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The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1918-08-01

Prot. and Mrs. j. s. Vandlver
have returned from a holiday
recreation. visiting relatives in
North Mississippi.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-13
IN FLANDERS

A million men have bravely died
In Flanders where the poppies grow;
And millions more to win have tried
In Flanders where the poppies grow
But sure as fate, democracy
That fight to free both you and me
Will set the slaves of Europe free
In Flanders where the poppies grow
At midnight hours the Kaiser
dreamed
In Flanders where the poppies grow
AS round him hell's grim fire II
cleaned
In Flanders where the peoples grow
The Imps of He'll they danced with
glee
To hear him murmur Gott an me.
When Satan handed him the key
In Flanders where the poppies grow
Could we put all who cry please
quit"
In Flanders where the poppies grow
To test how tyrants' hands have hit
In Flanders where the poppies grow
Twould hearten ev'ry patriot here.
Twould purify the atmosphere
And freedoms light would shine Out
clear
In Flanders where the poppies grow
Our boys are there, to fight and dare
In Flanders where the poppies grow
To crush the Huns, with steel ant
guns
In Flanders where the poppies grow
Arise, arise, ye free men rise
And fight through land, and seas
and skies
Till Belgium's flag in freedom flies
Tn FLANDERS where the DoDnies grow
A million men today they sleep
In Flanders where the poppies grow
A million hearts today they weep
In Flanders where the peoples grow
Let not your swords in silence rust.
Awake and fight for win we must.
To God above our cause we trust
In Flanders where the peoples grow
ROBT. II. BREMEN
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-13
Drop the Partisan Chatter

Let us have done with all this
chatter about partisan attacks on
the administration. There is no such
thing as partisan attacks. What has
been said, and is being said, is main
ly by the party friends of the admin
istration..
The fact is understood and appre-
ciated by all that the enormous
amount of work required by the war
has put upon the shoulders of some
officials burdens which one man
could not be expected to bear That
the best course has been pursued in
dividing the duties among so many
commissions and bureaus, from
which conflicting action has sprung,
is questioned.
The criticism voiced has not been
directed at individuals. 1t is con-
ceded that the Secretary of War,
whose departmenthas been the storm
center, has done all that could well
be expected of a man working under
his disadvantages. 1t is the system,
and not the individuals. that Is under
fire. The system has not permitted
proper coordination of energies.
Telegraph.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-13

order and buy what is missing.
Prune and spray your fruit trees be-
fore this month is out. Lime-sul-
phur solution is good winter spray.
If you have only one fruit tree it is
worth giving the best of care. Add
cold-frame to your belongings if
you have not this valuable adjunct
already. Grapevines should be cut
back this month to within a few
inches of last years growth. Spray
japanese ounce bushes and orna-
mental plums and cherries as well
as orchard fruits. If your house
plants are troubled with mites spray
with kerosene emulsion, being care
full to reach the under sides of the
leaves. Daily Swinging with water
will generally destroy red spider if
applied to the under surface of the
leaves. 1t will also keep the plants
in fine condition. Tobacco water or
dust is the most destructive to aph-
ides. Give your house plants plenty
of fresh air. When watering, do it
thoroughly, and do not repeat until
the plants require it.-Louise Beebe
Wilder in February Good House
keeping.
How About Your Orchard
The February Farm and Fireside
says:
nave YOU SOilG lOHB, SITOnS sum
flower stalks? If so, save and store
them carefully and use next year for
bean poles. They work well.
IF your orchard, or any part of
1t, is old, neglected, and Improbable
and beyond successful renovation,
get rid of it root and branch as a
cumberer of the land that may he
putto more profitable use. Do the
job now or else begin on it's reno
vation."
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-13
80 SHELLS AND A GUN"

