14 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A NMWSPAPSR FOR THE HOME Fotmdtd list I j__ I Published evenings except Sunday by THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO., Telegraph Building, Federal Square. X. J. STACKPOLE. Pres t and EditorinChitf ! I". R. OYSTER, Busm*<s Manager. CUS M. SHEINMETZ, Managing Editor. « Member American Newspaper Pub- j svlvanla | Eastern sffio.e. Has- i Brooks. Fifth Ave nut Building, New 4Bot«rea at the Post Office In Harris burg, Pa., as second class matter. Br P9»r!crs. six cents a weok; by mall, $3.00 a yer.r in advance. I ■won dallr mrrr n*e elreulatlon for the (kTM month* ending Febroiiry 20, 11)111, 22,785 it \ Tiles* Igarea are net. All returned, unsold and damaged enptea deducted. FRIDAY EVENING, MARCH S If you tell the truth, you have in , thrtU" power supporting you ; hut if not. fou have infinite power against you.— CKAKUB George Gordon. "DOPE" LAW VIOLATIONS discovery by the police that the Harrison "dope" law is being violated in Harrlsburg should riot be considered in the light of a failure of the law. Rather it is a' Iribute to the excellency and need of the new act. It is certainly much better to have placed such a restric tion on the sale of habit-forming drugs that they can be obtained only with great difficulty and in limited quanti ties, than that they should be on open j sale for the purchase of all comers, j The fact that only an occasional I ' violation of the act comes to light ; lihows how strictly It is being enforced end is convincing denial of the old 1 assertion that "prohibition does not prohibit." tn MEXICO THE announcement that Felix | Diaz has left the United States for Mexico recalls his prediction lliat the recognition of Carranza would j not bring peace to Mexico and that Carranza would be powerless to re- ' store order in the country. Whether or not Diaz means to organize a revolution against the present govern ment is not known, but if he does It will be of no mean order. Diaz knows Mexico as no other one man knows it and the power of his name would j draw many to his standard should he decide to take up arms. At all events, the prospect of early peace in Mexico is most discouraging. The Wilson administration policy, or lack of it, in respect to that country has left it in worse condition than It was when Madero was slain. Neither we nor the Mexicans have profited by the sacrifice of American Jives at Vera Cruz and the record of events in that country during the past | three years is written on the blood- ! Stained pages of reports of Americans I slaughtered by the hundred to make p Carranza holiday. Failure has marked the efforts of our "statesmen" n.t every turn. Our sympathies go out to that sturdy and able Pennsylvanian, Henry Prather Fletcher, who succeeds to the United States ambassadorship in that troubled country. In the language : of the street he is going .to have 1 "lome Job." STEEI/TON'S PARK PLANS r A COMMITTEE from the Munlci jtx pal League of Steelton will re quest the borough council, at Its meeting Monday evening, to create the office of superintendent of parks and playgrounds. This is another move in the right f direction and the Municipal League tias the proper idea of how to go about obtaining an adequate system of play- ! (rounds for the borough and exten sions to Its park system. Steelton, with a population well above 16,000, is large enough to have a man employed regularly in direct ing activities on its athletic field and looking after the establishment and upkeep of playgrounds. Although the borough, at the pres ent time, despite its cosmopolitan population and peculiar industrial conditions which make recreation • facilities for Its youth especially \ desirable, has no playgrounds, it is' making rapid strides toward solving this big problem. Through the generosity of the Pennsylvania Steel Company a large field on Cottage Hill is available for j use as an athletic field. Football and : baseball grounds are laid out there. 