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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-20

Three base hits-Fields, Embick,
Levan, McKeever. Home run
Wrighstone. Sacrifice hit-McKeev-
er. Sacrifice f1y-Klugh. Double
plays-Gough and Wrighstone.
Struck out-Stricker, 6; Waltz. 4.
Base on balls-Stricker, s; Waltz, 8;
Eisenberger, 1. Left on base
West End. s; Commonwealth, A..
Hit by pitcher-Stricker, 1. Stolen
bases-Hinkle. Q; Kline. Passed
balls-Field. Wild pitches-Strick-
er, 1; Waltz. 2. Time-1.40. Um-
pires-Baxter and Williamson.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-20
n.upu1N w.Nrs c.uEs

The Dauphin High School is with
out a game for Saturday, May "a. Any
junior or high school team looking
for a good battle should communicate
with Joseph A. Kennedy, Dauphin.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-20

St. Mary's .........O 0 o o o x-1
Galahad .........0 0 0 0 0 0 90
Two-base hit-Books, Holm, Gluntz.
Sacrifice hit-Farina. Double plays
Zerance to Guntz to Books. Struck
out-Hummel. 3; Zerbe. 6. Base on
balls-Hummel, o; Zerbe, 2. Hit by
pitcher-Starry. Stolen bases-Kler-
ner, Umpire-Clint White.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-20

Schedule For To-day
Boston at st. Louis.
Philadelphia at Chicago.
Washington at Detroit.
New York at Cleveland.
The Mount Holly news., 1919-04-29
SLOW GROWTH or GRAMMAR
Interesting to Note Its Progress since
the Days of chaucer and
Shakespeare.

In the days of Chaucer there were
undoubtedly differences among writ
ers which made their grammar aud
spelling seem singular to us; yet crude
though they were, the art OF literary
composition was well advanced.
That, however, was not the greatest
age; it came in the Elizabethan pc
riod; and while the literary peculiari-
ties of Shakespeare's style were strong
ly defined, it could not be said in any
sense that they revealed lack Of knowl-
edge In either grammar or spelling,
the standards of that day being suited
to the culture of the time.
And a great advance had been made
over the days of Chaucer IN the days
of Addison, Johnson. Swift Congreve
and Goldsmith we find a great advance
with more unity in both grammar and
spelling.
The authorized version Of the Bible
in the line of literary workmanship
noted the greatest advance of all and
reached point which has not been
surpassed if, indeed, equaled
There was a certain latitude in spell
ing, it is true, to which we today look
back with interested curiosity; but
even that was not the result of igno-
rance but rather of custom, which al
lowed the latitude. and it was in no
sense a literary INSTRUMENTATION
ian Herald.
The Mount Holly news., 1919-04-29
ESKIMO DOGS NOT VICIOUS
Writer Who Has Travelled in the Far
North Found Them Friendly
and Affectionate.

Eskimo dogs are supposed to be the
direct descendants of the northern
gray, or white wolf, which they great
ly resemble. They are of various cot
ors-black, white, brown, brindle ahd
gray-and they weigh from 60 to 100
pounds. In the far North team con-
sists Of from s to Il, each attached to
the sledge by a 16-foot rawhide trace.
The advantages of this arrangement
are obvious. Seated on the sledge with
a 25-foot whip, one can reach out and
touch the back of every dog, thereby
Keeping him in his place and eXerting
him to keep his trace right. The dis
advantages are the indirect pull of the
dogs at the tips Of the fan and the
inevitable brading of the traces into
rope as large as ones arm, the un-
tangling of which at low temperature
necessitates hours and hours of ex-
treme discomfort.
''In my five years work among these
dogs l have failed to find the specie de-
scribed by some writer's as 'treacher-
GUS or vicious or ugly brute,
writes Donald B. Macmillan, in his
book, "Four Years in the White
North" "On the contrary, the full
blooded Eskimo dog is one of the most
affectionate in the world. A hundred
or more were often about our door. NY
men passed jn and out among them
without the least fear. Two hundred
and fifty were herthed on the deck Of
the Roosevelt. To walk for'ard 1t was
The Mount Holly news., 1919-04-29
PRAISE FOR WOMEN

