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The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1917-08-23
G | { A N In G s
From Our Exchanges

What girl hates most about flirting is
that other girls are such hirts
Money you earn in the daytime goes
into your pocket; money you spend at night
goes into your character.
1t is difficult for man to climb UP in
this world, but it hurts him lots worse to
climb down again.
National advertising is the one great
force today which is working toward stand
ard values of merchandise the
principle of ''one-price-to- all-customers.
Give us an idea, teach US big lesson,
preach US an economy, point US road,
warn us from an error, stand on~the side
lines and coach-and, whoever you are, we
are all searching for you, and just as anxious
to locate you as you are to prove yourself.
The vicar of the parish when out walk
ing one day met a former lady member of
his congregation.
After exchanging salutations he observ-
ed: 81 don't see your husband with you so
much as when you were on your honeymoon,
has he grown cool?"
"NOt if what you preach be true, was
the reply. ''He is dead''
Judge M. w. Pinckney, at a recent
banquet, recalled an incident to show that
| there is some humor associated with such
serious thing as the law. In Dawson City
colored man, Sam Jones by name, was on
trial for felony. The Judge asked Sam if
he desired the appointment of lawyer to
defend him. ono, sah," said Sam. "I'se
gwine to throw myself on the ignorance of
the cote"
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1917-08-23
Failure

Failures just resting place
On the road of try again;
Just slackening of the pace
And pause for sturdy men.
Just a temporary halt
On the march to wealth and fame
Where you can correct the fault
And go on to play the game.
Failures not thing to dread,
1t is just hint to you,
Ere you dash too far ahead
To be careful what you do.
It's the side track where you wait
For the passing fast express;
Get up steam! The run is straight
Out of failure to success.
The Social Neaos.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1917-08-23

Leaves From Our Poets.
Never

Never is long word
Never is strong word
Never is word that brings us
world of Joy or pain.
Never is light word.
Never is right word.
Never is slight word
when it's followed by "again.
Never is deep word.
Never is cheap word.
Never's worse than meaningless
when spoken with laugh.
Never is sweet word.
Never is a neat word.
We can never understand
the reach of it by half.
Strickland Gillian.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1917-08-23

The following is the program rendered
in the Auditorium last Sunday, Reverend
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-10-29
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES

In silks and satins the ladies went
Where the breezes sighed and the
poplars bent,
Taking the air of a Sunday morn
Midst the red of poppies and gold of
Flowery ladies in gold brocades,
With negro pages and serving maids,
In scarlet coach or in gilt sedan,
With brooch and buckle and flounce
and fan.
Patch and powder and trailing scent,
Under the trees the ladies went
Lovely ladies that cleaned and
AS they took the air on the Ladies'
Road.
Boom of thunder and lightning
flash
The torn earth rocks to the barrage
crash;
The bullets whine and the bullets
sing
From the mad machine guns chat
tering;
Black smoke rolling across the mud,
Trenches plastered with flesh and
blood
The blue ranks lock with the ranks
of gray,
Stob and stagger and sob and sway;
The living cringe from the shrapnel
bursts,
The dying moan of their burning
thirsts,
Moan and die in the gulpiug
slough
Where are the butterfly ladies now?
Pathfinder in Punch (London).
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-10-29
LABOR NOTES

Columbus, Ohio. bookbinders have
increased wages 50 a week.
There are in the United States more
than $4,000 registered nurses.
Seattle. Wash. printing pressmen
have increased wages SO a week.
Brotherhood of Railway Carmen
have ninety Canadian local unions.
Sugar growing. next to mining, is
the greatest industry in South Africa.
over 10000 women in England
and Wales are working in agricul-
ture.
Every fourth nurse in New York
City has volunteered for Red Cross
work.
Nearly all the printing shops in
London, Eng" employ women COM
positors.
Employment of women on the Scot
tish railways has doubled since the
war began.
OF the $50 shipyards in the world.
Great Britain has the majority and
Holland ranks second.
A convention of the United States
Brewers Association decided to raise
wages of all employees.
The wartime demand for dyestuffs
has revivifled the ancient indigo in
dustry of Central America.
Journeymen tailors will start an
organization campaign throughout
Canada's eastern provinces.
Stockings were first worn in the
eleventh century. Before that cloth
bandages were used on the feet.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-10-29
AT THE FRONT

