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Real Estate Transfers

Real Estate Transfers
w. w. Cooper to Ethel van Noor-
his, parcel in city, $l.
A. M. Briggs to Fred Farrison, par
Gel in city, 81.
Milton Mahaffey to, J. Morrow, par
Gel in city, 81.
William II. White to Fred Z. Meitz'
er, parcel in CITY, 81.
e. ]. Hoagland to Maiona ~
Thompson, parcel in Gam, $500.
Della Baker to w. G. Parson, par
eel in city, ST.
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have been appointed executors Oh
lydia Detweiler. No bond is required.
The appraisers are Charles F. Brown'
T. N. Braddock and Perry l.. Cover.
viii Is Appointed
The last will and testament OF Lydia
T. Detweiler has been admitted TO
probate.
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Accept California" Syrup Of Figs
only-look for the name California on
the package. then you are sure your
child is having the best and most
harmless laxative or physic for the
little stomach, liver and bowels. Chill
dren love its delicious. fruity taste.
Full directions for child's dose on
each bottle. Give It without fear.
Mother! You must say California" {"
--Advt.
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Appointment Made
cassel Linn and Frank w. Linn
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all the
''!nas assa sr @ S YRs is rhd by Q
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Hunt, Treasurer of Knox
d for taxation within said
& Fund .0026 mill: Univer
Total state Levy IS mill.
,ty Fund .3S mill, Judicial
I. Bridge Fund ~ mill, Ind
Fund IS mill. Children'si
mill.
bic below:
The sun., 1919-04-27

That is the remedy next to love in us
Importance. Blindness? May ii not be
that our most luminous selves are like
lamps which shine brightly only in the
dark"
Here I. the interviewer, who have
seen parts of the great war close By
and have seen thousands of its VIC
Tins. entered IL slight protest. But is
not the man who went TO this war
strong and came back crippled entitled
10 curse fate? Is not the man who
marched forth with the suns light
brilliant 10 his seeing eyes and reveal
ing to him all the beauties OF the
world, but is brought back blinded, en-
titled to complaint" asked.
Entitled tor" she answered. IT do
not like the question. The man who
has fought in such war as this and
through his fighting suffered. whether
or not he wished to fight, has had pay
ment in advance amounting to a rec
ompense for much which otherwise
might have been thought disaster ir-
retrievable. His has been a sacrifice for
others. For such sac1tfre always there
is recompense. Ne matter what he
may have lost he has gained more
than full compensation-gained it
within himself.
Through physical handicaps one
wins spiritual strength. Many who
have had the opportunity TO learn the
facts by grim experience have told
me this, and l myself have learned
l II we'll. have had letters from 50
The sun., 1919-04-27
lesson for All the World in Message of Hope From Young
- Woman Who, Blind, Deaf and Dumb Overcame
Handicaps Find Joy Is Greater Part of Life

the most fluent tongue the world has
known could not make the person
who habitually is critical a happy
man or woman. The sharpest eyes
and keenest hearing vouchsafed to a
human being could not grant real
happiness to one who thinks only OF
himself or perpetrates injustice, which
Is the greatest of all sins.
Il know that inability to see, in
ability to hear. inability of normal
speech, cannot shut happiness away
from one who loves and is loved. from
one who works, and, like all workers.
inevitably gains the pay Tor labor.
from one who wishes all men we'll and
tries, however humbly, to be helpful.
believeing that fundamentally all men
are good
Love-the All in All.
And love! That is the greatest OF
all )oys-and not blindness, deafness.
dumhness. not artificial limbs. not a
lie sentence to a hospital cot will
fend love away IL love is given in re-
turn for that which always is and
always will be offered to every one OF
US II We but give and will receive.
Love! 1t is the all in all. II will
make the humblest one of us a real
being. for love brings love and love
thus brought means homage in the
hearts OF those who love; II will put
the weakest one OF us beyond the
reach or death. for we live as long
as we are remembered-and mankinds
loving memory spans generations.
The outstanding fact that I have
learned from all the many letters that
have come to me from those blinded
or those seriously disabled in the war
or out OF it Is not that any one Of
them, being hopeless. demands the ul-
innate OF sympathy or is excused in
feeling real despair. but that all have
manifold capacities which now remain
inactive, but which if fully utilized
Will insure abundant hope. Work!
The sun., 1919-04-27
Fighting Influenza Among the Navajos

