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HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH
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MONDAY EVENING, MARCH 27.
There i'« a home for weary souls
By sin and sorrow driven;
When tossed on life's tempestuous
shoals,
Where storms arise and ocean rolls. 1
And all is drear lut heaven.
—WILLIAM B. TAPPAN.
PARTY PEACE
THE avidity with which the Re- t
publican voters of the State
have seized upon the report
that party peace is to be re-estab
lished is a clear indication of the keen [
desire of the rank and file of the party 1
for harmony. Indeed, the individual 1
voter has never seen any necessity for i
a division of the Republican forces
at this time. Nor is this to be re- j
garded as any reflection upon the can- j
didaey of Governor Brumbaugh for
the Presidential nomination. There
are thousands of voters who look
more than favorably upon the Gov
ernor's ambition to go to Chicago as
the Keystone State's favorite son.
Beyond question the Governor should 1
have had his way in this without a j
fight, since Pennsylvania has no other i
avowed candidate for the honor. It is j
the futility of a contest that might
easily have been avoided—and which
It is earnestly hoped yet may be!
avoided—that is troubling the great j
arnty of Republicans who desire noth- 1
lng so much in the present national j
crisis as to see the party present a j
closely united front to the common
enemy. Democracy, which would j
be the only gainer from a split in the!
Republican ranks at this time.
Close friends of Governor Brum
baugh, men who believe he has made 1
an ideal executive, who admire liisj
linn stand for local option and take!
pride in the many constructive laws j
he and a Republican Legislature, act
ing together, have written on the stat
ute books of the State, fear that the!
Governor has been placed in a false j
position. These friends are of the i
opinion (hat an effort is being made'
to have Governor Brumbaugh pull the |
political chestnuts out of the fire for j
certain factionalists who would make j
of the Governor's very proper ambi-!
tions in the matter of the Presidency .
a campaign by which they may be
placed in control of the reins of the
party organization in Pennsylvania.
Free from this influence it is generally
believed the Governor's desire to be
the Pennsylvania candidate at Chicago
would meet with little or no opposi-1
tion, and it is for these reasons that I
Republicans of all shades of opinion i
are hoping that peace may be restored
on a basis of party unity, with all i
concerned standing shoulder to !
shoulder for a great national victory j
in November.
WINDOW-GARDENS
LORD BACON, in one of those won
derful essays that are as ap
plicable to life to-day as when
they were written, says:
God Almighty first planted a gar
den. And indeed it is the purest of
human pleasures: it is the great- !
est refreshment to the spirits of
man: without which buildings and
palaces are but gross handiworks;
nnd a man shall ever see that, when
ages grow to civility and elegancv,
men come to build stately, sooner
that to garden finely; as if garden
ing were the greater perfection.
And in truth it is! What is a
beautiful house set down in a barren
field, or a mansion surrounded by
ashpiles? Picture to yourself the
finest house you remember seeing
built. Remember how poorly it look
ed in its setting of mortarboxes and
sandpiles, and how beautiful it is to
day, -with its lawns and its shrub
bery and its trees! How every charm
of architecture is accentuated or mel
lowed by the planting that surrounds
it with greenery in summer and lends
it distinction even when boughs are
bare and black in winter! What a
waste it would be without its plants
and its flowers!, How barren and
parched it would look under a hot
July sun! Anybody can see that.
Well, that's the kind of thing that's
wrong with your street. It needs
growing things, but the trouble is,
FEW people can see THAT|. And
thereby lies the difference between
'the city man and the country man or
the suburbanite. The city man has
tried to make a house without the
companionship of plants, and it has
not been wholly successful. It has
not. been complete. It has lacked that
essential of charm and beauty which
MONDAY EVENTNQ, HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH MARCH 27, 1916.
only "growing things" can give. The
country man and the suburbanite
know better than that.
But uo city dweller need be with
out this requisite to real home life,
a garden. A windowbox is always pos
sible. It takes up scarcely any room
and it pays for itself over and over
again in many ways. Suppose every
j window In Harrisburg had its box of
I flowers and vines. What a trans
-1 formation would result. What delight
ful premenades our streets would be
come in summer and how the
monotony of sunbaked walls would be
relieved by the graceful greenery as
it is swayed and swung in the breeze.