"E L e G R AP H readers were
thrilled Saturday evening by the
graphic and complete account
of how American troops went into
action on the French front. 1t is a
bit of reporting that will go down
in history. Nobody who read it could
fail to have a clear picture of how
tho Americans behaved as they start
ed for the trenches, nor the manner
in which the first American artillery
shot of the war on land was fired.
Two things stand out clearly
first that the men fully realize the
seriousness of the business upon
which they have entered and sec
ondly, that Notwithstanding this they
went into action cool as cucumbers
and keen to do their part.
Calmly it is decided to send the
case of the first shell back to the
President. With equal deliberation
American and French officers indulge
in luncheon on the field near the
batteries in celebration of the ad-
vent of America on the fighting line.
The incident reminds one of Dewey's
you may fire when you are ready,
Gridley," and of his suspension of the
fighting at Manila while his men
partoolS of breakfast.
That's the kind of spirit that wins.
The Hun is going to find the Amer
leans an entirely new factor, while
the Hun himself will be an old story
to the Americans. In other words
while the United States troops are
called upon to face an enemy whose
strength and weaknesses and manner
of combat are fully known to every
man in khaki, the Germans have yet
to discover the mettle and the tac-
tics of their adversaries. That is a
big point in favor of the Americana
Also, the Americans are fresh and
keen to fight. Their support and
morale are of the best. The Ger
mans, on the other hand, are tired
from the constant pounding of Haie
and Petain, war weary and lacking in
adequate support from home. All
winter they will be subject to the
rattle and bang of the allies sledge
hammer blows and it will be a won.
der, indeed, If in the fighting that
is to take place all along the western
line next spring, when, a million
Americans are at the front, If the
boys from the UnitNd States do not
find some vital weakness in the Ger.
man line through which the frs
plunge toward Berlin can be made.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-10-29
STRAWS

One after another the brewing
companies proclaim with loud en-
coniums the virtues of new cooling
and refreshing drinks which they
have begun to manufacture. They
are non-alcoholic, but attractive with
the peculiar flavor of the hops. The
enthusiasm with which their makers
launch them upon the world sug-
gests a strong belief in the perma-
nency of their use. We congratu-
late the brewers on their new prof.
ect; it is interesting to speculate on
what it means.
Brewers are not wont to fail in
worldly wisdom.
Can it be that they foresee an APP
preaching time when they will be
forced by public opinion to take the
adder's sting out of their brewings
Are they hedging" against the
march of prohibition?
Shall we soon see the brewers
making drink without the alcohol
and the distillers making alcohol
without the drink?
Blows the wind that way?-From
the New York Independent.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-10-29
LINCOLN AND THE WAR

Think of the incident that oc-
Cured in 1864 in the administration
of Abraham Lincoln as President of
the United States. The political as
pect of the whole country was that
of seething, boiling Niagara. Some
gentlemen from the west were eX-
cited about the commissions or
omissions of the Administration.
President Lincoln heard them pa
tiently, and then replied: Gentle
men, suppose all the property you
were worth was in gold, and you had
put it in the hands of Blondin to
carry across the Niagara River on
a rope; would you shake the cable or
keep shouting out to him, 'Blondin,
stand up a little straighter!' 'Blon-
din, stoop a little more!' Go a
little faster!' Lean a little more to
the south! 'Blondin, lean q little
more to the north?' No; you would
hold your breath, as well as your
tongue, and keep your hand off until
he was safe over. The Government
is carrying an immense weight. I'm
told treasures are in our hands. Keep
silence, and We'll get you safely
across"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-10-29
The Belgian Coast Line

