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Evening journal., 1915-07-31
First Year of the War Ends
With a Cry For Compromise

peace is now. or at most. when Con-
stantinople falls. Europe's. statesmen
must soon confess the fruitlessness
of pursuing phantom victories. The
day is fast approaching when the con-
hict. even if it doesn't cease, viii be-
gin to degenerate into gigantic
clinch with the casualties everywhere
fast decreasing.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-02-06
SPRING WHEAT IS
TO Be WIDELY SOWN
Farmers Are After the Increased
Prices That Will Prevail
During This Year

Officials connected with the State
Department of Agriculture declare
that larger acreage of Spring wheat
will be sown in Pennsylvania this
year than known for decades. This
Is attributed to the high prices of
wheat prevailing because of the war
and to the prospect that there will be
a big demand during the late summer
and early Fall. Practically all of
the wheat sown in Pennsylvania in the
last dozen years has been winter
wheat, and but little Spring wheat
has been raised. The acreage sown
with winter wheat now is probably
larger than ever known in the State
and the crop report of the Bureau of
Statistics of the State Department of
Agriculture is to the effect that at the
end of the year the condition was SO
per cent. as compared with an
average and that a notable improve
ment had been noticed since Novem-
ber. This is due to the heavy Fall
rains and to the fact that in many
parts of the State snow have covered
the ground since the cold weather set
in during December.
The sowing of Spring wheat will be
started in the southern counties as
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-02-06
Loss of Car Should Be
Reported to State Police

Considering the large number of
automobiles that are stolen every year,
the Department of State Police have
sent out the following notice: 1.-The
operations of organized bands of au-
tomobile thieves throughout the State
of Pennsylvania have become so ex-
tensive that it is necessary to bring
the attention of automobile owners
to the importance of immediately
notifying the State Police upon the
loss of a car.
THE information should be trans
mitted by telephone or telegraph. to
the Department of State Police, IIar-
risburs, Pa, or to The Commanding
officer" of any of the four troops:
Troop "a" State Police, Greensburg,
Westmoreland county; Troop "B''
State Police, Wyoming, Luzerne coun-
ty; Troop &c" State Police, Pottsville,
Schuylkill county: Troop ID" State
Police, Butler Butler county.
when giving the information the
State Police should be notified: When
and where the car was lost, name of
ers' number, year of model, color OF
car, style of car and any further in
formation that might be OF use in
making search for the lost car.
Prompt and intelligent cooperation
on the part of automobile owners will
result in the recovery of stolen cars
and the prevention of such crimes in
the future.
Automobile clubs are requested to
have copies of this notice published in
automobile journals.
JOHN C. GROOME,
Superintendent"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-02-06
HIS FIRST

My first sermon was delivered when
was Is years old and in a country
farmhouse in Shropshire, England. and
in the shadow of the stately Wenlock
Abbey. The kitchen i'm which this
august event took place was lined with
a generous supply of hams and hitches
of bacon, with strings of onions strung
from the rafters.
The audience consisted of about ff-
teen farm hands, Ave or six of their
employers, and the miller of the little
hamlet. / addressed them with what
1 thought to be considerable effect for
about fifteen minutes, and no words of
mine can describe the trepidations
from which l suffered during this short
interval.
At the close a husky plowman asked
me il 1 was the son of my father, who
was also a preacher. and upon my re-
plying that l could claim that honor,
he strongly advised me to send my
father the next time and avoid such
"a catastrophe as | had inflicted upon
them that Sabbath afternoon.
Thus began my career as a preacher,
and I walked the eleven Intervening
miles to my home sadder and a wiser
yeuth.-The Rev. s. Parkes Cadman,
D. D.. Pastor of the Central Conugrega-
tional Church, Brooklyn. in the Chris
tian Herald.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-02-06
HUPMOB|LE MANAGER
IS VERY OPTIMISTIC
Results at Big Shows Exceed
Expectations of Commercial
Manager Harris

