6 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A NEWSPAPER FOR THE HrtMß Pounded IS3I Published evenings except Sunday by THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO.. Telegraph Building, Federal Square. E.J. STACKPOL.E, Pres't and Editor-in-Chief E. R. OYSTER, Business Manager. OVB M. SHEINMETZ, Managing Editor. « Member American Newspaper Pub lishers' Associa tion, The Audit Bureau of Circu lation and Penn sylvania Assoclat- Eastern office, Has- Brooks, Fifth Ave nue Building, New York City; West-, ern office, Has brook Story A Brooks, People's Gcs Building, Chl- Entered at the Post Office In Harrls burg, Pa., as second class matter. By carriers, six cents a week; by mall. J3.00 a year In advance. »»'>rj> dally evruare circulation for the three monti-a Hiding; April 30, 1810, TST 22,341 Theae flmirea are net. All returned untold and damaged coplea deducted. TUESDAY EVENING, MAY 30 Yet they, believe »t«, who await yo gifts from chance, have conquer ed, fate. — MATTHEW ARNOLD. r- . . 1 ~ MEMORIAL DAY WHEN you lay a flower to-day on ; the grave of a soldier you | honor the memory of a de parted hero. But you do more than that. Tou not only pay tribute to the dead: you light a taper before the altar of the living, bright-shining spirit Of patriotism. Pessimists have been fond of telling us that patriotism in the United States is dead; that it has been sacrificed to the dollar; that we are a nation of money-grubbers, with our thoughts on material prosperity and our vision no higher than the topmost figure In the ledger of business. But that is not so. Perhaps it was true that for a time we were like self-conscious boys who love their mothers with whole-hearted de votion, but who are bashful about ex pressing their feelings in public. Time was, and not so long ago, about the time that "spread-eagleism" went out of fashion, that we wondered mightily as we stood to sing the "Star-Spangled Banner," for instance, what the other fellow thought about It. We were patriotic, but we were chary of dis playing our sentiment. We feared we "might be overdoing it." But times have changed and a new national consciousness has come to us in the past few years. Yesterday the Rotary Club stood to drink a silent toast to the soldier-dead and to sing the national anthem, and it was not an occasion either for mawkish sentiment or heroics. It was a simple ceremony; the men of the community voicing their admiration and veneration for the soldiers who stood "between their loved land and the war's desolation." To-day the Technical High School boys laid a wreath on the soldiers and sailors' monument, and this, too, was a simple service, without pomp or cir cumstance. It was simply an expres sion of love and reverence for the men who marched away to "glory or the grave" at the call of their country. A thousand other such scenes were enacted to-day. Their meaning is plain. Our men are no less lovers of the old flag than were their fore- j fathers, and the honor they do the hallowed dead is but a guarantee that' they, too, would make the great sacri- j fice as willingly and as courageously as did the Boys in Blue who sleep their long sleep hcneath the blankets | of blossoms strewn by loving hands j to-day. . Above the peace and quiet of the tomb shines the light of patriotic devotion, bright and eternal. The last Democratic campaign—in | fact, the entire Wilson campaign, begin- j nlng early in 1911, and ending in No vember, 1912, was conducted by William | F. McCombs, who furnished nearly all | the brains and raised most of the I money, McCombs has the reward of I whatever satisfaction he feels. McAdoo, | • who was not known in the Wilson cam- j paign prior to the convention, was the chief recipient of political favors. Mc- Combs will not be chairman of the Na tional Committee in 1916. WILSON'S PEACE SPEECH PRESIDENT WILSON'S speech be fore the conference of the League " to Enforce Peace at Washington Saturday night, as usual, lacks the definite note and is therefore disap pointing to those who had expected him to outline some program to be followed by the administration during the remainder of the war and in the | negotiations leading up to a treaty i of peace. Indefiniteness clothed In ! high-sounding phrases is the Presi dent's besetting weakness, but in this Instance he may be excused for not going on record, although the infer ence was plain In the newspaper dis patches from the White House that at last he did mean to speak plainly concerning his views and purposes in this respect. The President, however, struck a popular note when he expressed him self In favor of the United