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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-10-26

of it is that it engenders self-con-
sciousness; and self-consciousness is
deplorable aff1iction, thwarting
every natural and spontaneous inn
pulse, and poisoning the capacity for
enjoyment at it's source. Here, for
instance, is pathetic letter from a
young girl which is worth presenting,
because there are SO many like her.
II have fair education, and while
not handsome am not homely, eth
err" she writes. 'I always try to be
kind and good-natured and pleasant
to everybody, and although I am by
no means perfect 1 try to do what
is right Yet am not popular with
either girls or boys. 1 like people
and I want them to like me, but
somehow they don't. I love to be in
crowd, and love a good time. Yet
when 1 am one of a party it seems
before long the others forget 1 am
there, and feel like q wallfiower.
Il have girl friends, yet they sell
dom invite me to go anywhere with
them, and when they do 1 hesitate
to do for fear 1 shall spoil their fun
and my own. 1 realize that I am
quiet and backward when in a crowd.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-10-26

| There's always been a natural per-
! sonal antagonism between us. 1t be-
gan to show when we were lads,
you might say. Monohan's nature
is such that he can't acknowledge
defeat. He can't deny himself a
! qualification. He's q supreme ego
| tist. He's always had plenty of
money, he's always had whatever
he wanted, and it never mattered to
him how he gratified his desires.
"The first time we locked horns
was in my last year at high school.
Monohan was a star athlete. 1 beat
him in a pole vault. That irked
him so that he sulked and sneered
and generally made himself so in
sulting that 1 slapped him. We
fought, and 1 whipped him. 1 had
temper that I hadn't learned to
keep in hand those days, and I
nearly killed him. had nothing
but contempt for him, anyway, be-
cause even then, when he wasn't
quite twenty, he was q woman hun
ter, preying on silly girls. 1 don't
know what his magic with women
is, but it works until they find him
out.
well, from that time on he
hated me, always laid for a chance
to sting me. We went to Prince
ton the same year. We collided
there, so hard that when word of
it got to my fathers ears he called
me home and read the riot act so
strong that I flared up and left.
Then I came to the coast here and
got job in the woods, got to be O.
logging boss and went into business
on my own hook eventually. I'd
just got nicely started when I ran
into Monohan again. He'd got into
timber himself. / was hand logging
up the coast, and I'd hate to tell
you the tricks he tried. He kept it
up until I got too big to be har-
rassed in petty way. Then he left
me alone. But he never forgot his
grudge. The stage was all set for
this act long before you gave him
his cue, Stella. You weren't to blame
for that, or if you were in part it
doesn't matter now. I'm satisfied.
Paradoxically I feel rich, even
though it's long shot that I'm
broke flat. I've got something money
doesn't buy. And he has over
reached himself at last. All his
money and pull won't help him out
of this jackpot. Arson and at
tempted murder is serious business"
"They caught him." Stella said.
"The constables took him down the
lake tonight. 1 saw him on their
launch as they passed the Water
bug"
ITO he Continued)
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count partly because I could hardly
bear to let you go-mostly because
wanted to make him boil over
and show his teeth, on the chance
that you'd be able to size him up.
you see, 1 knew him from the
ground up. I knew that nothing
would afford him a keener pleasure
than to take away from me q
woman 1 cared for and That moth
ing would make him squirm more
than for me to checkmate him. That
day cuffed him and cholled him
on the point really started him prop
erly. After that you, as something
to be desired and possessed, ran sec
ond to his feeling against me. He
was bound to try to play even, re-
gardless of you. When he precipi-
tated that row on the Tyee I knew
it was going to be q fight for my
financial life, for my own life if he
ever got me foul. And it was not
a thing L could talk about to you,
in your state of mind, then. You
were through with me. Regardless
of him, you were getting farther
and farther away from me. 1 had
a long time to realize that fully. You
had a grudge against life, and it
was sort of crystallizing on me. You
never kissed me once in all those
two years as you kissed me just
now"
She pulled his head down and
kissed him again.
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though I try not to be. I am al
ways afraid to meet people, as L do
not know what to say to them.
Il have tried taking elocution les
sons, but 1t hasn't helped me. Can't
you tell me how to overcome this,
and what is the reason people do
not like me? Life seems so dull
and monotonous as it is now. And [
sometimes think will try being bad,
as it seems that a good girl nova
days doesn't have any good times.
Poor child! She has unconscious
ly expressed the whole trouble when
she says: II have girl friends, vet
they seldom invite me to go any
where with them, and when they do
hesitate to go for fear L shall spoil
their fund and my own"
This very fear has made her the
spoil-spirit/ she considers herself.
With the will to be happy and a suf-
ficient equipment to accomplish it,
she holds always in her thoughts an
image of herself, tongue-tied retir-
ing, bashful. And this keeps her in
a perpetual state of stage fright.
Look at yourself from another an
gle, dear girl. Stop trying to "be
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-10-26
BIG
TIMBER
By
BERTRAND w.
SINCLAIR
Cs1yisfss. 1916. - Lktia. Hss~s
e Co.
(Continued.)


