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Average for the yenr 1014—23,102
Average for the year 1913—21,577
Average for the year 1012—21,175
Average for the year 1011—18,851
Average for the year 1010—17,405
TUESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 12
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GOOD WORK
THE increased activities of the
Board of Health, under the di
rection of Dr. Raunick and his
assistants are unquestionably re
sponsible for the steadily lowering
death rate in Harrisburg. The annual
report of the board shows that while
the population was materially Increas
ed last year, the mortality rate was
lower than ever before for a like
period.
Filtered water, pure milk, food in
spection, sanitary housing, health In
structions, strict quarantine and the
prompt use of antltoxlne in the treat
ment of diphtheria are unquestionably
large factors in this very gratifying
state of affairs, and to make these
measures effective, has required the
constant thought and unremitting at
tention of all of tne employes of the
Health Department. There was a time
when this division of the city govern
ment was little more than a form, it
had not the respect of the people at
large and was unable to perform suc
cessfully even those duties to which it
did pay some degree of attention.
Dr. Raunick has been the prime
mover in the campaign that has led up
to the changed conditions and he is
deserving of his full share of the
credit that goes with success.
Best of all, however. Is the lower
death rate, which means that there
are boys and girls and men and women
alive and enjoying the pleasures of
life in Harrisburg to-day who, but for
the activities of the Health Board in
their behalf, would now be sleeping
the sleep that knows no walking.
Which Is about as big and Important
an accomplishment, by the way, as It
comes within the powers of any gov
ernmental bureau to perform.
WHOLE THOUGHT NOT OF WAR
ENGLAND appears to be the only
nation now at war that is not
devoting its full thought to the
conflict. This is evident from the
fact that a number of her young men
are now in this country, in full under
standing with a trade-spreading plan
of the government, to do what they
can to keep factories running at home.
More striking than this, however, is
the Instance of Sir Ernest Sliackleton
going calmly forward with his work of
Antarctic exploration while his com
rades of the royal navy stand and
sleep by their guns in constant readi
ness for combat with the German foe.
Evidently the oft-repeated decla
ration of confidence in the ultimate
success of the allied arms Is more than
mere bragadocio on the part of Great
Britain. A nation that proceeds with
its scientific investigations while its
soldiers are in the trenches and its
warships stripped for action is by no
means down to its last man or its last
dollar, especially since this work takes
some of its most skilled and courageous
naval officers out of the country for
several years at an expense that will
total near the million mark.
There may be those who think Sir
Ernest Shackleton and his fellow
voyagers lucky to be assigned to such
a mission during the fighting period,
but at that there is not much more
than a toss-up of preference between
fighting in the North Sea and daring
death amid the perils of the frigid
Antarctic region.
NATIONAL EMPLOYMENT BUREAU
PRESIDENT WILSON'S plan for
the creation of a National Em
ployment Bureau, while not new,
is a subject worthy of attention.
If it does nothing more than give us
another chapter of discussion and in
formation concerning the great prob
lem of keeping our people employed
all the time. Possibly, indeed very
likely, the National Employment Bu
reau proposed would not measure up
to expectations, but it would be a step
in the right direction.
It is no longer true that In this coun
try "a man is a man if he Is willing to
toll, and the humblest may gather the
fruits of the soil." But It ought to be.
There is really no excuse for unem
ployment in a nation so little de
veloped and so full of work crying out
to be done as the United States. That
thousands of our people are In distress
and that looal committees have had to
be formed to relieve the suffering aris
ing therefrom is proof only of our
stupidity. Everybody realizes that
there is really no excuse for this con
dition. We as a people have the
remedy at hand, but we fall to use It.
Public work Is the answer. We are
not yet educated economically to the
point of keeping all our people em
TUESDAY EVENING,
ployed In private enterprises all the
time. But there Is not a city or town
in the whole land that is not In dire
need of improvements and betterments
of various kinds. Eventually this work
will be done. Why not now, when
not only the working people, but the
business people of every community,
would feel the Impetus of more money
put into circulation?
For Instance, take Pennsylvania, or
Dauphin county, or, to come right
down home, the city of Harrisburg.