great mental agitation. but this occurs
very rarely. His reputation for verac-
ity is not the best. His ideas about
mine and thine" are very elastic. He
can pick a lock with the dexterity OF
the expert cracksman. Yet the good
qualities OF the Navajos. especially
their splendid dispositions, over
shadow their evil ones.
The Navajos, like the Sioux, have
considerable litigation among them
selves. We all know that when whites
litigate they are at loggerheads to
such an extent that neither side will
talk to the other. The opposite is the
case with these Indians. The litigants
are always chummy. During recesses
they sit side by side. spin yarns most
garrulously and indulge in much hi
larity with each other. This condition
of amicability between disputants nom
plusses me. and / am sure it is Just as
mystifying to every white man under
whose observation II comes. Some
times think these Indians litigate for
the same reasons for which rural
whites assemble at country corner
grocery stores, namely. to swap gossip
On looking into the stolid, immobile
features of the Indian any man not
cognizant with his traits would con-
slider him utterly devoid OF all sense
Of humor, This impression is a
wrong one. He keenly enjoys a jocu-
lar remark. Many are very witty, in
deed. We have a character here at
the Chin Lee Indian School (Which is
located at the mouth OF the famous
canon, De Chelly) who is as witty as
the wittiest. He is an Indian police
man named John Brown. More re-
Gently, OF Sunday, John came to my
room TO report for duty. mfr. Kop-
pei" he sailed. "me want to talk you
Ne get interpret 'All right, John
said. "you mean you want to get
somebody to interpret for you" yes
you. too he retorted with a little
grin on his swarthy face.
Industrially the Navajos rank among
the best Indians. II white man leads
them they work like Trojans. They
are self-supporting and blissfuliy ig-
norant OF the desperate struggle for
an existence which bears down the
white workers of the cities. Their
bucolic or pastoral avocations supply
all of their simple wants and leave
them happy and contented-happieI
than most of US are,
The sun., 1919-04-27
Mam'selle Marie's Ant-Eggs

She was a breeder OF ants. or. more
strictly speaking. a raiser Of ants eggs
for the fattening OF young pheasants.
When the police visited her establish
ment they encountered a woman 80
years old. OF a most forbidding aspect.
Her face and hands were as completely
tanned as II they had undergone dress
ing by skilful currier. The work
had been done by the bites of the ants,
against the attacks of which she had
protected the rest Of her person by
wearing a close suit of leather. Thus
protected she slept in perfect security.
surrounded by sacks full of her lively
merchandise.
The visit of the police seemed to
her an outrage: but. say what she
would. Nam elle Marie was compelled
to transport her boarding establish
ment out Of the city. 1t appeared that
she had CORES pondents In many parts
OF France and received daily consign-
ments. She was proud of her bust
ness or profession as she called it, and
found a ready market for all the eggs
she could furnish
The sun., 1919-04-27
Indians Weird Rites Serve Only to
Spread Death-Noble Work of
Reservation Employees

the IgraveAand inter the dead. When
ever I needed a rest from the work,
I beckoned to my bronzed helper TO
take the shovel. He was not very slow
IN learning. Very soon he gave the
come-on sign with as much alacrity as
I gave 1t to him.
Every Indian hut. or hogan, as the
native calls II, Is either burned or dis
mantled as soon as the corpse is re-
moved. To avoid this tribute to their
superstition. most Indians. when they
see that the patient is moribund, take
him out of doors for dissolution. even
though the weather is very inclement.
Many a Navajo dies prematurely by
reason OF such treatment.
1 like the Navajo Indian because OF
his gentle temperament. OF course he
can be aroused. have found that out.
He becomes angry when he is under
The sun., 1919-04-27
By o. r. kOPPLIN.
n the fore part of last October the
influenza enidemic annnarod On


