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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-08-16
Letter List

LIST OF LETTERS REMAINING IN
the week week ending August Ii olonoo 1913; An
Brandt, Brandt Mrs Mrs. G. c. Brtton. Mi Miss Anna
Cooke, Mrs. Amelia Decker, Miss Nell
lie Doyle Miss Miss Katie gt Dpgdasi NM Mrs j. r.
Henry. Miss Bertha Holbert Mrs. G. H.
Miss Elizabeth Kingston, Miss Lucy
Myers, Mrs. Maggie Nutter, Miss Rose
Penn, Mrs. A, Katharine REGISTER, Mrs.
John Santo. Mrs. George a. Schumber,
Mrs. sulime Shulysinger, Mrs Mamie C.
Spidel, Miss Pearl Stambaugh, Miss
Ada Tusty, Miss Elsie Whyant, Mrs.
Sallie Wilson.
Anderberg, Ross Arnold, d. NJ Bahney,
Stuart r. Baker Cd. Ii, ]. p. Barley,
BeeGher, M BE Bell George o,;A a RRerrklegg Rerk
Boyle. j. ]. Bresline, Mr.. Brezler, W. H.
Brown, Mr.. Bumo, MIR. Burnham, ..
Carnes, Elmer Corples, Edward Casey
Thomas Coleman, NJ. Connely. H. W.
Donegan. George W Dixon, G. R. Evans
Jas. m Z Gafman h Franz ~. z Gcss IS ITPoPep op G
Lieut.. George Gibson, Geo. Gore, w. r.
Greiler, C. N. CIRQUE, Ray Hamaker
Gss Gs9TEe ron HsrrH Mr. w E Hzp HHT a6
Heffelfnger Walter Holmes, n, G.
Howard, James E. Hughes. Harold Hun
ter Cd. L., G.. A. Jenkins. c. J. Jones'
r. l. keenan,. L. II. Kinsel. George A.
Kinsel Charles Kitterlin. Paul Knox,
II. w. Kuiger. Fred La Brun ID. IL,
Mrs. George Leach, John Lovegood
William Lutz. Wallis B. Macallister. W.
S. Manknee. Edgar Long Martin, w. S.
Mccoy, Herman Megahan Cd L., F. c.
Meredith. Antomimo Messina, William
C. Morris. Mr.. Myers, John E. Myers, A
H. Ney. G. NJ, orvis, Harry Paibter,
Sauna S. Pital. F. A. Plant James E
Powers, Al Reise, Fred A. Rogers, Stan
ley Rossner, William Sadler, C. II. San
son, Viczenez Schiesser. ]. M Seitz, s.
f. Shank Harry A. STANLEY, Charles
Son. Michele Sranoni. William Stout, G.
M. Sunday. d. L. Swartz, VIM H. Van
derhercheu, Oscar Wallour, Clarence
Weaver, Elmer Yost. f. Zurmuhlen.
Firms - Messrs. Berton Griscom &
Co.. Empire Magazine Co, Owner of the
Rabbit Farm. Pennsylvania Reward
Society Wear L We'll Shoe Co.
Foreign Miss r. l.. Hainsworth
Ivan Ereta.
Persons should invariably have their
mail matter addressed to their street
and number. thereby insuring prompt
delivery by the carriers.
FRANK c. SITES,
Postmaster.
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HOW TO LIVE TO 100

From the American Magazine.1,
Henry Il. Swanback the oldest Odd
Fellow in America, who lives at the age
of 100 at Greenwood, Neb., was a boy
hood friend of Bismarck. His grand
father lived to be III. Following are
his rules for living to be 100:
Go to bed early and get up early.
Never sleep in a heated room.
Keep fresh air in the sleeping
"Sieep out of doors in summer
winter, too, IL it can be arranged.
Drink plenty of fresh water.
use very little red liquor.
"As old age comes on take, each
morning, small wineglass of one
third glycerine and two-thirds good
Smoke as often as you please, but
do not inhale the smoke or blow 1t out
through the nostrils.
IF you are unfortunate enough to
lost your wife get another. 1t is not
good for man or woman to live alone.
kills more people than disease.
Keep an even temper at all times.
Be cheerful at all times.
Keep the feet dry and the head
Never eat meat. A little chicken
will not harm one, but must not be
eaten too often.
Eat plenty of fresh fish.
do not drink coffee.
keep away from sweet stuff It ruins
the stomach and kidneys.
Take plenty of outdoor exercise.
Walk a great deal.
"Follow these rules, and any normal
man, barring accidents, can live to be
one hundred"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-08-16

