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THURSDAY EVENING, APRIL 9
HARRISBURG'S FIREMEN
IN the inelegant but expressive lan
guage of the street, "you've got to
hand it" to the Harrlsburg Fire
Department.
Seldom have firemen been called
upon to fight flames under more ad
verse conditions than in the case of
the old State Printery blaze last night.
Between high buildings, in narrow,
smoke-filled streets, and facing a
sharp breeze, they confined the fire
to the building in which it started —
and that was all any tire department
could have accomplished under the
circumstances. The wonder is that
they did so well. They scarcely could
have been blamed if tlie fire had swept
over and destroyed some of the ad
jacent property. That it did not is
due wholly to the splendid work of
the volunteers who manned the en
gines and the hose lines.
So long as fire-fighting is as well
done as it was last night, Harrlsburg is
not in serious need of a paid depart
ment, in the sense that the volunteers
arc not capable of coping with the
situation, but. it is not fair to ask men
to rlslt health and life without pay
to save property in which they have
no financial interest, no matter how
willing they are to give their services.
The death of William H. Harris Is
an example of this. Harris was a fine
type of the volunteer fireman. Reck
less of self, he rushed to the fire last
night and gave up his life for the
work. The point we wish to make is
this —that the city has reached a point
where it ought not to ask men to
take the risk Harris ran unless they
are paid and their services come with
in their regular lines of daily occupa
tion.
So far as actual efficiency is con
cerned we doubt if there is a better
volunteer department in the country.
Certainly none could have done more
than the I-larrisburg firemen did last
night. v
PROPERLY NAMED
THE Harrlsburg School Board has
done well in deciding to name
ihe new Allison Hill school-
for the late Dr. L. S.
Shimmefv The a. * school will be a
model of mod<\* construction. It
will be a worthy monument to a man
who represented the very highest typo
of instructor and scholar. The per
petuation of such names as Foose,
Day and Shimmell in the history of the
city by associating them with the
school system Which they did so much
to develop, is a proper recognition of
work Avell done and service well ren
dered,
THE NEW RULES
THE Philadelphia Inquirer, in an
editorial on the new rules of the
Republican party, promulgated
yesterday, and which beyond
question will be adopted by the party
organizations of all the States, points
out that the one hope of those Pro
gressives who want to see Colonel
Roosevelt re-elected to the presidency
is tc return at once to the Republican
party.
The Progressive party was formed
by Roosevelt and has depended upon
his personality for Its existence. It
has been demonstrated conclusively
that the third party can never be more
than an aid to Democracy and that It
is becoming weaker with each cam
paign
The point the Inquirer makes is this
—that the new rules of the Repub
lican party grant every one of the
changes for which Roosevelt and his
friends contended in the Chicago con
vention. With the new regulations in
force it will be impossible to have the
national committee play the dominant
part it did when Colonel Roosevelt
used his road-roller methods to nomi
nate Taft in 1908 or four years later
when Roosevelt himself complained so
bitterly against those very same
methods.
There will be no possibility of ques
tioning the next Republican nomi
nation. It will be made by the rank
and file of the party without the possi
bility of outside influence. The next
national convention will be no more
than the voice of a majority of the
members of the party speaking their
minds as to the best man for the
jwesldency. Republican voters will
THURSDAY EVENING, HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH APRIL 9, 1914.
elect anil Instruct their delegates In
accordance with the primary laws of
the several* States and no delegate will
be seated in the national convention
who does not bear the credentials of a
regularlyconstltutpd ofllc&s-of the law
In his home district.
Thus it will be seen that there can
be no interference by the national
committee or anybody else. There will
be no possibility of contests. The voice
of the voter will be the voice of the
convention. .
If. therefore, the Progressives, who
arc for the most part merely Roose
velt Republicans, are earnestly and
honestly desirous of submitting Colonel
Roosevelt to the people again in 1916,
they will do the logical thing and
make their fight through the medium
of the Republican party. Of course,
the Pinchots and other opportunists
of the sort will not agree in this,
but they hjive been using Roosevelt
simply as a means of furthering their
own desires for political power and
would desert him as quickly as they
did the Republican party if they
thought they could profit thereby.
