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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-17
Sisters Lose $4,000
Estate if They Wed

Pottsville, Pa, Aug. II. - A lawsuit
before Judge Wilhelm. in the Orphans
court revealed one of the strangest
wills ever probated in this country.
Caroline, Bertha, Louisa and Sarah
Yaissle, four unmarried middle-aged
sisters, recently came into possession
of an estate from their mother, valued
at $4,000, with the provision that if
any got married that one should for
felt all share in the estate.
Miss Bertha. one of the sisters who
shared in the legacy under these
strange conditions, died a short time
ago, and now two brothers who were
disinherited by the will of their moth
er, claim the right to share in her
portion of the estate, claiming that she
amply fulfilled the conditions imposed
| inasmuch as she died a single woman.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-17
SEE U-BoAT BROUGHT IN

New York, Aug. II. - Passengers
on the Cunarder Alaunia which arriv-
ed here to-day from London told of
being held in port at Deal while de-
stroyers were active outside and later
of seeing a damaged British destroyer
enter, followed by a British cruiser
against whose free board was lashed
a shell torn German submarine. The
destroyer, the passengers said. evil
IDENTITY had suffered from shell fire.
The submarine appeared to be one of
the larger class and evidently had been
completely disabled and rendered un-
seaworthy
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-17
MOTHER OFTENTOBLAMF

derness and affection. It's all mat
ter of teaching, of adopting the right
attitude toward ones children. It lies
with every woman, when her children
are babies, to decide how they shall
treat her when they are grown up.
1t is the mothers own fault if her
children neglect her. 1t is also the
mothers own fault, to a large degree,
II she Is an unwelcome instead of a
cherished guest in her children's S
households.
There is many an old woman who is
a good woman and a mother who has
made heroic sacrifices for her children
but who is so disagreeable to live with
that that II. would take more than
mortal patience to stand her.
There is the meddling old woman,
for instance, who ca never go into
any household without disarranging
its whole machinery and trying to run
it her way.
Too Often Peace Packs Up and Leaves
When Mother Comes
II she goes to her sons house she
criticises the way daughter-in-lawu uses
her best china every day, the way the
children are being brought up. the size
of the bills, the number of card par
ties daughter-in-law goes to, the price
of her dresses.
II she goes to her daughters house
she nagS her son-in-law to death be-
cause he drinks beer, and smokes. and
belongs to club, and plays golf on
Sunday. In any house she enters
peace packs up it's dresssuit case and
fees for parts unknown.
And there is the querulous and
complaining old lady who is a livine
edition of the Lamentations of Jere-
miah, who is always weeping and
mourning and complaining all over
the place, and is so sensitive and has
her feelings spread around her so far
that you have to walk on eggs to keer
from hurting her.
And there's the argumentative old
woman who can never let any subject
pass without disagreeing with every.
body on earth, and the tyrannical oId
woman who wants to force everybody
to do her way and think her thoughts
and the narrow and provincial old lady
VINO is certain that the way she did ir
some obscure village fifty years ago i.
the way life ought to be run in the
city to-day. And there are also fifty
other varieties of disagreeable anC
cantankerous old ladies who are home
wreckers
When Aged Woman Is UnweIcom,
Guest 1t Is Generally Her Own
Fault
Generally speaking, whenever al
old woman is not a welcome guest nm.
der any roof it is her own fault. for al
of us know plenty of sweet, wise, gen
tie, forbearing, broad-minded old la,
dies whose children worship them
whose in-laws adore them, and whom
we all welcome with open arms.
Tho moral nP all Of ryk faI, l. -
are mighty apt to get what is comint
to us, and that 1t behooves every wo
man in her youth to begin to max,
herself the sort of a woman that every
body will want around them when sh,
is old.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-17
BY DOROTHY DIX

