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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-12-02
THE CALL OF THE MINISTRY

From the Kansas City Star.
At a Methodist conference in Musko-
gee, Ok, recently, one of the officials
of the church said that many young
mon who felt a call" to enter the
ministry and would like to enter it.
becoming paupers in their old age.
Thereupon minister arose and said
that any young man who stayed out of
the ministry because of fear of poverty
was not fitted to be minister of the
gospel of Christ and he cited his own
case. His salary for the year Just clos
ed had been $247. There were six per-
them had been down with typhoid
fever during the year.
Yet" said this hero of the ministry,
81 do not fear poverty now nor here
after. I have one consolation l cannot
be poorer In future than l have been
in the last year. Having lived through
that and worked faithfully and cheer
promises and. having emerged happy
in the opportunity to work and to
further the Masters kingdom on earth
feel that ] have strength and cour-
age to go on to the end, whatever it
may hold in store of poverty and hard
ships"
That is the true missionary spirit. 1t
not to be paid adequately. Records
show their salaries often are scandal
ously low. But the man who Is kept
out of the ministry because of the fear
of not being able to make money has
no business there. "Woe is me-" cried
the apostle, "if ] preach not the gospel"
That is the spirit that ought to drive
ing of the money first then thy belong
elsewhere
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-12-02
PENNSYLVANIA HIGHWAYS
TATE HIGH WAY COMMIS-
y SIONER CUNNINGHAM and the

TATE HIGH WAY COMNIIS-
y SIONER CUNNINGHAM and the
Chief Engineer of the Depart
thing to tell western highway builders
when they meet in Chicago next week
Pennsylvania has made distinct head
way in the construction and main
teIIance of good roads and it is high
time that the rest of the country
should know something of what has
been transpiring recently in this
State. We have suffered long enough
from Misrepresentation and a mis-
understanding of actual conditions
here. Our roads in many cases are
bad enough, it is true, but it is also
true that there are many fine high
ways covering hundreds of miles in
every direction, and the outside world,
especially the tourists, should be made
aware of what has been accomplished
during recent years.
These road conferences throughout
the country will furnish opportunity
for better conception Of what has
been achieved lately in Pennsylvania
under practical bodybuilding meth
DDS. There is much yet to be done,
but with more abundant funds as the
years pass and definite plans, such as
Governor Brumbaugh, Commissioner
Cunningham and Chief Engineer
Uhler and their fellows in the service
have in mind, there will be little oc-
casion during the next decade to speak
contemptuously of the highways of
this State. With the cooperation of
motor clubs, boards of trade. chambers
of commerce and good roads associa-
tions, there is bound to come a better
appreciation of the needs of the State
and in this way the Department of
Highways will have the encourage
ment and support which is necessary
to the working out of practical results.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-12-02
THE ANNUAL PATENT CROP
By Frederic ]. Haskir

IF you want to find out what the
people are thinking about, run over
the patents recently granted by the
United States Patent Office. Inasmuch
as there 'are $4,000 of them, it will
take q while, but the task is we'll worth
anyone's time.
More than third of all the articles
patented during the past year had
some bearing on the war. More of
them have to do with automobiles
than with any other one article, while
moving pictures are now second in the
inventors favor. Many of the recent
auto patents are of q military charac-
ter, such as bullet-proof windshields,
armored bodies, motor gun carriages
and innumerable ambulance devices.
Even toys patented for the Christmas
trade are strongly affected by the war
spirit. Battalions of toy soldiers. and
mape of Europe for them to fight on,
toy rapid-fire guns and war engines
are what Little Willy will play with
this year.
Electrical and optical patents show
the same militant tendecies, but in
ventions bearing on the motion picture
business have multiplied despite the
war rather than because of it. There
were several thousand of these during
the year, and most of them had for
their objects to give color to the pic
lures or to make them talk. The mo-
tion picture film itself is rated as the
most valuable article ever patented,
the inventor having sold it for
$3,000,000.
Much Comic Relief
There is a good deal of comic relief
in the annual patent crop. The pre-
vention of snoring has engaged the at
tention of several ingenious minds re-
Gently. One patent is based upon the
fact that to successfully snore you
must lie on your back. The mechanism
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-12-02

