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MONDAY EVENING, MARCH 6.
There is as much greatness of mind
in the oxenino of a good turn as in the
doing of it. SENECA.
MiMBHOVISK IMPROVEMENTS
THIS new Poor Board Is to lie con
gratulated upon the excellent
work it has done in connection
Willi making the county almshouse
nioro habitable and more sanitarv.j
"When the puorhouse was turned over ,
to the new directors on tho first of tho ,
year it was in frightful condition —its!
Boors dirty, its walls dingy and with j
an odor about, tho place that indicated
1 he urSrcnt need of an immediate ap
plication of soap and water in gen- ■
.•roits quantities. An inspection on
Saturday showed a remarkable change ,
for the better. The floors have been
scrubbed almost daily, the idle in- j
mates have been provided with paint 1
:.»d brushes and have redecorated the
walls tinder tho direction o" a skilled
painter, and the odor of the "great
unwashed" has disappeared entirely.
This is as it should be. The old
almshouse is a poor make-sliift at
best. If those who designed and built
it had expended half, as much in brick
foundation walls and put the amount
thus saved into bay windows, sanitary
drainage and proper ventilation, the
* Ounty would now have a building
worthy Ihe name. As the matter
stands the superintendent and the (
Board of Poor Directors have their j
hands full keeping the piaeo at all fll
for use. It is dingy and dark at best
and the interior Is badly arranged, so j
lhat it is only by a Ira 9s t superhuman!
efforts that the homo can be kepLi
in healthful, sanitary condition.
To the almshouse go the wrecks'
;l tnV the failures of humanity—but not
1 hose alone; many of the inmates are,
simply worn out and friendless. There j
is not ono among them that has not :
earned his or her place in the sun. 1
If by reason of poor parentage they j
have not been able to do their full j
share and to compete with healthier,!
stronger men and women, tjicn society, :
which tJjronsh its faults is respon-j
sible for their condition, owes them a 1
living:, Tf they arc of that other class !
and have lived beyond their days of J
usefulness in the world, then they
100 have a right to ask the county;
for their keep. But not merely their j
keep. That is not charity. The old'
idea that the p'oorliouse should he aj
place where the papole doled out to'
their poor just sufficient to kefep soul!
and body together has given way to ;
the higher, hetter conception of the;
duty of the public to its wards- that i
-they should be given a healthful and i
pleasant home, good food and cheer
ful surroundings, to Ilie end that they
may he improved in condition rather!
Ibau lowered U> health and spirit by |
Ihe thought of pauperism constantly!
Impressed upon Ih«n by the old,
TO«1hod of treatment.
Tf our poor directors are proceed-'
lug along that line, as they seem to
b«< the county home ought to be In a
fair way to become the model charity !
it long ago Should have been. When
tftey took orcr its management it was.
certainly at least forty years behind
thjS times.
A BBIXTJATTT WAVATj FEAT
THE escape of a German raider j
from a German port, its cruise
of several months during which ;
it. eaptured fifteen enemy merchant
men and Its safe return home consti
tute one of the mort brilliant naval
of the present war. Doubtless,
tUe dauntless captain and crew are
lifrewJ o? Germany to-<3ay, TUey
should lie. They took' their Uvea In
their hands and were In constant.
<lans«r of death or capture from tha
very moment they net out upon their
almost hopeless journey. They accom
plished the impossible.
That the raider was able to dodge
through the cordon of English war
vessels shows lhat the blockade can
be run, and doubtless this is not the
only steamer that has alipped through
during periods of fog or rough
weather. It were remarkable if it
wfie not so. But the tightness anjfl
1 (Eectlvenrss of the English blockade
is' only emphasised by tha faet.that
sq much is, being made of this one
ship getting through. The brilliant
feat of the Germans only (serves to
bring out more clearly the almost
complete control of the seas by the
ahinisiv
Although it has not yet struck One
vital blow, the great English fleet is
now more than ever the deciding fac
tor Qf the great war. It stands be
MONDAY EVENING,
, tweun Germany and th» supplies tho
Kaiser's army so soroly needs. It
stflnda between Knglaml and Invasion.
It stands between the allies and at
most a perilous and divided control ot
the seas. So lon* as the German navy
Is represented by no more than a stray
raider or two on the ocean, so long
will the allies continue to wear down
the enemy, a process that Is no doubt
holng felt" far more Iteenly even now
than wo on the outside are permitted
to know.
