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Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1919-11-26

Pacific coast to film The Brat" and
other of her productions, selected an
estate in Laurel canyon, on the out
skirts oi Los Angeles, and nesting
at the foot Of tawny mountains. The
grounds comprise some fifteen acres.
There is a rambling, vine-clad house,
shaded walks, fountain and a won
derfu variety of flowers and fruit
trees.
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1919-11-26

! achcd all over and
had a cough and
just felt v etched.
| began takn- DE.
Piercc's G d e II
Medical Discovery
and it brought me
through this dread
ed disease IN splen-
did condition. 1t
was the only mcdi-
cine / took and it
was not Necessary
Tor me to coll IN
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1919-11-26

the doctor, Golden Medical Discovery
having cured me, can highly recom~
mend it to Others who are afflicted. -
G.. ; ENTRIKIN, 72S-lith 1t.
Any medicine tealer will supDly you
wish Dr.. Pierre Il t>aties Medical Dis
cVvery il either ii,und er ls7lpt iorm
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1919-11-26

covery- to any one
who suffers with
bronze hits or
d G e p G Il t e d
coughs and | have
found it to be IN
especially f i n e
tonic for children
convalescing from
serious illness.
When my little
daughter was only
>three years old
she almost died
with bronchial
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1919-11-26
immensely Of Oceans.

So vast are the contents of the
oceans that 1t would take 2,OO0W0
years for al the sea water In the
world to flow over Niagara.
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1919-11-26
ILLINOIS FOLKS TELL
THEIR STORY

Freeport, III can highly recon-
mend DR.. Pierce's Golden Medical Dis
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1919-11-26

FOR QUICK RESULTS TRY THE
"WANT.ADS" IN THE FREE
TRADER-JOURNAL.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-11-29
The Airmdn'S Patron Saint

[From the New York Evening Post'l
It was the wings of st. Michael,
chief of the archangels and head of
the celestial militia, which Jeanne
dare heard, they say, whirring
about her in the little garden of
Domremy when she had her softly
spoken but insistent call to arms.
And now. as if it were not enough
to be the one who called Jeanne
dare from Domremy to Roulen, st.
Michael is also the patron saint OF
aviators, because he heads celestial
warriors and battles in the air.
In u London church on Spanish
Place-the church to which King
Alfonso went when he was there
there is q new stained window with
an airplane mosaicked into it's de-
sign. and that window is dedicated
to st. Michael, patron saint of air.
men.
st. George met his dragon on the
earth, but st. Michael battled with
the devil and his angels in the ce-
iestial spaces and threw them out
of heaven. With his wings and his
spear he was the great prototype of
the armored airplane, and It may
be that even the inspiring of Jeanne
dare did not satisfy him and that
he has always kept in his mind this
time when men should fly and fight
a. he did.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-11-29
The Three FeatS of a Moorish Magici
(From the Diary of wilfred Blunt, Seeker. London).

= FOUND at Kelmscott, where
stayed a couple of nights, my
friend John Henry Middleton, the
Cambridge professor, an old ally of
the poet Morris and intimate in for
mer days with Rosetti. Middleton
had been a considerable traveller in
out of the way places and he related
to me in detail his experience in
Morocco with a Moorish magician.
This is his account of the incident:
He was travelling in 1879 about
half way between Tetuan and Mo-
rocco, and one evening an old man
came to his'camp mounted on an ass,
with a boy as a servant. The man
said he was a magician and pro-
posed to perform three wonders; the
first to throw a ball of twine into
the air, the second to make a plant
grow and the third to show the face
of a person thought of in a globe
OF ink. 1t was already late and the
performance was put off until the
following morning-the magician re-
naming the night in the camp, and
in the morning when the tents were
struck he was invited to give his
performance. 1t was an open place,
uninhabited, and without trees
OF DuSneS. MlQQleIOn chose IHS
ground at some little distance from
where the camp had been.
The magician first took from his
wallet large ball Of string, large
enough to need both hands to lift
it, and having made a long incanta-
ton he tied the end of the string
to one finger of his left hand, and
then with great exertion threw the
ball upwards, which unraveled as it
went, and growing less and less, dis
appeared in the air. He then let go
of the strings end which continued
to hang from the sky. The magi-
clan and his boy sat at little dis
tance and Middleton went to the
string and pulled it downward, as
you would pull a bell rope. 1t
stretched to within two feet of the
ground, but he felt the resistance
strongly from above, so much so
that he cut his fingers with the
string. the mark remaining for sew
eral days afterward. The five men
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-11-29
Dream JOStleS Reality