l get a great many pathetic letters
from old women complaining bitterly
that their children neglect them, and
that they are unwelcome inmates in
their sons and daughters homes.
Certainly nothing could be more
tragical than the fate of the mother
who sees the children that she has
borne in agony, for whom she has
toiled and sacrificed and slaved, turn
from her without even an impulse
of gratitude, and fail her when she
needs their love and cherishing in her
helpless age even as they needed her
love and cherishing in their helpless
infancy.
Nor is there any spectacle so revolt
ingly hideous as that of prosperous
men and women who repay a mother S
devotion with thanklessness who be-
grudge a few dollars to her who has
given her hearts blood to them, who
ruthlessly kick down the patient, bent
shoulders on which they have climbed
to a higher social position, and who
have no room in their full lives for the
one who bestowed life upon them.
The old mother whom nobody wants
is a very common figure, and one
whom we may all pity, yet she has
brought her troubles upon herself, and
her case is worth considering by every
other mother lest the same thing be-
fall her.
Woman Herself Responsible for Treat
ment Her Children Give Her
In the first place everv woman's chill
dren treat her just as she teaches them
to treat her. This sounds like a cruel
and brutal thing to say, but it is true.
Every mother in the world writes her
own price tag, and her children take
her at her own valuation.
If a woman makes doormat OF
herself her children will use her as a
doormat and walk over her without
one thought of compunction. They
will think that that is what she is
there for. But if she makes of her
self fine and precious vessel they will
admire and revere her as they would
any other valuable possession, and
handle her delicately and tenderly.
The mother who permits her three
year-old baby boy to speak to her i'm
pudently is deliberately raising up a
son who will swear at her when he is
grown. The mother who slaves and
drudges around the house while hel
children loll about in idleness is going
to have to take in boarders to support
them when they grow up into loafers
The mother who goes ragged ano
shabby that her children may have
silly finery, who never eXacts any ser
vice from them, who let's them deridt
her opinion, is bringing up sons anC
daughters who will despise her anc
have contempt for her and neglec
her when they start forth on their owr
careers.
She is bringing the curse down OF
her own head and she deserves wha
she gets, because she had her children
when their minds and characters wer,
plastic. and she might have instilleC
into them respect for her and chivalr!
toward her and a sense of their dut!
to the mother who bore them.
4. There are other mothers who arr
2 shrined like saints in the hearts o
their children, mothers to whom thei
children can never show enough ten
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CONTINUED From First Page1
mind. Mrs. Keiner was not present
at the hearing"
DIR. H. w. Linebaugh another mem
ber of the commission, said. II talked
with Mrs. Keiner and gave as my
opinion that she was insane. I cannot
recall who represented Mrs. Keiner at
the hearing, but someone was there.
Before the hearing, / talked with a
number of people regarding Mrs.
Keiner's condition"
DR.. ]. F. Good, the third member of
the commission, whom Mrs. Keiner
said she had never seen, said, Mrs.
Keiner was a frequent visitor at my
drugstore. I had several conversations
with her. She was not present at the
hearing but was represented by Thos.
Vogelsong, of New Cumberland. Any
further information will have to come
from Attorney Reiff."
Mr.. Vogelsong. who was reported to
have represented Mrs. Keiner at the
hearing by the commission on lunacy,
said: 81 was named on the committee
to see Mrs. Keiner. was not present
at the hearing. I was told it was not
necessary to be there after had call
ed on Mrs. Keiner and reported to Mr..
Reiff."
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-17
DRY'S ESTABLISH FOUNDATION
Bv ASsocidted Press

Indianapolis, Aug. II. = An addi-
tional gift of $4,000 to the National
Prohibition partys campaign fund, by
Mr.. and Mrs John p. Coffin of Johns
town, Fla. was announced here to-
day. They previously had given $780,
600 to the fund. The 500, 900 is to be
made the nucleus for a campaign fund
of s1.OOO,0O0. The gifts are in the
nature of property and Florida real
estate. For the purpose of handling
the property thus acquired a charter
organization to be known as the Pro-
hibition Foundation, has been formed
by the national party leaders. Its
members include the nine men on the
executive committee and a number OF
the general national committee. The
foundation will serve as clearing
house for all general and special funds
which may be turned over to the ma
tional committee.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-17
S1OO Reward, 500

