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HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH,
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HARRISBURG, NOVEMBER 9, 1914.
HELP THE BELGIAN'S
NEARLY a million Belgians, old
men, women, children and babes
in arms, are homeless, hungry
and on the verge of starvation
as a result of the war that has devas
tated their country.
Philadelphia people have joined
hands to send a shipload of food to
them.
The Telegraph believes that Harris
burg would like to help In this noblo
charity and it has joined the Philadel
phia newspapers in this work. Harris
burg has never shirked in times like
this. Always our people have given
generously when called upon. The need
was never greater than now. Con
ditions in Belgium are beyond descrip
tion. Wherever the ruthless hand of
war has fallen towns have been laid
waste, fields have been robbed of their
harvests and hundreds of thousands
of helpless people have been cast
adrift, with scarcely enough to cover
their backs —homeless, penniless and
hungry.
England is feeding every day 400,000
Belgian refugees and thousands more
are facing starvation. Their cry for
succor has crossed the ocean. Babies
In Belgium are sick, cold and hungry
for a share of our plenty. Little boys 1
and girls go supperless to the poor
beds in public buildings that charity j
has provided for them because wo in
America have not responded to their !
needs quickly as we might. Thou
sands upon thousands more must ac
tually die of starvation as we eat our
bounteous Thanksgiving feast unless
we help and help NOW.
So grave is the situation that Phila
delphia's shipload of provisions must
bo forwarded at once. The steamer
must sail on Wednesday, or, at the
very latest, Thursday. The response
of Harrisburg must therefore be
prompt. There is no time to forward
supplies. We must send money. The
Telegraph will act as the agent of the
relief committee in Harrisburg. Send
your dimes and your dollars TO-DAY.
To-morrow may be too late. Tht
money you can so easily spare may
actually save a life in Belgium.
If these people were themselves cry
ing at our doors there is scarce a house
in Harrisburg that would not be open
to them. If they stood starving in our
streets the stock of every grocery in
the city would be exhausted that they
might have food. That they are some
thousands of miles away does not
make the need one whit less urgent.
Try to put yourself in the place of
one of these poor Belgians, homeless,
helpless, moneyless and hungry, with
your wife and your little ones facing
death by starvation. In such desperate
straits, how would you feel toward a
people living amid all the blessings of
peace and prosperity who would not
turn a hand toward the relief of your
loved ones?
Let us give, and give generously, re
membering always the words of the
Master: "Verily, I say unto you, Inas
much as ye have done it unto one of
the least of these my brethren, ye
have done it unto me."
NOW is the accepted time. To-inor
row the opportunity may have passed
never to return, and for your neglect
an innocent life in far-off Belgium may
have been snuffed out.
It is predicted now In quarters which
are usually well informed that the
Interstate Commerce Commission will
shortly authorize an advance in railroad
freight rates. Such an order would
probably start much activity through
out the country and reach farther in
encouraging industry than any one
move that could be made at this time.
EMPLOYES AND EFFICIENCY
SLOWLY but surely business is
refusing to put up with the vices
of its employes. Time was when
a workman on the job could
with impunity "liquor-up" und go on
V, week's spree without being greatly
condemned by his employer. But as
the years went by and efficiency en
tered largely into the question of
profit and loss, business learned that
It did not pay to keep men on its
hands who were intemperate. And so
the ban on all drinking was finally
placed by the railroads and other big
corporations of the country.
And now the efficiency committees
of the Pennsylvania Railroad are dis
cussing the dethronement of the god
of Nicotine even as they long since put
the bomb under the throne of old King
Barleycorn.
The efficiency experts have figured
that the men in the many offices of the
company annually waste many months
of time in the aggregate by "lighting
MONDAYVEVENINC?, HARRISBURG 1&3&S& TELEGRAPH NOVEMBER 9, 1914.
up" and "filling up" their hods —
cigars and clgareta. As the men are
paid by the company to use their time
for the railroad's benetit, the experts
claim that- there is no good reason
why smoking should not be prohibited
during working hours.