"And so-and so, after all, vol
do care" Fyfe held her off a little
from him, his sinewy fingers grip,
ping gently the soft flesh of hel
arms. And you were big enough
to come back. Oh my dear, you
don't know what that means to me
I'm broke, and I'd just about
reached the point where didn't
give a d. This fire was cleaned
me out I've
"I know" Stella interrupted
That's why came back. /
wouldn't have come otherwise, at
least not for long time-perhaps
never. 1t scenes as if I ought to,
as if 1t were the least 1 could do.
OF course it looks altogether diff
ferent now that I know 1 really
want to. But, you see. didn't
know that for sure until saw you
such lot I wish I could wipe out!"
IT'S wiped out" he said happily.
The states clean. Fair weather
didn't get us anywhere. It took a
storm. Well. the storms over"
She stirred uneasily in his arms.
Haven't you got the least bit of
resentment, Jack, for all this trou-
BILE I've helped to bring about p"
she faltered.
'Why, no." he said thoughtfulIy.
All you did was to touch the fire.
works off. And they might have
started over anything. Lord, no!
Put that idea out of your head"
II don't understand" she mur-
INJURED. II never had quite under
stood why Monohan should attack
you with such savage bitterness
that trouble he started on the Tyee,
then this criminal firing of the
woods. I've had hints first from
your sister, than from Linda. I
didn't know you'd clashed before.
I'm not very clear on that vet. But
you knew all the time what he was.
Why didn't you tell me, Jack?"
We'll, maybe I should have"
Fyfe admitted. But 1 couldn't very
we'll. Don't you see? He wasn't
even an incident until he bobbed up
and rescued you that day. I couldn't
after that start in picking his char
acter to pieces as a matter of pre-
caution. We had a sort of armed
truce. He left me strictly alone. I'd
trimmed his claws once or twice al
ready. I suppose he was acute
enough to see an opportunity to get
a whack at me through you. You
were just living from day to dav,
creating a world of illusions for
yourself, nourishing yourself with
dreams, smarting under a stifled
regret for a lot you thought you'd
passed up for good. He wasn't a
factor at first. When he did fin
ally stir in you an emotion I had
failed to stir it was too late for me
TO do or say anything. If I'd tried
at that stage of the game to show
your idols clay feet you'd have de-
spised me, as well as refused to be-
lieve. l couldn't do anything but
stand back and trust the real woman
of you to find out what a quicksand
you were building your castle on. II
purposely refused to let you go
when you wanted to go away the
first time, partly on the kids ac-
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osity, the love of things lovely and
noble. When you can be q delights
full companion to yourself you will
be showered with invitations.
Laugh, because life delights and
amGses you, and every one will long
to laugh with you. This is a world
of wonders; get so vitality interested,
iE something that. you forget all
about yourself, and then when youI
talk you will have plenty of listens
ers.
You have created out of your more
bid imaginings this shy, sensativesi
stupid creature you call yourself.
Don't stop to notice it. much less to-
fight with it; ignore it. Be both too
proud and too vain to consider your-j
self anything but a very pretty, in-s
telligent, attractive and interesting
girl.
Don't allow yourself to imagine
that airy one could presume to snubl
you. And as for being bad" as you
call it, that is a piece of Stiffness not
worthy Of your intelligence. Don't
throw away your trnmps for the low,
cards. Play the game to win. and
win all along the line.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-10-26
Life'sProblems
Are Discussed
BY Mrs. Wilson woodrow


