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Middletown transcript., 1916-06-17
Will Gerry have the courage
to confess everything to Allx?
Do you think AIix will forgive
him for his affair with Margari-
ta-his bIgamy with an ianor-
ant, innocent girl2
MANY WITH LARGE INCOMES
ITO BE CONTINUEDl

ton district. and IS counties are en-
braced with Chicago In that district,
against only eight counties included
with Philadelphia, so that city COM
parsons are not conclusive. This year
we will have about 10000 income tax
payers in the Philadelphia district.
Last year there were not quite $4,000.
Only one state exceeds Pennsylvania
in the roll of those who contribute di-
rectly to Uncle Sans support. Ap-
proximately one person in ten who
pays an income tax resides in Penn
sylvania. We had just short of $4,000
out of the $4,000 in the United States.
Middletown transcript., 1916-06-17

Nn}G ZH0ltf1

When Clem and Alan reached home
long after the lunch hour they found
the Hill athrill with news. AIix had
received a cable and had left at once
for town. She had gone alone. That
could mean but one thfng-Gerry was
at last coming back
1t was from Barbados that Gerry
had cabled. Ever since he had written
his short note to Alix, through long
doubling weeks at Piranhas and longer
days of questioning and hesitation on
board the slow freighter that was
fighting himself. Only Lieber's sudden
death and his burial, to which Gerry
had ridden post-haste, had come in be-
tween as a solemn truce.
On the freighter he had had time
enough and to spare to think He had
spent hours going over the same
ground time and time again. For days
he sat in his chair on the short bridge
deck, staring out to sea, making over
and over the circle of his life from the
time he had left home. He remem-
bered sitting thus on the way out. He
remembered the turmoil his mind had
been in and the apathy that had fol-
lowed, the long rest at PernambucO,
the trip down the coast and up the
river, the glorious, misty morning at
Piranhas, Margarita, catastrophe,
awakening. What did that awakening
stand for? Again he thought, if he
could choose-would he wish to be
back as he was before-as he was on
the way out? A voice within him said
"No."
Middletown transcript., 1916-06-17
June is, 1915.

British resumed offensive near
Ypres, capturing trenches.
French made big gains in the
Vosges and in other places.
Teutonlc drive toward Lemberg
continued through NiemeroW.
Austrians held Italians in check
along the Isonzo.
Turkish artillery battered allies
at AVi Burnu.
German submarine sank British
steamer Strathnairn; % lost.
German aeroplanes bombed
Nancy, BeIfort and St. Die.
Middletown transcript., 1916-06-17
June II. 1915.

French won great two days bat
tile near Souchez.
Russians retreated over own bor-
der from GaIicia toward Tarnogrod.
Italians took heights of PLAYA on
Isonzo and Mori, near RoVereto.
British repulsed Turks led by
Germans on GallipoIi.
Austrian submarine torpedoed
and sank italian submarine Me-
dusa.
British submarine sank three
Turkish transports loaded with
troops.
Sub. Lieut.. Warneford killed by
fall of his aeropIane.
French aViatoFs bombarded Ger
man forces at GiVenchy.
Italian dirigibIes bombarded Aus
trian positions at Monte Santo and
Gradisca.
Middletown transcript., 1916-06-17
An Expert.

81 understand De Tanque has joined
the Athletic club. What particular
line of athletics does he go in for?"
Horizontal bar work, believe"
We'll, that ought to do him good.
It's splendid exercise"
"Oh, don't mean the horizontal
bar in the gymnasium. It's the one
in the grill room that De Tanque
uses"
Middletown transcript., 1916-06-17
June 1s, 1915.

Allies made strong concerted at
tack on Germans between Ypres
and Arras.
Battle for Lemberg ragged along
fortified line at Grodek.
Tarnogrod taken by Teutons.
Austrians took offensive against
Italians, repuIsing them near PLAYA.
italians sheIIed Gradisca.
italian fleet ,bombarded Dalma-
tian islands.
Austrian squadron sheIIed Italian
coast towns but was driven off.
British steamer Ailsa sunk by
submarine.
Middletown transcript., 1916-06-17
June IS, 1915.

Severe but inconcIusiVe fighting
around ArPas.
Austro- o-Germans renewed great
drive In GaIicia, taking Mosciska.
Italians repuIsed Austrian attack
at MonfaIcone.
Court of inquiry on Lusitania
opened in London.
Allied aeropIanes bombarded
Karlsruhe.
Zeppelin raid on northeast coast
Of England; 16 killed.
House of commons voted war
credit of $1,25o, 100000.
Former Premier VenizeIos won
Greek elections.
Middletown transcript., 1916-06-17
June IA, 1915.