emergency equipment which is saving
thousands OF lives. Instead of having
tshe wounded men brought to it, this
nospital goes to them. A closed car is
fully equipped room, including an on
Grating table, trepanning apparatus.
an A-ray machine and a magnetic bat
T1slS Ior locating and removing bullets.
Iehts thrown out from each side pro
Vtue shelter for cots until the arrival
OF the ambulance. 1t is claimed that
os oFlS 5, motor hospital has saved hundreds
OF INes upon the battlefield in which II
is used, thus preventing many wounded
men from dying before they can he
ment. u ie@'
A special branch of emerrencv hos
pltaI work authorized by a recent Con-
gresslonal appropriation, is that of the
tbesehue re cutter "Androscoggin." which
minister to the needs of the crews of
men employed in the deep sea fisheries
OF the North Atlantic Ocean. This
lean lean hospital Is provided with every
ana ana surgical aid. 1t has several berths
IoI patients, complete Operating
dd9onl, an isolation ward for conta gious
diseases, stertfiztng room and ali the
necessary surgical Instruments MANY
nshermen have been manned for life
through infected wounds which might
fTarg frsn peeh treated successfully. Bone
LIaEtures occur frequently upon these
IIoItlns seas and when they are neg
lected until the vessel reaches mort
'he chance or cure is doubtful
western railroad company has pro-
vided "a hospital train which can he
sent upon short notice to anv noint
along the line. With the train 20 a
Doctor, two nurses and orderiies SO
lnat any surgical attention may be rem
aered without delay At least six lives
were saved in southern California q
rev months ago, by this prompt emer-
geney work after an accident Several
na men; en- 700 severely injured to live to be
carried to hospital, received irnn1adi :
ate aid and recovered.
Few institutions have made such i'm
provement within the last quarter of
century in the value of the service
rendered as have hospitals. The train
ed nurse has developed practicaIIv
WITHIN that period and her work has
oeen aided by innumerable inventions
her efforts. The modern hospital is
absolutely germ proof from its heat
ing basement to the sunparIor.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-08-16

months the directing head of an army
of 2,o00,0 600 men, which he divided be-
tween service on the Austro- Italian
frontier and assistance to the English
and French at the Dardanelles.
One of the most remarkable points
of Cadorna's career was the avidity
with which throughout his life ne had
studied the territory along the north
ern boundary, where the operations
against the Austrians were TO be car
fied out. General Cadorna was man
of prodigious memory, often startling
the other members of his staff by the
ease with which he could enumerate
in precise detail the difficulties and
natural advantages of the most
obscure routes, paths and passages,
especially among the Alps.
AS one of many instances of his
quick observation and exceptional
memory the story is told or how, in
the early days of the mobilization of
the army in 1915, General Cadorna,
while riding by railway station in an
automobile detected the fact that one
of the cars of a military train which
he saw at the station loaced with
munitions was being sent along a
wrong route. The mere numoer of the
freight car had sufficed FOR General
Cardona to perceive the error-al-
though there were hundreds of trains
moving at that time with munitions OF
war for all parts of Italy.
America, always keen to proft by
experience. might learn lesson from
these two men and train Systematically
along the lines that gave Germany ana
Italy these two geniuses who owe their
successes not to the national military
administrations under which they
served, but to their own individual
foresight, initiative and passion for
detail.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-08-16
DAY OF THE SPECIALIST

