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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-07-07

Private Nagle, who owns razor, needs
n shave woSss than any one else in the
company. The others in the company use
his.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-07-07

A flag that G. A. r. veteran handed
10 Sergeant McMeelSin en- route Is going
right back to Philadelphia" to permanent
home.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-07-07

Company X has real live" sculptor in
it's ranks He is First Lieutenant r. d.
Kelley, of Sharon HILL It ls an artistic
company in the real sense of the word. 1t
also has q decorator in Second Lieutenant
Thomas Bailey, of Germantown.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-07-07

There is one General in Company c. He
IS General Nuisance, by name of John
Meloerger. He throws water on the 9TH
ers. pinches their toes and otherwise dis
turbs their equanlmity
Il don't care what they say" he says.
i've got the companys goat"
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-07-07

James Glvens is the guy that put the
devilment In regiment He swats flies
with broom, and also swats other things
with It,
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-07-07
GOSSIP OF THE FIRST BATTALION,
I'D REGIMENT, EN- ROUTE TO Ell PASO
How the Philadelphia Boys Passed the Time Their
Memorable Journey to the Banks Of the
Rio Grande

lurches around a curve, his victim wishes
he had taken out life insurance.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-07-07

When they called Gustav Ruggaber, the
company cook, KAISER" he sang THE
star.spangled Banner" all the way through
70 prove he's an American all the way
through.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-07-07

Tom Hannah is the Charlie Chaplin Of
b. The mustache causes It.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-07-07

street, and James Whuehead' OF zoSf mar
Ian street, who bunk together, are taken
for brothers. although they never saw each
other. before the day they enlisted.
company q has a trio In Charles Lovett,
Ed Mendenhall and Charles ]. Adams, ac-
companied by Joseph W. Cornman on the
mouth organ.
All noncommissloned officers who fail to
raise mustachios must buy tho others
dinner.
Private Nagle, who owns razor, needs
n shave woeas than any one else in the
comnnnv. The others in the company use
his.
A flag that G. A. r. veteran handed
IN SerReant McMeekin en- route Is going
RIGHT hack to Philadelphia" to a permanent
home.
Donald J. Donovan is recovering from his
annual dose of poison Ivy.
Private Jerry fIartigan, who hunks
with Corporal Ed Browning. sleeps on his
g.s eros ear two nights out OF three'
R,owni.g says that Hartigan takes his
third of the bunk. all right out ne taxes
IL out OF the middle.
The 1st squad. II placed sole on crown,
would stretch AZ feet inches. The memS
bers and their heights are: Corporal Ed
browning, feet / inch; Ed Gillingham, 8
feet 2; Jerry Hartigan' rect o. ana the
following 6.footers: John Lydon. Conrad
Anderson, Jim McClebberty, Harry Hins-
dale and Mike Mandler. All are sprout-
ing must2ches,
The M,<Iraws and the welnsteins. the
o'Iys rrigs1s and the Slonskis mix we'll in
Company =.
Company A stole Company BIS cigar
ettes-Adv.
There will be big wedding at the
armory at Broad street and Susquehanna
avenue when the boys come back. Every
body in Company B is going to turn out
when Corporal Robert Leach, of 1929 Marl.
borough street. and Miss Edna Stock. OF
340s Bancroft street. are married. she
promised to wait for him after plans Tor
their wedding were broken up by the call
for the Guard
Corporal Ed Heilman, who used to be
with the 7th U. s. Cavalry, in Cuba Is
teaching the company the Spanish words
for Cigarette" "girl." I'm hungry" and
ct love you" He pals" with Btter N.
Houser. another old army man, who was
with the Coast Artillery.
Marks KIstenbaum, William Shoemaker
Addison Bryant and Harry Brennan dis
turb the rest of the company after taps
with their nightmares. Bryant says his
worst one was when he dreamed he was In
Camden.
When Tom Teufel. the company barber
fiourishes his razor as the long snaly train
with the Mexican bordsr2 Answer-Be-
cause he wouldn't pay the rent"
Company B soldiers tried TO throw
Charles ]. Adams on the train when he
made up the following:
why is the United States having trouble
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-07-07

