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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-23
NOTHING ASBAD
AS FANCY PAINTS
Actuality of Situation Never
Causes 1.-THE of Trouble
Anticipated
BY Beatrice Fairfax.

Nothing ever yet was as bad as
our active and morbid fancy painted
it. Which has been said before! But
it is well to keep reminding people
of vivid and timorous imagination
that the actuality of a situation
never causes 1.-THE of the torture
which the anticipating mind has at
tributed to 1t.
Recently read an article which
dealt with a borrowed idea, which I
in turn shall borrow.
The brave man dies once; the
coward dies a thousand deaths" are
the lines 1 want to borrow. I should
like to have them printed in letters
about a foot high and given a whole
page all to themselves. Really, they
are important enough for that. Par
ticularly are they important in these
days when panic, so often seizes by
the throat. ..
Recently l met a young chap who
was invalided from France. He is
a nervous wreck. Physically, he is
almost disintegrated and yet he has
never a wound-not even a scratch
For two years he was in the first
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-23
EXPORTS CONTROL
IN BUREAU HANDS
President Relieves Depart
ment of Commerce of Task
and Cuts Red Tape

Washington. Aug. 2S.-Control of
exports, heretofore administered by
the Department of Commerce, was
given by President Wilson to-day to
the exports administrative board. of
which Vance Mccormick is chairman.
The purpose. officials explained, is to
simplify procedure in granting export
licenses.
The change gives unusual powers
to the administrative board, which
was formed to serve as an advisory
body to the exports council, compris-
ing the secretaries OF State, Commerce
and Agriculture. and the food admin
istrator. The Presidents order will
serve to make the exports council
really the advisory body.
Since the export control provision
of the espionage act was put into
operation more than a month ago.
the administrative board has done
much OF the work of shaping an eX-
port policy. It's recommendations have
gene to the exports council and from
there to the President, whi in turn
directed the Department of Commerce.
but this was considered too cumber-
some.
The administrative board has on 1t
besides Mr.. Mccormick, who repre-
sents the State Department. Alonzo E.
Taylor. representing the Department
of Agriculture; T. d. Jones. represent
ing the Department of Commerce, and
John b. White, representing the food
administration.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-23
The truth ABOUT
ECZEMA And PILES

Thousands and thousands of people.
SAYS peterson, are learning every
week that one 25 cent box OF Peter
sons Ointment will abolish Eczema
and Danish piles, and the grateful let
more to me than money,
l had Eczema for many years on my
mead and could not get anything to do
IL any good. saw your ad and got
one box and l owe you many thanks
for the good it has done me. There
isn't blotch on my head now, and l
couldn't help but thank Peterson, for
Inc IN, cure Is great, Mrs. Mary Hill. 420
Third Avenue. Pittsburgh. Pa
have had itching piles for is wears
and Peterson's is the only ointment
that relieves me, besides the piles seem
70 have gone. a. 3. Ruger, 1927
Washington Avenue, Racine, wis.
Use Peterson's Ointment for old
sores, salt rheum and all skin dis
eases. 1t banishes pimples and black
headS in less than 10 days and leaves
the SKIN clean, clear and pleasant to
look upon. Druggists guarantee it
Advertisement
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-23
Winter
Buyers of
Coal

may experience great difficulty in obtaining
their accustomed supplies.
All indications point to extreme shortage in
Anthracite coal next winter
The fact there is actual shortage-now-in
the midst of summer when production is most
favorable
Don't put too much dependence upon Govern
ment regulation of coal.
Government control of coal does not insure
against famine.
Coal prices lower now than those that will
be in effect next winter.
By placing your order Immediately you may Sc
cure your accustomed kind of fuel besides saving
money on the fuel bill
United Ice & Coal Co.
Forster cowden sts.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-23

