6 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH Bitablishtd IS3I PUBLISHED BY THIS TBLBGKAPH PRINTING CO. *. J. STACK POLE, Prea't and Treas'r. V. R. OYSTER, Secretary. CUB M. STEINMKTZ, Managing Editor. Published every evening (except Sun day), at the Telegraph Building, 211 Federal Square. Km tern Office. Fifth Avenue Building, Bew Tork City, Hasbrook, Story & rook*. MTeaUrn Office, 123 West Madison •treet, Chicago, 111.. Allen & Ward. Delivered by carriers at six cents u week. Mailed to subscribers at $3 00 a year in advance. Entered at the Poat Office In Harris burg *8 second class matter. 1 1 /fIV The Association of Amor- ( 1 1 flUljl lean Advertisers has ex- 1 1 «Jv amm ad and certified to 1 1 i the circulation of this pub- 1 1 ! 1 licatioa. The figure* of circulation 1 ! I Contained in the Association's re- 1 I 1 port only are guaranteed. 1 1 Asswiatioi of American Advertisers ;> Ne. 2333 Whltthill Bldg. N. *. City ! fwsrs dally average (or the month ol March, 1914 * 22,470 * A vera are for the year 11)13—21.877 Average (or the year 1912—21.1TS Average (or the year 1911—1H.SB1 Average (or the year 1910—17,496 TELEPHONES! Bell Frlvate Branch Exchange No. 2040. Unite* Business Office, 203. iMitorlal Room 586. Job Dent. 203. MONDAY EVENING. APRIL 13 THE CASE OF BECKER NO good thinking citizen will waste a thought of sympathy on the four New York gunmen who were executed this morn ing for the murder of Herman Rosen thal. They were guilty, unquestion ably, and life would not have been worth living in New York liud they escaped with anything less than the supreme penalty. Murder would have lurked around every corner and paid assassins would havo laughed in the face of justice. But how about Becker—the man higher up? Is the official who in spired the murder to escape? Is it possible that his ill-gotten gains are to provide means for one of those long drawn out court fights of the Thaw type? We not. If the gunmen were guilty—and there was no doubt of that—then Becker, too, is guilty. They were con victed on precisely the same evidence as he. If New York authorities want to preserve proper respect for law and order they will see to it that Becker is brought to early re-trial and vigorous ly prosecuted. The "men higher up" in New York are quite as much in need of a whole some lesson on the folly of disobey ing the law as are the gangsters rep resented by the young men electro cuted to-day. If there is one real danger threatening the republic it is the growing belief that the "man with money" has an advantage in court. We trust that our Democratic visi tors may have a delightful feast to night us the guests of the Central Democratic Club. It will be pleasant to recall the celebration during the next forty years in the wilderness. PKOPLK DEMAND ACCOUNTING PRESIDENT WILSON and his party have come to the point where the people demand a show down, having patiently waited more than a year for the making good of the promises of a Democratic cam paign. After twelve months of abso lute control of the government at ■Washington the people have reason to expect an accounting of the steward ship of Woodrow Wilson. One after another the most solemn pledges have been broken. Thousands of working men who were promised a reduction of the high cost of living are not now ao much concerned about the cost of living as they are over their failure to procure employment to gttt any kind of a living. Tariff tinkering and all kinds of legislative panaceas have been offered instead of'the more practical and common sense features of a gov ernment of the people, by the people and for the people. Everywhere the words of the im mortal Lincoln are heard and work ing-men who never before understood the meaning of the tariff are quoting the martyr President who said "when we buy of a foreign nation, we get the goods, but It gets our money; when we buy of an American maker, the United states keeps both the goods and the money." The civil service system to which President Wilson was pledged has been thrown to tho winds to satisfy tbo demands of a party hungry for spoils; men of experience have been dismissed from responsible positions to make room for those who aro feast ing upon the rewards of political ser vice, and our diplomacy has brought upon us the contempt of foreign na tions. President Wilson's "watchful wait ing" policy with respect to Mexico, his dickering over diplomatic posts to please small men, his removal of trained representatives of the govern ment in foreign stations to provide places for inexperienced place hunt ers, and the general attitude of the administration on international ques