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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-19
Sunday Prayed For T. r.

Billy Sunday prayed at the taber-
nacle the other night that the life of
Colonel Roosevelt be spared for his
country.
The prayer was interrupted by the
applause of the audience and a wave
of "amens" came from the minis
ters' section.
Lord, send an angel down from
heaven to whisper in the ears of
Teddy's doctors way to save him."
urged Billy. I'VE don't want him
to go now. Lord. Lean over the
battlements of heaven, Lord, and tell
the doctors haw to stay the ravages
of that malignancy.
please spare him, Lord, and
keep our President, and help our
friend Lansing who has been sick"
From the Washington Post.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-19
Real Road to Success

In the March American Magazine
the famous lecture of Frederick
Winslow Taylor is printed, in which
Mr.. Taylor says:
quite large proportion of young
men set out deliberately to do bare
ly enough to satisfy their employer
in fact, many of them would feel
happy to do as little as they can and
still satisfy their employer. Another
set of men propose to do just what
their employer wants. They, how
ever. are at all times exceedingly
careful to guard their own rights
and not to give a single thing in the
way of service that they are not paid
for. About one man. however in
twenty, takes the real, quick road to
success. He makes up his mind de-
liberately that in all cases he will
rot only give his employer all that he
wants but that he will surprise him
with something unexpected, some
thing beyond what his employer has
any right to ask or expect, and it is
astonishing how fast this line of ac-
ton leads to success"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-19
SULTAN SACCHARINE

Abdul is dead! That kindly souls
At rest somewhere in Asia Minor
On hist'ry's most affecting rolls
Has tragedy with subtler, finer
Or more pathetic artistry
Inscribed a tale so broken-hearted
AS this of frail humanity.
Exampled by the dear departed?
Alas for Abdul, impotent
To make his voice ring down the
ages
The milk of human kindness went
And Glove a channel through his
RACES
How soft. benevolent his crimes.
How uniformed with Kultur's
teaching.
A. Hamid lived beyond his times
And childish was his overreaching.
Toll for the Sultan Saccharine,
Outmatched by Berlin and Vienna,
Reposlng in his infantine
And unsensational Gehenna!
III. l.. Q,
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-19
THE BARREN SHORE

Full many sing to me and thee
Their riches gathered by the sea;
But l will sing. for I'm footsore,
The burthen of the barren shore.
The hue of love how lively shown
In this sole found cerulean stone
BY twenty leagues of ocean roar,
oh burthen of the barren shore!
And these fed crystal fragments
bright,
AS clear as truth, as strong as right,
1 found in footing twenty more,
Oh burthen of the barren shore!
And how far did I go for this
Small, precious piece of ambergris
OF weary leagues l went three
score,
oh burthen of the barren shore!
The sand is poor, the sea is rich,
And |, | am / know not which,
And we'll 1t were to know no more
The burthen of the barren shore!
Coventry Patmore in the Ohio
State Journal,
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-19
LABOR NOTES
By Briggs

There are over 700 local trade
union bodies in Australia.
Ten of the eleven states having
no workmen's compensation laws
are in the South.
In 1916 Germany had 24O strikes
affecting 124,1S3 workers.
over million workers are en-
ployed in British mines and quar-
ries.
Venezuela has enacted legislation
declaring eight and one-haif hours
a days work.
In Madras, India, twenty-five per
cent. of the factory workers are wo-
men and children.
Women employed in the Chicago
stockyards work ten hours q day.
There are 10000 organized metal
workers in San Francisco.
over 4,766,OO women are en-
ployed in the various trades in Eng
land.
France has a million and a half
widows on the Government pension
list.
The number of married women
in industry has increased since the
war began.
Women as crossing watchers arc
being employed by the Pennsylvania
Railroad.
More than 100000 men have
been withdrawn from industry il
Britain to serve with the colors.
The Kansas City Railways Com.
pany is trying to develop a senti.
ment in favor of women conductors
Operative bakers of Edinburgh
Scotland, have been given an ad.
vance of wages of S2.25 a week.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-19
WAR AND BUILDING

