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Sworn dally average for tlic three
★ months ending Feb. 2S, 1915.
21,745
Average for the year IDI4
Average for the year 1913—21,577
Average for the year 1912—21.175
Average for Ihe year 1011—1&.S31
*vera«e for the year 1910—17.495
MONDAY EVENING. MARCH 29
HHSISTI.KfSS SENTIMENT
THERE is no more chance of stop
ping the enactment of a local op
tion law for Pennsylvania than
there is of checking the sweep
of the breezes over the Blue Ridge
Mountains. Popular sentiment is in
favor of local option as a means to
obtain good strong people for the fu
ture and happiness and efficiency for
the folks of to-day.
It is not a question whether Penn
sylvania is going "dry." It is a de-]
mand of the men and women of the
< 'ommonwealth that the cause of most
<>f the sorrows shall be regulated so
that it will cease to trouble. It is no
more than a demand that they shall be
allowed to exercise a constitutional;
prerogative.
The men who arc leading the op-1
position will show not only wisdom j
but common sense if they will align;
themselves with the Governor in his j
work for local option. Behind the |
Governor is the resistless sentiment of
an aroused people.
FATE'S VENGEANCE
ACSTRIA. when she provoked the
world war that is now devas
tating all Europe, might have
been less precipitate in her ac- i
tions had her rulers been able to look
less than a year into the future. Fate |
in this instance is more kindly dis
posed than is often the case, since it
is Austria that is to suffer most for '
her crime against civilization. With
Italy clamoring on one side and the
Czar knocking at her back door, the
plight of that nation is sufficient to
make her royal family reminiscently
repentful.
The capture of Przemysl and the
roar of allied cannon along the Dar
danelles must send shivers along the
Austrian backbone, for a decisive dc- j
ftat in either direction will send even- j
mally the hordes of the Czar rushing
into the great plains of Hungary, if.
indeed, they are not there already.
And such a condition must spell
nothing less than ruin for Austria. As
one writer points out. Hungary, swept
by Cossack hordes, will not lung con
sent to fight at home the battle for
Germany which the Kaiser's hosts still
i-arry on in Poland. Belgium and j
France. The onrush of Rumanian and j
Russian armies, the inevitable incur- j
sion of Servians from the south—these
will bring Budapest to a new and
unmistakable position. In European
history it is doubtful if any battle has
bad so grave immediate possibilities
as that of the Carpathians since the
great Napoleon lost Leipzig and all bis
allie?.
Austrian defeat in the present con
flict would compel the immediate
withdrawal of Austrian troops from
Russian Poland. Cracow is the gate
to Silesia, to Berlin, not to Vienna.
The army corps of Francis Joseph
which are defending German frontiers
behind the Nida and east of Cracow
will be needed on the Theiss and the
Danube if the Czar can force the
Dukla gateway to the Hungarian Plain.
Small pity is expressed for Austria.
She played a reckless, ruthless game
in her dealings with Servia leading up f
to the present great conflict. She i
sowed the wind and, unless all signs
fail, her harvest of the whirlwind is
to lie swift and ruinous.
PROGRESS
WHILE this old world rushes!
onward and upward with
almost incredible speed in
some respects, in others its!
progress is extremely deliberate, if not
exactly dilatory.
A few years ago a commonplace
form of asserting an impossibility was
some such expression as "he can no
more do that than he can fly." To-day
the flying of men is a commonplace,
and in the matter of altitude they now
reach heights in aeroplanes, which are
under complete control, unattainable
with safety in balloons, which are
always at the mercy of the elements.
And the Hying man can remain in the
air for hours ut a time.
