6 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A. NEWSPAPER FOR TIIE HOME Founded IS3I ' Published evenings except Sunday by THE TELEGRAPH PHINTINO CO. Telegraph Building, Federal Square E. J. STACKPOLE President and Editor-in-Chief , P. R. OYSTER, Business Manager GUS. M. STEI.NMETZ, JXatiopinp Editor AR. MICHENER, C irculation iladager Executive llonrd J. P. McCULLOUGH, BOYD M. OGLESBV, F, R. OYSTER. GUS. M. STEINMETZ. Members of the Associated Press—The Associated Press is exclusively en titled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news pub lished herein. All rights of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. A Member American r\ Newspaper. Pub § Ushers' Associa tion. the Audit Bureau pf Circu lation and Penn sylvania Aasocia ated Dallies. Eastern of f i cue' Story. Brooks & Flnley. Fifth Avenao Building. Western office'. Story. Brooks &■ Finlev, People's Gas Building. -• Chicago, 111. Entered at the Post Office in Harris burg, Pa., as second class matter. By carrier, ten cents a > week; by mail, $3.00 a ' year in advance. Let the words of my mouth and ' the meditation of my heart be ac ceptable in Thy sight, O Jehovah, > ny Rock, and my Redeemer. —Ps. i 19:1!,. SATURDAY, JANUARY 25. !1 I FINE! GOVERNOR, FINE: ! HARRISBURG hails- with de-j light the announcement of Gov- , ernor Sproul that he means to.j push the Capitol extension program! to curly completion. The Governor; believe< that the erection of office! and other buildings planned should; proceed at tlie same time as the! landscaping of the big tract. This attitude of the new Governor v. ill no doubt be received with entliu-! siasm by those engaged to plan the work. They had felt that perhaps it might be unwise to attempt to get' money for buildings until the grounds had been laid out and beautified, j But Governor Sproul is a business man and the need of buildings suf- ! ficlent to house the everygrowing' numbers of State officials and em-! pioyes impressed itself quickly upon him. His practical mind turned at; once to the thought of concentra-! tion of Stat,e forces under new roofs ' and the application of thousands of dollars saved from rentals to the | debt thus created. This is good' business. The Governor's desires will re- j ceive prompt consideration at the; hands of a friendly Legislature. It! will be what Harrisburg desires but j scarcely dared hope if by next year tiiis time the memorial bridge, the' parking of the extension zone and! the erection of buildings should all! be under way. j j TWO MILLION OF 'EM ] A WRITER for the Washington j Post, who has Just returned from France, says that the vic torious American Army is "without a hero." We thought there were something like two million heroes. WOULD BE PREPARED MAJOR GENERAL LEONARD j WOOD is not one of those J who would sit down with folded hands content to risk his fu ture safety and that of the country at large to the doubtful protection of a League of Nations predominated \ by .a European diplomacy. General Wood is going right along preaching ; his old preparedness—a ' doctrine by "the way that sounds far! more reasonable in the light of fie-j cent events than it did a few yearsi ago when millions of people looked \ upon the. General as an alarmist. At Topeka the other day he calmly! referred to "the next war" and made! & strong appeal before a joint session ; of the Kansas Legislature for a sys- : tem of military training for national defense. His, plan would be to keep the smallest number of men In uni form as a standing army, but to have the largest possible number thor oughly trained to be ready in the 1 hour of need. "The prediction that there will be no more war Is as old as time," he said, "but war is like a peetllence; It comes unaware and the most democratic method for a nation like ours is to be prepared. You cannot massage away by fine rhetoric the passions of nations whose methods and morals are en tirely different kom our own." This is common sense. Had we been prepared when the European war threatened and had there been a man In the White House with the courage of his convictions, the ex treme likelihood is that a word from Washington would have prevented the horrible crimes of Germany In Belgium and Serbia. 