Perhaps in no other war in mod
ern history have few miles counted
Tor as much in the scales of victory
as in the present contest in West
FLANDERS, says a bulletin issued by
the Bureau of Geographic Informa-
ton of the National Geographic So
clety. The distance which separates
the Allied forces from full control
of the coast of Belgium is only 80
miles. Possession of these so miles
OF coastline would not only wipe out
the German submarine bases in Bel
gtum, but 1T would also give the AL
lies new front upon which to at
tack in an effort to drive the enemy
out of Belgium and Northern France.
Possession of this coast, therefore,
would be a double victory to the AL
lies, sorely hampering the enemy's
submarine operations and at the
same time affording an opportunity
to roll up his right flank on land.
Nowhere else may be found L
more striking contrast between peace
and war than that afforded by the
Belgian coast in 1913 and 1917.
Practically the entire coastline in
normal times is given up to the
pleasures of seaside cities and rest
resorts. La Panne, Coxyde-Plage,
Oost-Duinkerke, Nieuport- Bains,
Westende, Middelkerke, LIE Coq-sur-
Mer, Wenduyne-sur-Me Blanken-
berghe, Heyst-sur-Mer and Knocke-
sur-Mer are all places which remind
one of the seaside cities of New Jer-
sey. OF these, Ostend. Nieuport-
Bains and Blankenberghe are the
most pretentious.
In these Atlantic Citys, Cape Mays
and Asbury Parks of Belgium laugh
ter and happiness reigned with a
carefree abandon that only Euro
pean resorts could know, while to-
day war, on land, under sea and in
the air, harries- the souls of the few
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-10-29

brave people who still remain there.
Between La Panne and Oost-Duin-
kerke is the Hooge- Blikker, 105 feet
high, the highest point of the Bel
gian dunes, and also the widest
point. Just outside of Nieuport-
Bains, in the village of Lombartzyde,
there is a celebrated figure of the
Madonna, held in high veneration by
Flemish fishermen from time i'm
memorial, and to which the Flem-
ings are to-day addressing their ap-
peal that their land shall be liberated
from the iron heel of the invader.
Ostend is famous not only as a
seaside resort, but for its great fish
ing trade in normal times and fo1Sits
oyster parks. oysters in large num-
bers are brought here and kept in
clarified sea water. The visitor may
order his plate of shellfish right out
of the water.
Should the Allies get control of the
coast of Belgium as far inland as
Bruges, they would come into pos
session of a splendid system of ca
nails extending from France to Fur
nes. and thence, by way of ,Nieuport,
to Ostend and Bruges. There is also
a canal from Bruges to the coast
near Blankenberghe, another to
Client, and third to the waterway
connecting HeySt with Ghent. A
railroad parallels the coast all the
way from the French border to the
Dutch frontier.
West Flanders. where the big
English smash is now on, is gener-
ally flat and low, and in parts
marshy. Under a system of intenive
agriculture, the province was one of
the most productive in Belgium in
the years before the war. and 40
per cent of the population was en-
gagged in manufacturing, the princi-
pal industry being linen weaving and
lacemaking.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-10-29
KEEPING OUR BOYS FIT

"HE letters from the Harrisburg
boys now in the service of their
country which have been print
ed from time to time in the Tele-
graph have aroused more general in
terest than any matter that has
come through regular news sources.
These letters are full of picturesque
detail and breathe the very atInos-
phere of the military operations.
Above all else is the optimism Of
these youths who have gone into the
service with their eyes open and with
patriotic devotion to their country
which constitutes one of the bright
est phases of the war.
Now that our troops are on he
very firing line in Europe, we shall
have a keener appreciation of what
these young men who have gone out
from the hcmes of Central Pennsyl-
vania and from every other part of
the country are doing for the great
cause that concerns all civilization.
AS the real situation is being
forced home upon our people the
concern of all good citizens In the
welfare of the men in camps and at
the front grows with the increasing
knowledge of the difficulties and the
perils and the hardships which en-
viron them. 1t ought not to be nee
essary, under those conditions to urge
the generous support of the great
movement under the direction of the
War Work Council, which contem-
plates recreational and other facili-
ties for the welfare and comfort of
our soldier boys who have left COM
Portable homes in obedience to The
call of their country and in pursu-
ance of high apd lofty purpose.
Harrisburg has been most gener-
Gus in all campaigns for subscrip-
tions-the necessary campaigns
which have been inaugurated since
our entrance into the war. A few
men some months ago in this city
subscribed over $4,000 for the
maintenance of war work activities,
but the need is now so great that a
fund of Nss5. 100000 is being raised
in the United States for this work
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-10-29
TWENTY YEARS AGO"