Germans regained trenches at
souchez and repuIsed French on
Lorette hills.
Maekensen attacked Russians In
Middle GaIIcia, breaking their line
and taking 5000 prisoners.
Austrians won fights along the
Dniester.
Italians occupied Valentino in
Carnia.
British, French and Danish YES
sells sunk by submarines.
Middletown transcript., 1916-06-17
His Mistake.

How did you lose your last job?'
Il was fired for making a mistake"
That seems unfair. We are all IL
able to mistakes
Yes. but l told the boss that he
couldn't get along without me."-De-
troit Free Press.
Middletown transcript., 1916-06-17
In the Wrono Place.

Say, mister, dew ye' give gas
here?" asked the old farmer with the
swollen jaw.
Not so you can notice it," replied
the dentist. If you want gas you'll
have to pay for it. Did you think this
was a barber shop?"
Middletown transcript., 1916-06-17
WhY7

She-Why do they call this soup pu.
rec de Jackson?
He-Well. you see. Jackson is the
name of the chef, and he had a hand
In it.-Harvagd LampOon.
Middletown transcript., 1916-06-17
June 1s, 1915.

French took strongly fortified
ridge near Souchez.
Germans bombarded scissors
and LuneViIIe.
Italians began hOmbardins Goritz
fortificatlons.
Russians drove back the Turks
in the Caucasus.
Teutons attacked Russians north
of PrzemysI and west Of Warsaw.
One Norwegian and two British
vessels sunk by submarines.
Italian airship seriously damaged
Austrian naval station at Pola.
Middletown transcript., 1916-06-17
Her Kind

rs this girl given at all to refiec-
tion2"
Watch her and try to catch her
passing any kind of a mirror in
sight
Middletown transcript., 1916-06-17
THE EUROPEAN WAR A
YEAR AGO THIS WEEK
June 12, 1e15.

Germans reoained lost ground
north of Arras and had successes
elsewhere in West.
italians advanced toward Trent
and Trieste.
British steamer and three traW-
Iers sunk by submarines.
Austrian aviators bombarded
Bari and Monopoii.
Dr.. Dernburs sailed from Amer
ica.
Russians left 5ukoWina.
Middletown transcript., 1916-06-17
Daily Thought.

1 don't believe in anybody who has
not had a tiff. It means complete
absence of character.-Mr. Justice
Avory.
Middletown transcript., 1916-06-17

Clem is wearing out her heart
for Alan. Does he understand
this7 Is he keeping away from
her for the sport It affords him
to watch a girls heart break?
Or does he feel he is unworthy
Of her affeetion2 Will she
"catch" him YETI
Middletown transcript., 1916-06-17
MORE TROOPS
SENT TO BORDER
To Check Outbreak in the
Laredo Region.
NORTH MEXICO AFIRE
Washington Officials See Serious Pur-
pose Behind Raid On Coleman
Raneh-Bandits Killed and
Captured BY Posse.

Washington.-With 1900 additional
regular troops ordered to the Mexican
border and reports of the rapid spread
Of anti-American feeling continuing to
pour in from consuls all over North
orn Mexico, administration officials
made no attempt to disguise their I'M
easiness,
1t was officially admitted that there
is growing alarm over what the agita-
ton may produce and the possibility
Of an attack on General Pershing's ex-
pedition
No case of attack on the persons
of American residents in Mexico has
been reported, although there have
been one or two attacks on vacant
consulates and other American prop
erty
Distributed BY Raids.
Part Of the increasing apprehension
here is due to the renewed raids in
the Laredo region. Several reports
dealing with the situation there have
been received Officials declined to re-
val details, but they gave the impress
sion of having reason to believe seri-
Gus purpose was behind the bandit raid
on the Coleman ranch. Three raiders
were killed and three captured, one re-
port said, adding that they attempted
to burn a railroad bridge near Laredo,
but failed
The new force sent to join General
Funston's border patrol, Secretary
Baker said, was to fill in gaps in the
guard, such as that near Laredo. 1t
will be composed of 10 companies of
coast artillery and a battalion Of engi
neers. The artillerymen will be with
drawn from Notifications between
Portland, Maine, and Sandy Hook, and
the engineers go from barracks in this
city. The Secretary said there was no
present intention of calling out addi-
tional National Guard regiments for
border duty.
caVaIrymen Fired On.
General Mann, commanding at La
redo, reported that a patrol Of three
cavalrymen was fired on during the
night of June 10 near the town of
Hachita and Private w. L. Saunders,
of Troop K, Twelfth Cavalry, slightly
wounded. Two mounted Mexicans, who
did the firing, escaped.
A message from Captain Burrage,
nOYo7T,o n inc tho haff1oShiO NnhraS ska
at Vera Cruz, said there was consider
able unrest in that region, due ap
parently, to the currency situation.
There were no evidences Of unfriendli-
ness toward Americans, the message
said. 1t added that the Carranza Gov
ernment had been sending troops and
ammunition inland. Captain Burrage
did not know the object of these
troops movements.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-07
OF INTEREST TO THE WOMEN
ROADS TO SOMEWHERE
A New and Interesting Series
By GRACE DARLING

