6 JLOur Library TableJ 4- A A\FEW MiNUTIIS WiTH THE. BOOKS L MAGAZ iN ES^'^ISSii gg uumL—igg I h jga§|. *"' I fc- ■ ■•• A JMHHBMk r "' RUSSELL H CONWELL g§ H»njc=gg Who Will Give His $4,000,000 Lec ture in Technical Auditorium on Saturday evening. Acres of Diamonds, by Dr. Russel 11. Conwell (published by Harper & Brothers, New York. When you read through a book you naturally expect to carry away some impression which the characters, the method of treatment, the climax or the adventures may have made upon you. Otherwise you are disappointed. But did you ever read a book which recorded so many impressions upon your mental retina that you could not place a definite limit upon them? "Acres of Diamonds" is the story of a $4,000,000 lecture and the wonderful man who grave it to the world. Judge the man by the lecture and the lecture by the man .and you will have two of the most remarkable products which this State of Pennsylvania has taken pride in producing in the last half c-entur.v. You can judge pretty well the sort of parents a boy or girl has had by the bos' or girl; so you call judge what sort of a man Dr. Conwell must have been in order to create and perpetuate this famous lecture. The reading of his life simply vindicates your expectation of what the man himself must have been. He belongs to the old school of plat form lecturers and although in his seventies it is still a marvel and a pleasure to hear him, John Wana maker. of Philadelphia, speaks appre ciatively of the president of Temple University as follows: "His (Dr. Con well'a) ideas, ideals and enthusiasms have inspired tens of thousands of lives. A book full of the energetics of a master workman is just what every young man cares for. As his neighbor and Intimato friend In Philadelphia for thirty years. I am free to say that Russel H. Conwell's tall, manly figure stands out in the State of Pennsylva nia as its first citizen and the 'Big Brother' of its seven millions of people." When you have read this book or heard this lecture, you are certain to ask yourself, "Am I like All Hafed? Am I like any one of the men whom Dr. Conwell used In his illustrations to show how opportunity lies at my very BEER DRINK OF MANY SCHOOL CHILDREN [Continued From First Page.] "coffee" a large majority of the little hands were raised. "What else do you have?" was ask ed in one of the buildings iln the southern part of the city. "Tea-ginger ale - cocoa - soda - egg nog" came the answers. Then, far along in the list, came "milk." "Has any boy or girl ever tasted beer?" Up flew the hands. "And whisky?" Even at this question hands were Raised and one little chap of eleven proudly boasting, "I got drunk once!" Such a pitiable condition was found in more than one school. When ques tioned, the children usually answered: "My father gave it to me. He brings It home in bottles." One half-grown girl told of another near her own age who "often comes to school drunk and one day she had a fit from it." The Stins Here is the great liquor question with which Pennsylvania has been grappling seen from a different angle! FOR THE Motorist A Fisk Red Top Tire, Red Inner Tube Auto Mirror, Pair of Gloves, Set of Lamps, Swivel Searchlight Phinney Walker Clock, Klaxon Horn, Set of Spark Plugs Pocket Flashlight Radiator Cover, Set of Socket Wrenches, Vulcanizer, Set of Tire Saving Jacks, or a Tool Box. Any of these will make a nice Gift. E. Mather Company 204 Walnut Street Oprix Nntarilny Kvenlnc Till O Until l'hniim THURSDAY EVENING. feet and acres of diamonds sparkle all about me. If only I am not blinded to the sight of them? Not a single one of us but has many opportunities to advance ourselves and gain a higher \ position if only we seize those-oppor- ; t unities when they appear. There lies ' the moral of the book and the lecture, j a sane, rational appeal to the best that, j is in us. When Dr. Conwell was at Yale lie j had a pretty hard row to hoe and con- , sequently came to the determination | that whatever he could do to make the ! way easier at college for other young men working their way, that he would , do. And the many millions of dollars i that have accumulated for at least the i last thirty years have been devoted to I helping educate 2,000 young men; the j remainder of the lecture money is used , to defray his expenses. Just a thought—"Ninety-eight out, of one hundred of the rich men of j America are honest. That is why they j are rich. That is why they are trusted t with money. That is why they carry ; on great enterprises and find plenty of j people to work with them, it is be- i cause they are honest men. Money is j power, and you ought to be reasonably . ambitious to have it. You ought to j because you can do more good with it j than you can without It. 