THE war is going to have a bad
effect on new building opera
tions this year Building as
sociations report that the demand
for money for this sort of enterprise
is not nearly up to normal and some
OF them have decided to put out
no new series until the Government
restrictions against unnecessary con-
struction are lifted. The building
associations are suffering in mem
bership as a result. for home-build-
ers are no mean fraction of theiI
total.
The first building association was
organized in America in 1881 and
at the annual meeting of representa-
tives of these organizations last week
it was reported that the number 4,
now 1000, with a membership o.
100000. and with total assets o.
$1,S9s, 900, 900. 1t is to be hoped thai
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-19
VOLUNTEERS MOTHER

He was so beautiful-my baby son!
His sun-kissed curls clung close
around his head.
His deep blue eyes looked trusting
ly in mine.
1 did my best to keep his beauty
fair
And fresh and clean and dainty, for
1 knew
never could be satisfied with less.
He was so strong and well, my little
son!
| gave my days and nights to keep
him So
Called in fresh air and sunlight to
my aid,
Good food and play, all healthful
things of life.
wanted physical perfection. for
L never could be satisfied with less.
He was so bright and clever, my big
son!
L sent him to the very best of
schools,
Denying self that he might know no
lack
OF opportunity to do his best,
Or feel no door of progress closed to
him.
1 never could be satisfied with less.
And yet-but now-my well-loved
son,
For your perfection can I pay the
price?
or would l have you play the cow
ards part,
With selfish. shriveled soul too small
to dwell
Within so fair frame? Is that my
choice2
l sought the best! Shall be salts
fed with less?
Nay, l would have you honorable,
Just loyal, brave and truthful, seern-
ing fear
And lies and meanness-ready to
defend
Your home, your mother, and your
country's flag.
He's gone! Dear Godl With bleeding
heart l know
1 still could not be satisfied with
lessi
Kansas City Star.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-19
GOOD POLICY

TINE public will agree absolutely
with the policy laid down by
Fuel Administrator Potter urg-
ing that next winters coal be laid
in by domestic consumers between
April l and autumn. Some fears
have been expressed that hoarders
might take advantage of this to
buy more than they need for the
winter months, but with coal at it's
present price and the local fuel ad-
ministrators standing between the
dealer and the purchaser there is
very little chance of abuse in this
direction. Few people have money
to invest in coal they may not need
for more than a year, which may
drop in price if the war should come
TO a sudden close.
And it is a good thing to I'll
the coal bins in summer it will be
equally good to fill the potato bins
next fall for the winter. The idea
of purchasing more than thirty
days supply of wheat, with wheat
scarce and in great demand, may
be all right, but the Food Admins
tration must be careful that it does
not discourage the spirit of thrift
tha prompts hundreds of thousands
of persons TO- save a few pennies
here and a few more there by pur-
chasing their household supplies in
quantities. Wherever possible the
housekeeper should be urged to
adopt this cheaper method of living.
The meal-time trip TO the corner
grocery is an extravaganza that
many families could forego with
benefit to both their pocketbooks
and their stomachs.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-19
LIP SERVICE

"The Germans talk about their
love of peace" but such talk is only
from the lips said Senator Lodge
at dinner in Boston.
when hear a German talking
about his defensive war, about this
war which was forced upon him, 1
am reminded of the married man
whose wife said one evening to him,
sadly,
George. you do not speak as af-
fectionately as you used to do. fear
you have ceased to love me-"
Ceased to love you?' growled
George from behind his paper.
Ceased to love you? Why, love you
more than life Itself. Now shut up
and let me read the football dope. ="
Washington Star.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-19
CUSSEDNESS CROPS OUT

