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The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-07-09
HEALTH QUESTIONS
AM

Miss L. G.-"What is interstlhal
nephritis? Does an abnormal blood
pressure generally accompany this dis.
ease?"
% 1t is a mild, chronic infamma.
ton of the kidneys and the slowest
form of Bright's disease.
70 Yes.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-07-09

SONS from the ground, so since the
trunk of an apple tree was too crook.
ed and bent, she crawled up into the
branches. What heaven It was up
among the fragrant pink blossoms!
She spied an orioles nest hanging
like purse just above her head and
spent some time watching the father
and mother birds dart in and out with
food for their babies.
Then suddenly she realized that
some one was below and, looking
down, she recognized "that Wilson
man." He had spade and box and
was looking cautiously in every d.
rection- except up. He didn't dream
Of her nearness, evidently
81 knew it," thought Edith, trium.
phantly. 81 knew he wasn't here for
any good. Now what do you suppose
it is-money or the fiat silver? He'll
come back some night and dig it up.
I'm sure he has taken something"
Tom began to dig-not very deep,
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-07-09
MIssIonary Nicotine.

WI55IVHdTy WeGIIHY'
The monthly meeting OF the Home
Missionary Society will be hel on
Wednesday afternoon at the home Of
Mrs. w. A. Gufith on Front street.
. &T.A. S. Club.
The T. A. s, Club will meet Thurs.
day afternoon at the home of Mrs.
W. c. Marshall near the Country Club
Members are asked to take the one
o'clock Clarksburg car.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-07-09

bic G0mpg0nos 4pIe
Inflammation and
other weakness !
was very irregular
and would have ter
rible pains 50 that I
could hardly take 8
step. SometimesI
would be soniiSsra
BILE that I could not
sweep q room /
doctored partof The
time but felt no
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-07-09
EAST SIDE
: NEWS =
W. C. T. U,

There will be a business meeting
at 1880 o'clock at the Diamond Street
Of the ". c. 7, Q. Tuesday afternoon
NJ. 3. church.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-07-09
NOTICE TO
SICK WOMEN
Positive Proof That Lydia
E. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound Relieves
Suffering.

Bridgeton, N.J.-"I cannot speak toc
highly Of Lydia E. Pinkham'B Negetas
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-07-09

Dutch Tavern cOffee-satisfaetlon
In every cup.-AdVt.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-19
THIS is WAR

IMTHETHER or not the President
w shall declare the sinking with
out warning of three American
ships by German submarines to be an
act of war, nevertheless the fact re-
mains that it is war. Sooner or later,
as suits Mr.. wilson's views or the con-
veniences of the government, this ma
ton will begin hostilities against Ger
many. There is no other way out of
it. Germany has forced the United
States to this course. We must now
either admit that we will not fight
under any provocation or we must
prepare to take up arms in defense of
our rights, and it is not to be imagined
for a moment that the latter alterna-
tive would be accepted by the people,
even though the administration were
prepared to do so. which it apparently
is'not.
What the next step shall be remains
for President Wilson and his advisers
to decide. Whatever it shall be, it can
lead in but one direction, and that is
to open warfare. We may as we'll
prepare ourselves for what large
majority devoutly prayed might be
avoided, but which will be accepted
with unanimity and strength of pur-
pose once it is thrust upon us. War
is at hand. We are even at this
moment in the midst of it.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-19
THE PEOPLES FORUM

And after him lead his masterless
steed,
While peals the minute gun.
Amid the noblest of the land
Men lay the sage to rest,
And give the bard an honored place
With costly marble dressed
In the great minister transept
Where lights like glories fall,
And the sweet choir sings and the
organ rings
Along the emblazoned wall.
This was the bravest warrior
That ever buckled sword:
This was the most gifted poet
That ever breathed a word;
And never earths philosopher
Traced with his golden pen
On the deathlesS page truths half so
sage
AS he wrote down for men.
And had he not high honor?
The hillside for his pall
To lie in state while angels wait
With stars for tapers tall;
And the dark rock pines like tossing
plumes,
Over his bier to wave:
And Gods own hand, in that lonely
To. lay him in the grave. -
In that deep grave without name,
Whence his uncoffined clay
Shall break again-O, wondrous
thought
Before the judgment day,
And stand with glory wrapped around,
On the hills he never trod,
And speak of the strife that won our
life
With the incarnate Son of God.
Q, lonely tomb in Moab's land,
o, dark Bethpeors hill,
Speak to these curious hearts of ours,
And teach them to be still.
God hath his mysteries of grace
Ways that we cannot tell:
He hides them deep, like the secret
sleep
OF him He loved so we'll.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-19
The Farm Labor Problem

