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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-09-04

now that would have been a lot
easier if the governor hadn't come
to grief the way he did. He was
going to put in some money this
fall. But 1 think I'll make it any
way, though it will keep me digging
and figuring. l have contract for
delivery of a million feet in Sep
tember and another contract that l
could take if 1 could see my way
clear to finance the thing. | could
clear up 100000 net in two years if
l had more cash to work on. AS
it is, l have to go slow, or I'd go
broke. I'h holding two limits by
the skin of my teeth. But I've got
one good one practically for an an
nual pittance. If l make delivery
on my contract according to sched-
ule it's plain sailing. That about
sizes up my prospects, sis"
1T sounds big" she commented.
1T is big" Charlie declared, 'if
l could go at it right. I've been
trying ever since l got wise to this
timber business to make the COVER
nor see what a chance there is in it.
He was getting properly impressed
with the possibilities when the speed
bug got him. He could have trim
med little here and there atJlome
and put the money to work. Ten
thousand dollars would have done
the trick, given me a working out
fit along with what I've got that
would have put us both on Easy
street However, the poor old chap
didn't get around to it. / suppose,
like lots of other business men, when
he stopped everything ran down.
According to Lander's figures, there
won't be a thing left when all ac-
counts are squared"
Don't talk about ii, Charlie" she
begged. IT'S too near, and 1 was
through it ALL"
"I would have been there too"
Benton said, but, as I told you,
was out of reach of your wire, and
by the time 1 got it it was all over.
I couldn't have done any good, any
way. There's no use mourning. One
way and another we've all got to
come to it some day"
Stella looked out over the placid.
shimmering surface of Roaring lake
for a minute. Her grief was dim
ming with time and distance, and
she had all her own young life be-
fore her. She found herself drift
ing from painful memories of her
fathers sudden death to a consid-
Grafton of things present and per-
sonal. She found herself wonder
g critically if this strange, rude
land would work as many changes
in her as were patent in this bronzed
and burly brother.
Are there many people living
around this lake? ?" she inquired. "It
is surely a beautiful spot. If we
had this at home there would be u
summer cottage on every hundred
yards of shore
(To be continued)
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-09-04
BY JANE MLEAN

She wondered vaguely if she had
been too good to him. if she had
made him too sure of her. Surely he
treated her differently There was
a carelessness about his entire man
ner that somehow made the fact
apparent that he no longer cared
with the same abandon.
She watched him between narrow
ing eyelids as he came into the room.
Hello" he said, not too cordial
ly, and, stoop.ng, kissed her care
lessly on the forehead.
She held up her lips and, thus in
vited, he kissed them lightly. She
stilled a hurt remark that suddenly
came to her and went on sewing.
Somehow she felt like screaming
tonight at every little lack of at
tention. Then like a ghost she stole
out of the room and upstairs to her
mirror where she studied her face
in the glass She saw a tall, pale
woman in simple house dress. Her
hair which curled distractingly about
the temples and over her neck was
drawn simply back from her face.
Her nose and cheeks shone from the
light of the fire, for she had been
preparing his dinner, and she look
ed what she was, a good Wholesome
woman without any of the myster-
ious little touches that the city
woman knows so well how to add.
Without encouragement she went
downstairs again and in silence
dished up the evening meal. He
ate hungrily, for Loretta could cook;
but he said little. Once he looked
up from his paper with a spark of
interest in his eyes.
II see that young Wilbur's cousin
is going to stay on here a SPELL
She's a likely looking young woman"
Loretta did not answer. In her
minds eye she could see the girl as
she had looked in church on Sunday.
Fresh and girlish and very young,
and once she had looked over her
shoulder into the eyes of big jim
Dale. And Loretta had shrunk a
little as she noticed Jim flush at
the challenge.
While she did the dishes Loret-
ia was thinking rapidly Things
couldn't go on like this much longer.
What she needed was a change, but
she hated to tell him about it.
Suddenly tho idea of an adventure
was too much for her and her cheeks
flushed with excitement.
She could get Bertha Hicks to
come over and keep house for Jim
for a few days, and she could take
the money she had just received
for the eggs and go off and visit
Margaret for a week. A note would
suffice to tell Jim, and then she
would be slipping away like a real
heroine. All evening Loretta
thought of it, and before she went
to bed she nosed the old leather
suitcase out of the attic and be-
gan to lay fresh linens in the guest
room where Jim could not see her
preparations.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-09-04