They are not the rank and file of the
Progressive party, and their little day
of leadership is well nigh done.
The big thing in. the adoption of the
new Republican rules is that the Re- I
publican party has removed the last
bar to the return of those who bolted
in 1912. There can be no possible
further excuse for a Progressive party.
COSTLY METHODS
IF one thing above another has been
demonstrated during the present
campaign leading up to the pri
maries In May it is that our meth
ods of submitting the candidacies of
voters to the people are extremely
expensive.
Under the uniform primary law, un
less a man has no opposition for the
lomination he seeks, it is almost im
possible for him to make the run
without the expenditure of thousands
of dollars. Just how to overcome this
condition is not very apparent, but
certainly some means of removing the
handicap against which the man of
comparatively small means labors
ought to be found. It ought not to be,
after all our labors in the interest of
fair election laws, that nominations
should go to the candidates with the
largest bankrolls.
MEMBER OE THE "GANG '
RANK G. HOHL, the former
FHarrisburg lad who yesterday
confessed to the robbery of an
Altoona bank, waa once a mem
met - of the notorious "Tin Can Aiie.i
Gang" that drove the police to desper
ation by their petty crimes in the
upper part of this city some years
ago. Nearly every member of thai
"gang" has developed into a bad man.
One of .nem was killed by a police
man and several others are either in
jail or the penitentiary.
Hohl's crime was only a little
bolder, only a little more desperate
than those of his fellows, but it was
the spirit of the old "gang" that drove
bitn to it. It was the things he learn
ed iri "Tin Can Alley" that formed
the foundation for the career of crime
that has brought htm to a felon's
In there, were no public
playgrounds' Worthy of mention in
Harrisburg. The boys of the "Tin
Can Alley" district congregated there
because they had no other place in
which to meet. They did not choose
it of themselves. It was forced upon
them. And surely such a place as
"Tin Can Alley" is not, to say the
least, conducive to the development
of good boys. The "gang" was the
result of the bad environment the
community forced upon Hohl and his
little companions and to that extent
the community is responsible for the
failure of Hohl and the others of the
"gang" to make good in after life.
Intolerance of youth by persons no
longer young and who cannot remem
ber that they ever were young is re
sponsible for the "gang" boys, accord
ing to E. M. Barrows, special investi
gator for the People's Institute of New
York, who spent seven years In New
York's "Hell's Kitchen" studying how
criminals are made. And what is true
in New York is true in Harrlsburg,
Possibly Hohl was inately bad. Pos
sibly he would not have made a good
citizen even with the, utmost care
and the best of surroundings. But at
least we owed him a chance—and we
didn't give it to him.
That is the reason why the Tele
graph is so earnest in its advocacy of
public playgrounds and many of them.
The more playgrounds we have, the
more social centers the city supports,
the fewer will bo the opportunities for
our boys going astray. Wholesome sur
roundings keep a good boy good and
often make a good boy out of a very
had boy, for in nine cases out of ten
a lad Will live down even the evil ten
ancies of inherited traits if he Is
?lven a chance and shown conclusive
ly that it pays to be goocj,
SAUCE FOR TITE GOOSE
Fan enlisted man of the United
(States Navy were caught with a
bottle of wine hidden away in his
locker he would he punished. But
for years and years the officers In
command of the rank and file have
been privileged to take their "nip"
when they so desired, and some of
them took more than a "nip."
What is sauce for the goose is sauce
for the gander, and it Is difficult to
see why a privilege that Is regarded
as harmful to the men should be per
mitted the officers. Secretary Daniels
has scored a point for temperance in
his order forbidding the use of intoxi
cants aboard vessels of the navy, but
he has done more than that. He has
added to the general efficiency of the
service after the mahner that large
Industrial corporations have found it
necessary to do—by the elimination
of alcohol.
No man even only partially under
the Influence or drink lias any busi
ness trifling with such a valuable piece
of apparatus as a war vessel, heavily
freighted g.e it is with human life.