The Mayor of Bethany has learn
ed something about the selfishness
of human nature. A few weeks ago
he announced that the city might
have to cut off the water supply in
the service mains in order to main
tain sufficient pressure for fire pro-
lection, and requested that everyone
aid in conserving the water supply.
Immediately a lot of patriotic citi-
zents secured hose and began filling
their cisterns with city water. Last
week Bethany had to cut off the
service mains-and the mayor didn't
issue any warning that time.-Kan-
sas City Times.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-19

quettes would be far more practical
than some of the suggestions con-
tanned in much of this valuable Tit
erature." Nowadays when any man,
organization or branch of the gov
ernment with bug" bit of prop
aganda or a conservation idea has
money enough for the purpose he
at once hires publicity man. who
sends it out in multigraph and
multitudinous form. DR.. Garfield
ought to be able to raise at least n
regiment of ablebodied men for
the mines from among the press
agents of Washington alone.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-19
Path of the Hun

Only a ravaged earth
Where the grass runs wild,
And an old bent woman there
With a little child.
Only a shattered tower
Bereft of it's bells,
Where, with it's sealed lips,
Gray silence dwells.
Only a fresh heaped mound
With it's grim pathos,
And a titled soldiers cap
On a wooden cross.
Only the creeping wind
And the shrouded sun;
Only the pale gloom;-this
Was the path of Hun!
Clinton Scollard of the Vigilan
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-19
SUCKER FISHING

"1E Telegrapn de1SntS IN re-
ceiving letters like the fol-
lowing, because brickbats
appear to be more popular in
this town than boquets and our
backyard is full of them. So, when
a boquet does come along we just
naturally put it in the front window
where the neighbors can see ii
and it's perfume can permeate the
whole shop. But, to get back to the
letter, here it is:
That certainly was a joyous
dispatch the Telegraph published
the other day from upstate
about the early opening of suck
er fishing coming soon on the
heels of the big February thaw.
one of the things | like about
the Telegraph is its optimism
What if a blizzard should come
along next week and blast our
hopes, we've had the pleasure of
anticipation, anyway. and anti
cipation is half of the sport OF
fishing or hunting. But, for the
sake of the other half of it l
hope your correspondent is right.
Have you. Mr.. Editor. ever gone
black sucker fishing in the
enough to make any angler want
to shoulder his rod and take to
the big eddieS where the early
fish love to lie on the bottom and
fatten on the food the freshets
have brought down"
Have we ever gone black sucker
fishing? Why, friend, spring without
a trip or two would be like buck
wheat cakes without maple syrup or
eggs without salt. There's nothing
like it to whet the fisherman's appe-
tite for the opening of the trout sea-
son a month later, or to put hin,
wise" to the kinks and currents of
the streams he will be later casting
Nfor bass.
There is nothing more enjoya BILE
than catching suckers in the spring
time unless it is the eating of them
that same evening, fried to a golden
brown, with fried potatoes. bread
and butter and black coffee on the
side to make the repast complete.
Somebody has said that there is a
sucker born every minute" but no
body who knows anything about
black sucker fishing would make any
such light assertion about the catch
ing of them. Catching suckers is JUS
as much a fine art and almost a:
much fun as whipping the streams
for trout. The man who doesn't
know their habits may fish all over
them and around about them and
never get a nibble. The fellow who
does know comes home with a fin,
string.
It's like almost every other gam,
in life. Good fortune and a fine
meal in the evening are for the fell
low who knows how. Luck may
have it's part, but it's a very small
part and the chap who counts or
it when he goes sucker fishing may
and very likely will. find the sucke
on the wrong end of his line. But
Friend Correspondent. we're JUS
longing for a try at them, the soon.
er the better.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-19
Over he Top
cn Pexxo.

