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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-16
3sD DRINK CAUSED DEATH

.-Iler taking his thIrtY-third drink,
according to the police, William
Spriggs, colored. 1925 North Seventh
street. died shortly after. The body
is being held by S. S. Speese, under
taker. and unless it is claimed before
tomorrow afternoon. will nc turned
over to the State Anatomical Board.
Coroner EckinGer is investigating to
determine the cause of death.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-16
TO HOLD CENTRAL HIGH
COMMENCEMENT IN MORNING

Members of the senior class of Cen
trail High school to-day voted to hold
the commencement exercises in the
morning. At a meeting of the class
members, Professor Dibble recon-
mended the change. A large major
ity voted for a change.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-16
JOINT BRIDGE INSPECTION

Representatives. of the Harrisburg
Railways Company conferred with the
County Commissioners this afternoon
relative to setting a time for opening
to traffic the new Nineteenth street
bridge. The commissioners suggested
a joint inspection by county, trolley
and contractors engineers
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-16
NO BILLPOsTERs' STRIKE

The Harrisburg Poster Advertising
company declared to-day that none of
its employees had quit or declared a
strike.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-16
WILL TOPROVIDE
COAL FOR WIDOWS
Mrs. Croft Provides For Hus-
bandlesS Women of
Sunbury

Coal for the re
spectacle and needy
widows of Sunbury"
is provided by Mrs.
Anna NJ. Croft in
her will.
7 h e instrument
was probated to-day
by Register II. G.
Danner. Clayton G.
Miller, Penbrook, is
named eNecutOr
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-16
REAL ESTATE
BOWMAN REPORT
BUILDING BOOST
Water Main Extensions, Etc,
Indicate Structural Activity
Say Realty Men

New water main extensions. valve
connections, taps, etc, made during
the past year in the outlying districts
are more than ordinarily indicative of
the general boom in Harrisburg's
building operations, realty men de-
clare.
The Significance of these extensions
by the water department is especially
applicable to dwellings," said one
builder of many of Harrisburg's most
modern and cosy little homes. These
features of the annual report of the
water department are watched with
considerable care by realty men and
contractors. City Commissioners Bow
mans report yesterday, therefore, was
especially interesting to me. For eX-
tensions to water main, new valves,
etc, are all made necessary by the
erection of new dwellings. When an
outlying section is built up so closely
as to require new taps, sewers, and
so on, why these improvements must
be made. Consequently | think the
extent of public improvements made
during year always indicate a gen.
eral growth in the building operations
of Harrisburg.
so from the viewpoint of the realty
man and builder, Mr.. Bowman's report
yesterday was more than ordinarily
pleasing, ne went on. Il OF instance.
the new taps numbered 3S3; SIS valves
were placed on new lines. Then, too,
20 new fire hydrants were installed,
while new paving operations necessi-
tated changes in the location of eight
other hydrants. And finally: think of
the significance of this: just 4S5 new
water meters were installed by the de-
partment's staff"
TODAY'S REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS
Chief among the realty transactions
recorded to-day was the recent sale of
the l.. w. Cook property. in Market
street to Mrs. Emma Astrich. The con-
sideration on record is 81. other trans
fers were:
William Matter to John I. Gonuer. Ly-
kens. S2S5: William Douden to w. A.
Hunter. Mllersburg. 81; A. K. Schnabel
to william Beshore, Penbrook. 500: b.
f. Schaffer to G. II. Dennison. Middle
Paxton. $1S5; f. d. McFadden to T. A.
Thorley, 935 South Nineteenth street
81; Laura Freeburn to II. H. Freeburn' $
trustee. 14o0, North Third, 81: r. NJ
Gutshall to S. w. Barrick. PETER near
Elizabeth, 81. ,...
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-16

CONTINUED From First Pase.l
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-09-04
From the Nashville Tennessean.