All of them have need of improve
ments that would provide work for
hundreds, and none of them find their
credit exhausted. Indeed, all three
would have little trouble in negotiating
a loan. Yet there is not a single move
In that direction. Some day we will
learn to cope with conditions like these
and anything that will bring the so
lution and the means nearer is worthy
of consideration. ,
ONLY BEGUN
// yy MERICAN charity saved Bel
/\ gium from starvation," says
4 lk Ethelbert Watts, American
consul general at Brussels,
reporting on conditions in that coun
try which he has left temporarily for
a brief rest.
That the plea for aid which roused
the people of America as perhaps
they were never roused before, was
not exaggerated Is shown by Mr.
Watts' statement that when the first
American relief ship arrived there was
less than three days' supply of food
in all Belgium.
The consul general's report Is In
teresting, and it is gratifying to note
the ready response of Americans to
the call of a stricken people, but he
might have gone farther. He might
have said that we are Just beginning
to save Belgium, for the need is as
great now as ever, and it will be so
until the activities of the hostile
armies are transferred to other scenes.
Even then Belgium will be scarcely
able to support herself for many
months.
All of which Is preliminary to a plea
for the support of the Harrisburg War
and Emergency Relief Committee,
which Is doing a work of two-fold
charity. Last week, with money rais
ed by various means, this committee
provided sewing for 188 women of
Harrisburg. Thus our own people
who needed work were given oppor
tunity to earn money, and the gar
ments they made were shipped to New
York to be forwarded to Belgium and
elsewhere In Europe—where the
heavy hand of war has left women and
children destitute to face the chill
winds of winter.
This Is a thoroughly practical
method of dealing with a situation
that, on account of our own lack of
employment at home, for a time 1
threatened many complications. The
money given to the relief committee
Is, first of all, expended for materials
manufactured in the United States.
Second, the clothing to be sent abroad
is made by Harrisburg women who
need work, and third, the plea for
assistance abroad is amply met.
But this must be remembered —THE
LOCAL COMMITTEE CANNOT DO
MUCH WITHOUT FUNDS.
How much have YOU given?
How much are YOU going to give?
UNFAIR DISCRIMINATION
INVESTIGATION and a decade of
practice have proved that the
graduates of the Harrisburg
Teachers' Training School are In
every way equal and in many lines
the superior of the normal school
product.
Under the school code, the city
training school is not recognized as
being on as high a plane as the State
Normal schools, despite the higher
qualifications of the local schools
graduates. That the Harrisburg
training school girls are more efficient
is not strange, for they have six full
years' work, whereas many students
enter the Normal schools directly
from the grammar schools or follow
ing a short country high school train-1
lng. The Normal students are given i
permanent certificates upon gradu-1
ation without further examination, but
the girls of the Harrisburg school are
subjected to endless tests and try-outs,
and they can obtain permanent certi
ficates only after a long series of tem
porary certificates have been granted.
Any fair-minded person will agree
that such injustice and such discrimi
nation in favor of the normal school
should be remedied as soon as It is
possible to enact the necessary legis
lation.
PROTECT OUR BREAD SUPPLY
THE government at Washington
will be warranted In taking any
steps that may bo necessary to
protect the bread supply of the
American people. Charity begins at
home. The size of the 5-cent loaf is
small enough now. It is hard as It is
to keep the bread box full. Before
catering to the needs of the war lords
who are responsible for plunging all
Europe into war we should see to it
that we keep at home sufficient to feed
our own people at prices no greater
than they are paying at present. The
American workman is in no position to
pay 6 cents a loaf for his bread for the
sako of putting millions into the
pockets of the speculators who would
sell at unheard of figures abroad and
let our own millions content them
selves as best they could with what
remained.
If a government embargo on wheat
Is necessary to this end, then let the
embargo be declared, with the possible
exception of freewill offerings con
signed to the starving people of Bel
gium. Such a step would do no Injury
to the farmer. His wheat is for the
most part already sold and in the
.hands of professional traders, who are
merely interested in getting as much
"rake-off" as the people will stand.