'The love of | money Is the root of all evil,' but the Bible does not by this mean that you sha'n't be ambitious to possess it." How true it all is, and yet how differ ent from the general attitude that is I taken in respect to extremely rich I men. They are generally regarded in | an entirely different light. The book I is full of food for thought, and the lec- I ture is very similar to the book, modi fled somewhat to meet local con- ' ditions. Those who do not have an , opportunity of hearing Dr. Conwell on Saturday evening of this week will | make a gilt-edged Investment in "Acres of Diamonds." Hear the story of All llafed, the old Persian farmer who was rich and con tented, who heard from an old priest the story of the creation of the world and how diamonds first came into existence. He became interested in the acres of diamonds which the old priest told him were to be found in a certain part of the world, worth bil lions and billions of dollars. All be came discontented, sold Ills farm, and set out to look for these wonderful diamonds. After many wanderings he became discouraged as well as discon tented and committed suicide. The man who had bought his farm later found that it was a diamond mine in disguise and became fabulously rich and powerful. The scientifically correct, according to the lecturer, definition of a diamond is "a congealed drop of sunlight," that is, an actual deposit of carbon from the sun, and that Is how they were made In the beginning, according to the old Buddhist priest. "The world was once a mere bank of fog, and the Almighty thrust His finger into this bank of fog, and be gan slowly to move his finger around, increasing the speed until at last He whirled this bank of fog into a solid ball of fire. Then it went rolling through the universe, burning its way I through other banks of fog, and con- ! densed the moisture without, until it fell in floods of rain upon its hot sur face and cooled the outward crust. Then the internal fires bursting out ward through the crust threw up the mountain and hills, the valleys, the plains and prairies of this wonderful world of ours. If this internal molten mass came bursting out and cooled very quickly it became granite; less quickly, copper; less quickly, silver; less quickly, gold, and after gold, dia monds were made." Do the people of Harrisburg realize just what this means? Many of the children In the poorer sectlois of the city have never borne a father's name. The struggle for existence rests upon the mother and upon their own young shoulders. There was a boy in an uptown school always sleepy and tired out. With that patient understanding which seems to belong to all good school teachers, the cause was searched for and found. "Do you know, that boy had to get up every morning at four o'clock to go hunt coal and wood in empty lots or wherever he could find It and take it home! I am sure I would be dread fully sleepy, too," exclaimed this young woman. "I had some girls," said another, "who had to hurry home from school every afternoon and take baskets to go about begging for food for the family supper." Bread and Molasses It is indeed true, as the Harris burg woman's letter claimed, that bread with molasses forms many a meal for our public school children. "Sometimes they leave home so hurriedly that they carry their break fasts with them," the investigator was told. "In that case I send them off in the corner there to finish eating and I have seen bread and molasses. Some times they even eat raw turnips and raw sweet potatoes in place of fruit." Very frequently among the foreign ers the lunches the children carry to school with them in bad weather con sists of great chunks of black bread and garlic sausage of so strenuous a make that the room requires a thor ough airing before the afternoon ses sion. It is also a common thing for them to come to school in the morn ing with the odor of beer so strong about them that it is repulsive to the teachers. They openly confess that beer takes the place of milk in thefr daily diet. We visit another building. "Oh, yes, we have a good many AMUSEMENTS { $4,000,000 Lecture \ !; Russell H. Conwell's j "Acres of Diamonds" % The most popular lecture la '! % the world. % Has been delivered more than !> J fifty-three hundred times. ,i Total earnings of this one lec- / ? ture In fifty-four years, $4,000,- "! 5 000.00. "! % Total earnings of one lecturer 'i 'j nearly nine million dollars. !i 5 The five-thousandth delivery !' J netted nine thousand dollars. ? i Has helped to educate two c S thousand young men. i J It Is a lecture of Uplift and S 5 InsplraUon. S J" It has pointed the Road of J ■J Success to many thousands of i 1 i men and women. i[ J Its lesson is fundamental— , % Every boy and girl, man and \ J woman should hear It. ]i ? To be delivered Ji J December 18th at the ;! i Technical High School i under tlie auspices of i| J TheHarrisburgAcademy || ? Tickets for salo by the Academy !' i l'upils and nt the Academy ■! > Office •! / and J. H. Troup Music House J f Elbow Length White Gloves Chamoisette Wash Gloves —white, white with heavy SHop Us 1 length'*pah"''l**.