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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-01-08

the speakership contest did not en-
throne one faction and dethrone the
other. Senator Ware. who is never
emotional and whose level-headed
Judgment is respected by even his
keenest adversaries, is certain that out
or the fifty members of the Senate
there Is minimum of twenty-nine
who will stand by Governor Brum-
baugh."
Some newspapers appear to be
Just waking up to the story that
Gabriel II. Meyer, the Lebanon county
leader, was offered the State banking
commissionership by a man said to
nave been an emissary of the State
administration a week ago. Mr.. Meyer
said at the time that it had been ten
dered and that he had refused 1t. An
other interesting story is that Moye1
had hopes of becoming Deputy Auditor
General and was turned down by Gov
ernor Tener. AS the Governor has
nothing whatever to do with the ap-
pointment of anyone in the Auditor
Generals office. this may be put into
the entertaining class of items.
Senator w. NJ. Lynch, of Lacka-
wanna county, is likely to have trouble
realizing his ambition to become chair
man of the health and sanitation COM
mittee of the State Senate. The SEN
oiOi 10 Solu W nave plChGu tHG WTOnS
horse in the speakership contest.
Mayor Smith, of Philadelphia, has
dropped from political interest for a
few days because of the death of his
father-in-law. The mayor will doubt
less be glad of it respite.
The announcement from Wash
ington that the federal farm loan bank
system was to be operated without
regard to politics was heard with in
terest at the State Capitol.
Philadelphia postmen will give q
dinner to Senator Penrose and the
Philadelphia congressman.
The Democratic ringmasters COM
mtttec will meet here next week to
frame up some more resolutions for
Investigations and will likely under
take the impeachment job.
IS. II. Illig has been appointed
Berks countys minority jury commits
sioner.
Noah DIETRICH has been elected
Northampton county sealer of weights
and measures.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-01-08
PENNSYLVANTA CRopc

CTATlsTICs are often too dry to be
~ very interesting, but. that cannot
be said of the agricultural tables
issued Saturday by William ]. Rose.
division freight agent of the Pennsyl-
vania Railroad. Copies of the figures.
comparing crops of Pennsylvania with
similar crops for the nation at large
for the year past, ought to be in the
hands Of every farmer in the State.
They are good guides to spring plant
ing and ought to be helpful in other
respects to the student of agriculture.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-01-08

first bore the name of Augsburg. Now
the congregation occupies central
point of vast population and is not
within mile of the city line to the
north. Other churches by the half
dozen have been built in what were
open fields when Augsburg came into
being, but the congregation has kept
pace with the growth and development
of its section of the city, as the hand
some stone edifice it now occupies very
well demonstrates.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-01-08
AUGsBURG's ANNIVERSARY

TNHE twenty-flfth anniversary of
= Augsburg Lutheran Church, cele-
brated this week. not only marks
the quarter-century of that congrega-
tion, but it calls attention to the rapid
growth of the West End of Harris
burg in that period. When Augsburg
Church was started there were but
two places of worship inside the city
limits to the north. and the building
line was only a few squares beyond the
site of the little frame structure that
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-01-08
Aspiration

A Poet sat on IL messy ledge,
With his pen in hand, by the rivers
edge,
And a clown came tumbling by,
And the clown gazed long at the pen
marked page,
At the pretty words, and the proverbs
sage
And a tear-drop filed his eye.
And the Poet looked at his rueful
face,
And he shrugged. then smiled. then
with clownish grace,
He merrily skipped away.
And the Poet watched him nimbly
dance,
Ger the pebble-stones in a Poets
trance,
And he sighed h-well-a-day."
Pitt Panther.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-01-08
DIsNrANTLED CHRISTMAS TREE


1NHE glory that was Greece" has
4 departed; the Christmas tree
that but two weeks since shone
in all the splendor of it's tinsel and
baubles is on the ash-heap and its
gaudy trappings are stored in the
gloom of the attic awaiting another
year.
There are few more dreary objects
than the dismantled Christmas tree.
Stripped of its finery, broken of
branch and naked of limb, it lies all
unnoted by the busy little people who
paused for moment to gaze in adrni-
ration and to pay homage to the spirit
OF Christmas at its shrine. But it has
served its purpose, nevertheless, and
1t has 1T behind all that any of us
humans may hope to leave-a mem
ory fragrant and beautiful. 1t brought
pleasure and cheer to the lives of the
little people-and bigger folks. too
whose household it graced, and de-
parting 1t bequeathed to those who
gathered meath its branches, what
time or misfortune cannot DESTROY
the beautiful picture of family
united in spirit of peace on earth.
good will toward men,:
So goes man from the scene of his
triumphs-his earthly glory departed,
his baubles scattered or held in trust
to grace another's career, and all that
he leaves behind is q memory of good
cheer and helpfulness; of sunshine
and unselfishness; of peace on earth,
good will toward men"--and he is
fortunate who, passing on, can be sure
that his memory will be as bright as
that of the joy-giving tree during the
brief hour of It's splendor.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-01-08
Prohibition and Crime
kansas City Star. I

