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MONDAY EVENING, JUNE 20
THE AUSTRIAN TRAGEDY
THE murder of Archduke Francis
Ferdinand, heir to the Austria-
Hungarian throne, and the
Duchess of liohenberg, his mor
ganatic wife, marks another tragic
period in the tempestuous career of
the aged Emperor Francis Joseph.
The hand of the slayer has been raised
constantly against the venerable ruler
and his family. He and his have lived
In continual fear of death.
The disappearance of Archduke
John, which still ranks among the
great International mysteries that
never may be solved, was even more
of a shock to the Emperor than the
execution of his brother before the
rifle squad of a band of Mexican revo
lutionists. The mesalliance of the
Archduke Henry with a notorious
singer and the strange death of Arch
duke Rudolph, the Emperor's only son,
and his sweetheart, Baroness Vestera,
who were found dead together, were
added sorrows In the life of Franz
Joseph.
Crowning all his other griefs, how
ever, came the assassination of his be
loved wife, the Empress, as she was
v - leaving Geneva, Switzerland, after an
outing, at the hands of an anarchist,
who stabbed her to death. And now
comes the death of the heir presump
tive, and while there have been per
sistent rumors of ill-feeling between
the Emperor and the Archduke, there
can be no doubt that the blow will be
mifficient to shorten the fast waning
life of the venerable ruler.
The murdered Archduke was one of
tho most mysterious personages of
royal rank in Europe. He had few
friends and his views on national sub
jects were unknown to the masses,
although recently it has been rumored
that he was under cover taking a more
prominent part In the ruling of the
empire than the aging ruler himself.
The new heir, on the other hand,
Francis Joseph, son of the late
' Archduke Otto Francis Joseph, brother
of the man slain yesterday, is well
known and liked by the people. Ho is
a man of considerable force, is studious
and fond of art and travel, lie is
thoroughly conversant with the affairs
of his own country and the politics of
Eu rope.
A vast responsibility rests on the
I shoulders of the young man. It has
been reported that a break between
Austria and Hungary might follow the
death of Francis Joseph. Archduke
Francis Ferdinand had foreseen such
a contingency, it is said, and one of
Ills reasons for dipping into politics
while Francis Joseph was still living
was to entrench himself so strongly
that his elevation to the throne would
find him ready for any emergency. It
Is significant as indicating the social
unrest of the allied countries that the
tragedy of yesterday occurred while
the Archduke and Duchess were on
their annual visit to the annexed prov
inces of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
DR. SMITH'S RESIGNATION
TH-iRE will be sincere and generul
regret throughout tho city over
the decision of the Rev. Dr. J.
Ritchie Smith to accept his elec
tion to the chair of homlletics at the
Princeton Theological Seminary. This
regret, however, is not unmixed with
congratulation over the choice of one
so admirably qualltled as Dr. Smith
for this important chair. The loss
of Harrisburg is the gain of the semi
nary.
Dr. Smith has been prominent In the
civic activities of Harrisburg as well
as Its religious enterprises. He has
become so much a part of what may
be termed the spiritual machinery of
the city that his going will be a dis
tinct loss to the community. His
strength in the pulpit has been no
greater than his Influence outside.
T. R., PERKINS AND PINCHOT
THE Colonel and Perkins are de
termined that the Pinchots shall
be squelched. They have been
occupying too much of the
stage. "Perkins is the most useful
member of the Progressive party."
The Colonel has said so and Amos and
Glfford will consider themselves on
the siding. Their protest that Per
kins has no place in the Progressive
L party; that the fact that he was the
ft . organizer of the Harvester Trust, a
R | director of the Steel Trust and a part-
MONDAY EVENING, HARRISBURG TELEGRArH JUNE 29,1914.
ner of the late J. Plerpont Morgan
debarred him from further active par
ticipation in the third party's leader
ship, has fallen upon deaf cars.