The thing is not impossible. Other
j cities have their miles on miles of
iwindow boxes. Why not Harrisburg?
The Telegraph to-day offers a cheap
and practical way in which the
beautificatlon of the city can be ac
| complished, but the co-operation of
I every loyal Harrisburger will be
i necessary to make it a success.
The Telegraph has taken a large
dose of its own medicine, and is de
| lighted with the results. So much so
j that it is going down into its pocket
j to some depth in the hope that it may
i help others who may take advantage
'of the unusual offer it presents. Get
; in line. Help make Harrisburg beautl-
I ful.
WM. PENN HIGHWAY
THE gathering of public-spirited
men in Harrisburg to-day—at
the call of Governor Brumbaugh
—to formulate plans for the establish
ment of a great roadway across Penn
sylvania from Pliiladelphila to Pitts
burgh by way of Reading, Harrisburg
and the Juniata Valley, to be known
as the William Penn Highway, is an j
evidence of the strong and growing i
interest in good roads throughout I
Pennsylvania. The movement which |
culminated in the conference here is j
the direct outgrowth of Governbr
Brumbaugh's "See Pennsylvania First"
automobile tour of the State last Oc- I
tober, which in turn was made pos
sible by the remarkable improvement !
of the highways of the State during •
the first summer of State Highway |
Commissioner Cunningham's adminis-1
tration. So that the William Penn j
Highway plan may be said to have
been fathered' by the businesslike and
efficient methods of the State Highway
Department itself.
There is a bit of unwritten history
concerning that tour of last October j
which it is not necessary to relate j
here, but which resulted in the birth
of the William Penn route idea in
the minds of some of those who spent
that delightful week in the open amid
the wonderful scenery of Pennsylva
nia's lillls and vallevg.
There is nothing arbitrary, however, !
in the selection of the route. Nature
did that, as Allen D. Albert said re- j
gat-ding the location of Harrisburg at j
the intersection of stream and valleys
that has made it the center of trans
portation from remotest days. The
Indians first knew the beauties and
the easy grades of the Juniata Valley,
and used them. Then came the settler
who followed in the red man's foot
steps. Next the early road builder
took up his crude work, and after the
Conestoga wagon and the stage coach
came the canal—all of them following
the rippling waters and the easy ele
vations of the Juniata. Finally, the '
railroad paralleled the canal, and now 1
we are about to step back and com- j
plete in a modern, comprehensive way !
the task the pioneer road builder
of necessity left incomplete. The!
route proposed Is scientifically correct, ■
historically interesting and beautiful
beyond power to describe. It is des
| lined to deeome the great highway be
tween the East and the West, but
much remains to be done to make It
so. To-day's conference marks only
the beginning of a work that will re
quire some years, at least, to com
plete.
STAND nV TO ASSIST
HARRISBURG'S hundreds of lov
ers of water sports will await
with no little eagerness the ap
pointment of (he committee which is
(to suggest regulations for boating and
j recommendations for the ultimate
treatment of the Susquehanna river
t "basin."
: The naming of such a body is the
initial step toward placing this splen
did feature of the city's out o' door
, program on a permanent basis. That
nearly a score of river enthusiasts,
representing every branch of aquatic
activity should take this initiative by
• choosing George W. Reily, member
j of the City Planning Commission, as
| chairman to select the committee, is
j more than ordinarily significant.
| The wisdom of the whole move,
made at the suggestion of Park Ex
pert Warren H. Manning, is obvious.
Certainly permanent good should re
sult. The problems which were
threshed out with Mr. Manning dealt
with practically every phase of the
"basin's" development from boat
houses and bathing beaches to policing
and channel blasting. Soon the
municipality must plan to improve
the natural advantages just beyond
'its "front steps;" soon it must regulate
THE PIKES PEAK AND WILLIAM PENN OCEAN-TO-OCEAN HIGHWAY I
Highway Association has completed an independent organization from the Atlantic Seaboard to Salt Lake City, Utah. The route west of Rifle
is subjecl to findings and report of the committee on Western Extensions. Across Pennsylvania the road will be known as the William Penn
Highway. A conference is being held here to-day to discuss ways and means of bringing this about. m
the increased activities which such
development will provide. Who, then,
slvould be better able to help work out
the solutions than the enthusiastic
and experienced canoeist and motor
boatman?
