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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-03-01
HON. Sap Rises in Trees

When spring comes and sap begins
to rise in trees many people will
wonder what causes the enormous
pressure necessary to raise so much
of this fluid to such a great height.
Many theories have been advanced
as to this force but it is probably
due to number of causes.
The same force that makes oil rise
in a lamp wick undoubtedly has
something to do with the rising of
sap in trees but it is hardly sufficient
to say that this one cause would
drive so much sap and moisture to
the upper branches of the tallest
trees.
The roots of plant are so con-
structed that an enormous pressure
on them is produced, doing much to
drive the sap along it's way. There
are certain membranes which cover
the roots of trees and these mem
branes have extremely small holes
in them through which certain
fluids may readily pass; other denser
fluids cannot go through them. The
water in the soil surrounding the
branes into the roots, but the minute
holes will not allow the sap inside
to come out.
Water continually soaks into the
roots and there mixes with the sap
and becomes a part of it. Thus it
cannot escape back into the soil, the
root is soon filled to capacity, and
as more enters it is forced through
the trunk of the tree up to the
branches and leaves.
When we consider the amount of
water and sap that travels to the
tops of trees often more than
hundred feet in height. it is surpris-
ing that tho little hairlike sub
stance which covers the roots can do
so much work every year and still
go un-noticed by so many people.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-03-01
Sfewdrt Statue Ready

The bronze statue of the late
jutant General Thomas J. Stew
presented to the by the officersI
the National Guard is about cd
pleted and arrangements for
placing of the figure in one OF
inches of the Capitol rotunda i
shortly be made. 1t is proposed
unveil the statue late in the sprI
or early in the summer. Gene
Stewart was adjutant general for|
years and handled the inductionI
the guard into two wars.
General Stewards statue has bJ
highly praised by men who seen
and it is the intention to placeI
in one of the second floor inches,
color of the bronze going very v
with the marble at that place.
The statue was presented thro,I
efforts of Adjutant General Fra|
d. Beary, who was deputy under
general and the funds were coliecI
at Camp Hancock shortly after
Keystone division modified at II
place. General Beary also sup!
vised the casting and fiuishihK.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-03-01
Black Man No Stacker"

The black man is no Stacker;
never known to be a traitor. Poor
boys who have had to struggle hard
for every mouthful they have ever
had to eat, are among them as we'll
as some brilliant young fellows with
clear heads and quick brains. There
are commonplace boys with nothing
especially clever about them-but
soldiers every one of them; every
inch a soldier and every drop of
blood in their veins representing
courage and loyalty. 1t is strange as
Americans We have never realized
before what stuff they were made
of. How strange it is that we forget
the noblest qualities of their souls
and think of them only as we see
them on the surface. Some of them
we know or think we know WE'LL and
yet we know nothing about them,
except the vain, shallowest outside.
Thoughtless, needless, careless and
even worthless, we believe many of
them to be, and perhaps many of
them were these things, until the
great genii of democracy touched
them with his wand and babe them
live up to their better selves, and
here they are showing the world
what they can do.
What blind creatures we are, yes,
all of us. How are we going to live
up to such standards as these? The
question foremost in their minds is
How are We gcing to find things
when we get homer" I dare say
they will be astonished after brav-
ing the great perils of the sea, and
facing death in a thousand forms.
say they fought, and that we'll;
triumphantly, they embark for
America, having gone to no mans
land and helped win freedom for
the world they come back to their
birth land to find that they have in
stead of liquid fire, poisonous gases,
ETC., as was thrust on them by the
enemy. They will find thrust upon
them discrimination, segregation
and Jimcrowism. l say they will
be astounded. How are we going to
live up to such standards as these,
made by our boys who are living on
the Heights to-day?
TE1OS. w. EDWARDS,
227 River st.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-03-01
No Beer, No Work; No Work,
No Pay