universe before she can begin to en-
joy herself.
Make up your mind to like what
you like. All pleasure is simply a
point of view If you can't have a
limousine, you can take trolley ride.
If you can't go to Newport, you can
have a grand day at the nearest beach.
If you can't feast on lobster, sand
wiches are sustaining.
You may not believe it, but it's
the truth that there's more happiness
in little things than big. Many an
eight-dollar-a week salesgirl who has
to work all day and sit up Saturday
night making her a two-dollar muslin
dress to wear to a Sunday picnic has
more beaux, more admiration and
more fun than nine-tenths of the mil
lionairesses who have trunks full OF
clothes, and who live in marble tombs
of palaces, where it's as lonesome as
the grave.
SOME OF THE MISTAKES
There's lots of queer things that
happen along the road to happiness,
girls. One is that the people that we
back to win almost never do. We
see a young couple get married and
they have a gorgeous wedding, and
go to live in palace, and have every
thing to make life soft and easy, and
we say they've got straight road
to happiness. They can't miss the
way" But they haven't The first
thing we know we see them founder
ing in the morass OF misunderstand-
ing, and trouble, ana divorce.
And we see a poor young couple.
without a penny to bless themselves
with, get married, and We'll say they
are headed straight for misery" and
the next time we notice them they are
walking in the sun on the road to hap
pfness.
And we see people who pinch and
pinch, and toll to exhaustion, and who
deny themselves every pleasure. They
say. I'VE can't stop to be happy to-
day, but tomorrow we are going to
indulge ourselves in everything we
have wanted all our lives, and just
loaf along the road to happiness" But
tomorrow never comes, and they
never find the road to happiness.
And this is the strangest think OF
all, that those who hunt for the road
to happiness never find it. It's only
those who forget themselves, and who
spend their time. and their thoughts
and energy in trying to help others
find it, that wake up suddenly some
day, and find that they are travelling
the broad high road themselves.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-07
By BEATRICE FAIRFAX

An old Arabic saying reads: -Four
things come not back: the spoken
word; the sped arrow; time passes; the
neglected opportunity"
The wisdom of the ages lies in this
old proverb.
How many of us put its lesson into
practice on our way through life?
How many of us keep books with
life and carry on accounts with and
for ourselves which make for our own
growth and progress and which saves
us from too great and cruel indebted
ness marked down against us? For
IN we get in life we pay. And the
price is too often extortionate. We
don't take the finality of things seri-
ously enough. And there is a grim
hnality in many things
We speak idly and without thought.
We forget what We have said because
we gave 1t so little consideration be-
fore expressing it and meant so little
by it when we spoke. But the fact
that we have spoken has its weight.
Someone listened. Someone will re-
member.
Nothing we can say or do afterward
can quite make up for the careless
word we spoke. Perhaps it hurt some
one we loved. Perhaps it harmed the
reputation of someone to whom we
wished no evil. Perhaps 1t put us on
record as taking an attitude in some
matter which is not basically our
opinion at all. But we have spoken
and the word will not return.
The sped arrow reaches some mark
perhaps not the one at which we
aimed, but a mark, nevertheless. Shoot
Into the air and YOU may cleave the
bark of a tree, destroy a twig or even
end the life of human being.
The arrow that snaps off from a bow
or that comes from an action has gone.
Whether it goes WIDE of its mark 90
straight to it, that it has been sped is
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-07
Mrs. Charles 0. DurIand Dies
While Visiting Cincinnati