FVEN in warfare this is the day of
L. the specialist. 1t is a remark
able tribute to the virtue of
preparedness of a kind not within
the ordinary modern measure of the
term-a sort of sublimated prepared
ness" as it were-the two great sue
cesses of the war in Europe have
been achieved by two men who de-
voted almost their entire lives to the
study of conditions they felt certain
their respective countries would be
one day called upon to face.
Everybody knows of Won Hinden-
burg's victory over the Russians in
the east. That campaign: was won
largely through Won Hindenburg' S
knowledge of the border lakes. But
few know that the Italian army
possesses a general who has zone Tor
that nation what Hindenburg did for
Germany.
Count Luigi Cadorna is the man and
he wore military uniform Tor fifty-
five years before the decision of Italy
to enter the great European war
brought him forward to international
fame as one of the great leaders in
the struggle. The son of a man who
had distinguished himself in military
science, he also devoted his whole life
to it, and when it was decided that
Italy would engage in the war on the
side of the Entente Powers against the
Teutonic Allies, Count Cadorna, then
Chief of the General Staff of the
Italian army. was not only the choice
of the king and his advisers as the
most able military genius, but was also
SO acclaimed by the people.
Born September 4, 1850, he was lust
under sixty-five years of age when
Italy declared war on Austria in the
summer Of 1915, giving him the op-
portunity to apply many years OF
tactical study to actual warfare on a
large scale, becoming within a few
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-08-16
MONDAY EVENING, AUGUST 10.
Keep thy shop and thy shop 10iH Keep
thee.-Frdnklin.
GENERAL WOODS FORESIGHT

HENERAL WOODS foresight has
NJ been justified by recent events
Years before we relinquished the
world of dreams in which we lived for
the world as it really is, General Wood
was urging preparedness against at
tack and the creation of an adequate
citizen soldery. Peacefully inclined,
content to play fairly with our neigh
bors, anxious only for the internal
development of the country and void
of territorial ambitions, we saw the
world through rosy glasses and fondly
imagined other people were as our
sslves-desiring only to live and to let
live. But the keen, practical mind of
Wood saw things differently. He
Enew there were powers abroad look
ing with covetous eyes toward wealthy
and helpless Belgiums, and that we
were the richest and the most helpless
of them all. He knew also rnat SOL
diers are not made in a day ana so he
urged the creation of such camps as
that at Plattsburg, where young men
and men of more mature years might
learn the rudiments of military
science.
AS General Dougherty recently said.
the National Guard will be found
ready in. any emergency to back up
the regular army, and there would be
less need of such encampments as
that at Plattsburg if all were on some
high plane as that of Pennsylvania.
But they are not. Take Kansas, for
instance, where a forced march of
one and one-half miles in a broiling
sun put almost a whole regiment hors
de combat. Everyone knows that
man must be trained for the science
of medicine, the law, plum bing, car
pentering, printing or any other trade,
and the same is true of that of the
soldier the most eXhausting and exact
ing of all. Experience of Canada and
England shows that at least six months
are necessary to fit a man for the field.
1t requires more than a week for one
to put his mind into condition to ac-
cept the discipline of military life and
his muscles in shape to carry his rifle
and some thirty eight pounds strapped
across his shoulders, and still have
some fight left in him at the end of
a hard days march.
We all know that General Wood is
right and that we should have begun
our training long ago. But better late
than never and the nation is aroused
at last.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-08-16
AN UNPOPULAR LAW
Lsnringfeld Unlon.l

[Springfield Union.l
II it be true that even the labor
unions have come to regard the La
Toilette seaman's act as an injurious
piece of legislation. there is very little
lacking to establish the universal un-
popularity of that measure. AS an at
tempt to benefit a particular class by
depressing the community as whole,
this law is conspicuous example of an
unsound policy to whose bad results
the public should be made more keenly
alive. American seamen are not going
to be benefited by putting American
ships out of business, nor is the lot of
the general body of American workers
to be improved by a crusade for the
breaking down of American indus
tries.
The mischief of the seamen's law in
respect to American shipping has pass
ed the bounds of theory and entered
the bounds of theory and entered the
domain of facts. American steamship
lines are going out of business because
of the unjust and discriminatory pro-
visions embodied in this new law.
There are other and broader bearings
of the measure, the harmful effects of
which are yet to be definitely determin-
ed from experience. But the fact that
1t constitutes an additional blow at the
American merchant marine is in itself
n pronounced factor in stamping this
piece of legislation as unpopular.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-08-16
TELEGRAPH'S PERISCOPE

They talk lot about the new ways
of making superior ice cream, but hon.
est, now, does any of this modern stun
taste as good as that you used to churn
on the back porch on the afternoon of
a holiday?
The newspapers report the death of
a small boy of Hazleton as a result of
eating green apples. This item is re-
markable because it records only one
death.
j. Kennedy Johnson, Center
county candidate for judge admits he
will appreciate the salary If elected"
He may also appreciate the cost of
campaigning If he isn't.
Classical music is the kind every
body is afraid to admit he does not
like.
Many a golfer who kicks on the
length of the grass or the green's. in
order to hurry to the links has left his
own uncut
A Mahanoy City man was killed by
a fall of coal. But who wouldn't run
the risk to have that much in his cell
lar?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-08-16

