8 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A NEWSPAPER FOR THE }lf>ME Founded 1831 Published evenings except Sunday by THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO., Telegraph Building, Federal Square, E. J. STACKPOLE, Pres't and Editor-in-Chief ' F. R. OYSTER, Butiness Manager. GUS M. SHEINMETZ, Managing Editor. * Member American llshers' Assocla latlon and Penn nSrßgfigjn sylvanla Assoclat -4=5 9 aai M Eastern office. Has- ISfi 2 IB! ™ Brooks, Fifth Ave MB Ml nf nue Bu " dlng ' n.w . Brooks, People's - I Ges Building, Cht- Entered at the Post Office in Harris burg, Pa., as second class matter. By carriers, six cents a <BOTE3(«eiHE> week: by mail. $3.00 a year In advance. Sworn dally average circulation for tha three months ending April 1. 1916, if 22,432 if Theae flgnrea are net. All returned, unaold and damaged copies drdt cted. ========== SATURDAY EVENING, APRIL 29 1 Hope is the only good which is com-; mon to all men. — Thalks. MORE MONEY: PROSPERITY FOR the first time in years the plants of the Pennsylvania Steel Company at Steelton are operating this Spring at 100 per cent, capacity and the announcement of what amounts to an increase of 10 per cent, in the wages of all employes Is an j Indication that the Bethlehem Steel j Company believes its business is on 11 I sufficiently permanent basis to war- | rant an advance in operating expenses. Officials at the Steelton plant have not been able to give exact figures as to just hoV much additional the raise i will add to the weekly payroll, but 10 ' per cent, increase in the earnings of ! 7,000 men working every day In the ! week cannot be Inconsiderable, and the bulk of the money will be expended In j the Harrisburg district. The Central Iron and Steel Company I is also working full time with a big force and It has followed the lead of j the Bethlehem company In the matter j of wages. All told. Harrisburg is facing a very prosperous summer. Our people are all employed at good wages and that makes for happiness and good busi ness. Perhaps some generous-minded cltl len will make a contribution of flower boxes for the window ledges of the young Women's Christian Association building. MUNICIPAL LEAGUE SUPPORT CITY COMMISSIONER GROSS hav ing summoned the former mem- bers of the Park Commission to his aid as an advisory body, by this step suggests the importance of proper support for all the officials of the clty through such an organization as the Municipal League. We can think of no association of citizens better fitted for co-operation with the several municipal depart ments than this flexible body which has done so much in the public better ment work of the city during the last fifteen years. At the present time the Chamber of Commerce, the Rotary Club, the Civic Club of Harrisburg and other influen tial bodies are working along proper civic lines and accomplishing much for the good of Harisburg, but there is need frequently for the special activi ties of the Municipal League, which is so constituted as to bring together the citizens generally for concrete action ■upon any proposition requiring imme diate consideration. That there may be no reactionary Influence in our municipal life It is, perhaps, necessary that the progressive element of our population, which is largely In the majority, shall be kept fully awake so as to prevent any lapse of the public spirit and energy and city-wide co-operation that have been responsible during these recent years for the remarkable transformation of the city. This newspaper has the utmoS faith in the citizenry of Harrisburg and we have no doubt whatever of the good Intentions of most of our people. But under the present form of our mu nicipal government the duties devolve upon a small group of officials, and unless these heads of departments and their subordinates realize through con stant and active, co-operation that the people are with them in every proper way they are likely to feel that the public which they serve is more or less Indifferent. Our reputation as a progressive cits is nation wtde, and whether the Mu nicipal League or some other body undertakes the Important duty of maintaining the public interest in all matters affecting the welfare of the community it is manifestly the busi ness of our citizens individually and collectively to back up every good thing and to Just as energetically dis courage any tendency toward reaction. Harrisburg occupies an enviable po sition among the municipalities of the United States. Every one of our officials is proud of this fact. With them and with each other our people must stand shoulder to shoulder and press forward toward still better things In the futjjre Market Square is going to blossom as the rose within the next few weeks, and Federal Square will he a close sec ond. What's the matter with the wide awake community at Broad and Third afreets keeping step In the "City Beau tiful" rampalgn? Also and likewise, what's the matter with the other hust- / ✓ SATURDAY EVENING, * HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH} APRIL 29, 1916. ling sections at Sixth an I Maclay streets and Thirteenth and Market streets? This is the season of the paint hucket I and the spade. Get busy. WITH WHOM DOES HE STAND? THE bill to retain, absolutely, the existing duties on sugar was passed by the House of Rep j resentatives with the understand i ing that it was in accordance I with the President's wishes. The I Senate, however, amended the bill |so as to make the retention of ■ the duties applicable only until 1920; 1 and the measure is now in the hands | of a conference committee of the two houses. The conferees are in dead lock. The House members are firm for unconditional action, the Senate members—who had been given to understand that the action of their body had the President's approval— refuse to yield. From the House comes the word that the Sena tors have the President with them, and there is much harsh language from the House in consequence. With whom does the President stand—with the House or with the Senate? Did he promise support to i either, or neither, or both? With whom will be finally line up? The House passed an army bill pro- I riding for a force of 142,000 men. It I was announced that the President ' favored that number. The Senate has 1 amended the measure by increasing j the number to 250,000. It has been ! said that the President favored that j number also. This bill has gone to | conference and we may expect the j House and Senate conferees to adhere to the figures which their respective j branches have written into the army J legislation. Where will the President | then align himself? Will he stand with the House, or with the Senate, i or with neither? The President, as we all know. Is subject to sudden and complete | changes of mind. But he must stand somewhere on the army bill. With whom will it be? SYMPATHY FOR GERMANY A SPEAKER at the German war sufferers' bazaar in Philadel phia this week is quoted as | saying: True German-Americans love the Vaterland as a man loves his mother, but they love America, the land of their adoption, as a man loves his wife. Americans of German birth or' descent holding such sentiments are J to be admired. That they love the land whence came their parents is to their credit. No one in America would deny them that. That they are rais- j ing-funds for the relief of the millions of war sufferers In Germany is a worthy thing and should commend i general sympathy and hearty sup- j port. The people of Germany as a j whole are no more responsible for I the crimes of their rulers or the rape i of Belgium than are the people of the j United States. They wish for peace I even more heartily than do we in this country. If their wishes prevailed the men would be out of the trenches be fore the close of to-day. They have suffered and are suffering. Amer icans should not deny them succor as j individuals however little they may i sympathize with German military | policies and methods. Americans German descent who j are loyal to this country first, last and ] all the time, and who stand for the United States above any other nation, may sympathize with Germany all i they please, and welcome. Nobody I objects and many will admire them | for it. But we want no hyphens. A DISTRIBUTING CENTER ANNOUNCEMENT that a large chemical manufacturing concern has chosen Harrisburg as a ware house point is another indication that the Chamber of Commerce knew i whereof it spoltc when it dubbed liar- j risburg "The Heart of Distribution." We have many advantages as a | manufacturing center, but it is as a distributing point that we excel. Lan- j caster, Lebanon, Reading, York, a dozen other communities, may claim I everything that we have In the way | of manufacturing facilities, but when) it comes to quick delivery in any direc tion and for through shipments to a central warehouse from the manufac turing point, then Harrisburg is far and away In the lead. No cily in the State Is so favorably situated for in land distribution. North, cast, south and west our railroads run, and fast freight service is one of the hobbles of both railroad men and shippers here. THE REWARD OP TREACHERY BENEDICT ARNOLD sacrificed all he possessed for England. He gave up friends, position, reputa tion, fortune and honor In an effort to serve King George. Yet, to-day, searching for a term of utter ignominy with which to describe their contempt for Sir Roger Casement, who was ar rested while aiding a German force to land arms in • Ireland, British editors can think of nothing lower than to call him "the Benedict Arnold of Great Britain." Such is always the reward of treachery. STEELTON'S "BOOSTER" BANQUET STEELTON is to have a "Booster" banquet, at which Charles M. Schwab, E. G. Grace, Qulncy M. Bent and other officials of the Bethle hem Steel Company will break bread with the members of the town's Mer chants' Association and the Municipal League, which have had a large