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Freie Presse fuÌˆr Texas. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1865-1945, 1918-01-02

per SSe. sBiinoeI. SOC.
8obnen, Colorado, Hittc, per Efh,
t0e. gafifornia 8npous, per ssst.,
sf1.00: Yints, $1,000: Gina, $3.50.
aabp, SIC. 90, @In3enes, $1f.00, aosne
Green, per @uSGe1 Campers, $3.50.
Sonaaten, xerds, S2.35 per grate.
achl, $500 per 100 Bfuue.
@ruier Yfeffcr, 1925 per 9iidei. :
@tln0t. Toe per Nufdbel
Grine grtfeR. $500 per 6ampeI !.
@seten, $500 per 100 Bfuua.
ReerretttasW 1frsein. per RS. iSha
Gurten. per grate. $500.
Geuerie. g0c Mn5 $500 bet 9nkerc,
Rcoftina Gar. 4Oe per DuetnS.
0eterfYIie. 40c per Ttb.s9ARbei.
Gterpflanaeu. Sf.25 per 8nfdsef
QopfSafnt. Gal, $500 eer grnte
Gelbe Wurseln. $500 Der 100 Rfiisc.
Saunib. per @ufdleI. $50.
gantalonpes, $f.25 per Crate; So. 90
per Surnbs Grnte.
eta. Gin Sritfel 8uidel, $t25.
Siea . Narft.
Sau antonio, EeEos, 2 San. tafS.-
8iibe 1915 bis 5000,
adfber. $500 big $l0.50.
9nfer $5.35 bis 1925.
Sehfen, $3.50 bis Sits.
CT. 2oiis, 2. Sanlar t91S.@ittos
bieb. 9eras : gieb, s6.75 big $1,000.
Sdapeire. St4.o0 bis Si7.Gh.
Freie Presse fuÌˆr Texas. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1865-1945, 1918-01-02

Cotton.

Gam arttor1io. heate SO Gents.
@olpefton, seiteru feline gDrie.
GetfonIam en.xYsbait
San Iutonio. Ser0s. 9 San. 1915.
8rine griibe Cotton Seeb Oil. St.3t.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-03-30
THE EASTER STORY
YCoe{ Mod jsr6ss paaea ooe.l

SEEK J AZ uang I. white and shining,
Is ont here. He is risen. Go teri
His disciples that He is risen. and
that they shall see Him in Galilee."
Bewildered with JOY and surprise,
the women hurried to the disciples
with their wonderful news, but
their words seemed to them as
idle tales.
Two of the eleven, however,
we're already running toward the
Garden, followed by Mary Of Mag
d1h. John outran Peter and was
the first to look into the empty
tomb. But Peter, when he came,
went into the tomb, and seeing the
linen cloths, which had been
wrapped about Jesus, carefully
folded and everything in perfect
order, he believed that Christ had
indeed risen from the dead
The first person to see Jesus
after His resurrection was Mary,
the last to linger near the empty
tomb. The angels, who had spok.
en- to the other women, spoke also
TO her, but only to ask why she
wept. There was no need to say
more, for their question was re-
peated by another voice Suppos-
ing it to be the gardener, she
turned and said: sire, tf thou
mast borne Him away, tell me
where thou hast laid Him." There
vas no answer, but the voice, now
nearer pronounced her name as
only one voice in all the world
Gould pronounce it, "Mary!"
cannot describe to you, can
not even myself imagine the full
ness of her JOY as she recognized
Ter Master.
Death and the grave had been
conquered and the first Easter
Day had dawned with joy and glad
less.
ROLAND LAWLER.
81 Mary School.
Richmond, Ind,
March 10, 1918.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-03-30
EASTER IN TEXAS

II got up early one fine Easter
"r"''''f'.'':i '."ss..:. :. r.. After eating
eggs. ! found all or them. e. Z a ,.i
many funny looking ones. was
playing out doors with my eggs.
The children next door called to
me to come over and help them
hunt their eggs.
We looked under the palm trees
and bushes and we found whole
nest Of eggs.
l found some candy eggs, too. We
then went in and counted them. |
went home and after dinner, father.
mother and l walked out into the
country. We saw many horned
toads, lizards and many beautiful
flowers. We picked some flowers
Then we went home. In Texas
they do not have beautiful Easter
services at the churches as we dc
in Richmond.--Curtis Hayward, age
II, 6B Grade, Baxter School.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-03-30
EASTER NOTHING
[Continued From PAGE One.1

