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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-08-03
PADLEss SHOULDERS FOR MEN

VTTE await with interest the COM
wv ment of the newspapers on the
mandate of the Clothing De-
signers of America who have decreed
padless shoulders for men.
When it comes to discussing wom-
ems styles the American editorial
writer knows no limit. He simply runs
riot. When he is not shrieking in
anguish over the demoralizing effects
of the slit skirt and the peekaboo waist
he is poking fun at the hoopskirt and
the hustle. The woman who pads has
been long a favorite with the para
graphers, and what is sauce for the
goose should be sauce for the gander.
Therefore, we await impatiently the
eloquent tributes of the dress-reform-
ing press directed toward those heroic
personages who have taken upon
themselves the task of removing pads
from the shoulders of men. We re-
peat, we await.
Also we await with equal impatience
the appearance in Fall garb of some
of those male persons who have been
CRYING out against the follies of women
with respect to style. The coming
season promises to be a trying period
for some of us who will hesitate be-
tween the choice of being in style or of
preserving our athletic figures.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-08-03
ANOTHER TARIFF .eBENEFTT"

IN recent issue of the Commerce
Reports, Vice Consul Gilbert, OF
Nanking, China, writes that ex-
point for 40 to AZ cents per gross. He
states that at the time of making his
report the following consignments
were arranged for:
Fresh eggs, to San Francisco. 102,-
900 dozen, at s0.046; Seattle, $1,000
dozen, at $0.O46; Tacoma, sal, s39
dozen, at $0.046. Eggs, frozen, in tins,
to New York City, 7,52S,31s pounds, at
$O.0S; Seattle, 656,O0O pounds, at
$0.03. The territory covered by agents
radiating from Nanking produces TO-
900 dozen eggs daily for export.
The cause for this activity is not far
to seek. The Democratic tariff law
of 1913 took off the duty of cents a
dozen levied by the Republican tariff,
since which time egg prices to farm
ers on the western coast have been
greatly deprecated by the influx from
the Orient. The Chinese are only be-
ginning to learn the advantage of a
lIeC IIduS maj hSI III lli0 OIibCo oIe11OSs
and already extensive developments
are under way to enlarge and organize
the egg industry, while several fac
! tories are in process of construction
to manufacture dried eggs for the
American market, to be used by
bakeries.
If the Democratic tariff law con-
tinues on the statute books, the Am
erican hens will have to declare a
moratorium. but this would not be so
bad from the standpoint of the con-
sumer were it not that eggs from the
Orient are usually stale when they
reach here, are produced In unspeak-
ably filthy surroundings and are
capable of carrying all manner of
disease.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-08-03
A BLIND BOY WHO MADE GOOD


tFrom the Kansas City Star1
=, Stick to your dream, boy. Let moth
upward toward the fulfiflment of your
You viii meet with difficulties and
ulscouragements, but when you do, just
think of the man, Herreshon. the boat
builder who died the other day in
Rhode Island. In his life you ought to
ma inspiration enough to lift you over
any obstacle.
When John B. Herreshoff was boy
his ambition was. to design. and build
the fastest boats In the world. He be-
came blind while yet a boy. That
would have discouraged any ordinary
boy. for how could blind man design
model that he could not see2 But
Herreshoff was no ordinary boy: He
stuck to his dream. The heavy handt-
cap Of blindness only made him press
The blind boy sat in eternal darkness
and whitfield out his boat models
Gradually there developed in his fin
more to him than eyesight would have
been. Slipping the model of a boat
through his hands he could tell how 1t
water with the least resistance Other
designers figured out their models by
complex mathematical calculations But
fingers. and his models were the best
for when he was "a years old he built
the fastest yacht yacht the world had ever yer
boat go, he felt the dash and plunge
and swiftness of it, and he wept when
they told him his boat had won the
race.
He built the yachts vigilant. De-
fender, Columbia, Reliance, that con-
quered the series of Shamrocks in the
races for the Americas cup. He built
up q great CONSTITUTIONAL industry. The
Government of his own country went to
him for torpedoboats. The fame of
the blind designer of fast boats spread
round the world and England, Russia
and Italy gave him contracts for their
fastest torpedoboats. He died a few
days ago. wealthy man and, better
stuck to his boyhood's dream and
achieved it fully.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-08-03
GERMANY'S CONTEMPT OF US
Colonel Harvey Speaks Some Blunt Truths