[Uncle Dudley in the Boston Globe. ]
There must be those among us VINO
are wondering what people will
think, some decades or centuries
hence, when Cor if) they look up tie
records of to-day. Let them consult
the files of any days newspaper
Thus the historian of the
future, jotting down notes. as he
reads:
November IA. 1919.-The United
States Senate, defying the President
on Article 10 of the League of Ma
tions Covenant. American prohibi-
zionist ridden on a plank through the
streets of London. Crown Prince of
England laying a wreath on the tomb
of George Washington. Belgian
armament firms supplying munitions
to Me-'ico, presumably for use
against American Intervention.
French imperialists, who spent the
whole winter deriding the League Of
Nations, now displaying anxiety lest
the United States Senate reject it.
Eminent American financiers urging
(with some show of reason) that it
is Americas duty to help rehabilitate
German industry"
Go into the country where men are
working quietly in their fields, and
how unreal seems all this turmoil.
Yet the war seemed unreal in such
spots until it came and took away
the young men, and Camp Devens
sprang up, like an Aladdin city, amid
the rocky pine knobs of Aver. There
is a great workday world of plain
folks who wash the children's faces
and send them to school and do their
days work and go to bed tired. Their
lives seem to go on about as usual
regardless of this furious harle-
quinade"-yet not quite regardless,
either, for all these tumultuous doings
would not be chronicled so promptly
on the front page if they did not, in
one way or another, affect the lives
of most of US sooner or later-as TIE
war did, remote as it once seemed.
And so the dream jostles the
reality; the lives of quiet toll and the
chronicles of turbulence. And which
is dream and which is reality?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-11-29
The 28th LiDeS Again
philadelphia Press]

The formal authorization to reor-
ganize the Pennsylvania National
Guard, issued by the War Depart
ment on Wednesday, completes the
preliminaries necessary for tie per-
petuation of the Keystone Division.
Adjutant General Beary and Major
General Price can now proceed, CO.
operating with the War Department,
to restore the organization under
Federal auspices.
Nothing of importance is added to
the details of the infantry and artil-
lery units already outlined, but the
changes in military tactics rendered
necessary by the World War include
provisions for the conversion of
three infantry battalions into ma
chine gun battalions or other tactical
units when such organizations are
authorized by the Regular Army"
That the machine gun will be i'm
measurably more important in future
wars than in the fields of France
and Flanders is the universal opinion
of military observers. Many au-
thorities go as far as to predict that
the rifle will be discarded alto
gether in favor of an equipment of
light machine guns, each with a
crew of perhaps three men, and
employing the whole fighting forces
to man them.
Another noticeable feature of the
plans is the character of the auxiliary
units, their practical functions and
the enlarged use of motors for draw
ing artillery as we'll as in the ambu-
lance and hospital service. In all
respects, the keystone Division, with
It's glorious insignia, will live again
as an efficient modern army, equip
ped and organized to repeat it's I'M
mortal work in the greatest war of
record history. Where America and
the Allies needed men. there the 28th
Division was found. OF it's per-
sonnel, 1851 brave soldiers were left
dead on the field or succumbed to
their wounds, and ~f3,746 were
wounded. The memory of this great
fighting machine is a sacred heritage
which will inspire the new 2Sth Di-
vision with the loftiest ideals in
stilled by proud patriotism.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-11-29
LADY ASTOR WINS