Then, too, there are the fete day
possibilities. Who are better qualified
to aid in the preparation of programs.
I special rules and so on to govern the
regattas and carnivals than the hust
! ling representatives of the ever-grow
ing army—or navy, if you will—of
water sportsmen?
The committee will have a big work
to do. and, if it hopes to obtain real
results, it has its job cut out for it.
Naturally the whole city is interested.
And it is safe to say that all Harris
burg, in the language of the sailor,
is ready and willing 'to stand by and
render assistance!"
THE COLONEL'S NEW BIRD
COLONEL ROOSEVELT returns
from Trinidad with a story even
more remarkable than that of!
the "River of Doubt." If it were not
for the rather recent verdict of a
western Jury against an editor who
hinted rather broadly that the Colonel
took a "wee drop" on occasion, we
might suspect the ex-President —no,
we didn't say next—had been doing
something more than exploring
asphalt lakes while on the island. It;
is not every man to whom it is given, j
without a single drink, of seeing aj
bird that looks like a cross between
Ham Lewis and a bad dream, has the
habits of an owl, the voice of a dog
and wears whiskers. Stories like that
are not designed to boost the ex
cursionist business to Trinidad, but
the Colonel thoughtfully adds that the
bearded bird is not carniverous. In
fact that it eats nothing but nuts, so ,
that most of us—note we said most
of us—may still, with perfect safety,
spend our winters on the island. But
what a fortunate thing that the Ford j
Peace Party didn't touch at a Trinidad 1
port!
FRANCE AND MEXICO
An editorial in the April Woman's
Home Companion reminds us of the
real reason why France got out ofi
Mexico after the Civil War—a reason
that has considerable significance to
day:
"When the Civil War was over we
found France in possession of Mexico,"
we read. "Our government intimated
to the French government that its
presence there was undesirable, and
the French withdrew. Why? Be
cause the righteousness of our protest
made Napoleon ashamed of himself?
Not at all. It was because at that mo- 1
ment we had a million trained men ■
j under arms. And having the million I
men ready to fight, we did not have to
fight. That victory was won without
the firing of a single gun or the loss of
a single drop of blood —because wo
were prepared for victory."
TO BE UNPLEASANT
We have an unpleasant surprise in
store for you, young man—you, who
are in love with Her, and have made
up your mind to propose to her to
night. You have been deluding your
self with the idea that she will ac-
I cept you—to your amazement you will
, find that she never had the slight
est thought of doing such a thing. Oh,
Igo on just the same. Face the worst!
j The last train home; the weary,
1 snorting, puffing, slow, rocking, stuffy,
halting, hesitating, never endir.g last
i train home, concluded by a deadly
! dull walk from the station. 'Yes,
I commuters, you who are now on your
! way to the theater, let your minds
dwell on that!
By the way, have you made a care
ful examination of the outside of your
house? To your amazement, if you
will but do so, you will find that the
paint is already chipping off and that
it cannot possibly go another season
, without —
Are you a golfer this beautiful (?)
early Spring weather? Club dues com
ing soon!— From Life.
ADDISON ON FRIENDSHIP
But, before I invite you into my so-
I ciety and friendship, I will be open
and sincere with you, and must lay
this down as an established truth,
j That there is nothing truly valuable
which can be purchased without pains
and labor. The gods have set a price
I upon every real and noble pleasure.
'lf you would gain the favor of the
Deity, you must be at the pains of
worshipping him; if the friendship of
good men, you must study to oblige
them; if you would be honored by
your country, you must take care to
, serve it. In short, if you would lie
[ eminent in war or peace, you must be
'■ come master of all the qualifications
; that can make you so.—Addison.