the Navajo reservation In Ari-
iona and New Mexico. after having
exacted a cataclysmal mortality in
some nearby towns on the Santa Fe
Railroad--a mortality OF a much
greater percentage than was expert
enced by the Navajos themselves.
When Indian runners brought the
news of the ravages of the sickle Of
death among the whites, the tribes
men. with that complete abandon to
nonchalance and stoicism which Is so
typical OF the red race, prognosticated
the visitation to be a white mans af-
Fiction, and that the spirits would I'M
I failingly hold their protecting hands
over the red men. The prognosis was
wrong. Sc. a..
The "fu" came and took It's first
victims. The Indians resorted to sing
ing over their FRUSTRATED ones. Tho
singing consists OF the chanting In
unison OF weird melodies, which often
eliminate in abruptly rising infiec-
lions. closely resembling the yell OF
the coyote. Soon. however, II dawned
on the minds OF the Indians that as
semblages were promoters of the
plague. and they were quickly given
up.
The older Navajos have great faith
In the efficacy Of their pagan prayers.
They importune the spirits for inter-
cession, morning and night, and after
each meal. The younger people have
largely fallen away from the beliefs of
their sires.
The number of deaths on this res
ervation is only a matter Of conjec-
ture. The employees Of the Indian
service, on this reservation, acquitted
themselves nobly in taking care of
their charges. To my knowledge, two
died. A large number became very
sick. and lowered at the brink of the
grave for many days. DIR. Wiggies-
worth of Fort Defiance, whose name is
household word to most people OF
the Indian service. came very near pay
ing the penalty with his own life.
/ Manifold were the capacities in
which we all served. The women, be-
sides being nurses and culinary artists,
were scullions in the cuisines. Very
many other mental tasks fell TO their
.. lot. which were all borne uncomplain-
The sun., 1919-04-27
Ill manner Of queer trades -four
\ ish in Paris. One man is an

A Ill manner of queer trades -four
n ish in Paris. One man is an
instructor OF owls. another Of
canaries. II one has a parrot that is
to be tutored one may at once obtain
the services OF an instructor for IT..
Some of these teachers take birds
home to board and instruct; but II
the owner so prefers such a teacher
will come to the house. bringing with
him a we'll trained singer or talker. as
the case may be. to be put in the cage
with the pupil.
Other Parisians devote themselves
to the raising of bird food. At one
time the inhabitants of a certain quar-
ter were attacked by an inexplicable
irritation OF the skin, All up and
down one street people were scratch
Ing themselves from morning to night.
and this lasted till the jewellers I'm that
quarter looked almost like colony OF
lepers. Finally the authorities looked
into the matter and discovered that
the doings OF a certain Mam'selle
Marie were the cause Of the difficulty.
The sun., 1919-04-27
Ra gzEzzzzzzzzzzE

Their mere determination not to
let their difficulties master them is
victory and proves their harm not to
have been irrevocable.'
After a seconds pause Miss Keller
laughed-it was n merry laugh, and
followed by:
1T is astonishing how bugbears side
step when one looks them in the face!
such looks are not denied the
blind" she went on very seriously.
We physically sightless can outstare
a bugbear with the keenest sighted OF
you all. When a bugbear faces you.
whether you are physically blind or
physically seeing, glare at him with
the eyes of a brave soul and make a
rush for him. He will turn tail and
run"
Friends the Greatcst Need.
Then there came another little pause,
followed by the thought-statemen~
But he will turn tail more quickly
If you feel that you have friends be-
hind you. We blind lose courage only
when we feel ourselves alone, neglected
by society.
Tell the handicapped for me- IL you
will be so kind, that handicaps do not
make them unusual. All men. all
women are handicapped until they in
their hearts declare that they will not
be Handicapped, and after any man
declares this then all handicaps are
gone from him.
Tell the handicapped for me that
The sun., 1919-04-27

tngly. The men were general men of
all work. They were firemen. sections
and undertakers. Superintendent Pa
quette was a laundress. One OF my
tasks was the burial OF the dead.
The superstition of the Navajo about
the dead is a byword in all territory
contiguous to the reservation. Only
after much persuasion will he touch a
corpse. He invariably deposits his
dead on top OF the ground, In some for
lorn place, from which he retreats as
rapidly as his fears can make him go.
Then comes along that scavenger. the
coyote, and finishes the undertaking
job.
Actuated by a desire for a better
burial many Navajo appeals to his
white brother for help. I received and
responded to many such appeals. l
always made an Indian help me dig
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-26
THE INCOME TAX

~ALARIED men and well-paid
mechanics whose earnings are
~ more than $4,000 and less than
$4,000 will support the movement
now in Congress amending the in
come tax law so that married man
shall be exempt to the amount of s4.-
600, instead of $4,000 as at present.
With the end of the war. Congress
can we'll afford to make some modi-
fications in the income tax. OF
course, the bulk of taxation will al
ways remain on the shoulders of
those who earn the most. That is
only fair. But the salaried man
especially has suffered severely dur
ing the war as result of increased
living expenses without much, if any,
advance in salary. OF all the peo-
pie of the country he has been hit
hardest by war conditions.
At all events. $4,000 is too low a
basis for income taxation. Three
thousand or f6lr thousand dollar
exemptions FOG married men are
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-26
IMMUNE
By BRIGGS