patt in recent progressive developments in the borough. The first intimation that the Bethlehem Company is interested in the welfare of the town, as well as in the growth of its industries, came last week when It was announced that the company would give generously to ward the maintaining of the public playgrounds there this season. Doubt less It only remains for the new own ers of the steel works to come to an understanding of the needs of the community to co-operate with its people along other lines making for a better Steelton. At all events the "Booster" banquet will afford opportunity for the steel company officials to meet and get better acquaint*! with the towns people and no doubt both sides will be benefitted thereby. Totctic*. LK By the Ex-Committeeman United States Senator Boies Pen rose came out flat-footed for Charles A. Snyder l'or Auditor General and Harmon M. Kephart for State Treas urer and predicted that Governor Brumbaugh would be defeated for Republican delegate-at-large in ,nn interview at Pittsburgh last night. Concerning the Governor, Senator Penrose said: "Brumbaugh is not in good faith a candidate for the Presidency. His candidacy, discredited at the outset, we did not dignify by opposing. 1 was asked to run, but 1 could not do so unless seriously I was a candidate for the nomination. The party leaders know Brumbaugh is not a candidate; the Republican rank and lile know it, and—even this early In the campaign—such Information as 1 been able to gather from over the State shows conclusively that the preferential vote for Brumbaugh will be so light as to be practically negli ble, and, besides that, he will be over whelmingly defeated for delegate-at large." "I do not expect to do much cam paigning, it appears entirely unneces sary. Joseph P. McLaughlin and lsador Sobel together make two of tbo strongest candidates the party could put up. They will oppose John R. K. Scott, of Philadelphia, and Daniel F. Lafean, of York, who, it is predicted, will be decisively de feated. With Mr. McLaughlin and Mi. Sobel completing the regular or ganization ticket for Congessmen-at large will be Representative Thomas E. Crago of Waynesburg, and M. M. Garland, of Pittsburgh, who, practi cally unopposed, will win handily. "In the State Treasurer-Auditor General contest Senator Pehrose pre dated easy triumphs for Harmon M. ; Kephart, of Fayette, and Senator Charles A. Snyder of Schuylkill. Kep- : hart and Snyder are gaining strength last. They are making a runaway' race of it. They will both have big | majorities in Philadelphia." The general situation throughout the State could not be better, he de-1 clared. The Philadelphia situation he believed was rapidly straightening itself out. In Allegheny county he considered conditions, as he had been j able to observe them in his two-and a-half-day stay, better than they have been in years. "Sentiment throughout the country is all for unpledged dele- j gates to the Republican National Con vention," said the Senator. "A high type of delegates are being chosen, and there appears to be a general i agreement to leave to those delegates, | uninstructed, the duty of naming the best possible candidate of the party I for President." —One of the interesting things about the campaign is that men in' most of the counties up-Stale and in the western end are disposed to sit back and watch the development of the Philadelphia row which is back of the whole State campaign anyway. The charges that the police are in politics and harassing McNichol men are being made openly and yesterday the Citizens Republican league de-1 clared that Congressman John R. K. ; Scott was bossing the police. This was | denied by Scott. Then charges of j double dealing in some ward contests ! sprang up. The Philadelphia Record I says this morning that the McNichol men have secretly organized the Vare i wards and that a revolt is under way which may have far reaching conse quences in the result in the Phila delphia. One of the schemes is a, drive at Congressman Vare's candi-1 dacy for re-election. The Penrose; McNichol people appear to have de- ' elded to carry the war Into Africa. —Hugh Black, the old receiver of 1 taxes in Philadelphia and who was deposed as one of the leaders by the Vares, is in charge of the Penrose! campaign in South Philadelphia and! revolt is under way. —Mfcyor Smith yesterday asked, Director Wilson if the police in Phila- | delphta were in politics. —Organization of the Brumbaugh forces in Lackawanna county is pro ceeding under direction of Frederic W. Flietz, ex-Deputy Attorney Gen-! cral. Meetings were held last night and to-day at which arrangements i were made for a series of meetings, j —Thomas C. Boyd's petition to be j candidate for Republican congres- | sional nomination in the Thirty-first j district was stricken, down in court yesterday because signatures were ob- j taincd on Sunday and dated Saturday. ! There were also defects in affidavits. —The Central Democratic Club has