Farm labor will be a bigger factor in
determining the size of next season S
crops than price of seeds and fertil-
izers, systems of management or prob
able returns on crops produced, says
the Pennsylvania Farmer, discussing
the labor situation. Farm labor will
be the big factor in crop production
for many years to come. Present prices
on farm commodities are encouraging.
They will induce large paintings in the
spring, careful treatment OF the crops
through the growing season, and uu-
usual effort in harvesting. But with
the best of prospects, the farmer can
only do so much work, and without
sufficient help his cropping area will
be restricted. Present prices encour-
age the farmer to do all he can and
to produce all he can; but they do not
encourage him to pay the price that
Is now necessary to pay to keep COM
petent help in the numbers necessary
to reach maximum production, This is
the inevitable result of the unusual i'm
dustrial conditions existing and no
amount of agitation, Education" OF
demonstration will alter results, The
condition is well illustrated by the ex-
perience of prominent Pennsylvania
farmer this winter, This farmer has
been paying a competent man $40 a
month and board, During the winter
when work was slack, the man was
given permission to take a job with
an industrial plant in the neighborhood
at 81 per day, The farmer recently
asked his man to open some bitches
on the farm in preparation for the
spring work, His man asked Scan
you pay me SO a day to do the work -
This particular farmer will hold his
helper because of conditions peculiar
to his case, but many farmers are los
ing and will continue to lose good,
reliable men because they can not af-
ford to pay the wages offered by other
lines of work. And crop production
will continue to be relatively low and
prices on farm grown foods must con-
tinue to be relatively high so long as
this condition exists.
But in every farm community there
will be few farmers who will hold
their helpers at comparatively low
wages. Much has been written on the
hired man" question, but il will be
noticed that nearly every community
has a man or a few men who have very
little difficulty in keeping good help.
~ Nouiu Sesh4 tfat lhsIe - GOOD leS-
son to be learned from the methods of
these comparatively few. Their meth
DDS are not always the same, but the
fact that they do keep their helpers is
usually the result of management and
not mere accident. There are many
men. and good mdh, who prefer to
work on the farmland who viii work
on the farm for less than they can get
in towns or cities h conditions are
made right Ihe good farm manager
finds the way of meeting those condi-
tons with profit to himself and with
satisfaction TO bis. help. Such man
ayers are reaping good. returns on their
management in these days of scarcity
Of labor.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-19
Eighty-One Years. a Teacher
[From the Christian Herald

lfrom the Christian Herald
Sunday school teachers do not SEEM
generally speaking, to stick to their
charge so tenaciously as Mrs Anna NJ.
Bruen, who teaches the Ladies' Bible
Glass in the First Presbyterian Sun
day school, Belvidere, n, j, Mrs.
Bruen was born March ga, 1922, and
is now more than ninety-four years of
fage, She began teaching in Sunday
| school eighty-one years ago, when u
mere girl of but twelve years of age,
and has been a Sunday school teacher
continuously, Sabbath after Sabbath,
ever since, Her record for punctuality
| is quite as remarkable, for during all
J these years she has seldom missed
meeting her class on time each Sab
| BATH only on account of quite infTe-
quent illness. One summer, on ac-
count of n 'seyere fall, Mrs. Bruen
was unable to go to the Sunday school
to teach her class but, at her request,
the members came to 1.-The Manse,"
where she taught them in her sick
room-and nearly every Sabbath
morning during this period reported
full-roll attendance, 1t is said that
every woman teacher in this entire
! Sunday school has been drawn from
Mrs, Bruen's Bible class.
Back in the thirties, when Mrs.
Bruen began to teach, the burning of
black stones" for fuel was late inno-
Vationi students and teachers did not
"burn the midnight oir' then. because
houses were lighted with home made
tallowcandles. and Sunday school les
son helps were entirely unknown. Pri-
mary schools were at that time far
from numerous. and the Sunday
school teachers principal task was to
oh r.tH1 1fYRaa ata Of
TO enable scholars to read the Bible
for themselves. Back in those days 1t
was not customary to have heat in
church and Sunday school buildings,
and the worshippers carried their
foot stoves to keep their feet from
freezing. One of Mrs. Bruens choice
mementoes is the Identical foot
stove" which she and her mother used
in their constant Sunday school and
church attendance.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-19
CAMERON STREET. PAVING

