8 HARRISBIRG TELEGRAPH A NEWSPAPER FOR THE HOME Pounded Published evenings except Sunday by THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO., Telegraph Building, Federal Square. E. J. STACKPOLE. Pres't and Editor-in-Chief V. R. OYSTER, Business Manager. GUS M. STC2INMETZ, Managing Editor. A Member American Newspaper Pub ® Ushers' Associa tion, The Audit Bureau of Circu lation and Penn sylvania Associat ed Dailies. Eastern office, Has brook. Story & Brooks, Fifth Ave nue Building. New York City; West era office, Has brook. Story & Brooks, People's —— cago, 111. Entered at the Post Office In Harrls burg. Pa., as second class matter. By carriers, six cents a <iryßMeSbtl> week; by mail. $3.00 a year in advance. Sworn daily avernare circulation for the three months ending; February 21), 1018, •k 22,785 it Tbeae tgurea are net. All returned, unsold and daraasrd coplrs deducted. THURSDAY EVENING, MARCH 2 A man should keep his friendship in constant repair. — Dr. Johnsox. i M AR JORIE'S BATTLESHIP IT was with a feeling of having ac complished something extremely j worth while that we drew forth our , somewhat worn purse, extracted there from a shiny ten-cent piece and placed it to our own credit on the list of con- ( tributors to Marjorie Sterrett's "bat- j tleship fund.'' No sooner had we done this than a feeling of exhilaration possessed us and we realized that wc were a patriot; yep. a real patriot, an actual contributor to the preparedness campaign, and had actually done a concrete service for our country. We strongly recommend this experience to others. It's fine. The remarkable feature of this project, which has as its aim the rais ing of a fund of 310,000,000 to build the United States battleship "America," is that it is going to succeed. It is romantically novel and brilliantly con- . ccived. No less is it going to l>e ear i ied through to a successful conclusion, and it behooves every red-blooded boy iind girl to subscribe his dime and get his name on the list which, if indica- > tions are any guide, will extend from ' New York to San Francisco, with what ■ wo hope will prove to be a congested district in the region of Central Penn sylvania. Marjorle Sterrett's name is indelibly j fixed on the roll of patriots, and the | consummation of this project, stagger- j lng In size as it may seem at first glance, will prove at its conclusion to , have done more toward instilling into the minds and hearts of the youth of our country a feeling of patriotism and love of country than any other single j thing in recent years. The Telegraph is of the opinion that j the majority of its readers, whether they are followers of the Rooseveltian or Bryanistic policy, are patriotic, and j therefore appreciate the undoubted advantages that result from the 1m- i pression which his or her contribution will make upon the mind of the boy or «irl who has a part In building up the fund. Thousands of dollars have been raised in the short time since the dimes and dollars began to pour Into the offices of the New York Tribune. | Newspapers all over the country have j taken up the cry and arc co-operating j with one another in making the ; "America" possible. History may have tiomething to say about Marjorle and i all who are associated with her in adding their contributions. WILL YOU BE ONE? ACKNOWLEDGE TARIFF ERROR DEMOCRATS in Congress are re luctantly acknowledging the er ror of their policies on the tar- j iff question. It is confidently expected that the proposition to repeal the free sugar clause will receive favorable treat- j nient at the hands of all Democrats and, of course, being Republican in principle, it will have Republican backing. The Democrats—free-trad ers and "revenuers" alike admit that the Underwood tariff law is a failure. As a revenue producer it I has broken down, and its free trade 1 provisions have broken up business. A oanvass of the House indicates that there is not a Democrat in Congress who does not believe that we must have a new tariff law, but no two Democrats agree as to what kind of a tariff law we should have. They are all up In the air, and comparing one hundred views with one hundred oth ers they are confessedly incapable of leglslatin ; on the tariff. A "caieh all" bill which is to be brought in by the Ways and Means Committee is reported by the newspa pers to contain at least four measures of legislation—the tariff commission, a provision against anti-dumping, a dyes tuffs tariff and a revision of the Income tax law. The bill will be a "Spring drive" measure. The idea is lo dispose of all aggravating revenue legislation in gross. It is realized by Democratic leaders in the House that if certain of these bills were to be brought in separately