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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-10-14

to call your attention to the rug shak-
ing habit of our city. Some months
ago the New York Sun had a scathing
editorial. which should have been
copied broadcast, on this pernicious
custom. Unlike the Orientals. we do
not take our shoes from off our feet
when entering the house, consequently
germs of every kind are carried in on
our rugs These same germs are shaken
to the four winds in back yards and
thence into our lungs. Only a few
weeks ago / saw q maid beat a rug
like mad from a balcony. In the next
yard a little child was playing. NY
neighbors are law-abiding people, who
would shrink in horror from jeopar-
dizing the life of child-they simply
don't think--yet Evil is wrought from
want of thought, as well as want of
heart"
C. s. M.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-10-14
"STONE HIDES THE SHELLS"
New York Sun1

"Can anything be more humiliating
than the spectacle of the chairman of
the Foreign Relations Committee of
the Senate gumshoeing in small
room of a Third avenue beer garden
and bartering for votes which the
President from the platform of
Shadow Lawn and in his speech of
acceptance had repudiated?"
Mr.. Victor Ridder of the Stats
Zeitung asks. the question, thus be-
traying his lack of acquaintance with
the Hon. William Joel Stone of Mis-
souri,. AS the late Colonel William
III. Phelps, also from Missouri. re-
marked: "Bill Stone sucks eggs too,
but he hides the Shells" What we
are catching now is little Whit OF
suiphuretted hydrogen from some
shells that Bill Stone carelessly neg
lected to hide.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-10-14
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Tribute to Lloyd MiHlin

To the Editor of the Telegraph:
In your issue of Saturday, October Z,
you published a little article from one
of his poems. or perhaps the poem COM
plete, and entitled 1t Our Poetic Neigh
bor." Neighbor! Why to me Lloyd
Mifflin Is one of the greatest of Ameri-
can poets. His poems are pictures of
poetic talent. and anyone who reads
them and enters into the soul of his
thoughts, will rank him with Longfel-
low. Poe and Whittier. This Is not only
a tribute to the man but to his talent.
May he live to celebrate many more
years near the banks of the beautiful
Salunga Lost Isles are these from
which we sailed away"
AN ADMIRER
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-10-14
Hid Self Among the Stuff

And when Samuel had caused all
the tribes of Israel to come near, and
Saul the son Of Kish was taken: and
when they sought him, he could not
be found. Therefore they enquired of
the Lord further. And the Lord an
swered, Behold, he hath hid himself
among the stuff. And they ran and
fetched him thence; and when he
stood among the people. he was higher
than any of the people from his
shoulders and upward. And Samuel
said to all the people, See ye him
whom the Lord hath chosen, That
there is none like him among all the
people And all the people shouted,
and said. God save the KING Sam
ueI X. 20 to "a.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-10-14
OUR WATER SUPPLY
To the Editor of the Tciegraph:

TO fNe EdHOF OF Ht ItT9gTdPH.
Seeing your front page editorial en-
courages me to write asking a ques-
ton They say the water that leaves
the filter plant is 80 per cent. pure.
Now how pure is 1t after it leaves the
reservoir? I was told that the reser-
voir has not been cleaned for five
years. If this is true, it might be wise
TO test the water from 1t. 1 would
be grateful If this qestion as to reser-
voirs would be answered in your COL
INNS. Respectfully,
A SUBSCRIBER.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-10-14
Forecast
[Poor Richards New Almanac

CPoor Richards New Almanac.1
Many folk will take to living in
their homes this month. and there will
be great activity among old bills
Death will rage at many places among
straw hats. green leaves. mosquitoes,
summer love and hopes of matrimony.
There will be war in Europe, but base
ball and politics in the u. 8. All chill
dren's heavier clothes will be found
to be worn out
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-10-14