Harrisburg friends of Mrs Charles
o. Durland will regret to hear of her
death, July 30, at the home of her
daughter, Mrs. Frederick E. West
lake, in Cincinnati, Ohio, after a long
illness. Mrs. Durland made her home
in this city for several years, where
she attracted a wide circle of friends
She was a member of the Market
Square Presbyterian Church and was
much interested in the missionary So
cieties and other Church activities.
Born in Oswego county, n. Y,
Sarah Elliott went with her family
at an early age to Elmira, attend
ing Elmira college, which she left to
marry Mr.. Durland. one of the most
distinguished and widely-known men
of his day. She is survived by one
daughter, a grandsome Elliott West
lake, of Cincinnati. and a brother,
Henry w. Elliott, of Elmira.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-07
IS Prominent Speakers
Will Campaign Maine

Washington, Aug. 7. - The Re-
publican Congressional campaign in
Maine will enlist the services of many
prominent men. among them ex-
Presidents Roosevelt and Taft. Mr..
Taft has not consented definitely, but
his promise, it is understood, has been
obtained unofficially.
The speaking campaign will begin
the latter part of this month, and
about 500 dates have been arranged
for the thirty-five speakers.
Among the other speakers of nat
ional note slated are Senators Henry
Cabot Lodge and John w. Weeks, of
Massachusetts; ex-senator Theodore
E. Burton, of Ohio Senator Law
renee Y. Sherman, OF Illinois, and
Senator William E. Borah.. of Idaho.
The list also includes eX-Secretary of
| the Treasury Leslie NJ, Shaw.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-07
United States Railroads
Holds Lead For Wages

New York. Aug. with the excep-
tion of Australia, American railroad
men are better paid than any others
in the world. according to testimony
given at the Federal Board of Arbitra-
tion's hearing of the dispute between
the New York Central Railroad and
its telegraphers by Henry w. Cham
bers, an expert statistician.
The average yearly pay for all en-
ployes during the last year for which
figures are available, Mr.. Chambers
said, were: Australia, S77O.52; United
States. $799.64; New Zealand, s623.
16; Canada. s604.47; New South
Wales, S573,45; Sweden. S409; Ger
States, S729.64; New Zealand s623,-
Italy, SS54.42; Austria, $3294O Hoi-
land, $234.4S; Russia. $2114O; Hun
gary, $200.40, and Japan, $113.SS.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-07
KEEPING ACCOUNTS

, fact-and fact which we cannot
undo.
And time! Most of us treat time as
If Eternity itself were ours. We waste
days and even weeks with a prodigal
carelessness we would fear to show in
our disposal of money. But time once
spent never returns.
Think of the day when you arose,
looked out of tho window at a lower
ing sky and wondered how you were
going to get through another rainy
day." How did you get rid of that
day? Get rid of it," mind you; dis
pose of wonderful minutes and hours
that might have meant growth and
progress; lavishly expend time that
should have been used to definite pur-
pose.
Did you mope around the house
complaining, or did you rush out in
search of diversion, or even fritter
away the time in telephone CONVEX
| sations and nibblirg at candy?
Every time l hear anyone talking in
blase accents of killing an hour" 1
wonder if they have any idea of the
opportunities for study and useful
service to the world and self-culti-
walton they are wasting!
Recently overheard one society girl
say to another in lazy drawl: How
do you find time to read" She meant
1t, too. Her days are spent In rushing
about from one festivity to another
and beautifying herself for long hours
of the day in preparation for each new
excursion after pleasure and ad-
miration.
The idle kill time-they assassinate
most of the peace and happiness in
their neighborhoods and get exactly
nowhere as the result of their tragic
waste of life itself
And If ever they awake to a realiza-
! ton of their own folly and long to
make up for it, life is inexorable
! Nothing can make up for wasted time.
The hour that is gone never will re-
turn.
| That we cannot recall time which is
| passed ought to make us value time
| seriously and refrain from wasting it.
And however much of new chance
| life offers us, it will never again give
US back the same opportunity we once
neglected and wasted. What that op-
portunity might have meant we can
never know. What we might have ac-
comp1ished by seizing moment which
came and was gone again lies hidden
| from our knowledge.
But there are things in life which
| offer themselves to US and go, never
to return: and there are deeds which
we do which are sadly irretrieVable
1t is we'll for us to stop and question
before acting or failing to act: Is this
! final? Is it for all time? Is it one OF
the things which will never return-a
moment which is here now and which
1 shall always regret If lose?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-07
Summer-Spoiled Skin
Removed by Absorption