How different is the history of our
struggle with the opposite element,
the "waters under the earth." The
ancients were acquainted with the
principle of the diving bell and made
use of crude apparatus for under
water Investigation, but in spite of the
marvelous achievements of modern
science we have not gone much be
yond the point they reached. The
other day divers who went down 215
feet off the coast of Hawaii In search
•if a lost submarine vessel are said to
have broken local records, and it is a
MONDAY EVENING,
fact that it is impossible to go any
, great distance under water and sur
vive, althouch submarine vessels prop
erly braced to withstand the pressure
may safety essay depths that are
Utterly out of the question for indi
viduals enclosed in ordinary diving
armor. A skillful pear! uiver, with no
other assistance than strong- arms and
legs and good lungs, would think
nothing of going half as far as these
fully equipped Hawaiian divers went.
•Measured in time, a dive, whether
made in a state of nature or in armor,
is a matter of minutes.
| Hut at that the art of diving has not
stood absolutely still as have some
things. All know the familiar story of
the potter's wheel, or lathe, which is
said to be the same to-day as it was
away back in the days when the earth
was young and the commercial and
the intellectual center of the world
was in the Tigro-Euph rates valley. For
that matter —although we cannot be
sure of it—there is a possibility that
the wonderful irrigation systems of
that region and period included every
fundamental idea and device that the
graduates of twentieth century schools
of technology use.
WISH FATHER TO THOUGHT
THE persistent effort of the Demo
cratic press to lay blame lor the
present severe industrial depres
sion to every cause tinder the
sun except the right one. namely, the
administration's freetra.de propaganda,
is beyond the average man's reasoning
ability, unless he concludes that it is
not sincere and is designed to bolste\
up a fast waning public faith in Demo
cratic doctrine.
If Democratic editors will not see
what is perfectly plain to even the
casual observer of fair 'mind: if they
will not admit that conditions now
existing are the result of foolish,
theoretic legislation of the kind of
which the Underwood law is the most
conspicuous type, what hope is there
for argument? When the influential
men of a political party shut their
eyes to self-apparent facts and say,
"These things are not so because we
want to believe they are not so," what
hope is there (or a correction of exist
ing evils should the voters hearken to
tbeir pleas for a continuation of
power?
When, during the 1912 campaign,
far-seeing, practical business men pre
dicted business stagnation following
the enactment of the Wilson legislative
program they were called "Calamity
Howlers" and laughed out of court.
The natural tendency of Americans is
to look on the bright side. We are a
people naturally optimistic, and this
inherent desire to boost instead of to
"knock" caused many loyal and think
ing Americans at that time to hope
for the best and to refrain from
prophesying the depths of industrial
depression they felt sure would follow
adoption of the honest but mistaken
policy of free trade.
The present Inability or determi
nation not to see. hear or believe upon
the part of Washington is largely re
sponsible. no doubt, for the attitude of
the Democratic press, which has aban
doned all reason and individual
initiative and has substituted therefor
the blind following of a leadership
that appears to have for its basic prin
ciple the same fallacy of judgment and
belief that has led the German Kaiser
Into his present difficulties. Divine
right and the impossibility of error in
opinion are conceded to no man in the
United States, and a no less distin
guished body than the United States
Supreme Court has pronounced the
"rule of reason" as the determining
factor in American life. It is possible
that Democratic newspapers may be
fooling themselves, but they are not
fooling the public. It has learned its
lesson by experience, a hard, but very
efficient, teacher, especially in the
present instance.
WOULD SIMPLIFY MATTERS
NO one who has observed the
Legislature of Pennsylvania in
operation caaifail to appreciate
the advantages that would flow
from the enactment of a law that
would do away with numerous appro
priation bills and enable money for
charities of various classes to be
grouped, as is done with the grants for
the conduct of the Stale government.
Some people are of the opinion that
the Constitution stands in the way, but
this doubt has never been sent before
the courts for determination in the
light of present day demands for
economy and efficiency.
The bill presented to the House by
Representative Baldwin may not be
the ideal measure, but it is a step in
the direction of simplifying business,
easing the work of the legislators and
lightening the expense of printing.
The subject is one which should be
given attention.