Colonel Roosevelt has made it clear
that when George goes, he goes,
which was another way of spanking
the Pinchots. It is going to be Inter
esting to watch the future attitude
of Roosevelt toward Glfford Pinchot
as the Progressive candidate for
United States Senator from Pennsyl
vania.
It is still a matter of comment that
Glfford did not meet tho Colonel on
his return from Europe last week
and when the Dean, who Is supposed
to be Gifford's running mate In this
State, was asked about the situation
he delivered himself of this cryptic
statement:
Both Mr. Perkins and Mr. Pinchot
are close personal friends of Colo
nel Roosevelt. I would not discuss
the case any more than Colonel
Roosevelt will.
It must be evident to every Intelli
gent observer of the political trend
that the third party movement in
Pennsylvania is reaching the point of
collapse and largely because the Re
publican party has risen to the occa
sion and adopted the essential reforms
for which many of the sincere Pro
gressives contended.
Of course, Speaker Champ Clark's
emphatic vote against a special assist
ant for Secretary Bryan had no refer
ence to events at Baltimore. Just a lit
tle matter of economy!
SEEING THEIR FINISH
ARREN WORTH BAILEY,
Wwho was sent to Congress
from the Johnstown district
two years ago by a plurality
of 938 votes, sang his swan song in a
Washington interview. He says Penn
sylvania Democrats share with the Mls
sourians the determination to fight the
battle to a finish, no matter what the
effect on their own political fortunes.
"In iny judgment," Mr. Bailey con
tinued, "adjournment without com
pleting the anti-trust legislation would
be as great a mistake as adjournment
would have been last summer before
disposing of the currency bill. Presi
dent Wilson was right then and is
right now."
Mr. Bailey said that he voiced the
sentiment on this subject of every
other member of the Pennsylvania
Democratic delegation in the House.
In the same newspaper that pub
lished the Interview with Bailey was
printed a letter from the proprietor
of a large dry goods house at Johns
town to' a Philadelphia hosiery mill.
Among other things the dry goods
merchant says;
Sorry we cannot advise you to
ship hosiery. Kindly ship to some
one else. Trade and collections are
worse than when I last wrote you.
Mills are not working half time.
There are more Idle men in our city
than ever before.
But what does Mr. Bailey care about
his Johnstown constituent! He is
standing by the President, as are the
Palmers and McCormickg and other
accidental "statesmen" who have man
aged to break into public position
while Republicans were asleep at the
switch. What care they for closed
mills and factories and distressed
businessmen and hosts of idle work
ingmen. "Stand by the President,"
shout these little men. "He can do no
wrong. Hasn't he promised a gigantic
business boom? And should any intel
ligent person hesitate for a moment
to accept his prophecy without ques
tion?"
Of course, the little men "will fight
to a finish," but the finish is not far
away.
PEOPLE ARK PROTESTING
BUSINESS men and men of affairs
in all parts of the country are
rising in protest against a con
tinuance of the visionary gov
ernment at Washington. The Wilson
organs claim that all criticism of the
President is based on politics, but
during the last two or three weeks the
adverse sentiment has been so pro
nounced among men of all parties that
it is no longer possible to excuse the
President and relievo him of the lash
ing of distracted business by raising
the political issue, if it is a political
issue, then it is made so by the Presi
dent himself and those who constantly
echd his opinions.
His phychological theories and his
denunciation of business men and
working men who haye had the
temerity to appeal to him to give the
country a rest, while his Secretary of
State has been advising the Wilson
following throughout the country to
bombard Congress with telegrams urg
ing the members of the Senate and
House to stand by the President, and
his general attitude of indifference to
the brainy commercial and industrial
leaders who happen to differ with him
and his policies have led to many such
paragraphs as the following from an
editorial in tho Public Ledger of Phila
delphia:
The question of high tariff or low
tariff is ceasing to be the vital one
in this country. The great issue
that is germinating concerns the
preservation of Americanism, of the
essentials of free government, of
equal treatment, of ordinary jus
tice, of whether Washington shall
be changed Into headquarters for a
colossal experiment In syndicalism,
of whether proletarian ism or democ
racy shall guide our destiny. Prac
tical citizens must soon put their
backs to the wall and fight. No
sooner Is one head of the Hydra
lopped off than a dozen new ones
appear. The task becomes tiresome.