says? That strict accountability" sig
niftes nothing?
obviously there is an insidious cause
solenee-nothing less than a fixed be-
lief that the sentiment of this country
Is not only, divided but. is veering in
States" placidly remarks the inspired
Morgen Post, of Berlin, "is changed
will have to satisfy this new feeling
in considering and answering the pres
ent note. That the note will meet un-
restrained approval at the hands of a
large part of Americans is certain" For
this impression undoubtedly as we
foresaw. the resignation of Bryan. sup
plemented by the traitorous utterances
Germans, not as Americans, Is directly
responsible. And it Is because of this
conviction beyond question that the I'M
perial Governments address was in no
sponse to the American Government; 1t
was a stump speech to the American
but an appreciation of Bryan.
Germany is lighting for existence"
of her own volition. So. involuntarily.
are the people Of England and Of
to withstand, the Imperial Govern
ment's ruthless endeavor to place
~rDeutschland uber" not merely
Let their words be ours. No more than
they. and never so long as patriotic
spirit animates American beings, shall
this free Republic be found guilty be-
fore God and history of violation of
those principles of highest humanity
which are the foundations of every
national existence and of all civiliza-
tion
We can but believe. that when those
American men and women were swept
to their doom from the decks of the
Lusitania, after vainly trying to save
the kiddies." their hearts were COM
that they had a country. Shall we who
| live scar the trusting souls of those
who died by forgetting that they were
our kinsmen and were slaughtered like
sheep in a pen?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-08-03
BE CAREFUL
BY Wing DIngeR

oh you who dress in Palm Beach suits
And white shoes. rubber-soled.
Mark well the warning that to you
Is in these verses told.
And save yourself on rainy days
The fate of one know
Who careless was, when thus dressed
And bout the streets did go.
The rain had covered DER the oil
Upon the asphalt street.
And when this fellows rubber soles
The slippery pave did meet
His feet flew out from under him
And In his light tan clothes
He hit the aspha1t-what q sight
He was when he arose.
So, when you're all dolled UP, my boy.
In light clothes, spic and span,
And shoes with rubber soles and heels
Take all the time you can
In stepping from the sidewalk to
The slippery, Shiny street
Lest like my friend" whom you know
well
sad mishap may meet.
The name of the party In question
may be had upon application. Also. I
have Palm Beach suit
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-08-03
BOOKS AND MAGAZINES

oliver Onions is still engaged in
commissary, work for the English
army, but is making efforts to get to
the front as private in the ranks.
He was offered commission as cap
tain In the home defense troops, but
declared that he woufc rather black
boots at the front than be major
general at home. He Is q year over
the age of the present volunteers,
however, and has been unable to get
to the front, though an important
politician endeavored to have II
special post established for him.
Meantime, with sanitation, transport,
food, etc. he Is kept decidedly husys
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-08-03

Large demand from Europe for
American wneat caused high prices
here and induced American farmers to
sow much more grain than usual. Fields
which otherwise would have been
summer-fallowed. We're sown to wheat
last Fall or this Spring, because of the
prospect of large returns. The wheat
crop will be a bumper and because of
the urgent demand, there will be pres
sure for early shipment. Anticipation
of the demand for cars, together with
low prices quoted by car builders, has
caused several roads to add to their
equipment, but the orders are a direct
result of the war and not, as Demo-
cratic papers have us believe, a conse-
quence of economic conditions in spite
of the war.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-08-03
NO STRIKE BY WOMEN