'Just now war does. Indeed, seem a mattes of the very, very distant fu ture, and we are sick of soldiering, but in 1914 war also seemed far away •fid we did not care to b lyalen our. SATURDAY EVENING. > ' upon us. Wo went our way content | to let the world go its way, and sud- J denly the deluge came and our young ; men went out by the million under i green officers not fully drilled and In j adequately equipped to match the I best trained soldiers in the world. Had they been properly organized j and instructed previous to their en j listment their losses in France would j have been much smaller. They left | countless of their number on the ! bloody fields of Flanders because ! we, as citizens. Ijad not listened to ' the warning voice of the Woods and I the Roosevelts who preached pre paredness. General Wood is warning jus again. Will we heed or must we again learn by sad experience and sacrifice? OUTRAGEOUS PROPOSAL THE Finance Committee of the United States Senate hgs very properly turned down the out | rageous tax proposed by Chairman | Kitchin of the House Ways and | Means Committee, which would have i Increased largely, the levy theater and moving picture tickets. It is i altogether proper that the old tax ' should -stand, but to have added to j the alregdy heavy burdens of the i theatrical Interests of the country | at this time would not only have I been unfair to them but would have : been a hard blow to thousands of peo'ple in moderate circumstances I who find in the theaters and moving [ picture houses their only source of i amusement, especially during the j winter months when outdoor recrea- I tlon is impossible to millions of city j dwellers. This higher tax which Kitchin ad ! vocated would not have been felt | to any degree by the man with a pocketful of money, but it would have barred the doors of amuse ment places to millions Of people whose pay envelopes do not contain the salary of a congressman. Mr. Kitchin never has shown any very great regard for the interests of the common people. His idea has j been that the Democratic adminis- i tration should have all the money it j desires to spend and devil take the j man. or woman who happens to j stand in the way of getting it. For- ' tujiately, Washington is coming out I from under the influence of this form of hypnotism and is begin rftng to look after the giglits of j those who have not so much of the j world's goods as has Mr. Kitchin and | who must therefore make what they | have go a long way. ALWAYS ON THE JOB t THE United States Department of j Agriculture announces that "the ■ really thrifty and Industrious i farmer never lacks for work, even i in January." t / I Very true, but we don't hear the j Department of Labor howling its j head off for an eight-hour day for j the farmer, with pay and a half for { overtime, and double pay for Sun- j days. If patriotism were measured j by hours of service for the promo- j tion of the welfare of the country, j the farmers would stand at the head i of the list. And we haven't seen anyone pin ning medals on tueir breasts, either. BURLESONIZED SERVICE SECOND ASSISTANT POSTMAS TER GENERAL PRAEGER has just informed the Senate Post' Office Committee that "thousands and probably millions" of letters ad dressed to men overseas will -shortly ! arrive in New York and be sent to i the dead letter office. The stirring' remark is also added that an attempt j will be made to return them to the writers. We all realized that the condition of overseas mail was bad, but this confession brands the situation as appallisbg. And the blame is placed at the door of the War Department by Mr. Praeger. This rfeminds us of our boyhood days when we broke the jam jar in the pantry and blamed it on little brother. * Mr. Praeger also testified that the War Department had about fifty ex perienced mail clerks overseas to handle the mail and that the re mainder of the force was made up of inexperienced men. Think of is! Fifty experienced men to handle the millions of letters when the ques tionnaire system of the selective service law gave them ample oppor tunity to obtain all the experienced mail clerks they needed. It is appar ent that the Inefficient methods of handling mail had been well trans planted with our army. v. SHOULD HAVE IT COMMISSIONER WILLIAM H. LYNCH will ask the voters to approve a loan of $50,000 for ;he paving of street intersections and in front of churches and other non assessable properties. He should I have the money. Harrisburg's street improveVnents have lagged sadly since the exhaustion of the last loan. We are growing as a city and street paving must keep pace. We have a very good system In Hsrrlsburg. The property owner pays —ln ten yearly instalments if he desires that length of time —for the number of square yards In front of