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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
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[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.
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