out of that foolish first failure, the
woman whose seal coat lost her a
chance wrested blank discourage
ment which lasted for three or four
days.
And then suddenly she woke up
TO the fact that her failure was a
merciful thing, 1t had taught her
how kind and human were the peo-
pie with whom she had to deal! 1t
had shown her that appearances
don't always tell the story. It had
convinced her that craftsmanship is
more than a matter of being well
dressed and having a wonderful line
of goods to show.
If she had not been alert, and
ready to adjust herself to the uneX-
pected; if custom or prejudice had
bound her down, she never would
have ventured out on the road as a
feminine travelling salesman But
once she had gone she learned to
take the measure of herself and the
people with whom she dealt and to
use her knowledge sanely and well.
She is now most efficient business
woman and the reason is that She
knows human nature as well as the
principles of trade.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-09-04
Fashions of To-Day By May Manton

Surplice closings are emi-
nently smart this season and
here is a blouse that can be
used for the gown or for the
separate waist to be worn with
the tailored suit. For the latter
purpose, Georgette crepe, crepe'
de chine and similar materials
in color to match the suit are
exceedingly smart. The fronts
are Tapped we'll one over the
other and can be extended to
form sash ends or cut off at the
under-arm seams and the back
can be made as it is shown here
orwithout the peplum extension.
For the medium size will be
needed, Al yards of material
SO inches wide, 8 yards a., with
81 yard SO inches wide for the
collar.
The pattern No. o535 is cut
in sizes from "a to az inches
bust measure. 1t will be mailed
to any address by the Fashion
Department of this paper, oE
receipt of fifteen cents.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-09-04
DEAR MISS FAIRFAX:


am a stenographer and am
making a fair salary. 1 am engaged
to a nice young man who is als|
making q moderate salary. He in|
sists that 1 leave my place after wi
are married, which 1 think / ough|
not do as it would keep us mor|
substantially, but he seems to diffe|
with me.
HELEN.
think it would be a very gooI
idea for you to go on working fol
a while after you are married. u
course / can understand you|
fiance's attitude. He has a boyis1
and manly pride in the matter AMI
wants to feel that he is taking carl
of the girl he, loves. But it woul|
be wise to lay up a nice little funI
for the future and so l suggest thai
he satisfy himself with this arrangd
ment; you keep your position AMI
put all that you earn into the saw
ings bank. Then he will be takin|
care of you and still you will botl
be getting ahead in the world.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-09-04
CHAPTER II.
Mr., Abbey Arrives

They walked slowly along the
broad roadway which bordered the
lake until they came to n branchy
maple, and here they seated them
selves on the grassy turf in the
shadow of the tree.
Tell me about yourself" she said
How do you like it here and how
are you getting on? Your letters
home were always chiefly remark
able 70 rtheir brevity."
There isn't a great lot to tell" +"
Benton responded. I'm Just begin
ming to get on my feet. A raw, un-
tried youngster has lot to learn
and unlearn when he hits this tall
timber. I've been out ho-e five
years, and I'm just beginning to
realize what I'm equal to and what
I'm not. I'm crawling over a hump
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-09-04
(COntinued)