Vienna complains that Rumania has
broken her pledges. When Berlin
wants the world to hear a complaint
something Germany herself
has been guilty of. Austria is made
spokesman.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-10-14
"AS ITHERS SEE US"

nR. T. IYENAGA, the head of the
- Japanese publicity bureau.
wants to know what we are
making all this fuss about in regard
to maintaining the open door" in
China He says:
What has America been doing?
Her trade with China has not seen
Increased by leaps and bounds.
While you are driving American
ships out of the Pacific by legisla-
Government Cove % SI support S "fITn to bansers
and thus losing opportunities TO
invest your abundant capital.
is there much to make fuss
about?
The only way we can wriggle out of
the impeachment is to say that Amer
lea didn't do these things. Woodrow
Wilson did them. Wilson was a min
ority President If there hadn't been
a split in the Republican ranks the
professor would still be penning harm
less vaporings instead of harmful
notes.
Wilson has ruled the Democratic
Congress with a rod of iron; the rep
resentatives of the people have been
puppets at his call. Congress sneaked
through the seamen's law, which
swept our vessels from the Pacific
ocean. When our. bankers desired to
participate in the Six-Power Loan to
China, and went to President Wilson
for assurances of government support.
he showed them the door, and now we
see the open door"-slowly closing
Wilson did these things, not the
American people. Americans are GO
ing to retire that gentleman to what
he would call "a very private retreat
in just a short time. Americans are
going to elect an American President
and Congress controlled by Ameri-
cans. That will be the best immediate
answer we can make to Dr. Iyenaga.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-10-14


spokesman.
SHOULDER TO SHOULDER
TIME whole city owes debt to the
1 hundred or more members of the
Chamber of Commerce and the
Rotary Club who braved the rainstorm
of yesterday to solicit subscriptions to
the new hotel company. They sacri-
feed their own business for the in
terests of the community. They re-
ceived no reward but the knowledge
that they had rendered personal serv-
ice to the community and that they
are doing their part to make the hotel
project q success.
These committeeman found wher-
ever they went men and women ready
to help with their subscriptions. The
civic spirit of the community they
found running high. Even those who
could not put money into the project
commended 1t and the enterprise Of
those whose efforts were making 1t
IN hay MI
presidents the committeeman heard
the story repeated of faith in Harris
burg and belief that the city is just
upon the verge of a vast new era of
progress and improvement.
The Chamber of Commerce mem
bership and the hotel fund were both
materially swelled by yesterdays can
vass, but, better than all. the interest
of the people in their home town was
quickened and made manifest.
There can be no doubt as to the
value of such community cooperation.
Spencer C. Gilbert. always on the firing
line In every campaign for the city,
admirably voiced the sentiment of the
citizenry when he declared at the
roundup meeting yesterday that the
work of the hundred or more busy
men who had banded together for the
achievement of certain definite things
had been a wonderful inspiration.
What Mr.. Gilbert said was what many
others think. and it is not difficult to
understand the progress of Harrisburg
during recent years when 1t is realized
how many of our people are standing
together for the development and bet
terment of the city in every proper
way.
Already we have been singled out for
favorable mention by the civic organ
izations of the country. Harrisburg Is
known far and wide as a city that does
things and these frequent movements
for specific objects are developing more
and more the get-together spirit of the
community. While many of those who
have labored so earnestly in enlarging
the membership of the Chamber of
Commerce and in gathering subscrip-
tiors for the hotel fund are tired in
body as a result of their strenuous
labors. they must feel consciousness
of duty we'll performed, and after all
this is the best reward for all public
service.
1t is not always money that counts;
public spirit and a desire to help con-
stitute an important element in the
success of any municipal undertaking.
II is necessary that our citizens should
stand together and we trust that the
fine spirit of cooperation displayed
d.1 a tha Ia sf faxu woa La u,ilI ,,arr, IN =
every avenue of our city life. encour-
aging and inspiring others to assist in
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-10-14
WHAT THE ROTARY CLUB
LEARNED OF THE CITY