From the Nashville Tennessean.
n II AVE you any idea how long an
iii item printed in a newspaper can
. keep going by the process of being
copied from one newspaper to another
A year, perhaps? Well, here is a little
instance that may be interesting:
In a batch of stun that reached this
desk yesterday from a clipping bureau
was on clipping, dated August 16, 1916,
credited to the Nashville Democrat Now,
the Nashville Democrat has been out of
existence lacking two months of three
years. That clipping, then, has been go
ing the rounds, at the least, for nearly
three years. 1t may be four years, for
there is no way of ascertaining how long
before suspension of publication this item
was printed in the Democrat
But that is not all. The item was not
original with the Democrat. Internal evil
dence is conclusive on that point. 1t was
printed originally in some Ohio paper,
probably one of the Columbus papers.
The Nashville Democrat In reproducing
the item, evidently lost the credit line.
Now, it is very probable that the Demo-
crat did not clip the thing directly from
the Ohio paper. 1t had probably appeared
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-09-04

From the Philadelphia Public Ledger
m iris who, like those at Atlantic
IL q City, defy authority and cross
the Boardwalk in their bathing
suits could not be expected to submit to
any impertinent rule compelling them to
wear stockings. They doubtless have "a
thousand jadish tricks for escaping this
tyrannical imposition. One of these
should win a tribute of appreciation for
it's cleverness even from the sternest
moralist. The guards who save life and
propriety on the beach were surprised
last week to note a new fashion in
hosiery-black stripes arranged longi-
tudinally or latitudinally, according to
the taste and figure of the wearer. Never
had the mode been so suddenly and uni
versally changed. The explanation was
simpler than it seemed. The girls had
painted their legs. 1t was a happy
thought, which only the feminine mind
would have conceived. Thus the effect of
stockings was obtained without the real
ity, which was indeed all that was nec-
essary. AS Goethe put it, what would
the reality be without the appearance?
Only one rash girl spoiled the effect by
going into the water-an eccentricity
which few could ever have counted upon
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-09-04
TO DIVIDE FLORIDA

From the Memphis News-Scimirar
Because of alleged climatic and ethno-
logical differences a movement is on foot
to divide Florida into two states, giving
the new state 1900 square miles, which
would make her a little larger than West
Virginia and little larger than YER
mont. New Hampshire and New Jersey
combined. The old state, which would
retain the old name, would have Al 900
square miles. slightly more than Ohio and
a little less than Tennessee. If any state
should be divided for reasons of this char
acter Tennessee should be that state.
Her people are not homogeneous and never
can be. They are too widely separated.
New York is something over HOO miles
distant from Memphis, and when the cit
izen of Memphis makest a visit to the
great metropolis he is almost half way
there when he crosses the line at Bristol.
West Tennessee has suffered long because
of the fact that she has had an east
Tennessee government imposed upon her,
and that the will and wishes of her own
people have not been respected.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-09-04
GAFFNEY's MOUTHINGs

From the New York Telegram.
That boosted freedom of ours that per-
mits the red flag of anarchy to be pub
licly carried and soap box orators to
preach sedition on the street corners pro-
tects even discredited consular agent
when he Announces his arrival by hurting
insults at the President of the country
T. ST John Gaffney, removed from his
post as consul general at Munich for too
pronounced pro-German sympathy, saya
he is here to haul down the union jack
from the White House.
Outside of this Mr.. Gaffney is quoted
by fellow passengers on the Frederick
VIII of the Scandinavian-Am line,
with saying that the Zeppelins raiding
England were doing a good thing, and
also Il wish I had been the man who
fired the torpedo into the Lusitania.'
While Mr.. Gaffney refused to be seen,
he said over the telephone he had been
grossly misrepresented, but half dozen
citizens and officials testify to the con-
trary.
There are some persons who occupy at
tention for the same reason a polecat oc-
cupies territory They are offensive.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-09-04
NEWSPAPER WAITS

4, in no knowing. how many other papers
between it's original publication and its
reproduction in the Nashville Democrat.
Everything considered, the probability is
that this item has been on it's travels,
from one newspaper to another, for
something like five years.
It's journey may not yet be over. 1t
may go on, conceivably, for another five
years.
There are, doubtless, many such items
going around and nobody suspects that
they are growing old. If this item were
credited to some paper still in existence,
few would suspect but that its original
publication occurred last week. The
Democrat put the mark on it by failing
to credit it to the paper in which it orig
inally appeared.
It's not much of an item, anyhow-Just
little story of how a farmer had yoke
OF oxen in parade and how the Column
bus Chamber of Commerce had offered
him $40 to parade the oxen in celebra-
ton in that city and how he refused to
let his oxen parade for less than $50. If
that sort of item can keep going for four
or five-or even three-years, really in
teresting one might keep on the move for
TO- Is OF even 20 years.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-09-04
THE FARMERS JOYOUS LIFE