British Columbia.
(Continued)
do you usually allow your men
to address you in that impertinent
way?" Miss Benton desired to know.
Charlie looked blank for a Sec
ond; then he smiled and, linking
his arm affectionately in hers, drew
her off along the wharf, chuckling
to himself.
MY dear girl" said he, you'd
better not let Sam Davis or any of
Sans kind hear you pass remarks
like that. Sam would say exactly
what he thought about such matters
to his boss or King George or to
the first lady of the land regardless.
Sabe? We're what you'll call prim-
tive out here yet. You want to for
get that master and man business,
the servant proposition, and proper
respect and all that rot. Outside
the English colonies in one or two
big towns that attitude doesn't go
in B. c. People in this neck of
the woods stand pretty much on the
same class footing, and you'll get in
bad and get me in bad if you don't
remember that. I've got ten loggers
working for me in the woods.
Whether they're impertinent or pro-
fame cuts no figure, so long as they
handle the job properly. They're
men, you understand, not servants
None of them would hesitate to tell
me what he thinks about me or
anything 1 do. If I don't like it
can fight him or fire him. They
won't stand for the sort of airs you're
accustomed to. They have the ut
most respect for a woman. but
man is merely a two legged male
human like themselves. Whether
he wears mackinaws or broadcloth.
has a barrel of money or none at
all. This will seem odd to you at
first, but you'll get used to it, You'll
find things rather different out
here"
"I suppose So" she agreed. But
it sounds queer. For instance, if one
of papa's clerks or the chauffeur
had spoken like that he'd have
been discharged on the spot"
THE logger's a different breed"
benton observed drylyt or perhaps
only the same breed manifesting
under different conditions. He isn't
servile. He doesn't have to be.
why the delay, thought" she
reverted to the point "I thought
you were all ready to 60"
"I am" Charlie enlightened, but
while I was at the store Just now
Paul Abbey phoned from Vancouver
TO know if there was an up lake
boat in. His people are big lumber
guns here, and it will accommodate
him and won't hurt me to wait a
couple of hours and drop him off
at their camp. I've got more or less
business dealing with them. and it
doesn't hurt to be neighborly. He'd
have to hire a gas boat otherwise.
Besides, Pauls pretty good head"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-09-04
Advice to the Lovelorn
DO YOU LOVE HINkp
DEAR MISS FAIRFAX:

DcAI MlSS fAlHtAA
1 am eighteen and a stenographer.
My employer is a young man about
twenty-eight, whom I have grown
to love. He expects to be divorced
in a few weeks. He calls at my
home; but l have refused to be seen
on the street with him until he is
divorced. Am I right? Do you think
he will care for me if we marry? He
has one little child, and L will be ex-
pected to take it as my own.
BLUES.
At least you are on the safe side
of gossip when you refuse to be seen
publicly with your employer, who
is not yet free. You are q bit young
to marry and accept the RESPONSE
ity of bringing up another woman's
child. The serious question is this:
Are you really in love with the man,
or are you planning to marry him
because of a worldly feeling that
you are making a good match ?" If
you are sure of yourself, the fact
that he has been divorced and has a
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-09-04
MILLERsBURG BOYS IN FRANCE

Mt. JOY, Pa. Sept. &C. NJ. Herr
and John Gochenour, residents of
Millersburg, are in receipt of letters
from their sons, Chester l.. Herr and
Earl GochenQur, who are now some
where in France. Both are mem
bers of Battery B, Fifth United
States Field Artillery They enlisted
at Lancaster on April Is last and
were sent to Texas. After being
shifted to several other places the
unit with which they were connected
was sent to France.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-09-04
BIG
TIMBER
By
BERTRAND w.
SINCLAIR
Copyright. 1916. BY Little. BeOwa
E Co,

SYNOPSIS
Estella Benton, left a penniless
orphan, goes to join her brother
Charlie, who is logging lumber in
British Columbia.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-09-04
WHY NOT GO ON?

child need not at all affect your hap
piness.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1917-10-18
Correction.

Correct On.
as your wife good plain cookr
mo, she isn't; she's good pretty
one"
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1917-10-18

on it, Sheep, he adds, must be confined on IL
day or two before they relish it. Then they go 10
1t with avidity. They do not, however, ea'
enough of 1t to make them sick and die, as they
do on alfalfa and great many other plants. out
they get exceedingly fat on 1t.
The Australian satbush is described as much
branched perennial, which forms thick mat over
the ground foot 1S inches In depth, the
branches extending from five to eight feet; one
plant often covering area of 10 to 70 square
feet. The leaves about an inch long, broadest
at the apex. coarsely toothed along the margin,
ieshy and somewhat mealy on the outside. The
fruits are tinged with red flattened and pulpy,
but become dry soon as they fall from the
plant. The seeds germinate better II sown on
the surface. which should be panked or hrmed
by driving a flock Of sheep across 1t. When COW
cred to any depth the seeds decay before germ-
nation.
The plant will grow black alfalfa land that
is really Of no value for anything else on earth
Mr. Mansfield states that there are millions of
acres Of such land in the United States, which. II
to this seed, undoubtedly would keep sheep
enough to produce more wool and mutton than Is
now raised in the entire United States.
Mr.. Mansfield adds that II cut for hay the salt
bush should be cut while the branches are soft
and tender. and the second crop will make CON
siderable pasture and re-seed the ground.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1917-10-18