tions have made Uncle Sam the laugh ing stock of the world. Meanwhile the fuglemen of the President in Pennsyl vania and elsewhere throughout the country are insisting that he can make no mistakes: that he is always right- Since the first of January thousands ''of men have been furloughed on the railroads, hundreds of factories have N»en ' loscrl and th« depression from const lo coast if gretUW than hns hepir MONDAY EVENING, known since the last Democratic ad ministration, yet It is not enough that industry shall be retarded and that our own people shall be idle upon the streets. We must stand idly by while the administration at Washington pursues its "watchful •waiting" policy in Mexico instead of recognizing the only constituted authority in that country and hear his demands for the repeal of that clause of the Panama Canal act exempting the coastwise shipping of the United States from the payment of tolls at the behest of England. There has not been in a generation such an exhibition of insincerity and the breaking of platform promises as has been given during the last year. Within the last week we have been given proof of the barter and sale of Federal positions in the inter est of nne faction of the Democratic party in Pennsylvania. Federal offi- cials are going up and down the State denouncing Republicans and praising those men who a year or two ago took over the Democratic party as their own personal asset. Yet these same men preached from the house tops ppliticai decency, denounced as corrupt every man who stood in the pathway of their ambition, promised the regeneration of the government from top to bottom, decried the use of public office in the building up of political machines and then proceeded at the first opportunity to do them selvA what they had charged against others. But in spite of the protests of the I Civil Service Association, the exposure of the trafficking in offices and the peanut politics which has character ized the dominant faction of the Democratic party, these same men are now tra% r eling over the State in sisting that President Wilson must be supported and their ambition gratified in order that the purity of govern ment shall be maintained. But political hysteria is rapidly passing and sanity is taking its place. It is not going to be possible this year to deceive the people as they were de ceived before by false promises and demagogic appeals. Women voted in Alaska for the first time at last week's election. In Skag way, the women voters, hiring vehicles to bring men to the polls, set out a luncheon for them, provided cigars and explained the ballot to their less en lightened brothers. Free lunches next November may have a compelling in fluence In the politics of Pennsylvania. BASEBALL. THE baseball year opens with a Federal League game in Balti more to-day. By to-morrow evening the season will be in full swing, scoreboards will be in ac tion and fans in a dozen cities will be getting home lat© for the evening ineal. The umpire's cry of "play ball" has a thrill in it for millions of Americans who do not allow their enthusiasm to overflow at any other time. Hard headed, money-making gentlemen who can sit through a Wall street deal involving the gain or loss of a fortune without so much as batting an eye leave their dignity and self-sup pression beneath the lids of their ma hogany roll-tops when they slip away to the league grounds. Men who frown at the very mention of emotion fling their hats into the air and yell themselves hoarse when the home team slugger puts one over center- Held fence, and staid, order-loving persons who shudder at the mere thought of mob violence rise up and beg for an opportunity to "kill the umpire." After the game they become nor mal persons again and exhibit no more symptoms of the kind until tho lure of the ball park gets into their blood again. Nobody need be ashamed of this. It is a good sign. Men who Can become boys again at fifty are in no danger of being shelved because of accumu lating years. A race of men that can play as enthusiastically at sixty as they did at sixteen is strong with the virility of youth. Some of the roads entering Harris burg are in a disreputable condition. Through neglect of supervisors these highways have become almost impass able. Let's hope that the next Legis lature will make clear its intentions with respect to the funds raised from automobile licenses and thus give the State Highway Department the money necessary to properly maintain the highways. Mr. Palmer says his platform is a simple one. "I apologize for nothing the administration has done." Not even the making of a slate