IQusstions submitted to members of
the Harrisburg Rotary Club and their
answers as presented at the organizes
tion's annual Municipal Ouiz."l
What is the bonded debt of the Water
Department? Gross? Net?
Gross Bonded debt, 1905, 10000.
Net, $7.949.3S.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-10-14
Both Tight
TAnaconda Standard. I

A dress reformer alleges that cor
sets have filled more graves than
whisky. There is this point of agree
ment between the two agents-they
both make their victims tight
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-10-14

of one who signs himself P. Fithian,
written at Nassau Hall. Princeton,
November 80, 1910, which as an ex-
cellent example of the careful, pains
taking style of correspondence then
prevailing and which, alack. is almost
unknown in this day of hastily
scrawled pictorial postcards. We
quote briefly therefrom:
Very Dear Father--Altho' am
very busy seeing I begin to study
three Weeks later than the rest OF
of our Glass. yet think 1t my DUTY
to this flourishing Seminary Of
Step towards. the, Summit Of my
many msSes of the the customs, ss a'S as my short
ACQUAINTANCE with the College &
Students will allow. me, & as any
anY ahnf time new to otsans transmit shai t. not
On Sundays about seven the supper
Bell rings. Immediately after which
each Class meets separa{fetS ope az tSemn m
selves. The Seniors alone meet in
Room belonging to one or the
Seniors: and the Juniors by them
to one of themselves; & In ike
manner do the inferior Glasses; And
one in each Class: as 5rdas MS Hame sayae
out q Psalm to be sung, e. prays;
after which they disperse. q retire
to their respective Rooms. make
use of the word "their" not because
1 do not Join with my fellow-Stu-
dents in these Acts of Worship, but
because I seem only yet to be an
Observer of their Manners.
Times have changed. Perhaps 1t
would be unfair to hold up the epistle
of P. Fithian as an example for the
freshmen of to-day. But one may be
excused for regretting that the art OF
letter writing is not cultivated now
as then, and that many boys at school
go on the score that mo news Is good
news" and forget the folks back home
until the student purse runs low or
simple decency forces the penning of
a reluctant message.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-10-14

President Wilson appears to affect
some of the Republican newspapers as
sort of reincarnation of DR.. Fell
Nashville Southern Lumberman.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-10-14

One gathers from the latest explana-
tion from Tokyo that Japan has no
more designs on China than a cat has
on canary bird.-Boston Transcript.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-10-14

Wonder what the President would
say II the U-53 mistook one of our pa
trolling warships for a merchant ship?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-10-14

II the woman's party really raises a
campaign fund of 100000, it ought To
prove to most politicians that women
have a, right to the franchise.--Mil-
waukee Journa'
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-10-14
GERMS IN THE HOUSE

To the Editor Of the Telegraph:
The editorial on the front page of
last evenings Telegraph prompts me
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-10-14
EDITORIAL. COMMENT

1t appears that Mr.. Wilson stands on
the stoop to conquer.-New York Teie.
graph.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-10-14
HISTORIC HARRISBURG

President Johnson. General Grant
and Admiral Farragut were visitors to
Har1 isburg in 1866.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-10-14
DO YOU KNOW

That Harrisburg steel is used
for bridges being built In the
Southern States?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-10-14
Our Daily Laugh

HIS MISSION.
Monk: Why
Porkie, w h q t
happened?
Porcupine: I
had to furnish
the guests with
,oothpicks at Mr..
Lions banquet.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-10-14

every proper way the various projects
which involve the welfare and pros
perity of all the people.
The membership campaign and
Mayor Meals Greater Harrisburg Day
were well worth while.
Well, anyway. that order of Mr.. San
ders will cause Pennsylvanians to pull
their own chestnuts out of the fire.
Why bar the city detectives from the
police school? Don't they need It?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-10-14