To be sure, Europe needs our wheat.
But we also need It, and we grew It
and we should have It. If there be any
left after the American consumers
have been supplied at prices approach
ing normal, all very well, let it go
abroad. But not a single grain should
be shipped out of the United States
until It is absolutely certain that the
G-cent loaf has been safeguarded and
that our people are not put to any
more hardships In the way of Increased
household expenses than those by
which they are now handicapped.
I EVENTNG"CHAT I
Announcement by Representative
Fred E. Gelsei* of Easton, that he will
present a bill tc make the' laurel the
State flower means that the question
which created much of the entertain
ment in the last session will bob up
again. The propositions for a State
llower, a State song and & State box
ing commission to regulate prizefights
furnished opportunity for much
speechmaking when things were dull
and there was no uplift legislation
pending. Last session the first propo
sition for a State flower came from
H. Clark Jackson, of Wayne county,
who wanted to make the daisy the
flower. This was amended to make it
►the violet when it got into committee,
but when the bill caine out it was put
back to the daisy again and then
changed to the arbutus after several
committes of ladles had gotten busy.
The tangle became so great finally
that sponsors for State flowers gatfe
up. No less than four State songs
appeared in bills last session and the
Legislature is already threatened with
more. Such bills invariably stir up
much opposition because many legis
lators have constituents who are anx
ious to shine.
The "wash day lunch club" is the
most informal organization in Har
risburg, if the term organization can
bo applied to a body that has no of
ficers, no constitution and only one
rule-lunch at some appointed down
town hotel or restaurant every Mon
day noon. The idea originated with
John H. Nixon, division freight agent
of the Pennsylvania Railroad at this
point. Mr. Nixon conceived the no
tion—just how one may do no more
than imagine—that the average wife
would as soon as not be free of the
encumbrance of her husband's pres
ence at lunch on Monday, and he con
fided his theory to a few of the live
wires of the Harrisburg Rotary Club.
He was not much surprised to find
that they agreed with him, and the
"wash-day lunch club" was the re
sult. Every Monday noon it meets
and lunches informally. Anybody who
so desires Is entitled to discuss any
thing he cares to, informally, but no
body is permitted to make a speech.
Likewise there is no presiding officer
any everybody present pays for his
own lunch. Membership is confined to
the Rotary Club roster, and anybody
whose name appears on that list is
given a right to royal welcome. Yes
terday the "club" met at the Plaza Ho
tel and so large was the attendance
that it overflowed the private dining
room where the "club" has hitherto
foregathered and additional tables
were spread in the large restaurant
room in front. The proprietor pre
sented each man present with a leath
er purse as a souvenir.
Frank L. Mulholland, president of
the International Association of Ro
tary clubs, will be the guest of the
Harrisburg Rotary Club at dinner at
the Harrisburg Club at 7 o'clock next
Monday evening. Mr. Mulholland is a
well-known lawyer of Toledo, Ohio,
and is prominent In Chamber of Com
merce work. Indeed it is said he did
more for Toledo as head of {he cham
ber of that city than any man who
lias ever held the place before or
since. The Harrisburg Rotarlans have
been trying for a long time to get
Mulholland to visit the club and are
preparing a big time for him next
Monday. In view of the fact that the
day following will be Inauguration
day, the regular meeting of the club
will be omitted, In all likelihood.
Winter wheat appears to have sur
vived the very cold weather of the
last thirty days, judging from the way
it looks In the fields about the elty.
Some of the farms within ten miles of
Ilarrisburg have larger areas in wheat
than they have had for a long time,
the owners having seented the rise in
price which has come along as a result
of the war. The wheat Is looking
strong and well ev en in exposed por
tions of farms. When it is consid
ered that the mercury was down
around zero several times, the wheat
has gotten through very wpll, and it
will take very severe weather to pre
vent it being very productive next
spring. People who follow farming
say that there may be some spring
wheat sown this year as a result of
the high prices.
THE JOYS OF THE ROAD
Now the joys of the road are chiefly
these,
A crimson touch on the hardwood trees;
A vagrant's morning wide and blue.