tor the Democ racy of Pennsylvania. There would seem to be a fine op portunity now for the erection by some enterprising builder of a number of detached dwelling houses which could be rented at reasonable figures. Per haps the proposed City Planning Coin mission will be able to work out some scheme by which these smaller dwell ings may be erected in sections oi the eity giving ample space for air, light and grass plats. This is the season of the split-log drag, it doesn't require much skill to operate this machinu for the Improve ment of the dirt roads of t..e State. It would be well for the various motor clubs to create a demand for the use of this device, especially on those high ways which receive little or no atten tion during the early Spring. While Mr. Palmer, one of the fugle men of the President In Congress, is appealing to Pennsylvania voters to help elect him to the United States Sen ate and support the faction of the party with which he is identified, the Demo cratic chairman of the House commit tee on appropriations at Washington Is berating the Democrats in power for wilful extravagance and waste In ap propriations. That economy plank in the lJaltimore platform has been "given another wrench. House committee on foreign affairs adds $784,835 to last year's diplo matic and consular bill. • Republicans of Pennsylvania are not greatly interested in the factional strife within the Democratic party, but they are deeply concerned in composing the differences which in 1912 caused an unfortunate divitdon in their own ranks. These differences are now rap idly disappearing and the back-to-the pnrty movement is on In evory corner of the State. A. Mitchell Palmer de clares that Pennsylvania Is the battle ground of tlio new Democracy and that the policies of the President are in fallible. More Now Freedom stuff. One who has made an earnest study of business conditions from the view point of the expert says: "We can have no substantial and lasting betterment in business until all lawmakers stop making laws to curtail profits and shall do something to help increase profits. The crime of being successful must bo wiped oft the books as a crime and rewritten there as something of general advantage." And the political ! demagogue must be unhorsed. In every direction the public work of the city is being started and many | an idle man will be given employment j before the Spring shall have been far i advanced. T EVENINGCHAT 1 i Florists agree that, never beiore' have they sold as many blooms or sold as many high class flowers as they j did in the closing days ol last week.; The demand for Easter flowers in Har l'isburg appears to have been some- i thing that surprised even the people who deal in them, and from all ac counts thousands wore sold. The rush seems to have started last Wednesday and it is of interest to note that the sales of azaleas were larger than ever f reported and that some stores sold i them almost as soon as they could be ; unpacked or delivered. This flower! seemed to have even more of a call than the Blaster lily among the higher- | priced blooms and there was a ready sale for two and three-dollar plants. ' Rhododendrons, which made their ap-! pearance in greater numbers than j usual, were snapped up for church and i elaborate decorations, and from all ac counts this beautiful shrubbery is go ing to be a prime favorite hereafter. Some of the plans were breast high and covered with flowers of pink, red, white and lavender hues. Of course, the hyacinth, tulip, jonquil and their kind had the call among the lower priced flowers, and people were to be seen bearing them home even at late hours on Saturday night. Most of the flowers sold in Harrisburg were grown hereabouts, but the higher-priced blooms were brought from Philadel phia or its vicinity, some big ship- > inents having been made the last i week. Some of the choice plants, it. might be added, were hardly on dis play an hour when bought. The combination of the Post Office, closed owing to Good Friday and the proximity of EaSter caused runs on the substations of the Harrisburg .'ost Office on Friday. Most of the sub stations also deal in postal cards, and the business they did, if not very profitable, was decidedly lively. The Easter post cards were sent about in showers and Saturday morning the postmen found every mail box about the city jammed with them. Appar- j ently, the Easter post card shower was as strong in its way as the demand for Easter flowers, which was a record breaker. The Central Democratic Club, which is having its annual Jefferson Day din ner to-night, is a revival of a famous ! marching club