When, according to the old legend,
inquisitive little Pandora lifted the
lid of the box which she had been
charged not to open and thus turned
loose all the singing, biting, buzzing
troubles that VeX and worry poor hu-
man1ty, there was in the lot one
particularly virulent bug that, like
the germs of whooping cough and
measles, seems especially to attack
the young. It's name is introspection.
When the boy reaches that stage
OF adolescence where he begins to
watch with eager expectancy the
downy growth upon his upper lip
and when the girl first commences
to do up her hair and to entertain
vague yearnings for a career, is the
time when each usually falls q vic
tim.
Nature is making momentous
changes in them. and unable to un-
derstand just what is going on they
Jump at all sorts of fantastic conclu-
slons to account for the unfamiliar
emotions and the. unrest of which
they are conscious.
1t is at this period that the fe-
male OF the species makes the in
teresting discovery that she is not at
all like other girls, but of a much
deeper, more sensitive nature; while
her male counterpart indulges in sea-
sons of Byronic gloom as he darkly
contemplates his sin-seared past.
Both are entirely misunderstood, es-
pecially by the members of their own
families.
This phase of youthful expert
ence is being most truthfully and
wittily exploited by Samuel Merwlr
in his series of stories in the Cosmo-
politan Magazine, dealing with the
soul-struggles of Henry Calverly, Sd,
and his group of sweethearts in the
hctitious town of Sunbury. A para
graph from the latest one of these
tales is illuminating:
Henry could babble forth his most
sacred inner feelings with an in
genuous volubility that would alarm
naturally reticent man, and he
could be bafflingly secretive. To-
night he was both and neither. He
was full of odd little spirited turn
ings and twistings-vague as to the
clock, intent on justifying himself,
submerged in q boundless, bottom
less sea of self-pity"
And that, by the way, brings out
two of the invariable symptoms of
introspection -.self-pity and self
Justification. When one starts to-
analyEe ones inner self one can al
ways find such ample excuse for
whatever one has done, and such
lofty purity of motives and aspira-
tions, that one feels cheated by the
callous worlds lack of appreciation.
And puzzling over this one naturally
becomes morbid, jaundiced and
Let no one imagine that youthful
conduces to happiness.
And what makes it worse is that, like
seasickness and corns, it arouses no
sympathy. 1t appears in its most
violent form generally from the fif-
teenth to the twentieth year in al
series of recurring attacks, and
usually begins to disappear when one
takes up some actual business or oc-
cupation. !
One of the most distressing phasesI
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-10-26

kind, good-natured and pleasant to
every one" Don't try" to be any
thing but yourself. Do the things
you naturally like and want to do,
and don't suppress any impulses.
Don't care a straw what anybody
thinks about you, so long os yol
know you are worth while yourself.
What is it that gains us friends
and holds them, that makes us pop
ular, in a word? Not beauty. Not
clothes. Not wit or readiness of
speech. 1t is that intangible quality
we call charm.
What makes Maud Adams the
most popular actress in America ?
She is not beautiful. She is equally
delightful as ragged Cinderella and
as Lady Babby'' in her dainty cos
tunes. She is not n Siddons or a
Bernhardt. Her place in the public
heart is due solely to her charm.
But how is this inestimable gift
of the gods to be acquired? Like
the kingdom of heaven it cometh
not by observation, nor is it to be
taken by violence. 1t exists only as
the reflected light from those attri-
butcs Of the soul-gentleness, gener-
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-10-26
CHAPTER XIX
Home AUoiU