1 but Its use as a playground is ham pered by the lack of equipment. The borough, however, has no public ten nls courts, nor are there any places 1 In the thickly populated foreign sec tions where youth may play un- j restricted. To remedy these conditions the Municipal League has been conducting a campaign of education and making comprehensive plans. In a full-page! feature In the Telegraph last Fall members of the League outlined the! possibilities of the borough along j these lines and it is now doing its utmost to Induce council to co-operatc j In making these plans a reality. Already much has been done with ! Luther R. Kelker Park. Council has shown Itself very willing to do its •hara It has ordered the grading of FRIDAY EVENING. HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH MARCH 3, 1916. a new street into the park tract to , >(iake It accessible from all parts of the borough and has repeatedly sent borough employes Into the park to help clear away bushes and make the tract a real beauty spot. Council should now. go one step further and adopt the League's recom ' mendatlons to appoint a competent i man to direct the plans for establish ing playgrounds and to handle the mass of detail that will be necessary 1 to get the proposed recreation places , well developed. Money spent in this manner will be j well invested and will help as much • as anything else to attract people to I take up their residence in the | borough. GORE'S CHARGES SENATOR GORE not only did the President of the X'nited States a grave injustice in the Senate yes terday, but he lowered the dignity of the whole country and endangered our 1 friendly relations with Germany when !he gave an unverified and unbeliev >able rumor as reason tor the intro- I rluction of his resolution warning I Americans off armed merchantmen, i The senator said he based his action j on the rumor that President Wilson ; had said It might be a good thing to j have the country go to war with Ger i many at this time. We in the United | States know this to be false. However j much he has erred in his methods, it | cannot be said that President Wilson ! has been desirous of plunging America I into the European slaughter. If he had been looking for an excuse for taking up the cudgels with the im perial government he would have found it long -ago. for Germany has provoked this nation almost to the point of desperation. So the senator's speech, which was ' followed by an immediate and em- i phatlc denial by the President, will j have little effect here at home, but ' with feeling inflamed against us in 1 Germany, it may do unlimited harm I there. Senator Gore's speech Is inex- j cusable on any grounds. It has no 1 precedent in the history of the Senate, j It was worse than a blunder. It was ; wicked as well as stupid. It is the j pinnacle of Democratic folly as exem plified at Washington during the three j years of the present administration's j disastrous course. WHY NOT HERE? j ACCORDING to an official an- J nouncement made at Altoona yesterday, the Pennsylvania Railroad Company will build a new station for that city and to replace the venerable Logan House, famous j as a hostelry since Civil War days, The railroad company will give its moral support to erect a modern hotel. If in Altoona, why not in Harris- ; burg, which is far more in need of | a large hotel than is Altoona? AVe rejoice with the Mountain City in its good fortune, for the Pennsylvania Railroad never speaks without first having assured Itself of its ability to perform, but won't some generous citizen or corporation please come for ward with a similar offer for Harrls burg? MARJORIE'S BATTLESHIP THE Honorable Josephus Daniels doesn't take kindly to the idea of a battleship built by popular subscription, but don't let a little thing like that prevent you from sending in your contributions. The Honourable Josephus will be back running bis little old newspaper long before the battleship is ready for the launching. : Beside, there is current rumor to the effect that on many other things the Honorable Josephus is given to the entertainment of ideas that make naval officers laugh in their handker chiefs when they are not behind the door "cussing." Just why the Honorable Josephus : should object to a present of some ten million dollars is not known. Heaven knows his democratic friends are searching desperately enough for money with which to carry out their "preparedness" program, at the same time not cutting too deeply into the regular ration of pork, and one might imagine they would- be willing to go even to the limit of giving their own j personally picked President a vote of confidence in return for a tidy little sum like ten millions; so we will ven ture the guess that the Honorable Josephus doesn't have even the sup- I port of his colleagues at Washington in his objections to the fund. And who knows what tide of battle Marjorie's battleship may turn? Who knows at what critical juncture she may be thrown into the balance to decide whether or not this country of ours is to be invaded by a foreign foe? No, there can be no good argument against the battleship fund. The ; United States is fortunate to have boys and girls ready and willing to help in its work of defense, and good i ness knows we need the ship. DEFINING THRIFT THOSE in charge