10 RARRISBURG TELEGRAPH Established jSH PUBLISHED BY THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO. E. J. STACKPOLE President and Ediior-in-Cktef F. R. OYSTER Secretary GUS M. STEINMETZ Managing Editor Published every evening (except Sun day) at the Telegraph Building, 216 Federal Square. Both phones. Uember American Newspaper Publish ers' Association. Audit Bureau of Circulation and Pennsylvania Associ ated Dailies. Eastern Office. Fifth Avenue Building, New York City, Hasbrook, Story & Brooks. Western Office, Advertising Building, Chicago, 111., Allen & Ward. Delivered by carriers at <Eif .Xe- six cents a week. Mailed to subscribers at $3.00 a year in advance. Entered at the Post Office In Harrls burg. Pa., as second class matter. Stvorn dally nvernge circulation for the three monlhn ending May 31, 1013. ★ 21,577 ★ * Average for the year 1014—21,WW Average for the year 1013—10.062 Average for the year 1012—10,640 Average for the year 1011—1T,303 Average for the year 1010—16,261 The above figure* are net. AH re turned, untiold nnd damaged copies de ducted. FRIDAY EVENING, JUNE 18. We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.—Quintilian. THE GILBERT GIFTS THE gifts of thousands of dollars to the Harrisburg Public Library, the Harrisburg Academy and the Harrisburg Hospital by Mrs. Lyman D. Gilbert in memory of her departed husband should be an incentive to scores of other Harrisburg people. These Gilbert bequests, made in con formity with the wishes of Mr. Gilbert before his death, have been distributed among worthy and at all times needy institutions. The academy, the library and the hospital all occupy their places of extreme usefulness in the com munity. The city is growing and the demands made upon them are grow ing also. They need thousands of dollars more if they are to increase their activities to meet the needs that face them. There are other institutions, also, which are doing good work under difficulties largely due to lack of funds. s"hey form a wide field for private beneficence and it is believed that many of them have been remembered In wills that have been drawn in recent years. The other day the Telegraph pub lished an illustrated article on the great work Frank H. Buhl, of Sharon, lias done and is doing in that town, i Mr. Buhl and his father made great | fortunes in Sharon and they have felt it their duty to share their earnings with their fellow-citizens. Mr. Buhl has been generous to a point that has made Sharon one of the most delight ful places in the western part of the State. He has set an example that ought to be followed by the possessors of great fortunes in Harrisburg. Doubt less Mr. Buhl is getting much more pleasure out of his money so invested than he would have found possible in the contemplation of bundles of in terest-bearing bonds, the earnings of which he did not need for his own uses. WATERLOO THE salient features of the Battle of Waterloo, which occurred one hundred years ago to-day, are, first, the late beginning, due to the fact that rain the previous night had so saturated the ground that Napoleon did not feel it safe to venture his cavalry and artillery until 11.30 o'clock. That delay made it possible for Blucher and his Prussians to arrive just when they were needed to turn the tide against the Emperor and the French. And, second, the existence, unknown to Napoleon, of the sunken road of Ohalr. The road broke the force of the cavalry charge led by Marshal Ney. This "tumult, disci plined and terrible," upon which so much depended, but for the unsus pected ravine might have proved irre sistible and thrown Wellington's sorely tried forces into hopeless confusion a full hour before the first of the Prus sians arrived. It is. of course, idle to discuss what might have been the effect if Waterloo had been fought under modern con ditions. If, for Instance, it had oc curred last summer when a big en gagement seemed imminent in its im mediate vicinity. As compared with present-day battles the famous con test upon which the fate of Europe literally hung was a vest pocket affair. It was. however, no burrowing con test, but an awe-inspiring fight in the open, with infantry, cavalry and ar tillery each sustaining its full share of the shock, and both armies most of the time in full view of each other. The great extension in range of all sorts of guns, for one thing, makes a repe tition of it an impossibility. Never theless, even if it serves no useful pur pose, speculation along that line is in teresting. The first thing that strikes one when musing over conditions military now and a century ago Is that man continues to be quite as helpless as ever in the grasp of nature. Neither the artillerist nor the engineer of the present day, if confronted with the precise problem that faced Napoleon on that fateful June morning, would do other than he did. They are just as powerless to stop the rain and they would be com pelled to wait just as he did for time and sun to make the ground of the little valley firmer. At the beginning of the present war a great deal was printed about caterpillar wheels, but i FRIDAY EVENING, they are for alege