The readers OF this paper will be pleased to
learn that there Is at least one dreaded disease
that science has been able to cure in all its
stages, and that is Catarrh. Halls Catarrh Cure
Is the only positive cure now known to the med
ical fraternity. Catarrh being constitutional
disease, requires constitutional treatment.
Halls catarrh Cure Is taken internally. acting
directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of
the system. thereby destroying the foundation
of the disease. and giving the patient strength
By building up the constitution and assisting ma.
ture in doing its work. The proprietors have
30 much faith in its curative powers that they
fails to cure. Send for list of testimonials.
Address F. ]. CHENEY CO.. Toledo. o.
Sold by al Druggists. 75c
Take Halls Family Pulls for constipation.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-17
THE LIMITS OF POWER

Many a man who froths at the
mouth over the speed demon who
races his automobile along the streets
and highways, at the financial mag
nate who runs amuck in cornering
beef or cotton or wheat, will himsalf
buy the most powerful rifle the mar
ket affords and go out hunting over
the farms of a welI-settled country,
without a thought that his bullets
shoot far beyond what he can see or
control. He will buy an automatic
shotgun that will fre six shots at
every bird he sees if the bird doesn't
fall before the magazine is shot off
and he will scatter that.shot frenziedly
to two or three of the four cardinal
points o fthe compass, recking not
in his delirium that there may be men
or domestic stock within range.-Sep-
tember Outing.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-17
COMING FROM CHICAGO

Nh~ ago, Aug. II. = Several rail-
road presidents, with headquarters in
Chicago, made hurried preparations
to-day to leave Immediately for Wash
ington to attend the railroad confer
ence at the invitation of President Will
son. c. H. Markham, president of the
Illinois Central; w. II. Ashton, presi-
dent of the Chicago and Northwestern
and H. r. Kurrie planned to leave on
early afternoon trains.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-17
FOUR DEAD IN oUAKEs
BY Associated Press

Rome, Aug. II. - The chief dam
age resulting from the earthquake
which shook dozens of cities and
towns in Central Italy yesterday morn
ing was at Rimini where four persons
are dead and thirty injured. The
military and civil authorities are car
ing for the injured and homeless.
The earthquake caused a panic
among the population of many of the
central cities and villages.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-17
X-Ray Used on Woman
in Hunt For Lost Gem

Cumberland, Nd, Aug. II. - DR.. A
Leon Franklin took an X-ray photo
of the stomach of his colored domes-
tic, Lizzie Leggett. to ascertain
whether she had swallowed a valu-
able diamond ring belonging to Mrs
Franklin The police were called to
investigate when the diamond was
missed.
The woman protested her innocence
but submitted to the X-rays. The
plate showed no trace of the missing
ring.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-17
GOGGLES FOR TROOPS
By associated Press

Washington, Aug. II. = The Amer
lean Red Cross announced to-day It
had been advised by the War Depart
ment that the department would issue
colored glasses or goggles, gratuitously
to the American troops on the border
for the protection of their eyes from
glare and sand. This will make it un-
necessary, it was stated. for glasses to
be contributed by chapters or order
Red Cross agencies.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-17
Has Large Estate
Sbecial to The TeIegrdfh

Sunbury, Pa, Aug. II. - Until noon
to-day Mrs. Walter Keiner, wife of the
Harrisburg hotel proprietor had not
arrived in Sunbury, where reports had
it that she was staying, after her re-
lease from the Cumberland county
insane asylum yesterday.
ested in, is worth from $4,000 to
$4,000. 1t consists of two stores, with
offices and a dwellinghouse here, and
two dwellings in Shamokin. The in
come according to lawyers here to-
day, is about s1.S00. after taxes and
expenses are paid. Mrs. Keiner gets
half and Mrs. Benjamin Lake OF
Shamokin the other half. The prop
erty is in trust and in case Mrs. Keiner
dies without issue the whole goes to
two sons of Mrs. Lake.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-17
HIATT AUTO TuEEr

City police arrested E. E. ProwIey
and S. w. Forney, of Penbrook, on a
charge of an attempt to take an auto
mobile last night, belonging to Ira F.
Myers. Both were held for hearing
to-day
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-17

in the streets were arrested. After
the explosion the police compelled all
citizens to leave the town and go into
the suburbs.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-17
LAWN PARTY FOR FRIEND

