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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-12-04
Personal News Items
From Nearby Towns in
Central Pennsylvania
By Special Correspondence

Mannheim. - Miss Lillian Hummer
spent the weekend among Philadelphia
Butter. after spending six weeks with
! her sick mother. Mrs Sallie Krall at
st. Joseph, Missouri. has returned
home. - Miss Beulah tlrich spent sew
eral days among relatives at Harris
burg, Lebanon and Palmyra. Miss
Esther Evans. of Lititz. spent Sunday
lap Mr.. and Mrs. |. A. Brosey and
sons, Raymond and Elwood, and y. II.
WNIiaughtei spent SUNDAY at Harrisburg:
and Charles McCauley spent sew
eral days at philadelphia. = Miss
Catherine n,i1S UrIG. of Ephrataaii spent sun
Charles Hendricks, of Sparrows Point,
Nd, is visiting his parents. MIR. and
Mrs,, Mrs Thomas Hendricks . sansr.i Harry
days with B. Frank Danner. - Mr.. and
Mrs Harry Spohn. of Reading, spent
GmbeT Ti'e Of McPhsTson heFe Kansas Who
had been visiting relatives in this sec
ton for three months. left for his
Myers, of Philadelphia. was a visitor
IN the home of her parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. j. F.. Myers.
ThomPSontown.- - Mrs. David Speece,
q harrisburg. spent "Wednesday at
spent spent: sunday a with fS'fSa; MISS Beula cam am,
eron. The following people from a
distance attended the funeral of B. J..
family. of near AIillerstown; Miss Mae
Leonard. of Lewlstown; Miss Maude
Leonard. of Washington, d. c.; Mrs.
Zent. of McCoystown; Mrs. William
Hawk and Mrs. Valentine. of Milhin-
town: and John Leonard, of Chicago.
Northern Pacific Railroad. and will re-
main several weeks with his parents.
Atr. and Mrs D. :. Leonard. - Mr.. and
fHyaW, ll Il
at Millerstown. Mrs. Frank Hibbs
and little son. of Harrisburg. spent the
week with her mother Mrs. Mary
home from Philadelphia, after spend
ing several weeks with her sister. Mrs.
David Ernest. = Mr.. and Mrs. Winey
ing Mr.. and Mrs. c. G. Winey, at East
Salem.
Union Deposit. - Mr.. and Mrs. 10
seph Etter spent Sunday at Annville,
visiting Mr., and Mrs. Philip Kettering;
Mr. and Mrs; John a. Keller and arld
sunday. - Mrs Henry P, Peiffer spent
Wednesday at Mechanlcsburg. = Mr.
and Mrs. Harry Kaylor spent Sunday
at Harrisburg. - Joseph Snavely, of
Palmyra: visited his daughter Mrs.
Harry Fausnacht, on Sunday. : Miss
Dunn spent Sunday at Mechanicsburs.
Preaching services Will be held in
the United Brethren Church on Sunday
morning by the pastor. the Rev. George
w. Hallman. - Sterling Peiffer spent
Tuesday at Harrisburg. : Miss Lydia
Hawn. of Middletown. visited her pa
rents. Mr.. and Mrs. J. Hawn. on sun
day. Mrs. Maggie Hartman spent
Sunday at Steelton with her son, Harry
Hartman - Mrs Ralph Ebersole and
children spent Sunday at Steelton visit
ing her parents. Mr.. and Mrs. Shooter
Miss Violet Stauffer, Of Harrisburg,
SUNDAY. - Mr.. and Mrs. Isaac Keiffer
accompanied by their son. Harry, and
ing Mr.. and Mrs Frank Whitmoyer.-
Miss Lizzie Patrick. OF near Hanover
dale, visited Miss Sarah Etter on Sun
day. - Mrs. John Shoop and sister Mrs.
George Hooker spent Tuesday at
Lebanon. visiting their uncle. DIR. J.
Zimmerman. Miss Lizzie Sortman. of
Philadelphia. spent the week with Miss
Mary ShertZer.
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RETURN ID NORMAL
Business Conditions Show Con-
 tinuaI Improvement.
Enormous Difficulties Which Were Faced by the Democratic Adminis- tration Have Been Overcome
 by Wise Legislation.