of the High School and Technical High school j essay contests conducted recently I under the auspices of the Harrisburg Rotary Club say s that some of the boys and girls who were required to , write confessed that\.they did not know even the definition- of "Thrift," ' the topic in question. But they know ; now, and if 1350 of them, the number j that prepared essays, have been brought to think only temporarily of the importance of saving, much good lias been accomplished. Chancellor David Starr Jordan, de | lined thrift as "a determination to live ; with a margin for future advance ment: to earn a little more than one j spends or to spend a little less than one earns, getting meanwhile the value in strength, in satisfaction or in other worthy return for the money I one feels free to spend." "The spirit of thrift," he said, "is opposed to waste on the one hand and to recklessness on the other. It does not involve stinginess, which la an abuse of thrift, nor does It re quire that each Item of savings should be a financial Investment. The money that Is spent in the edu cation of one's self or of one's fam ily, in travel, in music, in art, or la helpfulness to others, if it brings real returns In personal development or in a better understanding of the world *e live in. is in accordance with the spirit of thrift." We never hear of a man who | climbed to a place of eminence from obscurity and poverty that we do not 'say of him: "He was thrifty." I izi—iz: TELEGRAPH'S PERISCOPE ! —We rush into print an official de !nial of the base rumor that leap year proposal season ended February 29. The wicked report was started by a couple of confirmed bachelors. ! —Have you ever noticed how Colo nel Roosevelt manages to go away just in time for a return- home at the psychological moment, so to speak? I —Some of those witnesses in the i brewers' probe appear to be afflicted with aphasia. —All the military commentators on j the situation at Verdun appear to ag/oe that if the Germans win the Freni li will lose, and vice versa. | —The King of Norway was injured while skiing, but at that he ought to be glad he was hurt on a hill instead of in a trench. | EDITORIAL COMMENT"! Regular Work Resumed (Columbia Stale) i The circus season must be over up North, as to-day we distinctly reeog ' nized the Wild Man of Borneo, Only I One in Captivity, driving a hack in ] Main street. Evidence of Washington's Wisdom (Philadelphia Inquirer) Washington carried the same pocket , knife for 56 years, we are told. It's , a cinch he never loaned It to the for -1 nier Mrs. Custis to open cans with. Failure in Life Explained (Houston Post) j Another reason why an American ■ girl who marries a European prince ! never does very well is that it is pretty hard to mix an absence of brains and an overabundance of vice and get ; satisfactory results. THE LONG-WINDED BRETHREN [Kansas City Star.] Man tells but little here below, but he tells that little long. THE SEARCHLIGHT BEAVERS HOL1) I'P TRAINS Trains were held up a number of times this winter on a Wisconsin rail road by heavy floods. Investigation showed that the floods are due to large dams constructed by the beavers in habiting one of the smaller rivers. It took ten blasts of dynamite to destroy one of their dams and it was rebuilt within three weeks. It was necessary to secure special permission from the Conservation commission of the State before using the dynamite. One of the dams destroyed was over a mile in length. The solidity of its masonry surpassed that of many man-made structures. A petition is now being circulated asking the' State authorities to capture the beavers and remove them to some locality where they can be confined. ! TEUTONIC DIPLOMACY [Philadelphia Public Ledger.] Austria makes a characteristic re ply to the protect of the United States i against the attack on the American i steamship Petrolite. According to the summary given out at Washington, ; the contention is that the commander of the submarine thought the Petro lite was going to attack him, that he , feared she was an enemy ship flying I the American flag and that her skip per furnished the supplies "voluntar ily." There is no occasion to comment at length upon the absurdity of all this. The significant point is the revelation of the methods of Teutonic diplomacy. The Lusltanla was attack ed because she carried mythical guns, the Arabic because she was trying to i ram with her stern a submarine her officers did not even see. and so on | down the whole list of outrages. If the policy of frightfulncss is resumed, jit will make no difference whether a merchantman is armed or not; there I will be guns visible to