^soo^7s J black stitched backs; pair 59<* and 75f Boudoir Cap and Apron 12-button French kid; two-clasp at wrist. Special, pair .. $1.98 Natural, black, brown, gray or navy; pair ........ Sets, 50c 16-button French kid; two-clasp at wrist. Special, pair .. #2.98 A 1 fal k cas h mer e snede lined • snecial nair '**»«/• Wl " ,e Ij » wn Aprons, lace trim -16-button white Silk Gloves; two-clasp. Special price, pair <»9£ • Also DiacK casnmere, suede lined, special, pair .... *yiy<p llied 25c corners, in box 29c ft f TV * SfrC * U 3(<wu4k^ ff V ( 1 • r ■» Beautiful Neckwear iP I "n OLL S—$1.00 Cutie Dolls, 29<*. Unbreakable Dolls, 69 Extra I 2Sc. 50c, «»<•. osc | lid" I fibUIII H S U L ar f e B f b y Dolls . #I.OO. 24-inch Teddy Bears, $2.00 kind, ostrich Feather Boas -» I Jp1.555. Woolly Dogs, 9<f. Large Stuffed Cats, 291 si.i». si.so np ™~~ — ——— ——— I'lne Brassieres. ... 35e and 49c Rliemcf —the big sale of Umbrellas to-morrow corsets ,10 ° IIIMSIFXI £ op M £D Women—immense variety of line handles to select from Handmade Headed Hugs. SALE PRICES 9S<- $1.98 $2.98 worth $1.50, at 69c | I Worth #1.50 Wortli s:t.oo Worth $3.98 „ . „ ... » . 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'• Children's Vests or Pants, each 25c Combs, Brushes, Mirrors 25c to $2.50 IVORY TOILET ARTICLES * t > Mirrors, Hair Receivers, Brushes, Combs, Powder &i ve her a Stylish Ostiich Feather Neck ~ ll©r 3, filiO Boxes, Picture Frames, Jewel Cases, Buffers, N.il Piece; special Friday To-morrow's sale of linest Pin Seal Files, Scent Boxes, Glovfe Stretchers, Puff Boxes, . u«»> Handbags (the best values ever.ofrenHl) Clocks, Glove Boxes, Manicure Sets, Toilet Sets, •> I• • •> I .+«, leather or fancy silk lined; many shapes. Trays, and numerous other articles suitable for gifts — JH4-.98, Jf»0.98, $6.98 ( . u . a , t to $2.50. Our prices are about HALF asked by ~ 98f? JpL.n* m. Extra full and fluffy, black, white and all desirable colors. P |y Others. Wortli $1.09 Worth $2.00 Worth $3.00 *■ V / 85C Our Prices Are Positively Lowest-In-The-City ' Qg > v»,„c Ground A T*' f I I—f ' O Fourth and . Roman Stripe / yj ■ M J ■ ■ 54-inch Round <o,,^r: Fioor 1 E\IWI I VJ Market Sts. I II | cases of malnutrition here, "is the answer to the oft repeated question. "See that pale little fellow opening the windows over there? He is one of five children. The mother is dead. The father works and tries to do his best by them but you know how It is. Their meals are supposed to be cook ed by a next door neighbor but I fear very often it is only a bit of something cold and ready to eat which is brought in hurriedly from the grocer's." The Seamy Side of Life And so they go on and on, these pitiful stories of the little children to whom the hard, seamy side of life is opened all too soon. Quietly, steadily and without thought of praise there is working amongst ua a little band of mission aries, the teachers of our public schools. Honor should be paid these young women who give of their labor and love in many ways beyond merely teaching the lessons of the school currlculus. Often they beg warm clothing and shoes from their friends for needy pupils. One teacher went to a grocer with whom she was well acquainted and persuaded him to send a liberal supply of food to a family when starvation was staring them in the face. Some times it even means the spending of somo of their own hard-earned money as in the case of a young teacher who visited a large family where conditions were desper ate. Touched to the depths of a warm generous heart, she went straight to a dealer's and ordered a half ton of coal delivered for which she paid out of her own pocket. Women like these are loved and reverenced by the children in their care. Duty and l.ovo During our Harrisburg Municipal Celebration the little sister of a boy in the Paxton building lay dead. But his school needed 100 per cent at tendance for the great children's parade that they might have a good showing and a chance of winning a victrola. From the side of the little rtisket he came and took his place in line that day because "Teacher" need ed him. Little children are keen of intuition and they soon see behind the voice of firm control the big mother-heart which reaches out to meet these problems, which always finds from somewhere clothes for the ragged and food for the hungry. ALL GUESSING AS TO COUNCILMANIC VOTE [Continued From First Aft,] city. Only the political opposition of Mayor Royal assisted