member any of our trials and trou-
bles, it will be only to smile that
they should ever have caused us a
pang," wrote Elbert Hubbard.
There is a good deal to think
about in that paragraphs there
not? 1t is rather surprising how
many of our brilliant authors have
said that for us in prose or verse.
But it has to be said over and over
again and explained ever more and
more emphatically. For you and
| and all of us are children-afraid of
the dark.
When we are kiddies, we weep
and wall in anticipation of the tor
ture we are going to be put to when
the dentist fills our aching tooth.
Later on, we are ashamed to make
fuss about 1t, but, shut up inside
OF us, dreadful fuss is going on.
l think pain is n dreadful Bogey
Man with which we frighten our
selves all through life. Now, when
we discover that the nursemaid or
an older sister has frightened the
baby with threats of what the po-
liceman or some mythical "Bogey
Man" will do to him If he isn't
good, we promptly reprove and re-
proach and give our orders that
baby isn't to be frightened half out
of his wits.
Why do we do that? Not Just to
save a naughty child-who probably
deserved it-from a little disciplin-
Ing fear. No not that! But to keep
him from growing up with the
wrong attitude toward law and or
der and to stop him from being a
coward. We want him to know
that law is on his side - that the
policeman is his friend If he be-
haves. So we don't let baby get hold
of the wrong attitude toward law
and grow up in fear of it.
Each of us needs the same sort
of discip1ining for ourselves. Life is
game of consequences when most
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-23

OF those consequences we bring on
ourselves. And things we ought to
fear, because they are going to fol-
low inevitably from our own deeds.
we branzenly neglect to dread.
AS An Example
Last summer when the cruel
plague of infantile paralysis took
its toll of life all about us, even
grown-ups were panic stricken. Fear
of the unknown caused horrible
misery to many who escaped every
thing but their own fear. 1 know of
one family in particular who fed
from New York with their three
children. Where they were going
they hardly knew; but they must get
away from the crowded city with
its high death rate. The first sum-
mer resort to which they fed refus-
ed to take children from New York.
The second had no room for any
more guests. At the end of the dis
couraging quest they settled down
in a mountain resort of which they
knew practically nothing. They could
see that the sanitary conditions were
not good-but at least they were
far from New York.
All three of the children were
stricken with typhoid fever. The
water in the little settlement was
polluted! The youngest baby died.
Fatalists said that the baby was
doomed anyway. Yes, that is true,
If you stop to think what made the
doom! 1t was the blind, stupid un-
reasoning panic of the parents. Had
they stayed in New York they
might have taken preventive meas
ures against the plague. And by
cleanliness they might have avoid
ed it.
greater and graver than what we
dread with tragically blind and un-
reasoning terror.
Use McNeil's Pain Exterminator--Ad
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-23
CIVIL SERVICE TESTS

The United States Civil Service
Commission announces the follow
ing examinations: September IS,
mechanical and electrical engineer
(male), civil engineer, construction
engineer, experts in child welfare
assistant director, child labor division
inspector, child labor division as
sistants in the prevention of infant
mortality experts in the prevention
of infant mortality.
September 19-Bookeeper (fe-
male), assistant in crop physiology,
assistant inspectors, child labor
division junior assistant in market
ing dairy products.
September 19-Bookkepe (fe-
stenographer and typewriter. special
agents and research assistants.
September 25-Assistant in mar
keting dairy products.
Applications will be received at
any time for the following exami-
nations: TEACHER, Indian service,
subinspector of ordnance.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-23

and even the second line of trenches.
For two years he dreaded the day
when he must get into the third line
into action.
In those two years he has. sup
pose, died more than a thousand
deaths. BY suffering in anticipation
he has cut himself Off from being a
real factor in fighting for the glory
of France.
There are tragically many of us
who make our lives one long series
of tortures just as he did. Now, as
a matter of fact, most real troubles
right up to them and look them
squarely in the eye as they were
when you were thinking about
them! Who does not remember ly-
ing in bed, quaking and shaking in
fear of some terrifying sound COM
ing from the black dark beyond the
bed.
A night of such horror actually
takes years out of a life. If you
had the courage to get up, throw off
the muffled covers and sally forth
to investigate the terrifying sound,
1t probably turned out to be a shut
ter Tapping in the darkness or a
curtain rafting, or some inanimate
object blowing about in the breeze
from an open window.
The Need of Courage
Lying still in the darkness of
mental cowardice and dreading any
situation is very much like lying
muffled to your nose in covers and
suffering agonies of fear over what
is probably nothing worse than n
little kitten scratching for admis-
sion at the hall door!
IF pleasure is greatest in antici-
patton, just remember that this is
also true of trouble. For at the last,
nothing is very serious. Mortals give
things an importance quite beyond
their gravity. The day of our death,
like the clay of our birth, is shroud-
ed in forgetfulness. and if we do re-
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-23
SELECTION OF
SITE FOR GIRLS
SCHOOL DELAYED
After Viewing Locations, Di-
rectors Decide to Take
Final Action Sept. 7