his land to the middle of the street; the trolley company for the spacei between its tracks and fourteen lnchea on either side, and the city' for the inter-sections and In front of churches and non-assessable prop erties. Each bears his share and the system Is ag nearly equitable as it Is possible to devise. But Its success depends upon the willingness of the taxpayers to provtdo for the city's portion of the work through a loan. Judging from paat experience Mr. Lynch will have little difficulty In convtgSfig voters of the wisdom of sotted- Civ 'piiuv^fccaiua By the Ex-Committeeman Officers of the Pennyslvania Leg islature have received letters from William Howard Tafl, president of the League to Enforce Peace, ask ing that the Senate and House ap point delegates to attend the session of the Atlantic Congress for a league -of nations at New York on Febru ary 5 and 6. A similar letter has been sent to Governor Sproul asking that he also bring the matter to the attention of the stato governmental officials. The letter will probably be read when the Legislature meets on Mon day night and appropriate action will be taken. Both branches of the Legislature j will receive reports of the commlt | tees In charge of filling the clerk , ships and other places within the ! gift of the two houses. The "slate" ' committees in charge have been at i work on them for several days. Bills ! will also be received on Monday I night in both Houses and immedi | ately after the session several of the 1 committees will organize for the j session's work. I Governor Sproul and most of the ! state officials are in New York for the Pennsylvania Society dinner and • will return here Monday. | —The Stato Defense Commission, ,of which the new Governor and Lieutenant Governor automatically become members, will probably meet on Wednesday to consider the I future activitfes of the State Council ; of National Defence.' The Philadelphia Press says con cerning the bill to repeal the non partisan judicial act: "There is good reason for repealing the non partisan judiciary act. It does not work rationally and it brings about freak results. It has been a disap pointment to its friends. The non partisan ballot would be an ideal way of eelcting judges, if the great body of voters possessed an intelli gent and discriminating understand ing of the qualifications of candi dates for judicial positions, if they felt sufficient interest in the election of Judges to vote for them and if they were not obsessed by a stupid preference for voting for the first man alphabetically on tlie list. But our voters are not at present built that way. Only a portion of them will vote for the judges and most of them vote blindly without having any real choice but with a fixed ten dency to concentrate on the first name alphabetically on the ticket. The convention plan did better than that. Even a party label on a Ju dicial candidate following the di rect primary plan of nomination would be some guide. It would at least prevent the election of an an archist to the bencii, whereas under the non-partisan plan if his name begins with "A" and he is sufficient ly obscure he would have some chance of getting in." —Governor Sproul before leaving Philadelphia for New York yester day afternoon let it be known that he proposes to give careful consid eration to the recommendations of the State Board of Charities in the matter of appropriations to be made to hospitals, homes and other insti tutions maintained in whole or in part by the Commonwealth and that all charitable institutions will have their requests for appropriations gauged by the number of free treat ments they give to the poor and needy of their respective localities. There will be no political or other influence that will be potential at the Executive Mansion in swerving the Governor from approving or curtail ing the appropriations made by the Legislature under any other policy. —The Governor and Judge Isaac Johnson, who is the dominating member of the State Board of Char ities. will, it would appear, work in harmony in all appropriation mat ters. ,It was at Governor Sprout's suggestion that Judge Johnson and his colleagues on the board made an investigation of the needs of the various institutions which receive state aid and he has Seen advised from time to time regarding the progress of this work. i—''There is reason to believe that Governor Sproul will not reappoint William -H. Ball, who was private secretary to Governor Brumbaugh, and was among the last hour 'ap pointees