Just when "a rush In che DusIness
was about to start.
You know, sometimes, l think
chickens hain't got as much sense
as some people | know, honest!
When | see people start to kick
about the size piece of sugar they
get to put in their old coffee cup, or
the size loaf of bread they pay &c
for it, makes me want to go out
and jump onto one of them and
scatter their surplus dormies into
twelve-inch pieces.
But, that hain't tellin' you about
Easter eggs! After me shootin'
all them fast dyes into those hens
they had to do this! Honest-it
was heartbustin' and half my en-
thusiasm got splashed right there!
Well, l dug a hole and threw them
two old critters in it and covered
them up without a prayer.
For awhile l wanted to jump into
that hole with 'em, but then, you
see,, nobody would be left to cover
us up.
Well the time went ON till night
before Easter, and still no eggs,
was desperate, ] was insensible
with Notwithstanding like that
anyway.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-03-30
THE EASTER LILY

At no other festival OF the year
do flowers play such an important
part as they do in the Easter cele-
brations, and chief among them Is
the lily. This bloom Of purest
white, that today Is the fayorite
Easter flower, has been always, in
All countries, the blossom that
has come nearest to the hearts Of
the people.
No other flower so beautifully
typifles the religious sentiment OF
Easter morn, and it has come to
be the symbolic flower of the res
direction. The Easter lily was
once known, tradition states, as
the persian Beauty" or Golden
Flower" as its petals were OF a
lovely yellow tint, a field of the
lilies being referred to as a "Sea
Of Gold"
". With refernece to the lily's
change from colors to white, the
most interesting story is that OF
the Virgin, who as she plucked the
lilies was such an emblem of puri-
ty herself that it was transferred
to the flower changing its yellow
hue to pure white.
This same lily is known to the
French as "Fleur de Marie" to
the Italians as Lilly of the ArnO,"
and referred to by Solomon as the
lily Of the field that tolls not nor
spins" and that no king in all his
glory of raiment could rival in
beauty. To us it stands pre-emi
nently as the type of Easter hope
and Joy
Long before Christians gave a
New significance to the day, the
people of Northern climes had Gel
ebrated the return of the sun,-its
warmth and light renewed-with
fitting ceremonies, and in these
lands the springhme flowers had
their significance even to the
heather.
In some parts Of England, in
country villages these tiny bell
shaped flowers, Lily of the Val
ley, are called the Ladder of
Heaven" and in the floral Ian
guage of Europe it is emblematic
of the return of happiness, doubt
less in allusion to the return OF
spring, when it OPENS it's bios
SONS and bids all nature rejoice.
GUSTAVE PFAFFLIN.
St Mary School.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-03-30
All 81 a sudden, got an idea!

-.t,".ia 1858 -. tn. grocery I pot
coiored eggs and placed 81. ,:s..s:i.s
nest of those hens, lately deceased.
My duty was done, SO retired.
The next morning was up early.
Oh! what a glorious Easter! The
sun was shining SO brightly. it
made the electric light look like the
breezes after a tornado. The rob
ms sat around on the trees and
sang until my heart got to warblin'
along in time. The very sky, as
clear blue as wash water on Mon
day, was pouring over that wonder
full stuff, tabled happiness. l don't
see how anyone from Adam to Her.
bert Hoover could have had a
crouch on that day. | was jealous
of myself and almost sang aloud
only for policeman that was walk
ing on his last round. Believe me
| was just plumbustin' full of good
spirit ard l was on the verge of
giyin' everything to the Belgians
had, from my new suit to my tan
shoestrings. In other words, l was
glad l was alive, instead of along
side those ungrateful hens down I'M
der the blossoming sod. l was
whistling so loud made the canary
jealous when / opened the .nI.hv..
pen door, but---!!!
There was the peacock laying
prone on his back as dead as a rail
spike.
Well, the mystery never can be
solved | suppose, in your minds, I'M
til tell you all about it.
1t seems the rooster went in and
looked into that nest of colored
eggs, and then went out and killed
the peacock.
During the night the rats had
eaten all the eggs up, so, Christians,
what was / to do? That bright
Easter day lost all of it's splendOr,
l didn't see no robins or hear no
sun after that was blue as they
make 'em and as green as the
grass.
Well, the kid didn't have no East
er eggs, md l didn't have no Easter
joy. Maybe l was little wrong in
the start, these Easter eggs did not
come up smiling, but the things
they brought about made nobody
feel good but the rats.
l tell you, Casters all right as
long as you're the little kid that
does the findin' and your grown-ups
hain't bam-fo0zzled the law of civil.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-03-30
THE RISING OF THE SUN

