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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-11-16

sends a weekly report to Washington
as to the number of bags on hand.
The greatest difficulty that the post
office department encounters is that
of keeping the great eastern cities
adequately supplied with mail bags.
New York alone requires a million a
month to handle it's outgoing mail, and
this number must be increased at least
40 per cent. during the Christmas sea-
son.
In order to meet this increased de-
mand, Congress not long ago passed
en- act permitting mail bags to be
shipped by mail instead of freight
from November 15 to January Is. BY
reason of this ruling the government
has to pay the railroads nearly $12,-
600 a year more than it otherwise
would. 1t makes possible the ship
ment from Chicago to New York in
forty-eight hours, whereas by freight
it would require ten days.
The whole department of the postal
equipment factory in Washington Is
devoted to the making and repairing
of bags. Out of each load of 10000
mail sacks, at least 1000 usually need
some sort of repair. while few hun
dred will be found unfit for further
service. Before a bag goes into the
repair room, it is thoroughly cleaned.
This is done primarily for the pro-
lection of the employees who would
otherwise be in constant danger of
contagious disease. Dilapidated bags
are never thrown away, but are care
fully cut up and every scrap Is saved.
Metal parts are sold as junk at so
much a pound and the bits of cloth
are used as patches. The rat is the
worst natural enemy of the mail bag
and sixty women with darning needles
and sewing machines are needed to
repair the ravages.
A Million This Year
While a large number of mail bags
have been purchased by contract an
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-11-16

But when he showed me the
Business Opportunities"
Offered in the evening Telegraph
I began to sit up and take notice.
First, through the ''For Sale"
columns l sold
My downstate business, and then
I got acquainted with the big
town and then,
Through the automobile columns,
l found
A motor truck for sale, and
bought it,
And contracted for some hauling
and soon
had so much business that l
bought another truck
And so on, until now
have, after ten years work,
Twenty trucks, doing capacity
business.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-11-16

UNCLE WALTER ADPAGE,
When Brother John kept insist
ing that I
Give up my little teaming busi-
ness downstate
And come to the city, [ thought
That his heart, rather than his
head,
Dictated what he said and that he
Just wanted to have me near but
when
He kept it up | came to the city
To take a look around and to
show him
That a small capital man, like me,
Had no chance.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-11-16
MRS. PATTON DIES

Mrs. Margaret L. Patton died al
the home of her son. j. Hervey Pat
ton, 1924 North Third street to-day.
Funeral ARRANGEMENTS have not been
completed.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-11-16

Doctor Pierce's Pellets are unequaled
as q Liver Pill. Smallest, easiest to
take. One TIM, sugar-coGted Pellet
q Dose. Cures Sick Headache, Bilious
Headache, Dizziness, Constipation, In
digestion. Bilious Attacks, and all de-
rangement OF the Liver, Stomach and
Bowels.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-11-16

But, as a matter of fact,
1t was advertising my service
In the Telegraph that brought
A great deal of my business
though it took.
All the hustle and honesty I had
To make good.
But when folks tell me that a
stranger
Has no chance in the city say
= well you needn't be a stranger
long
You can get acquainted with the
town
And become known through
The Harrisburg Evening Tele-
graph"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-11-16

100000 in three assembly plants in
Milwaukee, Oklahoma City and
Omaha, sites for which Mr.. Ford has
inspected on his trip. The other will
be the inauguration of a still greater
extension of the Ford Company's well
fare system among its 20,000-odd en-
ployes.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-11-16
When Nervous and Run Down.


uenQeu me I .
use DIR. Pierce's
Favorite Pre-
scription. I was
in a nervous and
rundown state.
| had no disease
that ] knew Of
but was dragging
around. / used 2
bottles of Favor
ite Prescription
and 1t was very
good. 1t did all
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-11-16
FORD TO EXPEND Sf,OOO,OOO
IN THREE NEW PLANTS

Detroit. Mich, Nov. 6,-Coincident
with the return of Henry Ford two
important announcements will be
made by the Ford Motor Company.
One will be the expenditure of ST.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-11-16
PILES CURED IN TO IA DAYS

Druggists refund money of PAZO
OINTMENT fails to cure Itching, Blind,
Bleeding or Protrudng Piles. First ap-
plication gives relief. 50c.-Advertise-
Lnent,
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-11-16
THE WANDERING
MAIL BAG
By Frederic J. Haskin

rContinued from Editorial Page ]
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-11-16
A Million This Year

While a large number of mail bags
have been purchased by contract an
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-04-17
BLOW TO PROSPERITY.