TIME people of Cameron street, be-
tween Herr and Calder, complain
that the thoroughfare is almost
impossible, due to deep mud, and
that they have asked in vain for re-
lief.
The city ought to find some way
to improve this condition. The people
themselves are wholly without blame.
Few of them, are we'll off in the
worlds goods, but most of them are
thrifty, self-respecting and the own
ers of their own homes. They have
asked Council repeatedly to pave this
stretch of much-traversed thorough
fare. They are perfectly willing to
bear their share of the cost. Even
Bethany Church has offered to pay
for its frontage, although church.
properties usually are regarded as
nonassessable for paving expenses. All
they ask is that the city pay for the
paving of the intersections. as 1t has
done In oil other streets that have
been improved, and the excuse has
been offered that the city doesn't have
the money.
1t Is Il pretty poor sort of govern
ment that issnt flexible enough to
meet situation OF this kind, Cam
eron street should be paved. A wise
Council would hasten to find a way,
This display of civic interest and CO.
operation Is too good to be discour-
aged by the poor cry of no funds,
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-19

| forbids them. The poor old freight
caboose comes in for a mauling that
costs the railroads good money. Fifteen
States insist on two four-wheel trucks.
while the rest. are content with one
four-wheeler. Eighteen rect has been
considered good length for a caboose.
Thirteen States, however, have passed
laws making them not less than "a
feet long. Mississippi has raised the
limit to 2s feet and Maine has gone
one better.
Wrangles over the exact width of
caboose platforms have whiled away
many an idle hour for State legislators.
Eight States insist on "a inches. Illi-
nois and Missouri don't like this at all,
but agree that so inches is just right.
Iowa allows IS inches and Nebraska
20. These are only a few of the
humorous aspects. When this same
conflict appears in rare-making and
regulation of bond issues the humoE
fades.
There is one comforring thought in
our own legislative situation here in
Pennsylvania. While the Legislature
has not done anything particularly
commendatory up to this time, on the
other hand it hasn't uone anything
very harmful, and it is going to be so
busy from this time on looking after
its own affairs that it will have small
opportunity for railroad batting.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-19
RAILROAD BATTING

THERE is food for legislative re-
4 Election In the recent announce
ment of the Railway Executives Ad-
visory Committee that there are 1000
miles of American railroads in the
hands of receivers. This is about one
sixth of the total railroad mileage and
is the largest number of miles under
receivership in the history of the
country.
The committee attributes this con
dition. in large measure, TO the fact
that there are 49 different sets of COM
missions and legislatures regulating
the affairs of railroads, The result OF
titles is confusion and costly dupiica-
tion of operating expenses, This con-
fiict of regulations causing increased
expenditures has been accompanied by
a reduction of rates, The situation has
become so serious that many of even
the most prosperous roads find great
difficulty in discharging theiF obliga-
tiOn of adequate service to the public
and paying dividends 20 their share
holders,
Some of the aspects of this serious
situation have their humorous side.
For example; One State says there
must be cuspidor between each two
seats in a car. The next State will
have none Of 2 the vulgar and un-
sanitary uteHsii: CaspIdors must, ac-
eordiRgiy, be removed at State lines.
Another State demands windowscreens
in passenger cars. The adjoining State
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-19
HOUSING REGULATIONS