It was early in the morning.
The gray mists were quickly ban
ished and the beautiful sunlight
spread quickly over the green
meadow. The little sunbeams
sparkled through the trees and
played hide-and-seek with the
merry little breezes which old
Mother West had turned loose
long before the sun had tossed off
his night cap.
The bright little sunbeams that
danced along the brook and kissed
the bashful purple violets and the
slick yellowd cowslips made
pretty picture.
The little yellow daisies and
buttercups smiled up through the
long green grass and winked at
the sun who smiled and Winked
back at them. The red faded from
the eastern sky and the bright
blue heavens were soon dotted
with large white fieecy clouds.
The earth was soon wide awake
Win the singing OF the DlrdS ana
the flashing of the butterflies that
fitted here and there over the vel
vety stretch of bright green mea-
dow lands. The little humming
birds were buzzing about and
thrusting their long bills into the
slender necks of the waxy white
lilies. The world was soon ever
whelmed with joy.
MORNING.
The beautiful sun is now rising,
From behind an eastern hill;
Twill soon be shining in the
heavens,
And Frightening the old stone
mill.
BERTHA MILES.
Columbian School, Dist. 6,
Richmond, Ind.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-03-30

iZation in tryin' to pull over a good
time. But wait till you get all
crowd up and you're the one that
is in fer the joy Of maxim things
look like JOY. Those there rats,
now, didn't know it was Easter did
they? They wuz scratchin' fer
something to eat and they ate it,
too. Those chickens didn't know
what to do when l fed 'em that COL
orin', they thought the best thing
was lay down and die, outright. So
watch out, don't lay down and die
on a fellow whose goin' to furnish a
good time and don't, for the love o.
Mike, go and eat up his goods after
he's done it.
hgaskrkrit'kk Cd
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-03-30
TO AN ELEPHANT

Oh you big, oh you heavy thing,
l wish l could hear you shout and
sing;
You have such large feet,
| don't see how you could cheat,
Did you ever try to pace?
| heard you were large to chase.
Did you ever try to dance?
l saw you jump and prance.
Your tusks are yellow,
Your teeth white as snow,
And you are funny in a show.
Your tail is short and stubby,
And you are fat and chubby.
-Geoggia Brown, age IL, Fifth
grade, Williamsburg School.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-03-30
once u an.a> ss-:.s.. y.AnnTT

once n. So ss:-::!s.. !.ART2TT
large rabbit. 1t was a good Zap;
bit, and one Easter it came to q
little boys house. 1t went to
nest and laid four colored eggs in
it.
Just as the rabbit started away
the little boy came out of the
house and saw the rabbit He
chased the rabbit a little way and
started back to the house.
He happened to look in the nest
and saw the four colored eggs. He
gathered them up in his hands
and started to the house. He
showed the eggs to his mother
and his mother said, 1.-The rabbit
you saw was the one that brought
the eggs, and it will come every
Easter"
Ever after that the little boy
thought that the rabbit brought
| the eggs on Easter.
HAROLD THOMAS.
| Baxter School, ga Grade.
Age 10.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-03-30
RIDDLES

There was beggar,
This beggar had a brother, and
he went to sea.
The brother that went to sea had
no brother.
30 now COulu JnIo &c
There were three crows sitting
in tree.
A boy came along, and shot one.
How many was left?
Answers.
The beggar was a girl.
There was none left. The others
flew away.
Katherine Parrish ga grade, Bax.
ter school.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-03-30

field clothes; the women Of Cana
da have risen with a plan for ma
tional registration of woman-pow~
err. Boys in this country, and also
in Canada, too young to go to
France as soldiers in the battle of
men and guns, are rushing to enlist
in agricultural work. Their faith
ers and grandfathers, retired mer-
chants and farmers, individuals
and corporations, are going afield
with the same inspiration. Three
retired farmers have volunteered
to farm 1900 acres of unplotted
city subdivisions in Regina, Sas-
katchewan. A thousand boys in
Manitoba had enlisted and been To-
Gated ON farms before the end of
February; thousands of Chicago
boys have gone to work in the
country.
More than $4,000 boys from the
public schools of the Dominion win
constitute corps of soldiers of
the soi,,' helping to "carry-on" at
home for the men overseas.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-03-30
THREE LITTLE RABBITS