LAS it now appears, the big task con-
fronting the resolutions committee of
the next Republican national conven-
tion will not be the framing of a dec
laration on the tariff. The country will
await with far more interest what is
proposed in connection with our for
eign relations" The foregoing is the
opinion of the Democratic Cleveland
Plain Dealer But we fancy the Re-
publican national convention will have
no difficulty in dealing with the ques-
tion. The Republican party is coming
back into power. 1t will bring back
with it foreign policy such as was
practiced by Seward, by Blaine, by John
Hay and Elihu Root. That's all the
platform need to say on the subject.
The country will understand and en-
dorse a declaration like that. And so
will the Plain Dealer, way down in
the bottom of its heart
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-08-16

dollars are being expended in the ex-
tension of sidings at a time when the
railroads are carefully guarding their
resources indicates how serious they
regard the situation and gives rise to
the thought that they must have had
word from the heads of the coal min
ing companies that any extensive de-
mands on the part of the mine work
ers would be refused.
Again the consumer appears to be
between the upper and the neither
millstones.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-08-16
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

George Wharton Pepper, the
Philadelphia lawyer, who is at the
Plattsburg training camp, used to be
quite an athlete in college days
John M. Walton, the veteran
Philadelphia controller, appears to be
supported by all parties for renomi-
nation.
William Coleman Freeman, Of
Cornwall. is spending August at York
Harbor.
j. A. Beattie. Pittsburgh traction
man. is at the seashore.
&C. A. Buck, of Bethlehem Steel
has gone to Chile to develop the
Schwab iron mines.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-08-16
GOLD AND PROSPERITY

WYE used to hail the news of gold
w imports with joy, as indica-
tive of easy money and grow
ing prosperity, and view with suspi-
cion and chagrin anything like a
wholesale export to Europe of the pre-
cious metal But the war has turned
things topsy-turvy. The United States
in its history, greater than any other
nation on earth, and probably greater
than any other two nations. The
amount of gold held in this country in
the form of cash or bullion is $2,006,-
399,539.
According to the latest reports, Eng
land had about $500. 100000, which is
all practically controlled by the gov
eminent. The latest report from Ger
many, which was in 1907, showed
that country held $1,O44,OOO,OOO in
gold. The supply in the United States
for that year was only s1,612, 1000. 900.
The large increase in the stock of
gold in the United States represents
the losses of the precious metal to
this country by the principal nations
in Europe on account of the huge bal
ance of trade in our favor. Based on
the returns for July, the United States
is now accumulating gold at the rate
of s12,OOO,OOO a month
And yet who will say that the coun-
try is prosperous or that prosperity is
increasing proportionately with the
increase of gold, as we used to expect
it to do?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-08-16
MAKE THE STREETS SAFE

NAPTAIN LUMB, of the State Po-
~ lice, put bullet into the leg
of a man on Saturday night
who attacked a girl and refused to halt
when Lumb attempted to put him un-
der arrest. Captain Lumb is to be
commended for the use of his weapon.
Attacks of the kind that he interrupt
ed are all too frequent. A few ex-
amples such as that set by the State
constabulary officer would teach a
very wholesome lesson. Men who. have
no consideration for the persons of
others are entitled to no consideration.
The officer who shoots down the flee
ing assailant of man or woman need
have no fear of public censure. The
streets and parks of the city must be
made safe for all persons at any hour
at all costs.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-08-16

Professor S. S. Green, of Rhode
Island, called to order the hundred of
teachers from all parts of the country
when they met this morning for their
annual convention in this city. Plans
were made for an excursion to the
Gettysburg battlefield tomorrow. The
opening address was made by Gov
ernor Curtin. Governor Bradford, of
Maryland also spoke. Later the two
officials were admitted as honorary
members of the association.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-08-16

Theodore Douglas Robinson, once
chairman of the Progressive State COM
mittee of New York. and also nephew
of the Colonel, advised all Progress
sives In York State to enroll with the
Republicans this year upon the ground
that the advanced principles which they
espouse can best be carried forward
through the medium of the Republican
party" This is sound common sense
1t mas already been put into practice by
most Progressives and in 1915 there
should be no Republican division to
again put a minority party in control
of national affairs.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-08-16
THE FRIENDS OF PEACE