the imagin ation, if not to the eye. Entirely apart from questions of international law, that is a sufficient reason for re fusing to recognize any distinction be j tween armed and unarmed merchant men. The only safe ground, in short, j for the Administration to take is the j ground it originally took—that the whole business is an offense against i civilization which is not to be toler ! ated. PRAISE OF RED HEADS [Kansas City Times.] "To be red headed is a signal honor." said Bishop W. A. Quayle in a speech last week. The good bishop is red headed himself, and he was ad dressing the Hamline University Red heads' Club. He pointed out that all the angels painted by the old masters had red hair. The list of red heads who did great things Is a long one. Julius Caesar, world genius, was red headed. So was Robert Hruce, and so was Queen Elizabeth. It is reputed that Helen of Troy, Dido, Cleopatra and Alexander the Great were red headed. It was said of Thomas Jefferson that "he had the reddest head in Albemarle coun ty." Swinburne the poet, John Bunyan, author of "Pilgrim's Progress," Schil ler the poet, all had polls of blazing red; and in our own day we have, to keep Bishop Quayle company, Ber nard Shaw, Victor Murdock, Gover nor Stubbs, J. Ham Lewis, yes and "Bob" Fitzsimmons. Judge Wofford, for many years judge of the criminal court of this city, used to say that he never knew a red headed criminal. Dr. E. L. Ma thias. chief probationary officer of our Juvenile/court, asserted in a speech recently that he never knew a boy with red hair to be inherently bad; and it is an old saying that there are no red headed men in the peniten tiary. Of course, this may be merely a coincidence. but it is here offered to the red heads for what it is worth. Red headed persons have always been reputed to be quick tempered and ready to fight at the slightest provocation. "Red haired people be folke that are to drede," runs a pre cept of the Fifteenth Century; and an old French proverb says: "Salute no red haired man nearer than thirty feet off, and even so, hold three stones In thy fist wherewith to defend thy self." ' Arthur S. Hoffman, editor of Ad venture Magazine, may have this adage in mind in his attempt to re cruit a regiment of red haired men to l>e ready to defend this country if attacked Already enough red heads have applied to make it certain the regiment will he recruited. It will bo safe to wager that if this red headed regiment ever goes to war it will be heard from, whether Liishop Quayle goes with it or not. - LfiKKOiftmfua. By the F*-Committeeman Senator Charles A. Snyder, of Potts ville, candidate for the Republican nomination for Auditor General, who was here to-day. declared that as fat as he was concerned he was a candi date to the finish. He added that he was entirely i-atlsfled with conditions and not disturbed by reports that both ho and Speaker Ambler would with draw and a third man be named. Governor Brumbaugh remains as silent as before in regard to presi dential nomination matters. He has declined to discuss this subject, and although people in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh insist that a statement is to be made, he lias refused to break his silence. —The Dauphin county Washington organization liad a meeting last night. —According to Pittsburgh news papers, things are rapidly lining up in Allegheny county for a State commit tee fight. There are to be contests for places on the Republican and Demo cratic committees. —Lackawanna and Luzerne Repub licans are said to be firmly against any factional tights this year. —The incorporation of the Vare League in Philadelphia yesterday at tracted dome attention among men in politics. It is said to be a social or ganization. —H. E. Klein, of Erie, yesterday sent word to this city that he had an nounced himself as a candidate for Republican delegate on a Brumbaugh platform. ■ —A Philadelphia newspaper to-day says: "More than 75 per cent, of the 2,000 voters addressed by members of the Citizens' Republican League in the interest of a united Republican party fo.r participation in the coming presi dential election have pledged them selves to co-operate in the movement. Recently the league sent out 2,000 cards addressed to Independents and Republicans who participated in the recent mayoralty election. They were asked to sign the card if their political trend was in line with the purposes outlined. George D. Porter, secretary of the league, yesterday said that about 1,500 cards had been returned. The cards were sent to Philadelphia voters only." —Montgomery county Republicans yesterday endored Congressman H. W. Watson for renomination. —Reading