Last Easter when / awoke in the
morning l saw three little rabbits
a box by my bed and there were
il eggs in the box too. One day
Sas playing with my little rabbits
nd one jumped out of my box and
an away and about a week later
)oked in my box and they were
cad, and + didn't have any rabbits
play witli.-TOm Bees0n. Baxter
chool, 10 years old.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-03-30

the promise of the farmers that
they will provide the food with
which to win the war is to be put
to the test this year.
City men are looking to the land
for their chance. Women, too,
since the advent of huge iron
horses, will do as much in the field
as men. Women Of the United
States are studying agriculture and
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-03-30

Seeding gangs have begun the
spring drive on the Kaiser and
his Huns with the battle fleets of
huge tractors. In the fields, both
in tie United States and Canada,
they are preparing for the great
est crop year in the history of the
continent. Tractors and their
crews are doing the work of many
.timesa az, many men and teams, and
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-03-30

LOST--A green leather bag.
Finder please return to Thelma
Sullivan or leave at Aunt Moily's
office.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-03-30

FOR SALE-A Belgium Hare Rab-
bit. Call 231 South 18th St, Rich.
mond, Ind.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-03-30

FOR SALE-Girls' Bicycle. Cheap.
Call Dorothy TietZ, 203 10th.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-03-30

LOST-A blue handkerchief. Find.
er may leave it at Aunt Molly's
office.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-03-30

LOST-Grey wool golf glove
Mary Jane Schillinger.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-03-30

LOST-At Washington theatre Sun.
day afternoon, pocket hood con.
tanning zoe. Please return to Elsie
Baker, or leave at Aunt Molly's
office.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-03-01
A Display of Good Feeling

There are contentious i'm the
country produced by the war, but
very many more, and some very
striking, manifestations of good feel
ing. Partisanship in the larger mat
ters has never been more conspicu-
ously absent. Take one illustration:
Theodore Roosevelt is as downright
and positive an individual as the
country contains. AS a partisan in
partisan controversies he is sworn
by, or at, with great vigor. He has
been a sharp critic of the admin
strations war activities, but not as
a partisan. He is warm advocate
of the war and wants it prosecuted
with all energy. Stricken suddenly
with a painful ailment and laid on
his back. he at once became the OBJ
iect of universal solicitude. His
early restoration to health and
strength is the universal wish and
has been expressed in numberless
messages, one from the President.
He will emerge from the hospital
more popular than ever.
AS a people, when we divide we
divide strongly. And, equally, when
we unite, we unite strongly. There
is union now upon the broad propo-
sition raised by the war. Both par
ed to hostilities. The leaders of
both are active in efforts to develop
and coordinate all the resources of
the country for war purposes. The
only contentious existing relate to
methods; and methods are in pro-
cess of Improvement where faulty
and of being strengthened where
greater strength is required. The
general tone Of public feeling is
good.-From the Washington Star
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-03-01
AGREES WITH TELEGRAPH
Harrisburg. Pa, Feb. 2S, 1918.
o The Editor of the Tclcgrdbh:

Harrisburg, Pa, Feb. 2S, 1918.
To the Editor of the Telegraph:
Every patriotic citizen of Harris
burg and Dauphin county should feel
proud of, and thankful for, your
manly and consistent editorial in
this evenings Telegraph with re-
gard to the President stopping the
waste of grain in making beer during
the war. 1t seems almost incon-
ceivable that this criminal waste
can go on in face of the fact that
unless we save food we will lose the
war. We are willing to save, and we
give our boys without a murmur, but
if the country must save in order to
win the war, why should not the
waste be stopped at the bunghole?
There is no other force doing more
for Germany in America day than
is the liquor traffic. Why should
the temperance forces wait for the
adoption of the amendment; but
while working for that, and we all
ought to work for that, let us do our
utmost by petitions and in every
other honorable way, to influence
those who are in authority to show
the strength of a Lincoln backbone
and stop the liquog waste and win
the war Respectfully,
WILLIAM n. YATES.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-03-01
Crisis in the Harrisburg Water
Department and It's Cause
Special Correspondence in the Engineering