Ladies wore bustles.
Operations were rare.
Nobody swatted the fly.
Nobody had seen a silo.
Nobody had appendicitis.
Nobody wore white shoes.
Cream was cents pint.
Cantaloupes were muskmelons.
Most young men had "livery bills"
10 You never heard of a 'tin lizzie" 4"
Doctors wanted to see your tongue.
Milk shake was favorite drink.
Advertisers did not tell the truth.
Nobody cared for the price of
gasoline.
Farmers came to town for their
mail.
The hired girl drew fifty q
week.
The butcher threw in" a chunk of
liver.
Folks said pneumatic tires were a
joke.
Nobody listened in" on tele-
phone.
There were no sane Fourths, nor
electric meters.
Strawstacks were burned instead
Of baled.
Publishing a country newspaper
was not a business.
People thought English sparrows
were birds"
Jules Verne was the only convert
to the submarine.
You stuck tubes in your ears to
hear a ohonograph, and it cost a
dime.-Pike County (Ill.) Republi-
can.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-10-29
HIS HOME PAPER

What shall you send him when
he's in training camp or over there ?
A letter? BY all means, that fore
most and oftenest. And after that
what? Some foolish little knick-
knack which is neither quite orna-
mental nor entirely serviceable? Or,
when in doIbt, will you take lesson
from what Richard Henry Dana
wrote in 1.-TWO Years Before the
Mast?"
after all, there is nothing in a
strange land like a newspaper from
home. Even a letter, in many re-
spects, is nothing in comparison with
1t. 1t carries you bach the spot
better than anything else"
There is more in this to-day than
Dana ever put there.-From Golfers
Weekly
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-10-29
HIS CRIME

"I have just robbed a clothing
store" confessed ]. Fuller Gloom.
"The salesman assured me, with in
nocence in his glance and tears in
his voice. that the suit upon which I
had fixed my fancy was costing his
boss five dollars more day than he
was selling it for, and that in three
months time 1t would cost at least
ten dollars more. insisted on
taking it, and thus helped the VIII
famous salesman to rob the proprie-
tor of all the money he might have
made by keeping the suit. it."-Kansas
City Star.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-10-29
THE ITALIAN SITUATION

"HE success of the German drive
on Italy will have a mighty in
fiuence on the future of the war
but it will not be decisive.
Germany overran Servia, but
Servia is not crushed.
Germany overran Roumania, but
Roumania is not crushed.
Germany overran Belgium, but
Belgium is not crushed.
Germany invaded Russia, but Rus
sia is not crushed.
And the final decision of this war
will be along the western front,
where the unconquerable French,
British and Americans are preparing
for the final great drive that will end
somewhere beyond the Rhine-pos-
sibly in Berlin.
Cheer up, the worst is yet to come
for the Kaiser.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-10-29
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

General John j. Pershing's FAM
lily came from Westmoreland County,
although he was born in Missouri.
Judge H. A. Davis, who is pre-
siding in the Philadelphia hearing,
used to be an active National
Guardsman.
George H. Earle. Jr., who saJS
that there will be a sugar shortaRA
after the war is one of the fort<
most authorities on sugar manuGas~N
turing on the seaboard. =
Judge w. Rush Gillian marched
in Cham bersburg's parade in hns>es7
of the loan subscription.
Isaac II. Clothier, who planted a
tree at Swarthmore on Arbor Day,
has been one of the trustees for al
most forty years.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-10-29
NOT ALWAYS

Ambassador Gerard" said a New
York broker, had a happy way in
Berlin of chatting the great war lords
and dictators.
"a grand duke said to the AM
bassador at a reception:
Germany will win this war.
Then let America look out
How will Germany win?' said
Mr.. Gerard, calmly.
With her submarines, with her
gases, and, above ALL said the grand
duke, with perseverance. Perse-
verance, Mr.. Ambassador, always
conquers.'
'Always?' said Mr. Gerard, wink
ing at his second secretary. How
about the hen on the china egg?'
Washington Star.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-10-29

and the city of Harrisburg and Dau-
phin County together will be asked
for $4,000 of this amount.
We believe that what is so OBJ
viously necessary for the mainte-
nance of the morale of the troops,
their comfort and efficiency ought
not to require special urging at this
time. We must fight this war to q
successful finish and to do so we
must see to it that our own soldier.
are kept fit.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-10-29

to us as people, but we must not be
penurious. We must live our lives as
nearly normal as is possible. We
must save where ever we can, but
we must be careful not to over do it;
not to ruin the businesses and indus
tries upon which we will have to de-
pend for prosperity when the wal
trade ceases
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-10-29
primaries, for they ran away from
their opponents, Jones and Bell"
OH, MAN.!