councilmen came near having a fist fight in council yesterday and the ill feeling is growing, it is said. Philadelphia's new loan will be $87,000,000 and there is trouble find ing the money for an art gallery. Representative I. D. Musser, of Juniata, is out for Democratic re nomination. —Philadelphia City Solicitor John P. Connelly yesterday announced six additional appointments to his staff of assistants In the municipal law de partment. In are Joseph G. Magee. of the Twentieth ward, a per sonal appointment; State Representa tive "Ephralm Lipschutz, of the Four teen! h ward, recommended by Con gressman-at-Large John R. K. Scott; William l*. Rorke, indorsed by Repub lican City Committeeman John Fla herty, of the Thirteenth ward, and a class graduate of the 1901 Central high school, a student in the law office of John C. Hell: Elwood J. Rotan, of the Forty-second ward, a relative of District Attorney Rotan. and Marshall E. Coyne and George B. McCracken. The city solicitor, in making public this list, announced that these appoint ments "included, up to date, all that is available pending further readjust ments. All clerkships will be filled by proper assignments. This substan tially completes all of the open changes in the office." In compliance with the peremptory mandamus issued by Common Pleas Court in Philadelphia.on February 28, i Attorney General Francis Shunk Brown received a warrant yesterday for $4,000, representing the sum origi nally agreed upon by adjustment of 1 the claims growing out of the employ ment of the Manufacturers' Appraisal Company, of Cleveland, in 1910 to make a scientific assessment of the real estate of Philadelphia subject to j taxation. The warrant was drawn by Daniel W. Masterson, assistant clerk of Select Council, at the suggestion of ! City Solicitor Connelly. It is likely that other claimants will now present their demands for payment. Attorney General Brown was employed as coun- j sel for Council's special committee. ANOTHER COUNTY DRY [Pittsburgh Gazette-Times.] The drying up of Mercer county is' notable because, like Crawford, it was j not brought about as the direct result of an election based upon the liquor issue. Judge McLaughry had given no pledges and made no promises. His sweeping decision may therefore be taken simply as his carefully con sidered conclusion that, in view of all existing conditions, the county of Mercer would be better off without sa loons. It cannot but be regarded as a manifestation of the spirit of the times and a reflection of the general trend in the direction of temperance and all that it implies. It is note worthy that the judge had reached the position which made him the ar biter of the county's destinies in the matter of drink in such manner as to leave him entirely unharppered in consideration of the sdbject. He stood upon his own feet. His campaign for the judgeship was made at his own expense and he neither asked nor re ceived the organized backing of either side on the license question. Conse quently when license court fell due, he was able to approach the subject with no personal feeling in the prem ises except to arrive at such decision upon the merits of the matter as would best conserve the interests and welfare of his county. That he has ruled wisely and well Is no more to be doubted than that the results ac cruing from his ruling will redound to the lasting benefit and well being of those within reach of his jurisdiction. YOUNG AMERICANS [Theodore Roosevelt In Scribner's.l The two boys were untiring; nothing impaired their energy, and no chance of fatigue and exertion, at any time of the day or night, appealed to them save as an exhilarating piece of good fortune. At a time when so large a section of our people, including es pecially those who claim in a special sense to be the guardians of cultiva tion, philanthropy and religion, delib erately make a cult of pacifism, pol troonery, sentimentality and neu rotic emotionalism, it was refreshing to see the fine, healthy, manly young fellows who were emphatically neither "too proud to fight" nor tod proud to work, and with whom hard work, and gentle regard for the rights of others, and the joj£ of life, all went hand in hand. Picturesque Nevertheless His mistake, however, was certain ly not greater than that of the re cently arrived American doctor in China, whose wife had been greatly disturbed by a rooster during the night. In the morning he made this startling statement to the servants, "Last night the gentleman chicken greatly burked and troubled the teacher lady in sleep.