Incidentally, there should be a les
son in this for the little-navy m«n In
Congress. If a great navy "has done
so much for Great Britain, why not a
groat navy for the United States as a
right arm of defense in time of stress?
"MIL" BURST'S WIDOW
Tlfß willow of "Bill" Durst, who
until his death in January was I
the solo survivor of the; Moaltor-
Merrimae fight, is alone, aged
and poverty-stricken in Philadelphia.
Durst helped change the fortunes of
wnr for the Union when he and his
valiant comrades aboard the "cheese
Ijox on a raft" shattered the hopps Of
'the Confederacy hv hnlting for all
(time the destructivo career of tlie
! ironclad that was fast wiping out
J United States shipping and destroying
i our navy. Durst was a German by
| birth—a German-American If you
| please, but he fought valiantly for
I iho country of his adoption. Tct the
I national government, because of some
I technicality, refuses his Widow a pen
, sion. This Is the kind of treatment
| that makes hyphenated Americans.
; Who will come forward to get "Bill"
I Durst's widow a pension, thus at once
1 driving the wolf from the aged wo
man's door and restoring faith in the
government to many a foreign-born
citizen who has read her story—and
doubts?
AMERICA, ITRST
AMEBIC A FIKST" must be the!
slogan of the House this week
unless wo arc to run down the
American ilag and replace it with the;
banner of tho German Imperial Gov
ernment over flic capitol at "Wash
ington.
No such half-way measures as were j
taken in the Senate in the armed ship 1
crisis should be tolerated. The tabling)
of the Oore resolution was by no !
means a final disposition of the dis
graceful proceeding Jn the upper
branch. The Bryans, the Gores and
their ilk should bo placed where they
belong by a vote that will keep them
there at least until the present critical
situation In our foreign affairs shall
iiaye shown sorao improvement.
The President, has made many .mis
takes, but. he is absolutely right in
his present attitude, and he should
have the vote of every loyal American
in <'on gross, regardless of party or
personal leanings. This is a question
vital to American liberty and Amer
ican honor. There can be hut one way
to decide it. America must stand first.
All other considerations are of sec
ondary importance.
PRINTING FOOli RUMORS
Til 10 silliest rumor that has coijjc
out of Washington in years was !
that which had President "Wilson |
at the point of handing his resignation
10 Congress. It was so widely circu
lately that the White House foit railed
upon to deny it, and in doing so Secre
tary Tumulty—speaking the words of
the President, himself, doubtless—-said;
"An American newspaper that would
publish a story of that kind irt a sit
uation like the one that now confronts
America dishonors Itself." Not only
that, but it displays an ignorance of
possibilities or a wilful disregard for
the truth tliat makes it unworthy the
name of newspaper.
The publication, of sensational ru
mors used to he ono of the chief stocks
j in the trade of "yellow journalism," j
hut 110 newspaper lhat has any respect!
for itself indulges in that sort of thing 1
any more than an individual who 1
, values trut n will publish broadcast a
; story the accuracy of which is in j
i doubt.
AT/COHOIJ AND PNEUMONIA
■ TN -view of the fact that a certain
I well-known Insurance company
advertises that pneumonia caused
1 more deaths* in the United States
i among itj» policy holders than did the
guns of all the warring nations among;
its thousands of patrons abroad, the
following bit of news from the United
I States Public Health Service is worth
j pinning in one's hat;
I The United States Public Health
Services brands strong drink as the
! most efficient ally of pneumonia. It
declares that alcohol is the hand
maiden of the disease wl»ieh pro
duces l f ' per cent, of the deaths In
Hi" United States. This is no ex
aggeration. We have known for a
. Jons time that indulgence in aleo
! holic liquors lowers the Individual
t vitality, and that the man who
drinks is peculiarly susceptible to
I pneumonia. The United States Pub
lic Health Service is a conservative
body, it does not engage in alarm
ist propaganda. In following out
the line of its official duties it lias
brought forcefuiry to the. general
fiubllc a fact which will bear end
n*s repetition. The liberal and con
tinuous user of alcoholic drinks
, will do well to heed this warning,
i particularly at this season of the
) ytar when tha. gruesome death toll
ftloro pneumonia Is being doubled.