THE ONLY SAFE COURSE
A SINGLE drink of liquor imbibed
by operators of automobiles
will result in licenses being
forfeited immediately, provid
ed Maryland s State Motor Vehicle
Commissioner Harry A. Roe is con
vinced that the licensee has been guil
ty of consuming intoxicants while at
the wheel of a car or immediately be
fore starting on a ride.
This edict has been issued by Com
missioner Roe after a careful analysis
of motor accidents in Maryland. Ho
has spread it broadcast in a crusade
his department is waging against reck
less driving. He savs:
I have decided to put an end to
reckless driving, and especially to
reckless driving superinduced by
strong drink, if it is possible for
me to do so. To accomplish my
purpose, it will be necessary for
tne to refuse to distinguish be
tween people Who dlinlc little anil
those who uring much. I shall,
therefore, in the future revoke the
license ofjevery automobile driver
who is brought before me if it can
be shown that the accused has been
drinking while operating his car.
This is the only safe course. It
ought to be adopted in Pennsylvania.
The railroad company that would per
mit a locomotive engineer to board his
engine after indulging in liquor would
lav itself open to ruinous damages in
lease of accident. The engineer who
indulged in such pructlce would face
instant dismissal. V whiskey breath is
sure sign of a fe\\red brain and a
shaken nerve. The automobile driver]
under the influence of alcohol Is no
more to be tolerated than the drunken
engineer, lie is a peril to himself and
the public. The man who drinks while
driving should have his license taken
from him. lie has no consideration
for public safety and the public owes
him nothing.
rEVENiN(TCHAfI
Judging from remarks made by
farmers in the city's markets on Sat
urday the present weather conditions
are very aggravating for the weather is
tine enough overhead and the kind that
makes a farmer want to get ready for
Spring ploughing, but the temperature
and winds are so chill that no one
cares to attempt the work. The open
!character of the 'Month. s>ay the
farmers, has caused vegetation to have
tits and starts and while the wheat has
not been affected there has been more
or less anxiety hereabouts as to the
buds on fruit trees. Ordinarily Spring
ploughing does not begin until April
Is wall under way. although some
farmers say that under favorable con
ditions thev have been able to start
soon after St. Patrick's day. It is more
a matter of weather conditions than
anything else, but the farmers say that
every man is ready to start as soon as
possible. The weather has also had
its effect upon outdoor 'uiilding oper
ations as some builders do not like to
start cellar excavations until they are
sure that the "onion snow" has fallen
and that there will be little chance for
a hold-up.
The Jersey smallpox outbreak is not
without its fartlung effects and they
are particularly noticeable about the
railroad stations. Men with sore arms
are not uncommon say the railroad
men and there is a general uneasiness
when it is learned that a passenger
comes from the smallpox belt. The
other afternoon a man dashed up the
steps and demanded of the man at
the gate where he could lind a doctor.
"Anybody hurt?"
"Xo. but I want one quick."
"What's the matter is some one sick
I down there?" queried the railroad man
trying to tind out whether a surgeon
or physician was needed.
"Xo. I want him," replied the flus
tered traveler.
"All right, what's wrong?" asked!
the railroad man apparently thinking
the traveler a sound specimen.
"Nothing. I tell you. 1 sat along
side of a lellow from that smallpox
town in Jersey and I want to be vac
cinated."
That real estate trading is as much
of a diversion with some busi
ness men as horse trading is among a
certain class of farmers, is proved by
a glance of the lists of real estate
transfers on the books at the county
recorder's office. A large proportion
of them are recorded at the price of
$1 which often means that the trans
fers are made as "trades." A real es
tate agent was heard to say the other
day that he knows of certain houses
that have been traded in this manner
four times in,the last four months, and
that he has a number of acquaintances
who are always exchanging houses.
But what advantage they get from it,
aside from the mere pleasure of swap
ping, he says he does not know.