relieve his wants, contribute to his pleas
ures and enjoyments and comfort or as
suage his Affections.
The owner of fertile farm in modern
times, and who is reasonably intelligent
and industrious, is like THE Village
Blacksmith" who, standing under the
shade of the spreading chestnut tree.
could look the whole world in the face,
for he owes not any man. The farmer
is the backbone and sheet anchor of our
civilization. Other classes become em-
broiled and often find themselves flung
into the maelstrom; but the farmer re-
mains secure and serene, confident OF
his own strength and Importance, willing
and ready to assist his less fortunate
fellow man, but always competent and
capable of taking care of himself and of
his own. This is no paean of the farmer,
but the simple truth. which is not al
ways recognized and which is often for
gotten. If people understood the free
dom and liberty and independence of life
on the farm there would be less crowd
ing to the cities, less congested popula-
ton, less disease and distress, less sor-
row and suffering, less sin and sickness,
and more of the brightness of Gods perl
petual and multiplied blessings.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-09-04
AWAKENING IN THE WOODS
7 Maurice Thompson

by maurice thompson.
Perfumes too, affect one strangely, on
waking in the depth Of night. There is
a certain decayed wood in the forest,
which at times gives forth a delicate, far
reaching aroma. This, together with the
occasional watts of sweet gum odor and
the peculiarly sharp smell Of pine rosin.
steals through the woodland ways and
touches the sleeper's senses until he
slowly awakes. Drowsily he lies, with
his eyes lightly closed, nothing the ten
der shades of sweetness as they come
and go. But the falling of a slight shower
Of rain, one Of those short, light, even
downcomings of large drops, which is not
strong enough to break through the leaf
canopy overhead moves the outdoor
slumberer to most exquisite enjoyment.
He opens his eyes and all his senses at
once. The air has sweet moisture in it,
the darkness is deep. Above, around. far
and near, a tumult Is in the leaves. The
shower Is scarcely more than momentary
in it's duration, but it Is infinitely sug-
gestive. There are millions of voices
calling from far and near. Vast organ
swells, tender aeolian strains the thrum-
ming Of harp strings and the exquisite
uuaverings of the VIOLIN Multitudes
clapping hands and crying from afar in
applause. Then as the cloud passes on
the throbbing sounds travel after it, and
at length it all dies out beyond the hills.
So our nights were filled with music
and our days were the scenes of greater
because more active pleasures
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-09-04
NATURES OWN STOCKINGS

But for this the deception must have
been complete.
Long are womans locks, but short
a womans w.t." runs the Russian
proverb. Never was there more foolish
saying. A woman who is not more than
a match for a man Is the Mrs. Harris of
her sex; there is mo SIGH a person..
Plautus makes 1t a reproach to women
that they study their own pleasure too
much. But whose pleasure, pray, should
they study? 1t is a pity if they cannot
decorate themselves as they choose.
What they do still betters what Is DONE.
Nature Is too often a crude artist.
Painted legs or painted faces-what diff
ference does it make? The effect mat.
tiers, not the process. Fortunately for
the welfare of the human race, women
are seldom restrained by petty scruples.
They know what they want and they
take it. Man has found fault with
woman's dress for centuries without eff
feet. Is it to be imagined that the scam
dalzed uplifters of Atlantic City at this
late day can lay down laws on such a
subject? There is no terror in their
threats; and their edicts pass by the dry
ads of the sand like the idle wind which
they regard not.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-09-04