Corporal Ed Heilman. who used to be
with the 7th U. S. Cavalry, in Cuba Is
teaching the company the Spanish words
for Cigarette" girl" I'm hungry ana
ct love you" He pals with Etter N
Houser. another old army man, who was
with the Coast Artillery.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-07-07

wonderful white roadways; beyond that
the muddy Rio Grande divides American
soil from Cuidad Juarez, and beyond that
in the far distance rise the jagged Chihua-
hua Mountains of an almost indescribable
mother-of-pearl color purple where the
shadows of clouds fall upon them.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-07-07

The only Philadelphia and Reading
passenger trainman in the regiment Is
Color Sergeant A. II. Armon, of staff
headquarters. His home is In Amber.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-07-07

Chief ]. p MacElree, chief burgess of
West Chester, is cooperating with the n.
G. p. authorities in bringing recruits to
Mount Gretna. He brings recruits here
in his automobile from West Chester. He
also comes up when recruits have been
rejected and takes them homo again in
his machine.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-07-07

John L4vens. son Of the general man
ager Of the Cornwall Iron and Ore Com
pany, is q member of Company X.
The mirror., 1916-11-23
Character

Reputation and character are two terms
that frequently are interchanged without
reason. "Character,'' as Abbott says, els
what a person is; reputation is what he is
supposed to be. Character is injured by
temptations and by wrong-doing; reputa-
tion, by ISLANDERS and libes.''
No truer words on this subject possibly
could be uttered. The tendency of the
human mind in its present state is to seek
reputation rather than character, to appear
rather than to be. If we could lift aside
for moment the veil that hides the heart
and motives Of the average man, possibly
we would see the idol of reputation en-
throned in the sanctuary. Character, with
all that it means and stands for, is the re-
suit of the highest form of religious feeling.
Reputation is but the tinsel covering over
ugliness; it is the artificial, powdered bloom
on coarse features. Frequently it is the
whitened sepulcher concealing putrid flesh
and dead bones. Reputation may be in
jured, nay, destroyed, by even an unfounded
charge. 1t is of the earth, earthly. Char
acter, on the contrary, is internal. 1t with
stands triumphantly the storms of infamy,
of slander, of obloquy of misunderstanding,
of unjust denunciations. Character may be
assailed from without, but never can it be
injured, because it is of the soul, spiritual.
1t is contaminated and weakened only from
within: by temptations accepted, by poison
ed motives, by unjust desires, by wrong
doing of any kind. Many person in every
walk of life without distinction of age or
class, or condition, is to be found who places
all his hope in maintaining his so-called re-
putation while imperilling the security of
his character. Many man, whose char
acter has been torn to shreds by weakness
of will or malice of mind. endeavors to de-
ceive his followers by his solicitude for his
reputation. A man of strong character
seldom cares about the opinion of those
who would force him to wrong doing.
When reputation is given the preference
over real character we have lying, deceit,
uncharitableness, renegade or lukewarm
mortals, or plaster pillars of real infamy.
Catholic Bulletin.
The mirror., 1916-11-23
Eight Important Factors
Continued from first page)


and of introducing your goods. lmagina-
tion helps you to discover new ways of
int eresting and helping your customer.
1 heard of lamp chimney salesman
who sold an unusually good chimney, but
for some reason could not get much busi-
ness. Finally he discovered a way of
throwing the lamp-chimney across the floor
SO that it would not break. He would 60
into store, buy an ordinary chimney, and
throw it across the floor, taking care to
break it. Then he would repeat the per-
formance with his own chimney, but of
course nothing would happen-it would
hold up in great shape. He would then
and say, "Don't you think that kind of
lamp chimney would give more satisfaction
to your customers than any other kindi''
If each wholesale salesman would study
these eight factors and apply them to his
own needs, he would unquestionably in
crease his sales and in consequence his sala-
ry; for whatever may be said to the contra
ry, we all know that a mans salary is an
expression of the results he obtains.
One concluding word. 1t is fine thing
to keep in view the amount of business you
intend to get, and to look upon sales from
a personal standpoint: but there is bigger
view to take of your duties. AS sales
man, you keep so many families in COM
fort. If there are twenty salesmen work.
lug for one firm, and that firm does a mill
lion dollars worth of business a year, each
salesman averages $5O,000 worth of busi-
ness. Instead of looking at this as $50, 900
worth of sales, look upon it as a volume of
business which will keep so many work.
people busy during the year, supplying
livlihood for themselves and their families,
and keeping them, their wives, and their
children in happiness. Surely it is much
more satisfying that you are keeping ten
families in comfort through your efforts
than merely to look at it as volume of
business which enables you to earn your
salary.
The mirror., 1916-11-23
The Art of Optimism