In spite of the fact that there arc
some organizations and people in
Pennsylvania which are attacking the
public service company law and seek
ing amendments which would serious
ly curtail its authority, numerous in
quiries are being made at the Capitol
as to the manner in which the law is
operating. As a matter of fact, many
of the States seem to have been await
ing the experience of Pennsylvania
with the supervision of the numerous
public utilities committed to the com
mission and the questions embrace
many angles. The manner in which
the State Commission has dealt with
the anthracite rates for Philadelphia
has attracted national attention and
the trial of the appeal in the Dauphin
county court is awaited with interest.
Some of the questions sent here deal
with water rates and others with the
manner of enforcing laws as are
placed under the commission. One
letter asked to what extent the right of
appeal to the courts was being used
and it was discovered that over a
dozen cases of considerable import
ance had been laid before the Dauphin
county court for review.
Governor Martin G. Brumbaugh has
been taking advantage of what little
leisure he has been able to get to look
over some of the roads in the vicinity
of the State Capitol. He has made
two trips between liarrisburg and
Philadelphia by automohile and sup
plemented these experiences on State
highways with a ride over a road un
der authority of the State in Hunting
don county, which afforded him some
tirst hand information. The Governor
has several times expressed his desire
to look over roads near the Capitol.
State and township, and contemplates
rides over the southern road to Pitts
burgh and over the new Le wist own
narrows roads. In talking about roads
he said the other day that he had
neve;- gone to Reading by highway,
but understood that it was an object
lesson in toll gates.
"Do you know that there are about
200 persons in this city, inside the city
and not in the suburbs, who are rais
ing incubator chickens?" said a mer
chant who handles poultry supplies
yesterday. "I have been surprised at
the interest taken in chicken raising
by people living in tne most crowded
sections of Harrisburg. Men who do
not have a yard much larger than half
a trolley car are raising fowls. And
the strange thing about it is that they
succeed."
1 WELL KNOWN PEOPLE"!
—Senator Wiliam C. Sproul has been
made an honorary member of Phi
Beta Kappa.
—Judge James E. Gorman, of Phil
adelphia, has just celebrated liis fifty
tifth anniversary.
—Attorney General Brown says he
has not had to take to golf vet! lie
gets his pleasure out of working.
—James Comly, an eighty-four year
old Quaker in Philadelphia, has been
taking daily weather observations for
twenty years.
—County Treasurer Frank Harris,
of Allegheny, now wants to be a coun
!ty commissioner.
I DtTWU KNQW-=^l
Tliat liarrisburg is the center
or a good hay raising country?
The Secret of
Advertising
Advertising is a very simple
thing simplicity itself.
It can be summed up In this
way.
Having: something to say—
Saying It in the right way—
Saying it in the right place at
I the right time. .
And In the latter phase of the
i problem the daily newspaper
stands pre-eminent.
It is essentially the right place
and as It Is published day in and
day out it is easy to suit the
words to the time.
Newspaper advertising in the
most productive form of ad
vertising.
V .
HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH
MAIL MAHER NOW 1
SERIOUS PROBLEM
I _ i
Members of the Legislature Dis
mayed at the Amount That Is
Still Pouring In
LETTERS THROWN AWAY
Democrats Scheming to Take Ad
vantage of the Situation in
Legislative Halls
An average of twelve big sacks of
letters, each containing from 2.400 to
2,C00 pieces of mail is being sent from
the main Harrisburg post office to the
Legislature every twenty-four hours.
Tills breaks all records for the umount
of mail handled for the lawmakers. In
sessions gone by mail went as high as
ten sacks on some occasions, but never
up to a dozen. The seriousness of tho
mail campaign that is being waged on
behalf of the local option, compensa
tion and full crew bills is commencing
to be realized by members who com
plain that they are compelled to ship
bales of it to their homes so that they
can go over it at week-ends, while tho
men who stay here throughout the ses
sion are compelled to spend most of
their time opening letters to see that
they do not contain personal or busi
ness matters. A number of the leg
islators have given up attempting to
acknowledge letters.