In early Fall, when the winds walks,
too;
A shadowy highway cool and brown,
Alluring up and enticing down,
l'"rom rippled water to dappled swamp.
From purple glory to scarlet pomp;
The outward eye, the quiet will,
And the striding heart from hill to hill.
An Idle noon, a bubbling spring.
The sea In the pine-tops murmuring;
A scrap of gossip at the ferry:
A comrade neither glum nor merry,
Asking nothing, revealing naught.
But minting his words from a fund of
thought.
These are the joys of the open road,
For him who travels without a load.
—Bliss Carman.
"I HEAR A SINGING lII3ART"
I spoke a traveler on the road
Who smiled beneatp his leaden load,
"How play you such a blithesome part?"
"Comrade, I bear a singing heart!"
I questioned one whose path with pain
In the grim shadows long had lain,
"How face you thuß life's thorny
smart?"
"Comrade, I bear a singing heart!"
T hailed one whom adversity
Could not make bend the hardy knee,
"How such brave seeming? 'Tell the
art!"
"Comrade, I bear a singing heart!"
Friend, blest be thou if thou canst say
Upon the inevitable way
Whereon we fare, sans guide or chart—
'"Comrade, I bear a singing heart!"
—CLINTON SCOLIjARD,
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Newspapers and
Local Dealers
"To-day the best selling prod
ucts, especially those of home
consumption, are those being ad
vertised in the daily newspapers.
Many of these were practically
unknown until recently. Now
they can be found on the shelves
of nearly every dealer.
"Inquiry will reveal that the
dealer recognizes the fact that
the advertising of these prod
ucts In newspapers published in
Ills home town and read by his
own, or possible customers Is not
only helping to hold his trade by
f riving them what they want, but
t is likewise developing trade
for him by bringing more cus
tomers to his store.
"He realizes that only a small
per cent, of his trade are read
ers of national publications. He
does know that In practically ,
every home served by him a dally
newspaper 1s veart aim that paper
Is one or more of the daily news
papers published In his own
town."
Eitrupt from n nprreh by IV.
C. Johnson.
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HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH
BRUMBAUGHS WISHES:
TO HAVE RIGHT OF WAY;
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Governor-elect and Speaker Am
bler Working Out Harmonious
Program
SESSION IS TO BE SHORT
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Important Bills to Come Up First;
Message to Be Strong
Document
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The Brumbaugh message to Legis
lature and people as well-—not a mere
perfunctory inaugural address, is to
have the right of way in his considera
tion to the exclusion of the many ap
pointments he shortly will have to
make.
The Brumbaugh campaign pledges
are to have the right of way on the
legislative calendar; few other mat
ters are to be taken up and the session
is to bo brief and decisive.
These were the developments which
come from the headquarters of the
Governor-elect and of the Speaker of
the House In Philadelphia. Both men
had many callers, but both applied
themselves to their common purpose
of having enacted into law the many
matters which were pledged to the
people in the November campaign.
From the headquarters of Gov
ernor-elect Brumbaugh came this an
nouncement
"I am confining my attention
wholly to my message. I shall
make it look two ways—to people
and to legislators. 1 shall give no
consideration to appointments un
til the message is disposed of and
I hope so to frame It that there
will not be a man or woman or
child in the Commonwealth who
cannot understand exactly what I
am anxious to bring about."
—Though the Governor-elect asked
to be excused from any further dis
cussion of public affairs at this time,
It is known that although thousands
of suggestions have come to him as to
the personnel of members of his Cab
inet, he has held all in abeyance and
will not make any decision until to
wards the end of the week, and even
then may not announce any appoint
ments or perhaps only those of his
private secretary and Attorney Gen
eral, both being known as personal ap
pointments.
It is his purpose to write as an in
simple, direct words that one reading
augural address a message in such
is sufficient to make every detail clear.
The Governor realizes that during the
campaign he came into perhaps closer
touch with the people than any candi
date before had done, and he desires
in the message to place the legislation
which he then declared himself in fa
vor of in such plain language that all
can determine whether he alms to
have campaign promises realized as
legislative enactments.