THE ROCK EFETjIJFR FOUNDATION
Frederick c. wolcott, who
spent, three weeks in Belgium
and Northern France investi
gating for the Rockefeller foundation
j the work of the relief commission of
' which Herbert C. Hoover is the head,
| makes tha following Conclusions:
There wdulfl be wholesale starva
tion within three or four we»ks If
} tite importation of food into Bel
i gium Wftre stopped.
' 111 Northern Prance the percent
j nge of indigent people Is even
■ greater than in Belgium, because
there are virtually no. nativefsuf»«
plies.
The clothing situation in Bel
gium and Northern Kronen, de
mands very Serious consideration.
Unless the work of proyidlrw cloth
ing is kept up at regular intervals
tlier^.will be Very serlftut suffering
I i« tt.o Phll. '
The Rockefeller Foundation itself
has been one Of the most generous
contributors. It alone has saved the
lives of thousands 9JC children and wo
men in Belgium. Ami yet tills is t}i«
, organisation that only a few years
, ago,, when it applied to Congress for
r« chlitter,' wa(| lipid up bafprs the
j country as a potential menace to good
'government, a threat against freedom
land a peril to society: ; t
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By the Ex-Committeeman
State Senator "William 15. Crow,
chairman of the Republican State
committee, is out for a united front
against the Democrats in the coming
campaign. The Stat# chairman issued
a statement yesterday at. Pittsburgh
in which he declared lliat the senti
ment of the Republicans of the State
was against getting into a row because
leaders in any part of the State could
not. agree.
The Senator declared for repre
sentative men to go to the national
convention and for the sinking of nil
personal and other differences in an
effort to wipe the Democratic party
in Pennsylvania off the map. The
statement issued by the Senator is as
follows: -
"As chairman of the Republican
Committee I am naturally in close
touch with the Republican sentiment
of the Stnte, both in the great centers
of population and more rural com
munities. X find a general desire ex
pressed that foe go into tlie presiden
tial contest as a united party. Our
siiecefcs in the nation this Kail de
mands that there be party unity all
along the line. In the great Republi
can stronghold of Pennsylvania there
should be nothing to mar the har
mony.
"In the election of 3 2 national dclo
gates-at-large and the nomination of
an Auditor General and State Treas
urer no legitimate issue can he found
for a State-wide contest. The one
desire that I tlnd expressed is that we
send representative men to Chicago
to sit in the National Republican con
vention and nominate candidates for
the two State pthces who will com
mand the respect and support of a
solid party In the Fall. them be
chosen in a primary free from fac
tional feeling, but with the one
thought in mind that wo are prepar
ing to meet the common enemy in
November."
—The new Citizens' Republican
Ixsagua, formed by former independ
ents and others in Philadelphia who
believe in going back to the Repub
lican partv, got into the State political
situation in Philadelphia yesterday in
;i blast declaring against Speaker
Charles A. Ambler for Auditor Gen
eral because of alleged connection
with State road contracts; denouncing
the Governor for having presidential
ambitions and hammering •"contractor
rule." The Philadelphia Inquirer says
that if. was the first gun fired by
ex-Director Porter and his people and
that the statement was "sensational."
The Philadelphia Record says that the
pith, of the statement wa« that Am
bler's candidacy was to be fought hard
und that the Governor stood in the
way of havmony. The Philadelphia
North American does not give much
attention to the matter.
—On tlie other hand, the Philadel
phia ledger savs In part: "Charles A.
Ambler's candidacy for Auditor Gen
eral last ni'-;ht yrns described in a state
ment issued t*' the Citizens' Repub
lican League as "objectionable and
danirerous.' Mr. Ambler, Speaker of
the State liousa of Representatives, as
a candulaio has the personal indorse
ment of Mayor Smith and the support
of Uie Governor and the Vares. But
the league charged lie has been en
framed on Important State highway
contracts, and, therefore, it would be
improper for Jiiin t6 hold an office In
which he would pass upon bills ren
dered the Commonwealth either by
himself or his friends. Mr. Ambler,
replying to the charge, flatly denied he
Was interested in State contracts. Thd
statement of Iho Citizens' Republican
League, an organisation of independ
ent Republicans wo*kins for a. re
union of Progressives and Repub
licans for the sake of success in the
opining presidential contest, was more
than an attaolt on Mr. Ambler's cgtn
cit<laey. Rjiwj|s the first broadside of
independents, supported , by Senator
Fgnrose, the plan of the Vares
to extend their influence throughout
tlu> Stete. Tt wis a. shot at t'ie,exten
sion of conirartbr goverttnie»t aßd : at
tWe presidantial boom Of Covamor
RrumbauKh. The league's statement
cleared up .ill doubt, as to whether or
not there was to be an organized fight
againat the Vare - Smith - Brumbaugh
<on)bin.T4ton in -State polities.
