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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-07-07
VISITING HERE

Miss Eleanor Earnhart is visiting C.
II. Raine and Mr.. and Mrs. Jacob
Stouffer at 571 Race street.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-07-07
AN EXAMPLE

Mr.. Brown earns twelve dollars
per week, and puts two dollars of it
in the bank. He scarcely misses the
two dollars. He makes the deposits
regularly with delight, and watches
the growth of his account with pleas
ure, especially if he is getting three
per cent. from the First National
Bank He gets pleasure from accu-
mulating, besides making money
while he sleeps. Moral: Put your
savings in the
FIRST NATIONAL BANK
224 MARKET STREET
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-07-07

marred only by her mistaken ideas OF
"class." Queer that girl with such
aristocratic ideas should be wooed by
O bricklayer's son.
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"rHE GODDESS" AT THE VICTORIA

To-day we present that popular pair
of screen favorites. Earl Williams and
Anita Stewart. in the wonder serial
story of the day entitled. The Goddess"
This great picture play has taken the
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-07-07
Story No. 7-Instsllment Ne. 3
W10PAYS?
Blue Bloo4and Yellow
By EDWTN BLISS
Oopytghs, IBIS, By Paths Exchange Inc A
moving picture rights and all foreiKn
eopyrshts strictly reserved
CONTINUED FROM Yesterday

"Oh, come. father. she won't eat
you. want you to meet Miss Logan;
she's been a great friend to me-has
helped me wonderfully. I've spoken
to her often OF you"
And so IL was settled. The boy ole
ways had his. way.
Anita Logan. twenty-four. and her
sister Bess, eighteen, were joint heirs
to the great Logan fortune. Old John
Logan. as he was known on the ex-
change. had been a banker of specta-
cular success, and had left behind him
on his death at the age of fifty-two.
two charming daughters and an enor-
nous fortune. Bess was still away at
school. and Anita was staying at the
home. She was q beautiful girl,
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-07-07

Alfred Scott, blue -blooded aristocrat.
and last surviving member of the
noted Josephus Scott family, was
blase at 80. His father, Rankin Scott,
had died when Alfred was just 21, and
had left his only son in care of his
large estate. Alfred's early training
had no more fitted him for handling
q large Cor q small one, for that mat
teri than for building a bridge. He
had placed the property in the hands
of a large real estate firm, and was
content to sit back and take what pro-
fits they saw fit to give him, unques-
tioningly. However, although he was
not capable of handling a large estate.
he was capable of handling ready
cash; indeed his ability in that direc-
ton was so marked that he always
managed, without extending himself.
to spend great sums in advance of his
collections, and was forced continually,
to resort to subterfuge, and a back
door exit to elude the many creditors
whose annoying persistence in de-
manding bills only a year overdue.
grated harshly on his highly evolved
nerves.
Things had taken turn for the bad,
lately. Following an unnatural boom
Con the strength Of which he had con-
tracted prodigious debts), real estate
had rapidly deprecated in value, and
the returns on his holdings were un-
usually small.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-07-07
CALL 1ss1-ANY PHONE

Pillow Cases, 25c = regularly 35c-em-
broidered and hemstitched. 45x36 inches.
Sheeting, 14c yd. - regularly 2Oc-un-
bleached; y inches wide; cut from full
pieces.
Sheets, SOC made of Standard sheet
ing; 3-inch hem at top. 63x90 1880 and
Slx90 inches
Cretonnes, 714e yd. = regularly 12Hc-
so inches wide; cut from full pieces; fifteen
different patterns.
BOWMAN
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-08-19
When Ignorance Is Destruction