Much of the public work of the city
can ba pushed before the severely cold
weather stops outdoor operations. As
has been suggested by the Telegraph
more than once, it is important that
the public undertakings be kept moving
as long as possible in order that idle
men shall have employment- We be
lieve that the gentlemen of the City
Council understand this and are pro
ceeding accordingly. Every day of em
ployment means just that much less
suffering- on account of Idleness during
the stress of the later winter months.
KTTXKEL'S BIG VOTE
THERE is widespread regret
among his friends throughout
the State over the fact that
Judge George Kunkel fell short
of an election, but his splendid show
ing in a majority of the counties dem
onstrates the good opinion held of him
by a great host of men who appreciate
.the worth of the distinguished local
Jurist.
It is also a compliment to him that
Governor Tener does not hesitate to
say that he would immediately ap
point Judge Kunkel to the higher
court "if the opportunity came during
the present administration.
While the official vote has not yet
been computed and there may still be
hope for Judge Kunkel in the final re
vision of the figures it is plainly evi
dent that the peculiar form of the
ballot is distinctly a hindrance to the
nonpartisan nominees. There can be
little doubt that thousands of voters
failed to express any preference for
the candidates of the judiciary and it
is quite probable the total for the
nonpartisan ticket will be many thou
sands below the total for party tickets.
Another sign of the gradual return
of the people to sanity Is the protest
against the continued calamitv howling
over eugenics. Little by little the
flighty men and women who have had
the center of the stage are being pushed
into the wings.
HAHKISBVKG BANKS
READING over the statements of
the several national and State
banks in this city one must be
impressed with the stability and
conservative character of these finan
cial institutions. Harrisburg has been
peculiarly fortunate in the handling
of its banking interests and at this
particular time these statements are
full of encouragement for the future.
While conservatism has been abso
lutely necessary in the conduct of the
several banks they have not in a single
instance taken advantage of an unfor
tunate situation to profit themselves or
menace the business interests of the
community by unfair tactics in the
withholding of fiinds or charging ex-
Icessive interest rates.
These institutions demonstrate in
Uheir official statements under oath
®he stable character of the business
community of Harrisburg. Nothing at
this time could have been more im
pressive of the solid character of Har
risburg than these reports, and
when we speak of the city there is in
cluded, of course, the several banks
and trust companies of Steelton,
Hershey, New Cumberland and the
surrounding towns.
Park Commissioner Harvey Taylor
must have Irritated a certain candidate
who failed to arrive at a certain office
In a recent election. In looking over
the figures we find that the First Ward
was strong for the Governor-elect.
GOOD TEAM WORK
WH. HORNER, chairman of
the Republican County Com
a mittee, has sent a letter of
thanks and appreciation to
the various active spirits in the recent
conflict. He says:
Our success was due in large
measure to the faithful service
rendered by our friends, and we
want you to feel that your work is
greatly appreciated. In such a
magnificent victory there is some
glory for all and we should be
proud of the fact that good old
Dauphin county made such an ex
cellent showing t
• This Is the sort of letteV which does
quite as much good as the letter which
is sent out before an election. Party
workers have a right to know that
their efforts are appreciated and
Chairman Horner, who has modestly
accepted the congratulations of his
friends all over the county, manifestly
realizes that team work is all im
portant in a political campaign.
Governor-elect Brumbaugh will have
the support of a Republican Senate and
House and the prospects are favorable
for a straightforward business session
of tlie General Assembly.
NEXT SUMMER'S CARNIVAL
iIT is stated that the Chamber of
Commerce directors will meet this
evening and among other things
will consider the proposed river
. I carnival and historic pageant for the
Isummer of 1915. This celebration is
1 exciting great interest already
' throughout the city and it is under
stood that the Mummers' Association
\ will continue that organization after
the first of January in order to co-op
erate In the arrangements for the big
carnival.