pressions have come from an American
who loved every separate atom of his
country That was Walt Whitman. He
once wrote:
Grand as is the thought that doubtless
the child is already born who will see
100, 0o0,0 900 people, the most prosperous and
advanced of the world. inhabiting these
prairies. the great plains, and the valley
of the Mississippi, 1 could not help think
ing it would be grander still to see all
those inimtable American areas fused in
the alembic of a perfect poem, or other
| esthetic work, entirely western, fresh
| and limitless-altogether our own, with
out a trace or taste of Europe's soil.
Renaissance, technical letter, or spirit
| My days and nights as 1 travel here
what an exhilaration!-not the air alone,
and the sense of vastness but every local
| sight and feature. Everywhere some
thing characteristic-the cactuses, pink,
| buffalo grass, wild sage-the receding
| perspective, and the far circle line of the
horizon.
And yet, after wishing that some poet
might hymn all this, he remarks:
1alk as you ike, typical ROCKY noun
! tain canon, or a limitless sealike Stretch
of the great Kansas or Colorado plains,
under favoring circumstances, tallies,
| perhaps expresses, certainly awakes,
| those grandest and subtlest element emo
| tions in the human soul that all the
marble and sculptures from Phidas to
| Thorwaldsen-all paintings. poems, remi-
MT oIoh 1v
can.
The good gray poet" is right The
west is it's own best poem.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-09-04
WARDEN osBoRNE,s NEW PLAN

From the New York Tribune.
For the first time in 16 years Martin
Sweeney sleeps where he can see the
stars. Which is one way of saying that
a new method is being used at Sing Sing
to find convict who has been hiding in
the prison for several days awaiting his
chance to escape.
Warden Osborne has detailed Sweeney
and 80 other mutual welfare league men,
bers to sleep in the prison yard, in the
hope that Frank Grabowski, the hide
out" may be caught when he comes out
for water. Sweeney, who is serving a
20-year sentence, has always occupied a
cell from which the sky is not visible.
Among Sweeney's subordinates are men
serving life sentences.
The privileged ones have organized
watches, some keeping on the lookout
for Grabowski, while others enjoy the
novelty of slumber in the open air.
The missing man, who was janitor in
the prison print shop, vanished one noon.
Warden Osborne is positive he is hiding
within the walls Prison officials have
discovered that Grabowski prepared for
a long stay in hiding. He drew his saw
ings from the prison bank and invested
them in food which he could carry with
him,
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-09-04
rHE PRICE OF ROSES
the New York Independent.

From the New York Independent.
A small flower shop in the humber
quarters of a southern city. young
hospital nurse, still in training, Is ask
ing the price of roses. her rounded
cheek, itself a rose. half turned to the
open door.
The daily tasks of the hospital train
ing school are exhausting. But she has
managed to embroider a workbag-a we'd
ding present wrought by her own hands
and she seeks to adorn the package
with few buds
To the question she puts there is no
reply; only thoughtful look.
Such voice as is IAN excellent thing
in woman repeats it. Then the woman
of the shop, quietly: II heard you the
first time. dear, and I've heard your
voice before You were good, SO good,
to my Alice at the hospital How BADLY
she was burned by that overturned
lamp And how patient to the end!''
Then, turning to her boy, she bids him
give the lady all the flowers she may
reed. T. And she herself pins a white rose
OH the young nurses bosom.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-09-04
CoLoNELs DON'T DRINK JULEPs

From the Philadelphia Public Ledger.
Atlantic City, N, J.-Kentucky colonies
do not drink mint juleps.
Colonel Henry Watterson, veteran ed
itor, said so himself. He was not moved
to do SO by any conviction that Ken
lucky or it's institutions need to be de-
Tended, but rather for the benefit of
those who still cling to popular fiction
about his beloved Blue Grass state.
1.-THE mint julep is Virginia institu-
ton. 1t does not belong to Kentucky
and it never did, outside of the brains of
novelists and photographers, the rugged,
white-haired Kentucky journalist said. Il
don't believe anybody knows how the
mint julep first started. Maybe the
boys who. for five years, pictured me in
a jovial spirit as the national drunkard,'
until they passed that title with the
cherry cocktail to Charley Fairbanks,
had something to do with it. 1t was not
true in my case any more than the cock
tail fiction was true in Fairbanks case.
for he is one Of the most abstemious OF
men. But 1t came near being serious for
Fairbanks for the Methodists. who be-
licve what they read, refused to elect him
a commissioner to their national assem-
bly,.
But the mint julep fiction is fostered
to this day in Louisville. We have them
mixed in silver goblets and served to
northern visitors at the Pendennis club.
| and they go back home and stoutly chal-
lenge the veracity Of anyone who Ques-
tions the reliability Of the julep fiction.
don't suppose any member of the Pen
dennis club ever orders julep for his
own consumption"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-09-04
LUKE M,LUKE SAYS