Alas! Alas!
Tis come to pass
That l must leave my frothy glass
Or lose my job and be an ass.
No more to fill
The brewers still
With many a hard earned dollar
But put the cash in mine own till.
All, Mel No more
To feel so sore
After the drinking night is o'er,
But better feel than e'er before.
My wife, a peach,
My children each,
Are dressed so neat. They aim to
reach.
What I now practice, teach and
At first, I fought,
At first thought
I'd help the booze so dearly bought,
Maintain it's right. 1t came to
naught.
Good bye, dear beer,
Thine end is near,
Thy Toes are herce, they know no
fear;
Thy friends are froth; none shed a
tear.
Farewell to thee,
Booze policy!
That ruled the State, enslaved the
free.
The whole rum crowd is up a tree.
Twas rather rough,
To meet thy bluff,
With such call, and kick and cuff,
Till all the crew cried out, enough.
I'm on jag,
A bouncing nag,
A lighter job, u heavier bag,
There's money in it for me and
Mag.
No beer, you say,
No work, no pay,
Shall booze forever lead astray?
Keep work, keep pay, bid booze
good day.
r. NJ. RAMSAY,
The Manse,
Dauphin, Pa.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-03-01
THE TRIVIAL

The great emotional experiences of
life are belittled by the insistence
upon the trivial; Life and Love look
into each others eyes, man and q
woman select each other from all the
world. But the joyful solemnity of
marriage is ruffied by the details of
the wedding, perhaps family squab-
bles over flowers and gowns and in
vitations! Or Great Death comes in
at the other door and the little hu-
man soul. overwhelmed with grief.
appalled, by the sudden opening of
eternity before its eyes-yet fusses
(there is no other word for it) over
mourning" over the width of the
hem on the veil or the question of
crepe buttons or jet.-Margaret
De1and.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-03-01
NJ. C.. KENNEDY
[Girary in the Phila. Press. I

tGirary in the Phila. Press.
You would not be- surprised to
read that the City Hall is to remain
in Penn Square?
Nor that the rock of Gibraltar is
to stay put on the southern extremity
of Spain?
Nor that the great pyramid is to
stand another thousand or four
thousand years on the edge of Sa-
hara?
Nor am I surprised to learn that
Colonel M. c.. Kennedy is to be a
resident vice-president of the Penn
sylvania Railroad in the Cumber-
land Valley and its railroad would
not be the valley nor the railroad
without the colonel.
He is as much q part of the re-
gion as the mountain walls which
border that garden of America. For
years Colonel Kennedy, like his
father before him, has been not only
a masterful railroader but a sort
of benevolent czar a father for the
whole valley.
I doubt if a similar relationship
exists between q railroad chieftain
and the community he serves, any
where else in our country.
When General w. w. Atterbury
was sent to France to construct and
operate a railroad system for
handling American troops, he soon
called for Colonel Kennedy.
What this Cumberland Valley
railroad chief did in France, but
more especially what he did in Eng
land in handling and supplying
American troops will make a fine
chapter when the "Pennsy" comes
to write the story of what the more
than $4,000 stars on it's big red
service flag represented in the war.
And so now that Colonel Kennedy
is back officially at Ragged Edge,'
the Cumberland Valley will resum g
business at the old stand and the
seasons will come and go as usual.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-03-01
Would GiUe Odds

After the grand review of Ger
man troops at Potsdam the kaiser
called out to the officer commanding
the Prussian Guard in a voice loud
enough to be heard by all the dis
tinguished guests who were grouped
in front of the palace:
Pick me out a hundred men
from the Prussian Guard!"
Then, taking the arm of King
Edward VII, who was there. he said,
"Come with me-" He escorted King
Edward very delicately round the
hundred men and then said ban
teringly: well, do you think you
could find a hundred men in Eng
land to beat them?"
"I don't know so much about
that, promptly replied the late
king, "but / could easily find fifty
who would try."-From the Argo-
Oauf
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-03-01
The Grand Young Man