r ADY ASTOR, American born
- elected to the British Parlia-
ment from the Sutton Division of
Plymouth by Il decisive majority
over w. T. Gay, the labor candidate,
and Isaac Foote, who ran ON the
Liberal ticket, having more votes
than both Of her opponents put to-
gether
Lady Astor now becomes more of
and her course in Parliament will
be watched with much interest, both
in England and in this country, where
women are just beginning to come
woman of charm, but it is interest
ing to note that she based her candi-
dacy on a political and economic
platform, trusting her election to the
ordinary risks of politics rather than
basing it upon her sex.
The history of. the world presents
many examples of women prominent
in public life, but very few of them
have attained the positions they oc-
cupied by vote of the electorate.
| There was, for example, Helen of
Troy, whose face launched. a thou
sand ships and burned the toplcs3
towers of Ilium." who is described
as "a daughter of the gods, divinely
tall and most divinely fair" Helen's
fame rests not alone upon the fact
that she was born to the purple, but
upon her rare beauty, and all the
legends that are built about her
more or less mythical career may
be traced back to that rather than
her popularity with the masses or
her sagacity in craftsmanship.
Then there are women of the
I Cleopatra type who rose from OBJ
security, both by their beauty and
by sheer charm of personality.
Cleopatra was not only magnetic and
! beautiful, but she was ambitious and
she practiced the art of coquetry
until she had completely enslaved
even the mighty Caesar and thus
won for herself high place in the
! politics of her time.
Now comes the new day when we
! shall expect to have as candidates
/ for public Office thousands of women
who will rest their candidates., as
Lady Astor did. upon the political
issues of the day and who cast their
femininity into the background when
they enter the political lists.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-11-29
SHOULD HAVE MORE

THE policemen of Harrisburg,
through their friends, are ask
ing City Council for Sis a
month salary. There should be no
hesitation on the part of Council in
granting this increase. If good men
are to be attracted to the force and
If faithful officers are to be retained
the pay must be at least as good as
tho average patrolman would be
able to earn in some other line of
endeavor. Indeed, it has been shown
in the very recent past that the SAL
airy of the police officer in Harris
burg is not now sufficient to. attract
men who can pass the Civil Service
examinations. 1t used to be that ap-
pointments to the police force were
eagerly sought because the pay was
slightly above that which the aver
age workman received. But in the
past year 1t has been difficult to find
men to fill vacancies, largely due to
the fact that the pay was not suff-
cient.
When it is considered that the
policemen must buy their own equip
ment and that they must always look
well, it is not surprising that the
officers are seeking an increase. In
deed, the wonder is that it has been
possible to keep the force up to any
thing like its full numerical strength
under the circumstances.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-11-29

persist in striking for hours and
wages that great majority of Amer
leans do not believe are justified.
On the other hand, the people are
just as impatient with operators and
owners who have not shown a dis
position to get their mines back to
full production. They are just as
bad, if not worse, as the men who
won't work when the opportunity is
offered. Endeavoring to place all
the blame upon the mine workers
will not be accepted by the Ameri-
can public. 1t requires two to make
a quarrel any day and operators who
have been holding back production
hoping that this position would force
the Government to some radical ac-
tion or bring the miners into utter
disrepute with the public will find
their position has had just the op-
posite effect from that desired.
What we must have is coal, and
the Government will be justified in
almost any measure that will in
crease production in the bituminous
districts and insure u constant flow
of fuel from mine to consumer. Much
as Government control of any line
of industry is to be deplored, it must
be conceded that the Government in
this instance had no other course to
pursue under the circumstances, but
having taken over the mines the
people will expect results.
The whole idea in this latest move
in the coal strike has been to in
crease production, and if the admin
istration hopes to hold the approval
of the people in it's mine venture
this must be accomplished, and
quickly.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-11-29
He Did Not KnOW