iS C'tS obdI'J
During year of prohibition in Ore
gon petty crime has decreased more
than so per cent. Public drunkenness
has almost disappeared. Motor car
accidents have decreased so per cent
Vagrancy is far lower than ever be.
fore. Nonsupport cases have lowered
by 30 per cent. Commitments to peni-
tentiary have gone down 80 per cent
and to insane asylums 25 per cent
That is the sort of record which the
booze people feel demonstrates that
prohibition is a failure.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-01-08


OF 127 blast furnaces in active opera
tion in 1913. ninety-siX We're in the
war ,5 55oneeii--SeGretary s. w; g. Rednfeld, nn,
merce, in an address to the South
ern Commercial Congress.
Mr.. Redfeld need feel no solici-
tude for industrial France, even
though lie seeks to assure us
that from no part of Europe need
we fear competition after the war;
Mr. Redfeld is presenting a brief for
tie Democratic near-free-trade tariff
law. The Iron Age is the official
organ of the steel industries of this
country. 1t tells the steel manufac-
turers facts from which they may
draw their own conclusions. Com
menting on the fact that with a large
portion of the French iron mines in
the hands of the Germans, the pro-
duction of France this year is double
wkat it was in 1915, the Iron Age says:
Thus there bids fair to be a greater
French steel output after the war, to
be added to the increases in Ger
many and Great Britain"
Reports of steel operations in
Great Britain show an output greater
than any year since 1918. while Ger
many is operating at 50 per cent.
capacity of her pig iron output and
70 per cent. capacity of steel output.
At the rate the United States has
been exporting steel products for the
first nine months of the current year,
it is probable that we will have sent
abroad about 100000 tons of iron
and steel manufactures when the total
for tie calendar year is struck. or an
amount just about equal to what Ger
many was exporting the year before
war was declared.
The total value of our iron and
steel exports for the first nine months
of this year was 100000, 900, COM
pared with s153, 100000 for the first
nine months of 1914, which, in turn,
was s74,OO0,0CO less than for the first
nine months of 1913, the last nine
months under the protective tariff
policy. Our imports of iron and steel
manufactures for tho first nine months
of this year totaled about $2,5OO, 900
less than for the first nine months of
1914, under the unrestricted opera
tion of the Underwood tariff
law, and there wasn't enough came
from Germany, one of our great COM
petitors, to make a Ford jitney.
If Europe can chall; up such a rec
ord with us during the death-struggle,
what can she do, under the present
1P I,,E. hot
free? 1t is time for this soap-bubble
pastime of the Department of Com
merce as to our post war steel export
trade with Europe to be terminated,
and to get down to brass-head tacks in
preparation for after-war conditions.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-01-08
WE'D LIKE TO KNOW

TIME New York Times asserts that
several men of acknowledged.
of the highest competency.
have declined appointment" to the
proposed tariff commission because
the salary is not sufficient induce
ment for them to forsake their pres
ent calling. We would like to know
the name of these men SO that we
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-01-08
NEVER AGAIN

Does yo ur
wife ever make
you exchange
goods she buys
and does not
like?
She tried that
once, and once
only. / ex-
changed a silk
dress for a
m g Q r 8 G b aum
pipe.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-01-08

A friend suggests that we write an
editorial on the appearance os spring
millinery. and we would but we fear it
might be read in our own home.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-01-08

AS usual, most of the political ex-
citement is confined to Philadelphia and
about the only persons affected are
those who are stirring it UP.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-01-08

accept reasonable proposition I
carry it through.
Yours faithfully,
BRUCE GREEN.
1914 Green street.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-01-08
DO YOU KNOW
That Harrisburg stogies are sold
all through Western Pennsylvania
counties?
HISTORIC HARRIsRrRG

Some members of Congress came as
far as Harris Ferry when tie British
took Philadelphia.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-01-08

The Philadelphia murder indicates
that the wages of sin hasn't changed
much.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-01-08

That 50-cent fish license proposal
doesn't seem to have stirred up much
excitement
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-01-08
EDITORIAL COMMENT

What the world would like to see is
q peace that passeth all misunderstand-~
ing.-New York Sun.
Outlines of the Kaiser's peace terms
indicate that he has failed to include
provision that Americans may again be
allowed to travel on steamships. -
Philadelphia North American.
An Eastern professor thinks women
are satellites revolving round the men.
The astronomer of 1000 A. ID. believed
the sun revolved around the earth. That
professor needs to look up Copernicus.
st. Louis Republic.
That historic peace map is getting
blurred in its outlines.-Wal1 Street
Journal
The Kaiser's dove OF peace screams
very much like an eagle.-Baltimore
American.
The Allies prefer a real scrap to
scrap of paper.-Philadelph North
American.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-01-08
OUR DAILY LAUGH
WHEN IT'S
OVERLOOKED