"Our hats are off TO the women !;
we recognize them as our superors. :"
: This confession was made by Colo
mel l. ]. Magill, chief of the Depart.
ment of Features of the Philadelphia
Victory Liberty Loan Organization, in
conversation with some women work.
ers.
! Colonel Magill, who in directing the
activities of a regiment of Marines
has never relaxed from a stern mill
tary bearing, was all modesty and
humility in facing these women who
have proven themselves real soldiers
in the Loan brigade
II must admit" he said, "that I il.
nored the women in my first calcula-
itions for this Victory Loan program.
i had been used to thinking that only
men could perform anys accomplish
ments worth while But In the brief
time that | have been on this work,
i have been confronted with such
striking evidence of female igenuity
and aggressiveness that l have expert
enced a right-about-face From now
ION, the women are our bosses. They
are closer to the people from whom
the smaller Loan subscriptions are to
be expected than are the men. They
are impelled by more earnest deter
mination. They are full of ideas, and
are always willing to give the time to
bring their ideas to consummation
They are the backbone of the entire
Organization, and will receive credi!
for the major part Of the results Sc
cured"
The Mount Holly news., 1919-04-29
Couldn't Be DISCOURAGED.

There are croakerS in every country,
always boding its ruin. Such one
then lived in Philadelphia person of
note, an elderly man, with a wise look
and very grave manner of speaking
his name was Samuel Mickle.
The gentleman, a stranger to me,
stopped one day at my door and asked
me if l was the young man who had
lately opened new printing house. Be
ing answered in the affirmative, he said
he was sorry for me, because it was
an expensive undertaking, and the ex-
was sinking place, the people already
half bankrupt, or near being so; all ap-
pearances to the contrary, such as new
buildings and the rise of rents, being to
his certain knowledge fallacious; for
they were, in fact, among the things
that would soon ruin US. And he gave
me such detail of misfortunes now
existing, or that were soon to exist,
that he left me half melancholy.
Had / known him before / engaged
in this business, probably l never
should have done it. This man con.
tinued to live in this decaying place.
and to declaim in the same strain, re,
fusing for many years to buy house
there, because all was going to de-
struction; and at last had the pleas
ure of seeing him give five times as
much for one as he might have bought
it for when he first began his croaking.
Autobiography of Benjamin Frank
lin
The Mount Holly news., 1919-04-29
ROOSEVELT AUTHOR AT NINE
Even at That Early Age, What Future
President Had to Say Was
Entertaining.

Theodore Roosevelt's first book, like
many of his fifty-odd later ones, dealt
with natural history. but, unlike his
later works, it was written entirely in
pencil in an old notebook, an exchange
states. Theodore was nine years old
at the time. The title of the book is
on the first page: Natural History on
Insects. BY Theodore Roosevelt, Jr."
Under it comes the preface "AH
these insects are native of North
America. Most of the insects are not
in other books. will write about ants
first" He did, and what he had to
say about them is decidedly entertain
ing:
Ants are divided into three sorts
for every species. These kinds are
officer, soldier and worker. There are
about one officer to ten soldiers and
one soldier to two workers" He tells
about the common black ant and the
brown path ant and vari us other
kinds of ants; he tells about spiders
end lady-bugs and fireflies and horned
'beetles" and dragon flies and ''mi
sqVeto' hawks. "All the insects that
write about in this book" he adds, ''in-
habit North America. Now and then
a friend has told me something about
them. but mostly l have gained their
habits from obserf-a-tion."
The author of natural history on in
sects" added to his volume note or
a crayiish. 81 need not describe the
form of crayfsh to you." he writes.
Look at a lobster and you VIII have
IFS form"
The Mount Holly news., 1919-04-29
REAL SECRET OF THE CZECH
Enthusiasm in Everything Is One of
the Most Prominent of His
Characteristics.