Of the rapid return of prosperity there is every indication in the re- ports from many industrial centers. The testimony everywhere points the same way.
 Naturally at this time the tendency is to emphasize the influence of war conditions abroad upon the revival of business in the United States. It is easy to lay too much stress upon this phase of the situation. So-called war orders affect directly only limited number of industries in this country. Discrimination of certain parts of the national system of production and exchange would be an uncertain way to the restoration of a generally healthy state of business It is a broader business recovery than this which is recorded
 The normal condition of this coun- try Is prosperity. It produces and con- sumes on a scale of it's own that calls for the activity of most of its ener- gies. It is one of the few self sufficing countries in the world, and it's resources are still undeveleped. Even in spite of the war, industry and trade, with their adaptation to- new .circum- stances, should regain their proper level: in time. They maysSfegain it more quickly because Europe as a producer is largely idle and is wasting its strength and wealth in war, but we have every reason to trust in the fp, ture, because as a people apart we are at peace, and must feed and clothe and build for OO.OOO,OO0. Americans and their neighbors: /, s.s.,
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MUST BEGIN AT THE BOTTOM
Dirt Roads-Money Required Is Astonishingly Small.

The dirt roads are the real high. ways of commerce. Without them you would have little use for macadam roads or other highways of like char acter. In the road fabric we must be- gin at the bottom. As the dirt roads are improved year by year, by process of evolution, when necessity requires a certain percentage of them will be- come trunk lines and be converted in. to rock, macadam, concrete or roads of like character. This will come about when the betterment of the dirt roads has so improved agricultural and other communities through which they pass that the wealth and popula' tion and commerce justify it.
 We cannot make all the roads rock macadam or concrete roads, but we
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VALUE OF BETTER. HIGHWAYS
Man Looking for Location Is Likely :: to Judge Neishborhood by Kind
 of Roads 1t Maintains.

Are you doing anything for good roads? Is your community doing any thing? Is your county alive to the value of rock roads, roads of per manent type? If you are a farmer you ought to be able to realize the value of better highways more keenly than any other citizen.
 It is fact that the chance visitor and the man who is looking for a location are likely to judge neighbor- hood or region by the kind of high ways it maintains. Stretches of mud holes blast community's reputation. Bad roads kill church life and choke education. Churches and schools are dependent very. markedly upon good roads. Where the roads are stretches of mud in winter and dust and old ruts in summer, neither schools nor churches may flourish
 } When you find a farmer who op- poses good roads and fights a reason able taxation for building better high ways you will find a man who Is 8 drawback to his community.
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annoyance as it was in 1872.
 We all know of the glorious work of David Porter during the war of 1872 in the Essex. He created a fleet out of his squadron of prizes and his sub ordinates gladly called him commo- dore and recognized his well earned right to a broad pennant. Yet, to use the language of the time, MT. Thomp- son, the secretary of the navy, issued an order which "unshipped his stars and degraded his title' when Porter came ashore. There was nothing last ing in the brevet of commodore, and the flag became a memory. rather than lasting emblem of gallant service that had justified it when afloat and aface with the perils of war. .''s
 There was lack of harmony in the practice of carrying these symbols of flag rank, and this led Isaac Toucey, when secretary of the navy, to pre- scribe in 185S: '.It is hereby ordered that in lieu of the broad pennant now worn by flag officers in command of squadrons they shall wear plain blue flag of dimensions proportionate to the different classes of vessels prescribed for the jack. Flag officers whose date of commission as captain is over twenty years shall wear it at the fore; all others at the mizzen.'' '.
 The incorrectness of hoisting a rear admiraIs flag at the main instead of at the miZZen, where the long estab- lished usage of other naval powers had placed it, soon became apparent, and at the instance of Richard Fl. Dana, then in congress, the position of the flag was made agreeable to general custom without regard to the rear admiral's seniority. As result Farragut lowered his flag from the main and raised it at the mizzen, where rear admirals flag should fly. tion in his dignity.
 In 1866 a distinctive flag apart from it's position on the ship was ordered for him and then for the first time appeared the four white stars in the center forming a diamond. At the same time the vice-admiral acquired three stars, the rear admiral two and the commodore's broad pennant was entitled to one, the erstwhile central big star of days gone by when that grade displayed a whole constellation. Admiral Farragut first hoisted his four starred flag on the frigate Frank lin in June of 1867, and at the same time a salute of seventeen guns was fred
 All went well in this somewhat touchy matter until 1869, and then trouble arose over a departmental or der. At that time the Union Jack dis
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High Tide of Prosperity