pieces. Such con traptions on mobile field artillery would handicap It quite as effectually for all practical purposes as mired ground would. Air scouts and well-organized field and headquarters staffs would to-day prevent a commander of the most mediocre talents from committing the blunder of the sunken road. Indeed, If armies had been as well equipped with intelligence machinery In those day* as modern armies are there might not have been a Battle of Waterloo. It was Napoleon's plan to separate tho armies of Wellington and Blucher, which were cantoned in Belgium, and fight and defeat them In detail. The first clash of the campaign occurred on June 16, when Napoleon in person attacked Blucher at Llgny and de feated but failed to demoralize him. On the same day Ney made a fruitless attack upon the British at Quatre Bras. But Wellington, when he heard of the I check to Blucher, decided to fall back so that their communications would not be in danger. After receiving a promise of aid from the doughty leader of the Prussians he paused at Waterloo and offered battle. In the meantime I Napoleon had detached Marshal I Grouchy with 30,000 men to pursue Blucher and his defeated Prussians and prevent them from joining Wel lington. Grouchy failed. Napoleon afterward gave this as the cause of his defeat. Grouchy's defense was that the force placed at his disposal was Inadequate for the purpose intended, and expert opinion has always Inclined to support him in this. At all events, he failed. These days that fact would be known to the commander-in-chief almost as soon as it was realized by the lieutenant. Positive information that the Prussians were coming re ceived early, coupled with the im practicable nature of the battlefield, might have induced Napoleon to draw off, but we cannot be sure on that point. For although he may have been ill-informed about the movements of Grouchy and Blucher, he knew that huge armies were coming forward under forced marches from all parts of Europe and that in the face of such conditions he must fight and win with out any loss of time if he was to win at all. Delay would be as fatal to his ambitions as positive defeat. He prac tically had to fight when he did or surrender at discretion without firing a shot. It safely may be assumed that he understood this as clearly at the time as we do now. Having decided to fight. Napoleon, if we may believe accounts written in all seriousness by well-qualified mili tary writers, depended for information regarding the lay of the land upon an ignorant native he had never seen be fore and about whom he knew nothing. To this circumstance Is attributed the lack of knowledge which caused th° failure of the cavalry charge. It seems incredible, but it is in keeping with the character of the man. Doubtless, he made plans for the conduct of cam paigns, but he almost invariably kept them in the back of his head and changed them from time to time as the impulse of the moment suggested. He had a habit of keeping his artillery in his hand like a pistol, one critic ob serves. to be used just as his fancy dictated. He was the great military opportunist. Every successful com mander must be an opportunist, but war is not made nor battles fought in that careless fashion these days. Without a doubt, therefore, both generals to-day would be better in formed about the resources of the foe and the topography of the country for miles around. Nothing would be left to chance and everything would de pend upon the morale of the men who did the actual fighting. There were some troops in the army of Welling ton, Belgians and other mercenaries, the fidelity of which was under sus picion. and at one time there was a disgraceful break In his line. But there was no lack of courage of the most desperate sort on both sides. In deed. not the least of the glories of Waterloo is the fine record for valor made by all who took part. There is small reason to doubt, therefore, that the heroes of Waterloo would hold their ground in the face of gas cylin ders and high explosive shells quite as valiantly as do the men of the armies now in the field. And the same logic indicates that the result would be much the same if the great battle could be fought over again to-morrow under modern conditions. SEEING PENNSYLVANIA FIRST THE Lewistown Gazette has taken up the thought expressed by Governor Brumbaugh some time since when he said that the news papers could do a great service by in troducing the people of Pennsylvania to their own State. The Governor hopes to be instrumental in bringing about a great movement to "see Penn sylvania first," and the Gazette has localized the idea by urging its read ers, through the medium of a vigorous editorial, to "see Mifllln county first." Says the Gazette: Probably you have been to Eu rope and enjoyed a view of the noted sightsof thatland. Maybe you have been all through the west and South of Uncle Sam's domain and been impressed with the great ness of our glorious country. Pos sibly you have been up into New England and were made glad you were an American. You may have been to the Adlrondacks and the White Mountains and been delight