—Anti-machine Democrats through
out the Start are just smiling over the
chance that now presents itself to fight
.it,, out with Palmer ana his pals ut tlio
May prifnhry- It Palmer decides to
run again for national committeeman,
(t would cjnable him to find out, just
wiicsfi. Ue iLands.
HARRISBUHG TELEGRAPH
the state now realize that it is a fight
to the finish to see who shall run the
machine.
--With the Dauphin county Dem
ocracy shot, to pieces and the leaders
of the anti-machine faction whetting
knives for Royal and Jones as candi
dates for the Democratic state com
rnitteo it is only natural that Market
Square should (ret upon th astrologer's
Chair and endeavor lo foretell what Is
going to happen to some other party
anil how things aro to he handled in
years to come. If serves to detract
attention I'rom present, distress.
-The Newtown Enterprise, an old
established newspaper, has been bought
by Oscar O. i-Sean. who is connected
with various adivlttos of Joseph Tt.
<}rundy, the Bucks county llepulilican
leader.
—-.lames H. Ma.urer, the Heading
legislator, is now regarded as a. sure
thing for the Socialist nomination for
President.
—-Colonel R. M. Young is out for
Republican national delegate in the
Berks-I.iehigh district.
—Tt Is now said that Jury Commis
sioner Dapy> has gotten to the point
pf running for the Republican nomi
nation for the legislature after ma
ture consideration.
—A Media dispatch says: "No
longer any doubt, concerning the atti
tude of the Delaware county Repub
lican organization in regard to the
congressional fight this year. The
choice of liie leaders is Thomas 8.
Butler, of Chester county, although
they fought Butler at the last elec
tion and supported Isaac E. Johnson,
of Media. A petition (o have Butler's
name placed upon the ballots at the
primary election is headed by Harry J.
Makiver and tlie name of State Sen
ator William C. Sproul appears upon
it. Isaac K. Johnson has not yet
made any mnouncement of his with- :
drawal as a candidate, but it is under- !
stood he will be with the organization
in support of Butler."
-—Bx-Senator John C. Grady, of
Philadelphia, one of the big legislative
figures for a. score of years, died yes
terday In Philadelphia ITe sponsored
the bill for the Superior Court. For
nearly thir'.y years Mr. Grady was a
member of the State Senate, to which
he was chosen ill 1870. His record of
twenty-six years of continuous service
is said to be the longest, in the history
of the State. He was succeeded by
State Senator James P. McNichol. Mr.
Grady succeeded ex-Mayor John E.
Reyburn as President pro tempore of
the Senate and his associations there
with Mr. Reyburn resulted in a friend
ship of years. For tho last eight, years
of his term in the State Senate Mr.
Grady WBS the majority leader. Tt. is
said that no measure advocated or
supported by him during that time
was defeated. Among the many
notable acts supported or introduced
| by htm were the fugitive from justice
act, the juvenile court bill, separating
children from adult prisoners, and the
Saturday half-holiday act.
1 TELEGRAPH'S PERISCOPE |
—Somebody ought to go tell the j
weatherman that the bluebirds and j
robins have arrived.
—The wife of a henpecked man!
naturally keeps him cooped up.
—Judging from his peace-at-any-1
price policies, he should never have
been named Gore.
—'After all, the difference of a few
'saloons more or less didn't mar the
pleasure of Saturday night in Harris
burg to any great degree,
—Yes, the rumor Is true: President
Wilson Is rotng to qlilt. The date Is
March 4, next.
1 EDITOR! ALCOMMENT
; UNFORTUNATE IMPRESSION OF
SOME
[Gary Times.]
Many of our congressmen seem io
be under the impresidoik they were
elected to represent districts in Ger
many.
GEE, BUT WE'RE PKOUO!
[jndl^nap«lls.Npws.i
Notwithstanding tHe mrthbtony of
war times, ati event of real interest,
happens once in a while in Englantl.
Baron Ar'or has just taken his seat
In the House of Lords. We In Ameri
ca ought to swell up with so nmcli
pride as to bust all the buttons off our
vests.
MUST HAVE OUR ART
[Philadelphia Public Ledf^r.]