It will be necessary to' rout out tho
whole coterie of visionaries, who
are playing havoc with our Institu
tions.
So far as Pennsylvania is concerned.
Its Industries have been buffeted and
Its prosperity prostrated by the free
trade fallacies of the present adminis
tration, which fallacies aro proclaimed
by Palmer and McCormlck, the hand
picked candidates of the President, as
the very essence of wisdom. This
State Is tired of the Wilson experi
ments and November cannot come too
soon for the thousands of voters of all
parties who have determined now
without any further discussion to put
the seal of their disapproval upon the
whole program, Including the free
trade tariff law, the Panama Canal
tolls, the Colombia apology and graft,
and all the rest, ol it.
1 EVENING CHATI
For some reason or other the por
tico of the Courthouse and the spact
of pavement In front of It holds mori
favor for open air religious service:
than any other spot in Harrlsburg, anc
It's rather odd, when you think of it
There is more room in Market Squari
and the front of the Capitol or of thi
State Museum offers very formal sur
roundings and more space, but th(
Courthouse is the place where evan
gellsts, Salvation Army workers, tem
perance speakers and others who dea
with the better life present their argu
ments and make their exhortations
Perhaps it is because that spot ha
been public property from the closlni
decades of the eighteenth century am
that the two or three courthouse
which have occupied the site liav
been used intermittently for religiou
services for over 100 years. The his
tory of a number of the church or
ganlzations of Harrisburg begins li
the court rooms where justice is deal
out by day and political speeches smit<
the air by night, and probably it 1
because of this rather singular asso
ciation, coupled with the fact that it 1
the town hall or rath haus of tin
municipality that has caused its porcl
to be preferred for religious services
For a time Market Square was use<
by some religious workers, and is ye
occasionally, but it is probably toi
large or the noises of traftlc are to<
great to make it an attractive spo
for services. So the front of the ol<
structure, which is one of the lines
types of courthouse architecture o
ante-bellum days In the State, by thi
way, hears services almost every even
ing in the week these days.
The new borough of Paxtang jus
now presents a very interesting stud;
for the man who is interested in th<
rule of the people and other things sc
much heard of in the last few years
The residents of the county's newes
municipality, which will probably bi
No. 567 in the list of boroughs of th<
State, are going to have a town meet
ing to pick their officers to-morrow
The law authorizes the court to nami
officers or to order a special electioi
so that the machinery of governmen
may be started. The voters will de
termine whether they want to hav<
an election or whether they will picl
out their own officers and request thi
court to name them to serve until th<
regular election comes around. Whlli
there has been a lot of talk about it
the field is open in Paxtang and thi
chances are that a good example o
town meeting will be held in th<
schoolhouse to-morrow night.
The days are well nigh upon us
and it is about time to think aboui
the dogs. There are many valuabl*
animals in Harrisburg and yet if then
are half a dozen places where a dos
can get a drink of water except froir
a gutter, tbe Susquehanna river oi
Paxton creelc, they are not listed
State officials are calling attention tc
the dangers of rabies, and it is a well
known fact that hot weather is mightj
hard on the animals. It seems queei
that there is no provision made in the
public drinking fountains for a dot
and that while horses are well pro
vided for, the dog, whose devotion tr
man has been the theme of poem, sonf
and story, is not thought about.
Some of the best roadways in thi
county have been made within a verj
short distance of the city by townshii
authorities and individuals who havi
taken advantage of the opportunit;
to use railroad ashes, or "sparks," ai
they are called by railroadmen. Thii
material makes a good hard road
which will stand the ordinary traffii
for a long time without much atten
tion. In many instances private road:
and lanes have been rebuilt by tin
use of "sparks," and if the haul is no
too great it means much saving. Tin
trouble is that the average road ii
Dauphin county is allowed to go with
out much care unless some one makei
a big kick, and, strange to say, ii
some districts roads have been allowe<
to go for the reason that "the Stati
is not doing anything now, either."