in the days when the club fever was at its height. The club was formed back in the eighties, members of the Hancock Legion and other Democratic clubs becoming members. It enjoyed a great vogue among the Democrats for years, hav ing its meeting place in College Block and attending every parade for milesj around in presidential years. In 1890, j when the Democratic State convention was held at Scranton, the Central sent a big delegation wearing white high hats and frock coats and was the cen ter of attraction. After the Cleveland inauguration in 18U3 it became coma tose, but was revived seven or eight years ago. and permanent quarters were secured. Its dinners have been attended by many prominent Demo crats, including Secretaries Bryan and Wilson, Senator Gore and a number of Congressmen. Yesterday-'s weather appeared to have a tonic effect upon strollers in the country and there was scarcely a road leading from the city which did not have its strollers. Wildwood Park was especially popular and scores of people rambled through the woods looking for the first flowers of Spring. Incidentally, it might be a good thing for the city fathers to put up some markings of the splendid botanical ex hibit which nature has provided in the park. There is the marshmallow field, for instance, where in blooming time there are several acres of pink flow ers; places where white and blue vio lets abound and where other flowers of the wildwood are to lie found. The park regulations guard against the taking of flowers and plants, but there I is no harm in telling people where to I go to see them. "Glrurd" in the Philadelphia Ledger says: "There will occur at Harrisburg on June 15 a ceremony which In olden days would have called forth a feast of oratory. I am thinking of the trans fer of Pennsylvania's battleflags from their present resting place, to the new cases in the rotunda of the Capitol. "There are, as I have counted, 324 Civil War Hags and 20 Spanish-Amer ican War flags. They will in future occupy a place where every visitor to the Capitol cannot fall to see them. by no means represent all the flags carried by Pennsylvania troops from Fort Sumter to Appomat tox. Many Grand Army posts, notably the George G. Meade Post of this city, have a great number of battleflags, some of which were shot to tatters. "It ha? seemed to me that the most impressive grouping of battleflags to be seen anywhere in the world is at the tomb of Napoleon, in Paris; but if put in one place, the flags borne in brittle would make an exhibit that would rival it." 1 WELL KNOWN PEOPLE 1 —George A. Somerindyck is the new head of the Scran ton Tribune-Repub lican and Truth. —Mayor Mortimer, of Pottsville, plans a celebration of cityhood's con firmation for his city. —O. F. Acker has been elected president of the Carbon County Agri cultural Society. —Charles Gilpin has once more wrltton the lyrics for the Mask and Wig Club. —Dr. Robert LeConte, of Philadel phia, has been elected secretary of the American Surgical Association. MOTHER SHIPTOX'S I'KOI'IIF.tIES (Published in 1041) Carriages without horses shall go, And accidents fill the world with woe. Around the earth thought shall fly In the twinkling of an eye. * The world upside down shall be. And gold be found at the root of a tre«. Through hills men shall ride And no horses be at their side. Under water men shall walk, Shall ride, shall sleep, shall talk. In air men shall be seen In white, in black, in green. Iron in the water nhall float , As easily us a wooden liont. Gold shall bo found and shown In a land that is not known. Fire and water shall wonders do. Kngland. ut lasl. shall admit a Jew. The world 1" an end shall come In eighteen hundred and eighty-one. •- iVom an old f-rop-book. gAJ?RISBURG TELEGftAPIf MEH is en BIG ENDORSEMENT Chamber of Commerce of Allen town Unanimously Booms Judge For Full Term DETRICH'S SWAN SONG IS OUT Says That the Party Is Shy on En rollment, But That Every thing Is Good ✓ Superior Court Judge Frank M. Trexier, who is a candidate for nomi nation for the full term after hav ing been appointed to the bench by Governor Tener on the death of Gen eral Beaver, has received some re markable tributes In the way of sup port the last few days. In Allen town the judge's home he was unani mously endorsed by the Chamber of Commerce In a strong resolution and nomination papers have been signed by practically every member of tho i bar and by all of the ministers of Le- 1 high county. In Philadelphia John G. Johnson and many prominent attor neys head the nomination papers for the judge and he has been endorsed by hundreds of attorneys. In Alle gheny county