[From the Philadelphia Public Ledger
The men who view women through
the eyes of Schopenhauer, Otto Vein
inger, Sir Almoth Wright and their
disciples must have been somewhat
shocked by the simultaneous spec
tacles of 10000 English women march,
Ing through the rain to implore
Lloyd-George to employ them in mu-
milton making, and 100000 ballot-cast-
ing We1shmen refusing to mine coal
for the fleet. The men are taking
advantage Of the national peril to
secure privileges. which. they could
not obtain in time of peace; the
women have disdained to add to Eng
lands burden in order to secure
their desire-the vote. Ninety thou
sand women already are engaged in
demand that they be called upon to
fill the places of the 10000 male farm
laborers of military age who still re-
main on the safe side of the Chan
mel. Fifty thousand women work in
munition factories; they ask that the
number be, doubled or .trehled. wo-
men have invaded all the Government
departments, and in London last
week 400 men teachers were replaced
by women.
They are not striking or mobbing
ministers for the vote. but they are
winning 1t in a subtler way.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-08-03

The most fortnight and candid pre-
sentation of our case against Germany
that has yet been published is from the
trenchant pen of George Harvey, edit
tor of The North American Review, and
appears in the, August issue of that
periodical. Colonel Harvey mlnces no
words in the matter. What Germany
has replied to us amounts to nothing,
says Colonel Harvey with vivid direct
ness: The United States of America
and her President, and her Congress,
and her people, can go to hell. Just
that; nothing more and nothing. less"
Colonel Harvey continues as follows
She disavows none of her crimes
she makes no suggestion of reparation;
she recognizes no rights of neutrals;
she .reiterates her population of all
treaties and of all laws. whether
among nations or of civilization and
humanity, which may conflict with her
she apologies for nothing: she con-
cedes nothing; she acknowledges moth
ing; she seeks only to secure our ap-
proval of her lawless practices through
our acquiescence In her proposal that
we waive our unquestioned rights upon
the high seas and sail so many of our
surveillance and subject to her dicta-
wrong us; having insulted US. she
of this insolent declaration.
Not one of our moderate demands is
accorded even the courtesy of frank
each and every one is either tacitly
spurned or impudently ignored
Never before has this country and
seldom, If ever. has any country been
treated SO contemptuously. Why is
this? What has happened to convince
even q trueulent autocracy that this
Republic can be flouted with impunity
Surely history warrants no such as
sumption. Trpoli at the outset was
taught her lesson by Jefferson, England
first by Madison and again by Cleve-
land. Mexico by Polk. France by Lin
| coin, Spain by Mckinley, and Japan,
more decisively than is commonly un-
derstood, by Roosevelt. What now in
duces Germany to believe that Presi-
dent Wilson does not mean what he
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-08-03
PROGRESSIVE FUTILITY

The retreat of the Hon. George L.
Record of New Jersey into the ranks
of the Republican party is an unmis-
taxable sign of Progressive futility In
that State. Mr.. Record has always
been a practical politician, although
not always a successful one. Pro-
gressive prospects looked rosy to him
three years ago. but with an aptitude
for not wasting his time in politics
he now discovers that the majority of
the Republican voters "are unques-
tionably progressive" ~ New .Xork
sun 1919
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-08-03
BOON OF THE BATHTUB

C<OME day some poetic souf will
y write an ode to the bathtub.
And who of us will not delight
In the lines which shall sing the
praises of this, one of the most lux
urious of the boons of modern CIV
ilization.
Some there are who may blush to
recall the days when a weekend bath
in the washtub or washbowl was one
Of the painful necessities of life. A
little reminiscent thought will bring
back that scene on the old kitchen floor
lit didn't matter If the oilcloth was
splashed, you know-:with your mother
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-08-03
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

nette, who is 9S years of age, is about
to start out on an evangelistic tour.
james G. Mitchell, of Patton, is
celebrating fifty years as an Odd Fell
low.
u. w. Young. of Connellsville, has
gone to the Pacific coast.
General Charles Miller, of Frank
lin, former commander of the Guard,
is spending the summer on Long
Island.
Rudolph Solomon. of Pittsburgh,
will marshal the parade at the open
ing of the big North Side bridge at
Pittsburgh.
Colonel c.. Hartman Kuhn, of
Philadelphia, is taking a motor trip
through New England.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-08-03
EDITORIAL COMMENT

