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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-09-07
HE CoULDNT-A BEEN A POET

He couldn't-a been a poet for
He used such simple words.
There want a thing but what was
clear
AS songs of common birds.
And his rhymes, why. anyone could see
How little skill they took
AS easy and as natural
AS any ripping brook.
A homelike body; vet / liked
The verses that he spun,
And Sarah liked to hear them read
Sometimes, when work was done.
They sort of soothed the frets and cares
And trials that life brings.
And helped you see the good and true
Back of the puzzling things.
Some things he wrote were full of fun,
And wife and / would laugh,
l know real poets never deal
In such light, tickling chaff.
But after little Ella died,
And he sat desolate-
You know, If you've been through with
II,
That crushing. killing weight
We found some tender lines of his
That made our tears fall hot,
About Gods care for little lambs;
They eased our hearts lot
Real poets blaze and ave- His words
The humble hearthstone haunt
He couldn't-a been a poet and
Tn sort o. glad he want.
Victor Kilspindie in the New York
Times.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-09-07
THE SHIPPING PROBLEM

! A LEXANDER R. SMITH, former
"A superintendent of the New York
Maritime Exchange. in a recent
ly published article, views the need of
an American merchant marine from
a new angle-that of national de-
fense. Mr.. Smith believes that when
century and quarter ago, Thomas
Jefferson said, speaking of a marine,
that "as a branch of industry, 1t is
valuable, but as a resource of defense
essential" he epitomized the whole
subject. And yet, he reflects, after the
Spanish American war. speaking Of
the nondescript fleet that conveyed
American troops from Tampa to
Santiago. the Naval War College said:
Nothing but the safe arrival of the
feet at its destination justified its use
for troop transportation
Had the weather been stormy, Mr..
Smith believes. the feet would have
been dispersed, many of the ships
doubtless would have sunk, and
thousands of American soldiers and
sailors would have gone to their death.
because the Federal Government had
neglected to see that the nation
possessed a strong, growing. profitable
shipping. not for individual profit per
Sc, but for the national defense.
others hold the same belief. In a
letter to the Secretary of the Navy,
dated January IL, 1915. Admiral
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-09-07

Dewey. President of the General Board
of the Navy, explained in detail the
number and kind of merchant vessels
the country would require if engaged
in war. Secretary of the Navy
Daniels wrote letters at the same time
to senators emphasizing this need.
And in the same month Secretary OF
War Garrison explained to Secretary
of the Treasury McAdoo the military
need of merchant ships for war pur-
poses.
And the only thing the administra-
ton has done in the matter is 10
pass law that has driven every Am
erican merchant ship from the Pacific
and to urge the adoption of a ship
purchase measure that would discour-
age the investment of private capital
in ships on the Atlantic or any other
ocean.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-09-07
TUESDAY EVENING. SEPT. I.
A SHADE TREE EXHIBIT

NITY FORESTER MUELLER has
u made an excellent suggestion in
his plan to include a shade tree
exhibit as a part of the big municipal
celebration, plans for which are now
under way. 1t is his idea to instruct
the public in the kinds of trees most
desirable for street decorative pur-
poses and to educate the people in the
care of trees.
Harrisburg needs trees. Many of its
streets are beautifully shaded and
others are bare of growing things.
There is no comparison between the
shaded street and the treeless thor
oughfare. Even a very modest COM
munity takes on an air of beauty and
dignity when its houses are fronted
by we'll kept trees, but the most eX-
pensive homes are bare and lacking in
the very essentials of "homieness'
when they look out upon a street de-
void of green leaves and the stately
trunks and extended branches of elms
or naples.
Trees are necessary to the beauty
of any town and this city ought to
have them on every street. The more
we know concerning their care and
the measures necessary to protect
them from insect and other pests the
better, for shade trees are susceptible
to all manner of ills and must be given
almost as much attention as fruit
trees, and some times more. Mr..
Mueller's exhibit ought to be interest
ing and attractive.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-09-07