consists in a little cone-shaped affair
which is strapped to your spine so
that 1T will nudge you and wake you
up when you try to lie on your back.
Thus you can train yourself to sleep
silently on your side. Another in
ventor, however. thinks that snoring,
like talking, may be most effectively
prevented by keeping the mouth shut.
He has designed a spring to be
strapped to the jaw for this purpose.
The following is q recipe for a hair
tonic patented by q man who lives
in dry" state: Best corn whisky, 20
per cent; currant wine, 25 per cent. !;
port wine, 20 per cent; granulated
sugar. per cent. and the rest water
chap from the Mexican border
has patented q ploW which is a cannon
in disguise. A farmer has invented an
electric light for horses. 1t is carried
between Dobbin's ears, while a storage
battery is hung around his neck.
A certain Canadian woman is devot-
ing her ingenuity to the invention of
devices to make women more beauti-
full. An artificial eyelash, a finger
compressor to make the feminine digit
more shapely, and cushions to be worn
inside the cheek where the confirmed
chewer slows her gum, so that the
contour of the face may be improved,
are her recent patents.
There are numerous patents for he'll
NETS and armor. In design they are
certainly adaptations of the ancient
models in museums, but modern steel
processes and the use of aluminium
make them much lighter and stronger
Catapults have been found more
effective than guns for throwing eX-
plosive shells up to 100 yards. Several
of the patents in use have been taken
out by wounded soldiers, who know
exactly what their fellows at the front
need.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-12-02
TIP EoR ARCHITECTS

TIME discovery was made recently
that some of the newly-erected
buildings in the heart of Har-
risburg are not equipped TO accom-
modate window-boxes for the planting
of flowers and vines. The sills are too
narrow for the purpose and no other
means has been provided for the fast
ening of boxes.
Floral decorations are bound to
have a big part in the development of
Harrisburg. Large cities everywhere
are taking a leaf from the German
notebook and are planting flowers.
Dayton, Ohio, to cite q town of the
Harrisburg class, has thousands of
window boxes every summer. The
practice, so common in Germany and
so full of possibilities for city beautifl-
cation that 1t is being adopted by
municipalities everywhere, will be as
common in Harrisburg in the years to
come as the backyard garden used to
be when the capital of Pennsylvania
was little more than a village.
Up-to-date architects will provide
for this growing demand. Both public
and private buildings should be so de-
signed that it would be an easy mat
ter to attach floral boxes TO window
sills wherever desired. The time will
come. and it is not so far distant,
when the width of window bases will
figure among the points of desirability
in house-renting,
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-12-02

BY Wing Dinger

In my home. at five this morning,
While twas still as black as night,
One kid woke up, through the window
Saw the roofs bedecked with white
Gave a whoop that woke his brother,
Mother. father. neighbors, too,
Both of 'em insisted rising
Was the proper thing to do.
Sleepy dad. however. differed
With them-told them though that
they
Could get up in case they chose to.
And for once they did obey.
Hoped for quiet, but a racket
Loud enough TO wake the dead
Startled me--"Whats wrong?"
queried.
Bob fell downstairs with his sled
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-12-02
A CHANCE FOR THE FISH

7 EFT us hope that Fish Commits
l. sioner Butler has finally worked
out a practical plan for the
elimination Of stream pollution in this
State. He has been earnestly at work
along this line and believes that he
now has device which will check pol
luton and give the streams back to
the people in their original purity.
Instructions have already been given
TO wardens of his department to visit
the manufacturers and others respon-
sible for the spoliation of the streams
and he hopes by reasonable co-opera-
ton to avoid the drastic measures
which the Commissioner of Fisheries
is empowered to adopt in order to
stop the outrageous pollution of the
streams in every part of the Common
wealth.
This move of Commissioner Butler
will be hailed with great satisfaction
by thousands of fishermen who have
been watching with increasing regret
the gradual disappearance of the fish
with which the streams of the State
once teemed. Notwithstanding the
culm-laden waters of the Susquehan-
ma there are still being caught right in
front of the city large salmon and bass
and other fish, but with the elimin-
alton of the culm nuisance the fishery
interests of the State would be in
creased far beyond the Imagination of
those who have watched with sorrow
the disappearing finny tribe.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-12-02
WATERFALL CASTS SHADOW