80 that L wasn't restraints
you with any hope for my own ad-
vantage" Fyfe went on. There was
the kid, and there was you. wanted
to put brake on you to make you
go slow. You're a complex indi-
vidual, Stella. Along with certain
fixed, fundamental principles, you've
got a streak of divine madness in
you, a capacity for reckless under
takings. You'd never have married
me if you hadn't. 1 trusted you alb
solutely, but 1 was afraid in
spite of my faith. You had
draped such an idealistic mantle
around Monohan. 1 wanted to rend
that before it came to a final sep
aration between us. 1t worked out.
because he couldn't resist trying to
take a crack at me when the notion
seized him.
$50" he continued after a pause.
"you aren't responsible, and I'VE
never considered you responsible.
for any of this. It's between him
and me, and it's been shaping for
years. Whenever our trails crossed
there was bound to be a clash.
The evening world., 1917-10-05
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The evening world., 1917-10-05
LOUISVILLE ENTRIES.

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The evening world., 1917-10-05

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The Washington times., 1917-04-11
The Easiest Way
To End Dandruf

There is one sure way that never
fails to remove dandruff completely,
and that is to dissolve it. This de
stroys 1t entirely. To do this, just
get about four ounces of plain, ordi-
nary liquid aryon: apply it at night
when retiring; use enough to mois-
ten the scalp and rub it in gently
with the finger tips.
By morning most, If not all. Of
your dandruff will be gone, and three
or four more applications will com
pletely dissolve and entirely destroy
every single sign and trace of it, no
matter how much dandruff you may
have.
You will find, too, that all itching
and digging of the scalp will stop
instantly, and your hair will be
fluffy. lustrOus, glossy. silky. and
soft. and look and feel a hundred
times better.
You can get liquid arvon Mt any
drug store. 1t Is inexpensive, and
four ounces Is all you will need. This
simple remedy has never been known
to fail-Advt
The Washington times., 1917-04-11
"Cascarets' for
Your Bowels If
-Headachy, Sick
For biIiousness, bad breath,
colds, Indigestion and
constipation.
Enjoy life! Liven your liver
and bowels tonight
and feel fine.


Your tongue II coatedi Look inside
your watch cover and seeI That's bad
business. What have you been eating?
What were you drinking7 What kind
Of a lazy chair did you take exercise IN!
Now don't think It doesn't matter. be-
cause. It's your bowels that talk now
every time you open your mouth That
doesn't help your popularity. nor your
earning capacity. Besides. q person
with bad bowels IL in a bad way and q
coated tongue or a bad breath are sure
signs of bad bowels and poor digestion.
Why don't you get a Decent box Of
Cascarets at any drug store and give
your liver and thirty feet Of bowels the
incest. gentlest cleansing they ever ex-
perienced. Take one or two Cascarets
tonight and wake up feeling fine and fit
All Headache. Dizziness. Biliousness. Bad
Breath. Stomach, Sourness. Cold and
Constipation gone-wake up with your
head clear. tongue clean. stomach sweet.
liver and bowels active. step elastic and
complexion rosy.
Cascarets work while you sIeep-never
gripe or sicken. Cascarets act so gently
that you hardly realize you have taken
a thorough. cathartic. They don't bother
You all next day like salts. pills. oil or
calomel - Cascarets being perfectly
harmless is best children's laxative
Advt.
The Washington times., 1917-04-11
U-B0AT CHASERS BUILDING
Two Speedy Additions to Mosquito
Fleet Nearly Ready. 4.