City school directors postponed
the selection of a site for the new
.sirls' high school until the meeting
Friday, September Z. The board
met in special session yesterday aft
ernoon and viewed the two plots
which are under consideration. One
of these is located in North street,
taking in the block from North to
Briggs and from East to Cowden
streets, The Wickersham building
and a number of small residences
are on this site. Directors estimate
that to replace the school build
ing will cost more than 500. 900.
The second site is located at Front
and Boas streets and is about 0,000
square feet smaller in size. Verus T.
Ritter, of Huntington, w. Va, archi-
the -;
tect for the school, accompanied
the directors on the inspection trip.
He pointed out that by using the
North street site a building three
stories in height world be large
enough for 1000 girls, while in Front
street, the structure would have to
be four stories. He also mentioned
the surroundings OF the two build
ings giving the present advantages
of the Front street site for locality
and district.
Approve Harris Plans
Final plans and specifications for
the Harris school annex were ap-
proved and bids have been asked.
These will be opened on Septem-
Der Z.
Secretary Hammelbaugh called
the boards attention to the exces-
sive prices wanted by some of the
city coal dealers to deliver coal from
cars to school buildings. Several
directors criticised the dealers for
asking from 50 to SO a ton for haul
ing the coal. The supply committee
was authorized to handle the situa-
ton.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-23
Lemon Juice
For FreCkIeS
GlrlsI Make beauty lotion at
homo for a few cents. Try I'll

Squeeze the Juice of two lemons
into a bottle containing three ounces
of orchard white. shake we'll, and
you have quarter pint of the best
freckle and tan lotion, and complex
ion beautifier. at very, very small
cost.
Your grocer has the lemons and
any drug store or toilet counter will
supply three ounces of orchard white
for a few cents. Massage this sweet
ly fragrant lotion into the face, neck.
arms and hands each day and see
how freckles and blemishes disap-
lar and how clear, soft and white
the skin becomes. Yes! 1t is harm
less.-Adv,
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-23
RENO LOSES MAYOR
TO NATIONAL ARMY

Reno, Nev.-Reno is the first city
in the West to lose it's Mayor in
the army draft. Roy Rrisch, alder
man, who is also acting Mayor,
qualified recently before the exemp-
ton board. When asked if he wish
ed to claim exemption as a vicil Of
ficer, he said:
There will be plenty of men left
for aldermen and mayor. but Uncle
Sam seems to need soldiers. There
for 1 will not claim exemption"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-23
GET s2.O5O,OOO WINDFALu

Chicago Two million and fifty
thousand dollars. distributed in six
Chicago banks. most OF 1t in bills of
large denomination, have been add
ed to the fortune of the late John
K. Stewart, manufacturer of automo-
bile accessories.
Existence of this money was un-
known to the heirs, daughters, five
and fifteen years old, respectively. or
their guardians until revealed in the
Probate Court. The inheritance tax
on the additional treasure amounts
to $4,000.
Mr.. Stewards estate was probated
in June, 1915. and tax was paid on
S4,00O,000. MrsN Stewart died soon
afterward in North Carolina. She
instrusted, in addition to the $4,000
900 currency totaling $690,000 to
Leander H. Lachance, her nephew.
He brought IL to Chicago and tax
was assessed upon it. He is guar
dian of the children.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-23
GIVE TAXI RIDES
FREE TO THE DRUNKS

A dispatch from Trenton, n. j.,
says that persons who enjoy taxicab
rides can get them free in Mercer
County by just getting drunk. The
Mercer County Liquor Dealers Asso-
citation has announced that persons
who become intoxicated in the county
will be refused drink and then taken
home in taXicabs. This action was
taken to prevent the prohibition and
local option sentiment from spread
ing.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-23
BIRD BURNS FARMERS BARN