States join ing heartily in any such move as the League to Enforce Peace proposes, despite the fact that such a declara tion is in open violation of the oft repeated warning against American alliamces with foreign nations. When Washington uttered his solemn pro test against "entangling" relations he could not have foreseen such condi- I tlons M the world faces to-day and ' TUESDAY EVENING, "" any auch thought as that expressed by the League to Enforce Peace was quite as impossible then as the use oC aero planes in warfare at that early date. It is not fair, therefore, to the first President to quote his views on this subject as applying to-day and Presi dent Wilson Is quite right in expressing the belief that the country is ripe for such an experiment as the league pro poses. "Jimmy" Lentz, the popular County Recorder, is not only a skilful politi cian, but a good citizen as well. To day he headed a party of G. A. R. vet erans, who were enabled by automo biles provided by him, to conduct Me morial Day exercises in all of .the Upper End cemeteries, many of which other wise would have been neglected. ONE BOROUGH ADVISABLE WASHINGTON HEIGHTS people in town meeting last evening appointed a committee to take up with Camp Hill borough council a proposal to unite with that borough. Ten years ago there was no such place as Washington Heights. To-day it is a thriving, enterprising community, destined to be the connecting link be tween Camp Hill and the river and clamoring for better government than the legal limitations of the township permit. The rapid development of this section is an illustration of the growth of the whole West Shore resi dential district, fn the course of a very few years it is certain to become one of the big centers of population in thisisection of the State. Its people are on the right track. To go into Camp Hill is the logical and natural step. The West Shore has too many boroughs as it is. To create another would add only confusion and expense. To create a new borough at Wash ington Heights would necessitate the expense of a separate school system, the erection of a town hall, the ex pense of an additional board of health, fire department, highway commis sioner, engineer, solicitor and what not. On the other hand, with Washing ton Heights as a part of Camp Hill, one council would govern the whole and instead of having two borough governments to maintain the tax payers would have but one, which would, of course cut down the tax rate. Washington Heights and Camp Hill adjoin each other. To have two sets of officials to operate them would be like having two factories side by side, owned by the same people, making the same goods, and each operated by a different set of officials. Of course, it requires more to run two shops under two managements than to run two shops with one management, and the same applies to expenses of govern ment. If Washington Heights wants to be a separate borough, it will have to "pay the piper." As a part of Camp Hill the economies of adminis tration are too numerous to mention. "Sa-ve yourselves labor by keeDing j your boys and their muddy shoes oft your hardwood floors," says a news- j paper "woman's page writer," but we • have noticed that it Is the happiest ! homes that occasionally "get all mussed up" as the result of raids by muddy feet. OX TO PIJATTSBURG! THE lure of Plattsburg is growing | stronger as the time for holding the camps draws nearer and the number of citizen recruits grows steadily. At the present rate of In crease It may be figured that within a week or ten days the total number of enrollments will be over ten thou sand for the four camps, including the students' camp in July. A number of the cities that will! send representative business and pro- j fessional men to uphold the honor of' the town for thirty days or more, are ' arranging plans to organize in ad- 1 vance 'for the purpose of getting a little preliminary training with a view to appearing somewhat less "green" I on their arrival at camp. Wilkes- j Berre and Johnstown are active in this respect, but it is doubtful if the j plan is feasible for the reason that so little time can be profitably given b> a busy man without devoting him self almost exclusively to the task. Harrisburg will send a fair-sized delegation of students and business- [ men to the July and August camps, but no effort has been made to | actively recruit in this city. The j truth is that men in large numbers would swarm to the camp if they felt they could give up a month in the middle of the summer. The hard ships are nothing compared to the benefits that accrue and the con stantly increasing , enrollment of volunteers bears adequate testimony to that fact. At the present rate of increase in numbers, it will soon be |a case of the supply surpassing the ac commodations with a consequent de crease in desire for recruits on the part of those in charge. Better get on bc-tore the train starts, Mr. Business Man, you who want to go but can't quite make up your mind. The selection of Frank A. Smith to be assistant chief secretary of the Chicago convention does honor to Dauphin county and Is proper recognition of per sonality and ability. Mr. Smith is a man iof charming manners and his ability jas an organizer is demonstrated not I alone In his own very successful busi- I ness, hut by the Taft campaign when he, as county chairman, was largely In ! strumental In carrying to victory the | local Republican ticket at a time when the Progressives swept the county for Roosevelt. It is strange that the Democrats are paying l so much attention to the nomi nation of a Republican candidate for President, and tj-ylng to ignore the numerous important administrative mistakes which their own party has made. If they really wish to help In the ! promotion of good government, they | ran best serve that purpose by giving some attention to their own party af j fairs. | The Rotary Club set other organiza | tions a good example yesterday by con- I tributing to the Grand Army Decora tion Day flower fund. If Harrisburg doesn't look out, the West Shore will have a new High School before we have one her*. foCttutf. CK Si the Ex-Committeeman Returns of the primary election in every county in the State with the ex ception of Butler and Delaware have | been recorded at the State Capitol jand the names of the men elected to the various State committees have been certified so that they can meet j to-morrow. If thG returns from the | two counties are received in time spe t cial certificates will be made out for them and the papers will be sent to the places of meeting. | The Republican, Democratic and I Prohibition State committees will meet i to-morrow under the primary law for ! organization, the former In Phila delphia and the Democrats and Prohibitionists 'in this city, j Except for Rutler and Delaware the I tabulation of the votes cast for dele i gutes-at-large is complete at .the i Capitol and as soon as the missing j counties are heard from the totals ! will be computed. About two-thirds of the counties have filed returns on Congress-at-large, Supreme Court and other nominations. —The Republican party appears to be furnishing all of the excitement this year. The Brumbaugh people have decided that the call for the Re publican State committee is legal and that they will not make any trouble, while their failure to refer to the election of national committee man in the statements issued in the last iwenty-four hours shows that they have given up any hope of de feating the election of Senator Boies Penrose as national committeeman. The real fight in the Republican party is over the national delegate honors. The Republican State committee will j meet at 10:30 to-morrow morning In, Philadelphia and the delegates at ; 2-30. The Democratic State committee I meeting will be held at the Board of | Trade building at 11 o'clock to-mor row and contrary to recent gather ings of that organization there is no fight in sight. The reorganization and rehabilitation factions have appar ently agreed to have a nice meeting, although of course this plan may be changed on short notice. No one is ever safe in making a prediction on a Democratic State committee meeting although Just now Palmer and Llebel are busy throwing bouquets at each other and the retirement of State Chairman Roland S. Morris eliminates one sore spot. Had Morris decided to run again there would have been a bitter row in the committee. —No one seems to know just who will be picked for the chairmanship, but the name of Joseph F. Guffey, the Allegheny county chairman, is much mentioned. Senator W. W. Hindman of Clarion, is also to the front. It seems to be the general desire to keep the chairmanship out of Philadelphia. There was some talk to-day of James I. Blakslee, assistant postmaster gen eral and former secretary of the State hut the genial Jim is probably too busy In Washington fighting senators. A new secretary will be elected, resolu tions approving the president will be adopted and Palmer will make a speech. —The Prohibition State committee will meet at its headquarters and re elect State Chairman B. K. P. Prugh, who Is putting the organization into good shape. —The Montgomery county Republi can committee yesterday re-elected Freas