Until the message has been com
pleted—and he has decided that it
rather than appointments is of first
importance-—he will not take up for
final determination the fitness of pres
ent incumbents to be retained, the
suggestion that he go to the United
States Army for an engineering ex
pert to take care of the State high
ways, or any other of the myriad of
matters which have been urged on
hint.
—Governor-elect Brumbaugh pro
poses to come quietly to Harrisburg on
Monday afternoon next for the inaug
uration on the day following. While
he purposes to remain at the Capitol
constantly while the Legislature is in
session, he will probably make many
week-end trips to Philadelphia after
the lawmakers have adjourned.
—From the Speaker of the House
of Representative Charles A. Ambler,
of Montgomery county, comes the an
nouncement that the "Brumbaugh
bills will have the right of way on the
House calendar."
Speaker Ambler is now engaged on
the work of appointing committees,
the most important of course being
the Appropriation Committee. On it
will be placed only members who arc
in accord with the Governor's leg
islative program.
In the past important measures
have been held back from considera
tion until the closing hours of the
Legislature. It is Speaker Ambler's
purpose to have these measures given
I first consideration, so that ithey may
be passed without haste and after due
consideration.
These matters disposed of, the
Speaker proposes that such other sub
jects as are brought up by members
shall be considered and disposed of
and then that the appropriation bills
be passed with their aggregate of ap
propriations not greater than the
sum total actually available, so that
there shall not be imposed on the
Governor the necessity for using the
pruning knife after the Legislature
has adjourned.
Speaker Ambler believes that the
session of 1915 should be a busy one,
but not a hasty one, and that its
deliberations should not he long drawn
out. He will confer with the Gov
ernor on committee appointments to
ward the close of the week.
Igf] BOOKS and
ItUVIUW OK "THIS I'K.V.Mv CASK'
C. P. Connolly, of Collier's Weekly,
has written a little book on the Frank
case at Atlanta, Ua., which has aroused
nation-wide interest. Mr. Connolly,
who was himself a proseuting attorney
for four years at Butte, Mont., during
the stormy days of the great copper min
ing lown, represented Collier's Weekly
at the trial of Meyer, Haywood and
Pettibone at Boise, Idaho, and also at
the trial of the McNamaras at Los An
geles.
The story Is as fascinating as any
fiction. A little girl is fount! dead at
daybreak in the cellar of a pencil fac
tory in Atlanta. Heside her are found
two notes, a pencil, and a pencil pad,
on which one of tho notes had been
written by the murdered girl to her
mother, telling who murdered her. They
described as the murderer a negro who
I was tile exa'ct opposite in physical type
of the negro who wrote the notes. Tills
negro, Jim Conley, after denying for a
month that he could write and that
lie was at the pencil factory on the
day of the murder, llnally swore that
the superintendent of the factory,
M. Frank, procured him to write the
notes, and that Frank, not he, placed
the notes by the body. It is in unravel
ing the mystery of these notes that the
author has brought to bear his experi
ence as a lawyer and Investigator.
The bopk is now on sale at all news
stands.
I MfFWI
[From the Telegraph, Jan. 12. 1885.]
Savannah Orderly
Washington, Jan. 12.—Perfect order
prevails in Savannah.. No one is al
lowed to leave or enter the city. A
scarcity of wood and food for the poor
families prevails.
l'lre In Charlotte
Richmond, Va., .Tdn. 11.—A $20,-
000, 000 fire has been raging in Char
lotte, N. C., but Is now under control.
'Government property was destroyed.
OUR DAILY LAUGR '|
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PEACE AB
- Wifey—And so
you got your life
■ insurance for my
How
my dear; but Just
□9 I >i,<i remember if you
cide you won't get
a cent.
JUST AS EASY.
Father: Marry
that young pau- JU' - I \
per? Why I un- \
demand he owes 1
his landlady a * JflJ
month's board
Daughter: Yes, /J |VV
but he says he jlkm .JllL.
can stall her for I Jll
two as easy as Ira It ,nf
one. ***
JOHN WON'T.