A Fritz that runs n truck farm out
by Molesburg
lie says to me an Jones the other
day
now the war is done an ended an
thee rupture'd soon be
mended,
II we'd only look at things the
German way.
Ihis boche allows that him an us is
brothers,
An Jes to make our kinship more
secure,
Us, an all our little buddies ought
TO take up with the studies
Ihese long haired boche profess
sors calls "kultoor!"
The Captain he's agin all fraternizin'
lie claims this here "kultoor's" a
bad diseaSe;'
"hlch Is certain sure to get us, If
we let the boche upset us
with their propaganda - mean
their ideas.
But I'll tell the world the Cantain
needn't worry,
This "kultoor" will never be no net
o mine,
have done a lot O. dopin' keenin,
An I've seen the way it works
across the Rhine.
1 have watched these highly culti-
waited Heinies
Hitch their wives in double har-
ness to the plow,
Settin' round the whole day idle.
save for toyin' with a seidI.
While the lady an the bossy drug
the plow.
l have seen the lovely cottages thew
live in
With the horses in the next adj
joinin' ROOM
Seven feet between the stable an
the family dinin' table
While the breezes waited in a
thick perfume.
No, stree, young mister Captain
needn't worry,
Though we ketch a lot o. sickness
over here
While dischargin' of our duties-like
the flu an itch, an cooties,
An the typhoid bug that burrows
in the beer.
Keepin' watch an ward upon a gang
o. Heinies
Is a mighty risky business-that is
sure,
But the world can hear me holler
that I'll bet my bottom dollar,
l won't never ketch the thing they
calls "kultoor!"
james Montague in Kansas City
Star
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-26
AN EXCELLENT RECORD

CENATOR FRANK A. SMITH has
y been responsible for some very
excellent legislation in the few
months he has served Dauphin
county in the upper house of the
State Legislature.
Governor Sproul has signed bills
of which Senator Smith was the
author for the reorganization of the
State Library. permitting the city
and the county to join in the erec-
ton of city hall and court house
and authorizing the two also to
build joint contagious disease hos
pital.
The effects of this legislation once
it is worked out will be highly bene-
fetal to the people of Harrisburg
and Dauphin county especially and
will put the State Library and Mu-
scum on modern working basis.
Another bill which Senator Smith
has fathered, that repeating the old
tax collector system and providing
for the appointment of a tax receiver
for the county, has been passed by
the Senate and is now in the House.
It would save the people of Dauphin
county at least $4,000 a year, and
many other counties would benefit
almost as much. 1t is to be hoped
the House will concur in the Sem
ate's approval.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-26
Value of the Boy Scout

When the educational authorities
of the State and nation finally de-
termine just what sort of training Is
best suited to the needs of our
youth below the age of eighteen
years in lieu of specific military
training, it will probably be seen
that the product they want is fair
ly we'll approximated in the Boy
Scout He is q boy who is trained
to outdoor exercise: he is trained
to use his eyes and hands; he is
taught to use his knowledge gained
in school and in reading to aid in
discovery of facts for himself; he is
won to a manly attitude toward
his fellows and sensible chivalry OF
behavior; he is constantly practiced
in being useful to the public.
If a great majority of our boys
were Boy Scouts to begin with, the
end of any training looking to phys
ical education and fitting the young
men of the land for military duty
would be in considerable measure
secured. And this preparatory work
would be done in the best man
ner because it would be voluntary.
The best recruiters for Boy Scouts
enrolment are the boys themselves.
They like tho organization, like
what they get out of it. put them
selves into it wholeheartedly. The
great need on which nationwide
success will depend is a supply of
competent scout leaders. 1t is po-
sition for a real man and real
teacher and a service that will be
done for the good of the country.
From the Rochester Post Express.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-26
More Flies This Summer"