On the subject of highways it migh
be stated that the municipal autliori
ties could very well afford to get ou
with a road drag or scraper in Green
wood street some one of these morn
ings after a hard rain. This street
which begins at a point along Paxtoi
street and runs east Intersecting Dei
fy street near Twenty-third, is nov
being very heavily traveled fron
Nineteenth to its junction with Derry
owing to the paving operations unde
way from near Eighteenth to Twenty
third. Tn fact practically all of tlv
traffic that used to pour out Derr:
goes by way of Berryhill to Nineteenti
and then to Greenwood. The stree
was never used to any great exten
prior to this sudden service and look
the part. It is badly cut by moto
trucks and teams and when a hcav:
rain has fallen It Is plain mud. A drai
employed for half an hour after a rail
would work wonders.
Speaking about highways, again i
might be added that it is not hard t<
figure where the city line ends ii
Walnut, State and Herr streets. Thi
condition of the ronds in Susquehanni
township close to the city's gates an
much in the same shape that Derr;
street has been between the paved sec
tion and the State highway. Rutp
holes and facilities for bumplnj
abound. ,
I WELL KNOWN PEOPLE"I
—L. T. McFadden, the new head o
the State bankers, is prominent ii
Bradford county affairs.
—Judge 11. A. Fuller, of Luzerne
has ordered lawyers to stop goini
surety for clients.
—Leona-d Peckitt, president of th
Empire Steel and Iron Company
started his connection with ironmak
Ing as a chemist.
—The Rev. Alexander Maitland
moderator of the Presbyterian Church
is in a hospital in New York with al
injured kneecap.
—Joshua L. Bailey, a Philadelphii
merchant, celebrated his eighty-eight]
birthday yesterday. He Is still In busi
ness.
—Henry W. Shoemaker, the pub
Usher of the Altoona Gazette and th
Tribune, gave all of his employes ai
outing on Saturday.
PSYCHOLOGICAL IDIOTS
[From the New York Sun.]
What do mere business men knov
about business?
THF PSYCHOLOGY OF GOLF
To the Editor of the Sun—Sir:
When from the tee you wish to drive
Don't wait, just whack the hall;
Just think there's no one else allvt
No need of warning call.
If you should knock out some one'
eye,
Just tell him not to mind;
You can convince him, if you try;
He only thinks he's blind!
New York, June 25.
JAMES S. BOYD.
AN EVENING THOUGHT
Every ope of us, however lowly,
who hears a clear word of God
and sends It on without a lisp, i s
a prophet.—Jojin a. .Wooiley.
'PENROSE SPENDS
; ■ THE NIGHT IN CITY
i
; Senator Says He Expects to Have
Busy Time in the Western
Part of the State
1
: CROW TALKS ON CAMPAIGN
3
,
s Huntingdon Democrats Get Into a
I Row Over the County Chair
manship Too
t »
e
s TTnitPd States Senator Penrose and
- bis brother, Dr. Cliarles B. Penrose,
3 motored to Harrisburg late yesterday
8 afternoon on their way to Pittsburgh,
where both will tal<e part in confer
-1 ences to-morrow, T)r. Penrose being
t active in the work of the United
} Sportsmen of Pennsylvania. They
J were guests of Governor Tener at din
, "er and remained at the Executive
1 Mansion until this morning when they
1 resumed their .lourney.
' Senator Penrose is more than
3 nleased with the reports of the prelim
- inary oamnaicn and is encouraged to
believe that there is no doubt of the
election of the entire Republican
t ticket by larnre majorities in Novem
ber. Tt is hip opinion that the de
structive policies of the Wi'son ad
ministration and the craze for radi
cal legislation has caused a. reaction
which will send to the sunnont of the
Republican nartv thousands of men
who have heon affiliated with other
political organizations.