arranged its Jefferson Day dinner for May 18 when Dudley Field Malone, j collector of the port of New York will < be the speaker. —Brumbaugh headquarters to-day j gave out extracts from reports from Berks, Lackawanna and other conn- j tits where the fight was being organ ized with what were stated to be cx- | cclient prospects. —Congressman Michael Liebel is: out on the trail of A. Mitchell Palmer j in the national Democratic commit tee contest. —Attacks upon Speaker Ambler's candjdacy for Auditor General are being vigorously answered. The i speaker expects to take the stump himself. —lt is said that practically every one of the attaches of the Auditor General's Department signed the paper pledging campaign contribu tions for the candidacy of the auditor general for national delegate. A num ber have also arranged to work In their home districts for him. ■—The Philadelphia Ledger in a Pittsburgh dispatch to-day says: "Friends of the Senator, discussing persistent reports that Governor j Brumbaugh proposes promptly to fill I the SB,OOO a year place of State High- ! way Commissioner made vacant by the death of Robert J. Cunningham, to-day saw shoals ahead for the Gov ernor if, as expected, he ignores the regular Organization. An Allegheny ccunty appointee, unless approved by Senator Oliver and the Organization it was said, would fail of confirmation i by the Senate at the next session. At j least four of the five Senators from this county would vote against him, it was declared." The Wobbly Knees Strengthen ye the weak hands andj confirm the feeble knees.—lsaiah 35-3. I FIRST THING MONDAY Bj Wing Dinger Get the spirit, join the movement, Help to make the town One big spot of floral beauty— Jot a memo down To blow in on Monday morning A few surplus, rocks Buying for the porch or window A nice flower box. If you've never tried Ifc, let me Tell you something, bo. It's a heap of downright pleasure Watching flowers grow. i And to have 'em bloomln' round you Helps to make one's life Worth the living, to say naught of . Joy It brings the wife. - THE CARTOON OF THE DAY ' t , WHAT! ANOTHER? I i Trouble jA B jjj ,sir ' ii.- ! —-, —From tlie Ohio State Journal. TELEGRAPH'S PERISCOPE —The woman who evolved the theory | that Bacon wrote' Shakespeare (lied In sane, but other Baconitei continue to | rave on. J —Nick Longworth has foundi It agreeable to agree with father-in-law I in the matter of volunteering In case of war, evidently feeling that the Colonel : has something on Emperor Bill as a fighter. —Felix Diaz is willing to be president of Mexico; evidently Felix is in what a certain distinguished American calls a "heroic mood." f —Here's a possible campaign slo | gan: "Henry Ford and the full gaso | line pail." | —ln March we had February weather and In April we have had March weather, but we trust that May will j not give us April weather. ! —When a newspaper makes a mis take over a doctor's name he raises a disturbance about It and when a doc tor makes a mistake they raise a monu ment over It. EDITORIAL COMMENT Is it possible that Henry Ford's as tonishing victory over Senator William Alden Smith indicates that Michigan Is not in a heroic mood?— Boston Tran script. The Municipal Council of Paris will preserve the hole made In the subway- I ijoof by a Zeppelin bomb, utilizing It ias an aperture for ventilation.—New York World. —One can't take much stock in the piratical prowess of this Schiller per son after learning that his front name ; is Clarence Reginald.—Nashville South {ern Lumberman. In deciding what to do with Sir Roger Casement Kngland might find a hint in Macaulay when he quotes William | 111, in pardoning a noble Jacobite who had repeatedly plotted his assassina tion, as saying: "He is fully determined to be a martyr, but I am equally de ; termlned that he shall not be."—New York Sun. Two Billion For Beer [The United States spends over two bil lion dollars a year for alcoholic liquors and expends at least an equal amount upon the evils resulting from their use. J We need a navy. That must go. It cost too much to meet the foe. Water, land and air machines, i Torpedoes too and submarines. This preparation is too dear, I Two billion must be spent for beer. A larger army, brave and bold. But It will need a heap of gold. Men well equipped from head to heel, And guns to pierce the solid steel. And millions must be spent, we fear. ! Two billions must be spent for beer. I We need great roads from sea to sea, i But we must pay a heavy fee. I Highways and railways should be built: Our hills cut down, our valleys filled. I Can we from such a debt keep clear? . Two billion must be spent for beer. j We need to eat our daily bread, i For live we must, we must be fed. „ ! The higher cost of living strains; The cost of higher living drains, j But we must pay the debt severe. Two billion must be spent for beer. A ceaseless waste on welfare calls, Asylums, prisons, wards and walls. For drunkard's woe, for tippler's guilt Much greater buildings must be built. 