they would meet with Democratic opposition sufficient to endanger their passage. Hence, this incorporation under one bill, for the purpose of set-off and compro mise. This four-ply bill prom ises to be Republican in principle, except in the Income tax revision. The recent Supreme Court decision on the Income tax law Is to be made the baais for the raising of additional THURSDAY EVENING, HARRISBURG tfStfo TELEGRAPH MARCH 2, 1916. revenue to an .extent variously esti mated by Democrats at from one hun dred to two hundred millions of dol lars. It Is a tax on Individual efficiency. It is a direct tax. The Republican idea of taxation is to levy It at our ports—a protective tariff —an indi rect tax which is not felt by the "ulti mate consumer" and which serves the double purpose of protecting Amer ican industries and of raising suffi cient revenue to run the Ameri ican government. The Republicans are on record for a Tariff Board, or Commission, to gather trade statistics to be presented to Congress for legislative conslder- I atlon. President Wilson Is an eleventh hour convert to the Tariff Commis sion idea and neither he nor anjbodj else knows what sort of a Tariff c om niission he wants. The Republicans are for a protective tariff which will take care of European underselling and be the best assurance against dumping in our markets. And a Re publican Congressman has drafted the provisions of the dyestuffs tariif. What fate this political makeshift will meet in the Senate, it is impos sible to tell, but it will probably be clubbed through the House. It is quite apparently a bid for votes a campaign bill. It cannot fail to be a garbled and unintelligible measure, and it is not sincere. It will remain on the statute books until 1917, when Republican legislation will render it nothing but a memory of Democratic opportunism and incompetency. \DMITTING SVBI'RBS PLEASANT VIEW wants to be an nexed to Harrisburg. The Tele graph means nothing in the way of a pun when it pronounces this very pleasant news. There is no reason why this suburb should not be made a part of the city. The time must come and that shortly, when Harris burg will extend all the way from Kockville to Highspire and east to Rutherford. The boroughs and com munities bordering on the city are of such size and growing so fast that the expense of maintaining separate mu nicipal governments is becoming bur densome, especially since by the very nature of things the small town can not get as much for its assessed taxes as can the large city. With the sub urbs all within the limits of Harris burg that should be in at this time, llarrlsburg would become a second class city, with all the prestige and privileges that accompany the distinc tion. It is to be hoped that others will follow the example of Pleasant View. NO "MOLLY-CODDLES 1 ' HERE FOR. the benefit of thosa who have been dolefully speculating upon the "decadence of American youth" and for the information of those others who may have been frightened by Pacific Coast yarns of the courage and prowess of Japanese soldiers, the Telegraph notes the ob servations of a visitor of prominence from the Orient who has returned to Japan and is at present comparing the American spirit shown in football play to that of the samurai spirit of old Japan. In his judgment, the game of intercollegiate football, as played by American universities, is one of the surest 3igns of American greatness. In a recent lecture he referred to the sport as follows: If any Japanese thinks that the spirit of old Japan, Yamato Dama shil (Japanese spirit) Is superior to the spirit of America (.American Pamashli), he would have that no tion changed if he couid see a hard fought contest on an American col lege gridiron. The spirit of the old samurai is not confined to Japan, but is evident in every game bet tween American football teams. He then gave a detailed and vivid description of the game as he saw it; the stoicism of the injured players; men knocked unconscious, blooded noses, wind knocked out, and the mat ter-of-fact spirit in which all the hard knocks were taken by the players. "That game," he remarked, "would never thrive in Japan." Which is equivalent to saying that Americans will accept more punish-! ment. even in sport, than even Japa- j nese stoicism cares to endure. A LONG, J/)NG WAY WE have gone a long, long way in Pennsylvania in the past three quarters of a century; just how far is no better illustrated than by the announcement yesterday of the death of Alfred A. Pancake, who ran the first locomotive from Harrisburg to Pittsburgh over the Pennsylvania Railroad. It is a far cry from the straggling, poorly constructed, worm fence railroad of that time, with its tiny wheezing