Carnahan, corporation commission
er Of California, has been annoying
big business" and he shouldn't dc it.
Big business has been so ar ed
that we lack prosperity. "T4g ISL
ness should be given a rest. What ails
this country is that big business has
been interfered with in the matter of
gouging folks and landing suckers
We should fill the eyes and ears of
justice with putty and let big bust
ness" go it. There's been so much
reforming, regulating and muck-rak-
ing that big business hasn't been
doing business as formerly, and so the
country is in the dumps. We will
never have good times until "big bust
ness" is permitted to do just as it
likes.
The Pacific Coast Securities Co.. of
San Francisco and Oakland, petitioned
the California corporation commits
sioner for permission to sell 5000
shares of stock at SIS per share. The
commissioner said no.
Now, wasn't that harsh treatment OF
a simple little request by a nice big
concern doing insurance and stock
business all over the great state?
But. the commissioner not only said no
but charged the big business con-
Germ with rank dishonesty. in that the
latter. shortly after presenting its pc
titiOn. got rid of one of its greatest
assets. and it develops that the pur-
clique" to get control of the
"swag"
How can big business" give us
prosperity with state officers doing
things like that?
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-04-17

ton is arranged by which a teacher is
hired, with he understanding that he
is competent 10 coach athletic teams
and is 10 take part Of his time for
this purpose. To many Of the tax
payers il seems as if things were going
pretty fast. when they have TO pay to
teach their boys baseball. But if the
boys are 10 play interschool contests.
they ought 10 play them well. A
laundering. losing team hurts the en-
thusiasm of the school For that
reason some expert coaching seems
an essential part of modern school
life
Where the boys can pay the bills
themselves out of their own gate re-
ceipts, IT is a far more normal ar
rangement than asking the taxpayers
10 foot the cost. The coach who is
hired 10 do both teaching and coach
ing frequently makes a failure Of both
Placing the responsibility on the boys
for financing their own team, coach
included. stimulates their ambition
and is a much better drawing card to
the public, so that good coaching may
pay its own way
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-04-17
PAID COACHES FOR SCHOOL
BASEBALL.

There IS a controversy in many high
schools as To- whether paid coaches
should be provided for the baseball
and football teams. When paid
coaches were first introduced in coll
lege life. there was protest from
those who took the purely scholastic
view OF university education. These
are days OF progress. and now many
high schools need paid coach if the
bali team is 10 win many games.
In many cases The paid coaches are
not a high type OF men. They teach
the boys slippery tricks. not con
sistent With the ideals OF clean sport,
and their language and conduct may
be far from elevating. II paid coach
IS are hired they should be a high
type OF fellows whose association viii
5e helpful 10 ghe boys No doubt such
men could be found 10 do this work.
In a good many schools eOmbina-
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-04-17
SIGNS OF PROSPERITY

I day.-News, Michigan City, Ind. April
2, 1915.
1t isn't only in war supplies that
the country is beginning to feel a
touch of prosperity. A large Fart
of Europe must have stuff to fight
with. but all the world must have
clothes to wear; and the inevitable
recovery of the textile and clothing
industries is-under way.
1t isn't long since the New York
garment workers were in great dis
tress. Now the secretary of the
Ladies Garment Workers union
reports that hardly any Of the $4,000
members in Greater New York are
idle. All over the state factories have
started up again, and many of them
are working overtime. The wooden
and cotton mills throughout New
England have resumed activity on a
big scale
Most of the output, of course, is in
tended for the domestic trade. There
is a steadily increasing demand from
Europe for textile products Of Vari-
Gus sorts. But the newest and most
significant note in the industry is the
demand from South America for
ready to-wear clothing The cloak and
suit makers report that the orders
now pouring in from those markets
heretofore supplied chiefly from Eu-
rope--are more than they can take
care of.
The increasing demand for cotton
goods, due chiefly TO the strengthen
ing market for wOmen's wear, has
wholesome effect on the raw cotton
industry. and is doing more than
anything else to use up the big crop
and relieve the depression in the
south.
1t is the east and south that have
suffered most from the business
paralysis that came with the war.
When their greatest industries show
such encouraging signs of revival, the
country as a whole has good reason
for cheerfulness.-Tim Perkin, ILL.,,
April 8, 1915.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-04-17
RETRIRUTION.