his nomination papor was filled by attorneys exclusively, ex-Lieutenant Governor Walter Lyon heading the paper. To-day additional nomination peti tions were filed for the judge from Lackawanna, Huntingdon, Luzerne, Lycoming and Bucks counties. Democratic machine men who have been endeavoring to put over the I nomination of Jesse J. Lyberger, the perennial candidate and discusser of the in come tax, and John A. Bosses Arc Marshal, both of whom Worried in ran before, are show- Tills City ing signs of nervous ness because of rumors that a dark horse may enter the field. It is said that a prominent downtown Democrat is thinking about going into the fight into which ex-Councilman S. T. Kinsinger took a dive last week. Kinsinger is bothering the bosses be cause he is taking away strength from Lybarger of whom many Democrats are tired because of his activity in seeking office. The bosses are also somewhat depressed over the lack of interest being shown in the candidacy of C. S. Prizer, the Middletown single taxer and stove manufacturer, out side of Harrisburg and Middletown, Kaufman appears to have the bulk of the county Cumberland well in hand and has a good organization in Lebanon where the machine is not popular. J. Benjamin Dimmick and A. Nevin Detriph appear to have run afoul of each other in regard to the Washing ton party. Mr. Dim- Mick said on Satur )>iinniirk anil day that lie was sur- Detrich on prised in his travels I Bull Moosers about the State to I find how low the Bull Moosers had. sunk and that there was little party spirit left. Only in Washington coun ty did he find any real life and throughout the State he found little confidence In Pinchot. Mr. Dimmick said of Pinchot: "He is not a real I resident of Pennsylvania; he is a spe cialist, and along a special line which does not equip him for service in the United States Senate." Detrich, of that party, has issued a statement of explanation and apology. Ho does not dispute the tremendous decline in enrollment as compared | with the party's vote at its high tide during the presidential contest of 1912, I but he does assert that "every Wash ington party enrollment In Pennsyl vania at this time means three votes at the November election and this I spells victory." The State Chairman, I however, throws no further enlighten j ment as to the spelling lesson afore jsaid. He continues that while con i tests at the primaries in the Repub lican and Democratic parties mean dis aster, similar contests in the Washing ton party mean only healthful activity and ho winds up with a plea for the [support of the Bull Moose candidates. j FPOLITICAL SIDELIGHTS"! { —The Ryan people appear to have | pre-empted the Democratic rooster for the campaign sign of their fac i tion. j —Senator Farley says he has quit "the fight for State committee, but an nounces that he does so that he can j flglit for Ryan. I —Ex-Senator McConnell has an nounced that he will not be a candi date for Sepator. I —Representative William McCaig, iof Pittsburgh, is a candidate for ro nominution. | —Bobby Bright is rather young in ! politics to be taken as a safe prognos jtieator. —They now want Samuel B. Scott 1o get out of the senatorial race in; j favor of Franklin Spencer Edmunds., | —Chairman Bromley, of the Phila delphia Democrats, says the registra tion may go 20,000 above the 30,0001 registration last year. —Chairman Hoyer, of Blair, said' Saturday that that county would be for t ßyan. ■—Charles C. Connor, a has been named for a Job in the rev enue office In Pittsburgh. —Wednesday is registration day in the first and second class cities. —The Philadelphia mint is now the prize to be striven for. —The Democrats in Lancaster county are reported as all shot to pieces over the manner in which the pie has been served. EXILE Great barren mountains heaped I against a skv i That blazes in its faultless, mock ing blue; |An endless, thirsty desert where no i dew Nor rain nor Spring nor winter can the dry And arid waste revive; where sound no cry,. No song of any life; where hot winds strew With stinging sands the bleached gray plants whose hue The very thoughts of April green belie. How all my heart flies north where is the Spring! My burnt-out eyes recall still vividly Deep woodlands dark with rain, the little streams iSdged with anemones. My soul hears sing |A thrush in glens at home where I would be j Hut here —there is no '.May, save in m> dreams, j- Kelsey Pereivnl Kitchel In March I Sniiirt Sot. A-urne-nonsense i HIS CHANCE He—l will never marry any woman who Is not my mental equal. She—'You are in luck then. There is : a Home for Feeble Minded Women rig-lit in