Dr. Penrose is much interested in
the protection of the nme of Penn
sylvania and believes that still more
drastic laws should he Massed for the
protection of the wild birds. TTe world
have a law aa-ainst the nlamie of cats,
which are lareelv responsible for the
diminishing bird life of the State.
Poth Senator Penrosear>d blshrother
hq.ve been lovers of outdoor snorts
since hovhood and both have hunted
■"id flsb«'i in th» hie came eountrv of
♦he far West. This year Senator T>en
-ose will be comnelled to take his va
cation in motor tours nmontr his con
stituents. He remarked la*t evening
'hat he was glad to meet the neonle
, ! n this way inasmuch as he had been
«o closely confined by his duties at
Washington until recently that he was
not nrivilesred to set. out among the
neople as he would like to have done.
TTe finds now a real heneflt in golnc
among the people of the State and
hearing first hand their views on pub
lic questions.
The Senator started from Philadel
phia yesterday on one of the most re
markable tours he has made. He will
speak to the United Sportsmen at
Pittsburgh on the same day that Col
onel Roosevelt is addressing the Pro
gressives. He will probably be at the
same hotel. The rest of the week will
' be spent in different counties.
The Bull Moosers here and through
out the State are all heated up over
the controversy about Perkins, and
those who will attend
the conference of
Bull Moosers the Progressives in
Have Little Pittsburgh to-morrow
to Smile At were as mum as oys
ters over the matter.
Several of them were
trying to-day to tind out on what train
the Colonel was going to Pittsburgh,
so that they might get on board.
Detrich and the other subbosses have
come out for the Colonel after patting
Pinchot on the back. Pinchot and
Lewis spoke at twenty-three towns in
Susquehanna county Saturday and
carefully avoided any reference to
the row. The Colonel's physical con
dition Has made the Progressives very
glum.
"While the State committee ineet
" ing has been postponed until August
26," said Chairman William E. Crow
in Philadelphia, "the
Republican cam
paign has already Crow Says
been inaugurated and Campaign Is
from now on there Under Way
will be no cessation
in the work of per
fecting the party organization in every
county in the State. The headquar
ters of the Republican State commit
tee will be open daily and conferences
will be had with county chairmen, as
well as State committeemen and can
. didates on the ticket at large and in
~ the several districts.
"Special attention will be given to
the congressional districts and it is
proposed to have the State committee
work in harmony with the national
congressional campaign committee in
this direction.
. "We are already planning for meet
* ings and visits of candidates to county
fairs and other places where there will
J be an opportunity to meet large bodies
' of voters. The speakers' bureau is
, now being organized and arrange
ments are being made to have the ora
' tors thoroughly conversant with the
issues of the campaign and with the
weakness of the opposition."
A government pension for superan
nuated Federal employes is favored by
Senator Penrose, and, in his opinion,
shortly will be estab
j lished. "Recent re
-1 Penrose ports," said the Sena-
Gives Idea 4 tor yesterday, "have
on Pensions shown the discharge
' of a very large number
of Federal employes,
B many of advanced years. As a result
of careful investigation I have made,
X am convinved now that a pension
should be established. This opinion
is contrary to the one I formerly held,
but results from experience in Wash
ington, especially as chairman of the
post roads committee. All large cor
porations arc introducing the pension
system, the Bell Telephone Company,
for instance, having recently promul
gated one of the most elaborate. It is
argued that by establishing a pension,
dependent employes will bo cared for
by the government they served, rather
than by friends, that younger and
more active men will take the place
of the superannuated with resultant
economy, and that efficiency will be
advanced all around as well, as proper
r recognition given to faithful employes
aged in the service."
Just to show that they are divided,'
like the Democrats of most of the
' other counties, the members of the
Huntingdon county
Democratic c o m
s mittee on Saturday Huntingdon
forsook their peace- Democrats in
ful meeting policy a Row, Too
and indulged in a
fight in which J.