That ignorance is not always bliss Is clearly brought out by the ridicu- lous plot that has been matched by unlearned Mexicans, in which it was obviously intended to attack and sub due Americans in the border counties of Texas, and to annex that section to Mexico.
 Such proposition is too absurd to be believable, were there not sub stantiating evidence. And no better exemplification of the depths of ig- norance in which the Mexican peons live could well be imagined
 All the vast region to the north, east and west of the Rio Grande being utterly unknown to them, they would put their puny strength against one which they might succeed in getting Into motion, but could no more stop than child could stop the Niagara.
 Such plot would be simply laugh able, were it not for the fact that hu- man life is involved--and nothing lacks seriousness that means the she'd ding of blood.
 Already a few Americans and a number of Mexicans have lost their lives in the raids of the Mexican out laws, victims to the monumental ig- norance of the peons
 A little knowledge may be a dan gerous thing, but in this instance it would save our neighbors bitter les son.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-08-19
THE WARRIOR FACE
Greensboro Record.

From the Greensboro Record.
 It will not be long before Senator j.. Hamilton Lewis is either very stylish in his facial adorhment or can easily be- come so by trimming his wh.skers a la mode. According to the Durham Suns. boards are coming "to the front" again especially at the front. They have all ways been worn in front, of course. when worn at all. but they are due to become highly popularized, says the Sun thus:
 Sometime ago the Sun printed an edi- torial on the relation of boards to wars, showing that the bearded face grows in popularity during war times, and the un- bearded face in times of peace.
 Now comes subs:antiation of this rela- tionship in words from England to the effect that bearded faces are becoming common among all classes.
 And as we affect many English styles in this country the beard may cross the ocean and become Americanzed.
 And so it may happen that because a servian youth shot and killed the heir apparent of Austria Hungary, John smith, American, wears beard.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-08-19

From the Richmond Virginian.
 We fear our friend Dr. Harvey w. Wiley is becoming an extremist. Dr. Wiley recently inaugurated a campaign against kissing, and thereby stirred up tho wrath and indignation of the fair sex who live in hopes of being kissed, and of the sterner mortals whose ambition it is to fulfill the hopes of the ladies.
 Now pr. Wiley says hats must go, and while thankful males, especially those who are blessed or afflicted with better or worse halves, would have joined in with zeal had he directed his campaign against womens hats, they are now dis consulate in that he has declared that it is the mems hats that must come off.
 pr. Wiley says that hats are the cause course, so after the doctors scalp as vigorously as did the canning interests not many years ago. Also a good many bald men who know perfectly well that hats were not the cause of badness, and who can point with the wisdom of experi- ence to business or marital cares that su- perinduced their shiny state will wag their heads at this new faddist.
 Then, too, this proposition is unfair in that known bald heads are always men. If woman ever loses her hair no man ever knows it, while every woman can de- tect every bald-headed man at sight.
 We ourselves would propound a query for solution. There were not hats in biblical days, yet theer were bald heads as witness the cry of the children of Elisha, Co up. thou bald head" Now what caused Elisha's badness, doctor?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-08-19

future. He put s50,O0o of his saw ings in the newest British war loan, with the characteristic remark: "I am proud today that I am mean, as some say, for have been able to lay my little bit of money out to fight the Germans-and get paid for doing it, too. Yes Az per cent for fighting
 the Germans"
 Now that all Britain is being com pelled by the war to practice thrift,
 Harry Lauder's maxims for saving are well worth studying in the British
 Isles, as well as everywhere else. Ac-
 cording to the Boston Transcript, these rules are: Behave toward your purse as you would to your best friend. View the reckless money spender as a criminal and shun his company. Dress neatly, not lavishly. A bank pays higher rate of inter- est than your back. Take your amuse- ments judiciously. You would enjoy them better. Don't throw away your crusts. Eat them They are strength ening as beef. It is more exhilarat- ing to feel money in your pocket than beer in your stomach. Remember, it only takes 20 shillings to make pound and 12 pennies to make a shilling. You can sleep better after a hard days work than after days idleness. Always get good value from tradesmen. They watch that they get good money from you. There is as much pleasure in reading a good handbook as a novel,"
 Such practical common sense is seldom met with among stage folk, but Harry Lauder was Scotchman first and a comedian afterward.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-08-19
MUST NOT BATTLE