AGRIMOTORS IN ITALY
For some years the Italian govern
ment has been forced to consider some
means of utilizing many deserted
farms —a condition which was forni
j erly due chiefly to the immigration of
; farm population. The entrance of the
country into the war still further les-
I sens the number of men to do farm
: work, so the government, has had to
! come to the assistance of the women.
! They are supplying communal agri
| motors or power farm machinery to
do the heavier work of cultivation, so
that the food supply of the country
may not be diminished. Most of the
agrimotors or farm tractors are im
ported from America. They are hand
led under the direction of the Italian
Department of Agriculture which di
rects their use, either upon small In
dividual farms for the owners, or
(upon larger tracts controlled by the
I government.
Grocer—The honeymoon is over In
the house on the hill.
Assistant—How do you know?
Grocer—The bride has just phoned
In an order for onions.—Birmingham
I Age Herald.
CK
'PE.KKCUTAUTTA
By the Committeeman
I ■ ■
Whether there will be a compro-
Imise in the differences over leadership
| of the Republican party in Pennsyl
vania or whether there will be a fight
|to the finish will he decided in Phila
delphia within the next forty-eight
'hours. The Democrats of the State,
who have troubles of their own, are
I showing signs of getting together and
talk of a harmony deal on Democra
tic delegates and alternates at large
and even on National Committeeman
Palmer Is in the air.
Philadelphia and Pittsburgh news
papers again intimate that mutual
friends are trying to prevent an out
and out fight between the State ad
ministration forces and the adherents
of Senator Boies Penrose. While
negotiations on both sides are 1
busy setting up candidates for State
committeemen it is said that at the
proper time complete lists of cantJi-!
dates for delegate will be brought out. j
The Governor spent yesterday at I
the seashore and refused to add to his
statement of Saturday that he stood !
on the letter to National Committee- \
man Wasson, while Senator Penrose!
remained silent. Samuel I. Spyker, of j
Huntingdon, associate counsel of the
State Compensation Board, savagely;
denounced talk of the Governor be
ing party to a deal.
—The Philadelphia Inquirer to-day!
sums up the situation this way: "A |
tension that is keeping the rank and!
tile of both factions In the Republican I
party in Pennsylvania in a State of!
anxiety and uncertainty continued to i
be manifested yesterday both in this»
city and throughout the Common-1
wealth. Reports from interior coun-;
ties indicated that both the support
ers of Senator Penrose and those who
are disposed to back up Governor
Brumbaugh and his allies in a con-,
test for control of the party organiza- j
tion and the delegation to the Repub-i
llcan National Convention are eagerly'
waiting developments and all are at i
sea as to the probable outcome of the |
situation. Senator Penrose, who re- i
mained in town yesterday, met a num
ber of friends from up the State, an
swered a big batch of correspondence i
and indicated his intention to remain !
here at least another day before re-'
turning to Washington. There is still;
much speculation as to the probable !
attitude of State Insurance Commis
ioner Charles Johnson, of Montgomery
county in the event of a fight between
the Penrose cohorts and the Brum
baugh-Vare adherents.
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—The ledger takes this view which
attracted much attention to-day: "An;
impression prevails in many sections i
of the State that Senator Penrose;
would be willing to help the Cover- i
nor to win at least a complimentary j
vote in the national convention in ex-,
change for an abandonment of the
Ambler candidacy and of a fight for
instructed Brumbaugh delegates. The
difficulty about that, from the Pen
rose point of view, is that County
Chairman Spyker, of Huntingdon, on
behalf of the Governor, announced
that there would be no such thing as
a "deal."
—Jonathan R. Davis, former sheriff
of Luzerne county and later county
I chairman, may be the Republican
nominee for Congress in that district.
A dispatch from Wilkes-Barre says:
"The chances are that Congressman
John J. Casey will be unopposed for
the Democratic nomination. There
has been considerable effort on the
|part of the anti-Garmanites to bring
out a candidate against Casey, but
after scouring the whole field no one
has been found who is willing to go in
and give Casey a fight. James Judge,
of Plains, a Palmer Democrat, has
been flirting with the Palmer forces
and for a time it was believed that he
! would enter into the scrap. In recent
weeks, however, he has displayed no
desire to go out and give Casey a
\ battle."