ed, or been Impressed with the mag nificence of the Yoiemlte and the Yellowstone parks. Glorious sights, weren't they. Made you happy to live in such a land at such a time. But have you ever seen Mifflin county. In the State of Pennsylva nia, United States of America? Never have. Then you have noth ing to talk about. The local writer often sees charms In home surroundings that do not ap pear as favorably to the visitor. That observation does not apply In this in stance. No pen has ever overdrawn the beauties of Mifflin county or the Juniata valley as a whole. Thousands of Pennsylvanlans will "see Mifflin county first" if the present plan to change the Lincoln highway route from the Cumberland Valley, leaving Harrlsburg and traversing the Jun iata valley and the main pike to Huntingdon, thence along the Rays town branch to Everett and by main State Highway to Pittsburgh i<? accom plished. This would take the highway. through some of the most attrac tive scenery of the State, but whether or not those at the head of the Lincoln * road agree to the change, the Juniata valley route will get the travel once It Is put In proper condition. The Governor's idea has been taken up by West Virginia, as the following in the Pittsburgh Dispatch from El klns, that State, indicates: When the improvements which are under way on the State roads in this section and to the south are completed some magnificent scenery in West Virginia will be opened up for automobile travel. Good road advocates of Randolph county are Improving the highways from Val ley Head to the Webster county line, and Webster county people are extending this Improvement through to Webster Springs. It Is expected that this stretch of improved roads will be finished by July, giving automobile travel from the head of Tygart's Valley to the famous mineral springs In Webster county. Ivong sections of modern roads are under construction In Mercer, Wood, McDowell. Marlon and other counties for which many hundreds of thousands in bond is sues have been voted. The Gazette is on the right track. Pennsylvania has the scenery and is rapidly getting the roads. What Is now needed is more automobile tour ing in the State. [ TELEORAPH PERISCOPE " —For a friend, Mr. Bryan is stealing a good deal of newspaper space from Emperor William. —lf Camp Hill people are as proud of their town as they have a right to be, they will approve that paving loan. —Who will sign the League of Peace treaty for Mexico? —The boys and girls will see In that Rockville school collapse, yesterday, an argument In favor of early Spring va cations. —New York needn't be afraid of in vasion. Let the authorities liberate Becker, put him In command of the gunmen and defy the world. —This automobile lire apparatus may be all right, but what is the cub re porter to do in the future for stories about the faithful old fire horse? —Judging from the manner In which that German spy story was accepted, the country seems willing to believe anything of Mr. Bryan. EDITORIAL COMMENT ~ I'ronperotiM In ludlana [From the Indianapolis News.] Allen county finds that it has one automobile for every four farmers, and it is understood that the other three are merely delayed by the difficulty of deciding which brand to buy. A Good Exnmple [From the Wheeling Register.] If Switzerland manages to preserve her neutrality with belligerents on all sides of her we should have no trouble in keeping the United States out of the war. Real Curio [From the Syracuse Post-Standard.] Apologies have been so scarce in this war that England's note to China is a valuable memento. Flfthtlng From Force of Habit [From the Anaconda Standard.] One theme of wonder is that there is anything of value left in Mexico to tight over . BOOKS AND MAGAZINES" Enough time has elapsed since the outbreak of the war for the careful analysis and comparison of the State papers necessary for a final interpreta tion. Such an analysis of all official documents so far published has for the first time been made by Professor EUery C. Stowell, of Columbia Univer sity, in his book "The Beginnings of the War." Among the interesting fea tures is a complete discussion of Sir Edward Grey's diplomacy and his re sponsibility for involving England in the war. Four works, other than fiction, most| in demand at the book stores during I the month of Alay, are "Four Weeks in the Trenches" by Fritz Kreisler, "The Secret of an Empress" by the Countess Zanardi Landi, "The Prom ised Land" by Mary Antln, and "What Men Live By' by Dr. Richard Clarke] Cabot. "Angela's Business" by Henry Sydnor Harrison is third in the list of best-selling fiction. Reports from European battlefields and hospitals of the wonderful results accomplished by modern surgical ap pliances recalls to Americans the hor rible excess of mortality from wounds in our own Civil war, where the aver age number of deaths from gunshot wounds was about 80 per cent., and we can but be thankful that at least science may save to us many valuable lives which without its aid would be sacrificed. The record of the advance of surgery is as rich in human inter est and at times as thrilling as the war news in the dally papers. It is pre served for us In Dr. W. W. Keen's "Animal Experimentation," which traces—the efforts of which have brought medicine and surgery to their present state of efficiency—the fight for life, the failures, the search for better methods, the improvements, the suspense, and the victories. THESE WAR TIMES Little Johnny was doing sentinel duty, with his new rifle slung across his shoulder, when the irate lady next door bore down upon him. "Did you break my window?" she de manded wrathfully, pointing to the damaged property. The child looked from the window to her and back again before replying. "Did you saw me?" "No. But—" "Then 1 didn't do It." And turning, he marched away.