The dentist of the town had had his
photograph taken to give to his sweet
heart as a valentine. We feel that we
do not exaggerate when we say that it
was the worst photograph ever taken
of anybody in the world
The dentist lOnged, in a very human
way. for retaliation, and at last his
time came. The Photographer had a
tooth 10 be filled. The dentist got in
some deadly work, and just when the
agony was at it's climax he stepped
back. looked at his patient critically,
and said in a cheerful voice:
Look pleasant, please,"
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-04-17
TWENTY YEARS AGO
Reminders From the Columns
OF The Daily Times.

]. Mem. Smith returned from New
York with the funds to build the
south side car line
The local council of knights of Co
lumbus was organized with 1S4 char
er members. The officers elected
were NJ. s. Rogers, past commander;
Joseph w. Johnston, scribe; w. A.
Rutherford, cashier; DR.. J. w. Hill,
medical examiner; Mrs. NJ. w. Doc
little, chaplain; Mrs. Minnie b. Par
ker, sergeant: b. Q. Hoffman, ser
geant-at-arms; Alfred 3. Geyer, first
master of guard; +. Y. l. RochOn, sec
ond master of guard; Miss Lille Neid-
hardt, sentinel; Edwin A. Martin,
picket.
Fred Loughman was driving a calf
on Portage av. today and the drive
finished in a wreck. However, Fred's
moustache escaped by a hair.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-04-17

Pat was busy on Hull road work
ing with coat off There were two Eng
lishmen labOring on the same road, so
they decided to have a joke with the
Irishman. They painted a donkey's
head on the back of Pats coat, and
watched to see him put it on. Pat, of
course, saw the donkey's head on his
coat. and, turning TO the Englishmen,
said:
Which Of yes wiped your face on
my coat >"
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-04-17

Why is it that many parents are
Indifferent TO the children's garden
movement, when after the children
plant the garden all dad has to do is
to keep the weeds out?
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-04-17
Can You Get Away From 1t?

(M1SSourt Paper.
The Goldfish lays a million eggs,
While the helpful hen lays one;
But the Goldfish does not cackle.
To inform us what she's done;
And so we scorn the Goldfish coy,
But the helpful hen we prize;
Which indicates to thoughtful minds
1t pays to advertise.
FOR the 18th consecutive year old
Bill Dunkle will participate in the
annual opening OF Ringing Bros
circus in Chicago today. The bunch
at the front door always gives Bill the
glad hand and does what it can in
other ways to encourage him to con-
tinue the custom, believing ii would
be a bad omen to open without him,
and when Bill passes through the me-
nagerie the roar is something awful.
w. 6. Gilbert and the Jitneys.
When jitney bus is not a jitney buss-
ing,
And carousing round the streets where
people are,
It's capacity for innocent joyriding
Is just as great as any other car.
When the owners not engaged in car
rying chickens
He loves 10 lie a basking in the sun;
Taking one consideration with an
A chauffeur's life is quite a happy
one. S. II. G.
WE are waiting for the Villa YER
sion.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-04-17
Seeing America
First
BY Fred Kelly.