—A review of Blair county poli
tics widely published yesterday says:
■ "The political atmosphere is becoming
i clarified in this Congressional district
by Republicans appearing a unit in
I favor of harmony at this time within
the party and declaring that such a
'condition can best be had in sending
j uninstructed delegates to the national
I convention. In the country section
of the county comes the report that
! farmers there want to join with other
voters in protesting against a factional
i fight. At this city it is also under
stood that the members of the present
Republican administration are strong
in their views in being with rank and
tile to send delegates from this dis
trict to the national convention who
will not be hampered with the indorse
-1 ment of any particular Presidential
candidate. Prominently mentioned as
candidates for national delegates are
Charles M. Kelley and Arthur B. Cole,
both of this city; John B. Anderson, of
Tyrone, and District Attorney Marion
Patterson, of Hollldaysburg. While
any of these aspirants will be accept
able to Republicans, it Is known that
each of Ihem shows a willingness to
retire from the race and support any
one agreed upon by the leaders in the
interest of party success. In Cambria,
it is probable, that James C. Ogden
will be the delegate from that part of
the district, and accorded unanimous
support here."
—Things continue to get lively in
Philadelphia. West Philadelphia is
objecting to the arrangement of the
big loan and threatening a revolt,
while the Independent League is
whacking the Mayor. Then Mayor
Smith is out in opposition to some
transit extensions to Byberry and the
housing commission Is assailing coun
cils. Meanwhile Pittsburgh continues
quiet.
—The Rev. T. J. Ferguson, former
member of the House, is about to an
nounce his candidacy from Cumber
land county for renomination.
—Senator W. C. Sproul is in the
midst of a campaign for renomination
with no one opposed to him. And It
does not matter if there was any one
against him, either.
ANTIQUES TO ORDER
By Frederic J. Haskin
A SHORT time ago a professor in ,
New York imported an ancient
shrine, which he had purchased
from some Italian dealers in antiques
for $200,000. The "antiquity" which
was supposed to have given the bit
of marble its great value, did not sur
vive the customs house inspection. Its
stains of age were proved to have
been produced with the aid of coffee, j
and it went through simply as a
"manufacture of marble."
This and several other recent in
stances show thiit the great business
of supplying the connoisseur—and
especially the American connoisseur
with objects of ancient art. Is still ac
tive, although the war has certainly
blighted it. There are not enough
Americans In Europe now, and it is
the American's ignorance of such
matters, and his desire to conceal it,
that make fat living for the art forger.
So the trade in Egyptian statuettes
and scarabs is somewhat demoralized,
and the antique factories in Bohemia
and Austria, which formerly turned
out their products by the thousand, I
are experiencing serious difficulties.
The antique industry, however, is only
lying dormant. The art forger is
simply waiting, knowing full well that
the end of the war will bring an even
greater demand for curios. There
will be a tremendous call for Vic
toria crosses, medals of honor and
ancient relics supposed to be hurried
out of Beligum upon the invasion of
the Germans. The garrets and cel
lars of Europe will continue to supply
innumerable articles wearing the look
of crumbling age fascinating to the
art collector, who Is Ignorant of the
results which may be accomplished
by a few acids and licorice Juice.
It is a simple matter for the expert
art forger to add a few thousand
years to the age of an article. The
wooden statue which you buy in the
firm belief that it adorned the palace
of Rameses 11, was probablv made a
couple of months ago in the house
hold of a modern Egyptian and sent
to a dealer in Paris. Here it was
painted and placed in the ground for
a short interval; then the paint was
removed by the use of caustic potash,
leaving just a few traces of color in
the veins of the wood. With a few
dashes of gold in the hollow places,
the effect is such that you are con
vinced it is centuries old.
Sometimes a piece of wooden fur
niture, just turned out bv a nearby
factory, is beaten with a thong and
then buried in the ground over which
acid is poured daily. When dug up it
is indeed a sorry looking object,
which the dealer gives a clumsv "coat
of repairs. The art collector on per
ceiving it, immediately thinks, "My
what a splendid piece of antique fur
niture ruined by modern repairs." Ten
to one, he buys it from the dealer to
, carefl 'lly points out the ad
visability of leaving the next relic In
the condition in which it is found.