EVENING CHAT
Father Petin will celebrate the sec
ond of the arbor days proclaimed for
this Spring by Governor John K.
Tener by planting about fifty trees.
These trees will probably be set out on
the 24th of this month and the stakes
are now being driven by a corps of
State College men who have come
here for the purpose. Native Penn
sylvania trees, to be selected by Pro
fessor Charles Colwell, of State Col
lege, will be planted and it is likely
that an occasion will be made of it
and that Governor Tener may be in
vited to plant a tree near the south
wing of the State House. Superin
tendent Samuel B. Kambo has been
having professors and students of
Stqte College handle the horticultural
work in Capitol Park tnis year instead
of hiring "tree doctors," the services
being given by the college free in re
turn for the appropriations made by
the Legislature. Ail of the "surgery"
now in progress on the older trees in
tnc park Is being done by students
under the direction of George H.
Johnson a senior in the horticultural
work of the college, and the selection
ol' the places for the new trees has
been made by Professor Colwell. Trie
tree planting this year will be the
most extensive ever undertaken at the
Capitol and the trees will be specially
chosen because of conditions.
One man who did not ask for a
special number in the issuance of
automobile licenses has secured a tag
which is out of the ordinary. There
have been about 400 applications for
special numbers, freak numbers, num
bers corresponding to post office boxes,
nouse numbers and the like, but this
number just went, naturally. It was
received by R. W. McFarland, Park
ivenue and Jefferson street, Philadel
phia. It is No. 41144.
Harrisburg boys have gotten a bad
ittack of stiltitis since Wflvert started
to walk across the continent with the
Harrlsburg Telegraph sign on his back
ind there is hardly a section of the
ity in which some young hopeful is
Kit looking upon the passing show
from a greuter height than usual. The
other evening, just about the time
'.oiks were going home to supper,
there were half a dozen boys noticed
within two blocks, all on stilts and all
aaving a lot of fun. Stilt-walklng is
something that appeals to every
i oungster and the boy with a tall pair
s one to be much envied.
The trustees of the Harrisburg
Academy have elected John Boyd, Jr.,
son of the late John Y. Boyd, to suc
ceed him as a member of the board
and in so doing have not only rec
ognized the alumni but the memory ot
one who was deeply interested in the
affairs of the venerable Institution.
Young Mr. Boyd attended the Acad
emy and was for a time an instructor
in the Academy. He was instrumental
n the development of the athletics of
the institution, especially in the forma
tion of the classic division of the
Greeks and the Romans. The board
also selected Edwin S. Herman, one
of the city's best known business men,
as a member of the trustees to suc
ceed the late E. B. Mitchell. Mr. Her
man has been much interested in the
school and has been active in pro
moting its welfare.
Miss Josephine Rathbone, who is in
charge of the noted library instruction
class of the Pratt Institute In Brook
lyn, has written a very complimentary
letter to Miss Alice R. Eaton, librarian
of the Harrisburg Public Library, ex
pressing thanks of the class for the
courtesies extended on the recent visit
of inspection and praising the beauty,
appointments and system of the
library.
People who ride on the Hummels
town and shorter division cars which
traverse Derry street have taken to
paying an extra nickel instead of hav
ing,.to wait. Owing to the reconstruc
ion work on the Derry street tracks,
he cars have to run single track be
' ween Thirteenth and Nineteenth and
oftentimes there are waits until the
line is clear. The other evening some
one spied a Nineteenth street car
'eading into Berryliill street with very
few people it. In a minute two
men were off'the delayed cars and
heading for the Berryhill street line.
They got to the Square five minutes
ahead of the those who did not spend
the extra nickel.
The_ stops along the Derry street
ine of the traction company because
of the rebuilding- of part of the double
track east of Thirteenth street have
been the occasion of a good bit of
growling, but there Is a lot of fun to
be had In observing. Saturday night
:ne car lingered and lingered long,
awaiting the coming of a car to let
it go In on the single track. Suddenly
there was rapping at the door and
when the conductor opened a childish
voice asked "Got change for a five?"