Live in the active voice, intent on what
you can do rather than on what happens to
you; in the indicative mood, concerned
with facts as they are rather than as they
might be; in the present tense, concentrate
on the duty in hand without regard for the
past or worry about the future, in the first
person, criticising yourself rather than con-
demning others; in the singular number,
seeking the approval of your own conscience
rather than popularity with the many
Whoever lives the life of such unselfish de-
votion to the good of others and of all and
lives it in the active voice, indicative mood,
present tense, first person, singular number,
is bound to find his life full and rich and
glad and free-is bound, in other words, to
be an optimist. William De Witt Hade.
The mirror., 1916-11-23
The People on Whom You
can Depend

Zone of the things which amazes me
most in my observations of people," said a
woman whose wide interests have brought
her in contact with great variety of human
kind, "is the small percentage who can be
depended on. 1t does not matter whether
you are engaging woman to do washing,
or securing the cooperation of some society
girl in charitable project. You can never
feel certalin that the one who makes such
ready promises will really deliver the
goods till the crucial moment arrives
There is hardly more serious charge to
be brought against young people than this,
OF being undependable. A desire to be
thought obliging prompts to the giving of
easy promises. which seemingly rest as
lightly on the heart of the giver as if they
were not promised at all. 1t is incredible
how many people pledge themselves to aid
with this thing or that, to be present on
some occasion, to give something, to help
somewhere, and then when the time arrives,
Serenely present any excuse which happens
to occur to them for failing to carry out
their agreement.
1t is the people who cannot be depended
on who block the wheels of progress, upset
'he calculations of real workers, and break
down the dependable people who are per.
force obliged to attempt not only rheir own
work, but that of the unreliable, besides.
"He's not remarkable in any way but one, -
said business man in recommending one
of his workers, ''but you can always rely
on him. And that popularity secured
for the youth the advancement he wanted.
In the long run, reliability outweighs bril-
liancv, There is nothing the business and
the social and the religious worlds need
quite SO much as people who can be de-
dended on-Ea.
The mirror., 1916-11-23
Don't Be a Crank; Be a
Self f-Starter

Don't be the sort of an employee who
must have instructions pounded into him
before they have any effect.
Don't be the kind that must be addressed
in an angry tone if they are to be impressed.
1t should be sufficient for any employer
or superior officer to pleasantly request Ger
tain services from you.
The man who must be whacked and
pounded into action is no good in any es-
tablishmeDt, and the sooner such men ge,
the gate the better for their employers.
1t is to expensive to hire men to work
and then have to hire others 10 watch them
every minute in order that proper service
may be secured.
The willing worker, the man who acts
Immediately upon instructions which are
pleasantly given to him, is the sort of en-
ployee who is worth having.
Such a man gives honest service at all
times, and this is what counts in the work
a-day world.
Shirks are expensive at any price.-Bimd-
cry Talk.
The mirror., 1916-11-23
Fame

One thing is certain in regard to fame
to most of us it will be very brief in itself;
for all of US it will be transient in our en-
ployment of it. When death has dropped
the curtain we shall hear no more applause
for our deeds. Though we fondly dream
that it will continue after we have left the
stage, we do not realize how quickly it will
die away in silence while the audience turns
to look at the new scene. Our position in
society will be filled as soon as it is vacated,
and our name remembered only for mo-
ment-except, please God, by few who
have learned to love US, not because of our
fame, but because we have helped them
nd done them some good.-Es.
The mirror., 1916-11-23
Back to Nature