From the Philadelphia Evening Ledger.
 For few days the citizens of West Philadelphia must not bathe. It is a calamity, but it cannot De helped. A breakdown at the Belmont pumping sta- tion has curtailed the supply of water available for West Philadelphia by 15 per cent, and Chief Davis of the water bu- reau has issued an appeal for economy. Instead of the accustomed 40 gallons per oapitaI West Philadelphians are asked 10 limit themselves to the insufficient quan- tity of 120 gallons a day.
 There are numbers of uses to which water is customarily put It can be used for running under bridges, which is, by the way, one of the best things it does. That can't be stopped It can be used for cooking purposes and for dilutins milk; both are, it seems, indispensable. Mixed with liberal quantities of grape juice (to speak gently) it can even be used for quenching thirst. Tn certain com munites men have been known to use water straight for this purpose.
 None of these things can be spared from the daily life of civilization. And since 20 gallons of water must be hoarded up by each man, woman, male child and female child of West Philadelphia, there remains but one thing to be done. The daily bath, incidious and enervating in- fuence that it is, must be abolished.
 So for four days, no baths. Then what plunge West Philadelphia will have.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-08-19
The Slaughter of the Innocent

If there is any. one thing that the average community needs it is pro- tection from the practical joker-the one who, after disaster has followed the "joke," explains that he didn't mean any harm"
 A few days ago Arch Vietch, a wealthy young farmer of Oklahoma, died-the victim of his friends. Eight months ago Vietch was married. A bunch of his friends gathered at the depot and attempted to kidnap the groom and prevent his departure on the honeymoon journey. In the strug- gle that followed Vietch became ill, and physicians declared the fragments of the heart had been torn.
 For eight months Vietch fingered in misery, unable to leave his bed, and now all the regrets of lifetime can- not atone for the sorrow brought by . the .jokers who sacrificed the life of a friend for the qualification of per verted idea of fun.
 This is only one incident of thou sands which have taken place. Many life has been blighted by the pranks of that class of individuals whose egotism prompts them to pose as practical jokers, at the expense of the happiness and even the life of their victims.
 It is high time that some training be given the youth in the respect due to the rights of others, and adequate penalty provided for those who of fend.
 The killing of the Oklahoma farmer was scarcely less crime because con- mitted in the guise of joke.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-08-19
EUROPE'S CONTRACT

From the Cleveland Plain Dealer
 Within a few weeks 8 small army of American young men will be marching upon the American educational institu- tions. They will be armed with textbook and notebook. pen and pencil, crucibie and retort, T-square and compasses, mil croscope and telescope hopefulness ami energy. Thus equipped they will begin an energetic fall and winter campaign, and by the time another summer has come they will have been victorious. Only few will fall by the wayside
 In Europe the young men who would and should go to college are going to war. Instead of preparing themselves for use- ful citizenship they are electing them selves to useless graves Instead of be- ing constructive for long lifetime, they are to be destructive for a few days and then be destroyed.
 It is one more obvious contrast to in- dicate the good fortune or those who today are Americans They are saving them selves, which is good; and they are pres pairing to benefit the generations of the future, which is better. They are sane men, living sanely, living according to the will of providence and the dictates of science and common sense.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-08-19
BosToN's NUDE BABIES
the St. Louis Republic.