Slyer, Penrose man, as county chairman. The Brumbaugh people! did not put up any contest. —The Philadelphia Bulletin com- : menta upon the fact that not as many. people attend presidential direct prim- | arles, even in a year of a ruction, as attended the old-time primaries and | thinks that more interest should be | displayed. —Pittsburgh Democrats were all J stirred up by a visit paid yesterday by j Palmer. It was reported that he went j to make sure that the Old Guard was j going to be good to-morrow. —The Philadelphia official count j shows that Ambler went 12.000 ahead! of Snyder in that city. It was ex- j pected by Ambler's friends that he I would get 50,000 in the city. Knox polled the high vote with 146,000 with! Kephart next with 133,000. —Friends of T. W. Templeton, Re- ] publican candidate for Congress in ; Luzerne, expect him to win this year against Congressman J. J. Casey. —The Philadelphia Record to-day [ says: "An alleged effort to prevent the meeting to-morrow of the Republi- | can State committee in the Bellevue- j Stratford, by wiring committeemen , that the meeting would be illegal, was j blocked yesterday by quick action on i the part of State Chairman Crow. From his home in Uniontown Senator! Crow wired every member of the com mittee that the State organization ! would meet to-morrow in accordance j with the law governing that body. j Chairman Crow had learned that some unknown person had telephoned mem bers of the State Committee that they should not appear at to-morrow's meeting, on the grounds that the offi cial count had not been completed at Harrisburg and that certificates of election could not be given. In con tradiction of this statement Senator Crow announced that the committee men would be seated and recognized under the count submitted by the commissioners of their respective counties. —At Pottsville Judge Brumm hand ed down an opinion finding 87 infrac- 1 tions of the law in the Dost Creek poll of West Mahanoy district last Novem ber. He said: "Brute force, black- j guardism, fraud and corruption were rampant, and an imported bully In the shape of a trained prize-fighter from Philadelphia, ran the election, while free beer was served to voters." The costs of the investigation were placed on the school district, as court was prevented by law from putting the costs on the school defend ants. We Hear From Harrisburg Every once in a while somebody rambles in from Harrisburg to tell us something about ourselves. Usually these somebody* give us a story we arc not glad to hear. Some delin quency has to be called to our atten tion. Latest was a gentlemen who hurt our feelings by reminding us that It really Is not possible to send a 20- foot stream of water under a 10-foot bridge, and that when we innocently try to do this Impossible thing we are not only destroying our property, but violating sundry state laws. Occas ionally we do not need the word of a gentleman from Harrisburg to set us right. The Lord sends a cloudburst upon us, and we con see for ourselves that our engineering, In spots, defies all thrs laws of nature, and that as a <.onsequence we have vast pools of water upon our streets and plugsed up sewers. We are going to remedy the sewer defects, at considerable cost. But nobody has started a real campaign, Ito shove encroachera off the river | hanks. "Everybody's business is no body's business," we used to write in the copy books. And when we quit writing in copy books we kept right on proving that the adage wag true. — , .Johnstown Leader. HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH TAPS!— v W' ** ' -ipppp " | : ||r %| ' P IV S5 Spill ■ ■. ' ■' W' i - ■ V* ■ ' - Z t '• [ . '. ■< <•s a The etching above Is the work of George C. Beckenbaugh, 1425 Shoop street, this city, who Is now completing the second year of a course In the Pennsylvania School of Industrial Art at Philadelphia. Mr. Beckenbaugh was a graduate in the class of 1914 at the Central Highi School, and while in that Institution was art editor for several years on the Central High School Argus. TELE6RAPH PERISCOPE —An impossibility—a Memorial Day without a threat of rain. —Some folks think Memorial Day was designed especially to permit them to go off and hold a jollification. —The growing conviction is that the nomination won't have to be tendered Justice Hughes on a silver platter— most any old kind of a platter may be acceptable.