THE CAT CAMH
BACK.
First Husbands
The melancholy
days have come.
the saddsst OF the
year. as the poet
says.
Second Hus-
bandi Yes, and
mine will be back
tomorrow
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-10-14

published evenings except Sunday by
THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING co.,
Telegraph Building, Federal Square.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-10-14

y. J. J.STACKPOLE. Pres't and Editoy-in-C hief
r. r. OYSTER. Business Manager.
GUS M. STEINMETZ. Managing Editor.
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1916-01-23

window in that room may be opened,
if there is danger of chilling the air
Of his sleeping room.
If the cold is excessive, or If there
is a raw, damp wind blowing or rain
or snow is falling, the baby should
be given his daily airing in room
with the windows open, or on pro-
tected porch, dressing him warmly in
out Of door clothing. He should be
taken out during the middle OF the
day, for a little while, never long
enough to walk about and thus exer-
This applies especially to young and
delicate babies. AS child gets old
enough to walk about adm thus exer-
else himself, he can be allowed to play
for some time in an open room or
where he is sheltered from the wind.
But an airing every day does not
take the place of fresh air in the
house, day and night, and to secure
sufficient ventilation fol- health the
mother must be on the watch to see
that the rooms are opened and the air
changed at frequent intervals.
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1916-01-23
Care of the Baby in Winter
PREPARED by the ChNdens Bureau Department of


sist both in winter and summer OF
suitable food, in the right amounts, at
the right times, cleanliness, sufficient
sleep, plenty of fresh, clean air to
breathe, and protection from exposure
to infectious diseases. 1t is chiefly the
lack of these two latter requirements
that causes the winter illnesses among
babies.
1t is not the cold of winter which
makes people sick. ordinarily, but
rather the stale over heated air in
side our houses and public buildings,
which we breathe and re-breathe, thus
passing disease germs about from one
to another. Babies are particularly
liable TO be infected in this way, be-
cause they spend large part of their
time indoors, and because mothers are
apt to feel that to keep the baby warm
the rooms must be kept shut tight.
a mother should use every, means
in her power TO protect her baby from
taking cold" as it is commonly de-
scribcd. Colds" are due to n germ
and are very contagious, being easily
passed from one person to another in
coughing or sneezing. A nursing
mother with a cold should tie thin
cloth or veil over her mouth and nose
while nursing the baby, and should
be careful never to cough or sneeze
in his face, nor kiss him on the mouth.
She should be particularly careful not
to use her own handkerchief for the
baby, nor sleep with him, while the
disease lasts. Many babies contract
these colds by being taken up and
kissed by visitors, and 1t is wise rule
to keep the baby away from the pres
ence Of people who are coughing and
sneezing. The reason for this great
care as regards baby Is that a con-
tagious cold is very often the fore
runner of bronchitis and pneumonia,
which diseases cause the deaths Of
many thousands of young babies every
year, and which are infinitely easier
TO prevent than to cure.
Fresh air is the most effective weap-
on with which to fight the diseases
of the respiratory tract. This does not
necessarily mean cold air, for cold
air may be stale, and warm air may
be pure. The ventilation Of most
American houses is faulty, since in
order to keep them warm enough to
suit us we shut them so tightly as to
make the air unfit to breathe, after a
few hours. To counterfeit this ten
dency mothers should see to 1t that
all the occupied rooms of the house
are thoroughly aired at least twice
every day in the coolest weather, while
In moderate weather there should be
as nearly constant a supply Of fresh
air throughout the house, night and
day. us can be managed.
When the temperature outside is
very low. the baby should be taken
into a warm room while his nursery
Is being aired, and at night, his bed
should be shielded from a direct draft.
If there Is communicating room. the
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1916-01-23
MOVING WAR PICTURES.

LONDON, Jan. 22.-official moving
pictures of the actual fighting oper-
atoms of the British army in France
and Flanders, taken under the direc-
ton Of the war department, are soon
to be exhibited before the British pub
lie so as to show the civilians at home
what the army. is doing. Receipts
from the sale and rent Of the films will
be devoted to the aid Of disabled SOL
diers and their dependents.
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1916-01-23
.BUCKHAVNON
HAPPENINGS
CHR0N|CLED
Upshur County News Told in
News Letter from Cor
respondent.