CHICAGO, April 1.-Two submar-
Inc chasers, planned to be the speed
lest OF their kind, are being construc-
ted in Chicago and within q few days
will be on their way to the Atlantic
seaboard. For obvious reasons. the
place of their construction and the
time of their departure IL kept secret
by their woners and the government.
The two boats, which their owners
expect to be OF inestimable service in
running down submarines are the
Disturber vi. owne- by Commodore
James A. Pugh. and the Kanawna,
owned by John Boruen.
The Kanawha, which will carry
four x-pounders and two machine
guns. is 225 feet long and has a gross
tonnage OF AIS tons. 1t has a speed
OF twenty-five miles an hour, and car
les q csw of sixty-five,
The Distuber vi Is one Of the fast
est boats afloat. II is low and al
most invisible to an enemy at q dis
tance OF TWO or three miles. CaRable
of making a mile a minute. the speed
boat. with its shap steel bow, can be
upon a submarine ever before the
commander can give orders to sub
merge II is to be armed with a At
inch gun.
The Disturber is being used by the
Government as a model for the con
struction of 200 similsr boats. 1t is
no feet long and has a 10 foot beam.
\ -2.500 horsepower engine generates
power enough to make a speed OF
sevency-fice miles an hour in still
water. II is to be manned by a crew
of fifteen men.
The Washington times., 1917-04-11
THIRD So BENEFIT
GIVEN TO STRIKERS
Union Reports Railway Men
Able to Hold Out
Indefinitely.

The third weekly strike benefit" Of
IS was paid to each of the striking
empolyes Of the Washington Railway
and Electric Company today.
Immediately upon receipt of the
weekly check for s5.5o5 for the 1.1O1
strikers. Edward McMorrow, member
of the executive board of the Anal
gamated Association of Street and
Electric Railway Employees OF Amer
a committee for disbursement. The
committee. which visited all the
barns, paying the pickets. was head
ed by Frank O'Shea, of the amalga-
mated association.
Although the strikers said they
were glad to get the five bucks"
they declared the union was hnan-
cially well on and far from distress.
Contributions OF 50 each every week
from the 500 employees OF the Capital
Traction Company who belong to the
union. a donation OF s425 q week
from the International Association Of
Machinists. and from other organiza-
tions and individuals have kept the
treasury in a hourishing condition,
according to officials OF the union.
"We do not intend to be financially
ground down nor starved out" said
Garth Calderhead, financial secretary
Of the union.
Officials of the union said the men
were sticking together" and would
not return to work except In q body
Of organized employees.
The company may say what It
pleases. but 1t cannot run it's cars
eniciencly, safely, and on schedule
without the men who are now on
strike" said Calderhead.
The strikers expect the Hughes
resolution, calling for an investiga-
tion OF the strike, to be reported to-
morrow.
The Washington times., 1917-04-11
DRY LAWS HIT PERFUMERS
National Manufacturers Begin Con-
ventlon In New York.

NEW YORK. April 11.-Warning
that prohibition legislation in some
States is so closely drawn that II
may interfere with the manufacture
OF perfumes was sounded yesterday
at the first session of the three-day
conference of the Manufacturing Per-
fumers OF the United States by A. NJ.
Spiehler. the organizations president.
Mr.. Spiehler said legislators do not
desire to tie the hands of the per
fumers. but measures so sweeping
are being introduced that the use OF
alcohol in perfumes will be made i'm,
possible unless the perfumers watch
carefully all prohibition bills.
The organization will hold its ban
quet tomorrow evening, and the
speakers will be Senator Calder and
John B. Stanchheld.
The Washington times., 1917-04-11
CROSBY SUCCEEDS PETERS
Warrenton Capitalist Named As
sIstant Secretary Of Treasury.

Oscar T Crosby. OF warrsnton, Va.
well known in Washington business
and social circles, today was nom
mated by President Wilson as Assist
ant Secretary OF the Treasury, to sue
ceed Andrew J Peters, who resigned
some weeks ago, and who recently
was made a member of the Federal
Reserve Board
The nomination OF Mr.. Crosby went
to the Senate today.
Mr.. Crosby Is a Virginia capitalist
and has been interested for several
months in the Belgian relief work.
He formerly was an attache' of the
American legation In Picking. He IS
a well-known horseman. and his home
in Warrenton is one OF the most fa-
nous places of entertainment in that
section of the Old Dominion.
The nomination OF w. R-SSmith, Of
FL Paso. as Judge OF the Western dis
trict of Texas. also was sent to ths
Senate today. as were those OF a num-
Der of Virginia and Maryland post
masters.