* •—The popular opinion seems to be that quarantine laws were created foi , the restraint of everybody but oneself. —Do you remember the days when national delegates used to strut up ana down the Union Station platform be tween trains proudly displaying their badges and railroad passes? —William Penn was not referring to political peace when he proposed a Peace Parliament with headquarters In Philadelphia. EDITORIAL COMMENT j A natural association of ideas should j keep aviators out of Switzerland for I fear of the holes in the air.—Washing | ton Post. i Another thing the war has demon ! strated Is that the way to save daylight jis to use more of it.—Pittsburgh Ga j zette-Tlmes. I Two "punitive expeditions" would I come very near to equaling one war. Philadelphia Recfird. The Kaiser having disregarded their advice. German-American newspapers will now sever relations with Berlin. — Philadelphia North American. If silence gives consent, Justice Hughes has already used enough to ac cent a nomination and deliver an in augural address.—Richmond rimes- Difcpatch. Kitty Talked to Him [From the Cleveland Plain Dealer.! Jack Robinson, 3 years old, Shelby, O. has a bulldog with an abbreviated ( tail The remnant of caudal append age would make an ideal handle, and most children of back's tender age would employ it as such —but Jack never does. When interviewed by our reporter on the subject, young Mr. Robinson explained his position as fol "No. I don't hold htm by the tail. Once i took my kitty by the tail. But she looked around und whispered to me. and then jagged me with her ... „ . "Whispered to me!" Can Maeter linck beat that? Lowell and Preparedness (From Roosevelt's Memorial Speech) If we are true to the men of the mighty past we shall guide ourselves by what Lowell wrote to the pacifists of his time, who—to use his own words —wished to "knuckle down," to their foes, he said: "Peace won't keep house with Fear. If you want peace the thing you've got to do Is just to show you're up to fighting too; Better that all our ships with all their crews Should sink to rot in ocean's dream less ooze, Each torn flag waving challenge as it went And each dumb gun a brave man's monument, Than seek such peace as only cowards crave; Give me the peace of dead men or of Brave." "Come Peace! Not like a mourner bowed For honor lost and dear ones wasted, But proud to meet a people proud. With eyes that tell of triumph tasted. "Come, while our country feels the lift Of n great instinct shouting 'For wards!' And knows that freedom's not a gift That tarries long In hands of cow ards!" Father's Boyhood "When I was young," my father said "At 5 a. m. I Jumped from bed And fed the stock ana brought in wood And did just everything I could." ! (Then Grandma smiled the strangest way • I But didn't have a word to say.) 'But now most boys aren't worth their salt. The friends they choose are most at , fault, For my best friend I chose a book." Then Grandma shot the strangest look, And added with the slightest shrug, i"Like that you read behind the rug." —Carlton Fisher In Farm and Fire side. jjf Muffle the drums and let the marching feet i|| Move softly 'ere perchance we fail to hear i i j I The voices of our dead. | 1 From far and near, | I {| From unmarked grave, from massive granite tomb, j ! | From battlefield and churchyard sounds the cry, j 11 "Remember us and how we died—and why! jl | [ S U) 'We faced a Hell you cannot understand; I We left our wives and little ones to feed, | Defenseless and alone, l A war's red greed; We died to save a Union undeHled. Hold thou in highest trust the flag that waves Its folds t'ward God and Heaven o'er our graves!" [| I —ANNA H. WOOD, Written for The Telegraph ||J 8 Hi J ■ „ M THE STATE FROM DAY TO DW~] Noting that York is fostering a porchbox and backyard contest, we cordially invite those who are the strongest advocates of the plan to i come to Harrtsburg and see what real- ' ly can be done to improve the floral l appearance of things. William Howard Taft, than whom no one possesses a more expansive smile and congenial personality, will be one of the speakers at the nine- , teonth annual Spring exercises at the I • National Farm School, DoylestoNvn, on Sunday next. '♦Blessed is the peacemaker" but not always is his lot most enviable. A would-be peacemaker in Fairmount yesterday received serious injuries from a razor wielded by one of the ' contestants whom he would have sep- i arated, so that ho will probably die. 1 i The Philadelphia Record has a 1 head-writer of poetic tendencies. And 1 the meter isn't bad at that. Here it 1 is: "Not a Note From Artist Throat as 1 Audience Vainly Waited; "Caruso's Peer" Missed All the Cheer and Plung ed Plump Into Lawsuit." Governor Brumbaugh is credited with being a very versatile man. One day he seizes a golf stick, another a shovel, and now he is reputed to be employing