Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-02
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| AnQreW .. fatteTSOH, WHO Spohe tNS"
Years In Harrisburg. brought back
Ifrom France with him a very good
story illustrating the spirit of the
American soldier in the war. Col
onel Patterson was on the dock when
the torpedoed Mt. Vernon, under
command of Captain Dtsmukes, OF
Harrisburg, arrived, and heard this
experience of an officer who saw Sem
ator Lewis, n passenger, endeavoring
to qnell what he took for signs or
panic aboard.
| When the torpedo, which tore q
hole in the side of the ship and sent
her down seven feet below normal
into the sea, struck the steamer some
soldiers aboard were at breakfast.
All rushed to their stations and
donned lifebelts, as they had been
INSTRUCTED. One big Yank was plainly
disturbed. He made two or three
false starts back toward the cabin
and seemed very i'll at ease as COM
pared with the nonchalance of his
companions. Lewis thought the man
was panic-stricken.
Approaching him quietly he said:
There, there, comrade. the ship is
all right. Don't be alarmed, the cap
tain says we are not going to sink.
BE calm,"
"Sink. the dickens! Calm, thun-
der!" yelled the Yank. Pm not
afraid of sinking, but why did that
blasted Hun send his old torpedo
along before l got my serving OF
pineapple?"
Under private management we
used to get our oranges through
from Jacksonville in four days" said
u man to-day who is accustomed to
have friends in Florida send him an
occasional box of the fruit. "Now,
with the government in charge, it
takes nearly three weeks. For ex-
ample, 1 had expressed prepaid to
me more than q week before Christ
mas q box of oranges and grapefruit
for the holidays. 1t turned up yester-
day. Where it was loafiing in the
meantime Uncle Sam may know, but
he hasn't told. If that is a sample
of government ownership me for the
good old days when express COM
panies were looked upon as private
monopolies."
A certain clerk in one of the coun-
ty offices in the courthouse Is in the
habit of taking his watch from his
pocket and laying it on the desk.
, During the day he walks away and
, forgets 10 put the timepiece in his
pocket again. Fellow clerks warned
him, but it was no use, and one day
the watch disappeared. An exciting
/ half hour followed and the clerk
wasn't sure whether the watch had
actually been stolen, or whether he
was the victim of joke The mail
carrier happened in q few minutes
later with a small box, addressed to
the owner of the watch, and when he
opened it, he found his timepiece.
Quite a few friends were present
when the package was opened, other
J wise the clerk probably would have
believed he had forgotten to take,
J the watch with him when he left
, home and that his wife sent it to
him by mail.
w. r. Zimmerman. Assistant
County School superintendent, wasn't
worried about the sugar restrictions
which the Food Administration en-
forced during the war. Every time
q new order came along Professor
Zimmerman took trip to the noun
tains for day and at night came
home with fine lot of honey. Dur
ing the summer and fall months he
located a number of bees and
brought home many pounds of
honey. His largest find was in Oc-
tober when he cut bee and got
seventy-five pounds of honey. He
has located others which he Is plan
ming to cut in the early spring. At
his home he has a number of hives
filled with bees and during the COM
ing summer expects to have a good
supply of honey without doing any
: mountain climbing to get it as the
bees which he cut were located in the
> hills in this county. -.
One of the busiest men in town
this week was S. E. Weber, of
Scranton, president of the Pennsyl-
vania State Educational Association.
: He had on his shoulders all of the
complicated details of the arrange
| ments for the big convention and its
3 many branch meetings. But he never
slipped q single cog and at the con-
clusion of the meeting last evening
was heartily congratulated by friends
who knew at what pains he had been
: at to make the gathering the success
t it has been. He was one of the first
: men to register at the new Penn
= Harris and made his headquarters
t there during the week.
, A man in front of the Penn-Harris
l created some little interest Tuesday.
l He kept pointing away up toward
9 one of the top floors.
whats the matter?" asked the
= curious bystander.
t Matter enough" was the response.
. / can't locate the sixteenth floor.
Jaw, get out, you're kidding" was
3 the reply.
Deed I'm not" said. he. "I guess
/. I rented the sixteenth floor at $16,-
9 900 a year, didn't I?i
;. "And before that I used to live
= out in the country in a nice big
t hotel"
"Oh," said the bystanders in
t chorus, pointing to their foreheads,
and the group dispersed leaving the
$4,000 gentleman still meditating
on where to find the sixteenth floor
in a ten-story building.
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