Who says that Americans are not
passionately devoted to art when a
movie star gets f 1 '->.OOO a week?
LADIES MADE TO ORDER
By Frederic J. Haskin
L J
IN addition to making the laws of
the natiou, Washington has gone
in for social pedagogy. There are
more young ladles' seminaries and
finishing schools here than in any
other city in the United States. You
find them crowding every section of
the city, poßS«ssing an austere ex
terior to the inquisitive male, but
overflowing with frivolous feminity
from all over the country. Carefree
maidens block your progress on the
sidewalk, giggle in your car at the
symphony concert and occupy your
favorite pew In church. Incidentally,
they cause the Washington retailer to
do a flourishing business in blouses
and neckwear and ico creain sodas.
AVhile New lOftfflfind and the North
ern States have been Increasing and
building up their women's colleges,
turning out more and more lawyers,
chemists and electrical engineers, the
South and Middle States have en
couraged institutions which teach
their daughters how to shake hands
and entertain a drawingroom. In
Washington, which is situated be
tween the two sections, the seminary
has found no ideal background. The
government departments and build
ings afllord a liberal education in
themselves without the tedious ap
plication of textbooks, and there are
certain social advantages in the
capital which are available nowhere
else.
The Kational Museum, for example,
affords a many-sided classroom, cov
ering a wide range of subjects all the
way from geology and natural his
tory to chemistry and taxidermy.
There are also the Corcoran Art Gal
lery, possessing tremendous advant
ages for the art student, and the
l/ibrary of Congress, containing tho
third largest collection of books in
the World. Most of the seminaries
have special days which they devote
to sight-seeing, and almost any aft
ernoon you are apt to come across a
group of girls chattering in what are
supposed to be hushed voices on their
way through some public building.
In the warmer weather they go to
Arlington and Mount Vernon. One
seminary keeps a record bearing the
name of each girl and the long list of
government institutions and places to
bo seen. As she visits each one, it
is crossed off the list and the date
recorded, thus enabling the teachers
to keep track of each pupil. By the
end of the year she is supposed to
have covered everything worth seeing
in the capital.
Congressional debates are usually
well attended by seminary girls. They
nil the galleries with a noise and
clatter illy suppressed by the chap
erones until they are seated; instant
ly, then, there Is a hush and they lean
over the rail with interested faces.
The Girl from Home never altogether
loses her aWe of the United States
Senate. Many of the Senators shet
afterwards meets at their wives' re
ceptions, where they ha ve a curiously
changed and unimpressive appear
ance. At close range she finds that
the August Presence Is just like Pa
THE STATE FROM DW TO DW ]
The fable of the hare and the tor
toise was repeated in South Bethle
hem day before yesterday, only the
principals in this case were two horses,
one of them attached to a milk wa
gon. The race look place over the
routo of its master and it was too
conscientious not to stop at each reg
ular customer's. Consequently the
other horse won in «L walk.
The Rev. William P. Nicholson
stole some of Harry Zanders thunder
In his sermon on "Heaven" before the
"shut-Ins" from the Chapin Memorial
Home, Paschalville. yesterday. "Hea
ven is a bonnie place," satd he, "a
place of gold and heatity. of sunshine
and glory." Ton mothers, who have
Riven your best for your children, will
never be tired up there."
A dispute as to the ownership of
the SBO,OOO estate left by their father,
Charles Hrennoman, of Factoryville,
was tlie cause of a, mortal pistol duel
between the two sons on Saturday af
ternoon. TJolh drew revolvers slmtfl
taneously mud one w«is mortally
wounded.
Scalding water proved a very able
substitute for a hatpin as the defense
weapon ol Mrs. Maggie of St.
Clair, when an officer of the law at
tempted to take her into custody for
not paying the costs of a lawsuit.
Said cop beat a hasty retreat byt the,
woman finally surrendered under
pressure.
The scarcity of window glass In the
MARCH 6, 1916.
and all the other men back home.
The young ladles' seminary is an
Institution all its own. It differs
from other schools In that Its courses
arc expanded or shortened to tit the
needs of the individual pupil, whereas
at public schools and colleges, the
pupil must adapt herself to tit the
courses. If a young woman is
nervous and unable to concentrate,
the seminary prescribes exercises and
sees that she goes through them
daily. Jf she complains of a tired
feeling and looks anaemic, it. does not
insist that she get her algebra or an
cient history, but makc3 her sit still
every morning and take sun baths
and eggs and milk. Often she re
ceives better medical cure than she
would in her own home.