If you ask the Czech himself, he will
tell you that the secret of his life is
enthusiasm. He calls it love-love Of
country, which lays down life without
question or stint; love of beauty,
without which he considers life stupid,
neither to be lived through with JOY
nor departed from with dignity In
this esthetic apprehension which we
call by the thin and unsatisfactory
word taste" the Czech is like the
French-surely he must be likened
sooner or later to the French bear
ng the mark of race old in living,
rich in tradition, discerning in its ap-
precautions. He is, too, lover of
love, worshiping women; lover Of
life, more joyous than the Russian,
lover not of the form, but of the sub
stance. Life is short; youth is short.
1t is to laugh, to work, to weep, to
think, to love, to be aware Of that COM
pick and everchanging stream of con-
sciousness. When a Czech dies, some
how one feels that one may say of
him what may not be said of every
man, "He is dead, but he has lived"
If you ask the American he will tell
you that the Czech's secret is "Allied
ideals with Teuton training" II is
his efficiency that endears him to the
American. especially if he is recuper-
afin0 from thp Russian army-OliVa
Gilbreath in Harpers Magazine.
The Mount Holly news., 1919-04-29
WANTED HIS "M0NEYS PACK"
German Drummer Baked When He
Started to Cross old Bridge at
Troy, New York.

Albany, N. Y, has a historical mu-
scum that contains, among other treas
ure, bass drum dating back to the
great influx of German immigrants
which followed the revolution of 1913
in Germany, says Cartoons. This in
strument was owned by the first of the
wandering hungry five" bands which
appeared in this country after Marx
and Engels, the industrious collabora-
tors, wrote the communist manifesto.
The bass drummer was called '"Thick
Head" Schultz. According to q music
teacher now living in Albany, who
heard Schultz perform in the sos, he
could play in three different rhythms
at once without making the band mad.
At Troy, ten miles up the Hudson
river from Albany, was one of those
long, old-fashioned inclosed wooden
bridges, unlighted within, like a tun-
mel. Looking through it, as one APP
preached, one saw tiny spot of light
at the far end, as if gazing through
o telescope wrong end to.
One day the hungry brass band start
ed across the bridge to play at barn
raising along the road westward.
Schultz had paid the nickel toll when
he happened to look through the long
black space ahead Then he baked.
Il want my moneys pack" he insist
ed. "By tam, dere is no use my tryin'
to dake dis drum trough dot little
hole"
The Mount Holly news., 1919-04-29
How to Rraze Metals.

In brazing brass. copper, wrought
iron and steel, clean the metal thor
oughly at and near the joint to be
brazed, by scraping or filing. Be sure
to fit the edges closely together If
greater strength is required, lap the
edges over each other about quarter
of an inch. A good plan is to rivet the
edges together to hold them in place.
Place brazing material along the joint.
Take finely powdered borax, wet II
with water and place little along the
seam. Put the article over a charcoal
fire, joint down. Heat it slowly and
evenly holding it about an inch above
the charcoal When the brazing ma
terial is all melted, rap the part with
a hammer, to induce the material to
flow all through the joint. If the ar
ticle is brass or copper, it should be
plunged into cold water. and if steel
or iron 1t should be allowed to cool
slowly.
The Mount Holly news., 1919-04-29
BRIGHT COL0RS GIVE RELIEF
Simple Method by Which Desk Work
ers May Avoid lncalculabie
injury to the Eyes.

The constant use of the eyes on
white paper will in time weaken them
and make it necessary to seek Other
employment, or resort to some remedy.
Bookkeepers, proofreaders and those
compelled to gaze for hours at a
stretch on a white surface, should
have number of bright colors on
their desk or near at hand upon
which the gaze should be allowed to
rest at short periods when the mind
is busy with some mental struggle.
The bright colors will give a relief
to the long, constant strain on the
eye, and it will be astonishing to
those who have never resorted to any
such remedy, to note the relief Sc
cured.
Green should predominate Yellow
and red with shades of pink should be
used.
Bright-colored blotters and bright
tinted notices or picture cards with
birds and flowers as well as scroll
designs will produce the most relief
to weary eyes.
Even bouquet with green foliage
combined with the flowers will give
satisfactory results, but this is not
as permanent as brightly colored
prints that will not fade for a long
time.
The Mount Holly news., 1919-04-29
HAS BROKEN ALL TRADITIONS
Present King Of Slam Only One of His
Royal Line to Refuse to Estab-
iish Harem.