From the St. Louis Republic.
 Little Rosemary and Clemency Hale are twins, 19 months old. of what sex de- ponent sayeth not, though presumably of one sex or the other, and their man. ma sends them in bathing au naturel and al fresco at beach near Boston From the objective of another Boston lady, who presumably has not twins, this infantile sansculotteism is indescribably shocking and immoral. The police, to whom it has heen referred, have taken the issue under advisement.
 We should like to have the supreme court of the United States pass once and for all on this question, whether under the police power, on the broad grounds of public policy, the municipal constabu- lary may summarily put pants on in- fantile bathers, or bar those minus pants from the use of the waters of the United States. within the three-mile limit coasts, harbors, interna, waters lakes, navigable streams, creeks and ponds.
 The court has laid down the broad prin- ciple that the most proper matters may be regulated to prevent their becoming offensive to the public sense of decency or morals, or for any other reason in- furious or dangerous. Though the bath ing of babies per SC may be proper and moral, We take it, conceivably it might be conducted in a manner. repugnant to Boston catholicism and ethics; but whether the matter-of-fact bathing of in- nocents amounts to an outrage upon reg ular standard morality is a question that ought to be settled. for everybody's sake, notwithstanding the maxim. De minim S non curat lex.
 May the Boston spinster constitutionally bring her police whistle into play at the discovery of every little Moses, white or black in the bulrushes, and are the tesr of us entitled to the same governmental protection? This is time, of year when good many babies everywhere, indoors as well as out, are bathing and bein, bathed, regardless, and the militia of the various states, if need be, can be put out on patrol duty to save the proprieties
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-08-19
HOTEL LOBRIES
Birmingham a Great City

Although l was in Birmingham only 6 few months ago, l am more impressed than ever on this trip with Birmingham s metropolitan style" said J. B. Babb of Shreveport, but for many years secre- tary of the Birmingham Chamber of Commerce.
 "In looking around this week the fact dawns on me that Birmingham has at length all the appearance of real city into city. but looking back one can see how much it lacked then of building along metropolitan lines 1t is certainly g. great city today.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-08-19
PrOsperity's March

During this summer prosperity has prevailed in most sections of the Uni ted States, and in the autumn. now last approaching, every part of the country will witness high records of thrift; in many sections record breakers.
 While the bumper harvests form the basis of prosperity the vast orders for war munitions being executed for the allies has created a stupendous boom in industrial centers, and the effect of this boom is being widely felt. In the south the cotton situation is just now causing conjecture as to the price the farmer will receive for the new crop, but since crop diversified tion has been so largely practiced this section is better off in a general way than it has been in any previous year.
 Alabama has certainly made strides in crop production. Grain, forage and live stock have been cultivated on a large scale, and, therefore, most of the farmers who have raised cotton can afford to hold it, or large part of it, indefinitely; hold it until the price is higher thaE it will probably be in October
 The acreage planted in corn in Ala bama would indicate 75,O0O, ,O0O- bushel crop. It may be that not more than 70,000,000 bushels will be gath cred, but this will be large gain over the high record crop of 53,O0O, ,0O0 bushels in 1914
 The Alabama merchants who will shortly meet in Birmingham will bring glad tidings of the crops. They will come full of optimism and this optimism will reflect true forecast of the good times that will come with October.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-08-19
A -Laughmaker's Philosophy

Time was when Harry Lauder, the famous Scotch comedian, found his thrifty habits the subject of much good-humored raillery, but the ap- pelation "tightwad" troubled him not at all; nor, as matter of fact, did 1t lessen the number of his friends. An excellent example of the "canny Scot" Lauder has saved his money. When tardy fortune at length smiled upon him, making him the Croesus of his profession, he set about to render himself immune to her frowns in the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-08-19
Melons Plentiful

Melons of all kinds have been exceed ingly plentiful this season." remarked J P. Thompson of Birmingham, and those consumed in this vicinity this sum mer have been of the homegrown va riety. tst
 'sof course at the beginning of the season shipments came from points 'n southern Florida, but the Alabama crop was not slow in making its appearance. believe shipments came from southern Alabama sometime before they came from Georgia. And once shipments had be- gun they came in such volume that it has been all that dealers could possibly do to handle them. Although the most abun- dant production has passed, the market is still very we'll supplied with home grown melons"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-08-19
Army and Navy