the ax rather strenuously. An Allentown Italian, unversed In the art of paddling a canoe, took his bride on the river and upset, after which he swam to her rescue and saved her from drowning. Which we opine to be a very friendly act. Gymnastic ablllty.coupled with pow erful wrists, saved the lives of two Na tional Guardsmen caught on a high trestle bridge over the Schuylkill river near Reading the other day. One of the three was knocked off, but the others clung to the trestle and were saved. WHAT THE ROTARY CLUB LEARNED OF THE CITY [Questions submitted to members of the Harrisburg Rotary Club and their answers as presented at the organiza tion's annual "Municipal Quiz."] How are repairs to paved streets made? By the city under the supervision of the Superintendent of Streets and Public Improvements. An as phalt repair plant has been con structed for that purpose. "Gone, Not Forgotten" I [Wilfred Grenfell in the Outlook.] I Beyond a tiny tot of rum no dope has ever been given, or needed, by the ;Knglish or French. in the general | headquarters in France I saw on the wall n notice with a deep black bor der all around it; It was dated June, 1915, and it read: "Sacred to the mem ory of the rum ration; gone, but not forgotten " MAY 30, 1916. | LETTERS TO THE EDITOR" THANKS MR. MEftGKR To the Editor of the Telegraph : A a meetimr of the Sisterhood of Ohev Sholem, a resolution was passea extending the thanKs of the Slsterhooa to John N. H. Wenger for the uso of hr* storeroom, 110 North Second street, and to the newspapers, merchants and the ?üblic for the genorous support Riven o the Sisterhood on the occasion of the festival and bazar conducted May 24 for the benefit of the charity fund. At the direction of the Sisterhood notice of this action is beinfr Bent you bv Very truly yours. MRS. H. U TAUSIG, Treasurer Bazar Committee. Yale Spirit A great university is not altogether without honor even from the small hoy In her own country. A New Haven Sunday school youth was being taught to repeat some verses from the Psalms gave this wholly, though unconscious ly, original rendering of a familiar phrase: "Yale, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil."—Harper's Magazine. | OUR DAILY LAUGH FOR HIM " illSv I cawn't quite ■flD., make out what JW • ißuth means. IP t n She keep* on fr ]S referring to my fll |§ man, donc he r j I Jjj know, as a keep- i EVIDENCT!S, ) 4 Vhey tell _ Jji v <1 young Dobbs is » young man • of about three hun «/ 'l<l r e d dollars' gjjf 'worth of hla W I®* Tc " m promises myself. WHAT WOULD THEY DOT By Wing Dinner All honor to the soldier dead— The Gray as well as Blue— For In the breasts of those who fought Beat loyal hearts and true. And though some fifty years ago Those men divided were. Could they come back to life again What think you would occur? Think you that in these threatening days. When thore abroad who i ule. lightly treat with this fair Its people ridicule— That those ifien who, in sixty-five Their lives did sacrifice. Would fight and die agpln, or urge A peace at any price? ——, lEimting <S!?at L==s == =ss=r============= ====== l Pew cities in the land gave more spontaneous and hearty support to the proposition for establishment of Me morial day, when it was first proclaim ed by Gen. John A. Logan back in 1868. The general was then the com mander in chief of the Grand Army of the Republic in America and his sug gestion that the memory of the fallen be kept green and that i exercises, in cluding the strewing of flowers, should be held was issued on May 5 of that year. The idea was at once taken hold of and while there was nothing like the elaborate ooservance such as we have" known for the last twenty years, yet there was general noticey taken. In this city, where Gen. John W. Geary was in office as governor and Oliver Kdwards was mayor, the veterans of the civil war found many to join with them and the exercises and parade attracted so much atten tion that they were established as an annual custom. Since that time Me morial day has been observed in keep ing with the traditions of the capital of the Keystone State and the site of the great mobilization camp of the civil war. This part of the country is rich in memories of the civil war and there is not a hamlet or a ceme tery where the flag does not stand over the grave of a veteran and flow ers mark the last resting places. * . * • One of the interesting things about the lecture given to the school chil dren ot the city at the Public Library on Saturday afternoon by O. P. Beck ley was that so many children recog nized the flowers about which Mr. Hockley spoke. The illustrations were