! —A few days ago some letters which
were thrown away unopened by mem
bers-were found scattered along one
of the city streets and the postal au
thorities hearing of the matter start
ed an investigation fearing that mail
had been stolen, instead it was found
that letters were frankly thrown away
and must have gotten into the hands
of some one who wanted to have fun
with them. Some of the letters were
distributed from house to house along
a street near tho Capitol.
—Several of the members say that
if'compelled to acknowledge every let
ter received by them since the first of j
February it would have taken twicel
the SIOO allowed for postage by Father
Penn.
—While some in Washington profess
to believe that Vance C. Mci'ormick
will not be a candidate for Demo
cratic national committee members of
the party opposed to him and his ilk
will not accept him except some guar
antee is given that the debts of the
State committee shall lie paid. It is
expected that in the absence of State
Chairman Poland S. Morris in Europe
that McCormiek will whirl around to
show the Interest in the Democrats in
local option.
—C. F. Berkemeyer, of Allentown.
who was one of the earliest of the
shouters in behalf of the last reorgani
zation of the Democratic party, has
been named as a special census work
er.
—Democratic bosses are wondering
Whether they will be in a position to
ask many appointments from the
President after the State committee
meets this summer and it is said that
an effort to hustle up appointments is
to be made.
—The Philadelphia Public Ledger
yesterday printed a list to show how
"deserving Democrats" were taken
care of by Wilson. George W..Guth
rie, who Rave SI,OOO, sot an ambassa
dotslUp to Japan. There is no record
of contributions made by James I.
Blakslee. F. J. Xoonan, who became
marshal, gave SSOO, ami <s. Duncan,
postmaster of Gettysburg, gave
$214.50.
—Friends of Ex-Judge Gordon say
that he will be a candidate for Demo
cratic national committeeman and it
is causing Palmer and McCormick
some concern. They are still dizzy
over the recognition given to Gordon
by the appointment of the Philadel
phia registration commissioner.
—Democratic bosslcts in the south
western part of the State are pushing
D. .M. Hertzog, who tried to defeat
"William E. Crow for senator, as a can
didate for judge to succeed Robert E.
Umbel. liertzog has been an ardent
partisan.
—The demon rum got some hard
belts in license court last week. In
Montgomery the number was reduced
and in Berks county three retailers
were denied. In Westmoreland the
judges knocked out twelve, while in
Blair the number was also cut down.
1q Luzerne rehearings were refused.
-—At Washington it is said that John
B. Evans, a lawyer of Pottstown, will
be appointed by President Wilson as
subtreasurer in Philadelphia on Wed
nesday. He will assume office on
April 1, if the accounts of the present
subtreasurer have been examined by
that time. Ex-Representative Robert
E. Lee. of Schuylkill, who was a can
didate for the place, with the backing
of the Democratic members of Con
gress from Pennsylvania, has with
drawn from the field. It is understood
that President Wilson is favorably in
clined to the appointment of Mr. Lee
as superintendent of the Congressional
Library. In this Mr. Lee is said now
to have the backing of Mr. Palmer
and the Democratic State organization.
In an article in the Philadelphia
Ledger yesterday Ex-Representative
R. R. Pearden, who is State chairman
of the Keystone party, said that that
political organizatioh had served its
day and was now little more than ma
chinery. A similar status character
ized the Progressives, he declared.
"The Washington party's day has gone
up in smoke," he asserted. "Its mem
bers are going back to the Republican
ranks and the next ejection will find a
reunited front under the Republican
manner."
AX KVK.MNG THOUGHT
The eternal God our refuge is.
Our Buckler, Shield ?nd Tower,
Our sure foundation and our hope
In every stormy hour.
—Anon.
wr i— —i—l -
Backache?