A tavarish, or comrade, as the
Russian soldier now calls himself,
occupied the upper berth in a first
class compartment between Rostoff
and AleXandrovsk, a few days ago.
He had paid no fare of course; and a
lady who had been in the compart-
ment had been forced to leave and
stand in the aisle; for his comrade,
husky peasant with muddy boots,
whose vermin infested clothes had
not been off his back for months, lay
at full length on the red velvet cush-
ion of the lower berth, his head pill
lowed on dirty burlap rag holding
his kit. How he gloated over the
unwonted luxury, in the conscious
| ness that tavarish has come to his
| own, while the bourgeois are cast
out into desolation!
1 asked the man in the upper
berth about his plans. There will
be peace within a month. If not,
all the soldiers, from the Caucasus
to Riga, will go home, each taking
| fifty cartridges and a gun. Then
there will be another revolution, and
we will show them!"
That is the big fact about Russia
to-day-bigger, perhaps, than the
revolution itself, of which it is the
most important expression. I3Na-
rish is taking his gun and going
home, without saying by your
leave" to anybody. Now he has an
argument the force of which he can
understand and WELD. He has been
bewildered and befuddled by count
less strange pleas. All parties have
appealed to him as if he were a rea-
sonable being. He has been tossed
about on q sea of rhetoric, each
latest wave carrying off his frail
mental craft. For tavarish is, after
all, only an embruted peasant, the
victims of generations of autocratic
| tyranny and injustice. He is not
responsible for his inability to think.
| His ignorance of such big words as
patriotism, honor, loyalty, demo-
cracy, must be laid at the door of
the powers that denied him the pri-
vilege of a rational human.
He was ruled by force-and now
that he finds force in his own hands
he will rule in the same way. The
rich oppressed him; now he will
make the rich pay-and to him
every man who is not a soldier or a
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-13
A PATRIOTIC DUTY

HIHE man or woman with suffi-
cient ground for the purpose is
expected to raise a few chick
ems this year. Chicken-raising has
become a patriotic duty. Unless eggs
are to go beyond the purses of or
dinary folks next winter chicken
raising must be made as popular the
coming summer as home-gardening
was last year and will be again.
The feeding of a flock of hens is
less problem for the private FAM
lily than it is for the professional
poultryman, for the home-raised
chickens eat what would ordinarily
20 into the garbage can. thus keep
ing down to a minimum the EXPENSE
of feed, which becomes serious when
the flocks run into the hundreds and
the amount of grain required is
large.
The city Is turning it's garbage into
pork at the piggery above the CITY.
You are asked to turn a portion of
your household refuse into chicken
meat and eggs. Young chickens NAV
be purchased from dealers or from
the State Department of Agriculture.
thus doing away with the trouble of
Matching. If you are interested con-
suit Ehrman B. Mitchell, the expert
named by the government to helm
Harrisburg and Dauphin county peo.
pie solve their chicken problems.
We are beginning to revise our
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-13
REFRESHMENTS

| do not believe that sugar and
wheat are used to any better purpose
in providing refreshments for So
cial functions than they would be IN
ordinary meals for families.
1 do not think that ice cream is
less likely to deplete our resources IN
a way unfair to our soldiers and our
allies when served by charming girls
to their mammas and the mammas
of other charming girls than II pur-
chased at the sordid marts OF the ice
cream trade, retail.
Little cakes with pink icing on
them appear to me to be as free
from all patriotic traits or even from
a natural tendency of the human
race to self preservation when served
in drawing rooms to women thrilled
by bridge or books as when noted
through shop windows and taken
home in a paper sack.
You may if you desire give little
dinner to friends without in any way
abusing the rights of others to food
or infringing upon the requests of
our government for conservation of
resources. This is the way the people
of the British Isles have kept up a
tiny bit of social life. But refresh
ments" in the middle of the after
noon TO Il IOL OIL wen leu "OihSi' IL
is not right.
Months ago it was announced that
certain organizations of women had
agreed to refrain from serving any
foods at their meetings. This was
heraIded as being patriotic. 1t was
plain, self-preservative common
sense of course. But it was the right
thing to do.
Yet our club women. women many
of them affiliated with organizations
which stand for intelligence and the
better things of life seem in many
instances not to have followed this
course but to be pursuing the even
tenor of their ways before the war,
not for a few of them once in a
while but for all of them every week.
We object to patronizing hotels
and restaurants at which the food
regulations are ignored, and rightly
so. How about the social functions
at which refreshments were
served?"
Rich food in the middle of the
afternoon for a group of already
we'll fed women? Their very food
cards ought to climb down out OF
their windows in shame at such in
consistency.-Betty Tansey, of the
| Vigilantes.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-13
EDITORIAL COMMENT