The lad came from a store which had
run short on change and the con
luetor who had been reaping a har
vest of one dollar bills made the
exchange. Then the overcrowded car
became hot and a window was opened
to furnish ventilation in addition to
the ventilators. Immediately there
was a protest about "drafts." And
while the car was waiting a lady of
mature years and much weight got on
the car with two market baskets.
1 WELL KNOWN PEOPLE 1
—Warren A. Wilbur, South Beth
lehem banker, is interested In a big
coke plant being erected near Buffalo.
—Jacob Rlis, the New York jour
nalist and reformer, has given up
smoking, to which he had been de
voted from the days when he worked
at a furnace in Clarion county.
—Wallace Rowe, head of the Pitts
burgh Steel Company, has formed a
new selling corporation to handle for
eign business. '
—Henry Budd was assistant city
solicitor in Philadelphia for a time.
—James M. Laird, the veteran
editor of Greensburg, will be a candi
date for Congress.
—Dr. Dunlap J. McAdam has com
pleted forty-two years' service as a
professor at Washington and Jefferson.
—Judge James H. Reed has been
elected president of the Pittsburgh
Bessemer and T.ake Erie Railroad.
EASTKH NAZARETH
Little town of Nazareth
On the hillsides Galilean,
Oh, your name is like a poean
Rising over dole and death!
I can see your domes and towers
Dazzle underneath the noon,
An ' your drowsy poppy-flowers
In the breezes sway and swoon.
I ran see your olives quiver
With their sheen.
Like the ripples of a river
Gliding grassy banks between.
I can see your graceful daughters
Poise their slim-necked drlnking-jars,
With their hair like twilight waters,
And their eyes like Syrian stars.
I can see your narrow byways
Where the folk go sandal-shod—
All your dip' bazars and highways,
Every path that once He trod.
And I know that waking, sleeping,
Until timo has ceased to be,
You will hold fast in your keeping
His beloved memiory!
Littie town of Nazareth
On the hillsides Galilean,
Oh. your name Is like a p'oean
Rising over dole and death!"
—Clinton Scollard in April Llppln-
Cott's.
LEGISUME IS ,
(OIL OF PARTIES
Five Sets of Candidates Likely
in Dauphin's Two
Districts
j
MEYERS TO MAKE SPEECHES
Will Go About With Ryan and
Budd; Meeting Probable on
•the Eighteenth
Dauphin county's four seats in the
lo er house of the State Legislature
are attracting much attention these
days and the chances are that there
will be five sets of candidates. The
presentation of the name of John C.
Nissley as a candidate for the Re
publication nomination in the Second
district has enthused Republicans as
he is very strong all over the county,
especially in the lower end. Several
names are mentioned in the upper end.
The Democrats are having troubles
of tl\eir own as opposition to Doc
Shaftner, the Enhaut poor board phy
sician, is expected. The doctor has
started an automobile canvass and it
is said the going has not been good.
In the upper end Pat Craven persists
in refusing to get out of the way of
Sassaman.
Bull Moosers last night decided to
name two legislative candidates in the
city, the county nominations being con
ceded to Martin and Lenker. The So
cialists will have a full ticket, Edward
L. Rowe, Lykens, having filed al
ready.
William K. Meyers, candidate for the
Democratic nomination for congress
at large, will take the stump next
week and be with
Michael J. Ryan
when he goes into Meyers will
Clearfield county, make speeches
according to state- with Ryan
ments made last
night. Mr. Ryan
will speak Monday
in Philadelphia and Delaware coun
ties and Thursday will be in Clear
field and Center counties, coming here
on Saturday, according to present
plans. Henry Budd. candidate for
senator; John E. Jenkins, candidate
for lieutenant governor; Senator
Richard V. Farley, who appears to
be somewhat of an annoyance to cer
tain candidates these days, and Mr.
Meyers. The Palmer party will all
be here Monday for the Jefferson day
dinner and will make a valiant effort
to turn the tide with Secretaries Dan
iels and Wilson.