Now, John.,
AW when you get to
H\ New York, I want
frfciil ?\ you to promise
me you won't set
around in the
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THE EDITOR'S JUKE
Ily \\ Inn Dinger
I sure did make a record new
Down at the shop to-day.
I spent most every minute at
My desk, pegging away.
I did more work than I have done
For quite a long, long while.
I'm glad it rained, my work's caught
up,
I wear a big, broad smile.
I planned my day, and after I'd
Worked hours at my plan.
The editor came on the scene
(Gee, how I hate that man).
He nosed about, and then remarked.
With quite a nasty sneer:
"More rainy days are needed to
Keep desks around here clear."
FACTS AND FUN
"My wife gets nothing but appre
hension out of life."
"How so?"
"She's afraid of cows in the country
and automobiles In town." —Kansas
City Journal.
A windmill in England furnishes
electric light for a church and rectory
and power to blow a church organ.
Biggs—Our forefathers had wives
that were of some account. They
would do everything from the family
sewing to driving oxen.
Boggs Yes; they hemmed and
hawed, as it were.—Christian Register.
Egyptian cotton is being profitably
grown on irrigated farms in Arizona.
Ignorant Young Lady—That gawky
freak! Why, you told me he was a
nobby young fellow!
Treacherous Friend Yes; but I
spelled it with a k.—Chicago Post.
The Chinese government is planning
to spend $10,000,000 for a number of
high-power wireless stations.
GEMS OF THOUGHT
If you count the sunny and the
cloudy days of the whole year, you
will find that the sunshine predomi
nates. —Ovid.
When men are rightly occupied
their amusement grows out of their
work, as the color petals out of the
fruitful flower.—Ruskin,
Manners are of more importance
than laws. Upon them, in a great
measure ,the laws depend. The law
touches but here and there, now and
then. Manners are what vex or soothe,
corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, bar
barize or refine us, by a constant,
steady, uniform, Insensible operation,
like that of the air we breathe in.
They give their whole form and color
to our lives. According to their qual
ity. they aid morals, they supply them
or they totally destroy them. —Burke.
VISION*
By Charles Hanson Townc
Sometimes, in a crowded street I see
The faces of those that love, and those
that are loved;
And in the rush of the traffic,
The thundering sounds of the city, I
pause.
Wondering about their loves—which
are their lives.
X know them by their eyes, and by
their glances;
I know them in a way I may not
name.
And T know those that have won and
tlioso that have lost
In the eternal battle of the world.
But they that have lost have not al
ways a sad countenance:
Sometimes their lips smile,
As if with an old comprehension,
And one might be deceived, save for
the tragic eyes—
The smiling, yet unsmiling eyes above
the mouth.
Those eyes have read In the great
Book of Love.
And they are changed, they are chang
ed forever.
And those lips have kissed the pages
of the book,
And thoy, too, are changed forever.
Only lips can He—but eyes can never
deceive.
And those that have won—not always
do they smile.
Often they seem to be secretly weep
ing,
As if with a joy too terrible to bear. . .
Strange, strange are the countenances
of those that love.
I know them all —brothers and sisters
of l-iove:
T know them, and they know mo too.
I can tell by their eyes—
Their eyes that follow me with knowl
edge.
With pity, with solomn understanding.
The importance of
reserve strength and pure V V
blood at this period cannot be
overestimated and Nature's para \\.
nourishment in Seott'a Emultion
AJB* imparts that etrentth that enriches '
J Fji the blood, strengthens the bones and
ij "r/f (avlcaratea the whole system.
| Ij PhyalcianM *v*rywh*T* preirWie It.
ft I* froo from Alcohol or Opiatn.
i finii ■mi i
JANUARY 12,1915.
H. Marks & Son
4th and Market Street
WILL CLOSE OUT
Hart Schaffner & Marx
Suits and Overcoats
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KUIEL MPS WHY
BIBLE IS TAUGHT
Says Commandments Get Less At
tention Than Geography, His
#ry and Philosophy
Knowledge of the exact dis
tance from Jericlio to Jerusalem
seems to lie of greater Importance
nowadays in the instruction of the
youth in the Sunday Schools than
the true apprcclßtion of the basis
principles* of the Ten Command
ments.