engines, to the four track system and the giant locomo tives o£ to-day and all developed within the lifetime of one man. ALL A ROOD HIM STAND by the President." Right! Also beside him and behind him and in front of him. Give him no chance to sidestep, or backstep or even look around. Keep him right where he Is, at least until Congress has pass -led its "vote of confidence." It would be embarrassing to find that he had changed front right in the midst of the proceedings. HANS, HARDY PERENNIAL ALL rules have their exceptions —even that relegating athletes to the has-been class after | thirty-five, or forty years at the latest. I Here is our old friend Hans Wagner, for instance. Honus has Just cele- I brated his forty-second birthday and t lust to prove that he is "as young as he used 'o be" is still making records, j With three other members of the Pitts j burgh team he claims to be the first | to start training for the 1916 season. Late last month, during a thaw spell, Wagner met Outfielder Hinchman, Pitcher Manaux and Manager Callahan at the club office. The spring-like weather caused the talk to turn toward baseball play and the upshot was that the quartet slipped out to Forbes Field and indulged In a short session in batting and throwing. Wagner states that this is the earliest date that, he lias ever begun training In his many years in the big leagues. Per haps, however, this is not so much a proof of Wagner'# everlasting youtli j an tt t!> that he 1B overanxious to con- vlnce himself of his continued ability to laugh at age. However, Hans can still claim tit'e as the hardy perennial of the big leagues. | TELEGRAPH'S PERISCOPE —The Valley Railways Company has an optimist in its employ. This morning he displayed a sign headed— "Picnic Season is Coming." —Science note: "The average man has 20 pounds of blood." Yep, and about an ounce and a quarter of spine. —Bernard College girls have taken up Jiu Jitsu. If they think THAT'S going to help get 'em husbands they're mistaken. —Marriage has become so costly In Peru that it has become a luxury only for the rich. My, how rapidly those Latins are becoming Americanized. —The King of Spain has an income of $1,400,000 and he is at peace with the world. And yet some of the other monarchs used to think him a very poor representative of royal blood. EDITORIAL COMMENT (New York Evening Post) Japan is planning to sell three of her" warships to Russia. This means of course that we need six more battle ships in the Pacific. One Must Look to the Future (Toledo Blade) . An objection to adopting a pig as a pet. as the New Orleans society girl has done, is that by the time one has learned to love It the darling will have developed Into a hog. THE STATE FROM DAfTODW Two events of considerable im portance took place in Hazleton at the home of William Johnson when a burglar and the stork made simul taneous visits, one to give and the other to take away. The burglar got away with |7. and by dint of little figuring the family came to the not uncertain conclusion that the bal ance of trade was still in their favor. "Do the dead deturn?" That is the subject of some spiritualistic discus sions, but in the case of Eugene Straussner, of Northumberland, there seems to be no doubt about It. Be lieved by his family to have been kill ed more than eight months ago, the now prosperous railroader returned yesterday to his home town and the bosom of his family and declined to discuss the matter at all. The Lancaster Daily Examiner re ports l'rom its local marriage license bureau that leap j-ear so far shows less marriages, and assigns as the rea son the fact that the girls are too modest to propose. Another possible cause is said to be that the young eligibles are being called away to work elsewhere. Along with this startling announce ment came the news that a mean thief had forced an entrance into the home of Thomas Hoffman, of Naza reth, and stolen his pay envelope, to gether with some money that his daughter had put away to purchase the trousseau for her coming wed ding. "Billy Sunday Is shot" was the startling headline that caused many hearts to flop when It was observed in a Johnstown paper. "Billy Sun day" was one of a team of livery horses. | Two leap year babies arrived in Al | lentown on February's "extra" day, • one of them being the addition to the ! family of a member of tho compos i ing force of the Allentown Chronicle | and Xews. We wish him many happy | returns of the day. Andrew J. Wrick, of Fern Ridge, | born in New Jersey on February 29, 'lßl6, celebrated his centennial and at' the same time his 24th birthday on ! last Tuesday. Three years ago this I I well-preserved centenarian cut a new set of teeth. He has never ridden in a railroad train or automobile and i never saw a street car. No, and he : isn't blind, either. 