hREG1OUS little has been heard OF
the proposed housing code since
ths Legislature convened and il
certain influences have their way moth
ing more will be heard of it, Objections
to proper regulation of housing con-
ditions will lead to some such plan in
this State as is now being tried out in
Massachusetts, where the Common.
wealth proposes to erect workingmen's
homes to be sold to applicants on
terms OF easy payment,
Selfish interests never can under
stand that they cannot always dictate
and that when an aroused public
opinion takes matters into its own
hands it is in no mood for reasonable
compromise: If good property owners
are wiss they will heed the demand
for better housing before the State
steps in ta give its people the pleasant,
sanitary homes that private interests
deny those whe cannot pay cash for
them.
What bettes for Harrisburg than we
get together and build a group of
model residences to be sold at prices
within the modest income, at the same
time eiear!pS up the pver-populated
quarters and making all the houses
fit for human habitation7 Either we
will do this for ourselves or the State
viii steR in and do it for us. Let
there be ne complaint of public
monopoly at the expense of private en-
terprIse, if this happens. Private
capital is having its opportunity now,
IL it does nothing it gan have no
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-19
THE BURIAL OF MOSES"

To the Editor of the Telegraph:
Sir-I am a constant reader of 1.-THE
Peoples Forum" and very much in
terested in it. Would you kindly print
The Burial of Moses?
CYRIL II. MORGAN.
By Nebo's lonely mountain
On this side Jordan's wave,
In vale in the land of Moab
There lies a lonely grave.
And no man dug that sepulchre,
And no man saw it e'er,
For the angel of God upturned the sod,
And laid the dead man there.
That was the grandest funeral
That ever passed on earth:
But no man heard the trampling
Or saw the train go forth. :
Noiseless as the daylight
Comes when the night is done,
And the crimson streak on oceans
cheek
Grows into the great sun
Noiselessly as the Springtime
Her crown of Verdure weaves.
And all the trees on all the hills
Open their thousand leaves
So, without sound of music
Or voice of them that wept
Silently down from the mountain
crown
The great procession swept.
Perchance the bald old eagle,
On gray Bethpeor's height,
Out of his rocky eyrie
Looked on the wondrous sight,
Perchance the lion, stalking,
Still shuns that hallowed spot.
For beasts and bird have seen and
heard
That which man knoweth not.
But when the warrior dieth,
His comrades in the war,
With arms reversed and muffied drums,
Follow the funeral car.
They show the banners taken,
They tell his battles won,
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-19
MONDAY EVENING. MARCH 10
THE STRIKE SETTLEMENT

n SSOCIATED PRESS dispatches of
IA to-day relating to the settlement
of the railroad controversy which
threatened to plunge the country into
strike on the eve of war with Ger
many say:
Yielding to the appeal of Presi-
dent Wilson and facing the proba-
into ittSy the he world oii cSa WaF. the raiiroads aG
to-day granted the demands of the
four employees brotherhoods for. a
decision is regarded as a complete
brought about. however, after the
patriotism of the railroad mana
gers had been put to the test.
There is little question that the rail-
road managers were Influenced in their
decision by the country's perilous in
ternational position. That they threw
aside their contentious and surren-
dered to their employees is, as the dis
patches say, an act of patriotism that
men in all walks of life might do we'll
TO emulate. At one throw, for the sake
of the nation as whole, they cast into
the discard $60.0OO,OOO a year, the
sum required to finance the eight-hour
day the trainmen have won. There is
little question that they were prepared
for a long and hard-fought strike.
But, on the other hand, it will be re-
called, the men might have had pre-
cisely what the companies have
granted, previous to the enactment
of the Adamson law last fall, if they
would have accepted it. AS a last
extreme, it was proposed to settle on
the basis of eight hours With nine
hours pay and pro rata time for over
time. So the brotherhood chiefs have
yielded something, too.
The public has never had any differ
ence with the railroad brotherhoods
on the score of an eight-hour day
Eight hours is the accepted standard
trades and in most business houses.
The TELEGRAPH has operated its
plant on an eight-hour basis for more
years than almost any other employ
ing establishment in Central Pennsyl-
vania. Many other publishing houses
have had similar working schedules
for long periods. These have found it
possible to work eight hours and live.
In the long run all industries will
come to that. But while the people
as a whole have had no fault to find
with the eight-hour principle. they
have not always agreed with the
brotherhood chiefs in the way they
have conducted their campaign, and it
is not going beyond the facts to say
that public sympathy would have been
at least divided had a strike been pre-
cipitated at this time.
AS it is, the railroad men of the
country have won a s60,000,o0 in
crease in wages. 1t is only fair to as
sumo that the railroads will be granted
by the Interstate Commerce Commits
sion rate advances enough TO make UP
for this. This means that the burden
OF an additional $50, 900 must be
assumed by the consumer at time
when he has about all he can bear. AS
usual, when capital and labor fight II
out on grand scale. the public pays
the bill.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-19
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