Toryism would maintain the
established order; democracy
would invite the maid of all work
to the family councils and the COM
mon table; BolshevilSism would put
the maid in the parlor and relegate
the family to the kitchen and the
coal-bin.-Chicago Daily News.
The Coal Administration isn't pro-
German, but it's certainly in Dutch.
Brooklyn Eagle.
World-conquerors seem to forget
that the fieas never quite capture
the pig.-Cleveland Ohio Farmer.
Some day a German spy is going
to get the surprize of his career by
having his wrist slapped.-Boston
Herald.
mo indemnity or annexations''-
that is, no indemnity by Germany
and no annexations by the Allies
Wall Street Journal.
Political partizanship in this
country is one of the ships no Ger
man submarine would torpedo even
If it had the chance.-Chicago
Herald.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-13
Gardeners, AhOy!

TEBRUARY is the best month
for garden planning. Before
March is out we must be up
and doing, and he who has no we'll
formulated plans will surely be a
laggard in the spring campaign. Let
us consider the need of the situa-
tlon. The war garden that fulfills
It's mission should supply vegetable
food for the family during the sum-
mer and surplus to can, and should
produce many varieties for storage
over the winter. Heretofore in maxi
ing up our seed lists we have prob
ably allowed ourselves much liberty
OF choice. 1t is interesting and eX-
citing to experiment with Japanese
novelties, and to try the handsome
ly heralded newest varieties of corn
and beans; but in our 1918 war gar
dens these unproven allurements
should find small space. Far wiser
is 1t to follow the highway of cer-
tainty, leaving the devious il fasci-
mating path of experiment for less
troublouS times. AS a shrewd far
mer neighbor said to me the other
day, this amt no time for lemon
crops" and it isn't. We want fair
results from every seed, we want to
grow enough vegetables to supply
the family for q whole year, we
want to make each square foot of
ground attain the maximum of pro-
ductiveness. To these ends let us
apply our wits.
In just a few words this should
be the gardeners program:
Send for seed catalogs to-day and
get in your orders as soon as pos
sible. Seeds are scarce this year.
Look over your tools and garden
accessories; repair what is out of
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-13

ing. Many of the horses run In the
races, primarily designed to show
off the best horseflesh of the county,
have had no more local connection
than a locomotive from the Santa
Fe railroad would have on the
Pepnsy and the amusements have
not only been provided by troupes
which go the circuit, but have oc-
casionally, according to records OF
the Auditor Generals Department.
been chiefly devoted to the opera
ton of gambling devices.
What this State wants now and
has been wanting for years, al
though it took the war to bring
it to our minds, is a return to the
county fair that will show the big
ear of corn raised by Jim Jones boy
and the prize "punkin" from the
Smith yard. We want competition
in the best of the food. We want
the Robinson apples to be up against
the pippins from the Brown orchard
and we want the wheat from the
against the choice grain from Old
Hickory farm. We would like to
see Mitchell's chickens contend for
blue ribbons against those from the
Boyd estate. We want people who
are raising foodstuffs to speed it up,
both as to quality and quantity, and
we will all turn out to see the ex-
hibits.
1t is infinitely more profitable to
the public to have people work for
months to get the best of agricul-
tural and horticultural and dairy
and other farm products and to as
semble the best, than it is to see
horses from New Jersey go round
track and laugh at the antics OF
an entertainer from Broadway
dressed in "rube" suit.
If the county fair people will
bring back the real county fair they
will get a lot OF substantial encour-
agement from the State.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-13

~ OLSON Seventy-one years old
and too busy serving his coun-
try to celebrate the day!
There is patriotic service for you!
Edison's time is worth millions in
money. He can command any price
he chooses to ask. When great me-
chanical problems are to be solved
the masters of industry who guide
the operations of Americas great
mills and factories would not quibble
over pay could they but call Edison
to help them in their difficulties.
But when Uncle Sam asked Edison
TO enlist for the war he offered the
great inventor only a dollar a year
less than a private soldier in the
ranks is paid for a single day-and
, Edison responded as quickly and as
enthusiastically as any young volun-
teer. lie is not content with doing
his Bit" he is giving his all and
working eighteen hours a day at a
time of life when most men feel that
they have earned a rest.
If all of us devoted the effort to
helping Uncle Sam win the war that
Mr.. Edison is doing we would be
much farther along toward victory
than we are. But we are not all
Edisons and because we are not will
ing to sacrifice pleasure and leisure
in order to devote our time to work,
the Edisons outstrip us in every
walk of life-and yet sometimes we
wonder why.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-13
ST. VALENTINES DAY