Republican County Chairman j.
| ]. Steel, of Northumberland county,
following a meeting of committee
men at Sunbury on Saturday. an
nounced there is little chance for
Democratic success at the ensuing
general election. Steel looks for big
Republican gains throughout the en-
tire county. He is confident the par
ty will record a very big ballot in
Watsontown, Milton, Northumber-
land, Sunbury, Shamokin and Mt.
Carmel. If it does, there is little
doubt that the ticket will win hands
down. Republicans are encouraged
this year because of the apathy of
Democratic workers, especially in the
mine districts. They say they don't
care how the election goes and that
they will remain away from the
polls.
The Philadelphia Ledger says in
it's political column: There is a
feeling in political circles that the
present situation in, this city-the
| fight between Penrose and the Wares
indicates that there will be a state
wide fight next year between the
rival factions over the Republican
nomination for Governor. 1t had
been generally understood that Sem
ator Sproul, dean of the State Sem
ate, would be agreed upon by all
elements as the harmony choice for
Governor. And, even so, that may
develop. But 1t is learned that Sen
ator Penrose is not yet committed
to Sproul or any one else for Gov
ernor. And this though Penrose and
Sproul have discussed the matter in
formally between themselves. The
Penrose point of view is that the
gubernatorial question will be an
swered when it is known whether or
not the Wares will back q candidate
of their own, or go along with the
Penrose state organization Fur
thermore, much will depend upon
the policy of the Democrats. 1t may
we'll be that the Republican leaders
will have to take the labor move
ment into most serious consideration,
for Penrose leaders realize that the
| Democratic National Administration
is making friends with the working
man. Labor is getting high wages
and labor is being richly recognized
| by the Federal Administration with
numerous political offices. So 1t is
evident that many problems will have
to be solved before Senator Penrose
and his friends finally commit them
selves to candidate for Governor
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-10-29
ECONOMY NOT PERJURY"

YNDER that caption an advertis-
ing agency writes the Telegraph
begging this newspaper, among
others, to point out the folly OF
running all legitimate business to
make way for war work.
There is good horse sense back OF
this appeal. The war is not going to
last always. and we must be as ready
for the great industrial battles OF
peace as we are trying to make our.
selves for the war we are now en-
gagged in waging. Lack of prepared
ness has delayed our participation
in the war. The French and the Eng.
lish have stood between ourselves
and Germany. but there will be none
to stand between us and our rivals
in the contest for commercial su.
premacy which is to follow.
Yes, we must be economical, and
true economy will be vastly beneficial
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-10-29
IN TIMES OF AFFLICTION

If, when evil cometh upon us, as
the sword, judgment, or pestilence,
or famine, we stand before this
house, and in thy presence (for my
name is in this house), and cry unto
thee in our affliction. then thou wilt
hear and help.-II Chronicles Xxx, O..
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-10-29
A GERMAN PROBLEM

One serious economic problem that
is going to confront Germany pretty
soon is what to do with all the bright
young men who have been trained
for spy careers.-Ohio State Jour
nal.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-10-29
OUR REGULAR lob

Let us then be up and doing,
In our old familiar way,
Putting off until tomorrow
What we ought to do to-day.
Kansas City Star.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-10-29
DO YOU KNOW

THAT Harrisburg's Arbor dsJ
celebration attracted much coTfe.
ment throughout the state?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-10-29
HISTORIC HARRIsBURG

This city's first park was the
commons" along the river bank and
1t was used for everything from
horse racing to rifle matches in early
days.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-10-29

JUNGLE JESTS.
Snake-Old Kangaroo looks kind
of seedy. Sort of down and out.
Monk-Yes. on his last legs as 1t
were.