Mr.. Clemenceau was severely
wounded by a half baked assassin
on February 10. On February 26,
Mr.. Clemenceau was taking a drive
in Paris, to the great joy and sur
prise of his fellow citizens. ANY
statesman of ordinarily age and
constitution and docility would have
been imprisoned by his doctors for
weeks. Mr.. Clemenceau. who is only
70, chaffed his doctors and his
nurses, saw on one day forty vis-
itors, a monstrous grist even for a.
we'll man, behaved throughout like
the untamable, inexhaustible, vital
and viable and witty power and per-
sonage he is. None but himself
can be his parallel" Mr.. Lloyd
George rightly called him the Grand
Young Man.-From the New York
Times.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-03-01

end of next May, will make its ap-
pearance in the House of Represen-
tatives, as required by the rules, on
Monday night. The bill is not yet
complete, but it is hoped to intro
duce it in an advance stage. Chair
man w. j. McCaig, of the commit
tee, is at work on it and the depart
mental estimates are being inserted
as far as gone over. The bill will
carry considerably over 100000, 1000.
After being presented it will be re-
committed to be finished.
Thus far the Legislature has re-
ceived just six short of a thousand
bills. There have been Csc pre-
sented in the House, including some
Senate bills, which get House num-
bers, and sos in the Senate includ-
ing those passed by the House. A
considerable number of appropria-
tion bills are yet to appear.
Some of Governor Sprouts pro-
gram of legislation will also be pre-
Sented soon, the final draft being
now before the Governor.
Something akin to consterna-
ton was caused this week among
men interested in military training
by the discovery that to establish
the system as proposed in several
bills would cost millions of dollars.
The upshot will be that the Bigler
bill, which was drafted by the State
Board of Education and provides for
military exercises without arms, will
be put to the front. There will be a
battle by the advocates OF a system
OF real military training with arms
furnished by the national govern
ment' but the cost of instructors will
be a deterrent.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-03-01
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

George r. Krause, who
started the ball rolling in Leband
contest, is we'll known
many Harrisburgers.
"A. Mitchell Palmer. the new
torney General. used to play I'd
ball when at college.
Col. e. d. Burns is taking an
tive part in the good roads ca
paign in Mexican county.
Col. r. w. Guthrie, well KIND
to the people in this section. 81
a talk on the activities of the Eli
teenth regiment to the Pittsbuj
historical society.
Col. Albert Archer, one of
damage adjustment commission, d
Mercer countian and graduated frI
West Point.
DIR. T. e. Munce, acting sd
veterinarian. has been at the sd
College meetings.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-03-01

and provided more attractive sur
roundings.
According to Professor Cowelrs
observation, our largest cities are
yearly spending vast sums to correct
planning mistakes made in their viii
lage days. Streets are widened. the
grades changed. river fronts re-
claimed, ugly billboards removed,
sore spots of crime and Infection
cleaned out, shade-trees planted and
breathing places created. All of this,
he said, could be avoided if prepara-
ton for the city's urban develop
ment had been made while it yet
was a crossroads hamlet.
AS before indicated the Bureau of
Municipalities has a great work
ahead of it, and the manner in
which it has tackled the various
problems which are confronting the
city and towns in Pennsylvania give
encouragement to those who believe
that great benefits are to follow
leadership of this sort in the making
over and designing of Pennsylvania
towns and cities. Even the farmers
of Pennsylvania are beginning to
realize that there is something in
farming beside planting, sowing and
reaping, and that the proper location
of barns and sanitary and attractive
homes will solve many of the prob
lens which now disturb the agricul-
tural communities. No less will the
satisfactory building of towns and
villages correct evils of which many
of the people now complain.
Harrisburg has set a fine example
of public improvement through a
long period of years, and it is now
regarded as a leader in modern mu-
nicipal development. We shall hope
that it will continue to serve as the
beacon light for all of the munich
palities of Pennsylvania.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-03-01

Winter tourists at Miami were
given a talk fest the other night on
the subject of politics with the slant
that politics is the curse of America"
1t is not so much the politics that
is out of joint as it is the failure
OF many critics of existing conditions
to take their proper part in the poli-
tical movements of the day.
Most of our troubles in the local
community and throughout the ac-
tivities OF the State and nation are
primarily due to the fact that too
many otherwise good citizens fail to
do their full duty in the conduct of
public affairs.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-03-01
IncentiDe TO Wed