AS undue summer exposure usually
leaves an undesirable surface of tan.
redness or roughness, often freckies'
too, the sensible thing to do is to re-
move move such surface. There's nothing
peter Tor this than ordinary mercoi-
lzed wax which actually absorbs an
unwholesome complexion. The thin
layer or surface skin is itself absorbed,
gently. gradually. so there's no incon,
Venience, no detention indoors. Spread
the wax lightly over the entire face al
bedtime and take it off in the morning
with warm water. If you will get one
ounce OF mercolized wax at the drug
store use 1t Tor a week or so, you may
expect marked Improvement daily
When the underlying skin is wholly in
view your complexion will be a marveI
OF spotless purity and beautiful white
ness.
Don't let those summer wrinkles
worry you; worry breeds more wrink-
les Danish them by bathing the face
IN a solution of powdered saxolite, /
ON dlssoiNed in Y pit. witch hazel Used
daily for while this will be found
wonderfully Notwithstanding
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-07

Tho one road that all of us most
desire to travel is the road that leads
to happiness. Yet many women miss
me way.
A good many get started on 1t, and
we think that they have round trip
ticket, but before we know 1t they've
gotten shunted off of the main line or
some sidetrack of Misfortune, or
they have stumbled off at some way
side station that is marked Trouble.
People often wonder why women,
as sex, are far less cheerful and
happy than men. 1 think the rea-
son is that women have not learned
how to travel as men travel, even
along the road to happiness. A man
travels light, with the fewest number
of essential things possible.
A woman takes along so many bags
and bundles that she hampers her
self at every step. A man never
bothers about any troubles except
his own. If a woman hasn't any
troubles of her own she goes out and
loads herself down with those of the
community. That's why women never
have a good time.
Men are pathfinders along the road
to happiness. Follow them. Observe
that every man as his first move to-
wards being happy in life gets himself
something to do. He picks out some
occupation that fills IN his time and
that affords him some absorbing in
terest, and that brings him in enough
money to secure him independence.
The First Secret
In that you will find the first secret
of how to be happy. If you have
some work in which you are intensely
interested you never get up yawning,
wondering how you are going to pass
the day You are never bored. You
are always alert and alive. and that
is the keenest bliss in the world.
If you have something that keeps
you busy you are not forced to de-
pend on other people for your pleas
ure, and this keeps you from having
to live on your emotions. 1t also
prevents you from pining with mel
ancholy If some particular man
doesn't notice you, or you fail to get
married. You never hear of a man
dying of broken heart if he is Tilted
or considering his life a failure be-
cause he is an old bachelor.
Therefore find an occupation In
which you can throw yourself, body
and soul, as a first aid to happiness
Then cultivate simplicity. Here,
again, you can initiate men. man
can find pleasure in a single little
thing, but woman has to have the
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-07

ton and that IT, owes to the State the
sum of $3.50 with interest from Octo-
Der "a. 1913, less s1,750 that had
already been paid. The fact that the
township hadn't made provision for
paying its share of the expense before
the contract was entered upon was the
basis of the courts opinion. Under
the act under which the road was
built the State was required to pay
half the cost and the other half was
divided equally between the township
and the county
President Judge Kunkel in another
opinion allowed Emil Swenson, super
vising architect for the Grant street
bridge, New Castle, across the She
mango river, Y per cent. for super
vision He was paid per cent. for
designing the plans and asked per
cent. for. supervision. Swenson ap-
peared as his own counsel and pleaded
his owr case. The court order allows
him $1,513.64.
100 Properties Sold.-More than 100
properties were sold by the County
Treasurer today for unpaid taxes on
uuceded lands. The lowest bid was 10
cents. The costs of $4.62 in each was
included in the bids.
Appointed Guardian.-By order of
the court today, Anna McGuigan was
permitted to adopt tiny Flora Eliza
beth Knepp, daughter of Charlotte
Knepp. The latter's husband deserted
her years ago.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-07
FIND NO TRACE OF POISON

Utica, n. Y, Aug. z. = DR.. A. IT.
Hamilton, of Auburn, a poison expert,
last night reported to District Attor-
ney Fuller that he found no trace of
poison in the organs taken from the
body of Mrs. Emma Bostwick O'Don-
nell, of Boston, the 66-year-old bride
of a day who died here while on her
wedding trip to the Pacific coast. DIR.
O'Donnell was the woman's fourth
husband and her will left him an es-
tate of $150,000. Relatives of the dead
woman requested an investigation.