—ln World Out look for March. THE CARTOON OF THE DAY DROP THAT GUN! —From Ihe >ow York World. ( 1 PHILIPPINE PROBLEMS Teaching and Cleaning Up By Frederic J. Haskin AFFAIRS in the Philippines are going through a critical period. The complex system of educa tion and administration that we built up is getting Its final test. We know that the organization is efficient, that it will work. We have still to find out what effect its workings have on the mass of the Philippine people: In how far they are willing or cap able of receiving its benefits. There is the question of the Eng lish language, for instance. The whole school system of the islands has been making every effort since Its in ception to teach its little brown pu pils the tongue of their new country. English to-day is more generally un derstood than Spanish ever was, though Spain held the Philippines for centuries. You can get about the Islands more easily speaking English than with any one of the Filipino dialects. It would seem that the Eng lish-teaching campaign has been a great success, and this is undoubtedly the case to a great extent. Yet there are intelligent Americans who believe that the lower-grade school work should be carried on in the native dialects. They say that the many thousands of Filipino children of the poorer classes only go to school for a few years. They spend most of that time learning the new language. Then they go home, take up their native dialect again, and forget what English they knew. According to this theory it would be better to take them for the limited time at the teacher's dis posal and give them as much solid, general instruction as possible in their own tongue. Thus they could get something out of the school that they would retain. The weight of opinion in the islands is against such a course. There is no literature worth mentioning in any Filipino dialect. There are none of the works of Information, or books on how to do things, that English is rich in. In a word, the English language as a tool is incomparably superior to any native dialect, and even if the majority never make use of it, any step forward establishing it is a step in the right direction. But the mere fact that such a dispute exists, shows that the school question is not solved. Admitting this, there is no doubt as to the remarkable work done by the Bureau of Education. It is the bureau nearest the people.' Many of the other bureaus have to work' through it. It teaches over half a mil lion pupils, and employs nine thousand Filipino teachers. It has done more, perhaps, to establish friendship and confidence between the people and the government than any other single in fluence. Yet we cannot regard its work as done, its future as a mere matter of routine development. The permanence of its results has yet to be established. The present school sys tem ca*hnot accommodate more than half of all the children of school age in the islands. The education of the hill tribes is just beginning. They present a prob lem much more difficult than the civ ilized Fjlipino. Shy, savage, super stitious, they have to be humored and coaxed, with infinite patience and tol erance. If the Filipinos are given THE STATE FROM DAY TO DM Embarrassment was not the chief trouble of Herbert W. Luckenbach, of Allentown, when his house was turned into a roaring furnace day before yes terday and he was forced to jump from his window in his nightclothes. Luck went back on Luckenbach, but kind friends gave him pantaloons and shoes. There is a movement on foot in Lancaster for a great armory and con vention hall combined, the stimulus to which will be the formation of a new National Guard Company. It is un derstood the State will provide forty thousand dollars for such a building if the city will provide the site. The organization, if effected, will be either a machine gun battery or a company of light artillery. Perhaps the now company will be used to insist upon the Pennsylvania station remaining ; where It Is instead of being moved out , into the country. Agitation will soon be renewed in Reading for a paid fire department according to rumors emanating from that vicinity. It is said that many vounteer firemen will support the proppsition. Howard T. Baker, of Williamsport, who was graduated from the High School there In 1909, is in the British army in France. . Judge McLaughry at a blow made Mercer county dry, it being the first time in its history that the county has found itßelf in that condition. Mrs. Schaeffer no longer sews for Mr. Schaeffer. They used to live to gether in Catasaqua and she led him to believe that she was 33 years old when she married him. Since then he charge of the government of tlie islands, one of the surest tests of their spirit