THE pen is mightier than the
sword, and love is mightier than
either of them. Youth is always
youth, though kingdoms totter and
thrones crumble; and romance rises
phoenixlike from the ashes of the
ages. The glory that was Rome's de-
parts and the pomp and circum-
stance with which great personages
so oft surround themselves are soon
forgotten. Who, for example, re-
members that Claudius the Cruel was
emporer OF Rome, once upon time
long ago, and that he enjoyed a rep
utation which might have been the
envy of the Kaiser himself? Who,
on the other hand, does not know
something of the good ST. Valentine? ?
Yet Claudius in his day was powerful
enough to send the dear old Bishop
to the headsman's block. How the
shade of st. Valentine must laugh
at the puny efforts of the half-for-
gotten, wholly despised wrath who
thought to kill the eternal spirit of
love and lovers on earth by looping
off the head of their exponent and
champion.
Tomorrow we pause a moment to
pay our need of homage to the ven-
Grated Saint, whose heart-and-cupid
strewn path most of us have beer
treading since our knickerbocker
days. Yet he asks nothing for him
self. Would you honor st. Valentine
you must write verse, or send a
flower, or a box of candy, or a lacy
packet of hearts and sentiment to
her whose smile means more to you
than riches or fame, or both.
Maybe you are not so young in
years as you once were. Neverthe-
less.
The world Is full of roses,
And the roses full of dew,
And the dew is full of heavenly
love,
That drips for me and you
and so, if we listen to the prompt
ings of our hearts we will all go a.
valentining tomorrow. There's sure
ly some girl-even though her haiI
be sprinlxled with gray and from
whose cheek the roses have depart.
ed-who would smile, or weep, ovei
your valentine. And if such there be
it is your duty to see that she i:
properly remembered. Don't admit
even to yourself that you are any
older in spirit than you were wher
the big ten-cent valentine, with the
lace around the edges and the two
bleeding hearts in the center, bore
your message of youthful affection
to the little golden-haired beauty be
fore whom you poured out all thu
full devotion of a lad in loves frs
sweet raptures. Don't be a Claudius
st. Valentine has put an empero
of Rome to shame. Who are yol
that you should neglect him on hi
natal day?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-13
LABOR NOTES

A union of stenographers and
bookkeepers is planned at Charles
ton, S. c.
California oil workers now have
an eiSht-hour day and a minimum
wage of 81 a day.
In Armenia women are encourage
ed to work in the industries
There are 10000 women hospital
workers in England.
Tusla (Okla.) unions ask an eight
hour day for employees on city work.
United Mine Workers contemplate
creating an immense defense fund.
Canadian miners are protesting
against the introduction of Chinese
labor.
Serbia had 10000 trade unionists
in 1914. Only 10000 now survive.
Iowa State Federation of Labor
has added 5000 members since July
1, 1917.
Women workers in Porto Rico
have minimum wage law.
A bank at Orlando, Fla, employs
q female as teller.
Time workers wages in the Brit
ish munitions industries have been
increased 121s per cent.
American women in various parts
of the country are operating farm
tractors.
The Canadian Pacific has intro
'duced a semi-monthly payday.
Hindus in the Cowichan district
of Canada are proving themselves
to be successful lumber mill opera =
tors.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-13

The death OF Lieutenant Colonel
Zeigler removes from the service of
the United States as gallant a soldier
as ever wore the shouderstraps.
Colonel Zeigler was as good a citizen
as he was soldier, which is saying
much, and he leaves host of friends
I'm Harrisburg to mourn his passing.
lie died for his country just as truly
and as bravely as though on the field
of battle, and his fellow citizens will
cherish his memory as the first Har-
risburg officer to give his life for the
great cause for which we are all
fighting. He died that we might live
in peace and comfort. "Greater love
hath no man than this, that he giveth
his life for his brother"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-13
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