9 Harrisburg is some city and these
4 great civic and historic affairs tend to
1 attract the attention of thousands else-
I where who have already acquired an
1 appreciative knowledge of this city
>' and its progress.
» We believe that the live wires of
- the Chamber of Commerce may be
f safely trusted to start the carnival
t well on Its way during the winter
» months so that there may be all kinds
5 of co-operating organizations helping
f in the important preliminary work.
i It is an inspiration to see the peo
ple of any city pulling together for
s the benefit of the whole community.
- Harrisburg has done admirably for a
I considerable period of years and will
t do even better in the years to come.
The effect of the recent election up
on the business of the country may be
purely psychological, but it is the kind
of psychology that is producing the
most beneficial results in starting the
wheels golni.
EVENING CHAT 1
It only takes a trip through any one
of Harrlsburg's markets on a Wednes
day or a Saturday to impress one how
applicable to Pennsylvania's garden
district, the Susquehanna Valley, are
those two lines of the psalmist:
"He maketh peace in thy borders
and tllleth thee with the finest
of the wheat."
Not in years has there been such an
abundance of the good things of the
earth displayed upon the stalls of the
markets in Chestnut, Market, Kelker
and Verbeke streets. Every product
of tile farm appears to have yielded
Its increase and the thought is borne
in on one that Harrisburg is certainly
fortunate even among the thousands
of cities of a country blessed with
record-breaking crops to have such a
supply at its doors. It is true that
with the horn of plenty running over
prices for some things are abnormally
high. While many mills and factories
are still suffering from industrial de
pression. no increase In the purchasing
power of money, which, economists
say. should be the accompaniment, has
struck anyone with force. Meat con
tinues high jn price and war bids fair
to send it higher, and wheat, already
selling at war figures, may rise again.
Hut the fact remains that the yields of
the orchards, the fields and the gar
dens are something wonderful and
fortunate. Prices for these things are
not as proportionately high as for the
two great staples and the supply on
Saturday, for instance, was something
which attracted the attention of even
passers-by and rejoiced the heart of
the housekeeper. This part of the
State has always been an object of
interest to the dwellers in the two
large cities Of Pennsylvania and Indeed
many people from industrial com
munities have congratulated Harris
burg with its neighbors of Lancaster,
York, Reading, Lebanon and other
places in this district upon the food
supply. It is to be regretted that this
same district should be the happy
hunting ground of the commission
buyers and that much that is raised
here should not yield the profit to the
man who grows it. but .it has always
been the case that the district raises
more than it needs and there is a
variety of food offered in Harrisburg
twice a week that is scarcely equaled
anywhere.
Speaking of country life, not only
was this year so favorable to all crops,
but it seems that Providence, in view
of the war which is devastating the
grain bearing lands of Europe, has
given an unusual brand of weather to
our country in order to enable as large
an area of land as possible to be
ploughed and seeded for wheat. High
prices stimulate wheat growing as they
do everything else and there has been
a tremendous acreage put into wheat
in this region. The weather has been
very favorable to this work and indeed
has been of such a variety as to enable
much work to be done about farms
which will Inure to advantage In the
Spring. Perhaps the greatest trouble
has been with fertilizer, which lias
been upset to a certain extent by the
war. but this is being overcome with
some aid on the part of the State
authorities.
Prices demanded for eggs in the
last, few years have caused more
chicken cdops to be erected in Dauphin
and Cumberland counties than the
average man realizes. It does not take
much to grow chickens. Judging from
some of the flocks now living the con
tented life in Harrisburg back yards,
the average hen does not even need
room. The henhouse has replaced the
doghouse and Biddy is almost as much
of a favorite as Tom or Maria. More
people are interested in chickens than
ever anil folks who talked politics and
real estate in cars are now apt to be
talking about Rhode Island Reds or
Black Minorcas. Yards of rhapsodies
have been written about the hen and
her traits, her virtues and her values,
but It is a safe bet that she occupies
a goodly share of the "around the
house'' thoughts of the average Har
risburger. especially 110 who dwells In
a home with a yard about it. It's flnt
to go and gather half a dozen eggs
from the henhouse when eggs are
bringing down 40 cents at the grocer's.