Gladys. the twenty-foot python in
Lincoln Park, Chicago, received her
semiannual meal recently. Twelve
Keepers, with the aid of sausage
stuffing machine and a five-foot pole.
treated her to thirty pounds of
ground beef, followed by a twelve
pound piece of beef. We know some
people who wouldn't mind being
python.
WANTED am going to New
York next Monday partly loaded.
Would like to pick up enough to in
sure a full load" is the rather con-
fusing advertisement of n produce
shipper in a north county paper
Mary was playing on the floor
with her doll. She couldn't get the
doll to sit in a certain position she
desired and so she banged it on the
floor with great impatience and
yelled at the top of her voice. 81
wish I belonged to a family that
sweared."
In these days of industry no one
thinks much of Doctor Osler and his
theory that no man is worth his salt
after reaching the age of forty. How
dbOul NTSOISt JtllhllS, dStu oUt
who holds the gecord for Red Cross
output: 80 sweaters, helmets. 16
pairs of socks, pairs of wristlets
and a dozen scarfs. In addition to
these she knitted in the last month
mittens for all her grandchildren.
Would you Oslerize Mother Jen-
kins?
The schoolgirl was sitting with
her feet stretched far out into the
aisle and was busily chewing gum.
when the teacher espied her.
Mary" called the teacher, sharp.
ly,
Yes. ma'am?" questioned the
pupil
Take that gum out of your
mouth and put your feet in"
A young man in Altoona, employ
ed by the Pennsylvania Railroad in
a responsible job, has the distinc-
ton of having no relatives what
ever. His family died before he was
seven years old and neither of his
parents had brother or sister. What
he lacks in relatives he makes up
for in friends, of whom he has
plenty; and we have heard of people
who would envy him.
Considerate Little Gir1-"Please,
Mr. Keeper, will it hurt the elephant
if / give him a currant out of my
bum"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-19
A GARFIELD SUGGESTION

IF DIR. GARFIELD will find a
process whereby some millions
- of tons of press agent dope"
that find their way to the desks of
long suffering editors in the course
of year can be turned into house.
hold fuel there will be no "heatless
Mondays" next winter. Paper bri-
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-19
Cannot Contend With God

How should man be just with
God? If he will contend with him.
he cannot answer him one of a
thousand.-Job tx. 9 and 2.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-19

the lapse in building will not dis
turb the normal growth, which Is
about 100000 yearly. for home
building and home ownership make
for good citizenship, and there is no
greater promoter of either than the
building association.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-19

UTlTH Congress discussing 'ne
wv conservation of the Nations
water resources on the heels
of the recent coal famine, we are
in n mood to listen more attentively
than usual to the proposal of the
scientists who would save coal by
the use of water in generating heat
and power. Even the statistician
is not so dry as usual. BY intelli-
gent conservation or natural re-
sources, says Prof. Elizabeth f.
Fisher, of wellesley, S342,O00,OOO
of coal could be saved year to
the United States, $500, 100000 in
land resources, $1OO,O00,000 could
be saved by flood prevention, and
$1,000, 100000 by the prevention OF
insect pests. This makes total of
S1,942,OO0,000. Quite tidy little
sum, these war times. Here are
few of the facts she cites in the
Boston Teachers New Letter to
show the necessity for Government
legislation for the protection of our
lands and waters. She says:
We find that our streams are to
a large extent allowed to go to
waste. Five years ago me the
unused used water df e,d9nomic 9"meit 'den de-
veiopment was estimated at
nineteen millions of horsepower.
Probably there is greater
amount now available. owing TO
the fact that hydro electric pow
err is now transmitted to great
distances. In Colorado this pow
er is transmitted 500 miles:
Continually to fail to use this
water power means drain on
our non-rCre ewable resources,
and particularly on the coal re-
same amount of horsepower
from the burning of coal costs
the United states per year $542,-
This waste of water is espe-
cially regrettable. since II could
easily be used to save coal and
non-renewable.. The safety of
: this country for the future Is
closely tied up. with this ques-
tion. We should at the present
time have water power sites de-
veloped for nitrogen fNation
plants, for nitric acid. is a ne
cessity in the manufacture OF
ammunition. Their absolute ne
cessity should have been fore
seen. Recently between $50.-
900. 900 and $4,000. 900 of Amer
lean money was seeking invest
ment in Canada in connection
with hydro electric power. Why
= was not this money invested
similarly in the United States?
We know something of the use
of river coal" in Harrisburg, but
here is river coal, of another color.
1t is possible that we are right on
the dawn of a smokeless age, with
households drawing their heat, light
and power all from the same wire,
and factories running full time with
out the accustomed accompaniment
of showers of SCOT. It's worth striv-
ing for.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-19
Defensive Alliance Formed