from photographs of flowers and mounted at the McParland establish ment. When they were shown Mr. Beckley would ask how many knew the flower. It was surprising how many youngsters held up their hands, iney were well acquainted with the woodland beauties and demanded many encores. * ♦ » If plenteous unfurling of "Old Glorj; • to the breeze be anv indica tion of patriotism thten all city and county officialdom was nothing if not patriotic. For Memorial Day was ob served very successfully in at least two ways. From each window of the front portico a great flag flew; heretofore not more than one ba'nner adorned the front of the courthouse even on a holi day. Courthouse Custodian "Charley" I eters who by the way, is an ardent advocate of "preparedness," inaugu £«»• # stom of swinging three flags from the courthouse front on hol idays and a single flag from the middle window at all times. So much for the decorative effect. But the de ®hlefs ar ><> attaches cele brated the day to a man in another way: Everybody took a day off. • ♦ • Something slipped a cog or two in the pumping machinery of the pipe organ in an uptown church recently and two small boys from the congre gation more or less willingly volun teered (at the suggestion of pleased as-pie parents) to operate the pump by hand. ?, he „ • iob luite evidently began to pall after awhile and the pair decided in whispered conference to "spell" each other off. That each "take everv other hymn turn about" was the basis of the agreement. The novelty of that arrangement wore off after awhile, too, and during the rendition of the final hymns the feebleness of the or gan accompaniment was plainly no ticeable. Eventually the service drew along toward the end and the minister announced the doxology; the young sters heaved long deep sighs. Congre gation and choir rose, as one, the « chorister signaled with his book, the 1 organ pealed forth for a few bars | sputtered, trembled—and finally moaned itself into silence. Choir and congregation shot inquiring glances toward the organloft. There side by side before the motional levers, stood the small pumpers, heads thrown back, voices raised— "Praisa God," heartily sang the youngsters, "from whom all blessings flow!" » • • It remained for the National Geo graphic Magazine, leader of all the periodicals in artlstic.reproduction of beautiful America to recognize in the April number the grandeur of the pic ture presented by the Rockville bridge, the river and the ridges beyond. Be neath the etching is this line: "One might travel all over Europe without seeing a more picturesque landscape than this or a more successful combi nation of art and nature in a single scene. And this fine bit of local scenery is included in an issue almost entirely devoted to a showing of the wondrous natural attractions of the United States. It is high time that we ap preciate the sublime and incomparable scenery at our own doors. • « • Isaac R. Pennypacker, who was here yesterday to attend the meeting of the Meade Memorial commission, is a noted author of books on Pennsyl vania and Pennsylvanians. His book on General Meade is noted and he is an authority on the historic events in eastern Pennsylvania. WELL KNOWN PEOPLE ~ —Dr. R. Tait McKenzie, who has been abroad the last year, has sent word that he will resume his course at the University of Pennsylvania. —C. F. Gramlich, who issued the ordef for thn Grand Army encamp ■ont here next month, was stationed here during trie civil war. —Ex-President Tart will speak at the National Farm school in Eastern Pennsylvania next Sunday. —Walter Smith, Uniontown athletic instructor, will walk 600 miles to at tend Amherst commencement. —Councilman J. P. Kerr, who has Pittsburgh mayoralty ambitions, is a physician. So is Congressman Barch feld of Pittsburgh. 1 DO YOU KNOW That Hanisburg steel is used for making bolts for battleships? HISTORIC HARRISBURG The dedication of the first canal lock here in the thirties was an occas ion attended by the governor. Do You Hear the Call ? 1 These are the days when the little birds are cheeping "Come Out in the Garden." But gar dening Is not all play. The cor rect Implements, however, make for fewer blisters. What about a wheelbarrow, lawn-mower, hedge-trimmer, shovel, spade, trowel, rake, hose, hose-reel, sprinkler, grass-trimmer or a lawn-roller? The Advertising News in the Telegraph quotes these very necessary garden tools at n reasonable price. Do you i read the ads? Does this talk re mind you of the tough cutting last summer with that antiquated grass-chewer of yours? BUY A LAWN MOWER.
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