healthy human being attends a pro-
ionged fast. They indicate that the
body contains reserves sufficient to pro-
serve life for, many weeks under fav-
orable conditions.
The subject submitting to the test
which continued for thirty-one days.
was Mr.. Angostino Levanzin, a native of
the island of Malta, and of distinguish
ed French and Italian descent He was
a man of scientific attainments and had
made a number of voluntary fasts to his
own physical betterment. He offered
himself as subject observation in the
belief that he was thereby serving hui
manity. Several certificates from ply
slclans testifying to his good health
and freedom from organic disease were
submitted before his offer was accepted.
during his journey from Malta to Bos-
ton he kept an accurate record of the
food he ate and other physical details
included in the instructions sent to him
by the laboratory scientists.
During the fasting period, he was
under the daily observation of DR.. H.
W. Goodall, professor of physiological
school, Dr. 4, / Kendall. Who i Observed Hsi
the intestinal bacterial flora. DR.. Fran
els Benedict, director of the Nutrition
Quoted, and number of others. Daily
records were made of the respiration,
blood tests and other subjects having
bearing upon the results.
Levanzin slept each night in a calor-
imeter room. that an accurate record
might be kept OF the temperature of
MS pody ana MS respiration while
sleeping. This room is large and well
ventilated and contains a number of
calorimeters and models of respiration
apparatus. He spent most of each day
upon balcony extending partly around
the room which was approached by a
stairway of twelve steps. These steps
gave him daily exercise. He was pho
tographed on the last day of his fast
in the act of ascending the staircase.
Though the exposure lasted for twenty
Continued on Page o.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-09-07
HOME BUILDERS IN PENNSYLVANIA

tFrom the Philadelphia Public Ledger. |
New England will have to look to it's
laurels as the land of thrift. for Penn
sylvania is coming fast. Just as PhfIa-
delphia is the banner saving fund CITY
of the country. so Pennsylvania is the
banner building and loan State of the
Union, and the annual report of the
State Banking Commissioner on build :
ing and loan activities for 1914 reads
like a prospectus of some big Wall
Street merger. For the associations in
Pennsylvania. up to the date of the re-
port had assets, of s2551S7. .9S7, or more
thar $40 for each man, woman and child
in the State. More than s23s, 00O. 600
had been put out in loans. the vast
bulk being mortgage loans on stock
shares. which is another way of SAYING
that building and loan associations are
advancing more than 5000. 900. 900 to
help build homes for shareholders who
in no other way Total shares in force
were 4.3sS.62s. divided among 54I, 900
shareholders, of whom t74.714 were wo-
men
ANY Commonwealth whose wage earn
ers are willing and able to spend these
magnificent amounts in home buildinA
has moral and material asset beyond
computation.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-09-07
BUSINESS AND SENTIMENT

MOT so long since current opinion
IN was that business and senti-
ment were things apart-that
kindliness and the dollar sign never
spoke as they passed. Perhaps cur
rent opinion was right; 1t has a habit
of being so. But times have changed
To-day business is making a studied
effort to lift itself above the mere
function of money-getting. Success
full men are finding life too short to
devote exclusively to the requirement
of property they must leave on this
side of the grave.
The tendency is reflected in almost
every one of the house organs" pub
lished by the big mercantile interests
for the benefit of their officials and
employees in general. Take this, as
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-09-07
The Searchlight
HEMP FROM YUCATAN

The shipments of jute and coarse
hemp from India have been almost
entirely cut off by the war. These
fiber substances were used in the
manufacturing of burlap and twine.
The sisal hemp or Hencquen, grown
in Yucatan, is being experimental with
and is proving satisfactory substi-
tute for many purposes.
Yucatan was considered practically
worthless land by the early Spaniards
and 1t was not until 1850 that 1t began
to be used for Hencquen growing.
Within the last ten years this has be-
come valuable product and brings
heavy profits to the planters who grow
1t.
Labor is cheap in Yucatan and the
Hencquen growers are reaping from
300 to 400 per cent. upon their invest
ments. The exports from Progresso,
the only seaport of Yucatan, have
averaged nearly a million bales an
nually for four years. The United
States purchased nearly $4,000, 900
worth of sisal hemp during the year
ending June l, 1915.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-09-07
BIG THINGS
WE in America have been given
wv to talking big" The biggest