This all brings up the fact that Har
risburg. the center of a web of rail
ways and right in one of the richest
agricultural regions on this globe, does
not have a cold storage warehouse
where its fruits, its vegetables and
other foods may be stored. It has
facilities for its grain and they are
being enlarged, but it does seem funnv
that the choicest apples of the eastern
states, the fine vegetables, the various
other things raised at our doors, are
shipped through this city to some
other place and stored. We not only
lose what profit there may be in that
business, but we often buy them and
pay profits to other people.
I WELL KNOWN PEOPLE 1
—Professor Eric Doollttle, the Unl
verslty of Pennsylvania astronomer,
made some very fine photographs of
the transit of Mercury.
—Mrs. George F. Baer, widow of
the. Reading's president, will make her
home in Reading.
—Senator C. 11. Kline, of Pittsburgh,
president pro tem. of the Senate, is a
member of the bar of both Philadel
phia and Allegheny.
—E. L. Rapp, the Berks school
superintendent, is one of the speakers
for the Delaware teachers' Institutes.
—Major B. H. Whlttaker, well
known Philadelphia guardsman, has
been appointed adjutant of the First
Brigade staff.
I DO YOU KNOW 1
That Harrisburg makes a large
tonnage of rubber collars every
year?
———_
A HELPLESS ADMINISTRATION
[Philadelphia Inquirer.]
President AVilson is said to be pleas
ed over the result, holding that since
the Democrats will retain possession
of the House of Representatives his
administration has been indorsed. If
he can llnd any com Tort in the situa
tion by all means let him enjoy it.
But the fact is that from a majority
of nearly ISO in the House the Demo
crats, counting in the solid South, will
have but a slight grasp upon that
slight for the President to
force his own views upon men who
may be unwilling listeners. Add to
this fact that present Democratic
States have been swept from their
moorings; that nearly everywhere ex
cept In the South and far West the
Republican tide has swamped Demo
crats and Progressives alike, and the
outlook for a continuance of Demo
cratic rule beyond two years Is any
thing but cheering.
The Present Congress with its huge
Democratic majority in the House will
expire by limitation on March 4. The
time Intervening is too short to put
through any more legislation of an
experimental and doubtful nature.
The dozens of Democratic members
who have been led to defeat bv blind
ly following their Presidential leader
will be in no humor to obey caucus
dictation. As for the new Congress,
the Democratic majority will be so
small as to make anything like dicta
tion at the White Ilouse impossible.
Hence the administration will be help
less to do further damage, especially
since, as a leader, the President Is
done for.
REIPPOmiMENT
WILL BE EIUCTED
Changes in Congressional and Leg
islative Districts Will Be
Effected Next Year
SHORT SESSION IS FAVORED
Governor Has Another Judge to
Name; Local Option's Strength
Is Problematical
Congressional, senatorial and legis
lative reapportionment will be added
to the list of things to be done by the
next General Assembly -when the pro
gram is made up. In 1911 the reap
portionment could not be worked out
because the census flgures were not
available, according to statements
made at the time and last session there
was so much to be talked about that
reapportionment was forced to play a
very minor role. This coming session
there is little doubt of passage of the
bills. Some studies of districts are
already being made, especially where
defeats have been blamed on the way
districts were made up.
Judging from what is being heard in j
Philadelphia and Pittsburgh the days
of committees on committees, such
as made up the organization of the
last House, are ended and there will
be the return to the caucus system
which the Telegraph and other news
papers predicts after the General As
sembly of 1913 had gone home. The
calls for the caucus meetings will be
issued by the Republicans next month
and the meetings will be held the
night of January 4.