Murray Africa, the State committee
man and one of the active men, was
stood aside for Joseph G. Lesher, edi
tor of the Huntingdon Monitor and a
noisy shouter for the machine. Lesher
looked after the "tour" of Hunting
don county by the White House twins
and probably about the "watchers."
Emory Small was elected as the pilot
of the Franklin county committee, Dr.
J. M. Gelwix retiring. Tho Franklin
Democrats are upset over the pros
pects for the campaign.
The Northampton county Republi
can committee held Its meeting
on Saturday at Easton with a big
attendance. A ban
quet followed. El-
Northampton mer P. Richards, of I
Republicans Easton, presided.
Elect Selp Harry G. Seip was
re-elected county
chairman and treas
urer. "A favorable opportunity exists,"
Mr. Selp said, "to elect the Republican
ticket not only in the State of Penn
sylvania, but In the Twenty-sixth Con
gressional District and Northampton
county. This could he accomplished
only, however, by the Republican
workers getting out every vote and
soliciting support among the disgusted
Democrats." Resolutions were adopt
ed endorsing the nominees on the
Republican State ticket, calling atten
tion to the "serious condition which
threatens great Injury to the agricul
tural and business interests," declar
ing there can be no Improvement un
til 'we arc again living under a Re
publican protective tariff,' and prais
ing Senator Penrose as the leading
advocate of a protective tariff.
( OUR DAILY LAUGH )
Small Rlnzc Feminine Itcawia
Reggy My She married him
brain is on fire. because she
Peggy—i hardly thought Helen
think we need call wanted him.
out the fire de- And divorced
partment. him for thr- samw
A Menn Twist to -
Hln Men ii I iik The Rent Reason
George Ah, She Oh, Ca
may 1 hope that wald, how did you
you will be mine happen to become
forever? engaged to me?
Evelyn Yes; He Well, you
but really, won't see, I got a ring
you be discourstg- In a prize popcorn
ed from hoping package an' I had
after I marry to use it some
Jack? way!
WK CAUGHT A FISH
By AVlng Dinger
We went out fishing Saturday,
My kid and I, and say
I never had so much real fun
As I had on that day.
We fished and fished, but got no bites
i From one o'clock to four,
But then the biggest fish that swam
Was hooked and brought to shore.
A sunfish just four inches Ion"
From nose to tip of tail,
But, gee, It was the kid's first fish,
To him It was a whale.
A yell went forth that could be heard
At least a mile away,
And you can bet a goodly sum
We fished no more that day.
'Twas pack up quick and start right
home.
I - wan 1 ; to show the boys
The fish I caught, and 'round our way
He was the real big noise.
POLITICAL SIDELIGHTS
—Men of every party will sym
pathize with Dr. Brumbaugh.
—Pinchot and Lewis will go into
Lackawanna county next.
■ —The Ryanites do not appear to
have been placated.
—The Republican platform com
mittee will nieet Thursday.
—Prohibition State-headquarters is
arranging a list of speakers.
—Dr. J. H. Kreider and Ira Mosey
will attend the Progressive meeting.
- —The Democratic machine appears
to have set York and Luzerne by the
ears over appointments.
—Wonder what the Colonel will
I think of fusion on Congress between
Democrats and Bull Moosers when he
is assailing Wilson.
—The Clatlln failure rather caused
the White House output of prosperity
letters to feel a depression.
—Probably there was something
significant In the visit of Pinchot to
twenty-three towns in Susquehanna
-county.
—Lycoming Republicans are pre
paring for a vigorous campaign.
—The $33,000 kitty appears to be
disturbing some people on the other
side of the river. It has a sister called
the Palmer-McCormick committee and
Its label Is $21,000 on one side and a
$12,000 "loan" on the other.
RESCUE OUR I,AND FROM HI.ATIIIIIt-
SKITKS
IFrom the Philadelphia Public Ledger.]
The Claflin failure is the largest that
has ever occurred in the dry goods
trade in America. More money Is in
volved and a larger number of persons
are directly concerned.