"I am glad to see that the public is beginning to wake up to the importance of the United States strengthening it's army and navy" said J. w. Rathhurn of Boston, who served term in the Mas sachusetts National Guard.
 Secretary of War Garrison ever since taking a place in the cabinet has been in- sisting on the lack of this country's pre- paredness. I would not favor stand ing army such as European nations main- tain, but ] do think we should have at least twice as many regulars as there are in service at present The New York Sun in recent editorial submits among other timely remarks these:
 Happily President Wilson has radi- cally revised his views since that day not many nsonths ago when with a lightness quite foreign to him when he is at his best he characterized the overwhelmingly important question of the countrys pitifui military help lessness as "a suitable enough ques- tion for academic discussion"
 Doubtless the President himself has long ago consigned that i'll con sidered remark to the limbo of things better left unsaid, or unthought for that matter. It is with no purpose of ralling up an unpleasant bygone that we refer to it. On the contrary we would mention it rather by way Il congratulation to the President and the country that there has been so wholesome and hopeful reversal of view on a matter of such far reaching importance.
 I've are assured that the President has devoted much time at Cornish to tine subject. There is reasonable ground for the hope that his studies. with the advice and assistance of the Secretary of War and of others com potent in information and intelligence which he has been able to command, well matured plans for the expansion of the army and navy so soreIy needed. It Is particularly satisfac- sory to learn from those near to Sec retary Garrison that the plan in out line and in general details will be spread before the public before it's submission to Congress.
 '''Were it brought out for public ex- planation and discussion today it would be none too soon. The inter- val between now and the convening of Congress in regular. let alone ex tra. session Is indeed short enough for such public education as is neces- saly to offset the inevitable onslaughts oh any plans, be they stamped with the wisdom of solomon himself, for lifting us out of the dangerous rut in which we have been so long and so fatuously plodding.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-08-19
THE NEW SCHOOL, To THE

From the New York Evening Sun. Not from the box of scrolls, Not or the alabaster and the yellow dust
 of roses, Not from the dry river bed Or the waters of dissolution Singing in cloistral laces Make we our chants that have no chlsel,cd
 rhythm, Q ye bards and masters of song that hsz
 pody and wings and of beauty. Thus. we ask, what of the face of He,en7 what or Troy?- of Greece? the honey
 land of Illyria? They are lovely words, but art is mora
 than thing of music They were once, but life is more than ash
 and death and memory! M We are young and youth is frenzied
 pattern It takes the wanton and calls her beloved. It takes the kiss of the hour and calls it
 the spirit. It takes the little noisy room for mansion. It dcspises immorta, peace: It hears the lute in the discord: It dreams once of yesterday and forgets We shall remember the past years
 beauty The heroes and ocean tongued poets And her whose song made Lesbia a name Haunted forever; We shall remember the spirit, not the
 form, M ss " ~ And that the heart of man is an undying
 music, He who forgets his heart shall not en-
 dure among us. Who shall forget the dream of heaven
 who is an artist? Who shall forget to believe who is a
 poet? What is wise in us may ., . to you a
 madness We shall remember .... beatinx
 hearts.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-08-19
THE THROUGH CHECKING DECISION

From the Washington Star.
 The interstate commerce commissions s decision relative to through baggage and sleeping and parlor car accommoda lions will avoid a serious disadvantage to the travelling public. If the rule proposed by the railroads had been permitted to stand travellers passing between the north and south would have been compelled to re- check their baggage in Washington or in other gateway junction points and also secure new sleeping and parlor car ac- commodations. This would have been serious annoyance and would in some cases have imposed hardships and actual loss of travel time. The interstate com merce commissions action is based upon the theory that a practice that has been in vogue for long period should not be disturbed without good reason, and it fails to find such a reason for the ab- rogation of the through checking and through ticket privilege. If as a result of the railroads of the north and south there are incidental losses it is incumbent of the joint rates on combination and mileage tickets. But it is difficult to see how there can be any actual loss in the extension of the through checking privilege to the public. The tendency in American railroading should be toward simplification, and the commission's de- cislon will work in that direction.