans were
alive a month later in the trenches
and RAIDER tells of q truce and the
Christmas celebration:
l don't know how the truce began
in other trenches, but in our hole Ma
deem began it-Nadeem, a Turk, who
believes that Mohammed and moi
Christ was the prophet of God. The
sunshine of the morning seemed to get
into Nadeem's blood. He was only an
enthusiastic boy, always childishly
happy. and when we noticed, at the
regular morning shooting hour, that
the German trenches were silent Ma
deem began to make a joke of 1t. He
drew a target on a board, fastened it
on a pole, and stuck it above the
trench, shouting to the Germans:
4"See how we'll you can shoot"
Within a minute the target had been
bulPs-eyed. Nadeem pulled 1t down,
pasted little bits of white paper where
shots had struck, and held it up again
so that the Germans could see their
score. In doing so, Nadeem's head
appeared above the trench, and we
heard him talking across the No
Mans Land. Thoughtlessly I raised
my head, too. Other men did the
same. We saw hundreds of German
heads appearing. Shouts filled the air.
What miracle had happened? Men
laughed and cheered. There was
Christmas light in our eyes and ]
know there were Christmas tears In
mine.
There were smiles, smiles, smiles,
where in days before there had been
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-05-18
DEMOCRACY VERSUS EFFTcrENcv
NHE chief aim of the Democratic
administration has been the mr.

TINE chief aim of the Democratic
administration has been the pur-
suit of the principle enunciated
by the premier of the administration
ito find places for deserving Demo-
Gratis" with reckless disregard for the
efficiency of the service.
At the time of his nomination. Pros.
ident Wilson was vice-president of
the National Civil Service league. In
resigning, as he very properly did on
being nominated for President, he stat
ed that it did not indicate any lack
of interest in the cause. There was
expected from him, therefore, a full
performance of what his previous life
AND profession had promised.
There has. however. been great dis
appointment IN this respect, and a
large number of experienced, we'll
trained and efficient officials and EN-
iployes in the government service, both
in and out of the competitive civil
service, have been removed or de-
NOTED to make places for inexperi-
enced Democrats.
For years deputy collectors of in
ternal went and deputy United
States marshals had been under the
protection of the civil service rules.
this policy resulting in building up an
efficient and experienced service. In
one of the first appropriation bills
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-05-18
TO THE OLD AND THE NEW

"HERE is to be a reunion of the
members of the old bicameral
councils this evening and the
officials of the present municipal adj
ministration will break bread with the
former city legislators. It's a fine
thing for the representatives of the old
system of municipal management to
get together in this social way with
the men who are now working out the
experiment of a new plan of city gov
eminent. An exchange of views after
sixteen months of the commission
scheme should be helpful all around
and the reunion. let us hope, will be
something more han a mere g~ustatory
experience with pleasant banter and
interesting reminiscence There will
be occasion for serious comment and
the men of the old form of municipal
management should have pleasure in
encouraging their successors of the
commission experiment.
It may be said in all sincerity and
truthfulness of the old Councils that
they met public expectation in provid-
ing for many important public i'm
provements which ave been carried
forward with like public spirit by their
Successors; that had other cities of the
third class awaited themselves Of their
opportunities under former acts of
Assembly as was done by the Councils
and officials of Harrisburg there would
have been no clamor for the change of
system which was directed by the
Legislature two years ago. This city
prospered and developed as no other
city in the State under the old third
class city laws and it is exceedingly
creditable to those who will dine to-
gether this evening that without regard
to the form of government the admin
istration of the affairs of Harrisburg
has been conspicuously successful and
characterized by integrity and public
spirit.
In the working out of the commits
sion government there has been con-
siderable criticism of the officials
charged with responsible duties. but
such criticism was inevitable. Mis-
takes were certain to mark the path
way of change and proper criticism
has doubtless been helpful to the city's
managers in pointing out pitfalls
through the avoidance of which eff
cient administration was the gamer.
But the unfortunate tendency of the
average citizen is to censure without
praise. If fair criticism of the acts of
public officials is now and then bene-
fcial. then the bestowal of praise when
1t is deserved should be equally helpful
ms an evidence Of public approval of
worthy official conduct.
So here's a health to the old and
the new, the tried and the true. with
the sincere wish of the Telegraph that
all may live long and enjoy to the end
of their days the good will and appre-
citation of the community which they
have served and whose welfare they
have promoted.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-05-18
SWEET MUSIC
by Wing Dinger