Blain, Pa, Aug. II. - Last even
ing a lawn party was given by Miss
Anna L. Fetro at her home in honor
of her friend. Miss Grace Rothermel,
of Blandon.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-17
BIBLE CLASS PICNIC
Special to the Telegraph

Dauphin, Pa, Aug. H. = On Satur-
day afternoon the Bible class of the
Presbyterian Sunday school taught by
Charles Shaffer will hold its annual
picnic at the Elm.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-17
NuNORS, IN POOIROOM

Kile Brooks. colored, was arrested
by Detective Schelhas shortly before
fora hearing.
The Cordova daily times., 1916-02-29
STILL |NS|S 5 IN ATTACKING
 ARMED SHIPS

WASHINGTON, Feb. 2S. - The lat est note from Germany, replying to the state department concerning the intentions of the imperial German government in their proposed plan to attack defensively armed merchant vessels without warning. says that Germany and her allies have no inten- tion of revoking the assurance given to the United States in the Lusitania case. The note goes on to state that Germany can conceive of no reason for changing her new instructions to commanders to treat armed enemy merchantmen as warships The note promises that special precautions will be taken to prevent ships not armed from being attacked.
The Cordova daily times., 1916-02-29
q. LOUIS VOTES RESTRICTION
 OF NEGRO

ST. LOUIS, Feb. 2S. - Voters will decide at a referendum election to- morrow whether two measures, de signed to restrict the negro popula- tion to certain parts of the city, shall become ordinances.
 Two bills, both submitted by peti- tion under the initiative clause of the city charter, will be voted on. One provides that negroes shall not move into blocks wholly occupied by white persons, or that white persons shall not move into blocks occupied wholly by negroes.
 The other proposed ordinance pro vides that negroes shall not move into blocks in which 75 per cent of the houses are occupied by whites, or that white persons shall not move into blocks in which 75 per cent of the houses are occupied by negroes.
 If both ordinances are adopted, the second, being the more stringent of the two, would be effective.
 Neither ordinance puts any restric- tion on the ownership of property, but restricts solely the use of property for residence purposes. Negroes who are employed in houses or apartments oc- cupied by white persons are unaf- fected by the ordinances. Apartment house janitors, who live in the base ments or apartments, occupied by whites, would net be affected,
The Cordova daily times., 1916-02-29
BATTLE CENTERS NORTH VERDUN

troops, who poured a whitening fire mense sums on the cost of the shells fired in this district alone the past
 few days. The bombardment is par ticularly severe in the center and on the right of the French line. Yes terday the German forces made sey- eral attempts to capture the village of Douamont but their charges were
 broken and their men hurled back again and again by the determined resistance of the French troops, who withstood the most furious assaults, and raised havoc with the enemy be- cause of the accuracy of their ma chine gun fire. In the Woeyre dis trict the Germans have apparently greatly increased their activity, and the fighting is continuous, with evi- dence of increasing in force and vio-
The Cordova daily times., 1916-02-29
CLEARING IAN ] CATTLE RANCH
 PANAMA

PANAMA, Feb 2S. - The estab- lishment of a large cattle ranch has been decided by the supply depart ment of the Panama canal, and con tracts have been let for the clearing of 4,000 acres of land in the vinicity of New Culebra. on the line of the Panama railroad. When the land has been cleared of the rather heavy jun gle growth it will be seeded in guinea grass, which furnishes excellent graz ing for cattle.
 The ranch will be used for fattening cattle that have been purchased in Colombia and Costca Rica for the sup ply department. The animals usually are not properly fattened when they arrive on the isthmus. and this pur- pose the ranch is to serve.
 It is proposed to purchase a herd of 10. 900 cattle, which will be fattened on the ranch. As these are consumed the department plans to buy at the rate of 1000 head a month.
The Cordova daily times., 1916-02-29
3OO0 OPERATIONS BY SINGLE
 SURGEON