YIN hAaAe
At dinner last night ! heard two
women talking across the table. one
was a delightful old soul with gray
hair and a lace cap, and the other
sprightIy young finishing-schoOl prod
uct, who talked with a slight menu
card adl.ent.
Can you imagine anything more
saying. I'VE were unable TO get a
drawing room. mOthah. and /. and had
to come across the continent in an
ordinary sleeping section. / slept in
the uppah berth. 1 had never bean
in an uppah before. IL was awful
Have you ever tried rahding across
the continent without any drawing
room"
Well" replied the dear old lady
with the lace cap, in a sort of apollo
getic tone, so low that only a few at
the table heard it, you know 1 never
have crossed the continent but once,
and then il was impossible to come in
drawing room. L made the trip in
a wagon"
Here was an experience that i'm
pressed me with the vitalizing quail
ties Of the California climate far more
than all the enthusiastically superlative
talk Of the California natives
l went from Los Angeles over to
Santa Ana one day TO call on an elder
ly couple who had moved to California
some 30 years ago from the little
town where 1 was raised. In the far
off days when l used TO play in their
back yard they had owned a horse
a rather amiable, pleasant-faced little
old horse with an odd sort Of a coat
that was a cross between a dun and
a bay. l recalled that I was fond
of this horse so years ago, and had
felta keen sense of regret when these
good neighbors took it with them 10
California
So 1 inquired: What ever became
of the horse with the funny cOlOr?"
In concert they pointed out win
dow and replied
There he is
Sure enough, leaning against a
fence in the barnyard, under the
shade Of a sheltering palm, was my
old friend the horse. in the same pc
culiar coat and looking as hearty and
prosperous as when ] last saw him 80
years previous"
The California cline had suited that
horse exactly. l learned on inquiry
that the other members OF his family
which had remained in the east died
comparatively premature deaths-all
under 30.
At RlVerdale, Calf. the other day
went out to a government Indian
school on a peculiar mission. l de-
sired to find. if possible, a mOllycOd-
die Indian. 1t seemed to me that out
OF several hundred Indian pupils
there might be one individual who
had taken up our modern civilization
and gone with it the whole distance,
even to the extent of wearing a wrist
watch and spats, and having social
ambitions. An Indian like that ought
to be worth looking at, and if there
was one to be found I wanted to see
him. But my quest was a failure.
The head of the school gave me his
personal word of honor that, not
withstanding all the civilizing infu-
ences brought to bear on his pupils,
he had never encountered such
thing as a mOllycoddle Indian.
East or west. travellers in sleeping
cars have practically the same char
acteristics. All are ready. with hats
and coats on, and standing in the pas
sageway, for disembarking, from five
TO seven minutes before the train
pulls into the station.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-04-17
\ LITTLE BIRD.

Irate Diner-"Hey. waiter. there's
not a drop Of real coffee in this mix
turei"
Fresh Waiter Some little bird
told you. / suppose
Irate Diner-'Yes-a swallow
Princeton Tiger
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-04-17

The warning powers have to content
themselves mostly with torpedoing
ships, and only occasionally
are they able to get a passenger ship
with women and babies
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-04-17

''WOmbat Is always struggling TO
shine. Nothing is too far ahead for
him To plan for"
What now 90
Now he's taking a few lessons on
the harp 50 as TO get something ii an
edge on the rest Of Us 10 the next
world. Judge,
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-04-17

Some merchants hate TO advertise
their old stock and have 10 go TO the
expense and bother Of putting in
something new
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-04-17

The boys dearly love to sleep out of
doors when warm weather comes,
which may be due not so much to love
OF our door life as to the fact that
mother can not SO easily supervise
their additions.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-04-17

People who pay taxes don't bother
their heads much about injustices in
taxation systems. AS they feel people
should have foreseen these troubles
when they started in to get money.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-04-17

Automobile Owners Our speciality
is the correction of ignition troubles.
If your engine runs irregularly, bring
your car 10 our shop. Vistula av. and
Sample st. as the doctors say, con-
sultatiOn free
The Knoblock- Heideman Mfg. Co.
Advt.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-04-17
THE USUAL THING.