Wifey - Why
don't you learn
to conduct your
self properly in
society.
Hubby--Don't
you think we
h a We enough
money to allow
ourselves to be
a little eccen-
tric?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-01-08

could get some sort of line upon
those whom the President and the
New York Times - both freetraders
. regard as men "of the highest COM
potency" for this work.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-01-08

Here we are complaining about the
high price of bread, while in Belgium
they have no bread, at any price,
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-01-08
MONDAY EVENING, JANUARY 8

If God gVrites "Opbortunity' on
one side of open doors, He qvrites
Responsibility" on the other
Gracey.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-01-08

We expect to hear most any day now
the annual message that the peach buds
have all been frozen.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-01-08

Published evenings except Sunday by
TINE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO.,
Telegraph building, Federal Square.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-01-08
EUROPE PREPARED

An important part of the chief
industrial sections of France has
been and is the seat of war. A
prominent American commercial
Journal states that she was de-
prived of most of her iron ore, her
coal, her resources for the produce
tion of cast iron and of her power
of turning out steel and iron plates.
OF 127 blast furnaces in active opera
ton in 1913, ninety-siX were in the
war Zone.--Secretary w. C. Redfeld,
of the U. S. Department of COM
merce, in an address to the South
ern Commercial Congress-.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-01-08

That historic peace map is getting
blurred in its outlines.-Wal1 Street
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-01-08

q. j. .STACKPOLE. Prss'f ava Editor in. Chief
2. r. OYSTER. Business Manager.
GUS NJ. STEINMETZ. Managing Editor.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-01-08

CREDULOUS.
She believes
everything she's
toll d, doesn't
she?
Yes, indeed.
Why, that wom-
an would even
believe a letter
of recommends.
ton.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-01-08

Prothonotary H. +. Holler, who
completed one of the most successful
business years ever known in the office
of the clerk of the courts, comes close
to being the oldest man about the
courthouse in point of official service
for the county. Mr.. Holler came into
Office as clerk to John P. Melick, when
he was elected prothonotary early in
the nineties.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-01-08

CONTINUED on Page 121
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-10-27
REAL. MEN WANTED.

From the Morning Muscular
Of twenty-five years ago we learn
that Senator Wilbur +. Sanders.
the typical Montanan, the war
horse of the Republican party.
will speak in the opera house to-
morrow night.
What would we not give to
make thai announcement today?
Is there a price we would not pay
to hear that great man talk to
us on The duty of the hour9
The heart thrills when we
think how The lash of Wilbur Fisk
Sanders would cut into the yellow
blood of federal office holders
who shield slackers while Mon
tana mothers are giving their
boys to their country.
There was a man Of heroic
build. No judges gown could
awe him. We wonder if there is
one man Of one-half his size in
Montana today?
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-10-27

call
tell his
the
He Torrnston
in his early
Kansas years peacefully
He a
sccessfr ned n, m 30 , IS " n 5oo mss
faction him also nickname of od osawaomie Brown
the United
states Presently found slavery nnproitae and quietly
n. The
mis-
between north John all the bo
tonsts But the coantrs's population spread
THE FlAScO At
now " h '' n a' tt ssr a' ,h as wasne' 1 ni,h h
John Brown to knock the first spark into the powder
al SLAYER,
between north and This intended
situated there.
Next he issued proclamation n
oek TO his leadership and by armed
fiat Brown
he was snty OF s crime in having seized
property
virginia militia under Colonel Robert f. Lee was sent to
k'nolEO o its
defenders Brown and his handful of desperate follow
fury hopeless odds until
nearly everyone Of them was dead or wounded
Brown batted like mailman
could the government
lie duly tried
hang
Though the Aboitons
apher yet his raid FASTENED the
that followed his breathed
became ttehymn"
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-10-27
rs Years Ago
What Missoula Was Doing
on This Date in 1892.
From The Morning Missoulian fo
October -, 1922

George Ramsey. a Northern Pacific
conductor, died at the Sisters hos
pital last night of capillary bronchitis
He was a conductor on the Idaho di
vision with headquarters at Sprague
Senator Wilbur r. Sanders of Mon
tana will address the people of Mis-
sonla at the opera house this even
ing on the issues al stake on the pres
sent political situation.
Complaints come from the Flathead
that Canadian Indians are there
Strengthening deer in great quantities
simply for the hides. Quite a number
OF these Indians are opera ting on the
Saltwater about 30 miles north OF
Kalispell.
Hon. s. G. Murray addressed a large
and enthusiastic meeting at Bonner
last night in defense of the republican
aims and ideas.
ing Il horse across the bridge last night
the animal became unmanageable and
the lady jumped from the cart. She
was slightly injured.
The land office yesterday rendered
a decision in favor of the plaintiff III
the land contest case of George +.
Printz against Samuel +. Mcdonald.
THE pink tea to be given this even
ing by the Plymouth chapel girls
promises to be an entertaining affair.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-10-27
that, in the event Of defeat, he
would say that the people were
mesmerized.