He did not know that he was dead;
He walked along the crowded
street,
Smiled, tipped his hat, nodded his
To his friends he CHANGED to
meet.
And yet they passed him quietly by
With an unknowing, level stare;
They met him with an abstract eye
AS if he were the air.
Some sorry thing has come to pass"
The dead man thought; he hur-
rfed home,
And found his wife before her glass
Dallying With a comb.
He found his wife all dressed in
black;
He kissed her mouth, he stroked
her head.
MEN act so strange since I've come
back
From over there" he said.
She spoke no word. she only smiled,
But now he heard her say his
name,
And saw her study, grief-beguiled,
His picture in a frame.
Then he remembered that black
night
And the great shell burst, wide
and red,
The sudden plunging into light;
And he knew that he was dead.
Harry Kemp in Century Magazine.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-11-29

whom he had with him also touched
the string; three of these were
Moors, one a Berber and the other
an interpreter. 1t was clear day
light at the time, about half an hour
after sunrise. When they had all
satisfied themselves the string was
suspended as it appeared to be, the
magician came forward and in his
turn pulled it, when it fell down
from the sky in coils on the ground;
he then rolled it up again in a ball
and put it back in his wallet.
The magician next took from his
wallet q seed, and when Middleton
had chosen a bare place, planted it
in the ground; he then asked for
some palm branches they had with
them, and which had been cut the
day before, and he made an arched
covering with them over the seed and
heaped horse rugs upon the hoops,
and then sat apart and made in
carnations. At the end of a few min
utes he invited them to undo the
covering, and there, in tho ground,
a plant was working, set firmly in
the earth, the first time few inches,
but when he had covered it up again
and built the hoops higher, it at
last became three feet eight inches
high. Middleton measured the
plant, found it firmly rooted, and
cut off and kept some of the leaves;
the nature of the plant seemed to
resemble that of the India rubber
tree, and it had some fifty leaves.
IT was fresh and healthy, though tho
weather was hot, it being the month
of October.
In the third incarnation Middle
ton was made to look into a globe
of ink. He desired to see the face
of a friend, but instead saw per-
sistently and very vividly q certain
landscape he knew well on the river
Severn, near Tewksbury.
The magician, when asked whether
he could climb the string and dis
appear in the air Qike the magician
Marco Polo tells of, stated that his
grandfather had had the power, but
that he himself was unable. Mid
dleton believes that the manifesto
tions produced were mesmeric, GER
tninIy no trick
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-11-29
Contrast

I have left the perilous days behind
me
And stand again on the pine-clad
hills.
I have cooled my face in the green
of the meadows.
And cleansed my hands in the
rush of the rills.
Virginal blue is the sky above me
And pure the breeze as a maidens
sigh,
And a lark's song falters, and falls,
and rises,
And bids me forget the days gone
by.
But ever and ever the heart re-
members
The desolate winds on an empty
plain.
The dying trees with their leafiess
branches,
The clamor and cursing, the blood
and the rain;
The clean, clear tones of the silent
voices,
The laughing lights in the empty
Ever and ever the heart remembers
And finds no peace for its men,
ories.
-Geoffrey F. Tyson, in the OBJ
server (London).
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-11-29
IN STEELTON

THE election of Frank A. Rob-
bins, Jr., as president of the
Municipal League of Steelton is
proper recognition of the energies
and efforts which the manager of
the Bethlehem plant has been de-
voting to the Improvement of that
town since the very first day of his
appointment.
The Steelton Municipal League
has many good things to it's credit.
Inspired by the highest form of civic
enterprise and backed by the best
element of the progressive steel town,
it has fathered many public improve
ments and enterprises that have
made for a bigger and better Steel
ton. So long as it is guided by such
men as are now the leading spirits
in its activities it will be to that
town what the Harrisburg Chamber
of Commerce is to this city.
Steelton has grown rapidly within
the past ten years and has been
greatly improved in many respects,
but it is just on the verge of an
other great step forward. 1t is
destined to become even a more
manufacturing center than
it now is and its people are awake
not only to these prospects, but to
their responsibilities, and If the
league leads the way as efficiently
and patriotically as it has in the past,
Steelton's improvement program
win keep pace with its growth in
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-11-29
What Zoning Means
[From Kansas City star1