and their ability will be the way they carry on the edacatlon of the Ifugaos and the Mangyans. The Filipino himself often displays a keen appetite for knowledge. There are two higher schools at Manila with a combined enrollment of over twelve hundred, as well as the University of the Philippines. The latter institu tion is very popular, hut most of the young Filipino college men take courses in letters and the fine arts. In the present stage of development of the country, it would be much bet ter if they cai'ed more for the sciences and engineering. Tn the lower schools, a very suc cessful feature is the work in manual, training. It is no mere side line, more or less of a mere novelty, as it is in the United States. An old Span ish friar many years ago said that the brain* of the Filipinos are in their fingers. They are dexterous in the most delicate operations to a high degree. Hence the manual training work produces some fine results, with a true professional finish, unlike the patently amateurish products usually turned out by such departments. In these manual training rooms may be founded new industries for the islands. The lace-making work has been greatly stimulated. One of the most important works of the Bureau of Education has been the way it spread the propaganda of the Bureau of Health. The Health Bureau work in the Philippines is as fundamentally Important as the same work in the Canal Zone, and the re sults achieved have been as great. We found the islands in a state of almost unbelievable uncleanliness, swept periodically by all the plasties of Egypt, and every step forward was made against forces of ignorance and superstition. There were a few edu cated and intelligent natives who real ized that conditions needed bettering, but that was about as far as they got. The Health Service fought the cholera until instead of sweeping away a third of a city, the plague took only a few hundred victims. On one occasion the people of Manila would not believe that the cholera was among them because the deaths were so few. There are still outbreaks at intervals, but the machinery for fight ing the disease is so well organized that the old panics at its approach are a thing of the past. The bubonic plague has been put down by cam paigns of rigorous sanitation.' and a strict quarantine system. All this work is being done among a people who used to close every window tightly at night—and still do, very often—because they believe in an evil spirit that wanders around in the darkness. The work against smallpox has been carried on by means of exten sive vaccination, with results even bet ter than were hoped for. Some of the most hostile of the wild tribes were won over by means of cures that seemed to them miraculous. The whole record of sanitary work is one for the United States to be proud of —but it cannot be regarded as fin ished. It has not reached the stage where It will run along on its own momentum. • _» has discovered the existence of a daughter 3 4 years old, and he could not reconcile the discrepancy in years to his own code of living, so'they parted. Evangelist Biederwolf says that Jacob was the "smoothest" man in the Bible, because his name meant swindler, liar, supplanter. IRREPARABLE LOSS [Lyman Abbott in the Outlook.] There is only one irreparable loss— the loss of courage. OUR DAILY LAUGH HIS FEARS. Reggy, I'm WON If ,v\ r ' ed about you. mP* vv i J Ba * l ' ove! You're so aw- L wEk:/' . /fully English that flTlfLj V JSI fear it may be I itfHi ll illihlfim | construe d as a 111 l llr> l ill I wlli violation of our IT| neutrality. HE CAUGHT Dad: Wllllev f when a lady W always be a gen- I S3 PB Jfi M , tleman and give I Willie!' You I don't give ma S6O for a new dress Lj ' 1 whenever ah e ti> s'j, 3** asks for it. lEbntutg (Eljat The project for annexation to tlio city of the district known as Pleasant view, which has been revived after several years of quietude, would have the effect of running the city limit up j against the borough of Penbrook on the upper eastern boundary as It is against Paxtang borough on the lower part of the same line. Ploasantview is the section which has grown up about \Nalnut, State, North and other streets j Immediately north of Reservoir Park and extending out to about the line of Twenty-first street with some lines of buildings extending toward Penbrook. It is supposed to have taken its name from that given to a farm belonging to the Haldeman family which was t . llp . lnt » lota - The old brick barn which stands up at the end of Stale street and is a familiar sight for manv miles around was the barn on this farm. Pleasuntview does not contain many people, but