WYE in America have been given
w to talking big" The biggest
crop, the biggest mountain,
the biggest waterfall, the biggest, the
biggest, the biggest, always the big
gest. But even our million-bushel,
million-dollar boastings have been
swamped by recent statistics from Eu-
rope. Armies are rated by figures
that stagger comprehension and war
contracts of every day occurrence are
large beyond expression in under
standable terms.
Newspapers used to put headlines of
size on industrial contracts of a mil
lion or more. To-day the New York
Sun prints in an obscure corner under
a minor caption a two-stick account
of a s52.000,OOO war order about to
be taken by the Canadian Car and
Foundry company.
We must take second place hence
forth as a country of gigantic things.
But lot us not be downcast. Taxation
in Europe after the war bids to be
proportionate to the war orders now
being placed. There is some compen-
Eation in mediocrity
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-09-07
FASTING FOR HEALTH
By Frederic ]. Haskin

A woman in Altoona, Pa, a little
while ago terminated voluntary tif-
teen-day fast. 1t had been undertaken
to relieve long continued digestive trou-
bles which had failed to respond to
medical treatment, This was the third
and longest fast she had taken within
fve years for the same purpose. The
first was for only Ave days but 1t ma
terially improved her health during a
whole year. The old difficulty then re-
Cured and she tasted for ten days.
gaining nearly two years amelioratfon
of a trouble which had been almost
lifelong.
Within the past year her discomfort
began again. For six months she suf-
fered severe pain after every meal even
gested food. She entered upon the last
fast in the belief that it would again
relieve her and the hope that its longer
duration might mig IT. AFFECT t.. PermsneRRt eR
stenance she had allotted herself she
ate q hearty meal, including, chicken
suffering for the first three days follow
ing her fast repaid her 1t has been
no sacrifice to her because the pangs
of unappeased hunger gave her less
discomfort than the suffering from in
digestion following each meal eaten.
Voluntary Fasting as Cure
Voluntary fasting as curative meas
ure is receiving the attention of many
scientific, men; Distinguished dieti-
tians and physicians have scientifically
studied the physical changes in the
body wrought by a period of absten
ance from nourishment. Most of their
although of scientific interest.
The Carnegie Institution of Washing
ton, though its nutrition laboratory in
Boston, has completed the most elabor-
ate study of prolonged fasting yet made
and thus acquired the most accurate
data regarding it's physical effect upon
the patient. They have put a man
through such fast and carefully noted
its effects. The reports of this study,
which have just been concluded, dis
prove the theory that any danger to a
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-09-07

an example. from the journal of the
United Shoe Machinery Company. of
Beverly. Mass:
Brain service can be bought. Lip
service can be hired. Physical SER
vice can be contracted for. But
heart service is the kind YOU get
when you pay in the coin of appre-
citation, kindness and consideration.
Service is the true basis of all good
business, and until you get the
heart -tnrobs of your organization
working with you and not just for
YOU, you lack one element that is
of more Importance than you per-
haps think.
And just think. Mr.. Pessimist, all
that good space might have been de-
voted to setting forth the merits of
shoe machinery!
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-09-07
JUST THE SAME TODAY
BY Wing DInser

I took my boys to school to-day
And when they'd been assigned
To their respective rooms. to each
l said: BE sure to mind
Your teacher. and do what she says,
Cut out all kinds of noise
And every day In every way
Please try to be good boys"
told them that a present fine
Each one of them could earn
If he would only try each day
His lessons we'll to learn.
But If they do as / did when
To school l started. say,
They'll do just as they please, and gel
Their presents anyway .---.s-.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-09-07
NOW AND IN 1901