of the late administration to membership on the Board of Charities," says the Philadelphia Inquirer. "A number of similar ap pointments made by Brumbaugh to membership on boards of trustees to charitable institutions of the state, many of them for purely political purposes, will not receive the of ficial sanction of this administra tion." —There were 191 names with drawn from the Senate in the list of recess appointments of Governor Brumbaugh, all of which will be held by Governor Sproul until he shall have an opportunity to pass upon each case. * —"The Public Service Commis sion presents an interesting situa tion," adds the Inquirer. "There are a number of suggestions which the Governor has under consideration regarding this body. "One of these is a proposition for the introduction of a bill re pealing the present Public Service Commission and for an enactment which will reduce.the number of the members of the commission to five j and give to Governor Sproul power to make new appointments to these places, the terms ,of all of the pres ent commissioners expiring with the signing by the Executive of the pro posed new act. "There will, however, be much discussion of this phase of the situa tion before final action shall he taken, by either the executive or the members of the General Assembly. "Governor Sproul and members of the Cabinet and expected to at tend the annual dinner this evening of the Pennsylvania Society of New York." In Hospital Hushed and happy whiteness. Miles on miles of cots. The glad, contented brightness Where sunlight falls in spots Sisters, swift and saintly, Seem to tread on grass; Like flowers stirring faintly, Heads turn to watch them pass, Beaut}-, blood and sorrow. Blending In a trance— Eternity's tomorrow In this halfway house of Prance Sounds of whispered talking. Labored, Indrawn breath: Then, like a young girl walking, I The dear AmHlar death. —Lieut. Conltfgsby Dawson. "Glory HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH SOMEBODY IS ALWAYS TAKING THE JOY OUT OF UFE .;. . : . ... ... . TETI, HIIVI / JOSR MADE A 02 ?!.1 TH,R D R MV SCORE I KrOOVA/fHS ( fffeTTy' <SOOD POR j I " / /-' 4fit WJONT EEUEVE T V AMD \ A BEOMNCR CM? / * \ TMA T*S BOGEY ; IVC OMLV BEersl PLAYIroG\ \ • KiOOUJ J F-AKJO OH BABY!,A\ /TMF HOLES ARE^X R„ CM T.l€ / (-TM. TWELFTH / , Y " BUT- X° U I SFvjeKJTM. / \ c '{ W VAJIAJT<® V ( HCAU.Y MAUt A PAC- Y \ -AA/OTHTR PAR /I R<)J „ MOW _ A v —■ \ / v .\ I KAJEVA/ \ TwfßjG CoM^ioeseo Inaugural Sags Something From' the Public Ledger.) Pennsylvania will forgive Gover nor Sproul for the long length of his inaugural address, because of the sound common sense and the spirit of sincerity that characterize it. It is a document drafted for oral de livery, but if ought to be read with careful attention by every thought ful citizen. For avoiding the plati tudes usual to such addresses, the new Governor discusses with busi ness like directness the great prob lems and issues confronting the Commonwealth and its legislatorp, gives his own impressions concern ing the right solutions and leaves the decision of the many open ques tions where they properly belong— with the representatives of the peo ple. It does not follow that because the Governor's first official utterance will be received with widespread ap proval by the people of the state that his conclusions will invariably find agreement. But they are the judgments of a man of wide experi ence, and they carry the convictions that they are honestly arrived at, not put forward to serve opportun ist ends or to please this or that group or faction. The message sets forth the Governor's view of exist ing political, economic and social conditions in Pennsylvania; it voices his warning to the Legislature of the danger that will follow a failure on its part to rise to its opportunities for enlightened service, and it indi cates the which, in his opinion as a bumness man, the right path of. constructive progress will be found. For example, Governor -Sproul Is Justly concerned over tlie spread of Bolshevism, using: the term to in clude all forms of half-baked. jg norant and destructive agitation for the breaking down of the existing social structure. But he wisely re frains from assuming that all is for the best In this best of all possible worlds, while retaining his faith in the soundness at the heart of Amer ican democracy. These words of his are worth remembering: "The antidote for this social In fection, as we shall apply it in Pennsylvania, is good public ad ministration, the