—Judge. HOW G. W. PERKINS IN 1879 George W. Perkins, who spoke to-day before the Harrlsburg Chamber of Commerce, was earn ing $6 a week as office boy in the Chi cago office of the New York Life In surance Company. Twelve years lat er, at the age of 29, he was third vice president of the company, at a salary of $25,000 per year. Here Is Just one little episode that throws some light on the causes of his rapid rise. One snowy night, the young insurance solicitor went out to call on Rome prospects at a country flour mill. The storm was raging outside; the miller, his brother and son could not escape the young man's canvass. They were tough prospects but Perkins hammered away. Finally, by offering to accept their notes as payment for premiums, he induced them to take out insurance. Then he recalled the fact that ear lier in the evening he had noticed his victims putting away money In the safe. It didn't require much argu ment to persuade them that they could save money by discontinuing their notes on the spot. Perkins left with his pockets full of cash. Later, Perkins accepted the State agency for Indiana, at $3,500 a year. Before being formally installed in this position, he went out to Kansas to wind up some of his father's business af . fairs. The field looked so good to HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH tn. *^e>v>t>ot|Cca>tta By the Ex-Commlßrcmaa A harmonious meeting of the Bucks county Republican committee Is ex pected for to-morrow afternoon at Dcylestown and In spite of rumors and reports there will be no battle unless someone precipitates it with reso lutions designed for the purpose of attacking Joseph R. Grundy. It is said that the administration forces .intend to make their battle at the pri mary election and to allow the county committee meeting to be a Republican party affair from start to finish. County Chairman Hiram H. Keller is picked for re-election and there will be addresses by Lieutenant-Governor Frank B. McClain, Congressman Wat son. Senator Buckman and others. Rumors are going that the Demo cratic State committee meeting will be held the latter part of July for the election of a national committeeman and that James I. Blakslee, Fourth Assistant Postmaster General, may be chosen. Horace Stern, Philadelphia lawyer, well known here, is being boosted for the Philadelphia bench as a successor to Judge Sulzberger, who is not a candidate for re-election. Edward A. Lees, a Philadelphia business man, has been appointed as sistant director of health and charities of Philadelphia. He succeeds A. M. Wilson. The new Philadelphia housing code will provide seventy-nine jobs in the Philadelphia city government. The annual cost will be $168,000. Councils are now arranging to put it Into force. The Philadelphia Evening Bulletin in an extended article on the mayoralty situation in Philadelphia says that Con gressman Vare will not be a candi date unless the chiefs are unable to agree upon a "neutral." The Bulletin appears to think that Louis J. Kolb will be considered only in the event ithat the Governor pushes him and in i timates that only the Vares will be strong for him. It does not consider that Congressman Moore is being seri ously considered and mentions a re currence of the boom for Recorder Ernest L. Tustin. It is apparent that the situation is more or less up in the air. Scott Nearing, the University of Pennsylvania professor who was dropped yesterday because of radical utterances, is well known here because he has frequently attended hearings at the Capitol. Professor Nearing has more than once come into collision with State officials. The West End Democratic Club last night gave notice to the world that it was satisfied with the selection of Fred L. Morgenthaler as county Demo cratic chairman. Nothing was said about the lambasting given to William Jennings Bryan in the Stucker reso lution. The name of Horace Davis, of Sharon, is being mentioned for one of the deputy attorney generalships. Mr. Davis is well known to many Har risburgers as he took a prfomlnent part in the organization of the Bor ough League and has been here upon a number of occasions. He is a prominent young attorney of Mercer county and a law partner of Repre sentative Fred Fruit, one of the active young members of the last House. According to rumors a Central Pennsylvania attorney may be chosen to succeed Congressman Edgar R. Kiess, of Hughesville, who had chosen to remain in congress instead