That the New York and Chicago
shows have been more successful from
a business standpoint than any previous
exhibits, is the opinion of f. A. Harris,
conmercial manager of the Hupp Mo-
tor Car Company. Mr.. Harris has at
capacity since the beginning of the in
dustry, and has been closely connected
with the business side.
From business standpoint, the 1918
shows have been the greatest success
that have ever seem" said Mr.. Harris.
This is graphically shown by three
hibitors; second, the big attendance
which smashed all previous records
and third, the extraordinary amount of
business DONE
Chicago was probably the most sue
csessful OF course, Chicago draws
dealers and prospects from all over the
country and this year. was very strong
with the farmers of the West, who
buyers of automobiles
"IIupmobile dealers and distributors
We're III attendance from all parts Of
the country. Dealers were drawn to Chi
cago from California to Maine; and
from the Gulf to the remote parts of
Canada, Everyone without exception
was enthusiastic on the outlook for
the coming season and almost every
distributor left orders for the immedi-
The big amount of business done at
the Chicago show, clearly indicates
great possibilities for the coming year.
People all over the country are be-
ginning to buy cars. Now that the
first shock of the war is worn off and
the wonderful resources of this coun-
try have proved sufficient to withstand
the European conflict, they are becom-
Ing more confident and rapidly going
ahead with business.
1T seems to me, after reviewing
poth motor shows, that prosperity for
the year of 1915 Is assured. We have
all OF us been awaiting bigger and
better things: Now that Spring is
here and the buying public have shown
forward to good business in all lines.
certainly, the Hupp Companys bust
ness was never so sound with prospects
so good. The outlook is that we shall
heat ALI Sflri1ncr Inn a.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-02-06

in Altoona, Pa.-motorbob contests. A
number of riders who have converted
their motorcycles into motor sleds
have been staging some very exciting
competitions.
The annual endurance run of the
Newark IN. j. Motorcycle Club will
be held this year on May 30-31, and
will be to Wilkes-B Pa, and re-
turn.
A motorcycle race meet will be held
at Santa Ana, Cal, on February Z.
June 20 has been selected as the
date for the second annual endurance
run of the Yonkers Motorcycle Tour
ing Club.
A 2OO-mile endurance run is among
the many events planned for the sum-
mer by the Arrow Motorcycle Club of
Hudson County, n. j.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-02-06
Motor Truck indispensable
Today For Distribution

The constantly increasing demand
Tor motor trucks of light and medium
capacity has necessitated the establish
ment OF new department, hereafter to
De known as the International Motor
Truck department, now located in our
new and well equipped quarters at No.
6l9 Walnut street." says C. J. Stevens
manager of the truck department Of
the International Harvester Company.
'Ine international Motor Truck is
backed by manufacturing experience
or more than seventy-five years, and
hundreds of service stations are main
talned Tor the protection of it's patrons
rms harrisburg branch stands for SER
vice and square dealing, as evidenced
by out constantly increasing trade. The
expressions of satisfied customers and
repeat orders make this International
motor Truck Department pleasure to
It's owners and employees. To the mod
ern businessman this motor truck is
as indispensable as the telephone and
daily papers,
Making comparisons between the
motor truck and the horse. We are in
clined to place motor truck transpor-
transportation, totally ignoring the
motor trucks superior flexibility, its
ouslness-buildfng possibilities and its
utility in ways for which the horse is
entirely untitled. When considered in
this broader scope, and the motor truck
rs, given, full credit for all its advant-
ages, the comparison takes on the same
aspect as the comparison between the
efficiency of horse car and modern
trolley car: in other words. the motor
truck belongs to new era. 1t is the
result of the demands of modern busi-
ness for better, faster and moreaef.
hcient means of transportation"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-02-06

soon as the ground can be prepared
and efforts to raise a big crop will be
made. This wheat should be ready
for cutting not very many weeks after
the winter wheat is cut.
preliminary reports also show that
there Will be large acreage in corn
and that there is demand for it
winch may result in cutting down of
the amount which might be fed on the
farms producing it during the winter.
The 1914 crop of corn was exception
ally fine.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-02-06
MOTORCYCLE NOTES

Dodge City is planning to hold the
Kansas annual 30O-mile motorcycle
race this year on July 8.
A new sport has been inaugurated
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-02-06

Dee Hoel, a rural mail carrier of
Cottonwood Falls, Kan. has converted
his motorcycle into bobsled, thereby
making it possible for him to cover
his route every day with the two
wheeler.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-09-18
ASPlDISTRAS