1 And who can count the cost so drear? Two billion must be spent for beer. Our country calls for sober men. And Scripture pleads and pleads again: I,ook not upon the wine, nor taste, And business cries, "Oh stop this waste." How vast the price—year after year! Two billion must be spent for beer. R. M. RAMSEY, for the Telegraph. Crocodile Tears [New York Herald. 1 Efforts to "smoke out" Mr. Justice Hughes having ended In a deserved fiasco, supporters of some other Re publicans regarded as presidential pos sibilities are now Joining in the Demo cratic shedding of tears over the as mimed lack of knowledge of Mr. 'Hughes' position on political Issues. It is a crocodile chorus of weeping. No man in this broad land doubts Mr. Hughes' Republicanism. Are there any doubt his stalwart Americanism? CARING FOR OUR LEPERS By Frederic J. Haskin WASHINGTON, D. C.—Not long ago, a young Italian woman applied to a hospital dispensary in a certain eastern city to be treated for a pe culiar skin disease. An examination revealed the fact that it was leprosy. Whereupon the citizens of the neigh borhood where the young woman lived shuddered and reported the matter to the health authorities. Now the health authorities had no authority to act; there was the usual lack of provision for lepers in the state bud get. But they had to do something, so they hurriedly erected a cabin in an isolated district and removed the young woman to it. Here she was confined for several weeks until her husband, also an Italian, secured her release through the courts on the strength of his promise to take her out of the state and never to return. j This was all very well for that par [ticular state, but it is something of a shock to learn that such cases hap pen frequently—that persons afflicted with leprosy are continually being shifted around the country because no state feels any special responsibility for them. In this instance, of course, the young woman was an Italian and the state probably argued that it was up to the Italian government to look after her, certainly not the state in which she happened to be a transient. Still, it illustrates the universal laxity of law which permits a person so af flicted to drop completely out of sight I with every chance of the infection of others. As a remedy to this situation a bill i has now been introduced into Congress providing for the establishment of a | national leprosarium where persons so afflicted with leprosy may be ef ficiently treated and properly isolated from the rest of the community. At the present time there are only three states which have any specific pro visions for lepers. There are state ap propriations for prisons, for Insane as ylums, for sanitation and for paupers, but the lepers are in a class by them selves. They are an obligation which everybody has chosen to ignore and shift on to somebody else. Leprosy is not as contagious as some other diseases —tuberculosis for ex ample. In Hawaii, where the dis ease was thoroughly investigated at the United States health station, it was found that only Ave per cent of the Hawaiian natives were actually susceptible to i(. In other words, of all the persons thrown into direct con tact with lepers, sometimes living in the same houses with them, only five per cent contracted the disease. Nothing definite is known as to how the infection is carried, although it is thought, that the nasal secretions have something to do with it. Also, the theory has been advanced that leprosy is due to diet. It was brought out in the testimony before the house committee reporting on the bill for a national leprosarium, that in Iceland it is supposed that the dis ease is caused by the large amount of decayed Msh consumed. It seems that in the keeping process the fish sometimes become tainted, and this, together with the fact that the na tives eat both heads and tails, is con sidered cause enough for leprosy. The diet theory for leprosy was investiga ted by the same government commis sion which Investigated pellagra, how ever, and it was not sustained. Shakespeare Once more the Bard of Avon in his tomb— "Sweet Swan," as rare Ben Johnson called him—hears Under his tombstone, dead, his Hps long dumb. The little men again tl.ose dear tears Which Shakespeare makes to well In to our eyes, As we go back with him through all the hearts Of men and women and prove high how rise The riches that make priceless all the arts. Are tears that peerless Shakespeare never shed; That someone else, more favored of the gods On high Olympus—those who give the dead The fame that makes us careless of all odds— Was he who searched our human hearts as rone Who ever knew our hearts has ever done. FREDERICK HOPPIN HOWLAND Up to Germany [From me Louisville Courier-Journal.] Petitions to Congress that It submit to this murderous policy of Germany can have no effect In inducing Ger many to abandon that policy. And the abandonment of that policy by her is all that can avert