of be coming a commissioner. Political forecasters seem to think that the appointment will not go to Williams port and there are rumors that J. Banks Kurtz, prominent Altoona lawyer and personal friend of the Gov ernor, could Have It If he went after it. The name of ex-Lieutenant Gov ernor John M. Reynolds of Bedford, is also being mentioned and there has also been a recurrence of the rumors about J. W. Leech of Ebensburg. The Governor as usual Is keeping his own counsel. Edward E. Jones, the Susquehanna county representative who has been talked of for secretary of agriculture, ■ although the constitution seems to Interpose a bar. Is talked of as a very likely candidate for senator In the Susquehanna - Bradford - Wayne dis trict. He is a legislator of experience and has been re-elected on practically all tickets time and again. Susque hanna county people, who are proud of his record on road and agricultural legislation, consider him one of the strongest men in the county. As Congressman L. T. McFadden comes from Bradford, it is believed that Jones' candidacy for the senate will be well received in the district. Our Daily Laugh DOMESTIC S [jew. HARMONY. S) Does Howard ffet alon * happily c- —,with his wife? r iffiil Yes: some /Agaihls opinions coin /4a|s§!(®cide with hers the others he —■ ~ eeps silent about. QUITE A RE SEMBLANCE. jA Miss Chicken: That must be re- TF\\~m lated to me. , him that he relinquished his Indiana opening and settled down west of the Mississippi. With headquarters in Denver, and a corps of agents covering the contiguous States, his commissions totaled $15,000 that year. This record caused a stir iat the home office. He was promptly t appointed inspector of agencies for I the West at a salary of $15,000 per annum. He made good. Then came rapid promotions. He became third vice-president at $25,- 000 a year, then was placed upon the board of trustees; later became sec ond vice-president at $35,000 per year; still later, chairman of the finance committee at $75,000 per year, and, finally, first vice-president. Some years later, at the urgent so licitation of J. P. Morgan, he accept ed a partnership in the great banking concern. Here he developed his con ceptions regarding reconciling the seemingly insuperable differences existing between capital and labor. As a result of this policy came profit sharing insurance, sick benefits, old age pensions, service bonuses, sale of stock to employes at less than its mar ket value, and other innovations. In 1910, Perkins retired from J. P. Morgan Co. and has since devoted his time to solving the industrial and economic problems which confront the 1 nation. GRAPHIC STORY OF TENNESSEE MOUNT A IN LIFE el . . ■ ■ ■ . TYPE OF TENNESSEE MOUNTAIN FOLK TIE Rev. S. A. D. Smith, who is doing an excellent educational and uplift work in the mountain regions of Tennessee, was in Harris burg the other day on his way home from the Presbyterian General As sembly. Playing on his initials his friends in fun, sometimes refer to him as "Sad" Smith, but he is anything but that. Despite the difficulties and hardships that attend his work the Rev. Mr. Smith is happier in his call ing than many a minister at the head of a fashionable city church. Hfe is an optimist by nature and a great believer in the future of the moun taineers to whom he bears the mes sage of Christian civilization. "The mountain folks of Tennessee are a fine up-standing type of hu manity," said he to a Harrisburg friend. "They might be called true American stock, lor they come down in a direct line from the early set tlers untouched by the stream of im migration that has since poured over the land. They have lodged in an eddy, so to speak, and the stream of progress and of civilization influences has passed them by while they con tinue to go 'round and 'round in their little circle, with here and there a touch from the outside such as 1 and others have been able to give. "These people live in primitive fashion, and they have come through hardships that would have blotted out or driven out a less hardy race." The Rev. Mr. Smith painted a graphic "picture of the needs and con ditions of the mountain folks. He said: "The cabin home and large family are the reards of the major part of the population in this section. The farms indicate that their owners have never heard of scientific farming. They still use the old-time implements and transact their business Just as their forefathers Uid many years ago. Sometimes we travel for miles with out seeing a painted dwelling. The old-time spinning wheel and loom are still considered necessities in many places and sometimes occupy the larger part of the one-room dwelling where the family resides, cooks, eats, sleeps and entertains company. Night overtakes us, tired and hungry. \fS caJl at the fence of a cabin home— we do not go in because the watch dog makes it unsafe for us to ap proach nearer without protection— our call is answered, and we are cor dially invited to come in. The 'old man,' and the 'boys' have Just re turned from their day's labor, the 'gals' are preparing supper, and the 'old woman' sits in the corner smok ing a corn cob