upon an obscure law in the great law code of
part of the tablet:
Field between the canals, the contents (O are
eight gul Ia measure of in the Cassite and
Assyrian inscriptions) field of the palace"
Therefore the mapmaker wished to give
curate drawing of the field belonging to the royal
estates" says Doctor Langdon, land may
sumo that he did his work at the kings injunc-
ton, and that the tablet has come down to
from the royal archives at Nppur. The Cassite
kings nominally held court at Babylon, as the
capital OF Babylonia,
Forests unknown in southern Babylon,
and the natives had to reeds for making bas-
kets. household furniture. nrewood hedges and
even for the writing stylus. Accordingly,
nicipal marsh was an essential, and one is shown
on the map at the university museum. Another
feature of no little Significance which sheds light
for the first time the origin Of the customs that
sprung up In the middle ages Of endowing mon
asteries with estates to provide for their tables
is the field of the table of the Baru priest" On
this phase Of the diagram Doctor Langdon says:
1.-The Baru priest the seer of the Babylon
ians, whom they invariably consulted about all
future events. This learned priesthood was at
tached to all the great temples and,
here owned valuable landed estates. The idea
Of state-supported order of seems pre-
posterous to us, for divination Is considered H.
legal, but Babylonian religion supercharged
with magic and mystery. Kings and laymen
dertook important tasks, launched no impor-
tant ventures, without consulting these sages of
the liver omens, of oil omens and of every con-
celVaDe KIM OF QlVlnatlOn. Iney formed I'M
portant part of the priesthood and hence we find
them on our map In possession Of estates more
valuable than those of the king himself.
"In the extreme corner of the northwestern part
of the district is the village of Hamri situated in
a field which bears no name perhaps the mu-
nicpal property. South Of this area is the field in
which we find village with the curious name Til
amel Hasa, or Hill of the Fifty Men The local
history of this town, which would elucidate its in
teresting name, is unknown. The field itself bears
inscription and probably village com.
mon also. A small canal separates the two VIII
lage properties. The large field Of the table Of
the Baru priest is bounded the north by the
canal of the table These names refer to the
properties settled by royal decree upon this re
ligious order for the support Of their table in
precisely the same way certain lands in Europe
became the property Of monastic orders in ne
middle ages Public Ledger
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1917-10-18

upon an obscure law in the great law code Of
Babylonia which bears the name of Hammurabi.
In 1t we have reference to the custom of blowing
horn at the village gates to notify the shepherds
on the plains that the grazing season over
These rural villages in which the peasants con-
gregated from the surrounding plain appeared to
have been so arranged that the village buglers
were able to make the shepherds and farmers
hear the sound of the horn in every part Of
Babylonia.
1.-THE rural life Of ancient times in this historic
land has here visual commentary" Doctor Lang
don adds "and we see how the peasants lived to-
gether in villages having village commons for
their hocks and municipal marsh to furnish a
most necessary article Of domestic life, the
reed. Assuming that the orientation of the map
Is the ordinary one employed In other Babylonian
maps one is able to trace the several features of
the country and their details The skeleton of the
plan Is made by the canal which enters from the
northeast corner of the district flows south-south-
west and turns in rough parabolic curve, to re-
treat Mt the same angle toward the north-north-
west. At the center Of the district marked by the
end Of the parabola enter from the south
east and southwest corners two canals which
unite with the main canal.
Inscriptions on the tablet give the names of the
various canals, the villages and hamlets. Thus In
the extreme northeast corner is the town of Bit
Kar Nusku, and the northeast wing of the canal,
on which this town lies, is called Nnrbilt,
"Canal of the Burden" indicating that agricultural
and other products were carried upon it.
This name and Others" says Doctor Langdon,
snow that these canals were arteries OF trade
well streams to supply the fields with water.
The town Kar Nusku is mentioned in temple
counts of the city of Nippur supplying sheep
and grain for the support of the temple priests.
In the northwest corner on the left branch of the
canal is the town of Hamri, also mentioned in the
accounts of the temple at Nppur. Therefore, the
northwest branch of the canal bears the name
Mar Hamri. According to references In Assyrian
inscriptions, hamru designates place where the
cult of the fire god established"
Another canal bore the of BeSunu, q rich
man, whose estate is supplied with water for irr-
CATION purposes. Unfortunately, the estate itself
lay outside the limits of the map, 1t is impos-
sible to get any description of Belsunu's country
house. In the opinion of Doctor Langdon the
point of chief interest in the mind of the ancient
map-maker the conelike space at the end of
the parabola which is about the center of the
map. The following inscription is cut into this
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1917-10-18
Inerea.lns the Vocabulary.