war between Ger many and the United States. | The Johns Hopkins University Hos- I pitai at Baltimore for years took care | of a woman leper who had come there i for treatment. In the beginning her rase was reported to the state author ities, but the state of Maryland had never had any lepers and didn't care to have. So the young woman contin -1 ued to live in (he hospital where she was very useful for clinical purposes to the student doctors. The case of the leper, John Earlv, is well known. Early who claimed ito have contracted the disease while a United States soldier in the Philip j pines, was first apprehended in 1908 in the Salvation Army headquarters in Washington. The District of Colum bia also was prejudiced against lepers and had never considered the pos sibility of housing one. The health officer had not the slightest idea as to how he was going to dispose of Ear ly, but it. was obviously his duty to see that he was confined. As it turned out, the first night Ear ly spent on a cot in an ambulance, and the next few days in a tent. Then he was removed to a brick building owned by the government, where he was well eared for. Sometime later, he was released in order that he might go to the Skin and Cancer hospital in New York, but only on condition that he promised not to return. Nev i ertheless, the next year he was back | again, living in the same brick build ing. Once more he was taken to New : York, and for a long time nothing was [heard of him except an occasional news item once in California and once in [ the State of Washington, which sliow lcd that he traveling about the country with apparent freedom. Then one day the District Health officer was called on the telephone and told that John Early was at one of Washington's large hotels waiting to be arrested. On arriving at the specified room, the health officer found him the center of a large and in terested assembly of newspaper re porters. io whom he was describing his journey east on a Pullman car and holding forth on the relative ad vantages and disadvantages of the best hotels. Ho is now back in the brick building at nil annual expense to the District of $3,300. Leprosy is prevalent in all foreign countries where strenuous measures have not been taken to suppress it. At times it has been thought that cli mate might have something to do with it, since so many lepers are seen in the tropics, but this, like many other facts concerning leprosy, is only a theory. There are also lepers in Ice land. Scandinavia and Russia. The disease reaches its widest growth among the native tribes of South Af rica, where no efforts at all have been made to check its spread. Brit ish India comes next. Here a few charity institutions have been estab lished for persons with lep rosy, but entrance to these is entirely voluntary. The same Is true of Tur key. The Turkish government has provided a national leprosarium but the roads around Jerusalem are lined with the camps of lepers who prefer to earn their bread by begging. Japan has practically succeeded in eliminating the disease from that country by means of its very excel lent leprosarlums, as have also Eng land and Germany, and in Germany there is n«f»e. lik. . OUR DAILY LAUGH NUMERICALLY SPEAKING. JwjJf \ "Did he kiss you 7H \V\\!/5sS goodbye?" I asked her. V JMI\ she nodded h ® r iVy tJMII pretty head. jfft \ "How singular!" fl' A "rnvJlLf 1 was sarcas "No< P'ural, '* was all th*| ■he said. ONE SIDED. '>Q$M will agree after rou won't at flrst.lflQfe lfj|p| I »ut you'll lEbenmg ©hat Arrangements have been completed for the State to participate in the archeological survey of the Susquehan na river valley which is to lie under taken this year by various historical organizations in New York and Penn sylvania, the national government, New York Stat« officials and indi viduals interested In the lore of the aboriginal inhabitants of Central Penn sylvania and New York. This survey was projected to cover both branches of the Susquehanna with a view to clearing up many mut ters which have been questioned and for the purpose of establishing the foundations for traditions and legends. It has been financed by a number of eastern people and co-operation of county historical societies has been secured. The State's part will be taken through the State Historical I'otn mission, which will give $2,500 from its appropriation and be represented in the work by George P. Donehoo, of Coudersport. one of the members of tl.