Flies will be unusually numerous
this summer because of the accumu-
lation of garbage resulting from the
lack of available help for odd jobs
and because the mild winter has
enabled large numbers of adult flies
TO survive, according to w. A. Riley.
professor of entomology in the Uni
yersity of Minnesota.
A thorough cleanup of all refuse
material should be started at once,
Doctor Riley says. Unless this ac-
tion is taken the situation this sum-
nrer will be critical. he warns.
"Flies can be eliminated when the
public awakes to the necessity of
concerted action. In the meantime,
the individual householder can
greatly reduce their numbers by
keeping his own premises clean and
thus not only preventing fly-breed-
ing but also lessening the chances
of obtaining a supply of flies from
careless neighbors.
Screen your house thoroughly
and by the use of sticky fly paper
and .swatting' get rid of the strays
which escape this line of defense" !"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-26
"RHINE- WHINE"

tFrom The Bache Review
We have frequently referred in
the Review to the necessity for a
coalition of resources among tie
nations, to help the world to its
feet. If we look at the world as a
whole, we find that it is staggering
under the smashing disaster to a
great, important part of it's indus
trial structure in Europe, that a
large part of Europe's liquid capi-
tai has been used up and it's fixed
capital badly cut ito. and that at
the same time the proportion of it's
effective man power killed off and
disa bled, has been lam MENTALLY large.
This places a burden upon the
Immediately affected populations and
resources-too great to be borne un-
aided. Germany, which wrought the
unwritten terms for the nations she
has shamefully wronged are equally
difficult and the burden in the ag-
gregate far larger.
The gross debt of the five Allied
nations, including the United States,
amounted at the first of this year to
$3.50, 1000, 900, 900.
The debt of the same nations on
August l, 1914, was S1S,400, 600, 900.
Germany, up to January l, 1919,
had cost these five nations for war
alone nearly one hundred and twelve
billion dollars.
The yearly expenses of these five
nations, by reason of the war, will
amount to over seven billion dollars
more than their per-annum expenses
during 1918.
This is what Germany has done
| by her preposterously selfish, arro-
CANT and brutal expedition to con-
quer the world. There is no possi-
BILE way of making her pay in full
measure for the damage she has
done, no way of completely punish
ing her for her guilt. The exhioi-
ton of bluff, insincerity, insolercc,
and contemplate wailing, which the
German delegates are giving, Is :hof-
oughly in line with the German
character. A clever speaker has
designated it as the Rhina-Whine.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-26
SAW FOUR WARS

Mrs. Sarah E. Jones has lived to
see victorious American troops
march home from four wars. In a
little town in Ohio nearly seventy
five years ago. her father lifted her
I'M in his arms to see over the heads
of the crowd cheering soldiers re-
turning home from Mexico. Each
soldier wore a heavy beard, she said,
and in addition to his army equip
ment carried a new Navajo blanket
some years later in the same town
she helped welcome home a regi-
ment of tattered troops who had
marched with Sherman from Atlanta
to the sea. Long before the next
war Mrs. Jones had moved to To-
neka and was one of the great crowd
which cheered Funston's Fighting
twentieth on its triumphal Iaarch
down Kansas avenue. When the
l3eth Infantry marched down the
avenue in Topeka the other day Mrs.
Jones was there to see them. and
to remark that the boys looked
Younger in their drab uniforms and
oversees caps than the other troops
did as they returned from former
wars.-From the Topeka Capital.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-26
A JOY PICTURE

TIL gIaddest thing in the world that's
glad,
Err that's what 1 thinks, a little
tad,
With a piece of bread, an a horn to
blow,
An step to set on. No one don't
know
Anything that's happier much, 1
guess;
BY jing, l git such a tenderness
When 1 see a little old tad like that
/ feel like settin' down where he's
at,
An askin' him, with friendly smile,
To let me toot on his horn a while.
Or for a bite of his 'lasses bread
A little bit of a touslehead,
> settin' there on a step like that
With a tootin' horn, and a old
straw hat
Right there beside him, is just all
right
He will swing his foot, anil take
a bite
OF his 'lasses bread, an then blow
his horn;
An just as sure as you've been
born,
He knows more gladness than any
thlng
That was ever thought of could
give king.
A king amt much-ain't one-half as
as glad
AS him, awaiting there for his
dad,
With bread an butter, and 'lasses'
too;
No artist feller has ever drew
A picture breathin' so much O. JOY
AS one like that of little boy
settin' there with his old straw
hat;
1 want to set down by where he's
at
An coax him., pattin' his yellow
head,
To gimme a bite of his 'lasses
bread.
Judd Mortimer Lewis in the Hous-
ton Post