The pain stops —your sore
ness and stiffness leaves.
You are able to walk upright and
vigorouily after a few applica*
tiors of
SLOAN'S
LINIMENT
Penetrates right to the tore place
and gives instant relief.
Janet C. Lee, of Washington, D. C..
writes: "I had a aevere fall from a acaf
fold. and Buffered with a sever* pain ir.
the back for thirty years. I heard of
Sloan's Liniment and started to use it,
and now am thankful Co say that my
back ia entirely well.'*
At all dealers. Price 2Sc., 50c. O SHOO
Dr. Eirl S. Slum,lnc. Phils. I> St.Lwis
I OUR DAILY LAUGH"!
\\ ocrr TO BE -
I think time#
"*%;■■ will be better 1*
elßht or nln *
Tf»—and then
' k Chrlstmee'll b•
% here to offeet it.
!
NO SWm^UCK.
Does Abbat lo«« !f \ im MY^k
his temper? -**JJ
No: only ml»- Lrt
lay. It. | p
SI«>S OP EAST Ell
llt W liik Dincrr
Already signs of Easier
Arc seen in our home;
I see them without trying.
As through the house I roam.
The kids each grot a basket
Filled with eggs by the score—
The chocolate kind, the jelly,
And hard-boiled, too, what's more.
And then there were some rabbits
Well placed among the esß.«,
They're broken now. and minus
Their ears or heads or legs.
There's egg-shell in the parlor.
There's egg-shell in the hall.
And everywhere the kids went
They left some egg-shell fall.
But no complaint was uttered,
Not one harsh word was said,
Until last night I roled on
Some egg-shell in my bed.
IN HARRISBURG FIFTY
YEARS AGO TO-DAY
[From the Telegraph. March 29, IS65]
Moving Time
Hundreds of families have made
preparations to move this week.
v Prices Down
Merchants have dropped the prices
of their goods twenty-live per cent, in
some instances.
Hnrrisburgers Killed
A large number of men from this
city in the 200 th regiment Pa. Vol.
were killed in the battle at Fort Stead
man.
THE FIGHT HAS ,II ST 11 EG I'N
(From tho Philadelphia Evening
ledger. |
The plans for a demonstration in
Harrisburg in favor of local option are
progressing favorably. The committee
expects to make arrangements for 5.000
voter.* to leave this city on April i; to
accompany a petition demanding the
passage of a local option law.
llut the number of voters who can
find time to go to the State capital is
no measure of the number favoring
local option. For every man who can
go there are probably flfty who have
to stay at home. The active demand
for county control of the sale of liquor
is so widespread that the General As
sembly will fail in its representative
duty if it refuses to consent. Bsveains
that party leaders may make with the
abhorrent interests in nolitics ure not
binding on the free legislative agents
in Harrisburg. livery man who owns
his own conscience will vote as Ills con
science dictates. But those who are
hound, body and foot, by obligations to
political leaders, who have sold their
influence to the liouor interests in re
turn for the support of. the liquor ma
chine, will be compelled to respond
when the whip is cracked.
The fight must center on the Senate,
because the plan is to let the bill go
through the House and bury it in a
Senate committee. And the tight, to be
successful, must be such as will demon
strate to the Senators that they cannot
afford to disregard the overwhelming
public sentiment of the Commonwealth.
The march on Harrisburg by the local
option forces on the first Tuesday in
April is part of the demonstration, and
its significance will not be lost on those
Senators who have their cars to the
ground and can hear the tread of the
multitude of voters willing to follow
| the conscience lead of the Governor.
Every report from the State Capitol
indicates that the local option fight has
only just begun.
THE I,AM) WHERE NO ONE SMII.E3
j There Is a land where no one smiles,
! There is a land across whose miles
jOf sunny meadow, field and byre
I P.uns the red carnage and the fire
I Of war's red hatred—and to-day
There are no people glad and gay.