The idea of a short session, ad
journing April 15 or 22, appeals to
everyone and the legislative program
will include the compensation act,
commonsense amendments to ballot
laws, sensible labor laws and other
things.
Just what will happen to local op
tion ia being much discussed. The ac
tivities of the Anti-Saloon League
bosses caused loss' of members and
it is doubtful If local option will poll
as many votes In the House us last
time.
The death of Judge H. W. Scott
at Easton on Saturday makes another
judicial place for the Governor to fill.
He will name the men for the various
vacancies in due season, he says.
Herman P. Miller, Senate librarian,
said to-day that while accurate figures
on the results in two senatorial dis
tricts had not been received and might
result in the defeat of Candidates
Howard and Emerson, yet there would
be a Republican majority in the Sen
ate greater than last session. The
Republican majority in the House is
something great.
The Republicans of Philadelphia
are already organizing for the in
augural parades and half a dozen
clubs will be in line. Congressman
W. S. Vare will head the South Phila
delphia contingent as in the Tener pa
rade.
Monroe county newspapers opposed
to Congressman Palmer are calling at
tention to the way his pluralities have
been declining. In his senatorial con
test he received a plurality of only 45 3
in his congressional district, while H.
J. Steele, elected to Congress, received
8,863. In 1910 Palmer liad a plurality
of over TOO and of over 3,700 two years
ago.
—The usual presidential talk Is fol
lowing the election. The Scranton
Tribune-Republican voices what a
number of speakers in the last cam
paign hinted at by booming: Dr. Brum
baugh for President. Senator Ollie
James, ot' Kentucky, says that the vic
tory of Penrose makes him the logical
Republican choice for the presidency.
When the Senator heard it he just
laughed.
—Senator Penrose will return from
his gunning trip to-day and will have
a talk with State Chairman Crow and
other leaders.
—The Democratic papers are trying
very hard to get up a factional row
among Republicans in Philadelphia.
The only thing is that he row won't
row.
—Senator W. C. Sproul, of Chester,
lis being boomed for head of the Union
League ill Philadelphia.
—Some of the replies received by
the Philadelphia Ledger show strong
support among men of all parties for
the Brumbaugh platform.
V. S. SENATOR PENROSE
LOOKING AHEAD TO 11)1(1
In a letter to the Telegraph express
ing appreciation of this newspaper's
"earnest and effective support during
the campaign," United States Senator
Penrose says:
"The victory throughout the State
and nation is an unqualified endorse
ment of the Republican policy of pro
tection and presages the election
of a Republican President and both
branches of Congress In 1916."
THE VERIOT OF HIS NEIGHBORS
[From the New York Herald]
Boies Penrose has been "copy" for
magazine muckrakers and target for
attack by all stripes of reformers ever
since he fell heir to the leadership so
long held by Matthew Stanley Quay.
Every sin against the moral code ot
politics, if there is such a code, has
been laid at his door. During this
year's campaign the attacks upon him
have been especially virulent and vi
triolic. Mr. Roosevelt contributed his
full share. President Wilson contrib
uted to the support of Mr. Penrose's
Democratic opponent all the power of
the national administration. Yet Pen
rose won by a plurality that under
any conditions would be regarded stu
pendous. .
Isn't it rather difficult to believe
that an overwhelming majority of Re
publicans in the primary, and a large
plurality of Pennsylvania's voters in
the election, would have given their
support to Penrose if they thought the
things charged against him were true?
BRUMBAUGH FOB PBBSII)E\T
[From the Scranton Tribune-Republi
can.)
We place in nomination, as the next
Republican candidate for President of
the United States, Dr. Martin &. Brum
baugh, of Pennsylvania. • • •
There is not a man living who can
place ills finger on an action by Dr.