Many other artifices are used to
give the suggestion of age. Brass is
TELEGRAPH'S PERISCOPE
—Senator Stone talks of "under
ground influences" in Mexico. May
he lie thinks Villa is going to escape
by means of a subway.
—The trouble with the modern
"flowers that bloom in the Spring
tra-la" is that they are too blooming
high.
| —Thanks, Mr. Demain, play an
I encore next Sunday.
| —One thing we like about that lost
aviator in Mexico—when he found he
| couldn't fly he refused to run.
| —"The War Department is un
easy" about the troops in Mexico,
i says a dispatch. We prefer to wait
until Pershing and Funston show
signs of uneasiness.
—After studying carefully a photo
-1 graph of Colonel House, the thought
, arises that perhaps he doesn't say any
i thing because ho doesn't have any
thing of importance to say.
1 OUR DAILY LAUGH
REQUEST. 11
sfijw fly: Glv# u# »•
ißy ofp light, will yer?.
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ALWATB 1M- rV~ ,-jj
PRESSIVE.
. He ia some 1
pompous, eh?
Yes; he roes m • MUL
j through life like ' I mro
a parade of one.
Tlii> teacher of the juvenile class had
! told her pupils that the poet Milton was
blind. Tho next day she asked if any
of them could recall Milton's affliction.
"Yes. nin'ain. 1 can." replied a small
boy. "He was a poet."
"Why, Johnny." said a mother to her
four-year-old son, "aren't you aahamed
to go about with such a dirty face?"
"t)on't you worry about it, mamma."
he replied. "As aoon as I get a little
hlgg»r I'll raiae whisker*, then you
won't notice the dirt,"
I oxidlxed by washing it in salt and am
monia and also by hydrochloric and !
sulphuric acids. With a little appli- !
cation of lampblack or turpentine it
| looks aged enough to please the most
exacting collector. In the case of!
j metal objects the forger applies a coat I
■ of black varnish and then polishes ,
| vigorously until the black part is vis- 1
; lble only In the hollows. Gold and ;
i silver assume an ancient appearance
i by the use of bisulphide of carbon,
and garlic will Impart Just the right
. amount of patina to tin.
The credulity of the art collector
Is inexhaustible. Aware that there
are only a few Rembrandts, held as
priceless by the owners, he will allow
| the art dealer to persuade him that
j one has been permitted to escape and
!is now hidden in an old house in
| Paris, which he can secure for the
small sum of forty thousand. So easy
lias this particular game become that
the art forger has even presumed to
I trade upon the names of living art
-1 ists. One writer states that Corot,
j Henner. Inness, Wyant and Homer
I Martin were all successfully imitated
and forged in their lifetime, and that
T. Sidney Cooper found two hundred
and fifty-five spurious copies out of
two hundred and eighty-six works
supposed to be his.
The art forger, of necessity, must
be well educated in many lines. He |
, must understand chemistry, he must
1 be well versed in history and he must
;be an astute businessman. The studv
of human nature, of acids with which
jto treat different articles, the kind of
a hat Mark Antony wore and the col
ors used in various periods must all
be within his ken. Some art forgeries
have been so remarkable as to de
! ceive even the best experts of Europe.
For examnle, acting 011 the advice
of a committee of infallible art con
noisseurs, the Louvre purchased for
forty thousand dollars what was al
aleged to be the crown of the Scvthian
king Saitapharnes, presented to him
by the Greeks of Olbia in 200 B. C.
Of exquisite workmanship and intri
cate design, the Louvre was just con
gratulating itself upon its good for
tune in obtaining this treasure when
a French jeweler came forward with
I the startling revelation that he had
seen the crown made by a Russian
named Rouchomowski. After much
heated discussion among the art au
i thorities. a French editor went after
Rouchomowski and brought him to
I Paris. There he was locked up and
told to duplicate the crown, which
| he did with such apparent ease that
there was no longer any room for
doubt.