For a couple of weeks past there has
been a series of small bank failures
throughout the West which escaped
especial notice In the East. A big Iron
manufacturing company this week sus
pended Its dividend and one of the
most Important railroads of the Mid
dle West cut off Its dividend two days
ago.
These, are 111-omens of the times, and
they constitute an appeal for national
behavior at Washington beyond any
other plea that could be made. Failures
are a definite, concrete calamity which
leave no room for argument.
Of all the humbugs of the present,
the silliest is the pretense that busi
ness men are promoting hard times.
But who shall rise up and dare pro
claim that Claflin went into a receiver
ship merely for political reasons?
The specific point where Washington
lias failed In the existing industrial
crisis is this: Washington does noth
ing to ward oft the troubles, but, on
the contrary, continues to promote
trouble. This offers a violent contrast
with the way Germany has handled her
depression. There the Government
.bonds every nerve to help the situation,
even to forcing a combination of big
business in order to prevent wasteful
competition.
But at Washington the wrecking
crew Is never idle. Every new move is
a move to subtract and not to add, to
divide and not to multiply. Every new
law alms to cut down and curtail and
not one endeavors to build up and
needs statesmanship big
enough to throw politics to the winds
while It marches forth to rescue the
land from a tribe of blatherskites.
AND THE COUNTRY KNOWS
'W'e know what we are doing," the
President told the Vlrginlani, and the
rest of the country is beginning to
suspect that It knows.—Philadelphia
I Public Ledger.
The Way It Seems
BY ELLA WHEELER WIIiCOX
Though chaos and confusion
Upon the earth X see,
Yet still they seem Illusion
Unto the soul of me.
Though race with race is striving
And conflicts do not cease,
I feel that righ# Is thriving—
I hear the voice of Peace.
I know the wrongs existing
And growing hour by hour,
And yet my faith, persisting,
Sees Justice high In power;
I hear the voice of Reason
Enumerating 111b;
But doubt of God seems treason,
And trust my bosom thrills.
Though nation wars with nation,
And men in darkness grope,
A curious exaltation
Gives pinions to my hope.
Though sorrows and disasters
Descend upon our sphere.
My faith in wisdom masters
All sentiments of fear.
Along this world benighted.
Where clouds and shadows roll,
One narrow path is lighted
For each immortal soul.
The path of Move's endeavor,
To show the God within.
And who walks there will never
Be slave of fear or sin.
Mine is the mind of woman,
No logic in its store;
But, ah! my heart is human
And love is at Its core.
The earth is God's expansion.
And love is all it needs,
And this is faith's confession
Of what it lacks in creeds.
\EDITORIAL COMMENT)'
"As for reading Perkins out of the!
party," thundered the leader upon his
arrival in New York, "when that is
done they will have to read me out
too!"
That ends the war on Perkins. In
attempting to accommodate himself
gracefully to the situation Mr. Gifford
Pinchot will be assisted by the recol
lection that there was a time when the
Colonel stood by him too. That stand
ing-by made political history.—New
York Sun.
THE PRESIDENT'S SURGERY
[New York Sun J
President Wilson will have difficulty
In convincing even his most enthusi
astic admirer that the Claflin company
receivership is either psychological or
the outcome of a conspiracy to dis
credit his Administration. It is a sub
stantial fact that is not to be put aside
as a child of disordered mentality or
sluggish liver. If Mr. Wilson 'has
seriously believed that business has
not been bedevilled into timidity, re
trenchment and stagnation if the
word of such men as Mr. Simmons, In
whose judgment and good will he
puts faith, does not arouse him to a
realization of the conditions in this
country—the stern lesson enforced by
the difficulties of one of the strongest
houses in the country, a house who te
transactions touch practically every
interest in the nation, cannot be lost
upon him.
Should Mr. Wilson allow his philo
sophic mind to review what has been
done to business within a year, even
he might find in that record some
slight justification for 'the sober and
respectable citizens who for months
have pleaded with him to give them
an opportunity to adjust themselves
to the radically changed conditions he
has been so largely instrumental in
creating, before pressing further in
novations. The tariff revision, be it
wise and beneficent as Mr. Wilson
holds, or ill advised and injurious as
his political opponents contend, cer
tainly imposed new tasks on manu
facturers and distributors of merchan
dise. The new currency law, regard
less of its virtues or defects, necessi
tated a reshaping of the financial
practices of the country. Does Mr.