Americans never hunt fight or run
from one.-Birmingham News.
The German fleet still rests on an even
Kiel.-New York Morning Telegraph,
This report of prohibition In Alabama
sounds like oonshine.-Columbia
State.
South America open for hardware
trade" So is Europe.-Wall Street
Journal. 49,.
What Russia needs is a grand duke
with head as long as his legs.-Co-
lumbia State.
The Germans have seized Przasnysz.
which is easier done than said.-Boston
Transcript.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-08-03

Why does not all this prosperity,
which the Democrats talk about show
some reflection in the transactions of
the Federal Treasury The Govern
ment Is now running behind in it's ex-
penses nearly million dollars a day.
Surely, If the country is so prosper
Gus" because of the mushroom develop
ment of war orders" that prosperity
ought to show itself for the benefit of
others than the owners of or specuIa-
tors in war stocks"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-08-03

The small boy who is compelled to
take it back" after blusteringly talk
ing up to his better informed COM
panion, can sympathize with the Demo-
cratic administration which is now
proclaiming the success of the postal
savings bank though the Democrats in
Congress fought 1t as hard as they
knew how,
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-08-03

"A German court recently sentenced
German woman for promising to
marry Frenchman. The Kaiser is un-
usually stupid IL he thinks thereby he
can overrule the dictates of Cupid. The
little fellows bow and arrows have it
all over the best rapid-ffre gun ever in
vented.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-08-03

and giving and not IN the indulgence
of self or the destructive pleasures of
idIeness.
At f1fty-two Mr.. Ford stirl has his
eye on the future. Hard work is his
watchword and service his ambition.
In this lies the wonderful success that
has come to him. He has found his
reward in his work instead of working
for reward.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-08-03
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
THE FUTURE OF HARRISBURG
To The Editor of The telegraph:

To The Editor of The Telegraph:
In Harrisburg you have such a
grand opportunity to build farther and
grow and grow and grow. Your water.
your excellent park system, your river
front, your paved streets, your shade
trees, your Fairgrounds, your schools,
your exceptional railroad facilities
everything in Gods world to attract
industries and the men and women
they employ. Harrisburg HAS.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-08-03

'"This is the dried apple season." says
an upstate exchange. Wrong. The
dried apple season will come next
winter when reckless persons will i'm
prison them between pieces of dough
and call the awful result pie.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-08-03

Scientists having proven that Ne
braska once lay at the bottom of the
sea, the Boston Transcript finds con-
firmation of the diagnosis that the
Platte was the original Salt Creek.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-08-03

However much we may differ as to
the exact character of the causes, this
much is certain: That in this country
prosperity has invariably accompanied
protection, while business and indus
trial depression have Just as invariably
gone hand in hand with free trade"
This statement. made on the floor of the
Senate in September. 1913. by Senator
Sutherland, of Utah, proves that states
man a true prophet. The sooner we
stop theorizing and get back to the
sound basis of protection and prosperity
the better 1t will be for American peo-
pie and American interests.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-08-03
HERE'S A GEM

without having any expert knowl-
edge of precious stones, the baseball
player should be good Judge of dia-
raonds.-Wellsboro Republican -Advo-
cate.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-08-03
OPPRESSION of THE POOR

Forasmuch therefore as your tread
ing Is upon the poor. and ye take from
him burdens of wheat: yet have built
houses of hewn stone, but we shall not
dwell in them; ye have planted pleas
ant vineyards, but ye shall not drink
wine of them. - Amos V, IL.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-08-03
TELEGRAPH PERlSCOPE

Typhoid fever has broken out in
the French ranks. Seems to be largely
matter among the allies of escaping
the germs and the Germans.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-08-03

machine has been devised which
will turn out 1900 pies an hour. This
beats Mr.. Bryan at his best when de
serving Democrats" were thronging
about the pie counter
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-08-03
TUESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 5.