Cumberland county Democrats are
considerably disturbed over the fac
tional warfare which is disrupting the
party in the state and
are afraid of a reflec-
Cnniberlund tion in the campaign
Democrats now being waged for
Quarrelling the nominations for the
Legislature. Represen
tatives Barner and
Burnett are finding the path to re
nomination to be very thorny and A.
M. Bowman, of Camp Hill, has been
making things very lively all along
the line. In the other end Dr. Peters,
of Boiling Springs, is taking advantage
of the row to get into the game. It
Is probable that any man advocated
by the bosses vill have trouble. The
Republicans will revise their rules at
a convention next week and at that
ttnw It is probable that legislative
candidates will appear.
Congressman A. Mitchell Palmer's
dare to his rivals for senatorial hon
ors has been received with a good
bit of amusement here be
cause some time ago prop
ositions of that character Anxious
were generally rejected, da's f>r
Palmer's boom for the Palmer
Democratic nomination
was in fine shape around
here until Henry Budd announced his
candidacy and he will have to do
some stepping. It is said that after
the Jefferson day dinner here next
week Palmer will go back to his
district to mend his fences as he
recognizes that he will have, to fight
for liis very political existence at
home. Later on he will go to Phila
delphia to help his friends who .ire
in trouble all along the line because
of the appearance of Budd as a can
didate.
TPOUTICAL SIDELIGHTS"!
—The other day Palmer appealed
for votes to support Wilson and now
he says that the Democratic defeat In
New Jersey should not be interpreted
as a slap at the administration. Oh
very well.
—Ex-Congressman Bon Focht, Jerry
Light and Ex-Marshal Yeager are
having a real nice sociable fight for
the congressional honors.
—Central Democrats say that the
Jefferson dinner will beat that of last
year.
—Harrisburg Republicans are
planning a big club event in May.
—W. M. Bertolet and J. K. Stauf
fer are being talked of for congress
by Berks Republicans.
—A whole day has gone by with
out a speech by C. S. Prizer, the sin
gle taxer who Is running against
Kaufman for the Democratic nomina
tion for congress.
—Pinchot had only fifty men out to
hear him in Dußois.
—The adding machine is an im
portant part of the equipment of the
McCormick campaign party.
—Grover C. Ladner, Palmer can
didate for the state senate, was beaten
in a fight for director of the Demo
cratic club of Philadelphia.
—Palmer says that Budds are apt
to be nipped by spring frosts.
—Dimmick's friends are making a
battle for him in Schuylkill.
—The Young Men's Democratic so
ciety, of Lancaster, died yesterday,
aged thirty-fivf? years. Internal com-1
plications killed It.
—The news of the defeat of the
re-organization candidate for Demo
cratic chairman in Lycoming has not
yet reached Market Square.
A PORTRAIT
Loving the elms Into a rustling cool
ness,
The breezo upon her shining tresses
plays;
Beauty of the noonday in midsummer
fullness
Marshals her musings into olden
ways.
Old hopes, old Joys, old friends, are
in her dreaming,
She whoso gray eyes are still so
finely young;
As if a lake should find in its breast
gleaming
A star at noon; a rose where dew
has clung.
—Samuel McCoy, in March Ainslee's.
AN EVENING THOUGHT
If we confess our sins, he is
faithful and righteous to forgive us
our sins, and to cleanse us from all
unrighteousness.—l John 1:9.
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SIC TRANSIT
Jeuks —You say you sounded the
horn just as the machine struck tlie
man?
Binks —Yes.
Jenks—Was the victim killed instant
ly?
Binks —So instantly that he must
have heard the echo of that horn in the
next world.
HIRRAII! FOB THE VOLUNTEERS
By Wlhk Dinger
That was really a dangerous fire
We had in the city last night,
And as flames leaped from windows
and doorways
It gave nearby dwellers some fright.
But Harrisburg's volunteer firemen,
Just as they have done times before,
fought like demonds and stopod It
from spreading,
They couldn't have done any more.