When you read book and come to
a new word, do you pass it by or turn
to the dictionary to learn its meaning2
An extensive vocabulary is one of
the best indications of education and
culture, and careful reading is one of
the most effective ways Of adding new
words. The use of the dictionary
should not be regarded as task, but
as pleasure to be resorted to upon
every convenient occasion. Some peo-
pie make daily study of the words.
The ordinary Individual Of fair edu-
cation, we are told, controls from 5000
to 5000 words. A modern encyclo-
pedia says that this estimate is too
high, even In America. An English
farm hand, it says, has a vocabulary
limited to 300 words. A distinguished
American educator believes that a
well-educated citizen of this country
can control from 10000 to $4,000. The
best English writer's do not employ an
extended vocabulary, preferring to ap-
peal. as nearly as possible. to all
classes Of NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Dis
patch.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1917-10-18
DECIPHERING WORLDS OLDEST LOVE LETTER AT
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA

"HE worlds Oldest love letter and the
worlds Oldest map, so far found-these
are two interesting discoveries just brought
u to light by DR.. Stephen Herbert Langdon
of the University OF Pennsylvanias museum Oh
Arts and Sciences.
The love letter on n tablet of clay, was. accord
ing to Doctor Langdon, written about the time OF
the patriarch Abraham.
1t is true that in the translation romance gives
way to commercalism, but nevertheless there Is
nothing of the kind in any other museum. The
tablet deciphered and translated by DOCTOR
Ungnad.
Personal letters Of this type written by the
ancient are generally ~ound inclosed in clay en-
velopes so Fashioned that while they cover the
writing completely and hold the tablet itself Sc
cure they do obliterate the Symbols but rather
protect them.
SO much for the love letter. but Doctor Lang
don leading Sumerian scholar of all time, seems
much more interested in the ancient bapyionian
map which he has Just finished reading
The map proves conclusvely that the compre-
hensve city planning. heard so much of In recent
years. is almost old as civilization.
Not only did the Babylonans plan the building
of their towns and cities but, according to this
map or diagram they laid out villages end ham,
lets along preconceived plans to give residents
.all the advantages of city life"
Nothing like the map just discovered at the
university ever has been found before by arch
eologists and evidently 1t is only one of many II
1t can be taken fair sample OF the fore-
thought exercised by ancient Babylon IN buiding
up her outlying domains then the whoie country
must have been connected by the most elaborate
system of canals In the history of the world.
Babylon had no telephone or telegraph but Tor
certain fundamental purposes of protection 1t had
something just as good.' For Doctor Langdon
has translated some of the numerous small IN
scriptions on the tablet bearing the map to indi-
cate that the particular section here described
was so laid that persons living in any part or
1T could hear the blowing of horn from the CEN
rral common. 1t was an old custom In the country
tn n horn certain season OF the year,
after which grazing no longer permitted. The
reason for this is lost in antiquity, but examina-
tion of other tablets at the museum some day may
reveal 1t.
The exact age of the map is not definitely
known Doctor Langdon believes 1t was made in
the Casste period. about 15OO years before Christ.
Concerning the hornblowing custom. Doctor Lang
don says: "The map throws welcome light