1900 was not rec ognized as a bissextile year, whatever ;that means, or Mr. Wrick would have j celebrated his 25th birthday instead. THE SEARCHLIGHT A NEW YORK CHINESE SCHOOL 1 About twenty-five New York Chi nese boys attend a regular Chinese I school conducted after the methods of 1 the Celectial Republic. They are the sons of Chinese businessmen who, while appreciating the value of the American education, desire that their j sons shall also be instructed in Chi -1 nese. Each of the boys attends the . New York public school. After that , he enters the Chinese school which is in daily session from 4 o'clock until 8 in the evening, with an hour's re i cess for supper. The boys bring ink , wells and copybooks, for their chief work is learning to write the two thousand odd characters which con -1 stitute the Chinese alphabet. A stu dent must memorize over four thou sand other characters before he is able to read Chinese. It requires | nearly ten years to acquire a prac tical use of tho language. ! 1 OUR DAILY LAUGH I : HOPEFUI* Father —I got a ijf £- JT H. v l | number of sealed LC\ proposals at mynAA \ V Mf] office today. mRM-v""-m. Daughter—Oh, JV Sjaßj pa, were any of "' "f/l , them for me? '<£> * Say, Pop, aint • the best way to "* {7^*s® stbp hard times to f —SjO"Ak 1 put money into t ' dime for candy, • iden , \0 OVERTIMK 1 . By Vine Dlnarr I ' s : A friend said: "Wing. I did not sec s | A slnglo line of poetry 1 I In Tuesday's paper, writ by you. What was the trouble, tell me, do." r i And I replied: "Oh, friend of mine, s ! Twas February twenty-nine, - ' An extra day, which I flatly a) Fiefused to have rung in on ine.' r IK By the Ex-Commlttceme* Leader* of the Old Guard, antl reorganlzution and other factions of the Pennsylvania Democracy which are engaged in conflict with the bosses of the present Democratic machine have decided to refuse any proffers of peace within the party If they are made by the machine chieftains with out the approval of President Wilson. For scune time past, it is understood, tentative efforts have been made to get. up a compromise slate for delegates at large to St. Louis, but the Old Guard element is inclined to be wary. Not long ago it was found out that the machine leaders were making these efforts through fear of defeat and con sequent loss of prestige at Washington. Now the Old Guard leaders have de elded that they will compromise only on orders from the schoolmaster in the White House and will fight unless they are asked to stop by the Presi dent. Most of the Old Guard leaders figure out that this is a good time to start something and the movement to op pose the machine slate here will be imitated in other counties. —West End Republicans will have a supper on March 13 at their head quarters and it is expected that many prominent Republicans will attend. —According to reports from up the river. William T. Creasy and Freeze Quick. Columbia countlans, will be candidates for Democratic congres sional honors in the Sixteenth district, and will buck Congressman J. V. Lesher, of Sunbury. —Colonel E. M. Young, of Allen town ,and ex-Judge R. G. Bushong. of Reading, are now mentioned for Re publican national delegates from the Berks-Lehigh district. Fred E. Lewis is not being taken seriously. Representative Rinn, of grade crossing bill fame, is a candidate for re-election in Lehigh. —-The question of the right of the register of wills of Philadelphia to keep the fees accruing in his office was argued in «ourt yesterday. This action started here. —The Erie court held up one license application yesterday. At a meeting of members of the Washington party city committee in Philadelphia last night blank petitions were distributed for nominations to be mada for the May primaries. It was decided to hold meetings by congres sional districts to endeavor to agree upon candidates for delegates to the Progressive national convention and for Congress and the Legislature. The active spirits from the Sixth Congres sional district, including West Phila delphia and the Germantown, Logan, Chestnut Hill sections, decided to hold their meeting at the city headquarters on March 8. —Judge Brumm, who is presiding in the hearing of the contest between school directors in West Mahanoy township, Schuylkill county, over the election last November, ordered that the ballot box of the William Penn district of West Mahanoy township be impounded. The box of the Dost Creek district was opened and the contents were examined. Witnesses testified that they, notwithstanding they were not 21 years old, had voted for Dona hue and McCoy, the contestees. The salary board of