Once more in the heart of congestion,
Where fire much havoc could work,
They rendered invaluable service,
Not a one from his duty did shirk.
But as I stood watching them fighting
I couldn't help think what a crime
That this city should call on Its people
To risk their lives at such a time.
I think that a paid fire department
Should now by the city be run,
And the volunteers, who long have
be
Relieved with a crown of "Well
Done."
THE PORTS OF PE ICE
Now what care I what woe may be
So long as Dreams remain?
The days of Youth that used to be
In Dreams come back again.
The voices that I used to hear
In hours now long gone by
Re-echo through those visions clear
As bird-notes in the sky.
The high hopes of the days of Youth
Now shattered past repair—
A sorry wreck are they, in truth,
All burled deep in care—
In Dreams —ah, they are realized
In measure running o'er,
And I, the failure, the despised,
Hold close to them once more!
And then the Love my heart doth hold
A secret sweet from all!
Ungratifled forever, cold,
Gone ever past recall.
When stars are whispering above
My cot. stark and alone,
I dream, and dreaming find my love
Hath come to be mine own!
Ah, blessed Dreams! God's kindly
gifts
To ease the heart and soul!
Mid clouds of disappointment, rifts
That open to the goal!
Oases they In desert hopes;
Sweet harbors of release
Where for the lost the gateway opes
Into the ports of peace!
—"The Ports of Peace." John Kendrlck
Bangs, in National Magazine for
March, 1914.
WILSON'S MEXICAN POLICY
IFrom the Philadelphia Public Ledger.]
Our relationship to Mexico is rapidly
becoming a scandal, and no one ean
foretell what our superfine dalliance
may cost us In lives and money during
the next three years. The trust 'ues
tion is as chaotic as it his ever been,
and the admin stratlon has given us
nothing but hazy hints of its possible
lines of action. An Indiscretion at this
time may dislocate business and plunge
our Industries Into a long period of de
pression. Our relationship with Japan
in the matter of the treaty Is still pre
carious. Various extensions of govern
mental action, of a socialistic or semi
eoclallstlc type, like the Ahyikan rail
road scheme, may carry us far bevond
the recognized limits of the Constitu
tion. And with the President compelled
to keep peace with Secretary Bryan in
order to nold the Western Congressmen
In line, no one can say what policies
will be forced upon Mr. Wilson.
UKAUttUAHTKR* KOM 1
SHIRTS
, SIDES & SIDES
NEWS DISPATCHES I
OF THE CIV L WAR |
[From the Telegraph of April 9, 1864]
Forrest Trying to Escape
A dispatch from Cincinnati says:
Philadelphia, April B.—Notwith
standing the Rebel Buford's assurance
that he intends to remain permanently
in Kentucky, it is reported that For
rest is maneuvering to get out of tho
State by dividing his forces Into small 1
detachments, and slipping them off by
byways.
Hangs Robbers
Cairo, April 6.—lt Is reported that |
the Rebel General McCrea hung a
number of robbers and murderers who
infested ills neighborhood and robbed
friend and foe alike.
EVERYBODY LOVES CANDIES
Few of the great Industries of this
country have come to the front
through the favor of public demand
as rapidly of late years as the busi
ness ol' making and selling confection
er;.. Few have successfully overcome
s<* much of old prejudice upon the
part of the medical profession, and
| none other among all of the food pur-
I veyors coming under the regulation of
! the general government have gone so
| far In advocating and applying good
j sanitary conditions in workshops and
in avoiding the use of any ingredients
injurious to the human digestion.
Leading physicians all over the
world now generally concede the fact
that the love of sweets is a natural
craving and that in the form of can
dles it presents its most palatable and
attractive guise. Candies which were
formerly regarded by most people as
a luxury are now considered In mil
lions of homes as a highly condensed
form of food and thus a staple com
modity.
Good candies are cheaper now than
ever before. This Is due in some de
gree to the low cost of sugar, but to
a larger extent to the introduction cf
much ingenious machinery and the
manufacture of special varieties upon
a much larger scale than formerly.