Copyright. 1916, by the Cincinnati En-
quirer).
There are mighty few men who couldn' t
write an essay on What 1 Know About
Winding Other Peoples Business"
If young wife can't find anything else
to have Mysteries over she will sit down
and bawl because she hasn't any lace on
her bath towels.
1t makes a good housekeeper happy to
see the paperhanger arrive. And it makes
her twice as happy to see him depart.
Another reason why we have so many
divorces is because woman would rather
pretend to love "a man than to let some
other woman love him.
Even IL she is still single when she is
of knowing that she was born that way.
Why is it that man can drink more
when one hoof is hoisted on a foot rail
than he can when both feet are on the
floor?
You may imagine that a snail is slow.
But if you want to see something really
slow Just watch one woman making room
for another woman In a street car.
There are a lot Of pessimists and
grouches in the world But we never
heard a man complaining because there
were not enough sparrows to go around
Telling another man your troubles
doesn't relieve your troubles. 1t merely
adds to the other mans troubles.
The average mans idea of a boob is 6
fellow who has SO little sense that he
votes the other political ticket.
An old man measures time by decades
But small boy measures it by the space
between meals.
1t might be a good idea for some Of tn,
restaurants to provide ear muffs for thu
protection of its patrons while other pa
irons are eating soup.
When single man gets paid on Satur
day he can forecast his expenditures 81
as to have couple of dollars left on tn
| following pay day. But 1t is differen
with a married man.
| Anyway. when a corn fed girl goes ou
minus her corset you don't need pai
of glasses to sec that she doesn't have K
spend any money for developer.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-09-04
TUNE SMITHS
From the New York Telegram.

From the New York Telegram.
A musician who desires to compose a
tune that shall become popular must con-
trive to produce something apparently
original, and yet not so original as to de-
mand study; it must also contain echoes
of the other tunes previously popular. and
yet they must be so indefinite that no
one can Cell for certain where they come
from, which is what we mean when we
say it is wise tune that knows it's own
father,
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-09-04
Wire Grin Tire

I'VE have been very busy signing I'D
the agency for the Lancaster wire grip
tire, said II. Blackjack of the Black
lock Posner Tire Repair company.
with the acquisition of the Lancaster
tire we now have two lines of STAN
dard tires, the Midgley being the
other.
Il have great many motorists to
ask me daily if there is a puncture
proof tire on the market Many at
tempts have been made to produce a
puncture proof tire but thus far none
of them are an absolute success. Wa
expect to have one of the best sea-
sons in the history of our firm this
year and we have laid our plans ac-
cordingly."
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-09-04
ONE GUESS
From the Solomon tKan.) Tribune.

From the Solomon (Kan.) Tribune.
Notice to parents: The melon thieves
have become quite numerous. Anyone
caught trespassing on my place after this
notice is published will suffer conse.
quences. Owing to it being ladies last
Sunday saved them from getting a load
of shot. But ladies will suffer the same
as boys in the future. Mothers. where
are your young girls on Saturday ant
Sunday nights George Park and Jo'
Sager
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-09-04
USELESS TITLES

From the Chattanooga News
The New York Times objects to the
use of the words. Candidate Hughes"
saying that such word should precede
a mans name only when it is the title
of an office to which he has been elected
or appointed. 1T will encourage a re-
vival of Banker Jones' and Butcher
Robinson and Preacher Brown titles,
once common enough, but now, with the
advance of civilization, becoming rari-
ties says the Times. What about the
phrase, Pastor Moore?'
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-09-04

New York Correspondence Cincinnati
Times-Star.
The First One-"O. hul-lo. Lilly. Re-
hearsin?''
The Second One-"Night m days
Som pin terrible N tn show don't open
fur three weeks.
The First One-"Whose show is it?"
The Second One illinghams. Betty
Whatre you in?"
The First one-"o. one o TIL shubert
festivals"
The Second One-"Who's the stage man
ager?'
The First One-"old Huffy. Y'know
'im?"
The Second One-"Know EN-? Say.
when's y'r birthday, FLOP"
The First One-"What's tn idea?"
The Second One-"I just want I make
a present of him."