Duzerne county has wiped out nine official positions and Democratic chieftains at the Wilkes-Barre courthouse are much alarmed. The courts have been ap pealed to to save these Jobs despite the fact that the board has declared them to bo unnecessary. Controlller Fuller R. Hendersliot Is responsible for wiping out the jobs. He declared that the following positions were unneces sary: Deputy chief clerk, salary $l2O monthly; messenger for commission ex-s, salary J53.333 monthly; two road and bridge inspectors, salaries $l5O monthly; superintendent of buildings, salary <l5O monthly; one gardener, salary $75 monthly: two assistant gar deners, salaries $65 monthly; one of ficer, salary SBO monthly. HEROJC FRANCE [New York Sun] Across Europe runs the longest bat- j i t!e line of history, and every yard of! lit has its hero-. Trickling across the; map a thin double line marks the ; trenches where through the weary j j months Teutons and Allies have held, | with varying fortunes, never yet de- i : cisive, the greatest deadlock of hos tile armies in all the wars of the world. And through It all in the i thickest of the fight have stood heroic the colors and the uniforms of the sol ! diers of France. The nations, never j j questioning the gallantry of those | brave men. yet questioned their tcni peramantal fitness for the dogged work of war. They had dash, it was ! said, but not the plugging persever-; ance of the German, the bulldog te nacity of the Briton. Yet no troops 1 have withstood better than the French ; the long, grinding strain of trench | warfare. And now where the battle line | threatens to give way at a point most j I vital, now when the German offensive is delivering its most smashing blows, I concentrating Its utmost strength and weight of artillery and rifle Are, there at the point of impact stand the regi-j ments of Fraace, indomitably coura geous, hard as tempered steel, never wavering, never thinking of retreat, beating back wave after wave of the German flood of lead and iron. Train loads of the wounded go rearward with regret, and trainloads of re serves rush .to the front, but never fast enough to suit the eager desire of the new men to take the places of their fallen comrades. Surely never has a nation so risen ; to the needs of its Great Hour as I France to-day! Her spirit is the spirit of one man, that man a hero, j Battered and bleeding, she breathes ] the defiant motto of an unyielding I tighter immortal in history: "We have not begun to fight!" France has ! reconquered glory and the praise of brave men forever. Who.should more admire her inexhaustible courage than the men and women of this republic, to whom France has been a friefid'.' LETTERS TO THE EDITOR GREAT PREACHERS To the Editor of the Telegraph: Dear Sir:— in one of Harrisburg's daily news papers of February 28. a city pastor quoted Griffith Jones as saying, that ! "the last 125 years had produced but two great preachers." From this the preacher passed to the cases of men like Moody and "BMly" Sunday, a shoe clerk in the first and a baseball player in the second instance, as hav : ing been called to their work to "demonstrate the power of God." "Why is it," he continued, "you : men of Yale, of Harvard, of Prlnce ! ton. of Lafayette and of State, that 1 we are not producing men like these'.'" As against Griffith Jones I will quote Dr. David Gregg, of Brooklyn, N". Y., who in a recent magazine article discussed "The Pulpit of the Nine teenth Century." In his "great group" bflf records t lie following names: Roland Hill, Timothy Dwight, Robert Hall. Christmas Evans, John Mason. Archibald Alexander, Thomas Chalmers, W. E. ''banning, James Angel .Tames, Caesar Milan, Biney, Bushnell, Martineau, Charles G. Fin ney, Dr. Palmer, of New Orleans, i Daniel Baker, of Texas, Thomas Arn ! old, of Rugby, the Hodges, Tyngs, ithe Beecliers, Cardinal Newman, THE CARTOON OF THE DAY | | —From the PH«sl>iirg;h Dltpilfrli. PHILIPPINE PROBLEMS Affairs in the Islands By Frederic J. Haskin I J THE Philippines to-day are one of our biff national issues. The is lands and their disposition form the center of a storm of debate and discussion that runs from the White House, through Congress, to every crossroads store. The question they present to us as their owners and leg islators is too well-known td need re stating. In the light of that ques tion, however, their own internal af fairs take on a new importance and significance to the people of the United States. It is the problems of the Philippines that make our Philip pine problem.