The geography, history, philos
ophy and so on of the Hlltic ap
parently receives more attention
than the Commandment, "Thou
shalt not steal!"
President Judge George Kunkel,
trustee in the Reformed denomina
tional college board of Franklin and
Marshall College and an official in
tho board of the Reformed Salem
Church of this city, delivered that
cryptic tip to Sunday School super
intendents and teachers from the Dau
phin county bench yesterday after
noon when he sentenced four youth
ful burglars to the Huntingdon Re
formatory.
The quartet, it developed, had car
ried on a system of organized looting
of residences, stores, automobile
garages, bathhouses, clubhouses, etc.,
and their spoils were valued at from
$l5O to S2OO.
One of the youngsters who ap
peared to be guiding head of the
band had been reared under favorable
family surroundings and had been a
regular attendant at Sunday Schools.
It was when the court's attention was
called to the youth's previous good
conduct that Judge Kunkel spoke of
the questionable methods adopted for
Cibical instruction in the Sunday
Schools to-day. Too much attention,
he pointedly remarked, seems to be
paid to the isms and ologies of the
Bible and too little to the fundamen
tal principles of the Book's teachings. I
IN HARRISBURG FIFTY
YEARS AGO TO-DAY
[From the Telegraph, Jan. 12, 1 Btis.]
Department Elections
Pennsylvania State Agricultural De
partment will elect officers next Tues
day In this city.
Flops on tho Ice
Several persons have been Injured |
by falls on the Icy pavements.
Accident
A runaway horse and sleigh in-1
Jured two persons on Second street.
JOHN O f THE MOUNTAINS
The passing of John Muir, savior of
our national parks, moves Charles L. j
Edson, colyumlst of the New York
Evening Mail to sing:
John o' the mountains, wonderful j
John,
Is past the summit and traveling on;;
The turn of the trail on the mountain- |
side,
A smile and "Hail!" where the glaciers
slide,
A streak of red where the condors
ride,
And John is over the Great Divide.
John o' the mountains camps to-day
On a level spot by the milky way;
And God is telling him how He rolled j
The smoking earth from the iron mold,!
And hammered the mountains till they j
were cold.
And planted the Redwood trees of old.!
And John o' the mountains says: "I i
knew.
And T wanted to grapple the hand o'i
you:
And now we're sure to be friends and
chums
And camp together till chaos comes."
Of course John Muir and God aro
friends. Muir fraternized with the
birds of the fltld and forest and
chummed with the squirrel and the
bear. He rhapsodized over the beau
ty and sweetness of flowers and com
muned with God through the Redwoods
and pines. His life was a glorification
of God's original handiwork.—Colliers.
Mrs. Flatte Wait, dear, until I
think.
Mr. Flatte—l can't wait as long as
that; I've got an engagement day after
to-morrow. —Yonkers Statesman.
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GREAT EXPLORER TO
SPEAK 111 THIS CITY
Plans For Lecture of Sir Douglas
Mawson Have Been
Completed
Plans for a lecture In the Majestic,
February 10, by Sir Douglas Mawson,
Australian scientist and an Arctic ex
plorer, have been completed by cable
by the Natural History Society of this
city, whose guest he will be.
The traveler is expected to arrive
from England about January 15. Be
fore coming to Harrisburg he will ad
dress the National Geographic Society
and several other gatherings.
Sir Douglas Mawson's appearance
will offer the home folks an oppor
tunity to see a real knight of old Eng
land. He will reach Harrisburg prob
ably late in the evening of the 9th.
Sor Douglas will give Harrisburg a
glimpse of the dreadful blackness of
the silent, icy waters of the Antarctic
region, the blinding snowstorms and
of the yawning crevasses. The storv
will bo illustrated with what Sir Ernest
Shackleton, the royal naval Antarctic
explorer, has termed "the greatest col
lection of pictures of the south polar
world that were ever taken."
The Australian went out to the black
wastes of the land beyond the sun to
collect what data he could that would
be of value to Australia from a
weather, meteorological and otherwise
scientific viewpoint.
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