pipe. We try to ap pear as homelike and comfortable as possible, for it would not do to ap pear otherwise. Within a short while we are acquainted with the family and all seem delighted that we have stopped to spend the night with them. The supper is soon prepared and served. It consists of corn bread, hog meat, coffee, milk, butter, beans, po tatoes and such like. They take us into their confidence and give us the history of what is going on in the community. The news they Impart runs something like this: 'Had preaching over at the schoolhouse last Sunday, and a man got drunk and painted the thing red. A wildcat was cut up in the community the other night, and one of the neighbors ar rested for making and selling whisky." So goes the conversation until late bedtime. Finally the beds are pre pared, the lights are extinguished and the whole family is in dreamland un til about four o'clock in the morning, when we all arise, eat the hastily prepared breakfast, and after being cordially invited to stop again at any time, we are soon on our Journey, while the night's lodging has cost us nothing but good wishes and a prom ise to 'come agin.' "It is true that a large per cent of the population of this section have better homes and more conveniences than the one we have just visited, but they cannot be kinder and more hos pitable than their neighbors who live down under the hill in a log cabin with a 'stick and clay' chimney and windows without glass. Their Education. "The whole country is divided into districts; and one-room schoolhouses are located at community centers where 'free schools' of short duration are taught in the fall of the year. The barefooted boys and girls as semble from miles around at eight o'clock In the morning and spend the day more in play than study. The old log schoolhouse of twenty years ago, with a large fireplace in one end, a chink knocked out for a window, and backless split-log benches for desks Is now almost a thing of the past. It is being rapidly replaced by better things. "The teachers are chosen, as a rule, not on account of their efficiency, but because of some friendship or family tie, regardless of the Interests of the community. "Very few of them teach more than one year at the same place, and fewer still expect to make teaching their profession. The result of this is that they do not prepare themselves for teaching, and the 'free school' amounts to comparatively little. Yet in spite of these environments, many r>f the most brilliant minds have emerged from these mountains, and the world has felt the power of their lives. Their Religion. "These people are very simple in their religion. They are averse to any formality, and have little use for anything beyond a preaching service. The predominating churches are the Methodist, Baptist, Presbyterian and Christian or Campbeliite. "The country church is usually a one-room frame or log building cen trally located, surrounded by a beauti ful grove and accessible to water. This house often serves the double purpose of a schoolhouse during the week and a church on Sunday. Some times two, three or four denomina tions organize churches in this same house, each claiming a Sunday; and it is sad to note the rivalry and strife that is thus generated among, these deluded people of the Lord. "The pastor usually lives miles away and only visits the community once a month, or more seldom still when hindered by severe weather or iilgh water. Possibly ninety per cent JUNE 18, 1915. of these churches are served by ab sentee preachers who are with their people only a few hours monthly and deliver a sermon nastily pre pared during the business hours of the week while making a living for their families. Some of these church es pay their pastors no salary, others pay fifty cents to a dollar a month, while the average church—not in cluding those in the towns —will pay their pastor about thirty dollars a year. Yet the preacher devotes a considerable part of his time, includ ing most of the fall months, to preach ing the gospel. No class of men are making a greater sacrifice than the backwoods preachers who give them selves to the ministry without re muneration. Possibly fifty per cent of these churches have no Sunday school, prayer meeting or other relig ious society. "Wherever they have Sunday schools they are a strong factor in the religious life of the people; though they are very Imperfectly or ganized. The officers and teachers are untrained. Still they are doing a great work without which the cause of would suffer greatly. "Some parts of this mountain ter ritory are absolutely destitute of the means of grace. Many villages and communities are without a church of any denomination; no Sunday school, prayer meeting or other religious in fluences of any kind. Another great misfortune suffered by this section is the fact that our most promising young men who are called into the ministry are forced to go elsewhere for an education, and when they are equipped for their life work they al most invariably accept a call to some other field. Many of them today are occupying important pulpits in city churches. The result Is that the