Martin G. Brumbaugh that Is to his
discredit. He is a man about whom
the independent voters of the country
can rally enthusiastically. Kven Demo
crats, dissatisfied with the course of
of their own leaders in inviting dls-
I aster, could give their support, without
| loss of self-respect, to the brilliant
i Peunsylvanlan.
i He is the one man in all the nation,
fitted for the place, who has emerged
I from the campaign of 1914 without hav
| ing committed a single blunder upon
i which to hang an attack in a Presiden
tial election, who is above suspicion
and whose personal and poltical views
are such that he makes a powerful ap
peal to the best, most wholesome senti
ment of the American people. There
fore. he would make an ideal standard
bearer.
( OUR DAILY LAUGH )
Ilia Viewpoint Homealek f
The styles and He: I was In
the girls who two places at the
wear 'em are same time onco.
very much alike. She: lutpos-
How so? slble.
They're both so He: Yes, I was
easily ruffled. in Europe, and
homesick.
Not That A)t thr Play
V say your wife The usher, lofty
is rusticating? be | n(5 . he>
Hardly that, I Amid the crush
•??<s> rUß tlcate 011 Does everything,
I1F«.00 a week it seems to
easy but it costs me,
her $75.00. Excepting ush.
PICKING THE! WINNRR
By Win*; Dinger
I used to think that baseball,
When it came to a bet.
Was just about the worst thing
On which to try to get
A line as to the winner—
And then I changed my mind-
No more uncertain grame than
Election could I find.
And now once more I'm turncoat,
There's something much worse still
For one to risk his coin on.
And If you want your fill _
Of trying to pick the winner,
Get busy on football—
This week just make some mind bets —
I'll bet you lose them all.
I EDITORIAL COMMENT]
Philadelphia Press. lf Governor
elect Brumbaugh should not care to
make the various appointments which
he Is authorized by law to make, and
for which he will be responsible, there
are plenty who would be glad to take
the job off his hands.
Aharon Herald. No longer is there
any doubt as to the River of Doubt. It's
Salt River.
Pottavlllr Journal. One of the won
ders of the election Is the remarkably
close vote which was cast for Supreme
Court judge. No matter which candi
date Is defeated there will be no sting
of defeat accompanying it. Defeat is
bad enough, but to be overwhelmingly
repudiated is a bitter pill to swallow.
BUNK
A hermit there was, and he lived in a
grotto.;
Both learning and wisdom had ho; I
And every one wondered what could
be the motto
, That guided existance care-free.
Just why he was wise or learned or
clever
Because he kept house in a grot
The world never knew. Though it
questioned him ever.
The hoar hermit answered them not.
And because this old world Is accus
tomed to getting
Whatever it wants for the price,
A hundred —a thousand —rich tourists
came fretting
And bribing with chicken and rice.
As they kowtowed and begged the
graybeard to have pity,
He grabbled up his staff with a roar
And sent them all scampering back to
the city—
But they left all their gifts at his
door!
The hermit, obese —for digestion
abused him—
Confided at last at death's door:
"I've lived without labor! Man wants
what's refused him.
Rebuffs make him pay for it more!"
—Llppincott's
"God the All-Terrible."
(Russian National Hymn.)
God the All Terrible! Thou Who or
dalnest
Thunder Thy clarion and lightning
Thy sword;
Show forth Thy pity on high where
Thou reignest.
Give to us peace In our time, O
Lord!
God the All Merciful, earth hath for
saken
Thy holy ways, and hath sighted
Thy word;
Let not Thy wrath in Its terror
awaken!
Give to us peace in our time, O
Lord!
God the Omnipotent, mighty Avenger,
Watching Invisible, judging un
heard;
Save us in mercy, and save us in dan
ger—
Give to us peace in our time. O
Lord!
NEURALGIC PAINS
Among the causes of neumlgla the
most important is the general physical
condition of the patient. Neuralgia is
most common In persons reduced in
strength by overwork or some form of
overexertion, physical or mental, or by
loss of sleep. Anaemia, or lack of
good, red blood. Is a common cause of
neuralgia. The reason ?s<r this is plain.