(Cor. Burr Oak AcOrn.)
Now If we have the rain
And a real good season.
Well have hay and rain
This sure stands to reason.
The better we pillow the ground,
And harrow, and work and till,
1t will very soon be found
That our silos we can fill.
All things will prove the best
If we only work together.
And the Lord will do the rest
In blessings and making weather
IN re favorite actresses, we have q
W eakness for Billie Burke. and Julia
who is coming soon, has
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-04-17

The country would be able to get
along even if the wheat crop should
fall 100, 600, 600 bushels short. But it
would go hard if the yearly supply OF
2O,00O,O 900 baseballs should not be de
livered on time
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-04-17

Mr.. Wilson will soon be going out
on a speaking tour. but he need not
think that a mere president can at
tract as much attention as Jess Will
lard
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-04-17

old lady Cmeeting two little boys)-
Why. Johnnie, how very dirty you are,
How is it your little brother is so much
cleaner than you?
Johnnie-Well. you see. he's three
Years Younger.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-04-17

Playing a good hand OF bridge is
still more of help in getting into
society than winning prizes in canning
and preserving contests.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-04-17

The American people keenly de-
plore the horrors of war and Incl
dentally buy the rapidly rising stocks
OF the ammunition companies.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-04-17

Why is it that il Is SO much easier
10 get the women OF the family out
20 church after their new hats ar
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-04-17

Instead OF tipping the Pullman
porter for the services he renders,
many people would be gald 10 tip him
10 keep out OF the way.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-04-17
THE MEL TING POT
GOMEZ TAKE POTLUCK WITH US.

been popular with us for years And
May tIrwin can draw a ha-ha from US
v tn as little effort as anybody We
know. Mrs. Pat Campbell used to
make US sit still and listen, but We
haven't seen her for long time, and
with Us the actor folks have to keep
coming or be crowded along on the
bench.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-04-17

n man can give only one expla-
nation OF his wife's housekeeping
proclivities: that is, that she likes
it.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-04-17

Good nourishing food, Mrs. Austin 5
Rolled Oats. Best yoD aver tasted
Adv
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-04-17
They We're Boys Together.

They We're Boys Together.
Cor. TT. wayne JournaI-Gazette.)
Mr.. Lands is a syracuse boy as is
also his wife.
A LETTER has turned up which
was written by Dudley Shively's sister
when he was born, and in this letter
she wrote. Il have the sweetest little
brother YOU ever aw." And we can
believe il.
WHY make a fuss about low wages
for women when divorce court rec
ords show that allowances for the sup
port of women and children range
from four TO six dollars a week among
the common folks. Courts probably
take cogn'zance of the fact that the
man is the expensive member Of the
family.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-04-17
ROMANCE.

ROMANCE.
struggled hair, a comb would hurt,
Rowing eyes devoid Of style,
race blank, yet keen TO flirt, 6
Nobody home-a foolish smile;
That's the skirt.
Big appearing, harmless nut.
Loud OF mouth, short of deed,
Lived his lifetime in a hut,
Drinks and swears and hits the weed
That's the mutt.
Spring is come so all sublime,
Robins warbling old refrain.
Buds and bees and bells a-chime,
April days with April rain;
That's the time.
Laughing children, at the base
Or the fountain in the park,
Joy and brightness there embrace,
In the daytime, in the dark;
That's the place.
The mutt awaits, hypnotic spell,
Smitten with an anti-sweet;
skirt approaches, sad to tell,
Then VOWS and hugs and tweet-
"a
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-04-17
WRIGHT ATEAI.

WARS may have their uses in the
postponement of the approaching re-
version to type in the matter of the
survival of the fittest Without war
the population of the earth will soon
that is, in the course OF centuries
become so congested that the present
struggle for existence will look like a
game of croquet
WHEN old Hi Siblev reaches the
firing line on the Aisne we may eX-
pect a cessation of firing while the
combatants come out of their trench
es and exclaim, Look who's here!"
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-04-17

East or west. travellers in sleeping
cars have practically the same char
acteristics. All are ready. with hats
and coats on, and standing in the pas
sageway for disembarking, from five
to seven minutes before the train
pulls into the station.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-04-17

day.-News, Michigan City. Ind, April
2, 1915.