In 1880 the per capita consump-
ton of sugar in the United States
was thirty-nine pounds, and in
1915 it had arisen to the total Of
eighty-six pounds for each per-
son year. Yet it is plain that
in an interval Of thirty-five years
the human system had not
changed to the point where it re-
al,ired an additional annual con-
sumption Of nineteen pounds Of
sugar. The Germans are getting
two Jumps each in two weeks and
they are still fighting. This be-
comes a matter OF importance
now because while there is no
sugar famine in sight. there is a
scarcity and a reduction of con-
sumption has been advised BY
our government. Ii it We're cut
pound week the saving would
be very large and there would be
no serious detriment to the peo-
pie if it We're twice that.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-10-27
TAX bf the Tp,un

Yesterday morning Master Tommy
Mulroney, aged four, and arrayed. in
full soldiers uniform. was marching
along Gerald avenue. He encountered
all Of his mothers friends Salute.
Captain Mulroney!' said the LADY,
I'm not captain retorted Tommy
holly. Pardon replied madam. :,
Salute! Major Muroney." "I'm nor
major. either" shouted Tommy
cheeks crimson and eyes shining sus-.
picionsly Well, but Tommy. what
are you?" asked the crest ia lien zlaAyr ]
Pm a soldier." said Tolif,in II usfoiS1 ID
IT, and he looked itsih every fnc1f4bf !
his two feet. six. NV 4 1919
II this isn't the spirit Of true Amer. !
lean democracy. tell us a better. ono. !.
1t was while soliciting subscriptions
for Liberty loan bonds that Northern
Pacific Roadmaster Webster had the
truth forced upon him that many i
bulky purse rests within ragged
pocket.
Ahghting from the train IN the Occur
d'Alene country Mr.. Webster an
preached q gang of section hands,
fresh from the heel Of Italy. The
first inquiries were made OF the
straw" boss. who obliginely auit veil
ing joint ahead" and center back,
Ion genough to point ont the ,ive"
ones Of the crowd. 5
But let Mr.. Webster tell ii: .5
The first man I put the proposition
| to laid down his crowbar and listened
attentively; then he said he would.
| purchase bond. I told him the ~
curities We're issued in $50, 800 and
! S5oo forms. and, nresnnng that If tie
| bought any it would be one Of the $50
variety. | explained that he would Be
| allowed 70 pay for il on the Northern
| Pacific easement plan.
| Then the surprise, came.
Well" said the section hand, .Iu
| buy one OF the 500 bonds and paw for
it now, and he pulled the biggest roll
Of grcenbacks from his pocket that |
ever saw ss
Mr.. Webster takes no more stock hi
fine feathers" -r
Last evening i'll honor or tolays
| football game. several hundred hiah
| school students put on Il delnonstra
| ton uptown. Tradition was not held
| IN contempt, there was the inevita BILE
! serpentine. and the customary
marching through moving picture
theaters was not forgotten. Through
| 1t all was tremendous din
MisGonia, though. didn't mind Isn't
! 1t line to see such a lot Of pep . =
| said one observer. -
That's tho way the town felt about
it,
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-10-27
ONE MANS PRAYER

Out in Kansas there is a man named
Homer Mckee. He wrote a prayer and
it was printed in the State Board oi
Health Bulletin. The Bulletin fails
to identity Mr.. Mckee further than t.
publish his name. Which is enough
in a way, for the prayer speaks for the
man. Here 1t is:
Teach me that go minutes make ar
hour, ls ounces one pound and LOG
cents 81.
Help me to live SO that ! can lie
down at night with clear conscience
without a gun under my pillow. and
unhaunted by the faces OF those to
whom ] have brought pain.
Grant, ] beseech Thee, that I may
cary my meal ticket on the square
and in doing thereof that l may not
stick the gaff where it does not be-
long.
Blind me to the faults of the other
fellow, but reveal to me my own.
Guide me SO that each night when
look across the dinner table at my
wife, who has been a blessing to me-
will have nothing to conceal.
Keep me young enough to laugh
with my children and to lose myself in
their play.
And then when comes the smell OF
flowers. and the tread of soft steps
and the crushing OF the hearse's wheels
in the gravel out in front Of my place
make the ceremony short and the cpl
taph simple.