There is eternal truth in the ancient myth
of the wrestler who, being thrown, recover
ed his full strength and became irresistible
the instant his body touched the earth.
For that is it, as truly in this twentieth
century as amid the mists of antiquity.
Get back to the fresh earth, back to the
primitive
The two greatest men in American histo-
ry are Washington and Lincoln; yet Lincoln
was not great because he was of poor and
undistinguished family, nor was Washing
ton great because he was of family dis
tingushed and rich Both men were ire
sistible because they got down to the essen
tials of life. Lincoln splitting rails, Wash
ington in the winter wilderness as primitive
as an Indian-such things are typical of
their essential lifetime standards.
To 60 out into village and live is worth
while, not only for the hitherto unsuccessful
but for those whom the world calls success
full, if it will strip away error and teach first
principles.
If one can go to his garden and chicken
yard and orchard for food, if one is ready
to plan and work, to struggle and persist,
to give no heed to disappointments and
aim steadily at the goal, he will win the
best that life has to offer.-Er.
The mirror., 1916-11-23
The World

This world, after all, is a bully old place,
it ranks with the best of spheres, and he to
his family was disgrace, who called it a
valley of tears. You see a man weeping
for something he's lost, some chap who
got hurt in the game: he says this old world
is snare and frost, and you take his word
for the same. But hundreds are happy
while one makes his wall, while one views
the world with frown; and scores to the
harbor of happiness sail, where one strikes
snag and goes down. A little of trouble
we certainly have, but when some afliction
annoys, just 60 to the drug store and order
some salve, and grin with the rest of the
boys. A little of worry, little of grief,
to season our days as they fit; if there
were no darkness, we'd soon beg relief
from light that refuses to quit. This world
we infest is a bully old sphere, no niftier
worlds are about; and am enjoying my
residence here so much that Ill hate to
get out.-WdH Mason.
The mirror., 1916-11-23
The Oldest Post Office

The pioneers of the Northwest often
made use of huge trees followed out bv
nre or decay. Some of these ''tree houses
they occupied as temporary residence.
Others they used as shelters for stock or as
primitive barns. Only one, however, ever
had the distinction Of being United States
post office. That stump is in Clallam
county, in the State of Washington.
In early days the settlers were widely
scattered, and it was long journey over
rough trails to the post office. Carriers
could do no more than leave mail at some
central point. The big cedar stump, twel. e
feet In diameter, and reduced to a shell by
hre, was a base from which number of
trails radiated. By common consent it be-
came the post Office for a wide region
The settlers put on roof of cedar shakes,
and nailed boxes round its interior, which
they regarded as marked with their names.
There was larger box for the outgoing
mail. There were no locks, but the mails
were never tampered with.
This primitive post Office was used for
more than a year. 1t has been carefully
preserved, and is annually visited by hun
dreds of interested sightseers. The stump
is believed to be over two thousand wears
old, which clearly establishes its right to
the distinction of being the Oldest post
Office building in America!-Er.
The mirror., 1916-11-23
The First Haircut

When John was hve we went to town
And took him to barbershop
A long dark stairway let US down
Beneath the Bank. We had to stop
Before we entered, and thought
We rather hesitated there,
But Pa led on and said: "We've brought
The boy, so you can cut his hair"
And then Ma said. eyes, Mister, he
Has grown to be great big man,
So his hair must be cut, you see;
Trim it as nicely as you can.
The barber got board and put
1t over both arms of chair,
To raise John up about foot,
And then he lifted him up there.
The shears went all around his head,
And trimmed off all the longest curls.
The barber cleared his throat and said:
"You used to look just like the girls!''
Then Ma spoke up and said: "Well, yes,
He did look girlish with them on,
And some folks plagued him, but guess
Well all be sorry when there gone!"
The barber took another whack,
And then Pa said: "You'd better leave
1t fairly long there in the back
And wiped his eyes upon his sleeve.
The porter came to sweep the hair
Away, but Ma spoke up. Said she:
'Young man, you'd better have care;
Those curls you know belong to me!''
So while Pa gave the man his pay,
We raked the curls up in a heap,
And Ma slowed all OF them away,
And brought them home with us to keep,
We didn't talk much when we left
The barber shop and started home,
Our Johnnie looked like one bereft
And turned loose in the world to roam.
From that day forward, Ma grew old
With leaps and bounds. l dom know whv
Unless that boy, with curls of gold,
Had kept the lustre in her eye.
There's one curl in the Bible vet.
She put it there. l heard her say,
And both her eyes with tears were wet);
"Our Johnnie's hair was cut todav!''
-Hoaoard C. Kegley.
The mirror., 1916-11-23
An Entertainment Enjoyed
By the Inmates