best of popular education, generous, progressive, hu mane laws and thorough justice, backed by an Rlert, forceful and God-fearing public sentiment." If the new Governor shall be able to Impress these principles, this broad and statesmanlike view, upon the four years of his administration, he will have justified the high hopes that inspired the great popular dem onstration which attended his induc tion into office in Harrisburg yester day. Not Entangling For this nation to join in a world wide movement to put an end to organized murder and robbery could hardly be considered an "entangling alliance." —From the Rochester Her ald. Remember Hoover's Remark? The German people seem to be obsessed with the Idea that the war's closing ceremonies include a ban quet for them.—From The El Paso Times. LABOR NOTES Every Finn who is a coal miner is a member of the United Mine Workers of America. Tliey also play ed an important part in organizing the textile industry in New En gland. ; The Norwegian Social Department is preparing proposals on the ques tion of participation by workmen in the administration and profits of and industrial under-' takings. In Bridgeport. Conn., every fe male- employe 18 yeays of pge or over receives 32 cents an hour, and In all cases where women do the same work as men their pay is the same. , . Three munition firms In Leicester. Ilkeston and Nottingham and three at Ixiughborough, England, are tak ing up the manufacture of hosiery needles imported from Germany be fore the war. The second industry of importance in Costa Rica is that of gold and silver mining on the Pacific slope. The mines vary ip size and give di rect employment to approximately The Hun's Regress NOW that the cycle of William the Damned is practically complete, it is fitting to re view his various expressions of the spirit in which he undertook the conquest of the world. Byway of prologue, let us recall his personal instructions to his soldiers in 1900, on their departure for China: "If you meet the enemy, give no quarter, take no prisoners; let who ever falls into your hands be doomed. Just as a thousand years ago the Huns under King made for themselves a name which to this day is a mighty one in tradition, so may your appearance make the name German to be feared for a thousand years." In the first year of the great war, 1914, this was his word to his sol diers, instinct with the spirit of four teen years before; "Before the leaves fall from the trees we shall be back' again in the dear Fatherland. Exterminate first the treacherous English and walk over General French's contemptible little army. Tou, my troops, are my guarantees that I can dictate peace to my enemies. To the dust with all the enemies of Germany!" The second chapter, in 1915, main tained the same tone: "America had better look out after the war. I shall stand no nonsense from the Americans * * • In a just cause I am ready to force myself to be cruel. • • * The war drama is now coming to its close. The third chapter came in 1916: "Fear will creep into the bones of the enemy. * • • Germany is invincible in spite of the superior numbers of our enemies, and every day confirms this anew. Germany knows her strength and she relies on God's help. • • * The foe has prepared his soup, and now he must sup it." In, 1917 the fourth chapter wds WAR COSTS OF LIVING fFrom the New York World.] I The statement of the National In [ dustrial Conference Board that the cost of living for representative I working men's families increased ! from 65 to 70 per cent, between July j 1914, and November, 1918, does not | tell the whole story without refer ; ence to the previous trend of prices. From 1910 to July, 1914, accord | ing to the Statistical Abstract, there j had been little change in wholesale j prices of the commodities making up the average cost of living, but reck oning from 1897 the rise had al ready mounted to alipost 50 per cent.; broadly, there were a dozen lor more years prior to 1907 when ; the cost of living was never more j than half the present rate. The Conference. Board recognizes ! that family budgets differ. The usual j reckoning is that fodW is 43 per cent, of the total; shelter, 18; clothing, ,1-8; fuel and light, 6; sundries, 20. Of these costs, food and clothing have risen most sharply. The world has seen mariy startling changes in a dozen years; perhaps noiife more profoundly affects the life of the people than the fact that the housewife only a few years married finds the necessary supplies of her j family more than doublet} In cost, | and Its ihcidental expenditures risen possibly 50 per cent. The Doughboy Speaks France, Camping in the rain; Hiking in a frozen trance Down some German plain; "Fall Jn!" —hear the sergCftnt yell, Far"from home and clover; Tell me, who the bally hell Said the war "was over?" Chow for breakfast —slum for noon— Who says men are free While the bugler's foolish tune Pipes the reveille? "Right dress!"