Some weeks ago. when 1t was warna'
1 said to me. said I,
Its quite too hot to keep up steam'
Well let the fire die"
And hen 1 had the furnace cleaned
And painted up like new,
Because with fires till next fall
I thought that l was through
I tried to think that 1t was Spring
And to the yard I'd go.
Inside q big. warm overcoat.
To watch the flowers grow.
In summer weights from outside
clothes
70 inside b.. V. DIS
I sat around with chattering teeth
Until l thought I'D freeze.
But Sunday last l built a fire.
And ceased to dream OF Spring
And. DO. the radiators hiss
Beats all the birds that sing.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-05-18
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

Luther S.. Dickey, a prominent
Fayette countian, has written a his
tory of the Eighty-fifth Pennsylvania
Regiment.
-Childs Frick. son of the steel and
coke magnate, will spend the summe
in New Hampshire.
The Rev. c. c. Hayes, prominent
Johnstown clergyman, will make a
our of the South.
Joshua Baily, Philadelphia tenn
perance man, celebrated his eighty
eighth birthday by making a hot pro-
hibition speech in a church.
Senator Penrose has a number OF
speaking engagements up the State
his week.
-Ex-Attorney General John c..
Bell has taken up his residence for
the summer at Radnor.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-05-18

passed by Congress under this admin
istration, a rider was inserted to the
effect that deputy collectors of inter
nal ven and office deputy United
States marshais who may be requir-
ed 10 give bond could be appointed
without reference to the civil service
regulations. Approximately $50 office
deputy msrshals and 1900 deputy COL
~lectors of internal revenue were thus
thrown into the spells system.
Take the cases of United States DIS
triot attorneys and United States mar
shals. Under the law they are APP
pointed for terms of four years, and
heretofore these officials have been
allowed to serve out their terms with
out reference to change in the admin
istration. But not so under the DEM
ocratic party. AS fast as appointments
satisfactory to the Democratic bosses
In the several States could be deter
mined upon, the designations of United
States marshals and district attor-
neys have been called for. frequently
by telegraph, without regard to the
length of time remaining for them to
serve under their four-year commits
sions. Any marshal or district attor-
ney who called for an explanation was
summarily removed. This was done,
of course. that the administration
might as soon as possible have an
office-holding class around which to
build an organization for the cam
paign of 1916.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-05-18
LETTERST0THE:EDIT0R
SOUTH HARRISBURG PARK

To the Editor of the Telegraph:
Wonder how many of our citizens
have seen the fine park in South
Front street between Paxton street
and Iron avenue? This is going to be
a beautiful stretch, especially as it
fronts a body of water Immediately
above the dam uninterrupted by any
Am glad to see that the people of
bride.
that section have ceased to use the
bank as a public dump and that the
Park Department is putting the broad
stretch in shape. But why not give
this new park a name?
AN OLD TIMER.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-05-18
DO YOU KNOW
That Harrisburg used u be q
great shad- catching town?

HORSES SKULL TO IMPROVE ACOUs-
TIC
Elizabethtown Correspondents Phila-
delphia Record.
In demolishing the parsonage OF the
Lutheran Church. built eighty-two
years ago, the skull of a horse was
found imbedded in the wall.
In this section there is a superstition
that If the skull of a horse is placed
under the church 1t would help the
acoustic properties, and the voice OF
the minister or any one occupying the
pulpit could be heard to better ad-
vantage.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-05-18
p BOOKS and ca
MAGAZINESA@

Edgar Lee Masters. the author of
'Spoon River Anthology" a much dis
cussed volume of verse, is q lawyer at
present residing in Chicago. Born in
1868, he received his education at
Knox College. studied Law in his
fathers office and was admitted to the
bar in 1891. He is a member of the
sociatfons n has contributed articles
and essays on political and consti-
tutlonal subjects to various periodicals
and magazines.
William Allen White writes that few
books using the novel form have in
terpreted life so beautifully and so
truthfully as Ernest Poole's The Har-
Dor" interprets life. at has been many
a long year says MIR. White in the
Emporia Gazette, since so distin-
guished a book has appeared in
America"
No one has written a more realistic
picture of what the war has meant in
France than Edith Wharton in her
article, I'm Argonne." in the June
Scribner, and probably no other woman
put those with the ambulances has
been the witness of such scenes as she
describes. And mighty few women
nave actually been near enough to see
a charge of French infantry as did
Mrs. Wharton in the battle of Vau-
quois. She was later within ten miles
of the German stronghold at st. Mihiel.
st. Mihiel. Is Kilometres st.
Mihiel, the danger-spot of the region.
the weak joint in the armor! There it
lay. up that Misunderstanding by-road,
much more than ten miles away
a ten minutes dash would have
brought us into the thick of the gray
coats and spiked helmets, The shadow
of that signpost followed us for miles,
darkening the landscape like the
shadow from a racing storm cloud"