Did you ever see waterfall cast a
shadow" asked Stephen T. Mather of
the group around the club table. Mr..
Mather. who Is assistant to Secretary
Lane, in charge of the new develop
ment work which the Department of
the Interior is doing in the national
parks, had just returned from a
strenuous summer among the noun
tain tops.
well, Yosemite Falls cast my
shadow very distinctly one night last
August. I was half mile or more
away, gazing, beauty bound, at the
effect of the full moon upon these
giant falls, which are. by the way,
as high as sixteen Niagaras piled one
on top of the other.
1.-THE moon was behind me. of
course. The double falls, shining like
silver, lit brilliantly by reflected light
the dense shadows of the trees which
hid me from the moon. Turning. I
saw -" shadow outlined wildly upon
the grass"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-12-02
MONEY FOR CHRISTMAS

NOTHING is more significant of
v the thrift of the working people
of Harrisburg than the annual
showing of the several savings associa-
tons. These associations are teach
ing habits of economy which are quite
MS important and perhaps more benefi-
cial even than the actual savings rep
resented.
Thrift is a habit which must be
learned and it is taught through the
methodical saving from week to week
and month to month.
Thousands of dollars will be paid
out between now and Christmas by
these associations and the individuals
who have thus provided for the holi-
day expenditures will not only have
the happiness that comes from such a
fund at this particular time, but they
will have the encouragement and in
spiration toward even more practical
savings hereafter.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-12-02
HE OMITTED KANSAS CITY
kansas CITY Times.l

Senator Penrose's denial that he has
annCunced his candidacy for the presi-
dental nomination was to have been
expected. In fact there was little ak
cuse for anybody to be deceived by
the statement which the senator IS
now denying. For 1t is a well estab-
lished rule of the game that nobody
is an established candidate unless he
has shown his points in Kansas City
He must be brought to town and
paraded past the grandstand. Then
If he doesn't go lame and isn't sud
denly stricken with springhalt. and IL
he canters and singlefoots in an ac-
defects, he is considered entered in
the big contest.
Senator Penrose. having failed TO
appear in the line with President Taft
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-12-02
THE STATE FROM DAY TO DAY

10 overcoats were stolen in 20 hours
down in Chester yesterday. Three
fourths of an overcoat an hour is q
pretty good average and proves that
Christmas shopllfting is being done a
whole lot earlier than the shopping.
man in the Greensburg Jail evil
IDENTIFY believes in making hay while
the sun shines, If we may thus inap-
propriately express it. He was await
ing trial for some reason or other and
while in jail did enough crochet work
to buy off the jury brought to convict
him. The man is clever but-crochet
work?
Farrell wants to become a. third
class city and it is understood that an
agitation will be started next Spring
with this in view. It's population is
between twelve and fifteen thousand,
and its people are very anxious to take
this progressive step.
Mrs. Ella Leach is suing her hus-
band, DIR. w T. Leach of Pittsburgh,
at whom she admits that she "slung
shoes and mirrors" She said she was
simply retaliating for his abuse of her.
1t may be that all the flying missiles
did not miss the husband; wherefore
he is perfectly agreeable to the sepa-
ration.
Tom DAILY. who writes a daily coll
umn on the editorial page of the Even
ing Ledger, Philadelphia. spent yes
terday in Carlisle where he made an
address to the students of Dickinson
College.
Hundreds of persons were called out
in the streets of Mauch Chunk last
evening In the midst of a terrific wind
and rainstorm when the frebell tolIed
necessarily for fifteen minutes. The
cause was later discovered to be In the
fact that the firealarm wires were
crossed.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-12-02
Our Daily Laugh
PREPARING.

s h 9: You're
going b eyo n d
your allowance In
kisses.
He: I'm try
ing to get even
for the times
you'll go beyond
y ur allowance
after we're mar.
riad
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-12-02
FORD'S MISTAKE