Wayne county lawyers have form
ed an association and the Greenville
Journal fears that means it will cost
more than formerly to steal a pig
Kansas City Star.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-19

Germany wants peace by under
standing"-and she is going to get
it. when she comes to understand that
Kaiserism is a dead issue.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-19

Those who wondered why Scott
Nearing was dismissed by he Uni
-crsity of Pennsylvania will now
1--we to admit that the directors
knew what they were about.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-19
HISTORIC HARRISRURG

AS many as fifty RATS used to ar
rive at Harrisburg during the sprin
floods years ago.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-19
DO YOU KNOW

That Harrisburg got away
with the snow a great deal bet
ter than did some larger cities?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-19
A REBUKE TO STRIKERS

"HE firm declaration of the
American Federation of Labor
that this war is labor's war
and must be fought through to a
successful conclusion for the sake
of labors future in n world made
safe for democracy is a stinging re-
buke to the striking ship-builders.
Labor is justly entitled to be paid
as we'll on the Atlantic as on the
Pacific coast and beyond doubt the
Hog Island workmen have griev-
ances that should be given attention
at the hands of a board of arbi-
tration. but that they should hold
up the work of the whole Nation
is unthinkable.
The organized labor of the coun-
try has been standing Loyalty by the
Government. Early in the contest
it divorced itself entirely from the
/. w. w. and Socialistic elements
that had been trying to dominate it
for their own purposes. The Ameri-
can Federation repeatedly has en-
dorsed the acts of Congress and the
President. The time has come when
such mistaken leaders as those at
the head of the shipping strike must
answer to both their own fellows in
the ranks of labor and to the United
State Government, and they need
expect little sympathy from either.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-19

ALWAYS TO
THE RESCUE.
Science states
that girls are get
ting taller year
by year.
What II girls
get so tall that
men can't walk
with them?
Fashion Ill
introduce some
kind of q bend.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-19
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1918

With God 90 Ouer the sea; tcith-
put Him, not orer the THRESHOLD
RUSSIAN PRovERB.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-19
OUR DAILY LAUGH

SUSPICIOUS.
Mrs. Bilton-I
think you're the
dearest, sweetest
man that ever
wasl
Billion (suspi-
ciGusly) - Were
you at some fall
millinery opening
today?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-19

What's this
daughter You
let Mr.. Brown
whom you barely
know. kiss you.
Now, mother,
let's get this
thing right. I
didn't let him
kiss me, / mere
ly let him try,
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-19

lf the charge hat Chicago packers
are boarding hides to push up the
pr1ce cf leather is proYed. the Gov
"rrment will be justified in any
measure it may take to brclk up the
practice and punish the offenders.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-19

There are over 700 local trade
union bodies in Australia.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-19

In 1916 Germany had 24O strikes
affecting 124,1S3 workers.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-19

Ten of the eleven states having
no workmen's compensation laws
are in the South.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-19

The Kansas City Railways Com.
pany is trying to develop a senti.
ment in favor of women conductors
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-19

More than 100000 men have
been withdrawn from industry in
Britain to serve with the colors.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-19

Operative bakers of Edinburgh,
Scotland. have been given an ad-
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-19
SAVE COAL; USE WATER

VTYITH Congress discussing the
wv conservation of the Nations
water resources on the heels
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-19

Over a million workers are EN-
ployed in British mines and quar-.
ries.