* They have questions of all kinds to face, over in the tropic archipelago that is home to the only Christian peo ple of the Orient—questions that run from practical politics of our own domestic variety, to the dilemma of dealing with wild, pagan tribes of humanity who have just been coaxed down out of the trees, with frantic Malay-Mohammedans who run amuck, imbued with the sole idea of dying in the slaughter of Christians. The re cent progress of the Philippines has been unprecedented in history. Both Americans and Filipinos have a rec ord to be proud of, and a record to be lived up to in dealing with the situation before them now. First in importance, perhaps, is the matter of government—the constitu tion of the Philippine legislature, and the causes that led to a three-year deadlock over the budget. But among the Americans of the islands, at least, the state of the civil service seems to take precedence over everything else. We tackled a big job when the mili tary turned affairs over to the civil government fifteen years ago, and we set about working it out on a big scale. A civil service composed al most exclusively of Americans was instituted, and progress along all lines —law and order, justice, education, science, economic development—came faster than the most sanguine had hoped for. The Americans of the serv ice threw themselves into the work heart and soul. Then came the in evitable tragedy of the situation —the fact that Ihe less Americans the civil service could get along with, the bet ter. According to our theory of govern ment, no American has a right to a place in the Philippine service which can be adequately filled by a Filipino. The islands support the civil service, and thus have the first call on its positions. Washington has always recognized this fact, and the service is being "filipinized," as rapidly as possible. As a result, there is a con tinual unrest among the Americans. Many of them have devoted the best years of their life to their work, and now they must stand aside and let their places be taken by natives. The lower ranks of the service are practically all Filipinos to-day. The Chief Justice of the Supreme Court and two Associate Justices are Fili pinos. Five of the nine members of the Philippine Commission, a body whose duties correspond to those of our Senate, are Filipinos. The As- the lower house) is of course, entirely Filipino. As time goes on, more and more of the higher executive positions in the service are being filled by natives. This is no more than right: but it is only natural that many of the Americans who are still neces sary to the efficiency of the system should be on the continual lookout for positions elsewhere, where their future is secure. According to most Americans, the result is a lowering of efficiency. This is a real dilemma, because the pol icy of giving the natives any job they can hold must inevitably be con tinued. Thus, the civil service prob lem is a three-fold one. There must be some provision made for the men Guthrie, Maurice, Bishop Simpson, Dean Alford. Dean Stanley, F. W. Rob ertson, Candlish, Charles Kingtsley, R. S. Storrs, Theodore \J. Cuyler, Roswell D. Hitchcock, Robert Col Iyer, John Hall, Joseph Parker, Phillips Brooks, Alexander MacLaren, Joseph Cook, Howard Crosby, Charles F. Deems, T. DoWitt Talmage. W. L. "Watkinson and S. M. Fairbairn. This is a "grand group of master men; men who arc rare, who cannot be outclassed." But other illustrious American names could readily be added. To class Moody and "Billy" Sunday with these men, or to call them "groat preachers " is to misap prehend the true qualities of great ness in a minister. Both may "demon strate the power of God," in a certain sense: but lhat may be true even though as preachers they fall far be low the lowest-member of the group furnished by ,Dr. Gregg. And while the Christian church might well pray for more Moodys, it is a matter of doubt in very many minds whether more "Billy" Sundays wou 1 d contribute to the spirituality, the per- who have done diff'loult work faith fully. and who are now forced out by the principles of our political theory. The Americans still necessary to the service must b6 retained. Finally, there is the Question of whether theri are not certain functions of govern ment which natives will be incapable of fulfilling for many years to come. Pre-eminent among those, is the administration of the affairs of the so- I called nonOhristian tribes. The non- Christian tribes include both the pa gans. or hill people, who have only been won the last decade from their I head-hunting and continual savage warfare, as well as the Moros of Mindanao and Sulu, warlike Moham medans who terrorized the archipel aga for centuries. At present the Philippine Commission has full charge of the affairs of these people, who number probably an eighth of the to : tal population, and whose territories embrace