if It could be taken into the city it would give the district the benefit of city improvements, es pecially in highways and extend the municipality to the borough of Pen brook, which has been discussing im proved streets for some time. Prob ably in the next ten years not onlv Pleasantview, but Riverside, Pen to rook, Paxtang and other settlements which have grown up about Harris burg will bo incorporated in the great Capital City. • • • The Association of Pennsylvania boroughs which is to have its annual convention here next month, as formally an- • "°, un ' e< J l>y the governor, was estab lished here five years ago. It was formed by men interested in securing certain definite understandings in re gard to the smaller municipalities and the Stale government and discussed legislation which ultimately led to the borough code. When the public ser | vice company act came along the j Borough League was an object of j great interest because of the extent of the interests affected by that law. In li'l3 the Association was quadrupled (in size and its meetings have attracted |as much attention as those of tho | Third Class City League. A Harrisburger who has been do ing some visiting writes this: Swe denborgianism to the many is nothing but a word, and conveys nothing of significance to the mind. To others, it is a religion, a belief, a doctrine promulgated by the famous Swedish philosopher and religious writer who claimed to be in special communica tion with Christ and who was later, according to his own sincere belief. I permitted to converse with spirits and j angels. In the beautiful little town of j Bryn Athyn, Pa., is established the | Swedenborgian "New Jerusalem," a model of clean living and pleasant re lations. At present this settlement, of which little is heard and of which j little has heretofore been known out side the fact of its actual existence, is building a wonderful new and last ing monument to the memory and doctrines of the mystic founder of the j religion. Emanuel Swedenborg. The I monument is to be, when finished, a ! new cathedral. It is being raised by purely Gothic methods,entirely by hand | and with the best workmanship ob | tainable. There is no hurry to finish lit within any stipulated time; the pur pose is to have it perfect in every de tail, and time is no consideration. For several years it has been building, j yet it is not neatly completed. Indeed :it is very similar. In .a sense, to the | building of 1 lie temple to the Lord by j Solomon and the Israelites many cen turies ago. I Many famous men have in times ! past adopted the views of Sweden | borg, among them the father of Hen jry James, the novelist, who but re- I cently died in London. Last month ! this small but thriving and contented ! colony at Bryn Athyn won its tight to become an independent borough. In all probability the movement. | started by residents of the West Shore town for improvement of the roads j between Wormleysburg, Lemoyne and New Cumberland will lead to some substantial betterment of condition of the highways even if it is impossible for the State to reconstruct the road because of lack of funds. The plan is to have the road carefully inspected and such repairs as are essential will be undertaken when the weather is fit. Highway Commissioner Cunning ham assured a committee headed by Senator Franklin Martin and ex-Sen ator John E. Fox of his interest in the matter this week. * * * Samuel M. Clement, the Philadel phia lawyer who was here yesterday on business at the Capitol, has been a frequent visitor to Harrisburg. He was one of the counsel in the Capi tol cases. WELL KNOWN PEOPLE —George Wharton Pepper has been elected chairman of the Philadelphia branch of the Security league. —James A. McLaughrey, the Mer cer judge, who made that county dry, was elected last Fall after a hot fight. —Director George E. Datesman, of Philadelphia Public Works, was among the speakers at the road con gress In Pittsburgh yesterday. —F. N. Morton, head of the State Library Association, is presiding at the meeting of Librarians at the sea shore. —Dr. E. S. Deubler, of Narberth, has been elected president, of tho Pennsylvania Berkshire Association. 1 DO YOU KNOW That Steelton makes steel for needle factories? HISTORIC IIAKRISBI'UG The State's second constitutional convention met in the State Capitol in the thirties. t -""""i^^ Pointing to Our Adver tising The advertising in this news paper covers in a most interest ing and informative manner prac tically every form of human activity. . . .... What to buy. when to buy, and where to buy is important to every one. 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