Hugh Dolan, Pottsville's fu
is a former memb|
of council and his aim will be.
keep the mining town from freezin
James Scarlet, whose comme|
upon Senator Eyre's attire, is SOM
what noted for sarcastic remarks
court and seems to enjoy it.
DR. B. p. Bachelor, the ne
head of Palmerton Hospital, COM
from Johns Hopkins.
w. T. Whitman, the poultry eI
pert, says that considering prices
feeds, chickens and eggs are cheaI
Judge H. A. Fuller, of Wilkd
Barre, has a way of dealing with, fuI
slackers. He closes up their plad
for a week or ten days.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-13
REAL FOOD SHOWS

~ ENERAL commentator will
VY follow the decision of the men
who control the county and
district fairs Of the State to de-
vote more attention during the COM
ing summer and autumn to exhibit
tions of the foodstuffs raised in their
communities, and to subordinate
amusements to displays of agricul-
tural products. The great trouble
with many of the fairs the Lost
twenty years has been that they
have been run more for the gate
receipts than for the encourage
ment Of agriculture or stock breed
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-13
The Neat Chancellor

Rumors are increasingly persist
ent that Count Luxburg, formerly
German minister to Argentina, has
become insane. If the unhappy
report is confirmed, it would appear
to suggest a fitting successor to
Count Hertling in the next German
chancellor crisis.-From the North
American Reviews War Weekly.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-13
FINERY

Finery rare for her to wear
1 seek in shop or mart all day;
Her bills for sweets and movie seats
l barely scan, L gladly pay.
But can't see for life of me
Why l should try in part or whole
When things are high from A to u,
Why / should buy her old mans
coal
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-13
BIG BUSINESS At HAND

of
entran big a a
making
made nd his requirements no
to be had
his
by advertising.
The PREFERRED paper in three
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-13
"Pdy" in Patriot

j. p. Campbell, the Donipt
poet, says a lot in these few lines
You'd like to don the uniform
And march with fife and drum
To where the battle line is drawn
To where the bullets hum.
You'd like to be a field hero
But maybe you cannot;
But either put the IT" in fight
Or the may" in patriot.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-13
HEAVEN AND HELL

A n EXCHANGE quotes the fol
II lowing paragraph from the
Jung Deuchland, a German
magazine. published for German lad!
of twelve years and older:
War is the noblest and holiest
expression of human activity.
For us. too, the glad. great, hour
of battle will strike, Still and
live the joy of battle and the
longing for it. Let us ridicule
to the utmost the old women in
breeches who fear war and de-
plore it as cruel and revolving.
No; war is beautiful.
In the cloud palace above sit
the heroes, Frederick the Great,
and Blucher, and all the men of
tke, Room, Bismarck; are there as
well, but not the old women who
would take away our joy in war.
When here on earth battle is
won by German arms and the
faithful dead ascend to heaven. a
Potsdam lance corporal will call
the guard to the door and "Old
Fritz (Frederick the Great),
springing from his golden throne,
win give the command to present
arms. That is the heaven of
young Germany.
There are no Boy Scouts in Ger
many, but the Jung Deuchland j
read by the German boys of Scou
age, and it's teachings are all of tn
kind quoted. In America we hav
the Scouts, who preach love ant
service and whose motto is DO
good turn daily" In Germany the
have n horde of youngsters taugh
to despoil others, taught to believ
that war is heaven"
How sad the contrast! HOY
frightful for the German youth t
awake from his dream of beauty
and romance to learn that insteat
of heaven. war is indeed hell.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-13
Human Nature

The profiteer l do not trust,
L look at him askance,
Because he does what I would do,
If 1 but had his chance.
-Tennyson J. Daft.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-13
Fdcinq Fate

Here's a sighl to those who love me,
And q smile to those who hate;
And, whatever sky's above me,
Here's a heart for every fate.
Byron,
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-13
According to His Promise

We, according to his promise. lo
for a new heaven and n new ear
wherein dwelleth righteousness.
ii Peter Ill, 13.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-13

peasant is a hated bourgeois. The
/. w. w. doctrines are coming to full
fruition in Russia just now.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-13
DO YOU KNOW

THAT Harrisburg has many
points of advantage for Army
truck trains?