Reports from every section of the grain belt lying west of the Ohio river clean to the Pacific ocean, show wheat and oats in magnificent condition, and within the next four weeks Texas and Oklahoma will be shipping new wheat to the market.
 With Europe and Asia facing an other year of warfare, anC no reserves of food in any country in either conti nent and admitted shortage in area planted this year throughout every European nation, immense crops in the United States will mean far more money to our farmers than they re ceived even in this last year of great income to them.
 Given the immense crops of grain, fruit and vegetables now in prospect, with the already assured foreign and domestic demand for them at high prices, even if the war closed tomor- row, it certainly seems that every week now will stimulate business so that by the months of August and September all records of trade vol umes and values in the United States will be broken.
 It is upon a growing high tide of prosperity that the United States . floating today. :e
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Properly Represents Party.

Praising President Wilson and in- sisting that he must have the. support of all patriotic Americans, MT. Taft says in the same breath that the Dem ocratic party has shown that it is not the proper agent of government. :. Then how does MT. Taft account for the man whom he indorses? Where did he come from? Who is responsible for him? Not one of the great presidents after Washington, who antedated par tics as they now are known, was more distinctively a party product than Woodrow. Wilson. He was nominated and elected by Democrats, without fu- sion or coalition, and everybody else was against him. MT. Wilson. may properly be criticized and the Demo cratic party may properly be criti- cized, but they will stand or 'fall to- gether. .ry - .
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can make all our bad dirt roads good dirt roads. We can make the. rock, sections and communities where coun- try growth, wealth, population and volume of heavy traffic demand and justify it. The amount of money really required to convert a bad dirt road into a good dirt road by the use of modern road equipment Is astonish- ingly small.
 Where the roads from the farm to the railway station are partly bad dirt roads, partly good dirt roads and part ly rock, concrete or macadam roads, the farmer must gauge his load not by the good dirt road. not by the good macadam road over which he passes a part of the distance, but by the bad dirt road he must travel What we should do is to improve the road. gauging the load the producer must haul. If he has to struggle with bad dirt roads, he is the man we wish to serve. These roads are the arteries of the commerce of the soil,;s and our very life, credit, prosperity, education, church and future interests depend up- on them.
 The closer We place the producer to the markets the lower will be our cost of living. The roads which serve the producers today are the dirt roads, roads of the people. roads reaching ev. cry community, and 50 years from now the great majority of the roads serving the producers will still be dirt roads. We must deal with things real, not ideal!-Gov. Major of Mis-
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Democrats Have Done Wei.

The worst, most widespread and i'm measurably the most destructive war the world ever knew has ragged abroad for three-quarters of a year. yet this, country has had no sign of such panic as. eight years ago wrecked it's com: ,mereial life in time of profound peace; and now, with the fight still raging, prosperity is coming back with firm and rapid step. Why? .. .,
 Because Democratic congress and president passed, signed and put into operation the federal reserve act, the law, which prevents panics;. and be- cause Democratic. administration has kept peace with honor when .clamor- ing jingoes were trying to force the land into war. rt
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GET POWER
 The Supply Comes From Food.