Tho seminary Is still of the opinion
that the decrtiny of the majority of
young womeh Is marriage. All the
philosophies of Norway and the care
fully prepared articles on the econo
mic independence of woman have left
tho seminnrieH unperturbed with their
waiting lists Increasing. They are
going upon the assumption that wo
man's place is the home, and that, she
should be taught how to take care
of it and understand the social graces
which constitute the customs of the
country. If a girl displays talent for
art or music they develop it as far as
they can, but they also take equal
pains to develop her social poise and
command of a situation.
The seminaries have afternoons at
homo, in which guests arc invited to
their drawingrooms and under the
Instruction and guidance of the chap
crones the students are given sugges
tions in welcoming and entertaining
them. Every once in a while there is
a dance, at, which some of the girls
wear plain shirtwaists and weird
masculine ties and pretend they are
men. Sometimes young men are in
vited, but this does not occur often
in Washington, where the supply of
unattached young men Is negligible.
One White House reception a year
is always given to the seminary girls,
besides which they attend many teas
and receptions given by congressional
women to the girls of their States.
In the development of social poise
there Is nothing quite so useful as
dramatic art. One of the large
seminaries on the outskirts of Wash
ington has a smaller theater with a
wide stage and red plush furnishings
exactly like those of a regular play
house. It. makes Its own scenery and
builds it on the stage, end is equipped
with footlights, spotlight and boxes
and even the usual cheerless wings
and decrepit dressingroom stairs.
Here the students, of whom there are
two hundred and fifty, have enacted
Romeo and Juliet and Twelfth Night
to their heart's content., unconscious
of the underlying practical purpose
which is to create solf-confldence and
stage presence.
None of the seminaries In Wash
ington are controlled by religious de
nominations, with the exception of
the National Cathedral School, wlilch
is run by the Episcopal church.
glass-making region in and about
Kane, Pa., is such that a probable
advance in tbe price will shortly be
announced. It is estimated that
American manufacturers have sent
1,000 carloads of the world's windows
all over the globe In the last six
months.
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| OUR DAILY LAUGH
|Hk -A-n LURID SCENE.
j Her Bald
"he wai playing
. /rljml : *il too much brides
I Mm and threw her
| I Jji yh-. cards Into the Are.
I >.]/ What d,(l sh ®
nH'lir 107
' II SI 1 w hat could she
I | d ° ? The ®' rl Btood
1 ,ly burning
v » V a -deck.
A HIR COI*SOf.«TfOK
By AVIIIK Dlnjfr
There's one thing 'bout this snow to
day
That has its pleasant side,
It puts the Grojjndhog dopcster out
And labels liim "Just Died."
And for the next few years, at least.
He'll silent be, lot's hope,
And we'll be spared a-listenin' to
His threadbare shadow-dope.
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The coldest flr«t week In March
known In many years is hardly the
time to talk about the beautlea ot
out-doors still less Of the countryside,
but the fact remains that those who
avoided doctors' bills and took walk*
j along Iho city's parkways last week
were well repaid by the views they had
of the snow covered hills. Tim
streams along the parkways were all
gurglihg and rushing along toward
(lie Susquehanna because Uie spring
water which feeds them defies such
weather as wo have been suffering and
the snow stops at the edge of the
channel. The Cameron park wav
abounds in Bits of woodland scenery
which the magic touch of winter made
most picturesque and the Paxtang
parkway winding through the hollows
toward lloservoir park has paths
which take one in a few minutes from
trolley cars and Slate roads to rural
vales, offering promise of rare de
lights when summer comes again, but
none the less beautiful under the
mantle of snow. But It is up In Wild
wood park that one really gets a
chance to seo winter as it is. The
park has been pretty well covered
with snow each fall this winter and
much of It will He this week In
spltfi of the winds and the sun's noon
day. rays. The paths of Wlldwood
have benVi untrodden except by the
rabbits and bird and animal tracks on
Saturday showed that the park still
has its wild denizens and that in win
ter time they have their fun. Ouk
Knob, the crest of Reservoir park,
offers a fine panorama these days if
one does not, mind the winds and has
ear protection. The mountains last
Week were covered with snow, First
Mountain, Second Mountain and
Visible bits of the other ranges loom
ing up, white sides broken by trees
with the gaps showing distinctly
against the sky. The York hills nn-1
the range that starts back of Steel -
ton and hems In the T<ebanon Valley
clear down to Reading were Just as
wintry, although posslhlv because
tlxcy are called the South Mountains,
they began to show the rocks and
earth before the Blue Ridge spurs.