TTENRY FORD seems to have
struck a snag at practically
every turn in his effort to fill a
ship with peace advocates for a trip
to Europe to suppress the war. Ford
is a fine example of a first class
machinist trying to achieve results
which can be accomplished only
through statecraft and the breaking
down of barriers which require the
cooperation of governments instead
of mere Individuals.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-12-02

under the provisions of the work.
mems compensation act, with all the
benefits that will accrue to them from
its operation.
The Steel Corporation has recog-
nized the fact that workmen's COM
pensation is here to stay and that the
fullest cooperation of all concerned
will be far more beneficial to all than
open antagonism or half-hearted ac-
ceptance. tA
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-12-02
A LESSON FOR LEGISLATORS

C<TATE TREASURER YOUNG and
u Auditor General Powell are
probably not seriously distress
ed over the condition of the finances of
the State at the close of the fiscal
year. OF course, there was a big drop
in receipts and the expenditures ex-
ceeded the income, which is not a
pleasing situation at any time, but the
enormous resources of Pennsylvania
are sufficient to provide without un-
due or unreasonable taxation ample
funds for the carrying forward of the
constructive work of the Common
wealth.
There are lean years in the revenues
of the State just as there are lean
years in the revenue of the average
manufacturer and businessman. The
fiscal officers realize that there was
considerable more going out than
was coming in last year in the way of
funds. but the lesson may not be lost
upon the next Legislature, and the
conditions should lead to the adoption
of more dependable budget in the
making of appropriations. Beside,
the new revenue-raising laws. to go
into effect January 1, will make q
great difference next year.
For years out of mind 1t has been
the custom of the Legislature to dis
regard the warnings of fiscal officers
and the State authorities generally
who knew more about the revenues
than the occasional legislator could
hope to know in the discharge of his
happened may prove to be a good
thing in the end. More heed will be
given hereafter to the warnings of
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-12-02
II THEY TOLD THE TRUTH
How homely your wife arowsi"

How homely your wife grows"
my dear. what do you suppose NV
score was this morning? One hundred
and forty-nine for eighteen holes
'T won't be home till late tonight.
darling. I'm going to paint the town
red with a couple of old college
chums."
Yes, sir, the hotel is pretty full. but
can give you what we consider the
worst room In 1t for little more than
the same price you would pay for a
good one If we weren't so crowded.
Life.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-12-02
A CHRISTMAS THOuGHT

Happy or sad-gay or grim-when
you read this, know that I-your
friend, apart-yet near, salute you!
Health to you and to yours
The pine branches that fill your
halls with fragrance. the smoke from
your Christmas logs bring me breaths
of welcome gusts of holiday cheer.
Or maybe, alone in your attic, you
are looking out across snowf1elds in
the sky, thinking of friends who once
were at your side. Know, then, that
/ am thinking of you. From the ends
of the earth ! greet you. From tropic
poinsettia meadows lit with scarlet
stars. / send you Christmas thoughts.
From the throbbing, smiling, sorrow
ing hearts of great cities l reach out
to you.
From mountain evergreens, gemmed
with mistletoe. my prayer for you
whispers to the stars. Rejoice!
Put by your somber dreams of what
IS gone into the gray past This is the
day of days-when the Child's hand
touched the world and kindness and
love bloomed in the winter pastures.
Weep not for those friends we loved
who left us here to grieve for them.
They walk to-day, hand in hand,
through fields of eternal spring.
Songs from the stars time their
footsteps by the deep waters of their
abundance Their eyes smile when
they think of us as much-loved COM
rades who go on with the tasks their
tired hands put by for the artistry of
splendid studios. They have learned
the song of victory. They ride their
splendid steeds across the suns to
chant to you. TO you, pondering over
some tragic comedy-some strange
sad adventure that has broken the
harmony of your existence-they sing
and bid yea look up to the skies.
They wait for you beside the gates
of Dawn with hymns of cheer and
royal courage-triumphan over death.
They have kept the Faith-they have
sunk in no whirlpool of dishonor-no
shifting sand of falsehood-no easy
mire or stupid safety.
From hills that kiss the clouds they
greet the Christmas unafraid. Rejoice
with them!
You have trod the roads that rim
the rivers of life-you have been true.
You know---you know
The Childs hand touches this old
world once more. The light breaks on
land and sea. The Christmas dawn is
here!-Kate Masterson, in Christmas
number of Life.
SOME THINGS ARE SELF-EVIDENT
| Vice-President Marshall does not he
lfeve that President Wilson said ne
did not want Mr.. Marshall for rum
ming mate in 1916.
II Is not likely that Mr.. Wilson saio
ssaaEs -
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-12-02