—hear the Sergeant buzs From Maine across to Dover; Tell me who the hell it wuz . ' Said the war "was over?" , \ Cleaning up a mass of wire. Stained with clotted blood, Inhere the big trucks bog artd mire In the winter mud; Full of filth and fleas and fucz. Cannoneer and drover. Tell me who the fat-head wuz Said the war "was over?" —Lieut. Grantland Third no less vaingloriously confident and truculent: "We must bring peace by batter ing in with iron list and shining sword the doors of those who will not have peace. If only we cast the burden o'n the Lord, He will smite the foe hip and thigh, as he did Amalek, the prototype of perfidious England. Our U-boats are not going to rest until with God's help the enemy is beaten. The year has proved that the German people has in the Lord of creation above an un conditional and avowed ally on whom it can absolutely rely." . Even as lato as the middle of 1918 he did not hesitate to say in his fifth and final chapter: "Gott the Lord has laid a heavy burden on My shoulders, but I can carry it in the consciousness of our good right, with confidence in our sharp sword and our strength." But a little later he was- con strained to paraphrase and amplify the epigram about "leaving his coun try for his country's good" with characteristic elaboration of hypoc risy and falsehood: "To avoid difficulties and to put an end to the mourning and suffering of my people, I renounce the-throne and leave n>y faithful subjects free to choose a government which seems to them most compatible with honor and to their interest." Byway of epilogue, let us add the words spoken in prophecy a cen tury ago by another 'German im measurably greater and wiser than any Hohenzollern. Said Goethe: "Maledictions on him wiio, a Ger man, led on by treacherous advice, In a fury of pride, would wish to repeat the dream of the French Corsican. Sooner or later he will per ceive an immutable law reigns, and that in spite of his power and his vigorous exertions, nothing will come of his attempt but his own dis aster and the ruin of his people." Res finite est! —N. A. Review's Weekly. Trouble For Mr. Burleson (From the New Tork World.) Postmaster General Burleson is having trouble in applying standard ized telephone rates over the whole country. Nearly a dozen states have moved to enjoin these decrees from Washington, and tho immediate con sequences is a condition of rates as remote as possible from uniformity. The telephone service everywhere is very largely of a local character. Its toll charges have been less a matter of complaiht than the qual ity of its local service. It is neces sary relations to the war activities of the Government are slighter than those of the telegraph and hardly to be mentioned In comparison with the railroads. But while localities and States would cheerfully have yielded telephone control of the Federal Government ■ under war conditions, and In all obedience to that Govern ment's supreme war pewers, what Is more natural than that they should resent a war assumption of such control only after the war emergen cy has passed* Perhaps the country may some time or may now be ready to let Its telephone services pass over to the Post office Department to be Admin istered as a permanent policy by 'the local post offices. But there will bo serious trouble in trying to effect so radical a change by an exerplse of autocratic power in the name of a supreme public emergency which no longer exists. ODD COMMUTING (From the Bbston Transcript.) One of our doughboys in France was-talking with a poilu. The lat ter said that ever since the war bo gan he had been stationed in a sec tor near where he lived, and he had managed to get home once or twice a week rtght along. Perhaps be cause his own h6mo was so far away, this strtifk the doughboy odd ly. "Hey. Bill" he shouted to a com rade, "herA a guy who commutes to the war." A Week With Colonel House Colonel House: Down on Mon day, worse on Tuesday, same on Wednesday, "tolerable'/ Thursday, up on Friday, dead on Saturday, better on Sunday. The Colonel ain't IVTJ Solomon— Gundy.