A West Dallas widow says that
the latest proposal she has received
was from local Bolshevik, who said
IL she would marry him before a
Soviet government was set up he
would save her from becoming the
property of the state-Dallas News.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-03-01

tsmbers of the Associated Press-The
Associated Press is exclusively en-
titled to the use for republication
of all news dispatches credited to
it or not otherwise credited in this
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IL rights of republication of special
dispatches herein are also reserved.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-03-01
DO YOU KNOW

That Harrisburg Is daily hal
ling large amounts of postal 81
plies for adjoining counties, 4
being the distribution point?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-03-01
jATURDAY, FEBRUARY 90, 1911
COFFEE SUCCEEDS BOOZE

~ANUEL GORZYL, of Porto
MI Rico, believes the coffee house
will succeed the corner saloon
IN the United States, just as it has
IN his island home, and that coffee
will become the popular American
drink between meals as it has at
meals. In the days of Ben Johnson
and his period coffee houses were as
numerous in London and far more
popular than grog shops are to-day,
ne points out, and expresses. the be-
lief that men will foregather as
readily in congenial atmosphere to
drink a cup of coffee as they once
did to quaff a beaker of beer.
And right there a Pittsburgh
writer rises up, like a skeleton at
the feast, to demand: What, get
rid of one poison only to substitute
another?" Using that as a text he
proceeds to tell how injurious to
health coffee is to the individual
with the habit.
Granted that while there may be
some dregs in the cup" of coffee at
which the human system would rebel
if given too much, cup of coffee at
least hasen't got any of the "liick"
of a glass of old Jersey lightning.
A cup of coffee never sent a man
home with brick in his coat pocket
to kill his mother-in-law. AS be-
tween the corner saloon and the
coffee house, give us the coffee
house every time. AS the late Gov
ernor Pennypacker once replied
when a friend told him that coffee
was injurious: IF coffee is a poison
it must be a very. very slow poison;
I've been drinking it for sixty years."
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-03-01

The Republicans in Congress have
started out with the harmonious Sc
lection of a candidate for Speaker
who will preside over the House at
the next session. Under National
Chairman Hays there is a manifest
disposition to iron out all the rough
places in the party organization and
to present formidable front for the
highly important work which will de-
volve upon the Republican party in
the new era that is now opening in
the United States. AS a constructive
political organization, it will be ex-
pected to take large part in the vital
reconstruction undertakings and the
direction of national policies under
proper leadership will be an important
phase of the party's responsibility.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-03-01
LABOR NOTES

Hungary has over $4,000 female
trade unionists.
Women employees of the Brook
lyn Rapid Transit Company num-
Der over 1000, while the New York
Street Railways Company carries
over 1000 women on its pay roll.
The bricklayers, masons, plas-
terers, marble settlers and tile set
ters in Canada are now all under
one charter affiliated with the inter-
national Bricklayers' Union.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-03-01
HISTORIC HARRISBURG

HISTORIC HARRISBURG
Tile first bridge over the Susql
hanna here was so important q
State and counties helped build
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-03-01
Bless Him!

A guy I like
Is Eddie Rose;
I He says: 1--WE got
To CO." And goes.
New York Tribune.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-03-01
CITY A BEACON LIGHT

N NE of the important phases of
the work of the State Bureau
of Municipalities. which is to
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-03-01
WORTHY APPROPRIATION

NF THE thousands of appropria-
tons proposed or enacted by
the present Congress that set
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-09-19
SHOOTS TWO AND HIMSELF.
Mystic Man Kills Wife and Stepson
Because of Separation.