The people of the United States use
far more chocolate than those of any
other nation, and it forms a leading
element in a very large percentage of
the candles retailed everywhere. It
will be used to a still greater extent as
the world's supply of cocoa beans be
comes equal to the normal demand.
We will learn, as the French people
have done, to "nibble" chocolates be
tween meals as a sustenant. All fla
vorings and colorings now employed
by American confectioners are used
by authority of the government, whose
pure food and drug experts constantly
analyze samples of candies and forbid
| any introduction of such Ingredients
as are harmful. Tn addition, pure food
laws are now enforced by the State
bureaus In all of the Commonwealths.
The confectionery Industry in the
United States has an annual output
which long since passed the $100,000,-
000 mark. There is nothing else which
so brightens up the home of tho wage
earner as a pound of candies for the
children and grownups of the evening
circle.
"STECKLEY'S"
Let Us Show You the New
Styles While They Are New
Surely, you'il want a new pair of SHOES
FOR EASTER.
BREEZY styles for the young, conserva
tive models tor those who prefer them.
STECKLEY'S,4O4 Broad St
IN HARRISBURG FIFTY
• YEARS AGO TO-DAY
[From the Telegraph of April D, 1864]
Presbytery to Meet
The Presbytery of Harrisburg holds
its semiannual meeting in the borough
of Carlisle on Tuesday next.
Refugees Hero
, During last night,
refugees from the horrors of rebelion,
. comprising twelve men and women,
and the rcmaindor helpless children,
I arrived in this city.
1 BOOKS and
I HI MAGAZMiE^yI
I Young people whose interest in
Mexico lias been stimulated by tin
i'continued disturbances in our nelghboi
: country will find both entertainment
and information in two stories writtel'
I by Nora Archibald Smith and Frances
.Courtenay Baylor and published ft few
I years ago by Houghton Mifflin Com
i pany. . Miss Smith's story, "Under tilt
.'Cactus Flag,' gives the experiences ot
I i an American girl in the State of Sonora
'.a section which is especially prominen
;! at the present time. "Juan am
i.Tuanlta," by Miss Baylor, is the storj
II of a little Mexican boy and girl wh<
[ | are captured by Indians and called ou
[ i of tne country, and of their many ad
i The 77th birthday of John Burrough:
' 1 is marked in his career as a writer b>
.'the third printing of his latest book,
, j "The Summit of the Years."
j Many authors are Idolized in then
• I own country, but few are admlroc
'! equally by home folk and foreigners
> To Kate Douglas Wlggln, however
. falls the good fortune to have acquired
I an English audience almost as lurgf
find enthusiastic as her following lr
'j America. Her new book, "The Story ot
| Waitstili Baxter." although it might b«
l, considered oulte locally American, is
• selling largely in England and calls
i! forth most favorable comments.
ij A DESERT EVENING
Dusk, and the purple shadows glldi
j 1 o'er the desert land,
. Qooling the dust-parched cacti, hiding
r 1 the sun-white sand;
; The scent of the palo verde is sweet oil
the twilight air,
L' And the yucca palms are stirring, slen
i der and frail and fair.
. A weary pack-train, ghost-like, halts
by the water-tank.
I Where the mallow flowers blossom, bole
and (laming and rank.
■ j The brown bees circle the greasewood
-' and a lonely outcast cries,
i i The howl of a lean coyoto raised to the
saffron skies.
, Distant the ragged foot-hills, searei
■ | and scorched by the sun,
' i Walt the caressing darkness, after the
II day is done.
j'And sweet from the pale mesquit trct>|
I j song of a feathered throat.
, Haunting and wild and tender the thrll;
of the- mocking-bird's note.
• j Draw near to my arms, beloved! Out
camp tire Dickers and falls,
II While the great stars lean above us
hero where the rock-owl calls,
i Stretches of shimmering silver, and wo
and the desert moon,
Alone with the scented night-wind and
' the peace of a gray love's croon,
r —Jean Brooke Burt in April Lippln-
I cott's.