• * *
It has been cold out in the country
those days, but there is a. joy In
watching the winds sweep up the
pnnw in swirls and pile it back of
some tree or fence and then go hurry
ing oft' to join the other currents from
out toward Linglestown and wanner
air from the city in a mad race about
the slopes of Reservoir park. Winds
make trees creak and nigh even In
the morning and the rural telephone
lines hum the desolateness of their
lot. Crows from nowhere flap into
| town from out hack of the State hos
i pital and head dejectedly toward
; barnyards along the Susquehanna,
j While city folks are shivering, rabbits
and red squirrels have been seen by
tho woodland lover sniffing about In
bits of woodland In sight of which
Steelton blast, furnaces are smoking
tip the skies and groundhogs have
been seen scuttling along not far from
Ktiola. yards. A tramp in the coun
try, if you are well wrapped up and
have goloshes that keep out snow, lius
more than its compensations. It ha?
its joys and there is a satisfaction in
viewing Rockville Gap on a clear, cold
morning, especially when the snow
covers lis sentinel mountains. And if
you have not the time to ko to the
Reservoir or Fort Washington or tho
other high spots the Capitol doino
offers a wintry scene that is worth
the effort to climb 272 feet above tho
city streets.
Morgan Kdwards Gable, the bril
liant Pittsburgh newspaperman, who
died Friday night, belonged to this
part of the State almost as much as
to the City Of his activities In West
ern Pennsylvania. He was born in
Lancaster county and entered news,
paper work in neighboring counties,
being the head of a newspaper when
only nineteen. He was here frequently
and was as conversant with affairs In
Harrisburg, especially during legisla
tive sessions, as with matters in
Pittsburgh. He admired the progress
of Harrisburg and commended it in
his writings, referring to its spirit in
the city which typilies hustle in Am
erica. In the thirty years of his news
paper work Mr. Gable won a reputa
tion beyond the bounds of Pennsyl
vania. He was noted for courage,
zenl and splendid devotion to news
paper ideals, while his editorials have
been read in Harrisburg for years with
deep interest for they were character
ized by clarity and strength of expres
sion, argumentative, but fair as to
conclusions. The forms have closed
for Morgan Gable, but he will not soon
be forgotten.
* • •
The Rev. William T. Johnson, who
died the other day, was postmaster
of Rristol and well-known to resi
dents of this city. He started In lifer
as a mechanic and prepared for tho
Baptist ministry. 1-Ie was much inter
ested in that church's activities anil
the T. M. C. A. which brought him
here. Foi several years he has been
coming here in local option move
ments and was quite prominent in tho
Democratic campaign two years ago.
» • •
Representative C. ,T. Goodnough, of
Emporium, was among tho week-end
visitors to the city. The Cameron
county representative may be a candi
date again.
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE"
| —Dr. X. W. Thomas the new chtef
Of the bureau of gas of Philadelphia,
i formerly held that, position.
—William T. Kamsey, Chester legis
lator and past State councillor of flie
f\ O. S. of A. presented a flag at Eddy
atone schools .Saturday.
Tr-Comniandant R. Russell, of
the 1-eaguo Island Navy Yard is mak
ing n list, of all motorboats owned
along tho Delaware.
—State Librarian Montgomery was
congratulated on his" birthday on
Saturday.
James Spear. Jr., prominent in
Philadelphia affairs, was seriously
hurt In a gunning aecidont in I'torlda.
—W. Yorke Stevenson, well-known
In Philadelphia club and literary cir
cles, has gone to France to serve with
the American ambulance corps.
| DO YOU KNOV
That Horrlsbiirg pipe is used in
Utah mines?
HISTORIC IIARRISBI RG
John Harris turned his trading post
into a fort in 175 5.
mmmmwmma
Don't Take Something
Else
WlitMT voti want * particular
brand ask for it by name aad
irtpist on getting what you a sit
r °Don't take "something Just as
S 7t d 'ts not up-to-date storekeep-
Injr to ofTer it to you. You are
right In viewing the attempt
with suspicion.
Getting what you asK* ior
means witisfaction to yourself
and fair play to the manufactur
er and merchant.