and Senator Weeks, and Senator Bur-
ton, and Ambassador Herrick and
Governor Whitman, and General
What's -his-name, is of course the
rankest sort of an outsider.
Still it has to be admitted that the
circumstantial evidence did slant to-
ward his candidacy. How can any
prominent Republican who isn't q
presidential candidate explain his
presence in Texas or Louisiana or
Mississippi?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-12-02
MADOO, THE JOKER

NHE important thing is to treat
i great public questions in q nom
partisan manner" said Secretary
McAdoo in an address to the Illinois
Manufacturers Association while at
tending a dinner given by the asso-
ciation. This joke is reported to have
so upset the toastmaster of the oc-
casion, George NJ. Reynolds, that he,
forgot three of his best stories.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-12-02
THE sPuRIT OF THE LAW
TIME manner in which the United
States Steel Corporation has ac-


States Steel Corporation has ac-
cepted the new workmen's COM
pensation law must be at once
qualification to the members of the
Compensation Board and the trainers
OF the act. and an example for other
large employers of labor to follow.
The Steel Corporation is one of
the largest employers of labor in the
country. 1t would be able to decline
acceptance of the law and run the
risk of suits at law. ifNit so chose, for
it is backed by almost unlimited
millions. Instead, counsel for the
company notifies the Compensation
Board that it will observe the law not
alone in letter but in spirit. Thus at
one time majority of all the steel
workers of Pennsylvania are brought
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-12-02
GOUID.S VIEWS

TIME successor TO the late Serene
Z. Payne, author of the Payne
tariff law, has no illusions as to
the reason for the huge majority
polled for him in the special election
held in the Thirty-slxth New York
district recently. He is Norman J.
Gould, of Seneca Falls, n. Y.
In an interview given out at Wash
ington, Mr. Gould says:
Ours is an agricultural and
manufacturing district. and In my
wholly to the tariff and ITO ma
tional rather than local issues.
Democrats in my district Joined
with Republicans in remonstrance
measure. Democratic extravaganza
and the incessant heckling of busi-
merce. 1 believe the vote rolled
up for representative in Congress
for the Thirty sixth district is good
evidence of the trend of public
opinion throughout the country.
Mr.. Gould received majority of
1000, which is 1000 larger than any
received by Mr.. Payne during his six
teen successful campaigns for cleo
ton to Congress. The fact that the
tariff cut such an important figure in
Mr.. Gould's campaign indicates the
of evading that issue.
The campaign of 1916 will again find
the tariff vital issue. To quote the
words of Woodrow Wilson in an ad-
dress to the Economic Club, New York
May 2S, 1912:
Every business question in this
country, whether you think SO or
not, gentlemen, comes back, no
matter how much you put on the
brakes, to the question of the
tariff. Why you can not
escape from it no matter in which
direction you go.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-12-02
U. S. PRODUCES WoRLD,s CORN

About one fifth of the farm land in
this country is planted to corn. each
year" says the current issue of Farm
and Fireside, land the United States
produces twice as much corn as ali
other countries put together
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-12-02
That Intensive Hen

The Hen laid nm egg and cackled
her head of;
The Goose laid nm egg and never
opened her head.
DO you ever have calI for a
goose egGf
MoraI,-SeII Advertised Goods.
And 1t might be added to this
time honored philosophy that the
hen is an intensive advertiser.
She does her cackling in the
vicinity of the egg and does not
try to cover the continent with
one faint squak.
She disposes of her goods at
the most convenient market -
seeking the short cut from pro-
duction to demand.
II she used the printed word
she would be a constant news
paper advertiser.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-12-02

of the disbursement of the funds of the
Commonwealth.