Giovanni Bastianini, a sculptor of
the nineteenth century, turned out
cunning forgeries that deceived the
leading art institutions of Europe. His
j bust of Savonarola created such a
I stir that a Russian princess was onlv
| prevented from building a temple for
It by the timely appearance of an
| Tta!,ian who proved it to he a fake. Tt
is now 011 exhibition as a forgerv in
< the British museum.
11 THE STATE FROM DA/ TO dW
| Evangelist Beiderwolf, during his
| five weeks' stay in Norristown, has
j been the cause of 1,100 persons, in-
J eluding 100 children under 12 years of
j age, hitting: the trail," and now tlio
I demand that he stay another week is
I so great that Mr. Beiderwolf will make
it a six weeks' campaign.
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A large wireless apparatus will be
installed to-day at the Pennsylvania
| Military College as a part of the
I course. The station will have an
j aerial 170 feet long, containing 1,024
| feet of continuous copper bronze wire,
j This is the first college in the United
States to incorporate the study of
, wireless in its curriculum.
1 Weston had better look to his laurels
it he would c ontinue to hold the record
j for long distance walking, for tliera
corncs into the limelight a 72-year-old
i man from Wilkes-Harre who in the
; thirty-three years that he has been in
| the mail service of Uncle Sam has
i walked a distance of 108,900 miles. Al
i though injured in the hip at the Battle
| of Bull Run, it doesn't seeni to have
| seriously handicapped his walking
apparatus.
• • *
; Two tons of beautiful white flour
j descended upon ex-Councilman Kirsch
ner. of Uazleton. at his feed mill on
j Saturday, but nothing was disturbed
! excepting his equilibrium, and he was
unearthed with but slight injuries by
i his faithful employes.
|« . »
John B. Beible. postmaster of sub
station No. 10, Wilkes-Barre. belted
i his name Saturday by confessing that
i be had cracked open his safe and
: stolen SBOO of government bonds early
i in the week.
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The disappearance of Dr. E. ,T.
Beers, of South Bethlehem, from his
home after an altercation with alleged
i B«sailants. during which he received a
I deep gash in his neck, has caused
! much apprehension among his friends
and relatives. He went to the doctor
j to have the wound dressed and has not
( been seen since.
THE SEARCHLIGHT
- NEW STONES FOR MT. VERNON
' After several years' effort upon the
part of the regents in charge of Wash
i ington's home at Mt. Vernon, it is be
} lieved that stones to replace the
| much-worn flooring of the portico
will be secured. At least they are now
at a wharf in Yorkshire, England,
awaiting shipment to this country.
The stones have been taken from
the old Bees' Head quarry, of rum
; berland, England, where George
Washington procured the first stone*
nearly 200 years ago. They are be
lieved to be exact duplicates of the
j originals. The quarry is nearly 300
years old. It Is located near White
Haven, where Washington's grand
smother is burled.
jJEimttng (Eijat
The meeting here to-day of the peo
ple of a score or more of counties who
are interested in the formation of an
aaeoclation which will formally put
the William Penn highway on the majy
and encourage the State in its maM
tenance is an event of prime
ance in the history of
Pennsylvania and will arouse
support here and elsewhere
general project of betterment of the
highways of the Commonwealth. This
city, as a matter of fact, was brought
into being because it is a natural road
center. Most of the roads which ra
diate from Harrisburg are merely
adaptation of Tndian trails to the ne
cessities of modern traffic. The rout«
by which the William Penn highway
cumes into the State's capital is one of
the oldest Indian trails in this part
of Pennsylvania.
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Harrisburg is the outgrowth of trails
meeting at a ford of the Susquehanna.
Long before John Harris, or the
French traders who preceded him.
came to the ford it was In use by In
idians and the white men utilized the
Indian trails because they were the
best means of travel. The develop
ment from trails to thoroughfares of
traffic was speedy once it began. One
trail led down the Lebanon valley to
ward East on, part of which is tra
versed by the William Penn highway.
Another went over the ford to Car
lisle and the West and the South and
! caused John Harris to establish the
i ferry. The other trails followed the
river and mot here, bringing the Iro-
I Quois into touch with the Shawanese.