Reginald DeKeven will write tho
music for the new University Of Penn
sylvania masque
General g. T. O'Neii, commander
OF the Third Brigade, was given g
dinner by friends ut Allentown in
honor of his return from the border
Neil Bonner. head OF the state
liquor dealers says that he has doubts
about cabarets-
Colonel George Nox Mccain, news
paper man and lecturer. urges the
purchase of the Pennypacker farm as
a State park, as it was once Washing
tons headquarters.
&C. A. KnickerbockeE has been
chosen as president of the Reading
Ad Club. He is we'll known here.
Owen Wister, the author, who has
been i'll, is recovering.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-19
Labor Notes

AdOOI 1NOlCo
Fur-workers at Toronto, Cam, de-
mand more pay.
Organization of Michigan metal
workers is being effected.
Birmingham (Ala) paperhangers
ask increased wages.
Painters at Cedar Rapids, Iowa, now
get 81 a day.
Organized apartment janitors at
Chicago have increased pay.
a dredger mems union has been or
ganiZed in San Francisco.
wyoming has IS women county
school superintendents.
Chicago Electrical Workers Union
has building fund of $4,000.
Western Canadian coal miners will
sign new agreement April 1.
Columbus Ohio, stereotypers have
increased wages $3.50 week.
Garment-workers at Toronto have
secured increased pay and 44-hour
week.
A "can't-strike" law has been in
troduced in the California Legislature.
Toronto's new labor party will hold
a convention in April.
In this country 159 cities have pen
sion funds for municipal employees.
1t takes five men in Europe to pro-
duce as much coal as two bring up IN
America.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-19

valid objection if the Commonwealth
assumes the duty it has declined.
Modern science and public convic-
ton are all in the line of better hous-
ing conditions. Opinion is being
nodded to the point where it will de-
mand the abolition of the slum. Massa-
chusetts already is feeling its urge.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-19
The Favored Patient

Pa had q bad case Of grip and his
fever was high. but she went to her
daughters home and left pa to doctor
himself. Her son-in-law had the tooth
ache.-Ciaude Eallan in the Fort
Worth Star -Telegram.-
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-19

may of the strategists on Market
Square. The resolution of the Demo-
Gratis has been as well advertised as
the views of Herr Sarg on investi-
cations and the proposed corrupt prac-
tices act that turned up In the hands of
Democrats and Progresslyes who sent
Identical bills under the wire together.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-19
Defining a Gentleman

Lord Chesterfield had HIS own crude
ideas about what gentleman should
be, but Frank Ffest. Of Atchison, says
a gentleman is a man who can play a
cornet but Kansas City Star.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-19
OUR DAILY LAUGH
LIMIT OF DE-
VOTION.

NOTION.
She thinks ev-
erything her hus-
band does Is all
right.
That so?
Yes. she even
approves of the
cards he leads
w h Q n they're
b ri d & Q whist
partners.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-19

Miss Wrinkles-What would yo,
do If should refdse to marry you
Mr.. Asker-See If ! couldn't fin
some other fellow who would b
willing to propose to you
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-19
Trust in the Lord

Offer the sacrifices OF righteousness
and put your trust in the Lord
Psalms ~: 2:
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-19

One hundred years ago every house
on Market Square but half a dozen
was residence. Now all are business
places.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-19

REGULAR KIND.
What is meant by peace withor
hctory?"
That's the kind the missus and J
patch up almost every day"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-19
DO YOU KNOW
HISTORIC HARRISBURG

That Harrisburg shipments OF tin
plate last year were near record?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-19

Fur-workers at Toronto, Can, de
mand more pay.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-19

Organization of Michigan met
workers is being effected.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-19

L. ]. J.STACKPoLE. Pres't and Editor-in-C Chief
+. r. OYSTER, Business Manager.
GUS NJ. STEINMETZ. Managing Editor.