— From the JANUARY 25, 1919. To One Wearing a Gold Star [From the Now York Times.] What can I say to you? I hide my joy As thouKh it were a crime; I would not be So cruel as to flash the Jewel-light Of this my rapture on the saddened sight Of your poor, tear-dimmed eyes. To me, Peace means Blissful renewal of a love that lives, Made dearer, stronger, by the mem ories Of absence, and by faith now justi fied; , , But you! To you it means —a Golden Star.; Eternal silence of the well-loved voice: A shadow Presence hovering In the home That once was his and yours, to break your heart With longing, and to salt your bread with tears. What can X say to you? There Is no way For Rapture to communicate with Grief I Have —and you Have Not; and that is all! How can you bear the tumu't and acclaim When comes the Great Gray Ships from overseas Bringing his comrades to their wait ing homes? Has Heaven any solace for your soul? And yet, O wearer of the Golden Star, Mayhap you have a peace I do not know; , For you the worst is over; grief and pain Can never never touch you any more; •You have been made immune to misery; For you the Future is no dimly, veiled ' Dark Sibyl, who niay proffer you the Cup / Of trembling—you Ijave drained the chalice now; You know the 'calm that goes with certitude. While I am Wary in my happiness, And every hope is guarded, by a fear! We are not, then, so alien as I dreamed; My passionate sympathy hah made me wtsel , And you and I may meet on com mon ground— You have sour Past; my,- Future waits for-me! • - FLORENCE VAN CLEVE. The Dublin Declaration (From ths>..Jv>w York Tribune.) It was an tlttcrly Celtic proceed ing that took place in Dublin yes terday. A new Declaration of Inde pendence was promulgated In a language meant tcf influence the peace conference sitting at Paris to do an impossible thing., The gallant hopes of how many martyrs spoke from the grave! And Eng land silt by, silently ignoring this most ideal and least real of all rev olutions. • •> It is a wholly practical fgct that In the last analysts makes the Irish appeal to the Worhl and to Paris hopeless. (Even if England were willing to lay the Irish problem -up on the peace table the nations could not possibly accept the burden. The problems lrfevltably Involved in the war are more than enough, without undertaking any outside ventures, like Ireland; „ ' If the peace reaches out beyond the war Issues where can it end? If Ireland may be heard at' rat-is why not Porto Rico, why not the Philip pines. why not Milwaukee? Every boundary line in the world would cry for resettlement; every commun-' ity out of Joint with the tlpies could look for international aid. Ameri cans are again thrilfefl by "the cour age and idealism that are Ireland'* Indestructible spirit. They must again regret its hopeless clash with the realities of. a world emerging from the valley of destruction. Works Both Ways What a lot 'of.our people do not see is that- when private capital is restricted from entering private en terprises. the liberty of labor to choose where It will be employed is restricted even ti^orc. — From the Keokuk Dally Gate Cily. Sweet Belts Jangled The Bulgarians stole many valu ables, including pianos, from rich Greeks in the Rumanian, port of Constanza. This wIU lead to fur therdiscord in the Balkans. —From -'lorontd-Globe,. lumtf ttg (Eljat If any one wants to know wheth< the I'enn-Hurrls is meeting the nccei sities of the occasion in regard 1 hotel accommodations all he needs 1 do is to tuke a glance at the registe Of course, this week has been ur usual because of the rush of peopi for the inaugural ceremonies whle filled the new establishment to tt roof, as it did other places In Hai risburg and even in nearby town But the fact is that on ordinary the hotel register has been runnin five, six and seven pages, all close written and on both sides. There ai probably many people on the list wl have been going to other 1 towns f< accommodations and only visitlr Harrlsburg, but who have now ai patently determined to make the center in this city. For years the have been travelling men "makini this city Who have said things aboi the hotel situation and after tran acting their business here have goi to other cities, Lancaster, Chamber) burg, York, Reading and elsewhe to stop. Now they seem to bo cor lng to Harrlsburg. Similarly, tl new hotel has done a good bit t ward getting rid of the reputatlr I of a "three-day town" which clut about the city. That means that does a roaring hotel business < three days