If we get power from food, why not strive to get all the power we can That Is only possible by selecting food that exactly fits the requirements of the body,
 Mot knowing how to select the right food to fit my needs, suffered griev- ously for a long time from stomach trouble" writes a lady from a little Western town.
 Tt seemed as if I would never be able to find out the sort of food that was best for me. Hardly anything that I could eat would stay on my stomach. Every attempt gave me heartburn and filled my stomach with gas. got thin ner and thinner until I literally be- came living skeleton and in time was compelled to keep to my bed.
 "A few months ago was persuaded to try Grape-Nuts food, and it had such good effect from the very beginning that I kept up it's use. was surprised at the ease with which digested it. It proved to be just what needed.
 "All my unpleasant symptoms. the heartburn, the inflated feeling which gave me so much pain. disappeared. My weight gradually increased from 9S to 116 lbs, my figure rounded out, my strength came back, and am now able to do my housework and enjoy 1t. Grape-Nuts did it."
 A ten days trial will show anyone some facts about food.
 Name given by Postum Co.,, Battle Creek, Mich. Read, 'The Road to- Wellville," in pkgs. There's Reason
 Ever read the nbove lettere A new one appears from time to time. They are genuine, true, and full of human interest. "
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ing line. Many medical students from England are also in the fighting line
 Doctors are not only wanted to look after the wounded; they can do a great deal to prevent sickness. It is their business to watch the sanitation of the camps, to prevent the contamina- tion of the water supply-in short, to do all they can to prevent disease, which, in all previous wars, has been a more deadly enemy than the bullets of opponents; Happily up to the pres ent we have nc. news of epidemic sick, ness, and it is certain that the advance
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played at the mainmast truck was declared the official emblem of the secretary of the navy. Having thus taken the union out of the ensign, apparently in spirit of sentimental economy, it. was further ordered that the remaining stripes or field of Old Glory should do duty as a symbol of flag rank.
 Accordingly, the admiraTs flag be- came rectilinear affair of thirteen horizontal stripes, alternate red and | white, to be worn at the main. The vfce-admiral was to carry the same flag flown at the fore, while the rear admiral was to have this badge car ried at the mizzen. Farragut was bit ,terly opposed to the change and, in |. fact, never consented to it, When David Dixon Porter upon the death of Farragut became admiral of the navy>he inherited the striped flag which his. predecessor had repudiated, and for six years it was displayed upon 5various occasions, but the symbol was ; not permanently estab- lished, because in 1876 there was change. For various reasons, among them past usage and service and for the convenience-of distinguishing the order of seniority of officers of the sansG grade, the secretary of the navy restored the blue emblem of flag rank.
 Porter died early in 1891, and for a triAe more than eight years the .Ameri- can navy was without an officer of the rank of full admiral t It was revived in March of 1899 t'as reward for George e,Dewey,s.services in, the memo rable battle of Manila Bay, and as his old master in the art of war, Farra+ gut. loved the blue flag with it's four stars so this token of pre-eminent rank in the naval service was chosen by Dewey.
 Agreeably to the last naval ap- propriation bill. Secretary Daniels designated ,as the, three fleet com manders who will share with Admiral Dewey the, right to fly the, admiraEs pennant Frank. Friday Fletcher, com manding the Atlantic feet. Thomas H. Howard. commanding the Pacific fleet. and Walter c. Cowles. command ing the Asiatic fleet. =. r:.- --.
 Should any one of them be, afoat in. the presence of Admiral Dewey, then the newly made admiral would carry red flag with four stars, Ad
 miral Dewey retaining his flag of blue Should by any chance the Atlantic and Pacific fleets be assembled on either of our coasts and Admiral Dewey review them the latter would show his blue flag and his juniors the red and the white flag with four stars, seniority determining the color.
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Coming Political Oratory.

Certainly, the standpat orators aren't going to let any base ingratitude on prosperity's part spoil their speeches. They aren't going to let prosperity, at this stage of the game,' dry their tears. They haven't been damming up their tears merely to have them evaporated. As to the speeches, un- doubtedly they will be pretty mellow, not to, say rotten. in spots. But the orators will borrow word from the president -'an dlsay those dollars you are jipgling sip your pocket are only psychological. ..
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The Spiit-Lou Drag.

The split-log drag has contributed more toward the economic mainte. nance of public highways than any inn plement of modern usage. It does not require special acts of the legislature, bond issues, nor expensive educa- tional campaigns to make it available, as usually precedes construction work.
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Caught.

Caught.
 What a pretty hat, Mrs. Pinkey wore this evening""
 Did you like 1t, dear?"
 Yes. it was very becoming. Why don't you get hats like that?" You musn't blame me if I laugh, John. The hat you like is my hat Mrs. Pinkey borrowed it this evening. It's the $30 hat you called fright."- Cleveland Plain Dealer.
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Worth Consideration.

If you failed to read President Will sons talk on neutrality at the Associ. ated Press dinner you missed some. thing worth while. It was the. utter. sance of a real statesman and of an ad. wiser who should be heeded.-Chatta. nooga Times.
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Doctors With the Armies.