| @OMPARE the Harrisburg of to-
" day with that of 1901.
The difference does not lie
wholly in our we'll paved streets, our
filtered water, our improved drainage
facilities. our parks, our playground
and flood prevention measures. These
are outstanding, apparent and essen
tial. of course, but they are causes
rather than effects.
In 1901, when the first improvement
loan was advocated by the Telegraph,
Harrisburg was no more than an over
grown country town, with inadequate
sewer facilities, served with raw river
water of poor quality and steadily
deteriorating, with few parks and no
Fairgrounds, with muddy streets and
the whole Paxton creek valley section
subject to periodical floods, dangerous
to life and property. The improve
ments authorized by vote of the people
and carried forward with so much vim
and enthusiasm changed all this. To-
dav there is no more progressive city
in the State, nor any more attractive.
The result has been that capital has
been attracted to Harrisburg. The
Paxton creek valley section is fast be-
coming one of the biggest manufac-
turing and shipping centers in Penn
sylvania, thanks to the construction of
the Wildwood dam and the protection
of the creek channel Hundreds of
travelling men have been drawn to the
city both by reason of its splendid
railroad facilities and because they
found in it a pleasant and desirable
abiding place for their families. IN
dustries have been located here be-
cause we had something to offer.
The city has grown and expanded
far beyond the dreams of those who
first urged the improvements now in
the last stages of completion. Over
and over again by increase in prop
erty values, by the additional volume
of taxation and by their conservation
of life, health and property have
these public works paid for them
selves. and we are but at the begin
ming. In the end the investment made
by the people for the development of
their city will yield profits that might
we'll make a Rockefeller turn green
with envy.
In those early days the city had to
wait upon private initiative to in
augurate plans and sketch out the
needs of present and future. To-day
we have the City Planning Commits
sion, thoughtful of the Harrisburg of
tomorrow and quietly but effectively,
working away, day in and day out, ro
plan wisely and avoid mistakes OF
city building. When next we enter
upon a public improvement campaign
1t will be with years of experience
behind and with carefully wrought
plans and specifications as guide
posts ahead.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-09-07
Letter List

LIST OF LETTERS REMAINING IN
the Post office, at Harrisburg. for the
week ending September 4, 1915:
Hazel Barnes. Mrs. Ida Bradley, Miss
Mary Carpenter, Mrs. C. H. Daniels. Mrs
Carrie Davis; Margaret Davis, Miss
berth, Miss AIDA Fox, Miss Elsie Garysi.
Miss Charadette Crone Mrs. Morris
Harlon, Miss, Mollie Harris. Mrs. Nattie
gan. Miss Minnie Leedy, Miss Fannie
Legman, Mrs. r. Lucas, Miss Carrie
Miller, Miss. Katie Miller, Sue Miller
cord, Mrs. Rosie Peen, Miss Pauline
Rakin. Miss Halle Rudy. Miss Carrie
shearer, Mrs Annie Shipp, Miss Beulah
Miss Eva Wick. Miss Hazel Wilson. >
Gentlemens List = J.: A. Albright. ].
nett. M. Aaouschr, C. F. Bowman, Geo
Boyd. Edgar Brown. r. p Buff, r. q.
Bub, l. Cantiani, Charles Carman. VIII
liam Chamer. Chas. Carroll. j. A. Drake,
wards. j. j. Galb %. IL. Bud Gayien.
F. A; Gregory, Merlin s: Gulliver, T. NJ.
Hess VIM. F. Hoffman. W. Hensecker,
V. T. Nortest, Webster Jell Fred Kapp'
G Kieim ! B Xxi King roA, A . xRister s. ].
B. Kratzer. R. Lawrie Frank Lencesni,
F. NJ. Logan, E. ]. Marshall Harry Mil
Ter. VIM. Millet, J. G. Myers, W. N.Ocker,
ReCklIl, .. GeifIlllCbt ffODeTt PROCTOR.
c. NJ Rosdell. S. C. Ranfeles ca. q. B.
Rauth. Leon Rednoe, Martin Reed. John
Rudy, Gus. Ruppel Cd. L., Mrs. l. F.
Runixle. Willie Sake Cd. L.. H. r. Saw
age. A. j. Schmidt A. l. Sellers. w D.
Shillen, Fl. P. Skipper Ellis Smedley,
James Smith, w. A. Sparks. Fred streh-
ers, F. G. Stellcomer. Will Thompson
Cd. L.. E. ]. Vokem, N P. Wilson, Pas
quaiale Zampina.
Firms = Ghldren's Bureau. Eastern
Supply Co, l.. c. Isaacson & Co.. Mfgrs.
Clio Co. Mercantile Collection Co.
(2). Reliance Co.
Foreign Mrs Fritz Fredlund, Ca
milo Paponetti.
Persons should invariably have their
mail matter addressed to their street
and number, thereby insuring prompt
delivery by the carriers.
FRANK c. SITES,
'
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-09-07
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