, PETROGRAD, Feb. 2S, - More than three thousand surgical operations, most of them close to the fighting line and with the roar of artillery in his ears, is the past years record of Dr. Eugene Hurd, until recently the only American surgeon at the front with the Russian forces. Dr. Hurd is chief surgeon in charge of the Twenty ninth, known as the "Grodno Nobii- ity" Flying Column. He has the rank of colonel in the regular army, and has acquired reputation among the staTple minded soldiers for doing the impossible. A soldier returning from the hospital told his fellows that the ''big American surgeon could take a hand that had been shot off, patch it together and put it back or good as new"
The Cordova daily times., 1916-02-29

ROME, Feb. 2S - The Italian war department officials claim that they never had any intention of retaking Durazzo. They say that the Italian troops were sent there so that the town could be used as a temporary base for rescuing the remnants of the Serbian army which was retreating through Albania before the advancing Bulgarians and Teutons. Having safe ly accomplished this object, as we'll as preserving the thousands of pris- oners which the Serbians had cap tured the reason for the Italian troops remaining had ceased, and so the troops were ordered to withdraw to be placed in more important fields of warfare. The government announces that the Italians will retain the city of Avlona, which is considered of greatest importance to the national as pirations of Italy, and which is of i'm. mense strategic value, commanding. as it does. one side of the entrance to the Adriatic sea. The Italians are fortifying Avlona. and will greatly in- crease the Italian garrison there.
The Cordova daily times., 1916-02-29
GERMANS DRIVE. TRENCH FROM
 POSITIONS

BERLIN, Feb. 2S. - The war office officially announced this morning that in the Navarin farm, of the Cham pagne district, the Germans had stormed and captured by a night at tack portion of the French trenches on both sides of the farm Over six teen hundred yards of the French line were taken. A thousand men and nine machine guns were also captured.
 In the fighting around Verdun the Germans report great masses of addi- tional French reserves who exhausted themselves in fruitless attempts to drive the Teutons out of Fort Doua- mont. The Germans in this section succeeded in advancing their lines somewhat further in the direction of Bras and Vacherauville and also made fresh gains on the plains of the Woe vie. The war office claims that all French forces have now been driven from the Mouse peninsula.
The Cordova daily times., 1916-02-29

upon them, and drove them back time after time. The German assaults here Ience. The worst fighting occurred in the battles for the possession of the
 railway station at Fix. This changed hands several times, the Germans driy- ing the French out, only to suffer the same fate themselves. The place is a shambles, with heaps of dead piled everywhere, and the stretcher bear CTS invite certain death if they at tempt to reach the wounded, who lie suffering in the No Mans Land be
 tween the contending forces The railroad station is still held by the French Another point of severe fighting was Hill 255, near Fix The Germans stormed the hill with the greatest determination, but failed in all their efforts to dislodge the French
The Cordova daily times., 1916-02-29
RUSSIAN TROOPS
 GO TO JUN 1
 BRITISH .

KAREN. Manchuria, Feb. 2S. - division of Russian troops arrived here today, bound for service in Meso- potamia in conjunction with the Brit ish forces striving to relieve General Townsend at Kut-el-Amara. The Rus sians arrived over the Siberian rail- way, and will proceed to the seaport of Dalny. From Dalny they will be taken to the mouth of the Tigris, at the head of the Persian gulf, by Jap anese transports It is thought that these troops will arrive in Mesopo- tamia in time to make the final thrust at the Turks surrounding General Townsend, and that they will be as sisted by the Russian force that is pressing forward through Persia and which recently captured Hermanshah,
The Cordova daily times., 1916-02-29
MORAN $ REASON FUR CHANGING
 DATE FIGHT

CHICAGO. Feb. 2S. "Now that the date for my fight with Frank Mo ran has been shifted from March 8 to March 20, l will furnish a reason for my insistence for the change, said Jess Willard, heavyweight cham pion of the world.
 "It may strike many as being rather flniky, but 1t is correct. March 8 falls upon Aash Wednesday, a day that is held in great respect by the Christian world I have any number of friends who would not attend a fight under any consideration on that day. Rather than deprive them of the opportunity of seeing the fight, I held out for a postponement. I believe that there are thousands who will applaud me for making the change.
 "Of course, if Mir. Rickard and his partner. MT. McCracken, had insisted upon my fighting Moran on the ori- ginal date, I would have done so. Though I had a rather severe cold, am satisfied that if 1t was absolutely necessary I could have gotten into shape"