Middle River. Minn.-Fire de-
stroyed the barn of William Hun.
a farmer living nine miles south of
here. Mr.. HUFF declared that the
fire was caused by q bird which car
ried a twig. one end of which was
aglow, into the hay loft.
Not far from the barn a brush fire
was burning. The nesting bird car
ried a twig which had been burning
in the bush fire. but which was
thought to have blown away from
the immediate vicinity OF the fire, to
the barn.
Mr.. Huff. who was working in the
barnyard. said he thought he saw
a slight trail OF smoke as the bird
flew past him. but did not investi-
gate. In a few moments the barn
was afire. Two valuable horses were
burned and the building destroyed.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-23
VIOLIN USED ITO CATCH FISH

macon, MO.-Iheyi nave new
wrinkle for catching fish at Elmer,
and it is wonderful the luck they
have" Alva Willoughby. circuit
clerk, remarked, swapping eXuer'-
ences at the courthouse. About fif-
teen of us pitched camp on a lake
north of town and then set lines
across zigzag, like German entangle-
ments, you know. When all was
ready the fiddler sat on a log and
played The Arkansaw Traveller and
other classis. And you ought to have
seen the fish come in! BY noon we
had more than the party could eat
They tell me they always take a fid-
dler along when they go fishing up
there"
II see," County Clerk Sears said.
THE music charms them, and they
so blindly toward it and are caught
on the lines"
Not exactly" Willoughby replied
you see, we put the musician at the
other end of the lake and in padding
to get away from the noise the fish
run into the hocks."
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-23
CAPT. vRooMAN COMMISSIONED

CAPT. VROOMAN COMMISSIONED
Sunbury. Pa, Aug. 2s.-Captain
Walter F. Xrooman was to-day COM
missioned by the war department as
commander OF Troop I. First Penn
sylvania cavalry. He succeeds Cap
tain Charles F. Clement, promoted
to major of Division Headquarters
police. He was formerly lieutenant
in the Regular Army.
SOLDIER TAKES BRIDE
Sunbury. Pa, Aug. 23.-Miss Jane
Meredith, of Sunbury. and Joseph
f. Sstrausser, of Bloomsbury. a
member of Company I. Thirteenth
Regiment of the National Guard,
were married at Selinsgrove.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-23
POSSIBLE ORIGIN OF KHAKI

fOSSubLE OHIGIN OF KHAKI
There are many versions of the
origin of khaki, but one that is new
to me comes from a veteran of the
MINISTERS, who followed Nicholson
through the breach at Delhi.
During the siege there, he tells
me, IL was noticed that the white
drill uniforms of the regiment, then
known as the old Dirty Shirts"
the first European Bengal Fusiliers,
of the old company's service, proved
excellent marks in the moonlight for
the Sepoy mutineers who held the
city.
The men were told, therefore, to
darken them by any means they
could find. Their method was to boil
the uniforms in the "dixies," or regi-
mental kettles, in which tea was
made, together with bark stripped
from the trees in the neighborhood,
which made a fairly satisfactory
brown dye.
Time does not seem to have
brought any improvement on the
Dirty Shirt" idea, though 1t may
have improved on their methods.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-10-21

Msns. and boys $500 shoes SIPS, < at at \ Isnyitt,s Cut Price store. 1v'assss
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-10-21
AMERICAN DYES
 WIN FAVOR ABROAD

The American dye industry has not only grown big enough to supply prac- tically all domestic needs, but is ex- porting important quantities to other nations. In July nearly $500,OOO worth of anlline. dyes were shipped abroad, according to figures published by the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic com merce of the department of commerce. This is the first time that separate statistics for anilina exports have ever been issued, the innovation resulting from the recent striking growth of the | trade.
 | Of all the industries created or de- veloped as a direct result of war con ditions, none has shown more rapid progress than American dyestuffs. From only seven establishments in which 52S people were engaged in pro- ducing 6,619,729 pounds of coal-tar colors, valued at $1,126,G99 in 1914, the industry has developed until now it not only supplies the domestic demand for colors but has even invaded the foreign market in European neutral and allied countries. Canada, Mexico. Argentina, Brazil, British India and Japan.
 No other article of commerce more vitally affects a greater number of in dustries than do coal-tar dyes, and very few articles rival them in com- plexity of manufacture. At the outs break of the war the difficulties in the way of soon providing adequate do- mestic supplies seemed insurmount- able; yet in the short space of three years scores of plants covering many acres of ground have been erected; numerous by-product, coke ovens have been equipped to furnish the necessary raw materials: thousands of work men have been trained; special ma- chinery has been designed, built and ! iinstalled; hundreds of chemists and chemical engineers have given their entire time to the unfamiliar work connected with color productions; eX- perimental research has been inaugu- rated for perefecting processes and machinery and the possible discovery of new colors; organization, consoli- dations, and alliances have been eff fected within the industry to further and it is understood in the trade that plans are under way for entering for eign markets on large scale.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-10-21
SWEET-POTATO SEED.
locate Disease-Free Hills and Reduce the Loss From Black Rot.