(The first, road officially laid out to en-
I ter Harrisburg was that from Harris
| ourg to Baltimore, as it was ambl
| tlously styled. It. really was an exten
sion of the trail from Lancaster and
Philadelphia, which was then being
used by wagons and was ordered by
the court at Lancaster November 4,
1735. The road is generally supposed
to have touched Mlddletown. The
trail to Reading was developed into
a road about the same time. A sec
ond road to Mlddletown.called the"up-
was ordered by the court In
1785, the year of founding of Harris
i burg and erection of Dauphin county,
and the existence of the highway to
Reading is indicated by an order In
the same year for a road leading from
the Wenrich farm to "the great road"
between Harrlsburg and Hummels
town. Two years later the road to
| Jonestown, known as the Jonestown
; road, and which survives in this city,
I was officially confirmed.
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!It might also be stated that the best
proof of the attention given to roads
by the early residents of this part of
the State is furnished by the Incorpor
r ation of turnpike companies. Within
't thirty years from the organization of
the county there were six turnpike
| companies operating road with Har
i risburg as objective point. They ln-
I eluded the Downlnglown. Ephrata and
j Harrisburg, Lancaster, Elizabetlitown
'and Middletown. Mlddletown atvl
j Harrisburg, Harrisburg, Carlisle
and Chambersburg. Harris
burg and Millerstown anil the
j Berks and Dauphin. The William
i Penn Highway route will traverse
some of them and the toll gates still
I stand on one route.
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I The fine weather of yesterday ata
tracted a good many people into the
country and those walked within sight
of the railroads must have been im
j pressed with the, extent of the freight
traffic being handled at this time. The
• Pennsylvania yards on both sides of
the river were in a state of rush and
long trains were being handled, whllo
the Reading's traffic was tremendous,
the Rutherford yards being a regular
i hive and the trains sent out both ways
at frequent. Intervals.
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Wlldwood park attracted quite a
few people to the city's great play
ground of the future yesterday and
while the ground was pretty soft off
jthe paths it was delightful to roam
j amid thu trees and to note the ac
' tivlty of bugs and flies over spots
|\\liere two weeks ago there was noth
ing but snow. The park is coming out
: of winter pretty rapidly and it will not
■ be long before Spring flowers will bo
seen. A few more days like yesterday
and the bull frog chorus will be
j heard.
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S. L. Tone, former Public Service
j commissioner, is taking an active part
iin discussion of public utility ques
tions in Pittsburgh and vicinity.
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE*
j —John McGinley, Jr., the new post
master of Bristol, is a noted poultry
raiser.
—The Rev. T. D. Edgar, Wllklns
burg pastor, yesterday presided at the
dedication of a $90,000 church built
under his pastorate.
—Edward O'DonneU, legislative
candidate in Carbon, is a prominent
I labor leader.
I —William Frew I,ong, who spoke
to the association of Pennsylvania
[Trade Secretaries at New York Sat
urday, is head oC the State Laundry
l men's association.
—William Zell, "cashier of the new
Agricultural Trust company in Lan
| caster, was cashier of a Maytown
I bank.
! —John Wanamaker will be the
speaker at the annual meeting of the
! Hazleton Chamber of Commerce in
I May.
DO YOU KNOW
That Harrisburg lias been a
center of the vehicle trade for
tills part of tlie State for more
I than a century?
MISTOHIC HARRISBURG
Tlie first railroad train crossed ;
Susquehanna at this point on the CV.-W
berland Valley bridge in 1839.
SERVE YE THE LORD
Now therefore fear the Lord
serve him in sincerity and in truth,
and put away the gods which your
fathers served on the other side of tne
tlood, and in Egypt: and serve ye the
j Lord.—Joshua xxlv, 14.
The Friendless
Alarm Clock
We respect an alarm (lock
but it lias very few real friends.
It Is a shining example of the
tvpe of remainder that compels
rather than persuades.
People don't like to be in
fluenced by alarm clock meth
ods. They prefer the advice of
friends.
I It is the element of personal
friendliness that distinguishes
j the newspaper from other pub
lications.
It Is a welcome, sought after
visitor In the home. Its adver
tising is presenter! aa a friend
I Introduces a stranger.
And it gets that consider
ation that makes it valuable.