THE Engineering News-Record,
prominent technical maga,
zine publishes the following
under Special Correspondence"
The municipal water-works sys-
tenn of Harrisburg, Pa, a city of
nearly $4,000 population, broke
down in January, 1918. The dis
tributing reservoir was emptied and
every industry was shut down from
January 23 to 20, while in some
parts of the city there was no water
for household use or fire protection.
The cause of this shortage was the
lack of duplicate pumping equip
ment of sufficient capacity to handle
the cold weather water demand. AL
though the consumption is so per
cent metered, the extremely cold
weather increased the pumpage
from 100000 to 100000 gallons
a day, so the 10000, O,O0O-gallon dis
tributing reservoir was practically
emptied in a few days.
The situation was relieved in the
following manner:
l. The city commissioner in
charge of the water works called in
a citizens committee of five to as
sist him. 2. This committee i'm
mediately ordered all industries
closed down until further notice. 3.
1t then arranged for the delivery in
to the city mains of 100000 gallons
of water a day from a private water
company to the north, and of 50O,-
600 gallons a day from the borough
of Steelton on the south. 4. 1t is
sued directions concerning water
waste and asked the mayor to issue
i 4, 1,s ,,syg ,N.tt
cularly against leaving faucets open
at night. 5. 1t facilitated shipment
of an electrically-d centrifugal
pump and its installation as a tenn
porary eXpedient. In six days after
this committee got to work the res
ervoir was full and Industries had
resumed operations.
"All this trouble was brought about
because the water department had
but one pump of sufficient capacity
to supply the maximum needs of the
city. This pump broke down in No
vember. 1917, and had not been re-
paired by the latter part of January.
In the meantime the pumping was
being done by an old engine As
years in service. This unit after
operating about two months finally
broke down in the middle of the
night (Jan. 25) and before it was
repaired the reservoir was practical
ly empty.
"The fundamental cause of the
Harrisburg situation is believed to
be as follows: With the old form of
city government, a water commits
sion of three unpaid business men
directed the operation of the water
works and employed an experienced
man at a fair salary as general SUD-
erintendent. He knew the needs of
the plant and kept abreast and ahead
of the requirements to a consider
able extent. A few years ago the
commission form of government was
instituted in Harrisburg and to one
of the five commissioners was dele
gated the duty of managing the
water-worlSs. He has no superin-
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-03-01
DISCUSSION HELPED

To those extremists among admin
istration supporters who would make
1t appear that every criticism of war
laXity heard in Congress is "unpatri-
otic" may be commended the atti-
tude taken by the people of Great
Britain toward discussion in the
House of Commons. The cry heard
here against Senators Chamberlain,
Wadsworth and Hitchcock is similar
to that raised in the early months of
the war against Englishmen who
questioned. but as the war progress
ed the value of patriotic and con-
structive criticism was realized in
England, and as a result of it many
evils were corrected.
At bottom the question is one of
the quality of criticism and the mo-
tive back of it. Nothing but good
has come out of the plain and
straightforward talks of Senators
who saw the needs of the war or
ganization which should be made. In
the light of what has since happen
ed the country sees that nothing but
harm can come from efforts such as
those of Senator James and Senator
Williams to make the critics appear
unpatriotic, however we'll meant
those efforts may have been.-New
York Herald.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-03-01
CLEAR UP THE PATCH

TT MAY be as difficult to follow
some of the methods proposed to
get rid of the pests which
swarm about truck patches and war
gardens as it is to pronounce the
biological names bestowed upon
them by unfeeling college professors.
We have been getting some mys-
terious hints from the office of the
State economic zoologist about
drives and campaigns and wars on
the pests of the truck patch and
the interviews upon the subject have
been many and rosy. We are also
told to prepare for another visit
tror1 the seyenteen-year- -old locust
and to gird our loins to repel the
woolly aphis and various other enc
mics as v'iggley-waggley in appear
ance as their scientific appellations.
1t is all very we'll to bombar the
pests with threats and to thunder
forth death knells from the granite
walls of the State Capitol, but the
best way to reduce the danger from
the crawling, creeping, flying, bor-
ing, all-devouring bugs, worms and
other organisms, is to go out to the
war garden and the truck patch
just as soon as the snow disappears
and gather up the dead vines and
plants and refuse and burn it. Clear
ing up the 1917 truck patch is the
best way to get real 1918 garden.
Next season is going to be a bad
one because unskilled gardeners did
not take proper precautions last fall,
but as of old they cleansed the
ground with fire it would not be a
bad plan to have some bonfires OF
the stalks of yesteryear, but don't
forget to stand over them, so that
necessity of telephoning for chemi-
cal will not arise.