Select your seed sweet potatoes in ne fall-when you are digging and an locate disease-free hills-is the Pdlvce of the United States depart nent of agriculture. Such seed se- ection will help your next crop es- ape diseases which each year destroy rom 1O,OO0,000 to 15,00O,00O bushels l sweet potatoes. A little extra care nanling your market crop and pro- 1dlng proper storage will avoid inn Por1ant wastes this year.
 When the potatoes are dug, the seed ofsnext years crop should be saved ppht the stems down to the roots and axe seed potatoes from the best-yield- ng hills where the entire hill is free lom the black-rot, stems blackened rom the black-rot, stem-rot, and oth- diseases. Plants with stems black nsa inside have stem-rot, wilt, or ae,stem. Any sweet potatoes with eariy round, sunken spots on the sur- aee should be discarded. Such po- s!oes probably have black-rot.
 r0tatoes with other types of wounds ~ tne surface and with routed ends nould not be taken for seed. Other .seases may be harbored in, such spots na may transmit the disease to the f2p next year.
 gamers should provide themselves
 VI proper storage facilities. For SsclIicatlons for storage-house con- slucsion, write for farmers bulletin @ o4S, department of agriculture,
 Ssnlngton, D. C.. When the sweet ''ss1oes ''.s are dug they should be han N wlth care so as to avoid bruises s.tn Mnlcn disease germs often gain ! V0.aold. A barrel of sweet potatoes
 olten worth as much as a barrel apples, but they are seldom han HEY In the same careful way.
 nne seed and, in fact, all sweet po- soes toe should be held at a temperature sS ,So degrees during the sweating pe- M " With free ventilation of the stor. Ss, N room. The temperature should s,s nsa pc lowered gradually to 50 de ses or 55 degrees and the sweet DO ssUes sai, Kept at this temperature in g "sril-ventilated room.
 M information on diseases of sweet
 sssoes read farmers bulletin TIA.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-10-21
''HoBo" SAVES A
 YOUNG WOMAN
She Had Brights Disease-D0ctOrs' Treatment Did No GOOOd,
 She Said.

It would surprise you to near oi .the wonderful results accomplished
 bv Hobo Kidney and Bladder Remedy. After suffering for years witl Brlsnts disease, many persons have been com
 nletely restored to health. One nota- rhle case is that of Mrs. 'P. B. Nelson
 of Lake Charles, La. Her story told under oath, is that she began ailing > in 1913. got worse and after suffering for six months called upon doctor
 who said she had severe case or Rrights disease. He treated her three months without avail; Inen
 he recommended Hobo Kidney .nt and
 Bladder Remedy, a preparatlon sna. s,
 had in many instances to his knowi- T,
 .a edge given marked relief. continu. u. ing. she declares that "by the use M U,
 'II1t Hobo TX Kidney and Bladder Re-. Remedy C " .she o is now without pain whatever ana has M completely regained and IS now v. sni anioying the very best of health" II II vnr are afflicted with any form ol M
 .iidnev ii or bladder trouble, write .u s, kthe n,i Hobo; Medicine Manufact.r1ns ts tg,s Fco Singer, Lap for a copy or t... -. G5oho & booklet. You will find IL ln |tensely interesting.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-10-21

change. I later took Lydia E. Pink hams Vegetable Compound and soon felt change for the better. took it until I was in good healthy condition. I recommend the Pinkham remedies to all women as have used them with sucl, good results. Mrs. MILFORD T. CuM- MINGs, 322 Harmony St., Penn's Grove, N. J.
 Such testimony should be accepted by nll women as convincing evidence of the excellence of Lydia E. Pinkham' s Vegetable Compound as a remedy for the distressing ills of women such as displacements, inflammation, ulceration, backache, painful periods, nervousness and kindred ailments.