1t is curious fact that while wofn-
en- of the lower classes In Siam have
always enjoyed the greatest freedom,
participating and competing with men
In the business and pleasures of life,
the ladies of the royal household have
been kept in the background, appearing
at only the most private social gather
ings and never at public or official
functions. AS all former sovereigns
had in their harems the cream of the
aristocracy of the country, and, as they
inevitably felt a heSitant chivalry
about exhibiting their wives" in pub
lie, they barred all women of rank
from sight. The sovereign is expected
to have in his harem a member of
every influential family In the country,
for 1t is considered that in no other
way could he be in such close touch
lygamy has, therefore, been considered
an obligation of royalty. But, Curl
ously enough, the present reigning
monarch is bachelor, the first and
only bachelor who has sat upon the
throne of his fathers in twenty-five
hundred years. And thereby hangs a
I tale, for marriage by a Siamese SOW
ereign has meant not the simple taking
of one wife, or dozen, or even a mere
hundred. but the wholesale adoption
of a thousand or more. The young
kings father and his fathers father,
and each of the long line of kings pre-
ceding them, had many wives. His fa-
ther had between seven and eight
thousand. And, when the young crown
prince returned from his long stay in
Europe-he had passed third of his
life there-Ahe was told by his royal
father that there had been selected
for him a number of court beauties
from which he could take his choice
of hundred or two for his harem. But
the prince would have nothing to do
with this wholesale acquisition of a
husbands holdings. when l marry"
he declared to his astonished father,
''it will be to one wife and to no more,
and she shall be the one queen of my
heart and the one queen of my realm"
From "The Land of the White Ele-
phant," by Frederick Dean, in Asia
Magazine.
The Mount Holly news., 1919-04-29
Salvation Arn,v

The Salvation Army is an organiza-
ton formed upon quasi-military pat
tern, for the revival of religion among
the masses. 1T was founded in Eng
land by the Methodist evangelist VIII
liam Booth, about 1860. under the
name of the Christian Mission, the
present name and organization being
adopted about 1878 It has extended
to the continent of Europe, to India,
Australia and other British posses
sions, to the United States, South
America and elsewhere. Its work is
carried on by means of professions,
street singing and preaching, and the
like, under the direction of officers en-
titled generals, majors and captains
Both sexes participate in the services
and direction of the body on equal
terms. Besides its religious work. it
engages in various reformatory and
philanthropic enterprises. 1t has no
formulated creed, but its doctrines
bear a general resemblance to those
common to all Protestant evangelical
churches, and especially to those of
Methodism.
The Mount Holly news., 1919-04-29
LONG HARASSED BY WITCH
New England Man Finally Gets Relief
by Using Silver Bullet In Time
Honored Way.

Your description Of the many trifu-
lations of William Morse and family af
Newbury in 17S1 brings to my mind
some singular occurrences about the
year 1850, S. r. Ridley writes to Bos.
ten Herald. This is the story told me
about 1916:
Ny grandfather was captain of
schooner that went to Grand Banks
fishing. They had man aboard that
was tormented, SO they say. by a witch.
He would lie in his berth hours at
time insensible When he recovered
he told them the witch had turned
him into horse and rode him around
on the Sable island His arms were
black and blue where she had kicked
him when he attempted to bite her
When he was told to pump a pail Of
water from the cask. it would be salt
and rough. Tho next one pumped hv
another crew would be all right While
stirring up dough in the galley the
bowl of the spoon would drop off AMI
a twin would appear in the handle. HI
was annoyed so much that his health
failed and he was sent to the galley
to do what he could
II has been said that you could only
shoot witch with silver. so my grand
father took his silver sleeve buttons
and loaded the gun and told the man
to shoot the witch when she appeared
again. One day they heard the re,
port of the gun and rushed to the cahiG
to find out the cause. The man lay
insensible on the floor, and there was
a spot of warm blood on the shins. He
was never troubled after that
He was asked the reason of his be-
ing troubled, but he did not know He
said he lived on Cape Cod, and one
day he was travelling along the road
and called at a house. There was no
one in. but a goat was lying on the
hearth. There was a pan of dough
nuts in a pan He took a few and
passed on. He said when she took him
and rode him around Sable island she
twitted him of stealing the dough
nuts. That was as near as he could
see about it.
From about 1900 for long time my
grandfather was pilot III Boston har-
Dor and a man of intelligence, and
although | was small fully believed
that he believed the story he told
me. He gave me the gun that the
witch was shot with. His name aud
address of his office is in Boston d.
rectory of 1905.
The Mount Holly news., 1919-04-29
Queer Food Facts.