No ornamental plant is more sim
plo of cultivation than the aspidistra,
and few plants receive more neglect.
The %aspidistra is a handsome ever
green foliage plant, ~unequaled for
home decoration. The chief difficulty
with them is giving too little water
in summer and too much in winter.
When the plants become too large for
the pots the leaves crack because
they have not to properly de-
velop. and growth becomes poor on
cou of the exhausted condition of
the soil. Too little water in summer
starves the plant at the period when
it should be making a new growth.
Too much water in winter sours the
soil, which kills the plant.
Good garden soil with sufficient
land added to insure good drainage
will grow good plants, but for the
best results there is nothing better
then four parts good loan, one-sixth
part fine charcoal, thoroughly mixed.
When the plant is to be simply re-
ported turn the ball of earth from the
pot and reduce the soil by carefully
picking it off with a pointed stick. Re-
pot in a clean pot of suitable size,
placing plenty of broken crock at the
bottom for drainage,
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-09-18
HEART OF ANCIENT EMPIRE
Fertile Highland Valleys That Lie Be-
tween Two Towering Mountain
Ranges.

To the east tower the White Cordil
iera, beyond which molder the MAS
matte jungles of the Montana; to the
west rise the snowy attitudes we have
1ust traversed. writes Ernest Peixotto.
in describing The Land of the Incas."
in Scribner's. Between these two
ranges lie a succession of highland
valleys some 10000, TO $4,000 feet
above the sea-. each separated from
the other by nudos. or knots, of lesser
traverse chains of mountains.
These valleys in our ATTITUDES would
be covered with eternal snow. Here
under the tropics they blossom with
all the products of the temperate one
enjoying a cool. invigcrating climate
and supporting a large population OF
Indians.
They constituted the heart OF the an
cient empire OF the lncas, that amaz-
ing despotism that stunned the Span
ish %conquerors with the wisdom OF it's
institutions. the splendor and the size
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-09-18
SEEING LIFE with
HENRY
kHSShW GeogeN Hobart
.SdT\XNA% VI John Henry Takes Tango Lesson
John Henry Takes a Tango Lesson

r HE idea originated with Bunch
l Jefferson. You can always count
on Bunch having a few freak ideas in
the belfry where he keeps his butter
lies.
Bunch and his wife, Alice, live out
in Westchester county, about half a
mile from Uncle Peters bungalow,
where friend wife and l are spending
the winter.
The fact that Uncle Peter and Aunt
Martha had decided to give us a party
was the inspiration for Bunch's bril-
liant idea.
Listen, John" he macchiavellied;
mot one of this push out here knows
a thing about the tango. Most of them
have a foolish idea that it's a wicked
institution invented by the devil who
sold his patent rights to the Evil-Do-
ers association. Now, I'll tell you
what well do, John: Well put them
wise. Well take about two lessons
from a good instructor in town aud on
the night of the party we'll make the
hit of our lives teaching them all to
tango. Are you James to the POSSIBLE
ities?"
1T listens like a good SPIEL" |
agreed; but will a couple of lessons
be enough for us?"
Sure" he came back; we're not
a couple of Patsys with the pump!
We can learn enough in two lessons to
make good in this boob community.
Why, we'll start a tango craze out
here that will put life and ginger in
the whole outfit and presently they'll
be putting up statues in our honor"
Well, to make a long story lose its
cunning, we made arrangements next
day with key Schwartz, dancing in
structor. to explain the mysteries of
this modern home-wrecking PROPOSE
ton known as the tango, and paid him
in advance the sum of 500.
1t seemed to me that a hundred iron
men in advance was a nifty little price
for two lessons, but Bunch assured me
the price was reasonable on account of
the prevalence of rich scholars willing
to divide their patrimony with any
body who could teach their feet to
behave in time to the music.
We made an appointment to meet
key at his studio" for our first les
son the following afternoon. Then
we hiked for home on the 4:14. well
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-09-18