In lieu of our usual moving pictures last
Wednesday evening, we had as entertainers
Mr.. Charles N. Farnham and Master Al
bert Greenfield, both of Minneapolis. Mas
ter Greenfield is soloist at St. John
the Evangelist Church of St. Paul.
Mr.. Farnham entertained US with readings
and poems from the late James Whitcomb
Riley while Master Greenfield delighted
the audience with solos which were appre-
ciated and repeatedly applauded. The
management extends its thanks to the enter
tainers, and hope at some future time they
will again favor this institution with their
presence
The mirror., 1916-11-23
To the Conquered

You may be conquered, crimson stained and
CORY,
When the red sun is sinking to its rest;
But still your shattered ranks will share the
4 glory
If you have fought your hardest, done your
best.
Beaten and trodden, in the dust defeated
There is no shame if but your powerless hand
Still strives to strike the stroke yet uncom-
pIeted.
Still tries to lift the shattered, broken brand.
Fight the good fight and never mind the
winning,
Struggle along in spite of wounds or pain,
And somewhere, sometime, as in the be-
ginning,
Ihe fates will give you back your chance
again.
N. Y. World.
The mirror., 1916-11-23
About Dogs

Treat dog like a man, and you will
have noble animal; treat him like dog,
and you will have dog. Never lose sight
of the fact that your dog knows more than
you do. Proof: He understands your lam
guage; you do not understand his.
The more you talk to dog the better he
likes it, and he times his temper to your
every mood. Are you merry? He frisks
and frolics and jumps up at you with wild
abandon. Are you sorrowful? He will
lay his head softly on your knee, looking
up into your face with adoring, kindly
eyes that far more prettily than any words
beg you to cheer up, and tell you that he,
at all events, thinks you worthy of the ut
most good fortune. The right kind Of a
dog never lets you forget how much he
loves you.
Every now and then we get letter from
one of thoes unfortunate people who would
be glad to have all the dogs exterminated.
10 such we would say, you might as we'll
attempt to strike ont the gospel of St. John
from the New Testament as the songs,
stories and pictures of the dog from our
humane literature. The world has settled
that matter long ago, and through the ages
the dog will occupy high place in the re-
gard and affection of millions of human
beings.
"Love me, love my dog
Fat dogs are more subject to asthma than
thin ones.
A dog is the only thing on this earth that
loves you more than he loves himself.
Barking dogs may not bite, but we are
always suspicious as to their preparedness.
"Through life it's been a solace to me
My little dogs loving sympathy"
No matter how ferocous dog may be,
there is always some one whom he will
mind.
The bulldogs expansive and unbeautiful
features are one of the main standbys of
our cartoonists.
l heard farmer say the other day, 81
can come nearer trusting my dogs judg-
ment about the character of stranger com
ing to my place, than my own.''
Do you remember the enjoyment you
got out of that sleek puppy neighbor gave
you? Don't refuse to let Your children
have dog if they want him, but see that
they don't abuse him.-From Our Dumb
AnimaLs.
The mirror., 1916-11-23
= p o E Z r Y
From Our Exchanges.
My Pa, He Says

My Pa, He Says
My Pa, he says that little boys
Should play no tricks and make no noise
That when they 60 to school each day,
They ought to work more than they play
Lives of great men are all sublime,
But bad boys end by doing time
Because they have such stubborn ways,
My Pa says.
My Pa, he says when he was small
He didn't care for playing bali
Or catching fish or going swimming,
AT school he never got trimming;
He says he never played for "keeps''
And kept his marbles piled in heaps;
He says the teachers loved him so
For all the things he got to know.
"Those were my parents proudest days,
My Pa, he says.
Pas Ma just came to spend week
And Pa amt got no piece to speak.
He told me could run and play
And 60 in swimming every day.
Pas ma she said: "Of course, he can!
Why should YOU stop the little man
When YOU were young you did it too,
l Icouldn't do thing with you!
Don't never let him make you cross
You let his mother be the boss!
A child as wild as you were, Jim,
Should never scold boy like him,
You ought to feel ashamed to scold,
You NEVER did what you were told.
The only time you did no wrong
And acted nice the whole day long
Was once when you were sick in bed"
Pas Ma, she said.
-WiIliana F.. Kark.