a third of the land area of , the archipelago. The purely Filipino Assembly has nothing to say about I them. The question is basically political, I for any change in the existing ar rangement will have to be made by an act of Congress, such as is now pend ing before the House of Representa tives. In its details, however, it is a question of the civil service, for the men in actual charge of the wild tribes—the provincial governors—are Americans. They have won the sav ages to law and order and to some thing approaching social progress by a combination of tact and reckless courage that is an eternal credit to the American nation. The question arises as to when, if ever, their places can be filled by Filipinos. In this connection it is well to note that the term "Filipino" does not ap ply to all inhabitants of the Philip pines, but only to the Christian peo ples who, to the number of some seven million, form about seven eighths of the population. This class is the only one capable of administra tion. and it is from them that the men to govern- the wild tribes will <be drawn. Americans are also in favor of the administrative features of the bill, but in respect to the actual •govern ment of the wild tribes, some of them express doubt. They point out that between the Filipinos and the hill men is an enmity centuries old, and that the Moros hold the fighting abili ties of the Filipinos in contempt. They say, too, that unless checked, certain Filipinos are liable to take advantage of the ignorance and.super stition of the savage to exploit him, and that the confidence and friend ship so carefully built up by Ameri cans will be destroyed. There seems little doubt that the Moros and the hill peoples would be a thorn in the side of a purely Fili pino administration. When the prov inces of Mindanao and Sulu were re cently turned over from the military to the civil government, the last ac tivity of .the army was ended, and to day our troops in the Philippines are on exactly tt*e same sort of a peace fooUng that they occupy in the con tinental United States. The Philip pine Constabulary is maintaining al most perfect order, but the commis sioned officers for the most part are Americans. No critic of American or Filipino in the islands lias attacked the con stabulary. They are a remarkably able and efficient body of men, re cruited both from the Filipinos and the hill peoples. They may be taken as conclusive proof that the Filipino and his wilder neighbors have the making of first-rate soldiers when properly led. The order they are preserving, the five thousand outlaws killed and the twelve thousand cap tured, shows their efficiency. sonal piety and purity of the church. The most that can be charged to the credit of Mr. Sunday as a preacher Is his intense energy, his marvelous dynamic force, and his burning en thusiasm for man. But to mention his name with those of the really great preachers of this or any other age is to associate Peter Cartwright with the Angelic Simpson, or the eccentric Abraham Sneathen. a preacher of re markable power and a great revival ist, with the impressive and eloquent Thomas X. Stockton. ENDIA. THAT BAND CONCERT Tyrone, March 1, 'l6. To the Editor of the Telegraph: We saw your article in the Tele graph, February 28. with reference to Municipal Band Concert. Harrisburg people will go to the concerts if the music is worth listening to. It is, therefore, up to the band. The Tyrone P. 11. 11. Shop Band has just played its 24« th concert, and the attendance keeps up. TYRONE. lEtoittttg dljat I tiirteenth and Market streets, which is in second class as a windy spot in Harrisburg, the Capitol plaza and Mulberry street bridge being in tne first, afforded a bunch of young sters, and some grown-ups consider able fun a few clays ago. There were half a dozen boys standing about the corner when a man came along and he heard one ask another,: "How many have you got?" I "Seven," was the answer. Von beat me. I've only got live." The man, who was waiting for a car, wondered what the kids were talking about on such a windy day and with such evident enjovment. Just !u " va «rant blast from the tail of the Canadian cyclone which visited here came around Thirteenth street and took off his hat. The kids gave a yell of delight and tlie man paused before ohasinp tli© hat to give the lads a "piece of his mind," as he phrased it, when he saw two scampering for the rolling hat as fast as their legs would go. The man stopped, of course, and watched the boys chase the "lid" half a block, Finally it was returned to him ana before he could say thanks and give a nickel, the boy who had won the race with the hat and his pal, sung | out "Got six now." What the boys were doing