° commission ami a.u authority on Indian life in the Keystone State. The State will also receive much material for its publication. The proposed op eration will be che most extensive of the kind ever undertaken in Pennsyl vania and hundreds of miles will be covered. Indian villages and battle grounds located, districts held by vari ous tribes defined and authentic data regarding colonial and early republi can times will he collected. * • » This section of the Susquehanna Valley is particularly rich in Indian lore and there are well established places where Indians lived and the names of the tribes Which roamed along its banks are preserved in fam ily traditions and embalmed in many a legend, hong before John Harris came to the banks of the Susque hanna 200 years or so ago, the ford which became the ferry was used by Indians. Every one here knows the story of the attempt to burn John Har ris and the story of the death of Half King, the famous Indian chief here and the tales of the Indian raids and of the council fires still linger. • • » There were Indian villages at the mouths of every creek of any size emptying into the Susquehanna here abouts. The Shawnees held forth at the mouths of the Conodoguinet. and the Yellow Breeches and on this side there were kindred of those warriors at the mouth of Paxton creek, while well established Indian villages, of which remains have been discovered, were at the mouths of the Swatara and Conewago. At the mouth of the Mahantongo creek, the northern boundry of the county, there was a big village and the Indians in that sec tion did not like those who lived on I Duncan-s Island or at the mouths of the Perry county creeks. The Rlu>; j Ridge abounded in Indian tribes and I some of the more warlike used to make raids upon the downriver In | dians whose outposts lived within sight of the St*te Capitol. » * • Broad or Little Mountain, as it is more generally known, which gently rises about a mile back of Dauphin j and runs out into the coal regions be j tween the Kittatinny and Peters ridges is rich in Indian lore. Just back of I the point a huge rock, square, high and imposing, rises. Kroni its appear ance it gets its name Pulpit Hock, j In the old days when Indians roamed Clarks and Stony Creek valleys a pow erful chief presided over the delibera tions of his councils from its broad top. Later he lost his power and after a fierce fight in the plains with an j enemy tribe was driven up the slope jof the mountain. Fatigued, the legend runs, he made an effort to climb up | the rock where he felt he could repel his enemies until his men could res cue him but fell and was dashed t.» pieces on the footstool of his thron •. The Grekt Ruler of the Happv Hunt ing Grounds visited this vengeance upon him, the legend concludes, be cause of his excessive cruelty to women and children. Farther up the mountain on the Stony Creek slope of the mountain to this day stands a little log block house. It is in a fair state of preservation and children of the Stone Glen summer colony derive great sport from digging arrow heads from its porous walls. • » * On the Clarks Valley side of Little Mountain, nearly exactly opposite the block house is a heavy mountain stream. Down near where it empties into Clarks creek is a little square, hole, still screened Ipy bushes, along the bank. According to old residents | of the valley, a family by the name ; of Hocker, dwelt in this region during ! the reign of the Chief of Pulpit Rock, i One day the husband and father was | treacherously killed by Indians. The I wife and her two children were not i molested at the time. Mrs. Hocker aware of the cruelty of this tribe and ieuring its early return, took her chil dren anil a shovel and followed the little stream into the mountains. At a turn, the water shot around and made a pretty cascade. Tho widow, lie! wits sharpened by the danger threatening her children, conceived the idea of building a dugout beneath the fails. She worked for days and finally made a hiding place into which she and the children could crawl anil |be completely concealed. Her de scendants still living in the vallev at- I test to the success of her hiding place. WELL KNOWN PEOPLE""] I —C. P. Nelll, who is working in the | railroad wage conference, has been j the man in charge of the anthracite j scale arbitration. —Joseph B. McCall, head of the Philadelphia Electric Company, lias returned from a fishing trip to Mary land. —Congressman John M. Morin, of Pittsburgh, used to be the champion oarsman. —Judge John M. Garman, of Lu zerne county, was for years one of the Democratic leaders of the State and a State chairman. —R. M. Simmers, State pure food agent, says that the cherries in Phila delphia cocktails pass muster for pur ity. but he is silent on other ingredi ents. | DO YOU KNOW ~ That IfarriMhurg ships steel shapes for buildings in the South? HISTORIC HARRIS BURG When John Harris built his ware house along the river Jiis nearest white neighbors were near Middle town. * V Does Newspaper Ad vertising Pay? A large paint manufacturer nskeil this question of retailers throughout the country: NO. !> SAID: "I think newspaper publicity a necessity to get the best possible results from an advertising cam- . paign. "It not only brings customers to the store but when we solicit business It is much easier to sell n paint that has been advertised locally than one people have never heard of. I think it is money well spent."
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