cause of religion among the moun tains suffers for the want of men who are able to bring things to pass. This mountain country has been furnish ing pastors and businessmen for the larger towns and cities, and receiving little in return. If the churches really understood the situation they would put more men ajid money into this field. "These mountaineers are very sus ceptible to gospel Influences, and very emotional in their worship. A ser mon, to be enjoyed by them, must ap peal to the emotional nature. The preacher who does not cry as he talks, occasionally at least, and the church member that does not shout during the "revival meeting' have little or no religion, in their estimation. "The 'revival season' is the fall of the year, and the parents look for ward to this time in the hope that their children will 'git' religion and jine the church.' The announcement is made weeks before, and when the time arrives for the 'protracted meet ing' to begin the people assemble in great throngs. For many days they have been preparing for the occasion. Cooking, dressmaking, hat buying and 'fixing' have been the order for a week or more. Many of the smaller boys and gtrls, It is true, come bare footed, but those old enough to want a sweetheart are at their best. The people go into the church shaking hands and passing compliments until the preacher is In his place and a song announced. They have no organ, as a rule, and some of them would con sider it very sinful to play an organ in church. The congregation proceeds to sing—frequently they 'sing the notes' first, and then the words. After the 'song service,' the Scriptures are read, prayer offered and the sermon delivered. You might not call it a 'sermon,' though It lasts long enough for two or three sermons—about one hour being the rule with most of the preachers. Yet, at the conclusion of that exhortation the preacher makes a proposition, and the people have a hearty handshake, followed by a 'great revival.' "Many of the men who have made the world's history have come from the mountains. And among the hills of Tennessee there are many boys and girls whom God has endowed with the strongest minds and noblest traits of character. What a pity that these forces should lie dormant! Why not give them the spiritual touch and make them a blessing to the world and a glory to God ? Their Needs. "The mountaineer's greatest need is an incentive to better ways of living; attractive and attainable ideals, with an Impulse tovards them. From their ancestors they inherited noble aspira tions which, though long repressed by their environment, have not been extinguished. "The need is urgent. The transi tion period, ever a dangerous one, is being entered now by the moun taineer. The buying of timber and coal lands in blocks of thousands of acres, the extensive oil and gas leases, the coming of great saw mills and of railroads, and the miles of mines be ing opened, have all brought to the mountaineer a new world with un usual opportunities for making money and for spending it In sensual pleas ures. "His awakening has rome; his long dormant energies aroused; stir him for the fray. His hospitable heart, his daring spirit and abundant vitality all Incline him to race with the multi tude to do evil; and Just now, if ever, he needs a Christian hand to be laid on his shoulder to check and steady him." By this time the missionary Is back In his beloved mountains where he plans to spend the remainder of his days In the work to which he has given his life. His salary is paid by a Harrlsburger, but that fact Is not generally known. BOXERS ARE BODY-WORSHIPPERS Bombardier Wells. heavyweight champion of England, says that boxers are body-worshippers, and are accus tomed to such a glorious feeling of physical fltness, buoyancy of nerve and muscle, that for them to be out of sorts, from any cause whatever, Is a handicap that ordinary people cannot understand. This especially applies to the period of training before a fight. Then we want to be agile and flery as wild animals. To feel a little off color may malie all the difference between winning and losing a flght—the little rift within the lute. Anyhow, this Is Intensely true in the rase of a highly strung animal like myself.—From the Strand Magazine j Stoning (Eljat Buttercups have been added to th« flora of Capitol Park arid no one seems to know the reason for the appearance of the tiny yellow flowers that have pre-empted an area about ten feet square a short distance from the Mexican monument. To make the setting more complete, the buttercups are surrounded by a couple of quite good sized patches of white clover blossoms. The buttercups made their appearance a couple of days afro much to the surprise of the gardeners, who noticed the interest they had attracted and allowed them to remain. It is supposed that someone had a bunch of the flowers one time and threw them away or else some of the seeds were mixed in with grass seed and in this way the Capitol Park, far removed from the countryside and carefully kept free from dandelions, has many of the pretty little flowers inseparably connected with the meadows and the pasture