this neighborhood. WHEN WE SIT DOWN TO RAT lly Wing IHnirer Woodrow's right hand bowers, In town to-night will be, To personally conduct a tour The promised land to see. They'll show that living cost* aro Much lower than they were, 'Cause plates to-night cost, not three, But just one-fifty per. There'll be bouquets of all kinds, Regardless of the cost, Which John will throw at Jim and then Back to John they'll be tossed. Perhaps to Woodrow's land of Sweet dreams tho bunch will go, And "wait and watch" for a brief spell The strife in Mexico. From there to Panama the scene Will swiftly change, and folks Will understand why U. S. boats Are sointhing more than jokes. And lots of other things in which The President is right, Will no doubt be as clear as mud When dinner's o'er to-niglrt. Special Excursion Train Takes Man to Hospital Special to The Telegraph Sunbury, Pa., April 13.—Caught In the cogwheels of a power shears at the Milton Manufacturing Company's plant, at that place, Charles Walck, 30 years old, was gradually being drown to his death, when fellow-workmen shut off the power. His right arm was crushed, and he was rushed to the Mary M. Packer Hospital, Sunbury, where the arm was ampututed below the elbow. • A special train carrying Atlantic City excursionists was stopped and the injured man brought here on it. KITCHIX AS HOUSE LEADER [Philadelphia Press] in selecting Mr. Underwood as tho leader of the House the Democrats put their best foot forward. But in selecting his successor they aro ap parently committed to putting for ward a foot that is lame and halt so far as party progress is concerned, and taking a step that the country lias good reason to fear. Already the new leader lias been se lected, if the word of the person most interested be accepted. Representa tlve Kitchln announces that lie has secured more than enough pledges to assure him tho chairmanship of tho ways and means committee and the party leadership in the House. He [represents in Congress a North Caro lina district, and his home residence is Scotland Neck, a place that map makers seem to be in a conspiracy to ignore. What his views ure on the tariff are well known to those manu facturers who appeared before tho ways and means com nittee at their hearings last year. He was chief hazer of all who dared to say that they believed in a protective tariff, and that rates of duty are necessary for American manufacture to be car ried on at a profit and at the Ameri can scale of wages. Mr. Kitchin is radical and is nar row. His experience has not fitted him for aay such position. He lias the prejudices of the small town and its restricted outlook. He has no conception of the great currents of commerce and trade. They have never flowed where his life has been spent. He is a lawyer who practices his pro fession in his home place of Scotland Neck. He has never come In real contact with the industry of the coun try, and is ignorant of its needs. His leadership of the House of Represen tatives would mean radicalism with the loud pedal, and hostility towards the Interests of the producer of tho United States. Here is additional reason why the 1 next Congress should bo taken out of | the hands of Democracy. The coun j try knows to-day v?hat to expect from I a Democratic House of Representa- I tlves, even when the party leadership is able, experienced and as broad I gauge as party tenets will permit. What would be the result of such leadership as is now proposed can easily be imagined. Tho warning of what is to come if Democracy is suc cessful in the election of this Fall is timely. It should result in removing the last doubt as to the absolute nec essity of a Republican majority in the next House of Representatives. GOODNIGHT When the sun sinks in the west, When the birds are In each nest. When the night is softly creeping, And the twinkling stars are peeping, When the beasts lie in their lairs, Day is over and its cares— Then I hear sweet voices clear Fay "Goodnight, my mother dear," And my burdens fly away As "Goodnight" I softly say. What care I if rich or poor? What care 1 if pleasures fewer To my life each .day are falling Than my neighbor's time are thrall ing? For when day is at an end Peace and love and Joy unbend When those voices sweet and clear Say "Goodnight, my mother dear," Heaven unbends, and leaning down All my weary efforts crown. Love demands a sacrifice And the closest Paradise ia the home, though 'tis but humble. Where tho children romp and tumble; Though the labors may be more, Yet when each day's work is o'er And the little voices clear Say "Goodnight, my mother dour," 'Tis here woman goes to