Wilson believe that the changes inevi
tably consequent on such far reach
ing displacements of accustomed
methods and established processes
can be accomplished without hard
ship, loss and entanglements menacing
the whole delicate fabric of busi
ness?
Mr. Wilson betrays a fondness in
his public discourses for Illustrations
derived from the operating theaters of
hospitals devoted to surgical cases.
Has he ever heard of the operation
which was a perfect success although
the patient died?
PROSPERITY MUST WAIT
(From the Philadelphia Public Ledger.]
Big as are our crop prospects, and
Important as is the rate decision, the
first really broad-gauge impetus for the
upward swing in prices can only come
with the elections next November. If
sentiment as shown at the polls indi
cates a continuance of the harassing
tactics, money will continue to prefer
a sure but small rate of Interest to a
questionable dividend.
Rut if there shall appear at the polls
a sweeping verdict the other way, the
United States will embark upon the
finest period of expansion it has ever
enjoyed.
The Almighty lue given this country
every possible natural advantage, and
only man can mar Its future.
AN "ARTIFICIAL CAMPAIGN"
[New York Sun.l
Secretary Bryan urges all his
friends to "wire" to their senators "to
stand by President Wilson" but this
enterprise is not regarded at the
White House as promoting an "artifi
cial campaign."
HARRISBVRO LIGHT
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MAGA,Z!NES^J
"Welcome to Our City," by Julian
Street. Illustrations by James Mont
gomery Flagg and Wallace Morgan.
$1 net; postage, 10 cents. John Lants
Company, New York.
In gay and satiric vein Mr. Street
plays host to the stranger in New York
and pilots him through our city. As
he shows him the sights he speaks
across his shoulder, explaining the
genial folly of his guest. "The New
York way" is his theme—the way
some strangers think they must be
have if they would avoid being taken
for strangers. And with the guest
comes his wife, who is tearfully sur
prised at her husband's unbridled zeal
for spending. This is comedy in the
best of good humor and yet with its
lesson. The mirror is held up by the
jester and New York sees itself.
WHEN ONE IS LONESOME
When one is feeling lonesome, down
and out, get something soft and
punch it about.
When you're feeling blue and your
friends are gone, write a letter, tear
it up, then you've won,
That's what you want when you feel
that way.
If you hurt some one's feelings you're
sorry some day,
So Just be as mad as you want—in
your shell —
Nor let any cne see, and don't ever
tell.
Eureka! the blues vanished—now go
to that friend,
Forgive him and well —oh, well, that's
the end.
—Written by Theodore Sangree Kauf
man, aged 13 years.
A ROSE FROM THE RIVER DEE
B v J. Howard Wert
A rose my own, my life, my love,
Is all I have for thee;
'Twas growing bright and wild above
The banks of bonnie Dee.
The dew is on its petals' bloom,
But when it reaches thee,
Within the wild and wooded gloom
Far o'er the tossing sea,
'Twill be a dried and shriveled flower,
And yet, my love, may be,
'Twill make to life each happy hour
Beside the river Dee.
CHORUS
'Twill make to life the happy hour
Beside the river Dee,
When, in a rose-encircled bower,
Your love was pledged to me.
The roses bloom as bright as then,
Along the river Dee;
The sun shines out as soft as when
Love's kiss wa given me;
Yet still T sit, with saddened heart.
Beneath the linden tree.
Where months ago we met, to part
Beside the river Dee.
Then take, my love, the humble rose
That T have pluck'd for thee;
'Tis sacred with my love which flows
Changeless as bonnie Dee.
CHORUS
'Twill make to life the happy hour
Beside the river Dee,
When, in a rose-encircled hower,
I first was kissed by thee.
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