fields. Every now and then some flowers appear in unexpected places in the park and with the black birds and an occasional robin they make the tired city dweller think of the country. • • ♦ There has been the usual attendance of foreigners at this week's criminal court and out of curiosity a man who knows some languages kept tabs on the nationalities of the people who passed through the rotunda at noon. Ho heard German, Italian, Serbian, Roumanian, Slavonic and what sound ed to him like some Gaelic. He also heard one or two people speak Eng lish, he says. • * • "Dauphin county farmers are not building as many silos as a few years ?JF 0 ' And * have been curious to flnd the reason," said a man who travels about the county a good bit. "Six or seven years ago there was a pro nounced boom in silo building in the lower end of this county and York and Cumberland did much building, too Lately I have seen very few new ones and hardly any in course of construc tion." + • • The excavations for the cellar foun atioils of the new Graupner bakery and Market streets reveal that the Paxton creek once rambled over that way. The digging has dis closed successive layers of Ailing, in cluding oyster shells and some indi cations of the creek bed. Soon after the Civil War the creek, which zig zagged down the valley, was straight ened. The new bakery site was then filled and is as solid as a rock. • • * The festival season is on in full force and there are "events" of local importance spread on many lots about the city. The strawberries seem to bave come down to festival prices and young people's societies, classes, base ball clubs and other organizations are having their try for the nickel. Last P there were fully a dozen festivals in full swing about the city. T.r Wll ." am Draper Lewis, who was the Washington party candidate for Gov ernor for a time last year, was here yesterday in a case at the Capitol, but refrained from talking politics. "I'm busy with law now and I do not have much time to talk about anything else. ' said the former dean. He showed much interest in the progress of legislation, however. * • • George D. Ogden, the general freight agent of the Pennsylvania Railroad, who is now located in Philadelphia, was here for a hearing at the Capitol yesterday and remarked upon the'' pleasant days he had spent while in charge of freight here. "This to a growing town, all right. You can see it grow every time you visit it, and I get here pretty often," said he. • * • Not only can the Devil quote scrip ture to his purpose—he's a good bit of a 'bear" at using religious tunes for his satanic purposes, too. In many a dance, public and private, through out th e city, folk are tipping the light fantastic to the tune of "Brighten the Corner Where You Are," which can be made into a beautiful one-step. And this tune is the one hit being sung in dozens of tabernacles where evangelistic services are being held Most evangelists deal roughly with dancing, putting it only after rum, cards and theater-going in the cate gory of worldly pleasures which should be shunned. Now one of the evil genii has changed the time, sticking in a bit of syncopation here and there and the ringing revival hymn is changed to a rattling good one-step that exerts a quickening influence on the toes. | WELL KNOWN PEOPLE —City Solicitor Michael J. Ryan, of Philadelphia, was the orator at the Irish day exercises in Pittsburgh. —Talcott Williams has been given the degree of doctor of letters by Brown University. —Councilman Robert Garland, of Pittsburgh, was a commencement day orator at Grove City College. —Colonel Richard Coulter, com mander of the Tenth Infantry, has been elected president of the Keystone Coal and Coke Company. —E. A. S. Clarke, president of the Lackawanna Steel Company, has been very ill at his summer home at the seashore. —Frank L. Cloud, superintendent of Norristown schools, has resigned to be come a teacher in Philadelphia. —James A. Farrell, president af the Steel Corporation, is on a trip to the Pacific coast. 1 DO YOU KNOW That Harrisburg Stockings are be ing used by French troops? CAN SHE ? OF COURSE SHE CAW; WHAT? MATTERS NOT WHAT Special to The Telegraph Windham. N. Y.. June 18.—At Sat urday's "ceremonial meeting" of the junior lodge of Camp Fire Girls of this village Thelma Arnold, the 12-year-old daughter of the local garage keeper, attained the distinction of being the first girl of her years to win the grade of "fire maker." Among the qualifications for this rank possessed by the girl are the fol lowing: She can Tie a square-knot without hesitation five times in succession; Tie a bowline, a sheepshank, a clove-hitch, two half-hitches and a bowline on a bight; Recite the Declaration ot Independ ence without faltering; Point out and name seven different heavenly constellations; Operate without help an automo bile for 400 miles; Repeat "Mary Had a Little lamb" forward, then backward; Make three different kinds of cake. CIVIC CLUB ' Fly Contest June 1 to July 31 5 Cents a Pint Prizes of $5, $2.50 and several 91.00 ones duplicated by Mr. Ben Rtrouse V
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