key belonged to the dis. dose and
dem" push.
Every long sentence he uttered was
full of splintered grammar.
Every time key opened his word
chest the kings English screamed for
help and literature got a kick in the
Stats.
He was short and thin, but it was a
deceptive thinness. His capacity for
storing away free liquids was awe
inspiring and a sin.
l think Ikey must have been hollow
from the neck to the ankles, with EN-
Urgency ~bulkheads in both feet.
His nose was shaped like a quarter
to six o'clock. 1t began in the middle
and rushed both ways as hard as 1t
could. One end of it ducked into his
forehead and never did come out.
His interior was sponge lined, and
when the ~bartenders began to send
them in fast, key would lower an
asbestos curtain to keep the fumes
away from his brain.
Nobody ever saw key at high tide.
There was surely something wrong
with keys switchboard, because he
could wrap his system around more
Indian laughing Juice without getting
lit up than any other man in the
world.
But key was the compliments OF
the season., all right, all right.
key had spent most of his life be
ing a bookmaker. and when the racing
game went out of fashion he sat down
and tried to think what else he could
do. Nothing occurred to him until one
day he discovered that he could push
his feet around in time to music; SO
he became a dancing instructor and
could clean up $1,000 per day If the
bartender didn't beckon too hard.
The luncheon had been ordered and
Bunch was just about to switch the
conversation around to the subject OF
rebates when suddenly his eyes took
on the appearance of saucers and, tap
ping me on the arm, he gasped
Look"
1 looked and beheld Peaches, Alice
and Aunt Martha sailing over in oul
direction.
With a whispered admonition t.
Bunch to keep key still l went for
ward to meet friend wife, her aunt ant
Alice.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-09-18

pleased with our investment and its
promise of golden returns.
That night Bunch and Alice were
over to our place Cor dinner. After
dinner Bunch an l sat down by the
log fire in the Dutch room, filled our
faces with Havana panatellas and pro-
ceeded to enjoy life in silence.
Into the next room came Alice and
Peaches and sat down for their usual
cackle.
Bunch and l started from Il
reveries when we heard Alice say to
Peaches, you dot know what a
source of comfort it has been to me
to realize that Bunch doesn't know a
blessed thing about the tango or an
of those hateful! intimate new
Dances"
The same with me, Alice" friend
wife chirped in. Il relieve If John
were to suddenly display ability to
dance the tango I'd be nroken-hearted.
Naturally, I'd know that he must have
learned it with a licked companion
in some lswless cabaret. And If he
freuuented cabarets without my knowl-
edge-oh, Alice, what would | do?"
I looked at Bunch, he looked at me
and then we both looked out the win
dow.
For my part" Alice went on; Il
trust Bunch so implicitly that | don't
even question lis motive when he tele-
phones me ne has to take dinner in
- i'll nraannntfua raaI aerota
customer"
And I know enough of human ma
ture." Peaches gurgled, ito be sure
that If either n of them could tango
he would be crazy to show off at home,
I think we're very lucky. both of us,
TO have such st~eady-going husbands,
don't you, Alice?"
At this point Aunt Martha buzzed
into the other oom and the cackle
took on another complexion.
In the meantime Bunch and | had
passed away.
ITS cold turkeyI" I whispered.
i've been in the refrigerator for ter
minutes and I'm chilled to the bone.
bunch whispered back.
can we get our coin away from
Ikey?" | asked.
The next morning we had Ikey
Schwartz for luncheon with us at the
st. Astorbiit. The dea being to daz
zle him and get a few of the iron mer
back.
Leave everything to me-" Bunch
growled as We shaved our hats anC
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-09-18
SIGNS AND OMENS
BY lsADoRE sENsHlNeHAM.


Nov you've done it, Abner!" ex
claimed Mrs. Post.
Done what?" demanded her hus.
band GROSSLY, giving the hammer in
his hand a last vicious bang across a
nail head.
KILLED a purple moth-see, with the
head of the hammer, and it's a bad
sign"
sign, nothing" growled Abner, but
w~rathfully. The only sign I'm inter,
, ested in at the present time is the
! sign I'm mailing up right here and
now, and it says No Trespassing,
and the first one who questions il
gets a dose of salt and pepper"
"You think you're quite right, Alb
ner?" %insinuated Mrs. Post gently.
Il know I'm right" stormed back
her better half. See here, Maria, no
milk-and-water sentiment This creek
was on my land when l bought it,
wasn't it?"
Yes. Abner, but it's crooked and
cut in on the other side so that neigh.
BNA Dbuu udS utdT IL JulIu VI IL.
Let him keep it; let him keep it!
that's all right" shouted Abner. "Tve
no objection, but when he sets his
visitors to fishing all over it, and his
cows wading in to muddy it, and in.
trudes on my land. let him look out
I'm going to stake it off and set up a
barb-wire fence. Then let him and
his crowd enjoy the two or three feel
of shallow water to their hearts con
tent!"
81 think you're wrong, Abner," pro
tested Mrs Post seriously. 1T didn't
used to be this way, but all neighbor
ly and pleasant. | do hope because
Mr., Dodd crowed over you a bit wher
you insisted about there being nc
likelihood OF a war, and it came, that
you won't harbor up a wicked griev
ance."
Never mind about that" snapped
her husband. "Dodd can't lord it ovel
me. The sign goes up. and the fence
later"
And what about the young PEG
ple?" voiced Mrs. Post, gravely, Bot
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-09-18