BUCKHANNoN, Jan. 22.-Frank
Latham left Tuesday morning for st.
Lucie, Fla, and will spend some time
in the Sunny South"
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Fowkes are
the proud parents of bouncing baby
boy, who arrived Tuesday morning.
Mrs. ]. L. Tough, of Fairmont, is
the guest of her parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Cyrus B. Lewis.
ed branch store on Kanawha street
ed branch store in Kanawha street
a few doors above the Republican Of
fee.
Judge William o'Brien is holding a
term Of court at Webster Springs,
Mrs. G. NJ. Fleming and daughter.
Anna Lee, have gone to st. Lucie, Fla,
to spend the remainder Of the winter
with Mr.. Fleming who preceded them
several weeks
GREASY" Neale. athletic director of
Muskingum College, was in town Nom
day.
Mrs. Clarence Bennett and daugh-
ter. Winona. of Clarksburg, spent sew
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1916-01-23
why LIQUOR MAKES
men SEE REPTILES

seventy-fve cases, in nearly all OF
which there was a great reduction in
tho amount OF alcohol absorbed prior
to the onset OF delirium.
Numerous objections have been
raised to each OF these theories. The
views concerning poisons and anto-
intoxications have been vigorously at
tackled because there Is as yet no def
mite proof that a poison is elabo-
rated. There are already advcrsarles
to the recent notions concerning an
increased pressure of the spinal fluid
and the fall Of alcohol in the circuidl-
ing blood, all Of which indicates thai
much work remains to be done before
the final answer to the problem IS
reached"
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1916-01-23

makers of speedometers, and there
are thirty-eight makers OF horns and
other warning signals.
Being in possession of statistics that
show that all OF the manufacturers OF
various automobile supplies are max
ing money, despite close competition,
the business men here feel certain
that the manufacturers OF the Save-a-
Life fender will be able within a few
months to build up an international
trade that will add materially TO the
industrial status OF the city. While
there are dozens Of companies en-
gagged IN the manufacture OF other
automobile supplies. there will be
only one safety fender on the market.
That, they say. will be manufactured
in Charleston II the plans carry.
A representative of the Toledo Glass
Company, a million dollar corporation
recently chartered by the secretary Of
state. was In the city recently ana
conferred with the secretary OF the
chamber of commerce. This company
has arranged to establish one OF the
largest glass plants in the country
Just outside the city limits OF Charles
ton. High grades of glass will be
manufactured by machines OF tho
Owen invention.
The company Is expected to decide
upon q building site within the next
month The gas rights in q large
tract of land owned by the Union Gas
Company and situated near Charles
ton recently were acquired by the
company, 1t will utilize the entire
production of the gas area In the
operation Of Its plant.
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1916-01-23

PENNSYLVANIA. Among prominent edu-
Gators on the program were DR.. Robert
Mckenzie, Of the college board OF New
York college, Gettysburg, Pa.
Miss Pearl Carter who has been the
guest of Mrs. A. L. Bling has returned
to her home at Marlinton.
Charles S. Robb, of Washington. Is a
business visitor In the city. Mr.. Robb,
who was for many years secretary to
senator Henry G. Davis, Is now sue
cessfully engaged In the real estate
business in Washington.
MFR. and Mrs. T. ]. Arnold have gone
to their winter home in DeLand, Fla
to remain several months,
Mrs. Arthur Bush, of Seattle, Wash,
Is at the homo of her parents. MI
and Mrs. p. Orchard, at Mill Creek
having been called home by the serious
illness OF her mother,
O. b. Durrett and Mrs. L. s. Wees
we're In Fairmont yesterday attending
the funeral o. their brother, DR., J. j.
Durrett