From the New York Sun.l
1t would be interesting to know what
patriots compose the Friends of Peace,
whose president, John Brisben Walker,
warns the country that the manufac-
turers of war munitions are conspiring z
to fasten a milttarist government upon
the American democracy.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-08-16
JUST MARRTEn roo

oung man" said the magistrate.
severely, the assault you have com
mltted on your poor wife is a most
brutal one. Do you know of any rea =
PRISON." 10" ~
- II you do, your honor" replied
the prisoner at the bar hopefully. "it
VIII break up our honeymoon."-
Philadelphia Ledger.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-08-16
ALL ALIKE!
BY Wing Dinger

l find there are lot of men
Who like me play at golf,
And that at times. also like me,
OF their game they'll be off.
And then again like me they rant
And kick and vow that they
Will never. never try again
The bloomin' game to play.
But every afternoon, by jove.
When they can sneak away
Quite early in the afternoon
(Like me) they'll go and play.
And IL they make hole or two
IN bogey, just like me.
They'll talk about them, but the score
Will never mentioned be.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-08-16
COMPARING THE COLONEL

[From the Washington Observer
We don't know whether to compare
Colonel Roosevelt's continuing a Pro-
gressive this year to Achilles sulking
in his tent or Sitting Bull (Moose) still
off the reservation.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-08-16
EDITORIAL COMMENT
A GERMAN ANSWER

[From the Boston Transcript
The Kaiser hasn't replied yet to our
latest note, not a single American baby
having been massacred since it was
sent
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-08-16
DO YOU KNOW
That freight shipments from this
city's factories are jumping?
The End of the Rainbow

Mr.. Manufactures are Won
seeking the pot of gold at the
end of the rainbow and over
looking the treasure at your
doorstep?
In other words are Won
spreading your advertising
money over the map seeking q
Klondike and neglecting eo-Si-
markets nearer home?
There are many forms of ad-
vertising, but none so fun of re-
turns in definite sales as news
paper advertising.
1t reaches the places where
PROFITS ARE and not where
they may be.
Manufacturers will find II IN
their interest to write the Bureau
Of Advertising. American News
paper Publishers Association
World Building, New York. for
their new booklet THE News
papers"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-08-16
RAZOR m uTs pOorrrr

There is good deal of talk about
harmony, but it is my observation that,
while man may occasionally conceal
ms razor, he never throws it away
York Dispatch.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-08-16
AN UNUSUAL CLATTER

[From the Washington Star.1
When woodrow wilson's typewriter
gets into action. its click is heard
around the world.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-08-16
NOTHING FOR THE CONSUMER

MO sooner does the government
IN order reduction of hard coal
rates sufficient to arouse the
consumer to hope or d. feast slight
reductions in the price of fuel than
the miners. begin to figure on an ad-
vance of wages and shorter hours and
the operators prepare to resist
There can be no doubt that the
building of extensive storage tracks
aong the lines of>the anthracite carry
ing railroads is a precaution taken
against coal shortage during a possible
strike. The fact that thousands of
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-08-16
IN HARRISBURG FIFTY YEARS
AGO TO-DAY
[From Telegraph, August Is, 1866. ]
Mt. Vernon to Have House

Council has provided Tor a mouse for
the Mt. Vernon Hook and Ladder
Company, to be erected back of the
Capitol between State and North
streets.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-08-16
Tnachers In Session

[From Telegraph, August 1S, 1865. ]
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-08-16

Among the visitors to the city the
other day was Judge John B. Steel, of
Westmoreland county. He came here
with his family on an automobile trip,
stopping over night at the Senate.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-08-16

' Senator Horace w. Schantz, Le-
highs Republican chairman, has ar
ranged a strong program of speakers
for the Republican county meeting at
Levan's, on Saturday, August %. SEN
ator Penrose has accepted the invita-
ton to make the pIincipal speech.
Other speakers will be- State Chair
man Crow, Senator Charles A. Snyder,
of Pottsville; j. Jeremiah Snyder of
Allentown, and Ralph Schatz and ex-
Assemblyman Warren K. Miller, can
didate for the nomination for district
attorneV
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-08-16

Notices were sent out in Phila-
delphia to Prohibitionists calling for
a mass meeting Tuesday night in the
Parkway Building in order to secure
the presence of electors to sign nomi-
ton papers. The signatures of 100
voters are required.