CANS OeSsA
What do you mean by coming" "
a reader writes to this office. "It
sounds important, but don't under
stand it,"
To get down to specific cases,
zoning has meant this in st. Louis
where it was adopted a year ago. II
has prevented the erection of n dog
hospital in residential neighbor-
hood, a small iron foundry in q dis
tr:ct occupied by workmen's homes,
a crematory in district of resi-
dences. and q factory on one of the
city's main boulevards. In all such
ways zoning protects the average
citizen.
Under the zoning system, districts
are set aside for certain specific
uses, so that a man can buy resi-
dence property with the assurance
it will not be ruined by having an
undertaking establishment set up
next door; he can build factory
with the knowledge that provision
has been made for a district where
his workers can live.
Zoning is just one of the common
sense things that are done under q
Commemorative city Manning scheme.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-11-29
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

w. w. Hindman, the new pro-
hibition enforcer, is Princeton
man and was trained as a banker.
Herbert DuPuy, the steel man,
has undergone another operation IN
a New York hospital.
Judge ]. A. McLaughrey, of
Mercer, has just sentenced some
fifty-two violators of the liquor laws
and turned in over $4,000 to the
county treasury
Bert Bell, the famous University
of Pennsylvania football chief, is a
son of John c. Bell, the captain of
thirty years ago.
r. e. Lamberton, the sheriff
elect of Philadelphia, says that the
patriotic societies will help take care
of the reds.
Frank w. Short, of the Phila-
delphia Record, is an enthusiast on
deep sea fishing around Barnegat.
w. r. Barnard, prominent in
Philadelphia affairs, is said to be
slated for q cabinet position con-
nected with the docks and ferries.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-11-29
THE LAST RESORT

r INABILITY of the coal miners and
the operators to get together on
a schedule of wages that seemed
reasonable to the President and his
Cabinet has resulted in the seizure
of the bituminous coal mines in
cases where owners do not show a
disposition to cooperate for the in
crease of production, which is the
last resort of the Government in an
effort to make good its promise that
the country's coal supply should not
be allowed to lag because of the
disagreement now under discussion.
Undesirable as we have found
public administration of private busi-
ness to be and Improbable as all
of these ventures have been since
the war began. there was nothing
left for the Government to do under
the circumstances. The Cabinet was
driven to this action by the condi-
tions existing in the far West, where
scarcity of coal at the very begin
ming of winter has not only closed
many industries upon which thou
sands and thousands of people de-
pend for support, but has left count
less others on the verge of freezing
to death.
It is altogether right and proper
that this step having been taken,
the Government should provide the
use of troops to protect all miners
who express a desire to work.
The truth is that the mine work.
ers have not played fair with the
Government in the effort that has
been made to settle the dispute.
Ordered by their officials to go back
to work with the promise that all
difficulties should have a common
hearing and be threshed out until
all the facts had been disclosed, thou
sands of the miners declined to go
back to work. Instead Of keeping
up the Nations coal suppy while
representatives of the Nation were
and hour adjustment for them, the
miners, in many cases, declined to
work and have been idling away
their time while thousands of other
helpless people suffered.
Popular sentiment, which was with
the coal miners on every occasion
previous to the present, is rapidly
swinging in the other direction. Peo-
pie are tired Of being thrown out
of work and left without domestic
fuel supply simply because Others
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-11-29
Seen in Columbus, Ohio
IFrom the Columbus Dispatch. ]

GFrom the Columbus Dispatch
A school girl sitting astride n
fence, studying from a book which
she had tied to a tree.
A small child, imprisoned between
the front door and screen, kicking
and calling Justify for his mother.
A young man in an owl car. smil-
ing blandly. although sound asleep.
A man lighting a cigaret' on
coming out of a doctors office,
where he had just been told to stop
smoking for a month.
A large man treading on the toes
of straphangers who had failed to
move up to the front of the car.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-11-29
DO YOUR PART

VTYHEN you purchase Red Cross
wv Christmas Seals this year you
will be doing your part to
eliminate tuberculosis in Pennsyl-
vania. The white plague is a dis
tinct menace to the prosperity and
happiness of the people, and every
community must do its share in maxi
ing effective tie great plans of the
Department of Health in wiping out
the scourgA
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-11-29
A Bad Break

[F'rom the Boston Transcript
A woman writes that her most
embarrassed moment was when, be-
ing one of four guests at dinner.
she was urged by her hostess to
have q little more of certain dish.
and replied, unthirkingly: NO.
thank you, I'll do we'll If get rid
of what I have here.'