They were as much surprised as
l was.
1T was such a delightful day that
Aunt Martha couldn't resist the temp
tation to do a little shopping" Peaches
ratified on; and then we decided to
come here for a bit of luncheon
hello, Bunch! I'm SO glad to see you!
John, hadn't we better take another
table so that your friendly conference
may not be interrupted"
| FASTENED to assure Peaches that
it wasn't a conference at all. We had
met Mr.. Schwartz quite by accident.
Then | introduced key to the ladies.
He got up and did something that
was supposed to be a bow, but you
couldn't tell whether he was tying his
shoe or coming down a stepladder.
When key tried to bend a society
double he looked like one of the pic
lures that goes with a rubber exer.
ciser, price rs cents.
After they had ordered club sand.
witches and coffee l explained to
Peaches and the others that Mr.,
Schwartz was a real estate dealer.
key began to swell up at once.
Bunch and l are going in a little
deal with Mr.. Schwartz" | explained,
He knows the real estate business
backward. He, Schwartz, has a fad
for collecting apartment houses. He
owns the largest assortment of People
Coops in the city. All the modern i'm.
provements, too. Hot and cold win.
dows, running gas and noiseless ian.
itors. Mr. Schwartz is the inventor
of the idea Of having two baths in
every apartment so that the lessees
will have less excuse for not beine
water broke"
key cracked a smile.
In Mr.. Schwartz's apartment
houses" / continued, while Bunch
kicked my shins under the table, "y,r
will find s~elf-freezing refrigerator
and se~lf-leaving servants. All the
rooms are light rooms, when you ligh,
the gas. Two o. his houses overlook
the park and all of them overlook
the building laws. Tho floors ar,
made of concrete, 20 that II you wan
to bring a horse in the parlor you car
do SO without kicking of the plastic
in the fiat below. Every room has fold
ing doors. aud when the water pipel
burst the %janitor has folding arms"
Quit your joshing. John! You1
embarrass Mr.. Schwartz" laughed
bunch somewhat n%ervcusly. but key
grin never fiicke. ed.
lis MIR, Schwartz deaf and dumb?
Peaches wills N;red.
"Intermitsertly so,' ~whispere,
back; sometimes for hours at a tim
he canrot speak a word and can hea
only the loudest tcnes."
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-09-18

Dodd and our Nell are all but en-.
gagged Going to disturb their hap
piness?"
Yes. / ami" fairly roared Post. IF
J so much as hear of my daughter en-
c%Ouraging the son of an enemy. Ill
lock her up in a nunnery!"
Mrs. Post sighed and turned ava
When she got home she had a good
crying spell. She knew her husband
was in the wrong, and lamented the
fact and feared for the outcome. A
%neighborly row, she realized, was a
thing to be dreaded where a man of
the set ideas of her arbitrary husband
was concerned.
Mrs. Post was superstitious. She
had imbibed all current o~ld-country
lore regarding signs and tokens from
her father and mother, and always
had a trite and hackneyed saying OF
a past generation to fit the case OF
the moment. To kill a purple moth
was worse in her estimation than
walking under a ladder, or seeing a
white horse driven by a girl with au-
burn hair on a Friday.
Her husband was too wrathy to
pay more than passing attention TO
the killing of an insect
Accidental, anyhow" he quieted a
certain respect for the predictions OF
his wife by muttering. There's no
use! Dodd has been setting down on
me hard since he got comfortably
fixed in a money way, and I'm not go.
ing 70 stand his high and mighty
pride! There's the warning. ! pity
those who don't heed it,"
But Posts work was worse than his
bite. His spell of jealousy and re
sentiment might have passed by, only
the very next day in the choice of Sc