As soon as q man becomes satisfied
1oith himself and 1OhGt he has done,
he has ceased to intproVe and has be-
gun to degenerGte.-George Eliot.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-08-03

The Weather Man has been having
a high old time with the mercury.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-08-03

When your neighbor buys car the
things you begin to think may perhaps
be defined as due to auto suggestion.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-08-03
DO YOU KNOW

That Harrisburg manufactures
only a small part of the ice it con-
sumes?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-08-03
TUESDAY EVENING.

welding soap and rag while you won-
dered why it was thought necessary to
wash ''all over anyway. A cruel world
it was. indeed!
But one would rather sell HIS birth
right than his bathtub on hot. sticky,
swe1tering day in July or August. To
splash and splutteri To splutter and
to splash! All. this IS the life!
And yet. % the city. health officials
say, there is doleful lack of fire.
quency with which some people make
use of their bathtubs. even in summer.
They fume and fret about-the weather
and wonder why in the deuce they
ever kicked about snowstorms. and
fill themselves up TO the guzzle with
ice water. with scarce a thought of a
morning and evening ducking in the
ever-ready tub.
That's the point of all this. When
you're almost crazy with the heat, j"
remember the boon of the bathtub.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-08-03
Imports
Less Important

Imported" is a less important
word this Fall than usual.
We have learned by necessity
how to do many things for our
selves.
The new goods will be doubIy
interesting because they carry
with them this note Of self-im-
provement.
II you watch the advertising
from day to day in the Telegraph
YOU will see the trend of the
times.
Buy at home the things made
at home is coming to be a sort of
a slogan of the times.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-08-03
Our Daily Laugh
NO REFUND
WANTED.

I got that ball
we lost dis morn
ing, sir-got IL
from q small kid.
Good! I'll hand
you what yo u
gave him for 1t.
No, thanks! I
gave him a punch
in the eye.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-08-03

Friends of Judge N. NJ. Wanner, of
York county, say that there is little
doubt about his nomination by a great
majority. 1t is predicted that his will
be the only name on the ballot.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-08-03

And now for the harvest moon.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-08-03

Senator Penrose yesterday told a
delegation of Philadelphia business
men that he was in hearty accord with
the movement to get the next national
convention for the Quaker City, but he
believed that the best way to get it
would be to construct the convention
hall
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-08-03

Ex-Congressman A. Mitchell Palmer
is said to be planning to spend August
at his home in Stroudsburg looking
after his law practice and preparing
for the call to Washington. Palmer
will incidentally keep in close touch
with the districts where there is likely
to be any Democratic ruction.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-08-03

According to trolley conductors
there are people who spend as high as
q dollar to keep cool these evenings
One man said yesterday that he knew
a man who had taken the ride to
Market Square on his return and gone
to Oberlin and back and then gone ur
the Rockville line. The other side OF
the river furnishes a choice lot oil
rides on a cool evening.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-08-03

WE await with interest the COM
Wv ment of the newspapers on the
rnnndafa of the Clnthinp De-
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-08-03

Delegations from the Philadelphia
building trade yesterday asked Con-
gresham w. S. Ware to pe q candidate
for the Republican nomination for
mayor, an interesting coincidence with
1911 when George H. Earle, Jr., who
defeated Ware for the nomination, was
first asked by the same people to be
candidate. The Congressman said he
would give the matter consideration.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1915-06-26
It Happened In Cofax
And is Happening to Colfax People
Every Week.

The case told below is not an uncom-
mon thing. The same occurs frequent
lv and will continue to happen as long
as folks have kidneys and overtax the
kidneys.
Mrs. ]. D. Boston, Colfax, La, says:
"My back caused me'a lot of misery.
| could hardly get around to do my
homework and should have been in
bed. When stopped over, | could
hardly straighten up, owing to the
sharp twinges that darted through my
loins. The pain was so bad that | felt
ike screaming. My kidneys were weak
and | was caused annoyance by the kid
ney secretions. l took three boxes OF
Doan's Kidney Pills, procured at the
Dixie Pharmacy, and was restored to
good health. have got just as much
faith in Doan's Kidney Pills now as
when | publicly recommended them
some time ago. -
Price SOC, at all dealers. Don't simp-
ly ask for kidney remedy-get Doan's
Kidney Pills - the same that Mrs
Boston recommends. Foster-Milburr
Co., Props, Buffalo, N. Y.