of a week and a ve much reduced amount the rest. T! people stopping at the Penn-llart Saturday and Sunday have shov pretty conclusively that a good hot does not need to he shy of gues on week-ends. Naturally, there a many people stopping at the n hotel who are trying It out. Sot of them are patrons of other hot< here who have decided to have little temporary change, while othe have come to see the new hpt Many travelling men like to drop and try a new hotel eveh if it do take them slightly out of the ws In any event, say observers, the Pen Harris Is filling the place in llarrl burg hotel life Just as well as t building fills the old Opera Hou corner. The article in tills column lfH night on the welcomes given to tH soldiers returning from the War H 1812 and the Mexican war, whiH were taken from old newspapers H those days, was the cause of an tH cellent suggestion from one lot tH older residents of the city todiH "Now, when we are about to sembie the names of the DauptH countians who were in tho great u'H why can net we get together tH names of the men who figured in tH other wars from this suction, ThH could be put Into one big blmH available to the public, which cotH be placed in the court house," he. This idea of a Dauphin Roll of Honor Is a most InterestiH one and could bo made up easily, Bv Lancaster are preserved tho of the men from this section figured in the French and war and the War for IndependenH Ti'e histories of Harrlsburg al Dauphin county give the names H the Revolutionary soldiers ttiltH from official records at the while the State archives will furnH the name* of the men from DauplH county In the War bf 1812, The MeH can and Civil wars, as well as Spanish war. The only trouble, tiH be to get the names of the and sailors, but Washington can stH ply those* with some little effort ■ the right direction. • J* i ' • • 0 There are many interesting stoiH of the return of regiments in ■ sixties, especially those who caH to Harrlsburg after the great ■ view in Washington. Most of thH had gone out from Camp Curtin came back to Harrlsburg for, mH ter out. Each one had some feature and the files of the burg Telegraph give many ing accounts. Similarly, the graflh tells entertainingly of return of the infantry and tho Governor's Troop from ish war service. Company I from Porto Rico and the trpop the island in the fall of 1898. pany D, which was In several came homo (he following Those days were a score of almost, but to thoso who saV B1 demonstrations they were as yest^B day. ipl • • • ag Men were arrested in Pennsylvania's big hunting for almost every offense the game laws according to a ment Issued by tho State Game mission in its monthly bulletin H| prosecutions. The charges range the way from hunting with a gun to shooting song birds. every county in the State is in the list even Philadelphia ing arrest of a man shooting and a man hunting without a displayed. The bulk of the were of aliens for owning guns dogs, in both of which Instanced ■ ' law In Pennsylvania Is pretty Hunting without licenses and v\ BB out displaying licenses when manded by an officer got a numbrH men Into trouble, while in AlleghH four arrests for hunting on were made. Killing pheasants, bits and raccoons out of training dogs on Sundays. three ferrets, taking wild birds, ing a golden eagle. Illegal deer B. doe killing, killing ruffed grouse HS also on Sunday mimicking the B of wild turkeys, illegal quail. Illegal taking of rabbits, Ing and selling rabbits, meadow larks. Illegal ruffed grouse; Illegal bear ljunting with ferrets; huntingH closed seaspns and Interfering officers were some of the charged. In addition game tors caused a score of arrests of JK- In Erie county for spearing flsh. day hunting got men fined in a doxen counties. , I Lieut. Gov. Beidleman I (From the Scranton Republicans Lieutenant-Governor Edward H Beidleman, on taking office at ; rlsburg yesterday, declared in of fewer and better lawe for syivania. Mr, Beldelman his duties, as president of the the valuable experience years of service as a member of H body, and a thorough with the practical work of tion. Efforts Needed at Hom^M It is said that the Germane H rule Turkey. It looke as If' H-y ■ will have to get help in ruling H many.—From the Louisville ConH Journal. Pen Unhampered bg Fatfl The historians who will this war will have to connect B the romance writers if a picture ie to be given. It te yond the resources of mere dry H —From thr amartore iffcex—
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