rest, Heaven locked within her breaal - tCDX A iIROKK mm 11.. APRIL 13, 1914. ■pi 11, ioi II ZZ3CT A n RGYFYIN* on religion an' , [ L politics reminds n\e of a squirrel in a cage. Thar's a J heap o' noise an* ac -1 tion, but it don't get . nowhar. Better dis- □ cuss smokin* tobacco "1 an* y' kin reach a ver- mrQS&IU = dick easy—VELVET. : VELVET, the Smoothest Smoking: Tobacco. » Full weight 2 oz. tins, 10c. p Si ii idi ir id I N ™O S F T D MPl E iU | [From the Telegraph of April 13, 1801.] Gucrrlllaa Ilum Hnuaen Cairo, April 12. East night tho guerrillas burned two houses and stole several horses on the opposite sldo of the river from Cairo. A squad was re ported to have been to-day on the Ken tucky shore, between here and Colum bus, ten miles from Cairo. Forrest to Stand Firm Cairo, April 12. —■ A prlßoner who es caped from Forrest, at Jacksonville, i has arrived at Memphis, and reports that Forrest had expressed Ills deter mination of holding West Tennessee, and of driving out all the Union men. ITTTERSTOTHE-EDITOR I To the Editor of The Telegraph: • Please publish this poem of wel come, \\ritten by B. F. M. Sours and read at the reception given to the Rev. James J. Besh, the, new pastor | ol' the Methodist Episcopal Church at I Mechanicsburg, on Thursday evening. M. K. W. WELCOME By It. I- 1 . M. Sours, of Mecluuiicsburi;. j "The Fields are white to the harvest, I The laborers are few," But the earth is laved in sunshine, And the skies are stainless blue: And we wondered, ah! we wondered Who our stranger-chief wo'uld be To muster the hosts of harvesters On the fields of destiny. Above us the Lord of harvest From his holy heaven looked down — From the imminent heaven looked down— To smile on the faithful workers, And the toil-wearied brow to crown With the kisses of Love Imperial— With the star-bedecked crown when at last Beyond the amethyst portal The day of toil is past. r But we wondered, ah! we wondered, In the fields of destiny. For the reaping for garners eternal Who the harvest-chief should be. And a stranger came: God sent him, To a people whose hearts are true— Whose yearning hearts are true — And we haste to rally around him And his hands to strengthen, too, For the sweat and the toil of the labor, For the Held indeed but waits For the gathering in of the harvest To glad tho celestial gates. God bless the pastor-conler!— And hearten us for the toil. May no warm wave of summer Lull hearts to dull recoil. But, armed with sickles sharpened, Go wo forth, an exultant band, With song and vim and gusto. With earnest heart and hand. God bless the pastor-comer, And the pastor who went away!— May both have love and blessing; May both the victor's lay Sing when tho year's glad evening Its roseate hues shall liing O'er the precious sheaves of harvest For the garners of Christ the King. We face a year of labor. Of earnest, triumphant pras - er: We face a year of loyalty, And the sunbeams shimmer there. God grant that the bands of harvest toil In handclasp shall go forth For the glory of triumphant work For the God of all the earth. "The fields arc white to harvest": ■ O let our earnest prayer Go forth to the King of the harvest field Till the stars are shining there. And, ever with handicap loyal, With trur harvest chief new. come Will we strive for the harvest royal To make glad the eternal Home. Meclianicsburg, Pa., April, 1914. BOOKS and gg jjjj A. E. W. Mason's new novel, "The Witness For the Defense," which was published in tlie latter part of Janu ary, ,is now in Its second large edition. In fact, it is on the point of a third. Walter Pricliard Katon, dramatic critic of the American Magazine, writ ing about the slump in the theatrical business in the April issue of that periodical, says that the films can never take the place of real drama any moro than photography can take the place of painting or mechanical piano-players and phonographs rob Paderewski and Caruso of their appeal. He goes on: "But the films can and will take the place of real drama, just as photo graphs take the place of paintings on the walls of most houses, so long as the real drama Is offered at a prohibi tive price—unless you go up under the rafters where all perspective Is distort ed—and so long as its quali y is uncer tain, and more than half the time of a very low grade. A series of stories about mankind In the making by George Sterling is at tracting considerable attention. They are appearing In The Popular Magazine under the title "Babes In the Wood." In "Ashes of Roses," in Young's Magazine, Lucretla Pitts has drawn an Interesting characterization of a man and a woman who pass through suc cessive stages of attraction and disil lusion. Other stories in this number are: "Far Above Rubies," by Olga Lee erman; "The Rector of All Saints," by Marlon Dedcomyn; "Women Who Prey, bv Louise Winter; "Burley's Wife," by Clark Hilton; "A Quostion of Simple Honors," by Marjorle Lewis Prentiss; "The Lonesome Girl," by Francis Dunn, and "A Souvenir," by Jane Harding. A kindergarten teacher, after ex plaining to hor much interested clasß that birds have feathers, boars have fur, sheep have wool, etc., asked the question: "Now. who can tell me what oysters have?" s A bright little girl, very eager to re cite, answered: "Crackers."