The medical schools in England are being largely depleted for men with medical knowledge to go to the front and work with the Red Cross, accord ing to one of the most prominent British weeklies. The time they spend in this sort o1 work is to count as terms kept in the schools, and they will 10 doubt be, very useful. The very enthusiasm of the French doc tors for theawar led to a greater de mahd ss fop ;:English doctorss for the Frenchm2g.all want to be.'in tue fight
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steep the sassafras.

Steep the Sassafras. A St. Louis clergyman gloomily in- forms us: He
 "The images of the poet and the painter have ceased to charm us: We want the realities. Hence the passing of poetry"
 Sassafras tea in liberal doses, about this time of year, was formerly be- lfeved to be a sound remedy for the physical conditions which, generate that state of mind.
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WOMAN COULD
 HARDLY STAND
Because of | Terrible Back ache. Relieved by Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegeta-
 ble Compound.
Philadelphia, Pa.-"I suffered from displacement and inflammation, and had

such pain 8 Tn my sides, and terrible backache so that I could hardly stand.
 l took six bottles of Lydia B. Pinkham's V eg getable Com pound, and now I can do an y amount of work, sleep good, eat good, and don't have a bit of trouble. I rocoyopoaydIr,dio E
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Styles.

E Styles.
 Bill--T see the Atlanta convicts arc no longer required to wear striped clothing.
 Jill-Perhaps that's the reason some of the fashionable women are breaking out in 1t. h
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Head Wounds Show Great Increase. g goctef SendraI, who is making a study of head wounds in the French army, has :; announced a marked increase, due, it is claimed, to trench,, fighting and. improved shell fire. Many linen are, reported struck 'biind hv* sfSct v 5.'''a,.
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.-----T national defense will rise accordingly in the eyes of for easners. In the past history of the navy the, grade of admiral has figured but three times in living rep resentatives and each time but sin gle officer has enjoyed the rank First there was Farragut, then Porter, and after lapse of more than seven years following the latter's death George Dewey won the honor.
 But while David Glasgow Farragut was the first man in the United States navy to win by virtue of congress the legal title of admiral, the rank as a breyet and by right of appropriation was ninety-one, years old in the an- nals of the service. This may be news to the public generally, but neverthe- less 1t is a matter of indisputable rec ord. 'o;
 In foreign service some centuries back 1t was the custom to call the ranking officer of the fleet admiral Therefore when the American navy was established there was reason why our senior officer should assume the designation accorded his position in other countries. Our first president was of this opinion. On the 22d of December, 1775, the Continental con gress. commissioned Esek Hopkins, an old and experienced seaman, com. mander in chief of the navy and Gen. George. Washington officially ad- dressed him as Admiral Hopkins"
 Admiral Hopkins put to sea from Philadelphia in 1776. He had squad ron of seven vessels and his flagship. the Alfred, carried his flag, which was . square of yellow silk bearing in it's center. pine tree, rattlesnake, in the act of striking and the motto Don't Tread on Me" John Paul Jones, then a lieutenant aboard :the Alfred sent that flag, al9ft with his. own hands.
 When commanding squadrons our ranking captains were called by cour- tesy commodore. These ; men per formed the functions of our later rear admirals, At the main truck of their ships these brevet commodores dis played a blue triangular Hag-not rightly the commodore's swallowtail or broad pennant of European navies with a single big white star encir- cled by a ring of twelve smaller stars These stars stgnified the thirteen orig inal states. This was the pennant which John Paul Jones. flew on the Bon Hommef Richard when he fought the SeEapis September 23, .1779.
 It was not until 1857 that the title flag officer was legally warranted in the Ameffcafl service. congress then directipg that captains in command of squadrons should be styled flag officers. And the late Rear Admiral George Henry Preble, U S. N, in his well known book says: ."Oficers so appointed for want of regulation on the sub:ecE continued to wear the broad pennant of commodore or hoisted the square flag of an admiral, as they deemed proper" However, the deeting honor of this title and the right to display the flag but tenn porarily was even then as much of an
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of medical and surgical knowledge has made t&e lot of the wounded much more capable of being relieved than was the case even 20 years ago. Christian Work.