james Scarlet was the Labor Day
speaker at Scranton.
George M. Harsheberger, first
candidate to announce himself, won
first place in the drawing for place on
Johnstown's councilmanic ticket.
Secretary Wilson spoke at several
places in Cambria county yesterday.
DIR. J. William White may make
another trip to the battle line in Eu-
rope.
THE Rev. DR.. w. w. Shift, of New
Castle, startled politicians. by invit-
ing all candidates in his city to attend
church.
Charles NJ. Schwab will build a
steel plant in Beaver county.
George Wharton Pepper has gone
from camp at Plattsburg to Maine
coast.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-09-07
THE SONG OF THE OYSTER

= IST to this from the Baltimore
- Sun and be glad that you live
in a city so close to the native
home of the oyster that the juicy
bivalve is lively enough when it
reaches here to bite the thumbs of the
shuckers who take off half the shell
when you order a dozen of 'em raw:
The Chesapeake is glowing in
light as soft as mist,
And the shores between its flowing
are a CLEAN of amethyst.
And they're bringing up the
oysters
with that taste of soil and
stream
Where they fatten in the Tangier
To the flavor of a dream.
ITO the flavor of a dream!" All,
to what sublime poetic heights the
Bard of Baltimore attains. But, then,
consider also his subject. Who
couldn't become fulsome and songful
yea even romantic, over plate of
Chesapeake oysters. properly served.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-09-07
RUSSIANS NOT WHIPPED YET
George Kennan Says Germans Should
Not Be Too Sure of Victory

SSOTSt NCiIidu CdHS CIIOuIu
Not Be Too Sure of Victory
George kennan. in the Outlook.1
do not care to make a prediction
with regard to the future of the Rus
sian army; but have seen it fight. at
the end of a long campaign, when it
had not been cheered or encouraged
by a single victory; and my conviction
is that it can stand up under reverses
as long, and rally from defeat as
quickly, as any army that Prussia ever
put into the field.
If 1 were friend of Won linden
burg, Mackensen and the kaiser,
think I should venture to give them
this warming:
Don't count on smashing the Rus
sian army so that it cannot recover.
Like the Libyan wrestler, 1t draws
strength from the ground every time
ii is thrown. You are now doing your
level best: but the Russian army will
not reach its maximum efficiency until
next summer. Then you, with your
waning strength, will have to fight
harder than you have yet fought for
the territory that you now holdn
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-09-07
HISTORIC HARRISBURG
This city made many materials
for use during the Civil War.
OUR HANDY GOLF MANUAL

OUR HANDY GOLF MANUAL
. [From Life.1
Ball: That for which you are con-
stantiy searching and which you never
quite attain.
you make a good shot.
Flub: Your method of entering a
crowd on the first tee when you make
your drive.
Approach. A popular method of keep
ing ones ball away from the hole.
Bunker: A center of gravity.
Score. Something you once made
when no one else was present.
Caddy: An ever-present trouble In
time of help.
and your soul at the same time.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-09-07
Our Daily Laugh
CONTAGIOUS

Mr. Monk: You
seem so optimis-
tic. How is it2
Mr.. Hippo: 1
live next door to
the laughing hy-
ena-
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-09-07

How in the world does the aver
age chef, who makes chowder, find so
many things cheaper than clans to
put in it?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-09-07

In shoe store, at least, all wo-
men agree. Ask any shoe clerk if
every one of his fair customers doesn't
think she's a Cinderella.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-09-07
DO YOU KNOW

That there are over a score OF
nationaIities represented in Har-
risburg?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-09-07
Substitution

enemy of the Square deal"
In the long run 1t profits no
one.
When you ask for a brand by
name don't take something Just
as good"
Go to the dealer who plays
fair
The dealer who trades un-
fairly on a manufacturer rep
utation is not the kind of dealer
you want to give your conf
dence to. or your money.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-09-07

Vacation days are over and business
is getting back to winter basis. We
know this, because the Rotary Club re-
sumes its meetings tonight.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-09-07

Eighteen floats for the river parade
make a good beginning. Doubtless
there will be three times that number
when the lists are closed.