—ln Na tional Monthly. DEMOCRATIC FINANCING [Philadelphia Public Ledger] The new freedom lias to be financed and it is beginning to look more ex | lienstvo than the old servitude. Un ! loss it takes thought for Itself it may Ib© confronted with the necessity of a KCtierouH bond salo before the expire- Hon of the calendar year and nftpr thai higher if not newer laxes. IN HARRISBURG FIFTY 1 YEARS AGO TO-DAY 1 [From the Telegraph of April 13, 1864J I'riutcrs liaise ltate The Printers' Union, of this city, at a lata meeting, adopted a new scale of prices, which will take effect In a few days. The price of ordinary composi tion Is 'advanced to thirty-five cents per 1,000 ems, and journeymen's wages to sl3 per week. EplNcniialiaua Here A meeting of the South Central Con vocation of the Episcopal Church, of this Diocese, commenced at St. Steph en s Church, this city, last evening. It Is composed of tho Episcopal ministry of the adjoining counties. AN EVENING THOUGHT All things that are on earth shall wholly pass away. Except the love of God, which shall live and last for aye. Bryant. | - - - > lay* : "There are real guarantees, also talk imitat ions" ! There are a iot of guarantees | offered on roofings. Most of them are by irresponsible people or merely conversational guarantees. It's a very important thing in a guarantee that there should be responsibility,'and that it should be in writing. Certain-teed HBBH6RJIIII I IIMMIII 111 111 I Mil OHaMMMKS cc'-'iUrd Roofing Guirui-tcn/ I Since we have been giving a reg ular written guarantee on Certain teed Roofing, one class of com petitors has been saying that their roofing "will generally last twenty years, or longer." They don't guarantee it, however, at all. It's very easy to talk, talk, talk and say any number of years in such talk, but responsible concerns must know all about their roofing if they do any more than talk—they must know their roofings really do last when they sign a printed guarantee of plain requirements that the roof ing shall make good. Of course, the irresponsible type —those who are likely to go out of business soon —can sign anything. It's very im portant that the buyer should not be caught in such a trilling manner Another very important thing is, these talk guarantees are offered on the cheapest goods the manufacturers make; not being real guarantees, there is no risk. They say nothing al>out their highest priced brands andqualities—just offerthc cheapest thing they have—offer a talk guarantee on cheap goods equal to the real guarantee given on Certain-teed Roofing. It's funny how many people they catch on such things! When you buy a piece of roofing you should know— and know in writing— that it is the best quality—best brand goods made by that manufacturer. Re member —make him put this in writing, that it is his best in every way, and then have the guarantee in writing and prop erly signed, too. It pays to be careful in buying goods where the quality could not be judged by the bample—where everything must depend upon the standing and ability of the manufacturer to make good over a long period of years in the future. Certain-teed Rooting is sold at a reason -1 able price everywhere by who believe in giving unsurpassed quality at a fair profit. The amount of Certqfn teed Roofing required for an average roof, say ten squares, will cost less than $5 over the cheap mail order grade. This small initial cost is saved many times in the fifteen years* wear which is covered by the manufacturer's guarantee. General Roofing Mfg. Co. World's la r(jeat manufacturer* of roofing and building papers E. St. Lotil*. 111. York, Pa. Marseille*, UL New York City Boston Chicago Kansas City Minneapolis San Franclnco Seattle London, Enr. Hamburg, Ger. JOHNSTON Paper Co. IIARRISRIIRG. PA. Distributor* of Ccrtuin-teed Hoofing | i t WITMAN BROS. " Wholesale Distributors of Ccrtala tecd Roofing >i iii i , ,t f 1 i« uuDauAHTEM rai * SHIRTS SIDES & SIDES , \ li ■ wmmmmmm*
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