One of the revolutionary discoveries
of the last few years is the presence
in our food of certain substances that
in minute quantity are essential to life
and health Men, pigs fowls and rate
develop beri-ber on an exclusive diet
If rice that has been polished, but
are cured by very small amount
of watery or alcoholic extract of the
rce-poishings. In a paper to Liver
pool chemists, Prof w. Ranesdeu
lately mentioned that this i'anti-beri-
beri vitamine"N is now proven to, be
neither protein, fat, carbohydrate, nor
other previously known constituent OF
plants or animals It exists in suffi-
cient proportion in most foodstuffs,
but Is absent from white -four pol
ished rice and arrowroot, and probably
also from corn-four sago and tapiOca.
The absence Of another vltamne,
which may be also indispensable to
man. has been shown by other re
searches to he cause of sore eyes
and arrested growth in rats and mice
II exists in quantity in yolk Of egg,
cod-liver oil, most animal fats, milk,
cheese, green leaves, soya beans, mil
let and flaxseed, but is absent from
lard, and all vegetable oils. A third
vitamine is indicated, its lack being
chiefly responsible for scurvy. It is
present in all fresh vegetables, fruit
and meat but lacking in dried vegeta-
-bles and dried seeds
The Mount Holly news., 1919-04-29
strateoIc Advantage.

A major, attired in his raincoat, was
crossing the parade ground one rainy
morning when young medical officer,
Fastening toward shelter, came past
and saluted without slowing down.
''Wait there a minute. lieutenant"
called the major. Never salute when
at the double time. Strictly against
regulations"
With that the major launched ort
upon a long lecture on the significance
and value of the salute, while the lieu
tenant. now standing stiffly at atten-
ton, was drenched to the skin.
A few days later the major was af-
tlicted with toothache and sought the
services of a dental surgeon. AS he
reclined in the chair, he thought he
detected a peculiar expression of sat
isfaction on the young dentists face.
Look here" he said suddenly
Haven't l seen you before?"
"Yes. sir" was the answer, you We're
speaking to me the other morning
about saluting-"
"Great Scott" yelled the major,
leaping from the chair and starting
for the door, 1--WE had some close calls
in my time, but never anything to com
pare with this one."-Judge.
The Mount Holly news., 1919-04-29
Wood Ash As a Polish.

Someone has pointed out that the
consumption of wood as fuel is at
tended with a byproduct which has
excellent polishing qualities. The
writer recommends wood ash for pol
ishing steel, pewter brass. and cop
per in this way: That soft white,
flaky ash is, as our careful grand
mothers well knew. the best thing in
the world as a cleaner and poisher.
1t will make the poor neglected fender
shine like silver, put the wonted pol
Ish on the dulled luster of the brass
candlesticks, fetch the SCOT off your
enamel and aluminium kettles anil
pans, and clean them inside as well.
without any of that unpleasant oily
odor remaining behind which 50 many
cleaning preparations leave in their
wake. And-best of all-it costs
nothing la recipe worth trying
Scientific American.
The Mount Holly news., 1919-04-29

1t was not expected, probably, when
the United States parcel post system
was established, that it would he pol-
sible, in a few years, to stick a stamp
on a day-old chick, or on honey bes,
and have it delivered by Uncle Sam.
This is not. Of course, exactly a lit
eral possibility even yet, for chickens
and bees must be properly boxed and
the stamp affixed to the container; but
the opening of the mails to these liv-
ing commodities has proved a great
convenience and has facilitated the
work of beekeepers and poultrymen
alike. Few people realize how large
is the number of bees shipped each
spring from the southern to the north
ern States and even to Canada. The
mail clerks always put these shipments
through with great promptness-per-
haps for reasons of their own.