was chasing hats which were blown off at lhat corner. They had noticed the havoc caused by the air currents and were chasing the hats as they were whirled away. They did not seem to be in it for the gratuities they got, but to be running a race to see who could retrieve most hats. Official, records, weatherman, goosebone prognosticators and pro phets of like ilk to the contrary, not withstanding, February to my mind, was <mo of the coldest in many years." declared a well-known coal dealer yesterday. "The best evidence it would seem to me was the amount: of coal that the people had to burn and our books show an extraordinary big business for the past month. Then. too. I've made some inquiry just to satisfy myself, and I've learn ed that more coal was necessary, steam heat, was turned on more regu larly, hot water furnaces and heating Itlants were kept going more uninter ruptedly during the past twenty-nine (lays than during any previous Feb ruary I can remember. I'm told that the average mean temperature during the month was 27.3 while during the similar month of 1015 the average mean temperature was 34.7. At any ! rate we certainly had more cold, gloomy, raw and wet days then prc | vious Februarys. At least it was great | 'grip' weather. Maybe my doctor only mentioned this to comfort me, but he said he hud a heap of business in (that line. or COURSE, I had the grip. However, lake it from me. it was COLD during the month and just beca.use I'm in the coal business you [needn't think it didn't cost me money, j And the steam heat bills will show | how cold it's been." Four old copies of SmuU'a handbook were added yesterday to the Dauphin county law library. The books were presented by Prison Inspector John H. Mclllienny and Court Librarian David F. Young put them away on a little self by themselves. The vol umes were for the years 1873, 18S1, 1883 and 3 887. They are worth con siderable money to men who keep sets. In spite of the unfavorable weather conditions the proposed new site of the Country Club of Harrisburg near Fort Hunter has been visited by a nurftber of the members, who have been highly pleased at the beauty of the view from the point where it is planned to construct the new club house. The ground which it is the idea to buy is admirably adapted to outdoor sports and much of it is in such shape that it could be used for golf this Fall if preliminary work could be started in the Spring. How ever, it is the intention of the club to use its present grounds, the remains of the clubhouse having been repair ed so that locker rooms can be used as heretofore. The heavy demands upon the State Workmen's Compensation Board for information is making big holes in its appropriation for expenses and the postage and printing bills are jump ing. In most cases requests are made for ten times as many blanks as need ed and the other day a modest re quest was made for 1,200 copies of a certain form for Issuance as a sup plement. The board will allow the inquirer to pay the bill, the State be ing unable to provide such wholesale quantities. Among visitors to the city yester day was George Sullivan, commission er of Montgomery county and one of the commissioners of Lower Merlon township, one of the best known rural municipal divisions in the State. He visited friends at the Capitol. WELL KNOWN PEOPLE —Councilman Robert Garland, of Pittsburgh, has a plan to make th« city co-extensive with Allegheny county. , . E. P. Eldridge, city engineer of Reading, is taking a part in the dis cussions of municipal highways at the Pittsburgh meeting. Judge G. G. Sloan, the new Judge of Clarion county, declined to put a ban on treating. William Harrison Allen, promi nent Warren county lawyer, has been visiting at Lakewood. Miles B. Kitts, the new mayor of Erie, taught school while he was studying law. . .. —Lieutenant Arthur E. Arends, the new military instructor at State Col lege, is attached to the Twentieth ln fa --(}eorge Horace Lorimer, the Phil adelphia editor, is in Arizona. DO YOU KliOV That Harrisburg makes automo bile parts? HISTORIC HARRISBL'RG Pennsylvania trains used to sU<|» at Race and Hanna streets. _____ 1 Messengers of Cheer! Each advertisement in this newspaper is a cheering messen ger. It comes carrying the offer of service. It is addressed to human wants. . . It is backed up by m?n who are prepared to make good their promises. . There is satisfaction In buying advertised brands and in dealing with merchants who come out into the open day with their of fers. , , Advertising is a recorded prom ise. It must be kept, for the ul timate protit to the advertiser is In the satisfied customer rather than in the first sale.
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