There is a land where no flowers
bloom.
No sunbeams dance: a land of gloom,
Where cities 'neath invasion's torch
Are bleared from shiny roof to porch.
Where women wail and children weep
And brave men sleep the endless sleep.
There is a land—thank God, not ours!—
Where tyranny and all its powers
Have forced the smiling and the cheer
From hearts of mourning serf and peer;
Where fields of harvest swim 111 blood
Where once the Spring came hack in
bud.
—Baltimore Sun.
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STORYJHTEN'
BY THE MESSENGER BOY
A newspaper office when you first K>' |
into it, seems like a bedlam full of |
hoodlums with all kinds of nuts and
noises fly in round. It consists of every
body tnlkin at onee, three or four tele
fone bells rlngin, a dozen tiperiters
workln like sixty, visitors chewin the |
rair. telegraf keys ttektn. reporters i
arguin, wast paper and tobacco juice
flvTn about and the managin editer
raisin with the messenger boy for |
not hurrin enough: all these and many
more eombinashuns go to make up a
newspaper editorial rooms.
Newspapers has got to be as neces
sary as your breakfus or supper, and I
the publick would howl like a cat it
it didnt get the papar on time, but the
i publick is mighty ignercnt as to how j
its made up. Some seems to think it |
jest grows like a mushroom or a bean I
stalk the which is a false inpreshun to |
be korreeted if possibel.
Newspaper fellos work like ditch |
i| diggers and are expected to be as .wise .
! as the Dauphin county bar. the V. \V. I
If A the Superior Court and the Chief
of Polis all in one. They must be able
to konverse with preachers without
swearin at em. explain the latest stiles
to ladies, solve murders, and find little
jrirls when thev t;et lost from their
mammas. While a reporter is riten
out a storv with one finger he must
anser a telefone call with one ear and
' with the other listen to the city-editor
bawl hint out for somethin he didnt do |
; j last week. All the time he must be i
i smilin to avoid hein fired.
1 i A newspaper office is also a publick
: ciklopedla. which is called up whenever !
'a man wants to know how long his
! mother-in-law is likely to live, or what
; 1 dav Kaster fell on in 1723, how many |
i cubic v ds there is in the moon, when
! to plant onions, or how high the river
| I was on the 21st of last June. A lady,
. j asked the other day what name to call |
a kitten she had just got. and another
wanted to know how many pounds ;
' Governor Brumbaugh weighs.
THIXKIK'
ijTliinkln' refieshin' thought, like rain]
■ in summer time.
When ground's been dry for the long- |
est while and suddenly beats the |
1 rhyme
i Of the silver, palpitant rain, and the |
cool wind over it blows.
And that's the loveliest kind of thought
I that the human intellect knows.
. Thinkin' tenderer things to say and to
> do for the one
Who waits all day in the dream of the
years as they dance and run
| Along on their feet of dew, and your |
own cheek colors like hers
j Thinkin' of love that way till your |
whole heart trembles and stirs, j
I 1
Thinkin' cool places of rest away from |
the heat and stir
j Of the streets of the city that buzz
With that sleepless, eternal whirr i
!Of spindle and loom and thread, and
over you trees and vines,
1 And the delicate blooms and the grass
and the far sea that sings and I
i shines.
I —Baltimore Sun. j
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[From the Telegraph. March 29, IS66]
Helieve Mobile Will Surrender
j Cincinnati, March 29.— Dispatches
| from Jlobile state that the city is de
fended by 15,000 men. .It is expected
I that the city will lie ataeked Within
[ the next few days and will be sur
rendered.
Ilariraiil't Made Major General
j Washington, March 29.—General
Hartranft has been made a major
| general on Grant's recommendation.
Johnston Kepulsed Seven Times
I Newbern, X. C., March 29.—John-
Iston attacked Sherman seven times
| within the past week, but was driven
j back each time.
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! Local physicians report much pneumo
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