The nerves get their nourishment
through the blood. When the blood is
thin and weak the nerves are badly
nourished, they become inflamed and
neuralgic pains are produced. These
pains have been described us "the cry
of a starved nerve." «
Hot applications to soothe these in
flamed nerves and Dr. Williams' Pink
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London Spectator to advertise the
Empire's need of field glasses and sad
dles. His appeal for the former won
such a prompt and generous response
that he has been encouraged to ask
for saddles. A personal note of thanks
goes to each donor.
That the "safety first" movement
is as old as the first metacoad and
dates back to the time of the first
wild, peranueleary kiss is the belief of
Vance Thompson, author of "The I
Kgo Book" (Dutton), which sounds
ponderous, but which is. In reality a
little book, a light book (in weight
and content), and also a delightful
book. "Man has never done any
thing but try to find a way of living
with safety," says Mr. Thompson in
liis chapter entitled "The Hive and
the Bee." How to protect yourself,
how to keep your Ego sate and yet
pay your debt to the hive, how to
know with granite certainty that you
are John Smith and not Cecil Smith,
are some of the useful things "The
Ego Book" teaches.
"Germany and England" (Dut
ton) is one of the smallest books on
the war that have been published, hut
its importance is not to be gauged by
its size. Lord Roberts, the British
Field Marshal, and the Hon. Joseph
H. Choate pronounce It to be one of
the most significant books on the sub
ject that is focusing the attention of
the world—the war in Europe.
cmSE
[From the Telegraph of Nov. 9, 186-4.]
Price Ijosos 450
St. Louis, Nov. 9.—General Price,
the Rebel commander, lost 450 men
on the 28th of October. Fifty wagons
were burned. The remainder of his
army is now in Arkansas.
Sheridan Jnnctivo
Washington, Nov. 9.—General Sher
idan's army has been Inactive for sev
eral days.
IN HARRISBURC FIFTY 1
YEARS AGO TO-DAY I
[From the Telegraph of Nov. 9, 18(54.]
Cabbage Abundant
Cabbage is abundant and many citi
zens are making large quantities of
sauerkraut.
Repair Sower
Workmen are repairing the sewer
at Second and Chestnut streets.
Commercial School
A commercial college will be estab
lished in the near future in this city.
It will be a branch of the Bryant,
Stratton and Barnister Commercial
College of Philadelphia.
AN EVENING THOUGHT
Make not thyself the judge of
any man.—Longfellow.
THE POET'S THEME
By EUa Wheeler Wilcox
Copywright, 1914, the Star Co.
Why should the poet of these pregnant
times
Be asked to sing of war's unholy
primes?
To laud and eulogize the trade which
thrives
On horrid holocausts of human lives?
Man was a fighting beast when earth
was young
And war the only theme when Homer
sung.
'Twixt might and might the equal con
test lay;
Not so the battles of our modern day.
Too often now the conquering hero
struts
A Gulliver among the Lilllputs.
Success no longer rests on skill or fate,
But on the mo\ r ements of a syndicate.
Of old, men fought and deemed it
right and just.
To-day the warrior fights becauso he
must;
And in his gooret soul feels shame be
cause
He desecrates the higher manhood's
laws.
Oh. there are worthier themes for
poet's pen
In this great hour than bloody deeds
of men.
The rights of many—not worth of
one—
The coming issues, not the battle done;
The awful opulence and awful need —
The rise of brotherhood —the fall of
greed.
The soul of man r«plet« with God's
own force.
The call "to heights," and not the cry
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Are there not better themes in this
great age
For pen of poet, or for voice of sage.
Than those old tales of killing? Song
is dumb
Only that greater song hi time may
come.
"When comes the bard, he whom tha
world waits for.
Ho will not sing of War.