CentorvIlle. Sept. ls.-Robert Kelly
shot and killed his wife and stepson at
n mining camp near Mystic and then
killed himself.
He and his wife had agreed TO sepa-
rate and had divided their hclonEings.
Mrs. Kelly and her son, Jake Cross,
who had been discharged from the
navy, had arranged to so west on n
ranch. The boy came home Saturday.
Kelly believed that the boy was re-
sponsihle for his wife's loss OF aftec-
tion.
Kelly did not drink and was a hard
worker. He had been in prison at
one time for year for the desertion
OF a former wife.
Mrs. Mary Fox saw Kelly and his
wife dividing their money, which he
had drawn out of the Mystic bank,
just before the tragedy.
The man had called the son into the
yard and asked him 10 try a new gun
which the boy did. shooting it off a
time or two. Then the father tried it,
Mrs. Kelly was present AS she
turned to 90 into the house with her
baby she heard another shot and the
hoy cried:
mother. he has shot me"
He fell when a second shot pierced
his brain.
AS the woman turned she was shot
thru the body and then Kelly turned
the gun on himself
Kelly was 40 years old. His father
lives at Mystic. Mrs. Kelly was the
daughter of Jake Milhurn Of Mystic.
Both families are well to do and re-
spected.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-09-19
News of Clarion.

Special to Times Republican.
Clarion. Sept, In. L. Howell.
former Clarion superintendent but
now county agent of Hudson county,
Ohio. with his wife visited their many
friends here the first Of the week.
The Mckay tract Of land adjoining
Wall Lake has been sold and plated.
II comprises fifty-three lots which
will sell for s125 which will be used
for summer cottages.
Cards have been received announc-
ing the marriage OF Miss Vera Peter
son, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Charles
Peterson. formerly Of Claion, to Wal
lace Nesbit Of Wateroo. on Sept. "a
at the summer home of the brides
parents at Lake Okoboji. They will
locate in the east, where the groom
is a travelling man. Miss Peterson
was reared in Carton, graduating from
our schools.
Bert Banks, who is employed in the
Farmers elevator, fell from a ladder
ard broke mis- arm.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-09-19
BIG ATTENDANCE AT CORNELL.
Erro'lment Exceeds All Previous
Reeords-Many from Outside Iowa.

Special to Times Republican,
Mount Vernon. Sept. l9.-Al records
for attendance at Cornell collegc have
been broken by the registration this
year. At the close OF the first three
days registration an increase of
cighty-hve is reported over the regis
tration on the same date two years
ago. which was the largest enroll
ment in the history of the college. \
Year ago the :, A. It, G. made all
comparisons abnormal In common
with many other colleges. Cornell no"
reports scores of former students who
were in war service have returned 10
complete their Colleg course.
II is even more striking than usual
that large percent of registration
at Cornell comes from points outside
the state Of Iowa. Twenty states OF
thesUnion. District of Columbia, Alas
ka, Bolivia, Canada, Canal Zone.
China England India, Japan and Nor
way are represented. 1t is especially
noticeable how many OF the students
this year are the sons or daughters,
and in some cases the grandchildren Of
Alumnissome of whom are sending
their children across the continent TO
attend Cornell.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-09-19
DIES MONIES WINS MEETING.
City Officials Choose Officers and De
eide Upon 1920 Convention Place.

Muscatine. Sept. l9.-Des Moines
was awarded the 1920 convention, and
new officers were elected at the clos
ing sessions of the convention of the
League of Iowa Municipalities, at the
city hall this morning. The new off,
GERS are:
President-Mayor L. Zurmuehlen,
Council Bluffs.
Vice President-Mayor ]. F. Rail.
Cedar Rapids.
Secretary Treasurer - Frank U.
Pierce. Marshaltown.
Trustees-Mayor Wallace NJ. Short.
Sioux City: Mayor George Mcintyre,
Shell Rock and Commissioner j. n.
Weidenfener Ottumwa.
Resolutions providing for represen-
tation of the league on the commission,
now recodifying the Iowa laws, thank
ing MusCatine for the hospitality
shown during the convention, and con-
graduating the city on its municipal
improvements. and expressing the same
spirit with regard to cities toward In
reference by the state Legislature, as
is found on the state emblem. our
liberties we prize, and our rights we
will maintain" were adopted by the
convention this morning.
No definite action was taken regard
ing suggested resolutions protesting