by Commission er Gorgas led to the "3 to 2" alignment in Council. The average citizen—and taxpayer —realizes that some of the most im portant city work will be resumed under now heads. Naturally he's cur ious. The air has been full of rumors of all sorts —ever since Mayor-elect Meals began giving out interviews to the newspapers. Hero are some of the proposed coalitions, according to report: Some Rumored Coalitions Messrs. Gross and Gorgas will cer tainly line up together; so will Messrs. Bowman and Lynch; Messrs. Gross and Gorgas will do no such thing, they'll swing in with Mayor Meals; this is not true, the real alignment will be Meals, Bowman and Lynch; Mayor Meals will line up with neither faction, but will sit back as a pivotal wheel and swing things anyway he wishes: Messrs. Bowman and Lynch, voting solidly always, will make what overtures are necessary to Include either Mr. Gross or Mr. Gorgas, asl circumstances may Justify. In fact one can hear most anything one wishes. While friends of Mayor-elect Meals chuckle at what they consider the "king-pin" position of the new exec utive in the City Council personnel, the wiser political "dopesters" question whether the real balance of power will lie with Meals or with Messrs. Bowman and Lynch. City Trrasuroshl|) the Issue And it is generally predicted that HARRISBURG *£%£&&& TELEGRAPH the matter will come to an Issue be fore tne question of the new city treas-' urershlp is settled. Bowman and Lynch have an alliance that is tied with a knot of Austro- German stoutness, point out the "dopesters"; under the circumstances their regard for each other will stand out much like brother-love. This means two votes out of five. ' "Why shouldn't a combination like this make come counter agreements with Gross or Gorgas—should agree ments be necessary?" ask the politi cally wise. The nearest approach to a breach In diplomatic relations between Mayor elect Meals and Commissioners Bow man and Lynch occurred, it is said, when the next mayor announced that he wished ex-Police Lieutenant J. Thomas Zeil as chief of police. Messrs. Bowman and Lynch had been strong supporters of Captain Joseph P. Thompson. However they swallowed their own feelings in the matter and conceded Dr. Meals the right to select his own chief. For the time the clouds rolled away. Then the question of V. Grant For rer as park superintendent under Commissioner-elect Gross sent more clouds rolling along the horizon. Rumor had it that ex-Mayor Gross wanted Mr. Forrer; Mr. Gross declined ,to discuss the matter. Messrs. Lynch and Bowman, it is understood, wouldn't oppose Forrer should Mr. Gross prefer him. But Mayor-elect Meals is decidedly opposed to the re instatement of the old park superin |j|||||||||| When Johnny |l||li|| Goes to School I 1 Trouble takes a fresh grip on the 1 household and worry brings more wrinkles to mother's brow. The problem of getting the youngsters off to school is simple and easy if the if ill II mot * ier nows ;J ;| Shredded Wheat 5 : .:i. ;j|| the whole wheat cereal that is ready !| cooked and ready-to-serve. One or : more Biscuits, heated in the oven to ill restore crispness and served with hot '• • : 111 l milk, make a delicious, nourishing !• ' • : ..11 meal to play on, to study on, to grow I 111 ° n ' ro^ust ' sturd y boys TRISCUIT it the Shredded Wheat Wafer, II | |||| I eaten as m toast with butter or soft cheese, II U •' 11l|| | or as a substitute for white flour bread illliill 111 tendent. Messrs. Bowman and Lynch somehow can't get Dr. Meals' view- ] point on this matter at all. Taylor and Oves Finally there 1s the city treasurer ship. The chances of both Commissioner M. Harvey Taylor and Harry F. Oves are considered about on par. Com missioner Bowman prefers Oves, it is said; Mr. Lynch feels kindly enough toward Mr. Bowman's choice, but he hasn't really any direct opposition to Mr. Taylor; Messrs. Gross and Gorgas are keeping out of the limelight on this question; Mayor-elect Meals has declared that he "prefers to be for the man that can muster three votes —he believes that '3-2' business to be stopped." Lingering in the Offing And in the offing lingers ex-Repre sentative William S. Tunis, willing aye, eager to serve the people again. He's a mighty good friend of the next mayor's. Furthermore there is Dr. Meals' latest "dark horse" possibility —Charles E. Pass. On the surface, however, the five commissioners maintain a gentleman of-the-old-scliool attitude toward one another while waiting for a show of hands. It's an attitude that has been characterized variously: " 'After you, my dear Alphonse,' " Is the way one close political observer put it. "One's afraid; the other da'ssent," said another. "Watchfully waiting!" said a third. 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